October 2014: Desde Hong Kong
Two new poems are in Desde Hong Kong: Poets in Conversation with Octavio Paz, from Chameleon Press. I'll read in company with many of Hong Kong's finest poets at the launch, November 12 at The Fringe...
View ArticleDecember 2014: Juked!
I'm happy to be the new Poetry Co-editor of Juked, along with Michael Barach.New work (and some old) is coming out this spring in the Lost Roads Press anthology Hick Poetics, edited by the wonderful...
View ArticleJanuary 2015: Poems & Nonfiction
"Across July," a poem from The Ground I Stand On Is Not My Ground, is up at Drunken Boat, and two non-poetry pieces have just come out online, too: a craft talk at The Southeast Review, and a "Dispatch...
View ArticleThe Ground is a winner!
Fantastic news! The Ground I Stand On Is Not My Ground has been selected by Forrest Gander as the winner of Drunken Boat's inaugural poetry book contest. The book will be out in print and as an ebook...
View ArticleMarch 2015: AWP update
A new poem from The Ground is up at the excellent new journal Pangyrus. Check it out for a preview of the interactive version of the whole book.An update on AWP events: The Ground will launch on...
View ArticleApril 2015: Launch details, etc.
The Ground is here! We sold out at AWP, and the next printing will be ready at the end of the month. You can find copies at SPD, and soon at Amazon, and the ebook version is on its way. The companion...
View ArticleMay 2015: West Coast US Tour coming up...
The Ground is available at SPD, and at Amazon, hurrah! The West Coast tour is coming together--I'll be in LA at the Sumarr Reading Series on August 16, and in Olympia, WA at Orca Books on August 22....
View ArticleJune 2015: Summer Summary
Lots of good stuff happening this summer. July 20-21 I'll be the visiting poet at CityU's MFA program summer residency, reading Monday evening at 7PM (open to the public) and giving a craft talk for...
View ArticleAugust 2015: New work at The Volta
Several spots of good news lately: The Ground was a bestseller at SPD in June! And the book is finally available at Book Depository, so readers outside the U.S. can get it more easily. A new erasure,...
View ArticleOctober 2015: Festivals Galore
A lot's going on this fall. I'll be at the Asia Pacific Writers & Translators conference in Manila October 21-25, and then on two panels at Hong Kong International Literary Festival the first week...
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Asia Pacific Writers and Translators Conference, Manila
My first APWT was pretty great. Getting shown around Manila by people who live there was a treat, and somehow the whole weekend it never rained. Manila is pleasantly breezier than Hong Kong, though...
View ArticleThe Hong Kong International Literary Festival
The HKILF's first weekend was packed, and excellent. Former students read beautifully at "Our Future Voices," and I met writers Nina McConigley, Luke Kennard, and Jabari Asim, who all turn out to be...
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November 2015: So much poetry!
November is the busiest month of HK's literary year. My panels at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival with Dorothy Tse ("Imagination Beyond Genre") and Tammy Ho Lai Ming, Nicholas Wong, and...
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January 2016: Lingnan University
This month I begin my spring semester residency at Lingnan University, Hong Kong's liberal arts college. I'll do workshops on fiction and poetry writing for students in English courses, as well as for...
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March/April 2016: AWP
Exhilarating and exhausting both, as always. AWP was in LA, which meant I got to see lots of UC Irvine friends and also eat a ton of tacos. I kind of missed University Hills, which I never thought I'd...
View ArticleJune 2016: CURVED launches!
If you've talked to me in the last year about poetry, you've probably heard me say something about the bilingual digital collaboration I've been working on. Finally we're launching it! We hope to have...
View ArticleSeptember 2016: the Singapore Writers Festival schedule is up!
I'm on two panels: one on poetry and mixed media, and one on American writing and the Pacific. Singapore's literary scene is vibrant and well-established, something I've admired from a far for a long...
View ArticleNovember 2016: SWF and HKILF
I'm so grateful for poets and for festivals which support them. Meeting other writers and readers at the Singapore Writers Festival and the Hong Kong International Literary Festival has been an anchor...
View ArticleDecember 2016: Okinawa
I traveled to Okinawa, where I grew up on Kadena Air Base, for a few days during winter break. While I was there I decided to walk all the way around the base, photographing the fence: what can be seen...
View ArticleFebruary 2017: AWP in Washington, D.C.
AWP this year was different. It was in D.C. three weeks after the inauguration of Donald Trump, and the result was that activist events happened every day, from marches to the White House to candelight...
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