2023

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"Elegy for Chadwick Boseman" This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets,

winner of the 2025 NAACP Image Award for Poetry (Print)

 

"Work Is" What Things Cost: An Anthology for the People (Print)

 

"Interlude (When I place a ring on my finger)" South Carolina Review (Print)

 

"flail (n.,v.)" Poetry Northwest (Print)

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2022
 

"My S. Carolina Concealed Weapons Permit Instructor Notices That My Driver’s License Mistakenly Indicates I Am Not a Black Male" & "Black Child’s Fifth Grade Homework"

About Place Journal

 

"Simone Biles: GOAT Therapy" Callaloo

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"Spaceships on Bankhead Revisited" Aunt Chloe

 

"Yes I Am / No, I Haint" Poetry Northwest 

 

2021

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"Hypotenuse" *Palette Poetry Prize, 3rd place* Palette Poetry

 

"Psychology for Black Folk" Jasper Writes Series

 

Four Poems Statorec

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"Birdie" Twelve Mile Review (print)

 

"Elegy for Chadwick Boseman" Rogue Agent 

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2020

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Three Poems Platform Review

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Two Poems Aunt Chloe: A Journal of Artful Candor

 

Three Poems Cola Literary Review (formerlyYemassee Journal)

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"Snap Beans" African American Review

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2019

 

"The Emancipation of Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben" Cosmonauts Avenue

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Five Poems Queen Mob's Tea House

 

"Something about a Black Boy" *Pushcart Prize Nominee* Border Crossing

 

"Frozone's Bride" Ninth Letter

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"Mural Me" Stonecoast Review (Print)

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"Battle Hymn for the Soul" Callaloo Journal 

 

2018

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Two Poems South Florida Poetry Journal

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"Portrait of George Stinney, Jr., as Police Report and Trial" 

*Gigantic Sequins Summer Contest Finalist*

Gigantic Sequins (Print)

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"The Black Body Is a Wind Chime" Thrush Poetry Journal 

 

"Middle Passage" Verse Daily

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"When I Fly Too Close to the Sun I Don't Smell Melting Wax" The Good Men Project

 

2017

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"Battle Royal" Pennsylvania English (Print) 

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"Plan B" (w/ audio) The Baltimore Review

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"A Blind Man Gives You [In]Sight" SYZYGY, The Solar Eclipse Poetry Invitational (Print)

 

"The Things You Should Hear" Fall Lines Vol. IV (Print)

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2016

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"I'm Human, Too" (w/ audio) HEArt Online Journal (defunct)

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"You've Heard This Before" The Good Men Project

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Two Poems The James Franco Review 

 

Two Poems Public Pool (defunct)

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Four Poems (w/ Interview) Connotation Press

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"Google search for black lives matter" Winter Tangerine Review 

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"I Hate My Own Breath" & "Skinny Boy" Pittsburgh Poetry Review (Print)

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Three Poems Drunk in a Midnight Choir

 

"Feel the Vibration: Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch"

*Best of the Net Nominee* Yellow Chair Review

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"I Write My Body Eclectic" (w/ Audio) [PANK] Magazine

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"Praise Song for the Waters" *Mississippi Review Poetry Prize Finalist*

Mississippi Review 

 

"Down South" Charleston Currents

 

"Briefcase of Little Tortures" & "Separation" Up the Staircase Quarterly

 

2015

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"Threes" & Excerpt from "Page from the Coward's Playbook" Jasper Magazine

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"Deep Sea" *Pushcart Prize Nominee* & "Uncle J's Blues" 

The Petigru Review (Print)

 

"Traffic Stop" & "Sounds of the Police" pluck! Black Poets Speak Out Issue

 

"Homeless Ex-con at Columbia Midlands Regional Transit Authority"

Jasper Magazine

 

"Dead to You" *Best of the Net Nominee* Diverse Voices Quarterly (defunct)

 

"Mosquito Music" Control Literary Magazine

 

"Smashing Bottles" *Berfrois Poetry Prize Finalist* Berfrois Magazine

 

2014

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"Burn" & "Sunday Night Revival" Pamplemousse Magazine (Print)

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"Summer Night Revival" The Southern Tablet

 

"This Life Ain't Fit for Nobody" The Southern Tablet