MY BOOKS
My poetry book is titled CROSSING WITH THE LIGHT (Tia Chucha Press). It's available through Amazon.com and was nominated for Best Asian American Literature Book of 1993.
ASIAN AMERICAN DRAMA (Applause Theatre Books) contains my stage play THE RAINY SEASON. THE RADIANCE OF A THOUSAND SUNS (Dramatic Publishing) is a collaborative stage play written to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the atomic bomb.
My poems have appeared in the Norton Introduction to Poetry, Unsettling America (Penguin), Celebrate America in Poetry and Art (Smithsonian Institution) and a range of textbooks and anthologies.
Looking forward to adding a novel or book of short stories to my list of credits. Looking for a good agent to partner with.
MY WORK HAS BEEN REPRINTED IN SEVERAL PLACES
-- "Crossing with the Light" is imprinted on a bronze plaque at the Folsom Street train platform along the Embarcadero in San Francisco (San Francisco Arts Commission). That poem was also the basis of a poetry video of the same name created in collaboration with producer Marsha V. Morgan. "Letters I Never Wrote" was printed on CTA bus and train cards in Chicago.
-- "Asian Men on Asian Men: The Attraction" is a prose poem/essay on same race dating within the gay Asian American community. This was printed for a cover story on me in HYPHEN magazine, and reprinted in the book YELLOW LIGHT.
-- "Richard Speck" was produced to rave reviews as a short play as part of an evening called "Monsters: Tales of Urban Lunacy" by American Theatre Company. It was printed in YELLOW LIGHT.
-- "Notes for a Poem on Being Asian American" was reprinted in both the Norton Introduction to Literature and the Norton Introduction to Poetry. Also in the multicultural anthology UNSETTLING AMERICA (Penguin) and WELCOME TO YOUR LIFE (Milkweed Editions).
-- "In Response to Executive Order 9066" was first published in the anthology BREAKING SILENCE (Greenfield Review Press). It has been reprinted countless times in a range of anthologies and textbooks through the years, notably in CELEBRATE AMERICA IN POETRY AND ART from the Smithsonian Institution and BRAIDED LIVES (Minnesota Humanities Commision). A host of textbook publishers have reprinted this poem in a range of media (braille, CD-rom, website, large-print, audio recordings and book form). I've been fortunate to work with many excellent publishing houses who continue to keep my work alive including: McGraw-Hill, Bedford/St.Martins, Holt Rinehart Winston, Educational Testing Service, and MacDougall-Littell, to name just a few.
-- "Mysteries of a Bowling Alley," "Some Tattoos," "Facing the Mannequin" and "We're Given a Father" were reprinted in a beautiful collection called PREMONITIONS from Kaya Production.
MY WORK HAS BEEN REFERENCED IN VARIOUS PLACES
-- LIVES OF NOTABLE ASIAN AMERICAN WRITERS (Chelsea House)
-- GAY AND LESBIAN LITERARY HERITAGE (Routledge)
-- YELLOW LIGHT: The flowering of Asian American Arts (Temple University Press)
-- HYPHEN MAGAZINE (Cover story on everything you ever wanted to know about Dwight Okita, and then some)
-- NEW CITY Newspaper (Cover story on the play THE SALAD BOWL DANCE)
