writing
Books:
Local Woman
(Nightboat Books 2025)
AMERIKKKANA, REVISITED: new & selected works (2017-2020)
re-released by Belladonna Collaborative Series (2020)
The Black Condition ft. Narcissus
(Nightboat Books 2019) Winner of The Poetry Center’s 2021 Book Prize (@ SFSU)
Mannish Tongues
(Platypus Press 2017) out of print (for a digital copy, click here)
Print:
Before & After The Harvest Moon, What Tells You Ripeness: Black Poets on Nature, PANGRYUS, Summer 2021
Unlucky Duplex (Slick Mouth), Every Morning I Have to Make Sure This Is When I’m From Bennington Review Issue 8 (2020)
YUNG ANTGNZM, On Exteriority (Of Full Set: A Litany in 10 Parts), A Gray Fitted, PSA #18 , Obsidian Volume 45.1
narcissus in springtime, Gigantic Sequins (10.1)
Physical Education, Prelude (Issue 3)
National Anthem: An Ode + What Do You Call A Collective of Niggas? + there’s something bout being raised in church, Juked, Issue 14
Trick + Habit + Fucking Angels, Assaracus: A Journal of Gay Poetry
The Sin-Eater, Polychrome Ink Issue 3, Zillion Press
for essays + more:
see my portfolio.
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Selected Digital:
America’s Love Language is Evasion, Meal #17, Stirring Sugar into My Coffee with a Fork, She Acts Much Too Along in Her Body, Yet Lonely No More, Local Woman Raises Lazarus, Elderly Mag Issue 3.33, February 2023
An Atlas For All That Is Temporal, Beaver Magazine, January 2023
If You Stare at the Sun You Will Remember It’s a Star, Poetry.ONL Aug 2022
Beginner’s Astrology for Anarchist Jurisdictions in a Pandemic; 17 Days (Piano & a Microphone 1983); Sisyphus Says Relax; Nine Twenty-Nine Twenty-Twenty; & My Face in a Jar by the Door, Georgia Review Summer 2021
Orifice Jones, Poetry Magazine, (December 2020)
Every Morning I Have to Make Sure This Is When I’m From, Bennington Review, Issue 8
A Gray Fitted, Obsidian Volume 45.1, blog
Who Lived Happily During This War?, Protean Mag, Feb 2020
I Have a New Obsession with Bones, Poem-A-Day, American Academy of Poets
Narcissus in Dystopia & Manual, Duende Literary, State of Mind Issue 2018
(IN) THE AGE OF AUDACITY, TYPICAL.TXT, WHEN YOU FORGET THE WORLD IS BURNING, Cosmonauts Avenue, 2018
Zumbi Act 1. Scene 1, ANOMALOUS PRESS 2018
Exhibition, Hyperallergic, 2017
“i am interested in the Black condition”, TAGVVERK, 2017
Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See & narcissu stunts for the void…, Big Lucks 2017
narcissus, on kissing, BOAAT Press, Sept/Oct 2017
narcissus (goes to the market), Nashville Review, Spring 2017
narcissus #17, The Shallow Ends, 4.13.17
For Drought for The End of the World + I Know I Been Changed + A-Coming of Age, Yes Poetry, Jan 2017
Inaugural Poem for [REDACTED], January 18th, 2017 | LitHub
Mr. Tournament at The Pool Party, Winter Tangerine: Mythology of Childhood Spitfire Feature
Eulogy for Myself, The Night (After Pepper Labeija), Winter Tangerine: Love Letters to Spooks Issue
Lyrebird + We Cannot Grieve + The Buffalo Cloud + white. savior. black. messiah, The Wanderer
Black Philosophy #3, Shade Journal, Issue 1
A Future Tomorrow, Nepantla, Issue 3
From The Poet… & ars poetica, DREGINALD, Issue 8
Homeboy, Voicemail Poems (originally published in [sugar in the tank])
Hyel’s Zumbi, Guernica Mag
Horizon, Vagabond City Lit
Take Your Coffee Black, The Offing Mag
When a Nigga Calls You a Faggot / Elegy for a Brother, Shade
I, Too + Sip + Vale [/ˈvälā/], Contemporary Queer Mag
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