selected works

*for interviews and literary talk story, scroll down to conversations

 

“Nānā i ke kumu” (video), 8x8: Source, Shangri La: Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design, Honolulu, 2024

*Read here for more details on collaboration. Much aloha to Nela Media Group (@nmg) and Elyse Butler (@oceanelyse) for spectacular video and photographs!

Three poems, Poetry Northwest, 2022

“The opposite of dispossession is not possession; it is connection” Asian American Writers’ Workshop, 2022

*This poem is dedicated to my two cousins, Kyla Siangco and Meagan Lau

“The ea of enough” Ours Poetica, 2022

*This poem is dedicated to my three nieces: Tili, Laulau & Liko & would not be possible without the mentorship of Haunani-Kay Trask.

“Yellow-tipped & mean” Ep. 150 It’s Lit with PhDJ, 2022

*Listen to the whole episode here


"letters to the gut house: collaboration & decolonial love in Hawaiʻi: a cover image story with Jocelyn Ng, Milkweed, 2022


“Sucking Sounds, Pōhai Street” Beloit Poetry Journal, vol. 71, no. 2, 2021

*Read BPJ interview here

“Smoke Screen” Poetry Unbound with Pádraig Ó Tuama, 2021


"Shapeshifters Banned, Censored, or Otherwise Shit-Listed, aka Chosen Family Poem" Living Nations, Living Words: A Collection of First Peoples Poetry, Library of Congress, 2021

"When You Say Protestors Instead of Protectors" and "Mercy" ANMLY, Issue 31, 2020


"Myth Bitch" ANMLY, Queer Indigenous Poetics folio, Issue 30, 2020

*selected for Best Microfiction 2021

"Lessons in Quarantine" and "Maunakea" Love in the Time of Covid, Sep 2020

"threshold" wildness, 2020


Permission to Make Digging Sounds Effigies III, Salt Publishing, 2019


"Intergenerational Memory" Flux, 2019


"Memory as Missionary Position" and "After She Leaves You, Femme" Lit Hub, 2018


"kino" Poetry, July/Aug 2016


"Rope /Tongue" Kore Press Poem of the Week, 2016

conversations

Writers Week 2023 with Nathaniel Mackey and Abigail Chabitnoy, UC Riverside, 2023

Humbled to have been in conversation with Nathaniel Mackey and Abigail Chabitnoy in the 46th annual Writers Week Festival at UC Riverside. In our talk story, we reflected on the musicality of language, the power of release, how to cultivate the will to persist in the lyric mode, and, in the words of Nathaniel Mackey, how we can heal the “damage to sound” through poetry.

For reading, go to (19 : 57). For talk story, go to (44 : 44).

 

The Beauty of Being, Poets & Writers Debut Poets Virtual Reading, 2023

*For reading of “For sisters who pray with fire,” go to (1: 11 : 30). For talk story with these brilliant and generous poets, go to (1 : 37 : 02).

 

Talking story with Tupelo Quarterly, Editor’s Feature, 2022

 

Talking story with Sophia Liu, Surging Tide, 2022

 
 
 

Talking story with Julian Aguon, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, 2022

*Dearest Julian, I love you. And I love making story with you. Mahalo for your light.

Pacific Poets in conversation with Joy Harjo, 2022

*A deep privilege to be part of the Pacific book launch of Living Nations, Living Words, Joy Harjo’s signature project as the 23rd Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. For my reading of “Shapeshifters banned, censored, or otherwise shit-listed, aka chosen family poem" see (19 : 20 - 25:50) or read this beautiful anthology.

Poets in Conversation: Beloit Poetry Journal, 2022

*Read poem “Sucking Sounds, Pōhai Street” from vol. 71, no. 2 issue


Carrying Culture 2022: Generation to Generation Honolulu Museum of Art in partnership with Pacific Islands Development Program, 2022

*Humbled to be part of this intergenerational reading and talk story with other women poets of Oceania. For my reading of “When you say ‘protestors’ instead of ‘protectors’” and Q&A, see (36 : 21 - 45 : 22). For panel Q&A, start at (59 : 22).


Talking story with Pádraig Ó Tuama Poetry Unbound with Pádraig Ó Tuama, 2021


"National Poetry Series winner Noʻu Revilla on the power of words and fostering connection" Conversation with Savannah Harriman-Pote, Hawaiʻi Public Radio, 2021