RESIDENCIES AND FELLOWSHIPS
2019 Eliza So Fellowship Recipient
2019 University of Arizona Poetry Center Summer Poet-in-Residence
POETRY AND ART
Workshop
September 14, 2019
The Unburden Project: Creating Indigenous Healing Practices for Queer Micronesians UTOPIA PDX (United Territories of Pacific Islanders Alliance) Healing and Self-Determination Retreat | Sandy, OR
Reading
September 8, 2019
Eliza So Fellowship Reading | Fact & Fiction Books | Missoula, MT
Reading
July 25, 2019
Summer Poetry Residency Reading with Bojan Louis
University of Arizona Poetry Center | Tucscon, AZ
Talkstory Meet-up
April 5, 2019
Discussion at the Center for Native American & Indigenous Studies
University of Colorado, Boulder|Boulder, CO
Reading and Interdisciplinary Workshop
April 4, 2019
“Future Ancestors: The Unburden Project”
University of Colorado, Boulder|Boulder, CO
Reading
April 3, 2019
Inside Me an Island reading
Innisfree Poetry Bookstore
Boulder, Colorado
Reading
January 8, 2019
Well Red Presents Arlene Biala and Lehua M. Taitano
Poetry Center San Jose|San Jose, CA
Reading
September 11, 2018
Poetic Tuesday Reading Series
LitQuake San Francisco and the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
Esplanade, Yerba Buena Gardens
Artist
June 15-17, 2018
Featured Conversation: “An Aberrational Poetics: Inside Me an Island (Shaped W/hole)”
An interactive somatic poetry installation that examines the cultural, historical, and contemporary means of remembering, revealing, and discovering indigenous healing practices.
Unite the Tribes: Urban x Indigenous
SOMArts Cultural Center | 934 Brannan St. | San Francisco, CA
Reading
April 24, 2018
Chabot College: National Poetry Month reading with Marcelo H. Castillo
Heyward, CA
Visiting Artist
March 1, 2018
Portland State University: Art and Privilege
Portland, OR
Panelist
October 20, 2017
“Living Archives–Decolonizing Institutions and Cultivating Communities: The Smithsonian APAC, KSMoCA, and The Unburden Project”
Thinking It’s Presence: The Ephemeral Archive
University of Arizona | Tucson, AZ
Radio Guest
October 4, 2017
A Reading and Interview with Anjoli Roy
KTUH.org, 90.1FM Honolulu | Honolulu, HI
Reading
July 29, 2017
Bay Area Poetry Marathon
Alley Cat Books
3036 24th Street | San Francisco, CA | 94110
Reading
July 23, 2017
School of Arts and Culture, Mexican Heritage Plaza
San Jose, CA
Reading
July 19, 2017
Hawai’i Conservation Conference
Hawai’i Convention Center | Honolulu, Hawai’i
Artist
July 7-9, 2017
“An Aberrational Poetics: Inside Me an Island (Shaped W/hole)”
An on-site performance and installation that examines the cultural, historical, and contemporary means of remembering, revealing, and discovering indigenous practices.
A Culture Lab produced by the Smithsonian Institute’s APAC
Ala Moana Center | O’ahu, Hawai’i
Panelist
May 18, 2017
“Queering the Eco-writing Landscape”
Environmentalism Outside the Box: An Eco-Sex Symposium
University of California Santa Cruz | Santa Cruz, CA
Presentation
May 16, 2017
“Territory: Imagining the Future of Chamoru Poetics”
A Reading and Discussion with Lehua M. Taitano
Portland State University | Portland, OR
Reading
May 13, 2017
Open Books: A Drop Leaf Press Reading
2414 North 45th Street | Seattle, WA
Reading
May 5, 2017
Sonoma Book Launch: Drop Leaf Press
Alley Cat Books
3036 24th Street | San Francisco, CA | 94110
Reading
April 15, 2017
A TransPacific Poetics: Book Launch
Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley | Berkeley, CA
Reading
April 6, 2017
Poetic Lanscapes: Indigenous Poetry and Spoken Word
University of California San Diego | San Diego, California
Panelist
February 10, 2017
AWP Conference: US/Pacific Poets Confronting US Empire
Washington, DC
Reading
August 11, 2016
Alley Cat Books
3036 24th St | San Francisco, California
Reading
The Hundy
June 30, 2016
E.M. Wolfman Books
410 13th St | Oakland, California
Collaborative Poetry Project
The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University
April 20-24, 2016
View part of the performance here.
Performance
Poet as transcriber/translator for integrative dance and film performance
SALTA is Timeless, Infinite Light
January 29, 2016
LoBot Gallery, Oakland
Reading
Mixer 2.0: Children of Warbrides
July 11, 2015
Betti Ono Gallery, Oakland
Visiting Writer
University of Hawaii, Manoa: Form and Theory of Poetry
September 2015 | Honolulu, HI
Conference Presentation and Reading
Thinking Its Presence: The Racial Imaginary
March 12-14, 2015
The University of Montana | Missoula, Montana
Visiting Lecturer
Portland State University: MFA Graduate Seminar
March 2015 | Portland, OR
Featured Artist, Literary Arts
APAture 2014: Focus on Emerging Asian Pacific American Artists
September 27, 2014
Arc Gallery, San Francisco
Featured Reader
August 18, 2014
Shelton Theater, San Francisco
Visiting Lecturer
Portland State Unversity: Art and Privilege
May 6, 2014 | Portland, OR
Conference Presentation and Reading
Thinking Its Presence: Race and Creative Writing
See schedule for panel presentations and reading times.
April 10-12, 2014
The University of Montana | Missoula, Montana
Reading
from A Bell Made of Stones
4:00 p.m.
April 13, 2014
Shakespeare and Company | Missoula, Montana
Moon Reading One
from A Bell Made of Stones
Crane Creek Regional Park
Santa Rosa, CA
February 16, 2014
Visiting Writer/Master Fiction Class guest Lecturer
Idyllwild, CA (2011)
