Empty Bowl will be bringing out my next book of poems on August 1. Friend Mike O’Connor (RIP) first told me about EB in 2009, when he was editing for them and running the press. The imprint has historically supported works related to Chinese poet masters and Buddhist texts. I will be their first Asian American author and could not be more excited. Painter April Gornik lent the cover image and Lauren Grosskopf of Pleasure Boat Studios designed this early draft of the cover.

Thanks to Jasmine Mahmoud for writing about my piece “Embarkation” for SSE.

Read the article here.

My “In the Moment” podcast for Town Hall and my Lyric World series pubbed today. You can listen to it here.

Listen at Speakers Forum for KUOW here.

My partner in crime Anida Ali and I wrote this article on our Artist dis(Trust) campaign for GIA Reader. Download it here.

The City will be releasing the video for our reunion reading soon…congrats to poet Raul Sanchez on completing his term.

My film Starshine made with David Ian Bickley will be screening in a few weeks at Northwest Film Forum’s annual video poetry festival.

See the whole thing here.

My friend Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma interviewed me for The Rumpus.