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SELECTED VIDEOS

Brooklyn Rail’s Filipino American History Month Poetry Reading

October 2023 Event hosted by Anselm Berrigan and curated by Eileen R. Tabios and featuring JoAnn Balingit, Michael Caylo-Baradi and Jose Padua. Video available on YouTube.

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DEAR HUMAN: Poetry Reading & Conversation, PAWA, Inc. and The Fil-Am Center of the San Francisco Public Library 

January 2024 Video available on YouTube.

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Poem-Reading for the Asian American Writers Workshop’s 30th Year Anniversary
Video available on YouTube.

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Book Presentation and Lecture for KULECTERATURA
July 2021 Event. Video available on Facebook.

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Ekphrasis via YouTube

Presenting Two Poems inspired by Josiah McElheny’s artworks after a conversation between Josiah McElheny and Charlotte Kent as part of Brooklyn Rail’s New Social Environment #289 (Poetry at 1:34:10), May 2021

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Sixty Heights, virtual reality poetry journal, 2023

For Eleven Eleven Literary Journal Reading at LitQuake, San Francisco

“Poetryvlog.com, April 20, 2015

BOOK TRAILER for MANHATTAN: An Archipelago, 2017

The Continental Review, 2012

Jean Vengua Reads “Before Attention Turned To You,” 2008

A Feast of Filipino American Poets,” May 2020 (reading begins at 1:11:41)


AUDIO

“Mom Betty Addresses the Nature of Proportion”— a reading and discussion at the Poetry Foundation’s “Poetry Now” Series, Aug. 28, 2017

“The Engkanto’s Diary #67” (Music Concrete)at harry k stammer Bandcamp, April 14, 2024

The Engkanto’s Diary #72” (Music Concrete) at harry k stammer Bandcamp, April 14, 2024

The Engkanto’s Diary # 80” (Music Concrete) at harry k stammer Bandcamp, April 14, 2024

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Ravished in the Raw” at Talking Writing, March 19, 2018

“Eileen R. Tabios” at YourArtsyGirl Podcast Series, Feb. 7, 2019


POEMS AS TEXTS

FRENCH
“ROBOT COSPLAY,” translated into French by Fanny Garin in On peut se permettre (Belgium) (2020)

“PilipinZ,” translated into French by Fanny Garin in On peut se permettre (Belgium) (2019)

Two poems translated into French by Samuel Rochery: “The Erotic Life of Art” / “La vie érotique de l’art” (2012); and “Purity” / “Pureté” (2015)

Three poems translated into French by Samuel Rochery: “Witnessed in a Convex Mirror: A Unique Urgency,” “Witnessed in a Convex Mirror: A Winter Hunt,” and “Witnessed in a Convex Mirror: The Scent of a Melting Iceberg” in Revue Watts #26, 2020

RUSSIAN
Sixteen poems translated into Russian by Anna Krushelnitskaya for The American Center of Moscow, November 2022

ITALIAN
Two poems translated into Italian by Rebeka Lembo, Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry (June 2007)

SPANISH
Four poems translated into Spanish by Ernesto Priego, Otoliths (May 2007)
Two poems translated into Spanish by Rebeka Lembo, Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry (June 2007)

FILIPINO
Four poems translated into Filipino by Michael Thomas Nelmida, Otoliths (May 2018)
Two poems translated into Filipino by Paolo Manalo, Otoliths (May 2007)

MINIATURE ART BOOK
A poem ekphrastically translated into an art book by Alice Brody

PAINTING
A line translated into a painting by Matt Manalo

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ENGLISH
(in alphabetical order of poem’s title)

Non-Dated

Enhedanna #20″ (a very long poem) on Facebook

“II. Homunculus” at the Poetry Foundation

“I Do” at the Poetry Foundation

“The Investment Banker” at the Poetry Foundation

“The Forced Departure” at the Poetry Foundation

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2024

All Changes Change the World,” Chant de la Sirene, March 2024

A Parenthetical  R.I.P. for Brachychiton Acerifolius,” Chant de la Sirene, March 2024

Aurum,” Chant de la Sirene, March 2024

Bellicose Silence,” Chant de la Sirene, March 2024

Empty Vases,” Chant de la Sirene, March 2024

Global Warming Denial,” Chant de la Sirene, March 2024

Longing for Delphinidin,” periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics (scroll to middle of essay), May 1, 2024

Song,” periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics (scroll to middle of essay), May 1, 2024

“The Engkanto’s Diary #67,” harry k stammer Bandcamp, April 14, 2024

The Engkanto’s Diary #72,” harry k stammer Bandcamp, April 14, 2024

The Engkanto’s Diary # 80,” harry k stammer Bandcamp, April 14, 2024

The Fire Evacuee’s Song,” Chant de la Sirene, March 2024

[untitled] ‘the flowing falls‘,” periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics (scroll to middle of essay), May 1, 2024

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2023

MONOBON: In 2023 I inaugurated a new poetry form, the “monobon,” which is comprised of a prose paragraph and a monostich. The form’s inaugural poem, “Without,” is available at EileenVerbsBooks Blog.

