Poetry

Collections/Published Poetry:

“Etymology,” “How Beautiful Things—,” and “…the Cruelest Month (April 8, 1994)”, Syncopation Literary Journal, Volume 5, Issue 1, February 2026 (upcoming)

“Reading Modern Poetry on Kaua’i, 1 & 2” – Mānoa Journal, 2025 Poetry Contest Finalist, 2025

“Checking for Surf” – The Hopkins Review, “Local” Literature: Writings from Hawai’i, 2025

“June 21, 2020 (sand at the beach)” – Sídhe Press, To Lay Sun Into a Forest – Poems About Grief, 2025

“Maybe a Ghost (or the podagee on da porch)” – Mythic Picnic, 2025

“Laulima Asks About Smoothies” – First Place, Nā Leo Lele Writing Contest, 2024

“Looking for a Pink Falango,” “The Other Importances of a Forest,” and “To the People on the Cruise Ship” – “Da Big Issue,” Bamboo Ridge Press, November 2023

“I Do Not Want to do this Lesson Anymore” – English Journal, November 2023; Unwashed (A Bay View Zine), Inaugural Issue

“His Area of Need” – English Journal, July 2023

“It Rained Today During Our Socratic Seminar” – English Journal, November 2021

“Quarantine Poems” in Kīpuka; Finding Refuge in Times of Change – Bamboo Ridge Press, October 2021

“25 Entries Found for Kumu” – Hawaiʻi Pacific Review, October 2021

River, Sun, Fruit – Chapbook, 2000, University of Portland

Works in Progress:

Ths Msg Wll Slf Dstrct (a letter to my students from the basement of the NY Public Library) – Summer, 2024

Thinking About Kelly - Winter, 2023

Johnny Lopes Rides in the Trunk - Fall, 2021

The Tide is Under the Moon – January, 2021

This Is Us - January 6, 2021

Who Could Rise in Flame - November 25, 2020