Structure of the Inner Ear is a collaboration with Oregon-based visual artist Steven LaRose. This book is forthcoming in 2009 from Cinematheque Press.

Haiku Not Bombs - a collaboratively authored manuscript of haiku with Tom Gilroy, Grant Lee Buffalo, Jim McKay, Denise Seigel, Patrick So, Rick Roth, and Alison Roth. These poems were written in 2005. Booklyn Artists Alliance published an edition of this collection in 2008. Visit the haiku blog here. Nutritional Feed - a collaboration with NY painter David Lukowski. Lukowski's paintings are abstract narratives reflective of childhood and the American experience. My texts for this collaboration treat the paintings as ekphrastic objects, tracking the process of eye, mind, and heart. This project is seeking a publisher.

each blade of grass, each drop of dew - an ethnographic memoir of the Pai Tsai family from Ching Shui, Taiwan. The collection gathers together archival photographs of family members from the early- to mid-1900s. This collection will be produced as a limited edition artist's book in an unfolding ox-plow structure. Works on Paper - a project with letterpress publisher Convivio Bookworks (formerly Red Wagon Bookworks). Collecting together old and new poems, these texts explore the many uses and meanings of paper. Published in May 2007. Selected Writings: 2000-2005 - this book gathers together texts created for interdisciplinary collaborations. Spanning five years of writing, included here are the poems of "Unnecessary Roughness", "The Love Hotels", "Nutritional Feed" and the verse play "Concave is the Opposite of Convex" - also known as "Lines from a Chinese-English Phrase Book." Available from 1913 Press and directly from Shin Yu. The Love Hotel Poems - an ethnographic study of Japanese love hotels. This series of work explores the narratives of people and their interactions within these intimate spaces, subverting Westernized notions of exoticized Japanese sexuality and kink. Listen to poems from the collection here or read excerpts here. Available now through Press Lorentz. Unnecessary Roughness - a collaborative visual text mansucript with NY-based photographer Ference Suto which explores the relationship between sports and the development of adolescent sexuality and identity. The texts of this collaboration has been published as a chapbook from xPress(ed). Equivalence - my first full-length collection takes its inspiration from modern and contemporary artists such as Wolfgang Laib, Piet Mondrian, John Pomara, Yoko Ono, and Felix-Gonzales-Torres. The manuscript takes its name from photographer Alfred Stieglitz’s series of clouds images, which he likened to the experience of the living sky. The poems in this collection draw connections between the visual arts and poetry, in addition to Eastern and Western cultures and traditions, exploring the theme of equivalence throughout the human experience. Available from La Alameda Press. Ten Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers - My first chapbook, produced at Naropa by Jerry Tumlinson of Third Ear Books, with calligraphy by Keith Abbott and letterpressed covers by Brad O'Sullivan of Smokeproof Press. Bilingual edition of translations of ancient Chinese poetry. Introduction by Andrew Schelling. No longer in print.