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At the Hay(na)ku’s 20th Anniversary,” The Eulipion Outpost, September 2023

Autobiography,” NAYA, February 2023

Candescence,” Dichtung Yammer, May 2023

Dear Chocolates,” The Halo Halo Review, December 2023

Diary,” The Halo Halo Review, December 2023

Epiphany at Monster High,” Philippine Book Club on Instagram, February 2023

Gas Stations,” Otoliths, Summer 2023

Ghost,” Rigorous, Vol. 7, Issue 1, 2023

Karambit,” Otoliths, February 2023

Kharkiv,” Dichtung Yammer, May 2023

Light’s Illogic,” Otoliths, Summer 2023

Losing Music,” NAYA, February 2023

Magnolia: A Back Story,” Rigorous, Vol. 7, Issue 1, 2023

Momentum’s Profile,” Otoliths, 2023

Monobonbon,” The Halo Halo Review, December 2023

Monostiches (a selection), Marsh Hawk Press “Chapter One,” December 2023

My Adobo,” NAYA, February 2023 and Naya Magazine, October 2023

Non-Fungible Armadillo Shells,Brooklyn Rail, October 2023

One Eye Open,Brooklyn Rail, October 2023

Polmost Spirytus Rektyfikowany Vodka,Brooklyn Rail, October 2023

Postscript #12,” Otoliths, February 2023

Postscript #15,” Otoliths, February 2023

Save the Children,” The Halo Halo Review, December 2023

Sheena’s Monobon,” The Halo Halo Review, December 2023

Social Media,” Marsh Hawk Review, Spring 2023

Something about Memory,” Marsh Hawk Review, Spring 2023

[Still Untitled],” Otoliths, Summer 2023

The Opposite of Jazzy,” The Halo Halo Review, December 2023

The Peony Named ‘Beatrice’,” Entanglements2, 2023

The Road to Juliana,Brooklyn Rail, October 2023

The Silk Sword,” Otoliths, February 2023

Useless Wisdom,” Otoliths, Summer 2023

Useless Wisdom (#2),” The Eulipion Outpost, September 2023

Without,” EileenVerbsBooks Blog, Sept. 13, 2023 and at Marsh Hawk Press “Chapter One,” December 2023

(Y)our Loss,” Tears in the Fence (within review), June 16, 2023

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2022

25 Prose Poems through Simmering, Otoliths, 2022

A Chapter,” Otoliths, Issue 66, Southern Winter 2022

Advance Condolences on February 24, 2022,” Chant de la Sirene, October 2022

Birthmark: A Back Story,” Wet Cement Press Magazine No. 2, 2022 and Marsh Hawk Review, Spring 2022

Blue Chapter #10,” Argotist, July 25, 2022

Bucha,” Chant de la Sirene, October 2022

Candescence,” Moss Trill, May 4, 2022

Daniela’s Language: A Back Story,” Wet Cement Press Magazine No. 2, 2022

Father: A Back Story,” Wet Cement Press Magazine No. 2, 2022

How Indigo Broke With Sunlight,” Otoliths, Issue 66, Southern Winter 2022

I Forgot My Great American Novel,” Moss Trill, Dec. 9, 2022

Kharkiv,” Chant de la Sirene, October 2022

Let Us Anticipate,” The Coop: A Poetry Cooperative, May 2, 2022

On Something Like Forgiveness,” The Halo-Halo Review, December 2022

Petals Longing for Delphinidin,” Otoliths, Issue 66, Southern Winter 2022

Political Science Couplet,” Chant de la Sirene, October 2022

Post Drought,” Napa Valley Register (without its title), Feb. 3, 2022

Shadow Chapter #11,” Argotist, July 25, 2022

Sunflowers Became Gray, But,” Chant de la Sirene, October 2022

The Edges of Flesh Are Not Straight,” LiveMag #18, 2022

The Poet Markets a Novel,” Marsh Hawk Press’ Chapter One: On Becoming A Poet, 2022

The Proscenium Evaporates,” Chant de la Sirene, October 2022

“The Return of DoveLion,” Art and Humanity, December 2022

[Untitled] Rippled Mirror Hay(na)ku,” Chant de la Sirene, October 2022

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2021

Afterwards,” Muddy River Poetry Review, Fall 2021 (scroll down)

Bass in the Anthropocene,” Marsh Hawk Review, Spring 2021

Bauang Beach,” MiGoZine, June 2021 and as “Why I Am Rarely Nostalgic,” A Given Grace: An Anthology of Christian Poems (Squircle Line Press, 2021)

Blue Meta Pain,” Marsh Hawk Review, Spring 2021

BONGGA,” TLDTD, Issue No. 2, Feb. 28, 2021

HOPE: First 2021 Poem,” Moss Trill, January 4, 2021

IF LOVE, THEN LOVE,” Marsh Hawk Review, Spring 2021

If Love, Then Love,” A Given Grace: An Anthology of Christian Poems (Squircle Line Press, 2021)

Losing Music,” A Given Grace: An Anthology of Christian Poems (Squircle Line Press, 2021)

Menstrual Hay(na)ku, Version 2,” Muddy River Poetry Review, Fall 2021 (scroll down)

Menstrual Hay(na)ku,” A Given Grace: An Anthology of Christian Poems (Squircle Line Press, 2021)

My 9-1-1, According to Star Trek,20 Years: A Collection of Poems by Napa County Writers About September 11, 2001, Curator Marianne Lyons (Town of Yountville, CA, September 2021)

Rainbows,” Marsh Hawk Review, Fall 2021

Rapunzel Diptych: ‘Rapunzel, Enrapt’ and ‘Against Disappearance‘,” Marsh Hawk Blog, April 2, 2021

