Poems

Tamiko stands on a stone platform, reading into a mic, book in hand. There is a cascade of golden pieces of metal, and a dramatically lit brick wall behind her.

Selected poems

“Last Days, Part 1,” Black Warrior Review

“Equinox,” Split This Rock

“February,” Poets.org

Five poems, Vandal

Five poems, The Margins

“Subterranean Haibuns,” The Volta

“Jangle & Sweat, Twenty-O-Eight,” PANK

Two poems, The Common

Three poems, Tupelo Quarterly

“As if balanced on light” TruthDig

Selected online readings

Reading from Last Days and ( ghost gestures ) with Gabrielle Civil, Harvard Book Store

Writer to Writer, with Tiana Nobile, Vermont Studio Center

Poets in Pajamas Reading Series


Reading with Rajiv Mohabir & Muriel Leung, Left Bank Books

Third Thursdays Poetry with Chen Chen, Niki Tulk, & Joshua Nguyen, Brookline Booksmith

Close up of Tamiko reading into a mic. She is smiling at the audience.

Selected anthologies

Queer Nature, Autumn House Press

Another & Another: An Anthology from the Grind Daily Writing Series, Bull City Press

Completely Mixed Up: Mixed Heritage Asian North American Writing and Art, Rabbit Fool Press

Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, ‎Seal Press

I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights, Lost Horse Press