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• "a vessel for the past / a vessel for the future" in Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column, November 2025 (ed. traci kato-kirayama) 
  
• "Haibun for February 19" in Nikkei Uncovered: a poetry column, February 2025 (ed. traci kato-kirayama)
• Two poems in The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration, eds. Brynn Saito and Brandon Shimoda (Haymarket Books, 2025)
• "Spring rain is as precious as oil (春雨贵如油)," in Ruth Beer: SEEP | SWELL (Burnaby Art Gallery, 2025)
  
• "Sifting" in Canthius (ed. Amy LeBlanc)
• Three poems on ArtsEverywhere.ca (ed. Anna Bowen) 
  
• "re: birth" in The Fiddlehead, issue 290 (eds. Rebecca Salazar & Phoebe Wang)
• "MOTION" in Vallum, issue 18.2 
• "A JC cento, or why does silence become a shard?" in carte blanche, issue 41 (ed. Marcella Huerta)
• "i decay, bro" in The Maynard (ed. Jamie Macarty)
• “Traditional medicine” in Poetry is Dead, issue 17 (eds. Adèle Barclay & Leah Horlick) 

Comic for THE GRIND, Oct/Nov 2025 issue

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