Narisma

About

Narisma is a poet and essayist from the Philippines who is fascinated with cultural memory, queer erotics, and spiritual restitution. His work has appeared in The Margins, Gordon Square Review, Pollux Journal, and ONLY POEMS, among others. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets._{Photo by Adil Ilahi}

Selected Works

• "Freedom fom Loss," "Moonrise at Avenue H," "Uncle Sugar," "Poem in Which Our Men Still Belong to Us, or Jennelyn Olaires as Madonna della Pietà," "Marginalia: Micro-Essays on Memory, Exile, and Space"
• "Bless the 賓妹"
• "I'm Not Myself Right Now," "Filipino Rants to His White Therapist"
• "Cosmogony as Ocean Meets Sky"
• "Haibun with Benadryl, Snow, and Mother Wound"
• "Boyhood: Micro-Essays on Bodies, Sons, and Unfinished Journals"
• "It Is Comfortable to Be Alive This Way, Especially Now," "Origami, Euphemized"
• "My Cousin's Wake," "My Journalism Professor Says The Two Things People Care Most About Are Fear And Sex"
• "Snapdragons on Venus"
• "Batok: Micro-Essays on Indigenism, Craft, and Matrilineality"
• "Derivation: Micro-Essays on Water, Family, and Self"
• "Wildflowers and War"
• "Untitled," "On being a writer"

Contact

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