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
AMERICAN POLYTYCHS (Manuscript of Full-Length Collection)
_Citizen_ / The Rumpus / National Poetry Month Series / Online / April 2023
_Executive Discretion_, _Thingification_, and _(Non)Indictment_ / The Acentos Review / September 2021 / Online
_Affirmations Towards Care_ / Bozalta / February 2021 / Online
_Apocalypse Party_ / Bat City Review / Issue 18 / March 2022 / Print
UBIQUITIES (Manuscript of Full-Length Collection)
_Gigan for Opening The Urn_ / Indiana Review / Issue 45.1 / Summer 2023 / Print
_Grandma Dolores Waters the Monstera_ and _An Anti-Pastoral_ / ALOCASIA Magazine / Online / June 2024
Nominated for the 2025 Best of the Net Anthology AND Pushcart Prize
_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)
_Over/Under: Love_ / Retrograde Review / March 2025 / Online
_No More Masters_ / Listen To Your Skin: An Anthology of Queer & Self-Love / February 2024 / Print
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
BODYPOLITIC (Chapbook)
_Fat4Fat_ / BeeStung / Issue 22 Guest Curated by KB Brookins / Online / February 2025
_A Me Sandwich_ / interview included as well as poem audio / Bait/Switch / Online / December 2023
_The Limits of Language_ / The Nation / Print and Online / November 2022
_Breasts_ / DIRT Media / September 2020 / Online
_Mourning Meditations_ / ANMLY / Issue 36 / Online / April 2023
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
_Anti-Elegy for Black Fat_ / Rogue Agent / Issue 94 / Online / January 2023
_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
_Stasis: Laminar Flow_ / Wildness Literary Journal / November 2020 / Online
_Body Language_ / Foglifter Journal / Issue 8.1 / Print / May 2023
_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
_Broken Bread_ / Kissing Dynamite / Issue 12 / December 2019 / Online
“Baker’s Dozen” featured poet of Issue 12 with commentary on the poem
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
_Ars Poetica GenerationXXX_ , _Aftermath_, _For a Haunted Galaxy_, and _Stasis: Waiting 4 Frank Ocean_ / Ate Mais: Latinx Futurisms Anthology / September 2024 / Print
_BodyAquatic | BodyHistoric_ ; and _A Story About My Body_ / Cobra Milk / Issue 4 / Online / May 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
_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
_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
_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
_Infinity Plus One (5 poems)_ / Mānoa Journal / Architectures of FuturoPasados Folio / Issue 37-1 / Print & Online (forthcoming)
_US American Education_ and _US American Middle Manifesto_ / The Boiler / Online (forthcoming)
_Memorial Garden_ and _Rebury_ / Terra:Soul / Poetry Anthology / Porch Water Press / Print (forthcoming)
_Preamble_ / Protean Magazine / Online / (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.