Publications
Poems
2019
"The Emancipation of Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben" Cosmonauts Avenue
"Portrait of My Depression and Anxiety as a Floor Plan", "The President Is a Racist.",
"Aim High: Space Force", "I See a Former Co-worker in Walmart" & "October 29, 1979...I was born"
"Something about a Black Boy" *Pushcart Prize Nominee* Border Crossing
"Frozone's Bride" Ninth Letter
"Mural Me" Stonecoast Review (Print)
"Battle Hymn for the Soul" Callaloo Journal
2018
"Spell Check Does Not Recognize the Word Microaggression" & "Hymn to the Tiki God" (w/ audio)
"The Black Body Is a Wind Chime" Thrush Poetry Journal
"When I Fly Too Close to the Sun I Don't Smell Melting Wax" The Good Men Project
2017
"Battle Royal" Pennsylvania English (Print)
"Plan B" (w/ audio) The Baltimore Review
"A Blind Man Gives You [In]Sight" SYZYGY, The Solar Eclipse Poetry Invitational (Print)
"The Things You Should Hear" Fall Lines Vol. IV (Print)
2016
"I'm Human, Too" (w/ audio) HEArt Online Journal
"You've Heard This Before" The Good Men Project
"We're Taking About Practice" & "black body be like" The James Franco Review
"George Zimmerman as Jack in Titanic Painting Trayvon Martin as Rose" & "Krack" Public Pool
"For the Dead Whose Caskets Flowed out of Graves after the South Carolina Flood", "12-Year-Old Inside Me Seeks a Father Figure", "[Uneasy] Dreams of a Presidential Hopeful", "The Body Is a Cave" *Best of the Net Nominee* (w/ Interview) Connotation Press
"Google search for black lives matter" Winter Tangerine Review
"I Hate My Own Breath" & "Skinny Boy" Pittsburgh Poetry Review (Print)
"Church Fan" *Best of the Net Nominee*, "Niger (or The Country with the Missing Letter)", &
"When a White Man in Camden Tells You to Act Like You Got Some Sense"
"Feel the Vibration: Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch"
*Best of the Net Nominee* Yellow Chair Review
"I Write My Body Eclectic" (w/ Audio) [PANK] Magazine
"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
"Threes" & Excerpt from "Page from the Coward's Playbook" Jasper Magazine
"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"
"Dead to You" *Best of the Net Nominee* Diverse Voices Quarterly
"Mosquito Music" Control Literary Magazine
"Smashing Bottles" *Berfrois Poetry Prize Finalist* Berfrois Magazine
2014
"Burn" & "Sunday Night Revival" Pamplemousse Magazine (Print)
"Blond-haired Blue-eyed Jesus Bobble Head" NYSAI Press
"Summer Night Revival" The Southern Tablet
"This Life Ain't Fit for Nobody" The Southern Tablet