Books
Aerial Concave Without Cloud (Nightboat Books, 2022)
No Comet, That Serpent in the Sky Means Noise (Kore Press, 2017)
Solar Maximum (Futurepoem Books, 2015)
Underground National (Factory School, 2011) out of print
That Gorgeous Feeling (Coconut Books, 2008) out of print
Chapbooks
From The Chorography (Belladonna, 2021)
From Aerial Concave Without Cloud (Nous Zot, 2015)
Juliette and the Boys (Belladonna, 2014)
No Comet, That Serpent in the Sky Means Noise (Black Warrior Review, 2013)
A Primary Mother (Least Weasel, 2012)
Mental Commitment Robots (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, 2007)
Perfect Villagers (Octopus Books, 2006)
Poetry Anthologies
BAX 2015: Best American Experimental Poetry
guest edited by Douglas Kearney (Wesleyan University Press)
Poets on Painters (2007)
anthology and exhibition catalog from the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University in Kansas
Poetics Statements
Self Portrait in an Academic Poetry Industrial Complex Mirror (2019)
for the Poetry Foundation
So Say It (2018)
for eohippus labs based in Los Angeles
Part of their Annex Series, collection 2 on Inherited Trauma. Edited by Janice Lee, with essays by Chiwan Choi, Saehee Cho, and Don Mee Choi. Out of print.
You can read my text here.
A Poetics of Light, a series of essays for the Poetry Foundation (2017)
1: A Poetics of Light
2: Light is a Complex Medium discussing Michele Kishita’s paintings
3: Imaginations of Light discussing Gaston Bachelard
4: Absent Light, Resilience
Awarding Our Alienation (2017)
a paper I gave at the Smithsonian Institute’s Asian American Literature Festival
한 :: Concept : Spirit : Break (2016)
for Jacket2 hosted at the University of Pennsylvania for a special series, Conceptual writing (plural and global) and other cultural productions, edited by Divya Victor.
Essays and Reviews
Trauma and the Avant-Garde (2021)
The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Poetry edited by Timothy Yu
On Unsun by Andrew Zawacki (Georgia Review, summer 2020)
Shock and Blah: On Offensive Conceptual Poetry (2014)
for Evening Will Come, issue 41 May
I discuss Sianne Ngai’s stuplime and observe some problems related to offensive material and documentary writing tactics.
Commentaries for Jacket 2 on the Poetic Production of Time (2014)
1: Time Text Body Noise discussing Truong Tran
2: Erasing the Third Dimension discussing Tan Lin
3: Into Motions and Relations discussing Myung Mi Kim
4: The Present is Fleet and We Never Have It Anyway discussing Lawrence Giffin
The Seamless World: On Mei Mei Berssenbrugge’s Poetry (2015)
for Nests and Strangers: On Asian American Women Poets, edited with an introduction by Timothy Yu, afterward by Mg Roberts (Kelsey Street Press, CA)
On Speculative Poetry: a future ((tense)) // yet // else (2013)
for at Evening Will Come, issue 27 March
I wrote poetry reviews for The Constant Critic, a project of Fence Books, from 2014-2016. During my time there, I reviewed work by
Tanya Foster, Bhanu Kapil, Divya Victor, Dawn Lundy Martin, Rachel Levitsky, Janice Lee, Danielle Pafunda, Chris Vitiello, Cara Benson, Kim Hyesoon translated by Don Mee Choi, Duriel E. Harris, Pamela Lu, Tan Lin, Brandon Shimoda, and Urayoan Noel.
I interviewed Ed Bok Lee for the Asian American Writers’ Workshop
My review of Hoa Nguyen’s Red Juice for Galatea Resurrects
Teaching Asian American Women’s Poetry: Subjectivity and the Politics of Language (2010)
for Poets on Teaching: A Sourcebook, edited by Joshua Marie Wilkinson (University of Iowa Press, IA)
shaped like relation suggested like progress (2008)
for Building is a Process / Light is an Element: essays and excursions for Myung Mi Kim, edited by Michael Cross and Andrew Rippeon (SUNY Buffalo, NY)