Arumandhira Howard is a queer Blasian poet, musician, and creative marketer born and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia (now surviving in Los Angeles, CA). A Kundiman Poetry Fellow, her works have been published or are forthcoming in Honey Literary, The Margins, The Boiler, Wax Nine Journal, BRUISER Mag, and SWWIM, among other publications.

KUNDIMAN 20TH ANNIVERSARY POETRY PORTFOLIO

reverse tongue abecedarian

By ARUMANDHIRA HOWARD

keep / fertile the jambu groves our fathers freed. let us be more than / echo of river’s ebb.

MICRO

6-month chip

By ARUMANDHIRA HOWARD

once, i was a masterpiece in an apartment