work

selected poetry publications

“Sonnet on Discovery” & “august” Blush Lit
“glorieta / guadalajara” Archway Editions
“passage” Wildness Journal
“romance ecology” & “rituals” ITERANT
“Beginning” & “Flirtation” SARKA
“I am a smart girl” & “growing pains” SPECTRA Poets
“proximity : leaving LA” Pom Pom
excerpts from “canon” Mizna 22.1 (Print)
“language arts” Altadena Poetry Review
“the family secret” (Launch Prize Finalist) Poetry Online
“on deprivation” voicemail poems
“grammar games” “sepulchre” & “existence, mapped” Sumou Mag
“late bloomer” feelings

my poetry can also be found in the following anthologies

20.35 Africa Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (Ed. Kwame Opoku-Duku, 2024)
FUTURE / PRESENT (Ed. Elizabeth Webb & Daniela Alvrez, Duke University Press, 2024)
INFINITE CONSTELLATIONS (Ed. Khadijah Queen & K. Ibura, University of Alabama Press, 2023)

non-fiction, reviews and interviews

Wayward Taxonomies (co-authors Christine Imperial and Simone Zapata), Dilettante Army
Continuing Peril: on Cheryl Clarke’s Archive of Style, Los Angeles Review of Books
Sluts in Form and Content: A Conversation Between Sarah Yanni and Michelle Tea, Los Angeles Review of Books
“True Life: I Called Off My Wedding” Los Angeles Review of Books
I Have to Poke Holes in Things: A Conversation with Natasha Stagg, Los Angeles Review of Books
on for the sake of dancing in the street, Dirt.
Review of Jhani Randhawa’s Time Regime, Full Stop
Review of Matt Mitchell’s ‘notes’ SPAM Cuts
Getting to an Imperfect, Queer Center: Interview with Marlee Grace Autostraddle
Review of Kamala Puligandla’s Zig Zags Full Stop
Reading List for the Revolution: Angela Davis & Radical Inspiration for 2021 Autostraddle
I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone: Interview with Chastity Belt’s Julia Shapiro BUST Magazine

lastly, I have two chapbooks

Hard Crush (Wonder Press, 2024)

ternura / tenderness (Bottlecap Press, 2019)

“Orchestrating an impasto collection of emotive and tonal shifts, from softly spoken to defiant, it is clear to me that Yanni’s poetic presence is waxing, a glimmering orb amongst other contemporary constellations. Reading one moreish poem catalyses an urgent desire for the next, a clever domino effect that interlinks subjective schemas with well-articulated energy.” (reviewed by Alice Hill-Woods for Spam Magazine)