(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, 2024.
“Meet Vivian Jung: Her Work for Racial Justice Taught Us All” in The Tyee, May 27, 2024
“The City Poems Project is in Full Bloom” in The Tyee, April 26, 2023
“Welcome to the Year of the Rabbit” in The Tyee, January 20, 2023
“Bad Days” in Best Canadian Essays 2024, November 2023 (essay originally appeared in The Fiddlehead)
”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, Summer/22, Issue 292
“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, 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, Spring 2020 Vol 48 #1 pp 8-9
“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