REVIEW: …creating poetry has everything to do with love.
A review of Scientific Marvel by Chim Undi for Prairie Books Now.
REVIEW: I am reading your poems to my faithlessness.
A review of Theophanies by Sarah Ghazal Ali for canthius.
REVIEW: Poetry is a craft of heart medicine.
A review of Remedies for Chiron by m. patchwork monoceros for Prairie Books Now.
REVIEW: Poetry begins with the mouth.
A review of The City That is Leaving Forever by Rahat Kurd and Summayya Syed and The Good Arabs by Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch in Arc 101.
I’ve been reading up on comfort and chaos. I like missing you.
“Summer Storm / Winter Storm” in Love Letters curated by Yi Wei for the Asian American Writers’ Workshop
Time is grief, something whispers in the dark. “No, grief is grief,” she whispers back, tired.
“Murmurations” in Brick 106 (notable mention in Best American Essays 2022)
This art says, I see you and disappears. This art says, I’m leaving you and stays.
Exhibition Essay written for “How to Find a Palm Tree” by Jasmine Gui and Justine Wong in the Xpace Cultural Centre
GRIEF IS NOT LOVE’S UGLINESS / LOSS IS NOT LONGING’S
“GOOD GRIEF” in the Syllabus Project
REVIEW: Here come my friends, murmuring wishes to the open air, carrying the sunset on their wings.
“Listen: On Natasha Ramoutar’s Bittersweet, jaye simpson’s it was never going to be okay, and Lily Wang’s Saturn Peach” in The Capilano Review
REVIEW: What happens when you create narrative out of poetry? What kind of body emerges? Where?
“Hungry, breathing: a review of Noor Naga’s Washes, Prays” in The Puritan
A sentence or story could never live outside our geographies. A poem always went back to the world, to its woods.
“Situating Racialized Ecopoetics: Memory, Geography & Community” in the Town Crier
Look, there is the blue horizon. Here, in this escaping sky.
“Border poem” with Manahil Bandukwala in Briarpatch
Sanna Wani