Publications

(forthcoming) The Nation, “Ars Poetica with Backup from The Clark Sisters”

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(forthcoming) Harvard Review, “Delicatessen”

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(forthcoming) Oxford American, “Intercession for Kirk Franklin”

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Prospect 6 New Orleans Catalogue, "Sempiternal: To the Future of a Crescent City" (reprint)

underbelly, "I'm Always so Serious” (revision draft and final draft reprint)

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Gulf Coast, “Gossip”

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Poet Lore, “In Defense of Brother John (1971)”

2023 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize Winner, American Poetry Review, "The Art of London Firearms"

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The Washington Post, "Ars Poetica as a Villain Origin Story in Intervals" (poem in comic illustration form)

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The Rumpus, "Looking at Houses on Zillow I Know I Can't Afford, I Hurt My Feelings"

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64 Parishes, "Duplex" and "I Wrote All My Good Poems in New York"

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Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight, Perugia Press, "Self-Portrait"

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Bitter Southerner, “12-Year-Old Harry Connick Jr Speaks to James Booker” and “After the 1916 Film”

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Poetry Daily, “James Booker Speaks to Ringo Starr about His Bodyguard Taking His Eye”

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Poem-a-Day Series, Academy of American Poets, “Castnet Seafood”

Oxford American, “The Maple Leaf Piano Speaks to The Bayou Maharajah” (Web & Print Country Roots Issue)

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Southern Indiana Review, “Poem at the End of the World (Or Last Week’s Dream)” & “All Day We’ve Been Speaking in the Dark” (Print)

American Chordata, “Peripeteia” (Print)

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Indiana Review, "Sempiternal: To the Future of a Crescent City" (Print)

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Southeast Review, "And" and "I'm Always so Serious [I was spoiled by lavish thoughts]" 

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Titled House Press, "I'm Always so Serious: The Golden Shovel" pg. 16-17

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Zócalo Public Square, "What's it Like Escaping Something Trying to Kill You"

The Southampton Review, "We Wear Each Other's Names" (Print)

Poetry Magazine, "My Phone Autocorrects 'Nigga' to 'Night'" 

The Adroit Journal, "Can't Afford Sadness in a Time Like This"

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Pigeon Pages, "A Woman Lovingly Strokes Her Lover’s Arm in the Bookstore" and "A Funeral Ending with Beyoncé"

The Boiler, "Things I Should Be Ashamed of But Am Not" 

Glass: A Journal of Poetry, "What Do You Have Left to Say?" (published as The Poet’s Conscience Speaks)

Tinderbox Poetry Journal, "Jesus is so quiet" and "I'm Always so Serious [which is to say in the winters I dream]" 

Narrative Magazine, "The Month Before Your Father Goes to Prison" (published as July, 2008) and "An Elegy Beginning and Ending with a Mouse"

Wildness, "All the Men I Love" (published as Reflections After Attending a Birthday Party) and "For My Brother"

Four Way Review, "Things That Fold"

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Cotton Xenomorph, "A Woman Yells 'Maxine!' 14 times Outside My Brooklyn Window"

Luna Luna Magazine, "God of burning scalp" & "Demeter, Reimagined as a Black Woman, Speaks to Persephone"

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LEVELER, "This Is a Song for the Good Girl (or the Lonely)"

Vinyl, "C.J. Peete, Magnolia 2004"​​​​