Poems
“ode to the police,” “transcendental function: I hear my father’s voice anesthetized,” “melting pot,” “still life with fruit flies, boiling water, and sink,” “exploded haiku,” The American Poetry Review, September/October 2020
“temporary hours,” a digital chapbook, through the support of Coresidency, August 19, 2020
“55th st,” Chicago Reader, August 6, 2020
“Black Matters,” Poetry – Poem of the Day, May 11, 2020
“Mob,” and “I Find Myself Defending Pigeons,” Poetry, May
“53rd street,” Obsidian, February 14, 2020
“Book of Horses,” poem-a-day (Poets.Org), August 13, 2019
“yellow-blotched map turtle,” alphabeast – A Book of Poems, Type Hike
“Nat’s Vision Tryptic,” – the A-Line, Vol. 2 No. 1-2 (Furious Flower Folio)
“who is there to eulogize the tree,” December, Vol. 30.1
“Treatise on Fallen Fruit,” Indiana Review, Volume 40 / Number 2
“letter begun to my future niece” and “Long Tail,” Arts & Letters, Issue 37
“joke told to a light-skinned man of indeterminate race,” “let us draw a map of valleys,” and “dove,” Boston Review Contest, Runner Up
“Gone Things,” and “Atlantis Calling,” Prairie Schooner, Volume 92 / Number 2
“A Unified Theory,” “Aubade on Bachelorhood and Never Becoming the Flash,” and “6:45 P.M.,” The Adroit Journal, Issue 25 – Gregory Djanikian Scholar Award
“uncanny emmett till,” Connotation Press, September 2018 – 10th Anniversary Issue
“Heliocentric,” Poetry, September 2018
“American Protest,” and “The Eaglet of Caucasus,”, Redivider, Issue 15.2
“Augury,” and “scrapbook,” Triquarterly Review, Issue 154
“A Short List of Grievances,” Passages North – Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize Honorable Mention, Issue 39 – March 2018
“Asterism,” Motion Poems – Video Poem, Season 9 – 2018
“God Particle,” Crab Orchard Review – Best New Poets 2017
“The Test,” and “String Theory,” Gulf Stream, December 2017
“I Investigate Terraforming in My 30s,” “Tercets,” and “The Way I Hold My Hands,” The Adroit Journal, August 2017
“Light as Imagined through a Body of Ice,” and “Aubade to a Collapsed Star,” Narrative Magazine – Top 5 Poems of 2017, June 2017
“Love,” Blueshift Journal, Chicago Folio – Interactive Poem, 2017
“black matters,” Split This Rock, Runner-Up for the Sonia Sanchez-Langston Hughes Poetry Contest / The Quarry’s Top 10 Most-Viewed Poems of 2017
“impressions of a rib,” Poetry, March 2017
“Prayer to the Small God of Misnomers,” Blueshift Journal, Issue V
“fieldnotes,” Blueshift Journal, June – Brutal Nation Special Edition
“cincinnati windy greys,” and “driftwood,” Pluck!, Black Poets Speak Out Special Edition
“yellow journalism,” Rhino, 2015 Issue
“there must be a surefire way to separate the ravens from the crows,” Apex Magazine, Issue 71, April 2015
“after a storm, the pigeons,” Duende, Issue 2, 2015
Nonfiction
“Bellows,” Gulf Stream Magazine, Issue 24, 2020
“Proof Casts A Shadow: Afterword,” The Kenyon Review Online, Essay – 2019
“Holler,” Literary Hub, Lyric Essay – 2019
“A Pretty Rough Day,” The Kenyon Review Online, Essay – 2019
“Proof Casts A Shadow: Intro,” The Kenyon Review Online, Essay – 2019
“In Covington, I Was Taught to Doubt My Own Experiences of Racism,” Elle, Essay – 2019
“Craft Essay – Scrapbook,” Underbelly, Essay – 2018
“Swell [Excerpt],” Redivider, Lyric Essay – 2018
“On White Noise and Better Care,” The Kenyon Review Online, Essay – 2017