Self-Care” (illustrated hay(na)ku), Rigorous, Vol. 5, Issue 3, August 2021

Sudden Asian Prepper,” MiGoZine, January 2021

The Covid-19 Hay(na)ku,” North of Oxford, Spring 2021

The Difficulty of Nostalgia,” Muddy River Poetry Review, Fall 2021

The Edges of Flesh Are Not Straight,” Live Mag! #18, 2021

The Lockdown Tanka,” North of Oxford, Spring 2021

The Rebel’s Son,” #allpinayeverything, Aug. 2, 2021

The Significance of Perfume,” The Halo-Halo Review, November 2021, through Pearl Ubungen’s review of DOVELION (scroll down review)

Why I Am Rarely Nostalgic,” The Pedestal Magazine #88, June 2021

Chaos Pamplona,” Yountville Art Walk, July 2021

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2020

A Poetics Out of Time, March 2020,” Writing Out of Time, March 16, 2020

BECAUSE I LOVE YOU, I BECOME WAR,” Moss Trill, January 14, 2020

“Cigar Puffs,” Muddy River Poetry Review #22, April 2020

Ex-Faith,” canwehaveourballback #17 (Archives re-presented online in 2020)

Firefighter,” Otoliths, January 2020

“July,” Muddy River Poetry Review #22, April 2020

Kapwa on Covid: If,” Otoliths, April 2020

Life [Lines] Lies,” Otoliths, January 2020

List Poem, March 20290,” Marsh Hawk Review, Spring 2020 and within essay at Otoliths, April 2020

Mortality,” Moss Trill, May 2020

Not My First Mask,” shaped-poem version at HALIBUT, April 13, 2020

Not My First Mask,” hay(na)ku version (within essay) at Otoliths, April 2020

“Once Upon A Time,” The stars look very different today: a David Bowie tribute edited by Robert Hansen (Poems-for-all, 2016)

Pelmeni Tanka,” MiGoZine, April 2020

Plato, According to the Dog,” Marsh Hawk Review, Spring 2020 and within essay at Otoliths, April 2020

“Poet’s Autobiography” Muddy River Poetry Review #22, April 2020

Regret,” Materialist (50th Anniversary of Earth Day zine) edited by Lauren Frick, 2020, and within essay at Otoliths, April 2020

Scumble-d,” PA-LIWANAG: Writings by Filipinas in Translation (Gantala Press / Tilted Axis Press, 2020)

Settlers,” North of Oxford, May 2020

Spaghetti,” MiGoZine, April 2020

Sudden Asian Prepper,” (within essay at) Otoliths, April 2020

Teepeed by Covid-19,” North of Oxford Pandemic Issue #1, April 2020

“The Cruelty of the Novel,” Muddy River Poetry Review #22, April 2020

The First Face Transplant,” PA-LIWANAG: Writings by Filipinas in Translation (Gantala Press / Tilted Axis Press, 2020)

“The Incident Of/In Class,” Muddy River Poetry Review #22, April 2020

The Orange Revolution (aka Identity Politics)” in Alice Brody-created miniature book, November 2020

The Piano Keys,” canwehaveourballback #17 (Archives re-presented online in 2020)

The Return of DoveLion,” Erotoplasty 7 (Pages 124-130), September 2020

They Purr, And They WatchMiGoZine, April 2020

Triggered,” North of Oxford Pandemic Issue #1, April 2020

Unsaid as Ekphrasis,” Otoliths, January 2020

“Vacation Haiku,” Muddy River Poetry Review #22, April 2020

White, Throbbing,” canwehaveourballback #16 (Archives re-presented online in 2020)

Wind Gusts in the Drump Era,” Otoliths, January 2020

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2019

“ALAALA: A Balikbayan Box For Malacanang Palace” at Rigorous, Vol. 3, Issue 4, November 2019

“Arecaceaean Letter,” (asemic) at Angel House Press’ National Poetry Month, April 9, 2019

“A Tree’s Suicide Note” (asemic) at Paloma Press’ National Poetry Month Celebration, April 2019

“Die We Do” at Paloma Press’ National Poetry Month Celebration, April 2019

“Flower Poem” at Marsh Hawk Review, Fall/Winter 2019

“Grey, Surreptitiously” (within essay) at Jacket2, June 20, 2019

“Hay(na)ku Shadow Boxes Circles” (visual poetry) at Datableed, Issue 11, 2019

“Kapwa’s Song” (with painting it inspired–“Hourglass and Ellipsis” by Jean Vengua) at North Fork Arts Projects, October 2019

“Kintsukuroi” (text and artist book based on poem by Alice Brody), EileenVerbsBooks, June 18, 2019

“Losing Music (Diaspora Story #579)” at Marsh Hawk Review, Fall/Winter 2019

“From ‘PILIPINZ CLOUDYGENOUS’ (2018-2019): a Poetry and Visual Art Installation,”
Verity LA, March 12, 2019

“On the Limits of Context” at Paloma Press’ National Poetry Month Celebration, April 2019

“PilpinZ” in French (trans. Fanny Garin) at On peut se permettre (Belgium), 2019

“Retirement Poem” at Indolent Books’ What Rough Beast, Jan. 12, 2019

“Rimbaud in Paris” at Eileen’s Tiny Books, Sept. 1, 2019

Four “Rose Hay(na)ku” (with Toni Twong) at Facebook-Canvas to My Soul, Oct. 15, 2019; “Rose” version by Jen Soriano

“Sorry, Not Sorry” at Rigorous, Vol. 3, Issue 4, November 2019

“Spots” at Marsh Hawk Review, Fall/Winter 2019

“The Limits of Syntax” as Central Coast Poetry Shows, Day 616 Poetry (on CCPS’ Facebook Page, Jan. 11, 2019). Claude Nguyen’s interpretation of my poem “The Limits of Syntax” at konkrete poesie, Jan. 21, 2019

