Happy end of APA Heritage Month. It’s been a busy spring! I’ve been so lucky to have had my work come out in a number of journals recently: Menagerie (which was kind enough to feature four of my poems, including a prose poem from a series whose form is loosely based on the experimental method and two poems written as sentence diagrams—a form I’ve been kicking around recently), Glassworks (based out of Rowan’s MFA program, and which took a poem about my childhood in South Jersey—it felt very full circle!), and last, but not least, Hyphen (which took a poem that I’ve been revising for over a decade—I couldn’t imagine a more perfect home for it, and getting to appear in Hyphen itself is a dream come true).
Perhaps most excitingly, though, two of my poems (including a persona poem from a series that started as an attempt to reimagine J. K. Rowling’s woefully flat portrayal of her sole East Asian character, Cho Chang) will appear in a forthcoming anthology, They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets (edited by Christine Kitano and Alycia Pirmohamed for Blue Oak Press). They Rise Like a Wave has been in the making for several years and suffered a few delays during the pandemic, so it felt pretty magical to get to hold my author copy when it arrived recently. The anthology officially comes out on June 3rd, and you can preorder it via the distributor’s website here.