Books:
100 Chinese Silences. Los Angeles: Les Figues, 2015. Editor’s Selection in the 2014 NOS Book Contest.- Fifteen Chinese Silences. Poetry chapbook. Kane’ohe: Tinfish, 2012. | PDF
“These poems are part of an ongoing project called 100 Chinese Silences. They were begun in response to Billy Collins’s poem ‘Grave.’ The speaker of the poem describes the ‘one hundred kinds of silence / according to the Chinese belief,’ but then admits at the end of the poem that these Chinese silences were something he had ‘just made up.’ I took it upon myself to write these 100 Chinese silences.”
— Tim Yu
Reviews of Fifteen Chinese Silences have appeared in Jacket2 (by Susan Schultz), the Lantern Review (by Jai Arun Ravine), and the Honolulu Weekly (by Shantel Grace).
- Journey to the West. Poetry collection; winner of the 2006 Vincent Chin Memorial Chapbook Prize, awarded by Kundiman. Barrow Street, Winter 2006: 51-67.
Poems:
- “Chinese Silence No. 92,” Poetry, June 2015.
- “Three Poems,” Shampoo 40, February 2013.
- “Three Chinese Silences,” Cordite, January 31, 2013.
- “Chinese Silence No. 16” and “Chinese Silence No. 37,” Lantern Review, Winter 2012.
- “Chinese Silence No. 8, 14, 21, 23, 27, 28” Mantis 10, January 2012. The poems aren’t available online, but you can read more about this special issue here.
- “Two Poems,” Shampoo 38, January 2011.