Poems

selected poems:

We Come Swimming, Split This Rock, for Poems of Persistence, Solidarity and Refuge (2020)

  • Locked Horn Press' Anthology, Read Water (2019); Finalist for Locked Horn award; selected by Split This Rock Foundation in 2020 for Poems of Persistence, Solidarity and Refuge

Amphibious, Academy of American Poets' as Poem-A-Day (November 13, 2020)

Nobody’s Body: Three Poems by Aimee Suzara, Asian American Writers’ Workshop

My Next Tattoo / A Promise, talkingwriting.com

Fragments on motherhood in 9 parts, raisingmothers.com (2020)

Night Waking, raisingmothers.com (2020)

Because Water is Life, Split This Rock, for Poems of Persistence, Solidarity and Refuge (2017)


Additional poems published in: Puñeta: Political Pilipinx Poetry, Vol. 2 (2017); Poemeleon (2017); SOUVENIR, Poetry Book (WordTech Editions 2014), finalist for Willa Award 2015; Finalist in Ian McMillan Award, Hawaii Pacific Review and publication in journal (Feb 2014). Finding the Bones, and the space between, poetry chapbooks, (Finishing Line Press 2008 and 2013); Enizagam (2013); Hanggang Sa Muli: Homecoming Stories for the Filipino Soul (2011); Conversations at a Wartime Café (2010); Lantern Review (2010); Walang Hiya (No Shame): Literature Taking Risks Towards Liberatory Practice, anthology (2009); Konch Magazine (2009, 2005); Kartika Review (2010); 580 Split (2010); NAACP Image Award-nominated Check the Rhyme Anthology of Women Poets and Emcees (2006); The Walrus (2006); CRUX magazine (2006); The Womanist (2004, 2005);