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“Godzilla stares into the ocean like a queer Hamlet with scales/ asks the surf: am i a father or a franchise?” @breakwaterrev

Read entire poem here:
https://www.breakwaterreview.com/godzilla-sings-abba-in-the-ruins-of-tokyo

Thanks Ugly Mug, Ben, Ellen for hosting
@lnwebre @poetryidiotben @cellosea1986 👽💚✨ #poetry #jaxntp #inbonesandtentacles #amwriting #openmic

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🍰 Thankful @breakwaterrev & Sonja for #BestNewPoets nomination ✨ Wild that my Kaju poem is stomping the world
🍰 Celebrating Celeste’s Birthday 💅
#poetsandwriters #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetryislife

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Our first lot of poetry deadlines due in April.

Please check all terms and conditions before applying. Best of luck!

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I am 51 years old and I am curled in a ball at the foot of my parents’ bed at The Oaks. My father, who has a reflux cough, is mostly sleeping but sometimes swearing about his god-damned cough. My mother is sleeping too, in four-minute stretches. She spends her fifth minutes anxious, often asking for me. I am here, I say, patting her. Right here on the bed. The dog is here too, snoring and not offering me any of his considerable real estate.

Thanks to @breakwaterrev for publishing my memoir-essay "The Plus." You can read the whole thing at the link in the comments.

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A year and three months ago, I lost my grandmother Lilia. I wrote about her life and our relationship in a short essay which appears in Issue 39 of Breakwater Review. Thank you so much @breakwaterrev It’s been an absolute joy working with you and seeing my work published in this beautiful issue. Read LILIA by clicking the link in my bio.

An earlier draft of this piece was longlisted for the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize. Thank you @wasafirimag for the vote of confidence.

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It’s a Joy to receive a Queer Godzilla love poem for Valentine’s day!!!
@breakwaterrev @jaxntp @jax.ntp.poet
#valentines #poetrycommunityofinstagram #happyvalentinesday❤️ #maxjellopower #godzilla

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1️⃣ Breakwater Review Issue 39 publishes my Valentines day poem for my 🍑 “Godzilla Sings ABBA in the Ruins of Tokyo: Mamma Mia! Here We Glow Again” @breakwaterrev @cellosea1986
2️⃣ go read and fall in love with Godzilla as single gay dad
3️⃣ finally bought my domain & more poems forthcoming
4️⃣ my peach being babygirl monster
5️⃣ have you seen my booger & my peach?
#poetrypublications #poetsandwriters #valentinesday #godzillakingofthemonsters #jaxntppoet

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Here's a batch of cool places where you can read my latest fiction and poetry.

Plummeting - Hawaii Pacific Review
Mrs. Pac-Man Waits - OxMag
Returns - Weath Bearing Tree
Touching Coltrane's Tenor Sax - Breakwater Review
Won't You Give Me Some of Your Love? - Neon Origami
Emmet Cohen Playing Round Midnight - The Closed Eye Open's Maya's Micros

#writing #writersofinstagram #writer #writingcommunity #author #published #poetry #fiction #literaryfiction

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Have you been to any of Boston’s many reading series and opens mics? Here’s a list of 25 local reading series you can attend or be part of. (I’ll tag those who are on social media in the post.)

Find more information about these reading series at the Resources section on our website (link in bio), and look for events in our weekly calendar!

🤔 Did I miss any? Drop it below and I’ll do a follow-up post, and get you up on the website.

#boston #bostonevents #bostonliteraryevents #bostonbookstores #bostonauthors #bostonbooks #cambridge #cambridgevents #bostonwriters #bostonbookstores #bostonbookstagram #readingseries #openmic

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Here is a snippet from my #poem “Sound Bites from the Language of Silence,” finalist for the 2025 @breakwaterrev Peseroff #Poetry Prize and now published in Breakwater Review’s Issue 38! Much gratitude to Breakwater for choosing this poem as a finalist and publishing it online, and congrats to @poet_michelle_noel_alexander for winning the prize! And shout out to my workshop peers in my Spring 2025 Poetry Workshop at Emerson College for being the earliest readers of this piece and providing feedback that guided the poem to the version it is today!

(Link to the full poem in my bio! And make sure to read it on a computer because of its experimental formatting!)

“Sound Bites from the Language of Silence” considers silence as another #language and, ultimately, as another legacy of colonialism. It explores the tongue as a battlefield of languages. It explores the intricacies of English being the dominant language for belonging and assimilation in America—how there is a violence that is possible even as early as when speech and language are being learned.

This poem for me was a reflection on my speech living in this contested liminal space when interacting with family members back in the Philippines—this amalgamation of knowing only the basics of Tagalog and my over-reliance on English sticking out like a sore thumb. This resulted in my often retreating into silence in these conversations because I didn’t know what to say, because I would be afraid of messing up, sounding/looking dumb in front of those fluent in Tagalog.

This tension culminated when my grandfather on my father’s side died a few years ago. I realized I never really had a full conversation with him due to my limited Tagalog, even in that final FaceTime when I knew he didn’t have much longer to live. I am still haunted by this fact—one that is the reason why I am striving to be more fluent in Tagalog little by little.

The video is from the last time I visited Batangas back in Jan. 2023, my father’s hometown and where my grandfather lived. There was something haunting too about how, in that moment, I felt I could speak more to the wind and the water than to the people around me.

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💦🌊💧wrong side of the changeroom published today in @breakwaterrev for the diasporic dykes

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