Readings, Panel Discussions

“First Home,” Flash CNF, Unbound: Anthology on Composing Home, Launch Reception, The Rourke Art Gallery + Museum, Moorhead

“Be, Not Be,” Poetry, excerpt from We Are No Longer Babaylan, MSUM’s Winter Celebration of the Arts at the Roland Dille Center for the Arts, Moorhead

“First Home,” Flash CNF, Unbound: Anthology on Composing Home, Launch Reception, Zandbroz Variety, Fargo

“Timeless Flight Across Fallopian Arms,” Poetry, Audio appearance in “Tropical Gothic,” Performance Art by Ashley Dequilla, Video Showcase, University of Illinois Chicago

“Two Manananggal Discuss Dinner Plans,” Poetry, NOMBONO: An Anthology of Speculative Poetry by BIPOC Creators, Virtual Launch

“Grand,” Poetry, Marías at Sampaguitas, Issue No. 2, “Mahal: Who We Are, What It Cost Us, and How We Love,” Virtual Open Mic

“Naming the Aswang, a Conversation with Elsa Valmidiano” with hosts Melanie Unruh and Samantha Tetangco, Plume, June Featured Writer, Podcast Interview

“Writing About Grief” with host Juanita E. Mantz, Life of JEM, Episode 15, Podcast Interview

We Are No Longer Babaylan, Excerpt from Essay Collection, to launch Veronica Montes’ chapbook, The Conquered Sits at the Bus Stop, Waiting, alongside authors Alan Chazaro and Ricco Villanueva Siasoco, hosted by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto, Daly City Public Library Virtual Bookfest

“Two Aswang Discuss Dinner Plans” and “Guava Picking,” Poetry, Summer Literary Seminars, Open Mic, Writers’ House/მწერალთა სახლი, Tbilisi, Georgia

“Room,” Novel Excerpt from From a Piece of Bamboo, and “When a Baby Immigrates,” Poetry, Literature for Life Guest Lecturer at Foshay Learning Center, Grades 10 & 11, with facilitator/In-Schools Program Coordinator Angelina Coppola and teacher Patrick ODonnel, Los Angeles

“Mango,” “Room,” “Mother Leyte,” and “Veteran,” Poetry and Prose, Guest lecturer at Laney College with lecturer Adrienne Oliver, Oakland

Scriptorium Saturday, Spotlight Poet, Robbie Waters Library, Poetry and Prose, Sacramento

LitCrawl with Jen Palmares Meadows, Von Torres, Barbara Jane Reyes, James Bautista, and Janice Sapigao, Elixir Bar, Poetry, San Francisco

“Mother Leyte” and “How My Grandparents Made Love in 1944,” Poetry, Guest Speaker at San Francisco State University for Philippine Literature class, with lecturer Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales: A Reading and Roundtable with poets and writers of the Walang Hiya Anthology, San Francisco

“Elegy” and “Veteran,” Poetry, Babaylan: A Roundtable Discussion of Bay Area Filipino Women Writers, San Francisco Public Library

“Mother Leyte,” Poetry, and “Red Dot,” Novel Excerpt from From a Piece of Bamboo, Guest Speaker at San Francisco State University for Philippine Literature class, with lecturer Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales: A Reading and Roundtable with poets and writers of the Walang Hiya Anthology, San Francisco

“Rain Lesson,” Short Story, Final Graduate Reading of MFA candidates, Mills College, Oakland

“Mother Leyte,” “First Plane Ride,” and “Vintage,” Poetry, Third Annual Filipino-American Cultural Arts Festival, San Lorenzo

“Mother Leyte,” “Overseas Female Worker,” “At the Request of the Beggar Children,” and “Tongue Fighters,” Poetry, Guest Speaker at City College of San Francisco for Poetry for the People class, with lecturer and performance artist, Aimee Suzara, and Walang Hiya Anthology editor, Roseli Ilano, San Francisco

“Mother Leyte,” “To the Descendants of the Peasant Fighters,” and “Tongue Fighters,” Poetry, Asian Pacific Islander Issues Conference (APIICON) Workshop: The Power of Diaspora Literature and Poetry: A Reading and Roundtable with poets and writers of the Walang Hiya Anthology, UC Berkeley

“Mother Leyte,” Poetry, and “Rain Lesson,” Short Story, promoting Walang Hiya: Literature Taking Risks Toward Liberatory Practice, UC Santa Cruz

“Mother Leyte” and “Banana Leaves,” Poetry, promoting Walang Hiya: Literature Taking Risks Toward Liberatory Practice, St. Mary’s College, Moraga

“Mother Leyte” and “Massage,” Poetry, promoting Walang Hiya: Literature Taking Risks Toward Liberatory Practice, San Francisco Public Library

“Shelter,” Poetry, Kearny Street Workshop: Eleventh Annual APAture: A Spotlight on Asian Pacific American Art, Literary Night, San Francisco

“First Plane Ride” and “Grand,” Poetry, TAYO, Issue No. 1 Launch Reception, Los Angeles

“Asking Permission to Bury the Dead,” Poetry, Pinay Poetics: Presentation and Roundtable, KAPWA Conference, San Francisco State University

“At the Request of the Beggar Children,” “To the Descendants of the Peasant Fighters,” and “Tongue Fighters,” Poetry, Maganda Magazine, Issue No. 22 Launch Reception, UC Berkeley

“Amica Curiae,” Poetry, Maganda Magazine, Issue No. 21 Launch Reception, UC Berkeley

“Overseas Female Worker” and “Conversation with Lolo in My Kitchen,” Poetry, promoting Field of Mirrors: Philippine Artists and Writers, Inc. Anthology, San Francisco Public Library

Waterbabies, Film Screening & Panel Discussion with filmmaker Lina Hoshino and panelists: Deborah Lee, Maria Nakae, and Elsa Valmidiano (representing Exhale), discussing Japanese ritual of addressing abortion and the AAPI reproductive justice movement, Kearny Street Workshop: 9th Annual APAture, San Francisco

“I Feel Like I,” Poetry, Maganda Magazine, Issue No. 20 Launch Reception, UC Berkeley