J. YURU ZHŌU

June 21, 2026 | New York
virtual poetry reading for Slipknots at Accent Sisters, with thanks to Nabi Cheung-Cuono for sound recording, design, mixing, and Xingzi Gu for curation 🪢💛

June 20, 2026 | Oakland
COMMON GROUND, a fundraiser day party & intro to DJ cohort graduation showcase at Home Bass, with thanks to Davy, Ignatius, Chris 🐣

June 19, 2026 | San Francisco
presenting work-in-progress of a multimedia dance piece with thanks to Maya Amanat at Kinetech’s Summer Solstice Showcase at Joe Goode Annex, with thanks to Dai and Wei 🌞💖

June 13, 2026 | Oakland
reading in celebration of MATERIAL SPELLS by Tracy Ren at Eternal Now, with thanks to Tracy, Will, Jes, Andrew 🎐🤍

June 12, 2026 | San Francisco
reading with Molcajete Poets at Flor y Canto , with thanks to Yenia Hernandez and Gaia Ritter 💐💛

June 7, 2026 | Los Angeles
typewriter poetry-ing with Pride Poets @ WeHo Pride, with thanks to Brian Sonia-Wallace 💏

May 31, 2026 11-12:30pm | Berkeley
youth anthology released, cheering on the youth reading with Graton Writing Project @ Bay Area Book Festival! 🌱

May 16, 2026, 1-3:30pm | San Francisco
open mic-ing w/ Molcajete Poets at Medicine for Nightmares 💬

March 31, 2026 | San Francisco
reading, dancing at Eviction Dances: A-SIDE 🎐, with thanks to Gabriele Christian (read more about it here) 💙

March 21 & 22, 2026 | San Francisco
dancing with the sweetest crew, the house performance workshop at Dance Mission Theatre’s Spring Choreographer’s Showcase 🌸

Jan 15, 2026 | San Francisco
recovering from a wild respiratory infection that KO’d me Dec 2025 … 😷 & giving tours on Chinatown history and art, with thanks to Kyan, Margaret, Eugenia🚶🚶🚶

Nov 16, 2025 | San Francisco
open mic-ing at Public Words (themed: Libidinal Labor) 🫴

Oct 31, 2025 | Oakland
Antifascist Day of the Dead reading in support of SF Courtwatch and Gaza at Tamarack 🇵🇸 with thanks to Teddy Lance❤️‍🔥

Oct 12, 2025 | San Francisco
performing Sounds Of: Changing Pace (0) with Nabibi777, Aubrey King 🎐📀

Oct 2025 | San Francisco & Oakland
developing K-5 poetry lessons for an SF microschool, supporting a poetry unit pilot with 4th grade class in OUSD 💛

Sept 2025 | San Francisco
learning 🧠
@ SFMOMA Teacher Programs (Love Made Visible: An Art Teacher Institute on Suzanne Jackson’s use of recycled material) 💗♻️
@ Chinese Culture Center of SF (Chinatown History & Art Tour Docent Training) 🎨🥠

Summer/Fall 2025 | San Francisco 🌞🍃
getting my bearings in childcare, classroom management, lesson planning with K-8 students across after school coordination, in-school substitute teaching, and writing mentoring 💗✨

Aug 2025 | San Francisco
clay workshop participant & community contributor to Macrowaves’ Home Without Borders, with thanks to Ruka Kashiwagi, Jeffrey Yip, Victor Saucedo ⚔️✊🏠

June 1, 2025 | Berkeley
middle and high school writers I had the great luck of working with in March are reading at the Bay Area Book Festival in “Native Voices: Youth Writers from the 2025 Graton Writing Project” 💪

March 2025 | Print
poems published in Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology 🐬🌳

Feb 15, 2025 | Oakland
performing at Sapphic Salon with Sarah Bush Dance Company at the White Horse Bar 💏🐎

Feb 14, 2025 | Oakland
reading at Tritone Poetry / Tamarack’s Weekly Friday series, with thanks to Kevin Lo 💘

Jan – April 2025
studying, writing through Workshops4Gaza and Small Press Traffic 📚

Dec 6, 2024
heard the nice news of getting to the finalist pool for the Periplus Fellowship 💫🏊‍♀️🐟

