Freedom
August 15, 2025
chasing that fleeting moment of freedom – so ripe and glistening
Guernica
Poetry
Poetry
Through the opening on the deck
August 15, 2025
One part of the machinery grabs the other lulling it / They communicate like pictures for the blind.
Poetry
Spider Flags
August 15, 2025
In parades of work, and parades of hope / dislocated from their own beings / the actors played their roles in the streets
Poetry
On the Train to Cascais
August 15, 2025
an Atlantean as beautiful / as the body of her slippery language,
Poetry
There are nights that escape
June 17, 2025
There are nights so long / so very long / they could form rivers of tears
Poetry
Death’s night won’t come gently
June 17, 2025
you will hear my ancestors’ voices / piercing your peace
Poetry
to write by chance the whiteness
May 19, 2025
From When I’m Not Around (Quando não estou por perto).
Poetry
I don’t want to come back here
May 19, 2025
From When I’m Not Around (Quando não estou por perto).
Poetry
I fall in love only with the furthest
May 19, 2025
From When I’m Not Around (Quando não estou por perto).
Poetry
Jongo & Adriano
May 19, 2025
In the entrails of Rio’s brush, a flight is in process: Jongo, African of Angola, and Adriano, a Brazilian Criollo, risk the dense forest seeking the freedom to be
Poetry
Midnight Service
April 15, 2025
Sixty voices seesawed in the song / of tongues. Sixty bodies gripped
Poetry
Black Girl in Wyoming-after Ross Gay
April 15, 2025
on her skin, tone, a mixture of sienna and copper / a bit shy of the rust in the dust of earth
Poetry
A Citadel in Queens
April 15, 2025
By air, earth, fire, and blood in my veins, I / know something of the devil
Poetry
In Costa Rica, My Father Speaks
March 17, 2025
Her voice / was jazz, like yours when you’re telling stories
Poetry
Snapshot in the Kitchen for Minerva Margarita
March 17, 2025
and boys / that barely cross the threshold / and become men
Poetry
Sleepwalker
February 19, 2025
What a strange land this is / I don't remember the names of the birds
Poetry
When He Said His Name
February 19, 2025
the white labyrinth of love moved my flesh / and grew the time of guilt
Poetry
Requiem for my ancestor’s fig tree
February 16, 2025
Which hand sowed the ashes / where the ancestor planted life
Poetry
From Snakewoman
January 15, 2025
Crazed, crazed for love, to love / thresholds oblivious and rabid for trade
Poetry
A Star from the Land of the Dead
January 15, 2025
Your departure’s no departure, / your return is no return
Poetry
From III – Rome
January 15, 2025
Perhaps tomorrow I’ll come to a green / field,—and I’ll no longer be alone.
Poetry
From Secret Death
January 15, 2025
We should all take note of this: / that we are flesh and we die.
Poetry
If I have grandchildren with this accent
March 4, 2024
I’ll tell them their grandfather / must have lived in a tall building
AudioPoetry
Southern Sonnet
February 5, 2024
I’m trying to write you a love song but / the news overspills as I boil coffee.
Poetry
Final Reflection
February 5, 2024
It’s amazing what rain can do to a stained wall / Said an angel from the custodial team
Poetry
Once Upon a Time
January 16, 2024
Once upon a time, there was a lord who lit / Fire to his castle
Poetry
Lost and Found Poem
January 16, 2024
I used to meet him at the coffee shop, / the one in Remal
Poetry
The Robert Poems
December 11, 2023
How does one know where to begin? / The mirror asks the subject.
Poetry
To My Dog Tofu During the Blizzard of December 18th 2020
December 11, 2023
Late inside the pleasure dome / I lost the old dream of waking / death made possible.
AudioPoetry
[The Tip of the Stalk]
November 6, 2023
The tip of the stalk / draws / the tossed flower —
Poetry
It’s Important I Remember That Things Are Getting Back to Normal Around Here —
November 6, 2023
the trains are busy with bodies
Poetry
Essay On Tilt
October 10, 2023
Winter. A small door opens, and on the other side, a brightness.
AudioPoetry
Diversity Statement
September 5, 2023
In the years that formed me, I poured myself into classes, hobbies, extracurriculars I was told you’d like: Latin, Mandarin, Multivariable Calculus, Swimming, AP Physics.
Poetry
[To the noise of rain, pushing sleep…]
September 5, 2023
To the noise of rain, pushing sleep / Like hay into a sack, into me,
Poetry
Voice-Over
September 5, 2023
A tongue beneath an avalanche, I have cracked / the firmament’s mirror
Poetry
The Trash Mountain Writes Home
August 7, 2023
Do not stop the home from leaving, from dissolving / its bouldered foundation into the bank of bodies beneath.
Poetry
Instead of Ekphrasis
July 5, 2023
i. site of injury turned site of inquiry turned how we met in the field turned virtual
EssayPoetry
From Thus Spoke n’t
July 5, 2023
Selections from Kim Hyesoon’s experimental lyric essay project
Poetry
Untitled IX, 1982
June 5, 2023
I counted 44 lines and while I counted, 44 Asian women were touched.
PoetryThe Cutting Room
A Girl Can Dream —
April 5, 2023
Unpublished poems from a new collection reimagining Hindu goddesses through a feminist lens
AudioPoetry
Paper Hummingbirds
April 5, 2023
I’m afraid of what’s beyond the dishes / we wash in retrieved lake water.
AudioPoetry
At the Gallery
April 5, 2023
Finally at the gallery, the couple (all fiction of them), / she in that white bustier, he with the cutout
AudioPoetry
Gravitational Constant
November 30, 2022
Even after some time, I am still the weeping wound in the houseplant, / tearing easily.
AudioPoetry
Wrong Distance
November 16, 2022
Don’t you miss me as if I were dead? // That’s how you’d like to be loved.
Poetry
People’s Teeth
November 9, 2022
One question of childhood: why / do some people have gold teeth?
