Publications

Poems

2026The BelieverMoon Jar

2025The Quarry at Split This RockImmigration

2025The Brooklyn RailReading Love Poems I Wrote to You; In the Middle of This Decade; Beginning of Spring; The Pen; Untitled; Non Sequitur

2022Late LightCounting (On New Year’s)

2022GrantaTenants; Dream in Which I Try to Disappear in Front of My Aunt, or, Interrogation

2021The RumpusFaith

2021New England ReviewCatullus 85; Detail; Dream of the Divided Field

2021Academy of American Poets Poem-a-DayLandscape with a Hundred Turns

2021West BranchHome for the Holidays

2021Already Felt ZineAubade (Two of Cups)

2021Asian American Literary ReviewGender Dysphoria

2020The High LineUntitled (with Jen Lue and JinJin Xu)

2020New York Public LibraryPenelope

2020Dilettante ArmyFrom Ponte de Dom Luis

2019Asian American Lit Fest 2019Conference with Stone Fruit

2019A Public SpaceDream Diary

2019VerseSelections from The Year of Blue Water

2019GrantaSelections from The Year of Blue Water

2019The OffingSelections from The Year of Blue Water

2019Tin House[Robert Hass]; [Of all the things]

2018Lambda Literary Poetry SpotlightGroup Text

2018OURS: Volume II[Perhaps the need]; Recipe

2018Glass: A Journal of PoetryBlessing

2018Bellevue Literary ReviewSelf-Care

2018PoetryDecrescence

2018tele-At Home in the Sky

2018LA Review of Books Quarterly JournalAnxiety Sonnet

2018Conclusion and FindingsPoetic translation for artist Catalina Ouyang

2018ReservoirListening to Teresa Teng; [My mother tells me]; Aubade

2017Literary HubAfter you finish your work

2017The Margins (Asian American Writers Workshop)Selections from The Year of Blue Water

2017MemoriousEurydice at the Mouth; The Kiss

2017The Shade JournalFather's Day

2016Model View CulturePOC Inbox; Response Template

2016The Shade JournalStatements and Facts

2016CellpoemsMigrants

2015The Cortland ReviewMer

2014[PANK]Song of My Selfie; The Alphabet of Tasty; The Ruse of the Gulls; []; Optimism While in Line at Starbucks

Chapbooks

2016Belladonna* CollaborativeDIARY

Anthologies

2023Out-Spoken PressComing to Poetry: Mary Jean Chan and Yanyiin State of Play: Poets of East & Southeast Asian Heritage in Conversation

2021Autumn House PressThe Kissin Queer Nature: An Ecoqueer Poetry Anthology

2020Roof BooksFamily Treein Queenzenglish.mp3: Poetry | Philosophy | Performativity

2020Foglifter PressThe House Not Wanting to Disappear, Yetin Home Is Where You Queer Your Heart

Essays and Criticism

2025American Poetry ReviewA Formal Feeling

2023Stuart A. Rose Library Blog, Emory UniversitySeeing Is Believing

2022Newchild GalleryVariations on a Treein Madeleine Bialke: Death Motel

2019Belladonna* CollaborativeEmbodying Timein Meet Me There by Samuel Ace

2019Poets HouseShowcase Selects: 2019 Showcase Picks by Yanyi

2018The Margins (Asian American Writers Workshop)Counting Tokens: Special Issues and the Theatre of Delay

2015The Margins (Asian American Writers Workshop)After Yi-Fen Chou: A Forum