“Weather/Whether” at Paloma Press’ National Poetry Month Celebration, April 2019

excerpt from “When I Was” at The Bellingham Review, May 2019

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Blurred Histories” at Moss Trill, Feb. 7, 2019

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Opposites” at Marsh Hawk Review, Spring 2019

Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: PAGPAG” at Talisman 47, January 2019

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: The Circular Locket” at Marsh Hawk Review, Spring 2019

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Uppity Ilokano on Louboutin Vulvas,” The Lantern Review, Issue 7.2, May 2019

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2018

“My Adoption” (visual poetry), h&, Aug. 20, 2018

from “Antarctican Vibranium Tankas [“He sports the bullet]” at Star*Line, Spring 2018

“Anti-Winter: The Double Life of an Angel” at Galatea Resurrects, January 2018

“AUTO (An OBU Manifesto)” at Dispatches Poetry Wars, March 12, 2018

“Balikbayan (First Tan(g)ka)” at EileenVerbsBooks, Feb. 8, 2018

“[…blueness]” (or “Weather / Whether”) within article at The FilAm Magazine, April 15, 2018

“Cloudygenous Ars Poetica (#1) and (#2)” at Otoliths, Spring 2018

“Cloudygenous Chocolates” at RIGOROUS, Vol. 2, Issue 4 (2018)

“COMMUNITY OF VOWELS” at Otoliths, May 1, 2018

“Death Hay(na)ku (DH) #2” at EileenVerbsBooks, May 10, 2018

“Erasing Amnesia [Erasing ‘I Forgot’] #1” at h&, Jan. 31, 2018

“Hay(na)ku Death Poem #18” at Indolent Books’ What Rough Beast, June 27, 2018

“Hay(na)ku Death Poem #4” at Indolent Books’ What Rough Beast, June 20, 2018

“Hay(na)ku Death Poem #3” at Indolent Books’ What Rough Beast, June 13, 2018

“Hay(na)ku Death Poem #16” at Indolent Books’ What Rough Beast, June 6, 2018

“Hay(na)ku Death Poem #15” at Indolent Books’ What Rough Beast, May 30, 2018

“Hay(na)ku Death Poem #10” at Indolent Books’ What Rough Beast, May 22, 2018

“How Darkness Grows (Version 25)” at BlazeVOX18, Spring 2018

“I Forgot Tankas (#60-#76)” at Human Repair Kit, Dec. 31, 2018

“In Melinda’s Mirror” at North Fork Arts Projects, Dec. 1, 2018

“I Recall Forgetting A Secret From My Youth” (visual poetry) at h&, May 11, 20198

from “On This World Where the Anglo-Zanzibar War Erupted: [I think solitude]” at North of Oxford, April 2018

from “On This World Where the Anglo-Zanzibar War Erupted: [They allow the boy]” at North of Oxford, April 2018

from “On This World Where the Anglo-Zanzibar War Erupted: [who designed shrapnels]” at North of Oxford, April 2018

“POSSIBILITY” at MERLE AS MUSE: Poetry Inspired by the Art of Merle Rosen, Editor Rhonda Pettit (Page 11, Blue Ash Review and University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College, 2018)

“RED JOY” (scroll down) at Tripwire / Galatea Resurrects, October 2018

“Richard Would Write My First Ghazal” at Central Coast Poetry Shows (Day 584 Featured Poet), Dec. 10, 2018

“Tanka #146” at Galatea Resurrects (within review of Juan Gelman’s HOY/TODAY), May 2018

“Tanka While Reading WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier,” Galatea Resurrects, February 2018, and Contemporary Literary Horizon (with translation to Romanian)

“The Great Grief”, Unlikely Stories Mark V 20th Anniversary Edition, July 2018

“You Brought Me to the Mangrove Forest,” THE END OF THE WORLD, edited by John Bloomberg-Rissman, richard lopez and T.C. Marshall (Moria Books, Chicago, 2019)

“The Secret Life of an Angel” at Galatea Resurrects, January 2018

“Translation: Colonialism” (visual poetry) at Rigorous, Vol. 2, Issue 1 (January 2018)

