Poet. Designer. Archivist.
T. De Los Reyes is a Filipino poet and the author of And Yet Held (Bull City Press) and Woeman (Hawai’i Review). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, Diode, Waxwing, Bellingham Review, and Pleiades, and elsewhere. Her work revolves around womanhood, eros, and mapping the body—exploring geography vis-à-vis the question of identity as a person of colour.
A 2025 VONA Summer Fellow and recipient of a Narrative Shifts residency from The Seventh Wave, she has been nominated for Best of the Net and was a finalist for the Pleiades’ Prufer Poetry Prize.
She is the founder of Read A Little Poetry, an independent, living archive of poems that has been running for two decades. She writes Poet’s Field Notes, a Substack newsletter on writing and the creative life. She serves as a community teaching assistant for ModPo (Modern & Contemporary American Poetry) at the University of Pennsylvania, and designs for Nowruz Journal, a finalist for the CLMP Firecracker Award. She lives and writes in Manila, Philippines.
And Yet Held by T. De Los Reyes
T. De Los Reyes’s collection And Yet Held is for people who live on the margins, who are creating their own path in the world where merely existing becomes an impossibility, and where living a life on one’s own terms is an act of courage.
Knowing it takes a certain amount of gumption and surrender to lean towards vulnerability, this book is meant to be held by someone who is looking for poems about love and discovers it is also poems about the self—and in that discovering recognizes, “Finally, I am found.”
The asking itself is the practice
Manifestos, maybes, and making space for multiplicity
Let my process be porous
Wabi-sabi, impermanence, and making peace with not catching up
A compendium of things I’ve learned
A field guide for the almost-forty and entirely tender-hearted
a daily invitation to write
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