Poems Online – selected
- “In the Chapel of St. Calixthus,” Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, forthcoming April 2025
- “Dear Body—,” The Offing, Kundiman 20th Anniversary Poetry Portfolio, May 2024
- “On Bewilderment,” “Bad Birth: A Retrospective,” and “On Collapse,” SUSPECT, August 2023
- “Pajaro Dunes: Family Notebook,” Memorious: A Journal of New Verse and Fiction, December 2020
- from “Instax: A New Lyric,” DUSIE Tuesday Poem #392
- “At the Empress: An Epithalamium,” winner of the 2020 Hawker Prize for Southeast Asian Poetry and Singapore Unbound‘s Singapore Poetry Contest
- “Where Poems Come from” and “Dear _________,” Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art, Issue 12
- from “A Death Diary: Day 10,” ANMLY #28
- “Notes from the Birth Year: On Gestation and Becoming” and “Last Day in Laguna,” Poetry Northwest Online, October 2018
- more “from MOTHERSALT: A Lyric,” Your Impossible Voice, Issue 18
- “Notes from the Birth Year: On Weaning,” “On Mind and Memory,” “On Worlds That Leave Us,” The Yale Review Online, August 2018
- “Poem for When You Want to Remember,” SWWIM Every Day, April 2018
- “from MOTHERSALT: A Lyric [37 weeks, 1 day]” and “[38 weeks, 6 days],” Los Angeles Review Online Poetry, February 2018
- “One Day You’ll Look in the Mirror and See Lions II” and “To My Many Mothers, Issei and Nisei,” Hyphen, May 11, 2017
- “Someday,” Pacifica Literary Review, February 21, 2017
- “Land’s End” and “The End When It Comes,” wildness, Issue 6: Echoes
- “Isako Isako,” “Isako like ash your sister drifts back to you,” “Without Isako,” and “A Last History of Isako,” Witness, Volume XXIX, No. 2
- “Self-Portrait as Sparrows and Blood” and “Isako, Lost Things I,” Fogged Clarity, Autumn 2015
- “Paradigm Shift,” Boxcar Review, Issue 32
- “[My grandmother is dying],” The Collagist, Issue 39
- “[The street where a certain democratic leader lives],” They Will Sew the Blue Sail, Issue 10
- “Sunday in Skagit Valley” and “As If,” The Monarch Review, March 2012
Poems in Print – selected
- “On the Highway,” MorningStar Music Publishers / ECS Publishing Group, forthcoming April 2025
- “Spring, Again” and “from A Death Diary: Day 21,” G U E S T, Issue 11
- from “MOTHERSALT: A Lyric,” Columbia Journal, Spring 2019
- “Notes from the Birth Year: On Breastfeeding,” Washington Square Review, Spring 2019
- “from MOTHERSALT: A Lyric [32 Weeks, 5 Days; 37 Weeks, 4 Days; and 37 Weeks, 5 Days],” CALYX, Vol. 31.1
- “Ode to Mochi” and “Origin and Departure,” The Massachusetts Review, Vol. 59.4
- “from MOTHERSALT: A Lyric [34 weeks, 4 days],” Indiana Review, Vol. 40.1
- “Cebu,” Cimarron Review, Issue 194
- “In the Womb” and “Prayer,” Smartish Pace, Issue 22
- “Wild” and “[Not the river],” Mid-American Review, Vol. XXXV, No. 2
- “The Locks,” The Greensboro Review, Number 94
- “As If,” Best New Poets 2012, Meridian/Samovar Press
- “Crossing,” “[This kind of morning],” “On Terror,” “This Is Not a Story” and “Interior Security Regulations,” Asian American Literary Review, Vol. 3.2
Poems in Anthologies
- The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration, ed. Brynn Saito and Brandon Shimoda (Haymarket Books, forthcoming April 2025)
- Braving the Body, ed. Pichchenda Bao, Nicole Callihan and Jennifer Franklin (Small Harbor Publishing, 2024)
- They Rise Like A Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets, ed. Christine Kitano and Alycia Pirmohamed (Blue Oak Press, 2022)
- The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit, ed. Lee Herrick and Leah Silvieus (Orison Books, 2020)
- Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience, ed. Patric Vecchione and Alyssa Raymond (Seven Stories Press, 2019)
- Dismantle: An Anthology of Writing from the VONA/Voices Writing Workshop (Thread Makes Blanket Press, 2014)
Book Reviews & Editorial
- “We Are Always Building,” SUSPECT, February 3, 2023
- “Bounty and Infinite Grace,” SP Blog, December 16, 2019
- “Human Before Mom: A Review of Grace Chia’s Mother of All Questions,” SP Blog, March 4, 2019
- “If I Die in Juárez: A Review of For Want of Water by Sasha Pimentel,” Hyphen Blog, August 8, 2018
- “If Water Is the New Bridge: A Transpacific Poetics,” Hyphen Blog, December 8, 2017
- “In Search of Origins: Thi Bui’s ‘The Best We Could Do’, ” Hyphen Blog, April 16, 2017
- “Of Sundry Kinds: Amit Majmudar’s ‘Dothead’, ” Hyphen Blog, October 17, 2016
- “Editor’s Corner: July Summer Reads and the Poetics of Reckoning,” Lantern Review Blog, July 14, 2016
- “In the Looking Glass: ‘Private Citizens‘, “Hyphen Blog, May 5, 2016
- “ ‘Amulet’ by Jason Bayani,” Hyphen Blog, February 12, 2016
- “Nests and Strangers: On Asian American Women Poets,” International Examiner, August 2015
- “Lucky Fish” and “Voyager,” International Examiner, April 2015
- Lantern Review Blog
Essays & Interviews
- “Interview for the 2020 Hawker Prize for Southeast Asian Poetry,” Sing Lit Station, Summer 2020
- “2019 Maine Literary Award: Brief Interviews with Winners,” Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance, October 2019
- “10 Questions for Mia Ayumi Malhotra,” The Massachusetts Review, December 2018
- “An Interview with Mia Ayumi Malhotra,” wildness, Issue 17, December 2018
- “Mia Ayumi Malhotra Recommends,” Poets & Writers Blog, September 2018
- “A Gift Shaped by Fire: Notes on a Missionary Kid’s Childhood,” Inheritance Magazine, Issue #40
- “Lessons from BROWN BEAR, BROWN BEAR,” Kundiman Fireside Blog, October 2014
- “Dramatic Fingers Reaching from the Organs: An Interview with Mia Malhotra,” The Collagist Blog, November 2011
- “In the Garden” and “Keeping Records,” Nisei Stories of Faith, 2008
- “Things We Have Saved,” Leland Quarterly, Vol. 1.3