“WAGWAG” at Local Nomad, July 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: 65% Surveyed Vote Against Banning Football” at Futures Trading 5.4, Feb. 19, 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Aborted Daguerreotype” at Marsh Hawk Review, Fall 2018, October 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: An Address to Mortality” at The Equalizer 3 (Page 56), December 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Archetypal Fiction” at Summer Stock #9, February 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: A Revolt at the Ready” at Broadsheet, Issue 21, May 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Arid” at Erotoplasty 1, February 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Assymetry, A Perfume / Tanka #152” at Datableed 10, September 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: A Winter Hunt” at Adjacent Pineapple, Issue Three, January 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Beautiful Lovers” at BlazeVOX18, Spring 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Beyond the Stars” and associated “Tanka #148” at E-Ratio 26, June 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Bizarria” at The Equalizer 3 (Page 312), December 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Blind Physicists” and associated “Tanka #149” at E-Ratio 26, June 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Broken Sunlight” at The Equalizer 3 (Page 372), December 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Caron Poivre” at Dispatches from the Poetry Wars, June 15, 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Criticizing Proust” at Dispatches from the Poetry Wars, June 15, 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Deep Cover Spy” at Futures Trading 5.4, Feb. 19, 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Felino’s Music of Broken Math” at BlazeVOX18, Spring 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: From the Widow’s Last Year” at Summer Stock #9, February 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Glass Armor” at Adjacent Pineapple, Issue Three, January 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Guilt” at Adjacent Pineapple, Issue Three, January 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Hiatus” at Muddy River Poetry Review, October 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Halloween Appropriation” at Dispatches from the Poetry Wars, June 15, 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Hay Naku!” and associated “Tanka #150” at E-Ratio 26, June 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Inelastic” at Summer Stock #9, February 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Kintsukuroi” at Erotoplasty 1, February 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Language Does Not Begin History” at Dispatches from the Poetry Wars, June 15, 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Light, and its Dangerous Language” at Dispatches from the Poetry Wars, June 15, 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Marc Gaba Collaged a Cow’s Face Onto a Galloping Horse’s Ass” at Dispatches from the Poetry Wars, June 15, 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: ‘Miss Universe'” at Adjacent Pineapple, Issue Three, January 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Mortality’s Mid-Life Crisis” at Summer Stock #9, February 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Mourning Colors” at Datableed 10, September 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Music of the Spheres” at Futures Trading 5.4, Feb. 19, 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Not A Pen / Tanka #159” at Datableed 10, September 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Post-Death” at Erotoplasty 1, February 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Posture Posits” at Datableed 10, September 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Rape Wardrobe” at Marsh Hawk Review, Fall 2018, October 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Ravished in the Raw” at Talking Writing, March 19, 2018 (with audio)

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Ravished in the Raw” at Dispatches from the Poetry Wars, June 15, 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: R.I.P. John Ashbery” at BlazeVOX18, Spring 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Running For Home” at Futures Trading 5.4, Feb. 19, 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Seasonality” at Erotoplasty 1, February 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Stroke Play” at The Equalizer 3 (Page 120), December 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Substituting Suburb” at Adjacent Pineapple, Issue Three, January 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Synesthesia” at The Equalizer 3 (Page 235), December 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Tense Past Tense” at Berfrois, July 24, 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: The Anonymous Laborer’s Story” at Dispatches from the Poetry Wars, June 15, 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: The Calm of Encasement” at Broadsheet, Issue 21, May 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: The Calm of Encasement / Tanka #153” at Datableed 10, September 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: The Now of Heaven” at Muddy River Poetry Review, October 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: The Song of Space” at Berfrois, July 24, 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: The Temporal” at Muddy River Poetry Review, October 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Translating Summer” at Erotoplasty 1, February 2018

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Youth’s Conflict of Interest” at Summer Stock #9, February 2018

“Writing / Your Own / Reality: Good Morning!”, a “Flip-Flop Hay(na)ku” at EileenVerbsBooks, Jan. 25, 20178

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2017

“A Shy Painting” at The Filipino-American Artist Directory and Spillway #25, Summer 2017

“As Regards Those Who Should Inherit the Earth” at E-Ratio 24, 2017

from “Big City Cante Intermedio” at High Chair Poetry #24, Jul-Dec. 2017

“Big City Cante Intermedio” at Tea & Tattered Pages/Panthalassa, March 2017

“English’s Wandering Authenticity,” Otoliths, May 1, 2017

“Hope For 201_,” Amazon.com-France (embedded within review; “rise” should be “raise” in 2nd stanza), Sept. 16, 2017

“I Do,” “Homunculus,” “The Forced Departure” and “The Investment Banker” at The Poetry Foundation (nd)

“IN PASSING” at Galatea Resurrects, December 2017

“I Was A Teen Backpacking” at High Chair Poetry #24, Jul-Dec 2017

“Kohl’s Stories” at Watermelon Isotope, March 6, 2017 and Otoliths, May 1, 2017

“Letter from Sarayaku,” UNLIKELY STORIES, March 2017

“Memory’s Gauze,” Marsh Hawk Review, Spring 2017

“Mom Betty Addresses the Nature of Proportion” at the Poetry Foundation, May 2017

“Notes to the Spanish Guitar’s Autobiography” at TRUCK, Nov. 7, 2016 and Watermelon Isotope, March 6, 2017

“On A Pyre: An Ars Poetica” at Marsh Hawk Review, Fall 2017

“Robot Cosplay” at UNLIKELY STORIES, March 2017

“Sky Is Better Than Aspirin” at High Chair Poetry #24, Jul-Dec., 2017

“Taking It Slant From Those February Days,” Fil-Am Artist Directory’s Ekphrasis Feature, June 2017

“The Chase” at Galatea Resurrects, November 2017

“The Firm,” Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene (embedded within review), Sept. 18, 2017

“The Limits of Syntax” at Stride Magazine, Feb. 17, 2017

“The Petal  Hidden From View,” Marsh Hawk Review, Spring 2017

“The Sublime Rarely Allows Shortcuts” at Marsh Hawk Review, Fall 2017

“Wall Street Music,” Amazon Review of MANHATTAN: An Archipelago, Sept. 17, 2017

“Where The Pages End” at The Brooklyn Rail, Feb. 3, 2016 and Watermelon Isotope, March 6, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: 1.6 X 10^-35 Meters,” The Brooklyn Rail, Sept. 7, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Art Foretells Even A Typhoon,” X-Peri, Aug. 10, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Aura,” The Brooklyn Rail, Sept. 7, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: A Spy Story,” X-Peri, Aug. 10, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Authenticity,” Indolent Books’ “Rough Beast,” June 29, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: A Unique Urgency,” LOCAL NOMAD, Summer 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Avatar,” Galatea Resurrects, May 29, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Bark’s Forthcoming Fact,” #100 Days of Resistance, curator Jan Christian Bernabe (Center for Art and Thought, 2017)

