Excited to have a new flash in the wonderful Lost Balloon today.❤️ lost-balloon.com/2025/04/30/kra…

O Thank you to Clifford Brooks @dantesoldsouthradio NPR Southern Collective for interviewing me about poetry, mental health, life & allowing me to read “Poem Going Rogue” from Salamander —So Grateful! #npr #dantesoldsoutheadio #Writingcommunity #salamander open.spotify.com/episode/1c23UV…

Happy to have a poem in the Michigan Quarterly Review. There are things that still won’t let me go. Thanks to editor Marcelo Hernandez Castillo for this incredible genre-bending, border-crossing, multimedia issue on memory and migration. I will spend some time with it.

My poetry and novel are part of the Proleung Khmer exhibit at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium. Gratitude to the Khmer folks in Lowell for their support. I went to read in March of this year a stranger, and they welcomed me with open arms. Thanks for accepting this koan Khmer.

Delighted to share that I have poems in an upcoming anthology about Indian cities Penguin India . Thanks to Sukrita Kumar Sahitya Akademi Bunkong Tuon Cultural Daily, where these poems were originally published.

🚨SALE!🚨I noticed a certain retailer is selling my book for less than $5 and thought I should offer copies for the same price! So, if you’ve been wanting to read DRESSING THE BEAR, I’d love to send you it! $5 INCLUDES SHIPPING, until I run out! DM me! And thank you in advance!

No one showed up for my book reading event. I know this happens and I'm trying really hard to keep it together but I feel terrible that the shop stayed open to host me for nothing.

When the U.S. dropped bombs on Iran, I had all these thoughts running through my head. The poem captures some of those thoughts. Thanks to editors Rattle for choosing this poem for this week’s Poets Respond. rattle.com/what-the-war-h…

We survivors speak to the dead because the living won’t listen to us. —Bunkong Tuon Bunkong Tuon rattle.com/what-the-war-h…

Shō Poetry Journal is offering fee-free submissions for BIPOC poets on July 4! Submissions are capped at 75. Native American and Indigenous Canadian poets, our fee-free submission portal for you remains open until September 1.

Unprompted, my son wrote “LOVE” in the sand. A message that is so much needed in this mutilated world. Love to all.

The other day, talking to a student about the state of our world, I was reminded of what I need to do as a parent, the challenges of raising my kids in these turbulent times: to not let the darkness of the world infect their childhood, to keep the light in.

Last day at the beach. Dad and his daughter working on some movement. Happy Sunday, All.

Honored to have two poems chosen by Bunkong Tuon for Cultural Daily. “The Young Man on the Train” was written during a 26-day pilgrimage through India in 2014. “The Mountain and the Monk” is a persona poem. culturaldaily.com/johnny-cordova…

Vacation is officially over. You know what that means. We're back open to subs. Guidelines below. We can't wait to read your work! trampset.submittable.com/submit?source=…

I always tell students to write from the heart about things that matter. Life is short, I tell them. Be true to your authentic self.

Koan Khmer is one year old today! This book is a summation of my thoughts, feelings, and observations of an immigrant life in the States. If you haven’t done so, please consider getting a copy. I will be grateful for your support! Happy Friday! nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147430/…

Give me one line: one line of poetry you return to again and again.