poetry

Select published poetry

Poetry online

every apocalypse before in Broadcast Magazine.

two poems in Four Way Review. “wish you were here” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

three poems in Blackbird

three poems in The Boiler Journal

two poems in Under a Warm Green Linden

two poems in Virginia Quarterly Review

Ode to smoked salmon jerky in River Mouth Review

my mother teaches me self-preservation in VinylPo

three poems in Shenandoah. *”My head is full of powers” was nominated for Best of the Net.

three poems in Jet Fuel Review. *”Second attempt at going home” was nominated for Best of the Net.

eleventh attempt at going home in Scalawag

a foolish controversy over the color of the skin in Southern Humanities Review

flash point in The Shallow Ends

isthums and artifacts of daily wanting in Empty Mirror

archival in TriQuarterly

the Orishas spend a day as humans on a Verse poetry playlist

long distance in Wildness (Platypus Press). *This piece was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a Forward Prize.

privilege reproduces itself in Narrative Magazine (Poem of the Week).

DCA –> SDQ and asthma exacerbation in Obra/Artifact

to know a thing and maron in Boston Review’s poetry forum WHAT NATURE

another epidemic in The CDC Poetry Project

furnace in Underbelly Magazine

still life with pedigree in Foundry. *This piece was nominated for Best of the Net.

self-portrait as a series of bent zoning laws in New Delta Review

Poem for when the Empire is personally hunting you down in LOVE’S EXECUTIVE ORDER

observation in a small country and the law of conservation of love in Big Lucks

the Black American gets her travel fellowship and goes abroad in Philadelphia Stories. *This piece was selected for Editor’s Choice Award in the Sandy Crimmins National Poetry Contest

thermodynamics and hydronymy in Heart Journal

g as in god and interpretation of dreams in The Scream Online Dreams Poetry Anthology

prelude in Callaloo Journal Vol 38, No 2

glossopteris in Lime Hawk Arts

Pangaea’s 16 questions and (alternate ending in Jet Fuel Review

fear of causing pain in The Intima

the benediction of Our Lady of Hyperglycemia in the museum of americana

what’s your name in Love Insha’Allah

driving at night (alone) in Muzzle Magazine

July 4th in Diverse Voices Quarterly

three poems in Protest Poems

at the Piggly-Wiggly in East Nashville in qarrtsiluni

apagón in Muzzle Magazine

a lake in Damselfly Press

Poetry in print

clockmelt in EcoTheo Review

lullaby in American Poetry Review

found in Rabbit Catastrophe Review. *This poem was selected by Kaveh Akbar as a finalist for the Real Good Poem Prize.

an easy way of living in Bayou Magazine

[translation] in Obsidian

thunder’s baby in Yemassee Journal. *This piece was selected by Jericho Brown for the Yemassee Journal annual Poetry Prize and was nominated for Pushcart Prize.

the weight and dimensions of my prayers in Philadelphia Stories. *This piece was selected for Honorable Mention in the Sandy Crimmins National Poetry Contest.

primum non nocere in The Los Angeles Review

symptoms in The Examined Life: A Literary Journal of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine

geography in The Caribbean Writer

so easily we shatter in 34th Parallel