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Beloved Achilles,” Unlikely Stories Mark V, Aug. 9, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Betrayal With Brand Names,” X-Peri, Aug. 10, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Civilization and Inheritance,” Dispatches From the Poetry Wars, July 8, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Complicity,” Indolent Books’ “Rough Beast,” June 8, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Earned Caviar,” The Brooklyn Rail, Sept. 7, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Eco Echo,” Indolent Books’ “Rough Beast,” July 13, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Euclidean Geometry,” Indolent Books’ “Rough Beast,” June 15, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Euphemisms for Mortality,” The Brooklyn Rail, Sept. 7, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Falling Light,” Indolent Books’ “Rough Beast,” Jul 6, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Fillibuster,” LOCAL NOMAD, Summer 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: For Charlie Gard,” X-Peri, Aug. 10, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: For the Dreamers,” The Fil-Am Artist Directory, Sept. 8, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: History,” Otoliths #46, Aug. 1, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Hourglass,” LOCAL NOMAD, Summer 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Integrity,” Galatea Resurrects, May 29, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Lordy,” Otoliths #46, Aug. 1, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Mundane Ass-ette,” Otoliths #46, Aug. 1, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: “No(t) Words” (scroll down review), Galatea Resurrects, July 31, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Queen Anne’s Lace,” Muddy River Poetry Review, Fall 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Raging Against the Dying Light,” Indolent Books’ “Rough Beast,” July 20, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Red Rebound,” Amazon.com-France (embedded within review), Sept. 16, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Reflected Noise,” Dispatches From the Poetry Wars, July 8, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: John Ashbery, R.I.P.,” Eileen Verbs Books, Sept. 3, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Running,” Muddy River Poetry Review, Fall 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Sun Rises Over Battle,” Dispatches From the Poetry Wars, July 8, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: The Absent Flowers,” Dispatches From the Poetry Wars, July 8, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: The Ascetic’s Secret,” Unlikely Stories Mark V, Aug. 9, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: The Grand Rider,” Otoliths #46, Aug. 1, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: The Impoverished Gaze,” Otoliths #46, Aug. 1, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: The Lost Context,” X-Peri, Aug. 10, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: The Optimist’s Ciphertext,” Moss Trill, Sept. 19, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: The Return of Your Smile,” Muddy River Poetry Review, Fall 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: The Scent of a Melting Iceberg,” Indolent Books’ “Rough Beast,” July 27, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: The Sheriff’s Advice,” Queen Mob’s Teahouse, Oct. 17, 2017 (scroll down; with poetry-in-progress essay)

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: The Significance of Milk,” Unlikely Stories Mark V, Aug. 9, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Though She Should Have Known Better Than to Play An Asian Superpower, This Poem is for Scarlet Johannsen,” Dispatches From the Poetry War, July 8, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Threats by the Irrelevant,” LOCAL NOMAD, Summer 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Top Secret Clearance,” Otoliths #46, Aug. 1, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Vice,” Indolent Books’ “Rough Beast,” June 22, 2017

“Witnessed in the Convex Mirror: Vision,” The Brooklyn Rail, Sept. 7, 2017

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2016
“After the Promiscous Colon” at The Brooklyn Rail, Feb. 3, 2016

“Alegria (Ars Poetica #123,000)” at Filipino American Artists Directory, November 2016

“Arrival: An Impossibility” at The Big Box Poetry Project, April 2016

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Poem for The Big Box Poetry Project

“As Seen by Donatello’s Profiles” at Of/With: Journal of Immanent Renditions #4, March 30, 2016

“Bit Coin Bling” at Moss Trill, Sept. 29, 2016

“Enheduanna Rising in the 21st Century” at Leafe’s Litter Magazine, 2016

“EXCAVATING THE FILIPINO IN ME” at Tinfish, 2016

“Filipina Brides” at Sundress Wardrobe’s Best Dressed, Jan. 12, 2016

“Flagging the Empty Flagpole,” Marsh Hawk Review, Fall 2016 and Leafe’s Litter Magazine, 2016

Flash Autobiographies #1-4: “Neediness,” “Father, Mother, Son”, “Troll,” and “Sacrifice,” Queen Mob’s Tea House, Oct. 18, 2016

“Footnotes to Bliss” at The Brooklyn Rail, Feb. 3, 2016

“Gabriela Sings Fado Into the 21st Century” at X-Peri, April 3, 2016

“I Forgot My Skin Was Ruin” at The Volta (March 2015) and Sundress Wardrobe’s Best Dressed, Jan. 14, 2016

“I Forgot Pushkin, My Beloved Pig and a Harpist When I Forgot Dementia” at Of/With: Journal of Immanent Renditions #4, March 30, 2016

“I Forgot the Religion That Proclaims We Began as Orphaned” at Futures Trading 3.4, Feb. 12, 2016

“I Forgot the Song Inside the Stone” at Posit 9, March 2016

“IN SANTO TOMAS” at Queen Mob’s Teahouse, Otoliths, Southern Winter 2016

from “In the Depths of the Stone Mirror,” Leafe’s Litter Magazine, 2016

“Kapwa’s Song” at Otoliths, Nov. 1, 2016

excerpt from “Letters from the Balikbayan Box,” Sundress Wardrobe’s Best Dressed, Jan. 15, 2016

“LISTING” at Moss Trill (June 2014) and Sundress Wardrobe’s Best Dressed, Jan. 11, 2016

