My poem on NPR’s All Things Considered
I woke up today to a message in a WeChat group from an old friend saying she heard me on the radio. And indeed, one of my poems did make it …
Happenings
The Last Tribe on Earth: The album
The album Liane Halton and I have been working on — a journey that began nine months ago with our first collaboration at DDC — is done. Behold, The Last …
Our poetry x music album, “The Last Tribe on Earth,” has arrived
Hardcopies of The Last Tribe on Earth arrived today, and what can I say? Joy, sadness, longing, bliss, regret, truth, purpose, something approximating truth, some delusion of purpose, some allotment …
The Bookworm Literary Festival: Album launch and performance on Sunday, March 24
This will be a dream come true: On Sunday, March 24 at 6 pm, Liane Halton and I will perform at the Bookworm Literary Festival to launch our album, The …
New poetry: Expats in Beijing (read in Shanghai)
I was in Shanghai on December 12 to take part in the fourth issue launch of the The Shanghai Literary Magazine, which was kind enough to publish my poem “Expats …
Forthcoming: Spittunes at DDC, Jan. 25
Liane Halton and I are debuting new material this Friday, January 25 in a performance at DDC, where we’ve played twice before (but not since August). The show starts at …
Mid-Autumn Blood Moon
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone. Mid-Autumn Blood Moon was first published in Asian Cha in its June 2016 issue. (See more in the poetry section.)
A clip from Spittunes at DDC (August 28, 2018)
Hey, so this went really well. (A slightly longer event recap here.) The above is how Liane and I started — with a song inspired by Zhou Yunpeng / a poem …
Special forthcoming Spittunes hosted by Spittoon and NüVoices
Spittoon and NüVoices are working together to host the next Spittunes event in Beijing on August 28, and I’ve been asked along with Liane Halton to reprise our June performance, which featured two …
Upcoming: Spit-Tunes, a poetry and music collaboration
A really cool event is coming up on Wednesday, June 27, at which I’ll be participating: Spit-Tunes, which is a music-poetry collaboration run by the Beijing literary collective Spittoon. I …