Oct 6 – Dec 15, 2024 | Oakland
co-dreaming, -teaching, -writing Asian American Poetics as a Radical Possibility, a six-session poetry workshop with Kazumi Chin+++, with thanks to Michelle, Sabina, Leva at ARTogether ❤️‍🔥
– Dec 15, 2024, Freedom
– Dec 1, 2024, Mothers
– Nov 11, 2024, Mitski
– Nov 3, 2024 Refusals
– Oct 20, 2024, Anxiety
– Oct 6, 2024, Names

Sept – Dec 2024 | San Francisco
studying @ City College San Francisco, African American History: Reconstruction to the Present 📜

Sept – Dec 2024 | San Francisco & Oakland
creative writing teaching, tutoring, mentoring, field trips with 826 Valencia/Chapter 510 🪁✏️


June 29 – Aug 9 2024 | San Francisco & Oakland
🌻🧑‍🌾 seeding Flowers & Fields with Kazumi Chin
– Aug 9, 2024, Literaoke, a poetry & singing open mic 🎤
– July 13, 2024, Flock of Words, a writers’ hike 🕊
– July 6, 2024, Dream Assembly, a convening for dreaming 💭
– June 29, 2024, Architectures of Care, a poetry salon 🪢

😎🧩 ~ hot concrete poetry summer ~ 🧩😎

June 17-23, 2024 | Olympic Valley
workshopping @ Community of Writers’ Poetry Program; recipient of a Lucille Clifton Memorial Scholarship 🌲

June 10 – 14, 2024 | Denver
workshopping @ Lit Fest Advanced Weeklong Poetry Workshop, taught by, with thanks to Rowan Ricardo Phillips 🏔

😎🧩 ~ hot concrete poetry summer ~ 🧩😎

June 5, 2024 | Online
poems published in The Poetry Project & The Seventh Wave, with thanks to Elizabeth Upshur +++ 🪞

June 1, 2024, 3-4pm | San Francisco
reading @ Friends of the San Francisco Public Library’s Block Party Book Sale, Thee Parkside with thanks to Brian Ang 🏍

May 30, 2024 | San Francisco
hosting Horizontal Poetry Night with thanks to Rishi Tirumalai and the rest of the witches ✨🌀🐛

May 22, 2024 | San Francisco
reading @ A.P. Giannini Middle School’s first-ever Poetry Jam, with thanks to Helana, Ruben, PTSA ❣️

April 4, 2024 | Online
finalist in F(r)iction’s fall 2023 poetry contest 🎋

March 23, 2024 | San Francisco
speaking, facilitating @ Reboot Community Day & Kernel launch party at KQED, with thanks to Brian, Chia, Jess, Jay ☘️


March 20, 2024 | Print & Online
Kernel Magazine Issue 4 is released!
I selected/solicited/edited poetry, fiction, visual art ++ and wrote a note about the f/utilities of poetry and software, with thanks to D, Jess, and Jay ⚡️💛

March 2, 2024 | San Francisco
reading with Small Press Traffic’s Bay Area Poetics workshop at Et Al. Books, taugh+ hosted by, with thanks to Sophia Dahlin 🌉

March 2, March 9, March 16, March 23, 2024 | San Francisco
typewriting @ a poetry activation for Entwined: Elder Mother, in Golden Gate Park, with thanks to Scott Cooper 🌈


March – May 2024 | San Francisco & Oakland
creative writing teaching, tutoring, mentoring, field trips with 826 Valencia/Chapter 510 🪁

February 27, 2024 | San Francisco
distributed a PDF of a beloved are.na channel “🌀 the world is alive with waves and forces” through USB Club’s first San Francisco event, with thanks to Norm & Yatú 👾

Feb 12, 2024 | San Francisco
SF Computer Poetry / Erasure Poetry Night, co-hosted with Matthew Siu 🤖

Jan – March 2024 | San Francisco & Virtual
studying, DIY MFA-ing
– “Relational Reconstructions,” School for Poetic Computation
– “Bay Area Poetics 1960s – 2020s,” Small Press Traffic
– “Words Are My Matter: A Short Course on the Craft of Ursula K. Le Guin,” Community of Writers

