House on Fire, Impermanence in Haiku
Notes from Life as a Journey service at UU Oakland on September 13, 2026 I came to Oakland to study poetry at Mills College. My classmate …
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Things that Happened
Voice to Text
Izumi Shikibu had an affair that soured her reputation. Then she wrote a diary about the romance which everyone read for the sultry details and …
New Dog Man Book
Oh, dear readers, what news I have! I’m sure you’ve read every Dog Man book there is, each one based on a literary classic – …
Writing in One Burst
Notes from a writing workshop at the Dominican MFA Creative Writing Retreat, Fall 2024 Writing From The Body Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) had a number of …
Recipe for Honeydome Cookies from Kuremiyado
If you’ve read Aoyama Michiko’s book What You Are Looking For Is in the Library, beautifully translated by Alison Watts, you might also be wanting …
Translation, Poetry, and so many Possibilities
Translation has intrigued me since I was a kid going to a French school on the east coast of Canada. It opened up a magical …
Process Note
When I visited Maw Shein Win’s graduate creative writing class at University of San Francisco, she asked me to write some notes on my writing …
Lunch Poems
Robert Hass invited me to read in the Lunch Poems series at UC Berkeley. Soon after, I found myself as a visiting writer at Dokkyo …
America, We Call Your Name
A reading for Sixteen River’s anthology American, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience on September 20th, 2020, 4pm PDT/7pm EDT online.
Writing Class – The Process of Observation
This short class includes a close reading of Wei Ying-Wu’s poem Heartbreak at Our Old Dwelling, translated by Red Pine (In Such Hard Times, Port …