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Today’s the big day: my poetry book, Itinerant Songs, is now officially out in the world. Years in the making, Itinerant Songs is a weaving together of three parts: “On Work,” “On Country,” and “On Going Home.” I write about labor, housing, recovery, ancestry, God, and dreams. More about the book can be found through Recenter Press. Thank you so much to all of you who preordered the book. I can’t wait for you to hold and read Itinerant Songs, to curl up in your favorite place whether in a park or on a train or in your bed or in a reading nook. Please do share photos with me and your friends when you get the book ⋆｡°✩ You can now order a copy of the book anywhere books are sold. Ordering through Recenter Press is the most direct way to support my work, and ordering through your local bookstore supports both my work and your local booksellers. Just pop in and give any bookstore or library in the U.S. (and several other countries) the book title, my name, or the ISBN: 979-8-218-64593-9, and they can order it for you! Itinerant Songs is currently on the shelf at Pegasus Books on Solano Avenue in Berkeley (if you get it from there, they’re more likely to keep carrying the book), and I’m in the process of getting it stocked in other bookstores throughout the Bay Area. You can also order the book through major online retailers, where leaving a review is also very much appreciated. Reviewing the book on Goodreads is also a huge help in getting the word out there. Thank you so much again to everyone who has taken an interest in Itinerant Songs, who are supporting the book through your purchases, through sharing online, talking about it with your community, reviewing the book, and booking me for readings. Thank you Tabitha Arnold for the striking cover art, and Lora Mathis, Fariha Róisín, and Sam Slupski for the advance reviews on the back of the book. It truly means so much to me. As the author and caregiver of this book, I am so ready for it to spread its wings and live more widely outside of me and within others.

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Mando, Big Sur, CA 120 Film by Terra Oliveira

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Lora & Mando, Big Sur, CA 120 Film by Terra Oliveira

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Falon, Palm Springs, CA 120 Film by Terra Oliveira

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Sara and Lisa, Palm Springs, CA 120 Film by Terra Oliveira

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Shannon, Palm Springs, CA 120 Film by Terra Oliveira

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Lisa, Palm Springs, CA 120 Film by Terra Oliveira

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Palm Springs, CA 120 Film by Terra Oliveira

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Winslow House Project, Vallejo, CA 120 Film by Terra Oliveira

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Winslow House Project, Vallejo, CA 120 Film by Terra Oliveira

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I recently received the proof copy of my latest poetry book, Itinerant Songs, and it was such an incredible feeling to hold this complete work in my hands after 8 years of slowly chipping away at it. Itinerant Songs is available to preorder here. Thank you so much to all those who have preordered!

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My poem, Penance at Fátima, Caminho Português, in the inaugural issue of Cottonmouth Journal.

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My poem, Cedar Park Café, in a long-time dream-journal, The Common (Issue 29).

The poem is available to read online here.

Or you can buy a print copy of the issue here, it turned out really beautiful.

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Huge thanks to Fariha Róisín for their advance review of my forthcoming poetry book, Itinerant Songs, now available for preorder through Recenter Press.

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Hello and happy national poetry month!

In very exciting news, you can now officially preorder my latest poetry book, Itinerant Songs, through Recenter Press. I’ve been working on this collection since 2018, and I’m beyond thrilled to finally bring these poems to you.

PRE-ORDER: ITINERANT SONGS

For those of us that work and are weighed down, Itinerant Songs is a yearning for home—for safe, affordable shelter, clean, commonly-held water, and the rights to our own land and being amongst our people. Through low-wage jobs, the “hard-facts of devotion,” and pilgrimage and recovery, these poems are a politically urgent testament to our times as much as they are a lasting, spiritual attestation.

Many periods of my life have weaved their way into the poems in this book: years of housing insecurity and inconsistency, working multiple jobs in multiple industries, political organizing, walking 500+ miles along the Portuguese Camino de Santiago, social media addiction and trauma recovery, grappling with illness and loss, developing my relationship with God, with ancestors, and with myself — all forming a cohesive whole that makes up Itinerant Songs.

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So thrilled that two of my poems, For Teruko Azevedo and Bon Tempe Lake, are out in the world via the LA-based cassette, SUDS Zine. These poems are some of my favorites and most dear to me, and it was very special to be able to read and share these poems in this format. To record the reading for Bon Tempe Lake, I went back to the spot at Bon Tempe Lake in Marin where I wrote the poem, wind and all. For Teruko Azevedo was recorded in the bedroom the poem’s about, my grandmother’s “sewing room turned into hospice room / once of lace, buttons, & crochet” — my mom vacuuming in the background.

SUDS Zine Volume Two is available here in full for free / donation-basis on Bandcamp, so please head on over and give it a listen! But if you know what’s up you will also buy a copy of the cassette! Some of the proceeds will be going to fundraisers for victims of the LA fires.

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My poem, Shut Down Red Hill, in Bamboo Ridge: Issue 126 (previously published in the Hawai`i Pacific Review. Support Hawaiian literature and purchase a copy of Issue 126 here.