June 16 – Dec. 11, 2023 | San Francisco
on view, looping @ the Asian Art Museum’s “Bernice Bing: Open Call,” with thanks to jurors Kim, Jason, Naz, Melanie, Yuanyuan 🔁

Dec. 5, 2023, 6-8p PT / 9-11p ET | Virtual
speaking @ Sarah Bush Dance Project’s End-of-Year Gala

Dec. 4, 2023, 8p ET / 5p PT | Virtual
reading @ The Poetry Project: Fall 2023 Workshop Reading, with thanks to Dianca London Potts

Oct. 19, Nov. 2, Nov. 6, Nov. 30, 2023, 6-8p PT | San Francisco
“of form and feeling,” co-taught with/with thanks to Kazumi Chin 🧩

Oct. 21, 2023 | San Francisco
panel moderator, Litcrawl: Hot Takes with Kernel Magazine, with thanks to Dana, Spencer, Ivan, Jess, Jasmine 💛


Oct 15, 2023 | San Francisco
reading @ Litquake Out Loud: Full Circle for Litquake / Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, with thanks to Giovanna Lomanto 💛🎙

Oct 2023 | Virtual
studying @ Asian American Literary Archive, “Foundations of Asian American Studies”; scholarship recipient, with thanks to Yanyi and Ida Yalzadeh 📚

Sept 11, 2023 | Print & Online
Kernel Magazine, Volume 3 is released ✨✨✨
I served as the creative editor & a nonfiction editor, with thanks to Jess, Jay, Raya 🌱


July 15, 2023 | Berkeley
performance at Berkeley Poetry Festival 2023: “Body Language,” with Sarah Bush Dance Project 💞

April – May 2023 | San Francisco
studying @ Small Press Traffic, “Anti-Narrative Arcs: Experimental Fiction Workshop,” taught by/with thanks to Angie Sijun Lou 🌀

Nov 2022 | Print & Online
Sinostories, which I was a contributing editor for, is released, with thanks to Helen, Jamie ❤️


Sept 12, 2022 | Print & Online
Kernel Magazine, Volume 2 is out!
I served as the creative editor for this issue, with thanks to Jess, Jasmine, Matthew, Emily ⚡️💛


Aug – Sept 2022 | San Francisco
research, video exhibited @ Gray Area (in collaboration with IAAT /ZERO1 / Claudia Larcher), with thanks to Shamsher and Leia 🔮

Aug 2022 | Mendocino
workshopping short fiction @ Mendocino Coast Writers Conference; recipient of an Albertina Tholakele Dube scholarship, with thanks to Jean Chen Ho 🎐

Aug 2022 | San Francisco
Rooted & Written fiction fellow

Dec 14, 2021 | San Francisco, Turkey, & Virtual
co-curator & -host with Sabina Kariat for Living Room Light Exchange, Season 8: Alternative & Contemporary Futurisms, in conversation with Kimberley Acebo Arteche, Nico Maimon, Rama Majzoub at Southern Exposure, with thanks to Valerie Imus 🔮


Oct 23, 2021 | San Francisco
reading @ Litcrawl: In Response at Dogeared Books, with thanks to Victor Yates ❣️

Aug 12 – Sept 4, 2021 | San Francisco
installation (Southeastern Expansion) @ Southern Exposure, Antidotes to Confusion, with thanks to Simon Tran and Amanda Walters 🌊

Sept 4, 2021 | Virtual
reading @ Asian Art Museum x Kearny Street Workshop,  IWL: Readings from the 2021 Anthology

June 18, 2021 | Los Angeles
writing/reading typewriter poetry with PRIDE Poets @ ONE Archives Foundation 💏

June 11-13, 2021 | Los Angeles & Virtual
writing/reading custom poetry @ Pride Poets Hotline 💏


June – Aug 2021 | San Francisco & Virtual
workshopping @ Kearny Street Workshop Interdisciplinary Writers Lab; anthology 💛

May 6, 2021 | Virtual
speaking @ University of Oregon Art & Technology, ARTD 410/510 Art of Surveillance Lecture Series with Liz Ayala and Olivia Ross, with thanks to Hiba Ali ⚔️