poetry

Badminton — The Poetry Review (third prize in The Poetry Society of the UK’s 2025 National Poetry Competition)

Rest Stop at Wheeler Ridge, beginning with a line by Diane Seuss— Oxford Review of Books (forthcoming 2026)

Prestige— POETRY

I stalk the Piedmont houses on Zillow just to feel something— Frontier Poetry

The Golden Age— “We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word”(Haymarket Books) edited by Franny Choi, Terisa Siagatonu, No'u Revilla, and Bao Phi

Manananggal Meets Corporate Feminism— 2023 National YoungArts Anthology (performed at 2023 National YoungArts Week in Miami)

I talk to Tiktik Maria Labo after joining TikTok's 'POV: you stopped dressing for the male gaze' trend — Vagabond City

At the Vigil in Oakland Chinatown, the KQED journalist asks for my permission to use my photo and I wonder what kind of grief gets documented— The Racket (also appears in Active Voice)

For the missing ceiling tiles in 5th period history— The Offing

On Consuming— Pigeon Pages (2023 American Voices Regional Winner & National Nominee, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards)

In Parallel— Speak Poetry

Band Camp— Bullshit Lit Anthology 02

Ode to Metal— Outlander Magazine Issue 5: Killjoy

Yet Again— The Graveyard Zine Issue 2: The Love Massacre

pulse— Brenda Art Magazine Issue 7: Blue (in print only)

prose

Editor’s Note — The Adroit Journal, Issue Fifty-One

Article series on potential effects of Senate Bill 823 (Closing of CA’s Department of Juvenile Justice)

SB823 — Youth Incarceration at the Local Level (page 7)

Incarcerated Youth & Education: Will local institutions have the capacity to serve system-impacted youth? (page 11)

Youth Targeted for E-carceration (page 6)

Article series on Castro Valley High’s lack of sexual health resources(a month after articles were published, the CVUSD school board passed a policy allowing on-campus accessibility of sexual health products at high schools across the district)

Trojans in search of condoms

CVHS discusses its culture around sex: “A conversation for everybody”

Opinions & Essays

How to tackle insecurity as a teen artist: My experience at National YoungArts week

When Rhetoric Turns to Violence: On Trump, Duterte, & the “Walis Tambo” Man

“She Said”: Is the #MeToo Movement Dead?

I, Too, Have Been Rejected

News & Feature Coverage

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón discusses the importance of grief

Poet & essayist Ross Gay on why you don’t need to be an optimist to incite joy

War touches Trojans’ families: “Hope is on our side”

Students demand administration to take sexual assault seriously

Other

The New York Committee of Vigilance: On Mutual Aid Networks & Community Organizing