Footnote to “Military Goodies,” Sundress Wardrobe’s Best Dressed, Jan. 13, 2016

“Nobility” at Contemporary Literary Horizon, Nov. 25, 2016

“Post-Ecstasy Mutations” at The Brooklyn Rail, Feb. 3, 2016

“Post-Estrus” at Leafe’s Litter Magazine, 2016

from “The Opposite of Claustrophobia: Prime’s Anti-Autobiography,” X-Peri, July 11, 2016

“the relational elations of ORPHANED ALGEBRA” at Our Own Voice (September 2016)

“There Were An Alligator and A Duck,” E-Ratio, Jan. 1, 2016

“There Were Peace-Loving Zombies,” E-Ratio, Jan. 1, 2016 and Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene, May 22, 2016

“The Secret Life of Magenta” at TRUCK, Nov. 7, 2016

“There Was An Illustrator in South Korea” at Of/With: Journal of Immanent Renditions #4, March 30, 2016

“There Were [Mansplainers] Three French Boot Designers” at Of/With: Journal of Immanent Renditions #4, March 30, 2016

“There Were Two Bakers in Seattle” at Of/With: Journal of Immanent Renditions #4, March 30, 2016

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Pre-2016
excerpts from “147 Million Orphans: A Haybun” at The Brooklyn Rail

excerpts from “147 Million Orphans: A Haybun” at PEEP/SHOW…A Taxonomic Exercise in Textual and Visual Seriality…

excerpt MMXXVII from “147 Million Orphans: A Haybun” at On Barcelona, Jan. 8, 2013

“A Childhood Aftermath” at XConnect, 1996-1997

“A CRYSTALLIZATION,” “BURNING PULPIT,” “TRANS-INSOMNIA” and “PYGMALION’S EMBRACE” at LUZMAG: An Irregular Literary Magazine (2004)

“(After 2 A.M.,” “(Profiles,” “(Naming Lucidity,” “The Color of a Scratch in Metal,” and “(Eulogy” at Muddy River Poetry Review

“A Gospel For My Father” at Dusie (5)

“Alchemy at the Maykadeh: Dinner with Philip Lamantia” and “Microchip Legacy” at Blue Fifth Review

“Ars Poetica (#100,000)” at Big Bridge

“ATHENA’S DIPTYCH” at THE MARGINS: Lines of Sight: Visual Art in Asian American Poetry (Asian American Writers Workshop), March 2015

“; A Tenderness So Painful” at Fugacity 05

“Athena” at ars poetica, Jan. 7, 2007

“A Triangle of Secrets” at Blue Fifth Review, Summer 2004

“Brubeck Notes”, “Forgiveness,” “Dearest Nelson,” “Plant Latin” and “Infinity’s Fragment” at Otoliths (May 2007)

“Cactus Abstraction,” Galatea Art Collection, May 21, 2004

“Cantos from ‘Trance Ascent’” at Rogue Poetry Review, 2006

“COPPER RAIN REDUX” and “POLITICAL ACT” at Otoliths (2008)

“Crucial Bliss Epilogues” at The Helios Mss, October 2015

“Dear Cloud” at OurOwnVoice, August 2010

excerpts from DREDGING FOR ATLANTIS at Otoliths, Spring 2006

“DREDGING FOR ATLANTIS” at On Barcelona (December 2014) and as Daily Feature, Feb. 12, 2016, at The Quotidian Bee.

“Eggs: Pulp Fiction for Easter” at JACKET (32)

“English Lessons,” Ekleksographia, October 2009

“ENHEDUANNA IN THE 21ST CENTURY” at Marsh Hawk Review (Spring 2015)

“Epilogue Poems (#13-#18)” at AUGHT No. 11/12 (2003)

“(Ethos” at Cerise Press (Spring 2013)

“; Ex-Garter” at Famous Reporter #31

“Footnotes to Algebra” at Otoliths, Oct. 31, 2015

“Glow Worm,” “Lewd,” “Easily Memorized” and “Shade” at Eratio Postmodern Poetry

“Goya’s Yellow,” “Nerves Say” and “The Eye Lets” at Coconut Poetry #14

“Grace Reddens,” “The Singer” and “Dark Freedom” at First Annual Festival of Women’s Poetry (November 2008)

“HEART POETRY: A CRITIQUE” at Moss Trill (June 2014) 

“Helen” and “Perhaps This Second Drift” at Marsh Hawk Press

Hotel Narratives:” Hotel Narrative,” “Cancer,” “Metaphor,” “Bread,” and “From My Knees” at Hotel No Tell (scroll down alphabetically to poet’s name), 2007

“How To Read A Poem,” “How To Write A Poem” and “Untitled” at Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry (June 2007)

“Hypertext, Daw,” Harpur Palate, Vol.1, Issue 1

“I forgot a carapace, then its splitting” at TRUCK (Nov. 1, 2014)

“I Forgot All Ancestors” at Our Own Voice (January 2015)

“I Forgot Ars Poetica” at Dusie’s ECOPOETHOS: Writing and Art (Dec. 2014)

“I Forgot Eyes Widening To Pull in More of the World” at COUNTRY MUSIC: An Online Journal of Poetry (December 2014)

“I Forgot How Beauty Dislocates” at ON BARCELONA (Sept. 2014)

“I Forgot My Mother’s Blood in the Sangria” at COUNTRY MUSIC: An Online Journal of Poetry (December 2014)

“I Forgot Forgetting My Skin Was Ruin” at h2, a journal of visual/concrete poetry (April 22, 2015)

