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Publications
Self-Portrait, Askew
Chicago Reader
2023
Every day I wake up & get dressed for my own funeral
Runner up for the Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize
Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices
2023
Thieves in the Night
What Remedies the World Will Supply
The Journal
2023
Salience of Mortality, or Derek Chauvin is Going to Jail, and White People Ask What More Do We Want
At Night, I Tuck a Pillow Beneath My Arm to Sleep
Sidelines Magazine
2022
etymology ft. urban dictionary
Elegy as a Room for My Dead
Terror Management Theory
Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices
2022
all-american black body
How We Work This Soil
Does God Hesitate?
Winner of the 2019 Atlantis Award
The Poet's Billow
2021
Isaiah Bradley in Conversation with Barack Obama
Knights Library Magazine
2021
Exegesis on a Chicken Wing
Redivider
2021
pluto be orbit uncommon
a summer lesson on multiplication
The Alchemy of Our Uncles' Chest Hair
Sidereal Magazine
2020
Rules for Conducting Yourself in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Superstition Review
2020
The Water I Come From
trampset
2020
What Waves Will Carry Back to You
Ghost City Press
2020
Flipping a Table to End a Game of Spades Means I Love You
A Garden of Black Joy: Global Poetry from the Edges of Liberation and Living
2020
The Chicken Wing Speaks of Love
Kissing Dynamite Poetry
2019
Delayed MBTA Train Home as Jimi Hendrix’s Stratocaster
Glass Poetry Press
2019
Reynolds-Wrapped Leftovers
The Hellebore
2019
Claim Ticket 60615: Obama's Tan Suit
Claim Ticket 1221: Samuel L. Jackson's "Motherfucker"
Black History Year
Homology Lit
2019
Autoimmune
Exhume
2019
Crushed
Solstice Literary Magazine
2019
This is Where You Belong
After the Towers Fell, Black Boys Felt American
Anti-Heroin Chic
2019
The Barber Chair
Riggwelter
2019
The Difference Between Nigger and Nigga
Why I Just Say I'm From Chicago
Up the Staircase Quarterly
2018
What Rough Beast [Collection]
Indolent Books
2018
Dust to Dust
Poems2Go
2018
Granny's Absolutes
Over Ten Frames, My Father Paints the Portrait of Cool
Transition Magazine
2018
What Rough Beast
Published by
Would-Be Rats
Poem for July 8
2020
Generation Snowflake
Poem for July 5
2020
The Freedom Trail Tour Guide Shyly Mentions Slaves Were Sold at Boston Harbor
Poem for July 6
2020
the bees rebuild
Poem for July 7
2020
Angry While Black
Poem for September 22
2018
Traffic Stop Blues
Poem for October 6
2018
Sold As-Is
Poem for September 29
2018
The Data Says
America Burns
Poem for September 1
2018
Dear White People, Don’t
Ask Us How to Stop It
Poem for September 15
2018
The Mosquito
Speaks Of Protest
Poem for September 8
2018
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