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here, in the poem. May I, the same, grow here.

-from Silver Prayer published in DEAR Poetry Journal, June 2021

-photo credit: Bre Blake Photography

Poetry

Single Poems

BODYPOLITIC (Manuscript of Full-Length Collection)

_A Me Sandwich_ / interview included as well as poem audio / Bait/Switch / Online / December 2023

_Citizen_ / The Rumpus / National Poetry Month Series / Online / April 2023

_The Limits of Language_ / The Nation / Print and Online / November 2022

_Executive Discretion_, _Thingification_, and _(Non)Indictment_ / The Acentos Review / September 2021 / Online

_Breasts_ / DIRT Media / September 2020 / Online

_Mourning Meditations_ / ANMLY / Issue 36 / Online / April 2023

_BodyAquatic | BodyHistoric_ ; and _A Story About My Body_ / Cobra Milk / Issue 4 / Online / May 2023

_Anti-Elegy for Black Fat_ / Rogue Agent / Issue 94 / Online / January 2023

_Farts Poetica_ and excerpts from _Booked_ / Interim Journal / Black The [Or] Y: Praxis, Sum Unknown / Winter 2021 Issue / December 2021 / Online

_Bebop_ / Flypaper Lit / July 2021 / Online 

_Lying to Live_ / So to Speak Journal / June 2021 / Online

  • Nominated for the 2021 Best of the Net Anthology

_Silver Prayer_ / DEAR Poetry Journal / June 2021 / Online 

_Affirmations Towards Care_ / Bozalta / February 2021 / Online

_Gigan for Beat Downpour_ / Moist Poetry Journal / January 2022 / Online

_Gigan for Contemporary Autumn_ / Smoke and Mold / Issue 7 / Online / November 2022

_Gigan for Bittersweetness_ / Afro Literary Magazine / Issue 2: Healing / December 2021 / Online

_Stasis: Laminar Flow_ / Wildness Literary Journal / November 2020 / Online

_Body Language_ / Foglifter Journal / Issue 8.1 / Print / May 2023

_Apocalypse Party_ / Bat City Review / Issue 18 / March 2022 / Print

_Alter_ / Nomadic Press X Nomadic Coffee / December 2020 / Print

  • Limited print versions with poem & artist-drawn portrait included in purchased Nomadic Coffee bags

_Junetee[n]th_  / Linden Avenue Literary Journal / Summer 2020 / Online (Out of Print)

_Growing & Positioning Systems (GPS)_ / Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review / Issue 51 / Spring 2020/ Online (Out of Print)

  • Nominated for the 2020 Best New Poets Anthology

UBIQUITIES (Manuscript of Full-Length Collection)

_Gigan for Opening The Urn_ / Indiana Review / Issue 45.1 / Summer 2023 / Print

_Returning_ / Infinite Constellations: Speculative Futures Anthology / Print / March 2023

_I Haven’t Been Writing_ / Kissing Dynamite / Issue 46 / October 2022 / Online

_House Song_ / DWELL Poetry Anthology / South Broadway Press / June 2022 / Print

_Grief Song_ / Voicemail Poems / Fall 2021 Issue / November 2021 / Online

_Remembering (redux)_ and  _Event Horizon_  / Tiny Spoon / Issue 4 / Spring 2020 / Print

ASYMPTOTIC (Toward A Queer Love Poem) (Manuscript of Full-Length Collection)

_No More Masters_ / Listen To Your Skin: An Anthology of Queer & Self-Love / February 2024 / Print

MISEDUCATION (Chapbook)

_Academia Abecedarium_ , _Competitive Edges_, _Casually Cruel_, and _Grateful_ / New Delta Review / June 2022 / Online

_On Crypts and Currency_ / Stellium Literary Magazine / Issue 4 / September 2021 / Online

_Sullen_ / SpitPoet Zine / Volume 6 / June 2019 / Print & Online

BODYELECTRONIC (Chapbook)

_GPOY As Rainbowfrog.gif_ / HAD / October 2021 / Online

_Facial Recognition_ / MixedMag / Issue 11 / September 2021 / Online

_Voyeur_ / Honey Literary / Issue 2 / July 2021 / Online

_Digital Footprint_ and  _Stasis: Lagging_  / The Santa Clara Review / Volume 107, Issue 1 / Spring 2020 / Online and Print 

SINGLES

_True Colors_ and _For The Birds_ / Slamming Bricks Anthology / September 2021 / Print

_Bodies of Water_ and _Pulsing_ / Slamming Bricks Anthology Vol 2 / September 2022 / Print

_Racist Abecedarian_ / Echolocation Magazine / Volume 19 / September 2021 / Print

_Haiku for New State Holidays_ and _Scratch & Sniff_ / The Lickety~Split / September 2021 / Online

_Pillow-Talk_ and _**Love_ / Variety Pack / Summer 2020 / Online

_Depression Economics_ / SpitPoet Zine / Volume 7 / December 2019 / Print & Online

_Broken Bread_ / Kissing Dynamite / Issue 12 / December 2019 / Online 

  • “Baker’s Dozen” featured poet of Issue 12 with commentary on the poem

_UnSkinny Legend_ / The Skinny Poetry Journal / July 2019 / Online

  • Included in The Skinny: Poetry Anthology / Edited by Truth Thomas / Cherry Castle Publishing / 2019 / Print

Forthcoming

_Grandma Dolores Waters the Monstera_ and _An Anti-Pastoral_ / ALOCASIA Magazine / Online / June 2024 (forthcoming)

_Ars Poetica GenerationXXX_ , _Aftermath_, _For a Haunted Galaxy_, and _Stasis: Waiting 4 Frank Ocean_ / Ate Mais: Latinx Futurisms Anthology / Print (forthcoming)

_My { } Hump_ and _Smudged_ / Trans and Queer Kink and Intimacy Poetry Anthology / Print (forthcoming)
Smaller Poetry Collections

ELECTRIC NOBODY: AI generated poem-remixes of BODYELECTRONIC / Online (self-published) / January 2023

STASIS / Ghost City Press / 2020 Summer Series Micro-chapbook / August 2020 / Online (free downloadable pdf)

  • STASIS is a 3-part speculative poem regarding the persistence of slavery, its afterlives, and its relationships to blackness. An unnamed individual speaker regains moments of consciousness in the midst of surviving through [collective] stasis, only to be rushed with more questions. Cover art, entitled “Seeds”, painted by me in 2016.