Selected Publications

Poems

“The Calabash Drum” and “Across the Gulf” — Prairie Schooner
Recipient of the Edward Stanley Award for Poetry

“Lot” and “And if nobody comes, send for me” — Columbia Journal

“Innocent Storm” — Hayden’s Ferry Review

“El Solemne” — Anaheim Poetry Review

“Blood River,” “Blood Memory,” and “Ode to Calle Ocho” — Pamenar Online Magazine

“We have the power to begin the world all over again” — The Indianapolis Review

“Profecía” — Sheila-Na-Gig Editions

“African American Abecedarian” — Southern Humanities Review 57.2, 2024

“Testament” and “POV: Your favorite Black superhero’s pilot episode” — Modern Language Studies

“Four Ways of Looking at a Spreading Fire,” “Watermelon Man in the Plaza,” and “Split or Whole?” — The Rumpus

“Roots” — The Amistad

“Don’t Swallow Me Whole” — Vagabond City Lit

“The Sailor, The Soldier, The Savior” — Kitchen Table Quarterly

“Why some people be wantin’ to erase us all the time” — Up the Staircase Quarterly

Forthcoming

“On Earth As It Is In Body (Bop)” — Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora