(Note: some of the writing below has also been included in published collections listed in the Anthologies page.)
“Moving Poems in the City: Poetry Videos, Contests, Spontaneous Poems, Jazz and More” in Periodicities online journal, December 3/24.
“Meet Vivian Jung: Her Work for Racial Justice Taught Us All” in The Tyee, May 27/24
“The City Poems Project is in Full Bloom” in The Tyee, April 26/23
“Welcome to the Year of the Rabbit” in The Tyee, January 20/23
“Bad Days” in Best Canadian Essays 2024, (Biblioasis, 2023) Essay originally appeared in The Fiddlehead below
”When Poems Transcend the Page” in The Tyee, November 4/22
”Ode to Thankfulness” in The Tyee, October 10/22 (reprint)
”Indigenous Brilliance is Everywhere” in The Tyee, June 30/22
“Bad Days” in The Fiddlehead, Issue 292, Summer/22
“A Poetic Lens for BC’s Complex Asian Canadian History” in The Tyee, May 20/22
“Connecting to Planet Earth Through Poetry” in The Tyee, April 22/22
“Can You Map a City Through Verse” in The Tyee, March 16/22
“Loving Local Black Poets” in The Tyee, Feb 11/22
“Greetings from Your New Poet Laureate” in The Tyee, Jan 13/22
“Warning Signs” in Maisonneuve magazine, Issue 81, Oct/21
“The Shadow Pandemic of Anti-Asian Racism” in The Tyee, May 7/20
“Poet to Poet: Writing Across Divides” (Poetry for anyone, anywhere, anytime) in WRITE magazine, Vol 48 #1 pp 8-9, Spring 2020
“Plastic Goes Concrete: Two Animated Poetry Videos about Plastic Pollution” in The Goose, Oct/20
”Spectrum” in Full Grown People, Nov/17
“The Eye of the Ode” in The New Quarterly, Winter/19, Issue #149
“A Ritual of Remembrance” in The Globe & Mail, Jun/17
“Cover to Cover” in The New Quarterly, Summer/17 Issue #143
“The Pool” in The Summer Book anthology, Mother Tongue Press, Jun/17
Articles and Commentary in The Tyee online news magazine 2004-2020
“The Front of the Bus” in Telling Truths, Demeter Press, 2014
“Tiger in the Hornets’ Next: The Furor over Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” in Mothering in East Asian Communities: Politics and Practices, Demeter Press, 2014
“Best Interests of the Child” in The M Word, Kerry Clare ed., Goose Lane Editions, 2014
“Invisible Mending” in How to Expect What You’re Not Expecting: Essays on Parenthood and Loss, Lisa Martin-DeMoor and Jessica Hiemstra eds.,Touchwood Editions, 2013
“Scaling the piano keys” in The Globe & Mail, Dec 13/13
“Play” in Other Voices (Summer/06, vol. 19, No. 1) reprinted in Slice Me Some Truth: An Anthology of Canadian Nonfiction, Zoe Landale and Luanne Armstrong eds.,Wolsak & Wynn, 2011
“The Front of the Bus” Sunday Edition, CBC Radio, Oct 26/08
“Elements: Giving Birth” in Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood, McGill-Queen’s University Press, May/08
“Playing for Time” in The Globe & Mail, Aug 28/07, L6
“Adopting the dim-sum strategy” in The Globe & Mail, Aug 11/06, A18