“I Forgot That Summer in Rome” at The Volta (March 2015)

“I Forgot the Binary of Refugees Vs. Art” at Local Nomad (November 2014)

“I Forgot the Engineers of Lexus” at Moss Trill, December 19, 2014

“I Forgot the First Woman General” at ARDUITY, November 2014

“I Forgot the Plasticity of Recognition” at Otoliths, Nov. 1, 2014

“I Forgot the Protection of Diamonds” at E-Ratio #20, 2015

“I Forgot Quaffing Sweet Jerez, and Wings Flared As If Posing for Rembrandt (aka I Remember You, Philip Lamantia)” at The Marsh Hawk Review, Fall 2014

excerpt from “I Forgot the Song Inside the Stone” at The Volta (March 2015)

excerpt from “I Forgot the Spiral That is Memory’s Perspective,” The Doris, Dec. 27, 2015

“Ifugao Red” with Nick Carbo at ars poetica, Jan. 7, 2007

“In the Beginning, Before Words There Was Poetry” and “END TO BEGIN: An Autobiography” at Otoliths (June 2014)

“IT’S CURTAINS” at Delirious Hem‘s Anti-Rape Culture Advent, Day 12 (December 2014)

“Lucifer, Mistranslated” (After Santiago Bose) at Our Own Voice (April 2010)

“Maganda Begins” at Marsh Hawk Press

“Missionary Effect,” “Wedding Veil,” “Ellipsis” and “The Effort” at Moria Poetry (Winter 2003)

“Mortality Asemics (1-3)” at The New Post-literate: A Gallery of Asemic Writing (May 6, 2015)

“MOTH ER” at Otoliths (2011)

“MUDRA” at Our Own Voice (2005)

“My April” and “BRIX” at Moria Poetry (Spring 2004)

“My City of Baguio” at Otoliths (2006)

“My Neighbor” at HIV Here & Now, June 13, 2015

“No. 6: I Forgot the Plasticity of Recognition” at Otoliths (October 2014)

“(Nobility” and “(How Cyberspace Lost Midnight” at TALISMAN: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

“Nota Bene Eiswein” at Ottawa Poetry Newsletter (scroll down), Nov. 1, 2015

“Page 6,” “Page 7” and “Page 8” (The Masvikiru Quatrains) at SOFTBLOW

“Paul Auster’s Father,” “The Autistic Boy” and “Filipino” at Our Own Voice, December 2010

Poems Form/From the Six Directions” with Nick Carbo, quartsilluni, Jan 23, 2009

“PORQUE ME CONTACTADO EN FACEBOOK” at Queen Mob’s Teahouse, Dec. 21, 2014

“Post-Coital” at quarrtsiluni online literary magazine, July 28, 2009

“(Purity” at Van Gogh’s Ear, Sept. 15, 2012

“REPRODUCTIONS OF THE EMPTY FLAGPOLE,” Entropy, Dec. 11, 2014

“RESPECT” at Rio: A Journal of the Arts (1997)

“Roman Synopsis #3” and “Roman Synopsis #4” at EOAGH #5

“Sentences” at ars poetica, Jan. 7, 2007

“Snow White Grids A Red Painting,” Muse Apprentice Guild, Spring 2003

“Sun Stigmata” at Otoliths, Oct. 31, 2015

“Tercets from the Book of Revelation” at Big City Lit

“Thaumaturgy,” “Gravamen,” “Ex Cathedra,” “Pellucid,” AND THEN (III)” at Muse Apprentice Guild, Winter 2003

“The American Nightmare” at Word for / Word

“The Awakening” at Moss Trill, Oct. 26, 2015

“The Chase,” “The Beginning,” “The Empty Flagpole,” “Enheduanna #2,” “Grandmother’s Fable,” and “; The Back of a Napkin” at Literary Well/Pozo Literario

“The Eighteenth Page” and “The Nineteenth Page” (The Masvikiru Quatrains) at Eratio Postmodern Poetry, Fall 2005

“The Flooding That Writes Itself” at Poets For Living Waters

“The Forced Departure” at the Poetry Foundation website, 2010

“The Hay(na)ku of Numbers” at INERTIA MAGAZINE, January 2008

“; The Hidden Logic of Births Necessitating Violence,” “; Hope for Enchantment,” and “; The Possible Glow” at The Hamilton Stone Review

“The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon,” “Hay(na)ku with Ducktail, for Leny” and “Sacred Time” at Our Own Voice (August 2010)

“The Lamb” at Our Own Voice (December 2001)

from “The Opposite of Claustrophobia: Prime’s Anti-Autobiography,” Marsh Hawk Review, Fall 2015

“The Poetry World Trap” at Otoliths (January 2007)

“There Was A Company of Flexible Dancers” at Delirious Hem Advent 2015, Dec. 16, 2015

“The Secret Life of an Angel” and (with Andrew Lundwall) “(UNTITLED)” at Litter

“(The Chase” at On Barcelona, Feb. 2, 2012

“There, Where the Pages Would End” at Otoliths, Oct. 31, 2015

“Tincture” at Boog City (2003)

“To Be Seen by Iamos, Calchas and Teiresias” at Cerise Press (Spring 2013)

“; To Study Art Is To Become Thin” and “; Writing Past Margin” at Blue Fifth Review (July 2005)

“Twice, I Forgot” and “Thrice, I Forgot” at On Barcelona, June 6, 2014

“Vulcan’s Aftermath,” “Untitled (Bookstore), 2000,” and “Perhaps This Second Drift” at Moria Poetry (Summer 2001)