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SELECT POETRY PUBLICATIONS

“Beloved,” in The Atlantic

“The Last Anchoress” in Gulf Coast (print)

“Objects” in Bellingham Review

“I Can’t See My Insides” & “On Kissing” in The Los Angeles Review

“On Self-Deceit” in Shenandoah (best viewed on web not mobile)

“Dig a Cave Into the Future” in SAND Journal Berlin (print)

“A Kind of Weather” in The Adroit Journal

“Music Box” in 128 Lit (print)

“Aubade in Which I Linger” & “Recurring” in Hayden’s Ferry Review (online & print)

“Letter to Another Immigrant Daughter” in TriQuarterly

“The Pipe Organ” & “There’s What I Think and What I Feel” in Ninth Letter (print)

“An Anchor is An Argument” in 128 Lit

In a Well Where the River Meets the Sea (Duplex)” in The Journal (print)

“Reading Szymborska at Friday Harbor” in Waxwing

“because horse is the closest i can get to it” in The Maine Review

“we” in Poetry Northwest (print)

Failed Essay on Repressed Sexuality” in Columbia Journal

voracious” in Southeast Review (online & print)

“coping mechanism” & “How will you begin?” in Moss (print)

“are you satisfied with your smallness?” in Guesthouse

“on devotion” in Palette Poetry

“emptied out” in Verse of April

“i found a lover and we left the city” in BOAAT

“cargo” in Passages North (online & print)

“let the wind take care of it” & “pluck a softness” in Four Way Review

“limbs” in No Tender Fences: Online Anthology of First-Gen & Immigrant Poetry


PROSE

“Solid Objects,” Hayden’s Ferry Review

“Joanna Klink’s ‘On Kingdoms,’” Guest post for Devin Kelly’s Ordinary Plots

“Unlearning My Immigrant Mother’s Ideas of Beauty,” Catapult

FEATURES

“Crossover and mess and fluidity” — Interviewed by Guest Editor Siew David Hii for Shenandoah

“Devotion & Desire” — Interviewed by E.J. Koh for Jack Straw’s SoundPages

“Poet of the Week” Feature in Brooklyn Poets


READINGS & EVENTS

Past:

April 14, 2023—An Evening of Poetry at Haymarket House, Chicago

April 16, 2023—Sunday Reading Series, Hungry Brain, Chicago

March 9-11, 2023—AWP Offsite Readings with Brooklyn Poets & The Seventh Wave, Seattle

January 21, 2023—Gabrielle Bates’ Judas Goat Pre-Release Party at the Royal Room, Seattle

Festival Poet at the October 2022 Dodge Poetry Festival including readings & conversations alongside Quenton Baker, Yusef Komunyakaa, Shara McCallum, Patrick Rosal, Han VanderHart, Arisa White & more

September 2022—Book Marks with Luther Hughes at Common AREA Maintenance, Seattle

September 2022—Brooklyn Poets Staff Picks (virtual)

June 2022—Ottawa’s Tree Reading Series (virtual)

April 2022—Mercy Street Reading Series (virtual)

November 2021—The New Third World Reading Series at Barbès, Brooklyn

November 2021—Jack Straw Fellows at Seattle Public Library (virtual)

October 2021—LitCrawl at Hugo House, Seattle

July 2021—Brooklyn Rail Radical Poetry Reading (virtual)

May 2021—Jack Straw Fellows Reading, Seattle (virtual)

February 2020—Uncertainty of Light, Tacoma

December 2019—Margin Shift: Friends in Poetry, Seattle

October 2019—LitCrawl Seattle


CONVERSATIONS WITH POETS

in The Rumpus:

Before the First Book: A Roundtable Discussion with Sarah Ghazal Ali, Erin L. McCoy & Tawanda Mulalu

Before the First Book: A Roundtable Discussion with Steven Espada Dawson, Elisa Gonzalez & Gaia Rajan

Before the First Book: A Roundtable Discussion with Gabrielle Bates, Itiola Jones & Erin Marie Lynch

UW Public Lectures:

An Evening with U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo


Interview with Claire Oleson, winner of the 2019 Newfound Prose Prize

Interview with Shilpa Kamat, finalist for the 2018 Gloria Anzaldúa Poetry Prize at Newfound


More on embodied writing workshop offerings here. Photo courtesy of Ian Siporin, Henry Art Gallery