publications

“Her Little Laugh” in Massachusetts Review

“The Hymn” in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series

2 Poems reprinted in Another Last Call: Poems on Alcoholism, Addiction and Deliverance.

“Self-Portrait as a Black Walnut Tree” nominated for Pushcart Prize in Beloit Poetry Journal

“My Pops Says He Wants His Popeyes Hot” 2023 Winner of Vera Meyer Strube Award for Academy of American Poets

“In the Wake of Ida” in The Nation

“Mountain Baptism” in West Branch

“A Fox Appears” in Washington Square Review

“Tell Him I’m Busy” nominated for Pushcart Prize in Mississippi Review

“The Angel of Farewell” in Southern Indiana Review

“It’s Hard To Tell You This Without Picturing It” in EcoTheo Review

“Before She Blooms” in Poet Lore

“Mercy, Mercy, Mercy” | “A Couple in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY, 1990” photograph by Dawoud Bey in Jazz & Culture

“God Made Dirt, & Dirt Ain’t Popeyes” nominated for Pushcart Prize & Best New Poets in The Southern Review(link to Interview)

“Sleeve of Memory” | “This Shit is Not Interesting” nominated for Pushcart Prize in Cincinnati Review

“Requiem for Guy” in Ecotone

“Without them” in Guernica

“The Stain," 2021 Poetry Prize Winner for Puerto Del Sol

“Ars Poetica” in Poetry Northwest

“A Woman and a Child in the Doorway, Harlem, 1975,” photograph by Dawoud Bey in Black Warrior Review

“Another (Damn) Crow Poem” nominated for Pushcart Prize & Best New Poets | “Some Awful Word” | “A Young Man Resting on an Exercise Bike, Amityville, NY 1988,” photograph by Dawoud Bey | “Shake Loose Tree” in Crazyhorse

“Carver Park, New Orleans” in the minnesota review

“God please tell him leave” in Southern Humanities Review

“Don’t Bury the Dead”nominated for Best of Net in New Orleans Review

“Who Dwelt Among Us” in The Boiler

“Tompkins Square Park, New York, NY” in Cola Literary Journal

“Some Time” in Salt Hill Journal

“Paradise Loser” in Hayden’s Ferry Review

“I Eat Darkness for Breakfast” in Zone 3

“I’m from New Orleans” in Knights Library Magazine