Poems

all-american black body

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How We Work This Soil

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Does God Hesitate?

Winner of the 2019 Atlantis Award

Published by The Poet's Billow

2021

Exegesis on a Chicken Wing
Published by Redivider

2021

Isaiah Bradley in Conversation with Barack Obama
Published by Knights Library Magazine

2021

Claim Ticket 60615:
Obama's Tan Suit

Claim Ticket 1221: Samuel L. Jackson's "Motherfucker"

Black History Year

Published by Homology Lit

2019

pluto be orbit uncommon

a summer lesson on multiplication

The Alchemy of Our Uncles' Chest Hair

Published by Sidereal Magazine

2020

Autoimmune
Published by Exhume

2019

Crushed
Published by Solstice Literary Magazine

2019

Rules for Conducting Yourself in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Published by Superstition Review

2020

The Water I Come From
Published by trampset

2020

This is Where You Belong

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After the Towers Fell, Black Boys Felt American

Published by Anti-Heroin Chic

2019

What Waves Will Carry Back to You
Published by Ghost City Press

2020

The Barber Chair
Published by Riggwelter Press

2019

Flipping a Table to End a Game of Spades Means I Love You
Published in A Garden of Black Joy: Global Poetry from the Edges of Liberation and Living

2020

The Chicken Wing Speaks of Love
Published by Kissing Dynamite Poetry

2019

The Difference Between Nigger and Nigga

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Why I Just Say I'm From Chicago

Published by Up the Staircase Quarterly

2018

Delayed MBTA Train Home as Jimi Hendrix’s Stratocaster
Published by Glass Poetry Press

2019

Reynolds-Wrapped Leftovers

Published by The Hellebore

2019

Dust to Dust
Published by Poems2Go

2018 

Granny's Absolutes

Over Ten Frames, My Father Paints the Portrait of Cool
Published by Transition Magazine

2018

What Rough Beast [Collection]
Published by Indolent Books

2018