writing

chapbook

Nomadic Press published MY BOYFRIEND APOCALYPSE in 2023. Following the press’ closure, Black Lawrence Press reprinted the chapbook.

With a disco ball as a north star, MY BOYFRIEND APOCALYPSE responds to the myriad, simultaneous apocalypses we are and are not surviving, from the everyday crises of being a body to the global emergencies of devastating climate change and unfettered white supremacy. These poems ask what it would be like to make out with the end of the world: Who slipped tongue first? Is the apocalypse a good kisser? Are you?

Buy MY BOYFRIEND APOCALYPSE from Black Lawrence Press.

poetry

• A Stroll Through the Museum of My Gender Ending with a Minor Capitulation to Commodity Fetishism in THE QUARRY: A SOCIAL JUSTICE POETRY DATABASE by Split This Rock, 2023.

• Eau D’Bedroom Dancing (I Learn from You) and After Campari Sodas and Modelo Especial, Before The Good Wife in DIODE POETRY JOURNAL, 2023

• Self-Portrait in a Canadian Tuxedo on the Road to St. George, UT in SPLIT LIP, 2023 (Anthologized in Best New Poets 2023)

• Ode to the Durian Emoji, Though it is Yet to Exist and Olfactory Ode in MAYDAY MAGAZINE, 2023

• Self-Portrait as Tschockes in the Bedroom My Love and I Share and Dear God (With Text Messages from the Author’s Father) in MILVIA STREET JOURNAL, 2023

• Jhené Aiko Reads José Esteban Muñoz and Eats a Pluot in a Bathhouse in LIWANAG, VOL. 3 (SOMA Pilipinas, Kearny Street Workshop), 2022

• Toward a Place in the World (Featuring the Queen of Wands’ Pet Cat) or a Poem in Which the Only Italicized Words Are a Joke About a Diana Ross Song in GIGANTIC SEQUINS, 2022

• Nagladlad in APOGEE, 2021

• The Takoyaki Vending Machines and I in PINE HILLS REVIEW, 2020

• Ode to the Moon, the Earth’s Only Satellite, with Years of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in LANTERN REVIEW, 2020

• The Gay Dads in the Milk Ad that Tells Me to “Love What’s Real” Consider a Gay Divorce in PEACH MAG, 2020

• Carry in HOMOLOGY LIT, 2020

• I Lean Into the Throat of Summer & Self-Portrait as the Potato that Flew around My Room in UNDERBLONG, 2020

• On Grammar & Poem Named after the Grindr Notification Tone in COSMONAUTS AVENUE, 2019

press

• “I Need to Feel Safe More Than I Need Forever: Poet antmen pimentel mendoza” with María Equinca in KQED, 2023

• “Process Note #15: A Brief Note on Play” in PERIODICITIES blog, 2023

• Interview featuring two poems, Family Portrait as a Deck of Cards & My College Boyfriend Really Liked Kill Bill, or “Not to weigh down one’s thoughts with the weight on one’s shoes” (after Nadja) in RADAR blog, 2020

recorded readings

• APAture 2022: Autonomy—Voice: A Literary Arts Showcase, Kearny Street Workshop, October 28, 2022, San Francisco

• National Poetry Month Reading, Apogee Journal, April 20, 2021, online

• Interdisciplinary Writers' Lab, Kearny Street Workshop & Asian Art Museum, September 12, 2020, online