Recent writing and select appearances
2022
Two poems in Pleiades: “La Cuenta” and “We Had to Become Doves: An American Sonnet.” (UC library access may be needed to view)
2021
“Toyoteria: Jaime Muñoz’s Apparitions of Faith,” Vicious Ladies magazine: https://www.viciousladies.com/articles/blog-post-two-glds2
2020
“1989 Caprice Classic,” BOOM California magazine: https://boomcalifornia.com/2020/08/17/1989-caprice-classic/
“Stories in the Stream: South East LA River Arts Festival Moves Online,”KCET Southland Sessions
“Making Lovers of Friends: A Bisexual Account of Women Who Don’t Belong to Me,”
“Making Lovers of Friends: my Bisexual Account of Women Who Don’t Below to Me,” Autostraddle: https://www.autostraddle.com/making-lovers-of-friends-my-bisexual-account-of-women-who-dont-belong-to-me/
2019
LIBROMOBILE. Saturday, April 20, 2019, FREE. Santa Ana, CA. A reading celebrating Heidi Restrepo Rhodes’ The Inheritance of Haunting and Kenji Liu’s Monsters I Have Been. 220 E. 4th Street, Ste. 107, Santa Ana, Ca.
VERSES & VINO. Friday, March 1, 2019, 8pm-10pm, at Stokely’s Café and Social House, 3500 W. Pico Blvd. LA 90019
AWP BOOKFAIR. Friday, March 29, 2019, 3-4pm, FREE. Book signing and cumbia dance party pop-up with poet Heidi Restrepo Rhodes, author of The Inheritance of Haunting. Location: AWP book fair booth 6042: The University of Arizona Press/Latinx Caucus
THE LITERARY CITIZEN: SW X NW. Saturday, March 30, 2019, 3-5pm, FREE. A reading with TC Tolbert, Farid Matuk, Elizabeth Alvarado, Angela Peñaredondo and more! At Rev. Nat’s Hard Cidery & Taproom, Portland, OR
PITZER COLLEGE. Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Women Who Submit: On Submitting Poetry for Publication. Saturday, April, 13, 2019, 10am-11am. The Exposition Park Public Library, Los Angeles, CA. A conversation with Muriel Leung.
CAL STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON. Tuesday, April 16, 2019.
2018
Festival Internacional del Libro, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Nov. 27.
Tucson Festival of Books, March 10-11
Alivio Open Mic, Bell, CA, March 23, 9pm
UC Riverside Writers Week, February 14, 5:30pm
Cal State Monterey Bay, Latinx Poetics Symposium, April 12-13
2017
Five million places and…
Literatura en Bravo, Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, March 9-12, 2017
“like nothing else in tense, ése,” erasure of “Anecdote of the Jar,” by Wallace Stevens
Spiral Orb
2016
“Little Earthquakes: Thinking About Fear and Family,” in a forthcoming anthology by Third Woman Press, Annie Fukushima, Layli Maparayan, Matt Richardson, and Anita Revilla, editors
San Gabriel Playhouse with Naomi Hirahara and Mike Sonkensen. Organized by Karineh Mahdessian.
Four poems in Omniverse, April
Four poems in The Volta, January
Thursday, March 31, 2016, 3pm-4:15pm
AWP Panels: Mistaking Planes for Stars: Los Angeles Writing from Freeways to Flight Paths. With Aida Salazar , Steve Gutierrez, and Melinda Palacio
From Bukowski to Viramontes, working-class writing in Los Angeles is a longstanding tradition. Latinos are the largest ethnic group in the county, bringing avant-garde aesthetics to literature. However, many of our stories have yet to be told. This reading highlights cutting edge poetry, story, and performance by working-class and queer Latinos from a little-known part of Los Angeles: the southeast. From railroad yards to factory floors, writers share their work of grit and heart.
From New Wave to Punk: Musical Influences on Latino Literary Aesthetics. With Daniel Chacón, Carribean Fragoza, Michelle Gonzales, and Marlen Rios-Hernandez
Cal State University, Northridge, with Poet Laureate of L.A., Luis Rodriguez
The Instant reading series organized by Writ Large Press in downtown L.A.
Self-Help Graphics, Poetas in Wonderland, AWP off-site reading
2015
Huizache, issue 5, fall
“Agua en gotas,” in Nepantla: A Journal for Queer Poets of Color, issue two
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Colegio de Letras Modernas
Black Poets Speak Out with Fred Moten, Luis J. Rodriguez, at The Sweat Spot
Art Share Los Angeles, “Requiem for Sandra Bland: Recollection”
LitCrawl North Hollywood
Providence College, First-Generation Student Reception, Latino Heritage Month
“I Can Defend Myself: a Trans Teenager’s Family Clears a Path for Trans Youth,” in KCET Departures, Nov. 6, 2015
“Faking Business,” a short story in The James Franco Review, issue 4
“Agua en Gotas,” Nepantla magazine, issue 2, Lambda Literary
2014
“What You See, What You Take With You,” in Parrafo Magazine (UCLA), number six, The Los Angeles Issue
“Don Mario,” and “Señor Moreno,” in Ghost Town (CSUSB), May
“Pioneers of Artistic Revolution: Making Art and Space in Southeast Los Angeles,” KCET Communities, as part of the 710 Corridor Project, April, 8, 2014
“Mocosa,” and “Dame Tu Hermana,” in Diálogo, for the “Latin American and Latina/o Poetry in the 21st Century,” issue (DePaul University), fall
La Mera Neta,” forthcoming in Kweli Journal, fall
“Powder Room,” in Finery, online journal, January
Honeymoon,” As/Us Journal, February
Los Angeles Review of Books, “Visibility and Invisibility: […] Middle-Class Latinas of Désirée Zamorano’s ‘The Amado Women’”
“How can you live,” “Como puedes vivir,” La Casa del Hijo del Ahuizote
“Already My Lips Were Luminous,” Gabriela Mistral Poetry Prize finalist, Cobalt Review
“Give Me Your Sister,” Diálogo, volume 17, issue two, DePaul University
“What an Orange is For,” ORANGELANDIA: The Literature of Inland Citrus, Gayle Brandeis, editor, Inlandia Institute
“Palm Frond with Its Throat Cut,” Statement magazine, Cal State University Los Angeles
“Honeymoon,” As/Us journal
“Love Letter to Morrissey,” Brooklyn & Boyle magazine
2013
“El Monte Forever: a Brief History of Michael Jaime-Becerra,” as part of the “East of East” series, Tropics of Meta (Columbia University), December 16, 2013
Swallows, a collection of poems, Finishing Line Press, May
“Eating Couplets and Haiku,” Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry, McSweeney’s and The Poetry Foundation, April
Swallows, first collection of poetry, Finishing Line Press
“La Mera Neta,” Kweli Literary Journal
“Don Mario,” and “Señor Moreno,” Ghost Town Literary Review
“What You See, What You Take with You,” Párrafo magazine, UCLA
2012
“La Guadalupana,” Palabras en Vuelo/Words in Flight, El Tecolote anthology
2011
“$5 Carnations,” Turtle Island to Abya Yala: A Love Anthology of Art, Micaela Valdez, editor, Mallinalli Press
2010
“Moctezuma,” Las Lunadas, a poetry anthology, Marc Pinate, editor, Galería de la Raza