This goes out to all of the people who enjoy being in the “Great Outdoors” and those who dig below surfaces they should really leave alone.
“Biophobia” started as an exercise in a Kenyon Review Residency last summer and is now a creative nonfiction essay published in The Manifest Station.
I am privileged to appear in The Radical Teacher once again with two poems:
“when asked why I don't play well with others” and “when asked why nothing surprises me anymore.” And of course these are true stories.
Read both through the link below.
My tiny little poem “metaphor” was published in issue 13 of Molecule!
Download the whole issue through the link below.
I am delighted (and surprised!) that my micro-CNF, one-sided conversation piece, “The Quiet Part” was nominated for a Best of the Net by In Short Journal!
Happy to announce that my creative nonfiction piece, "White Woman Freedom" was nominated for a Best of the Net award by Identity Theory!
I wrote a poem for a good friend. I sent it into the world. It got published. And now “when asked why I’ll never write you a sincere poem” was nominated by The Lit Nerds for a Best of the Net award!
The good folks at Pangyrus have published me once again. This time in creative nonfiction.
“Stage Proxemics” was a labor of love and part of a trilogy of essays (including “Type Casting,” published in ASP Bulletin).
And, my brother is still a badass.
Happy to have two short poems appearing in the latest from Star 82 Review:
“‘what is PacMan without the ghosts?’”
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My poem “watching a production of The Tempest after a colleague asked about my relationship with white women” was published in Terrain.org as part of their Letters to America series. The link includes a reading of the poem.
The poem contains research on Caliban in The Tempest from The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race by Farah Karim-Cooper.
My poem “when asked to read a poem for the Black History Month assembly, again” (first published in Cultural Daily) has been republished in the One Art anthology The Book of Jobs.
You can read the whole anthology on One Art through the link below. A fully accessible edition will be published by Penn State University Libraries Open Publishing in 2026.
I'm honored to have my poem “…it is not the stones, / But the child’s mound—" published in the inaugural issue of Flight: A Literary Sampler . It is a golden shovel from Robert Frost’s “Home Burial.”
My poem “the first time” was an Editor’s Pick in Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices’ Annual Summer Contest.
A (partial) recording of my reading with Luisa Caycedo-Kimura at the Gloucester Writers Center on July 17th, 2025. Luisa read from her wonderful new book All Were Limones while I read from a manuscript in progress.
My set list (such as it is):
“across the table” (excerpt) [time: 2:37]
“What else can I say when this lady says it all so well? Just…I think of you.” [time: 3:50]
“midwifery” [time: 5:50]
“you’d get over it” [time: 7:36]
“Gloucester Harbor | 78 “ [time: 8:35]
My poem “oh God! please stop!!” now appears in South Florida Poetry Journal . Bonus: a recording of me reading the piece accompanies it. Trigger warning: historical, graphic racial violence.
Click on the link below and scroll down to my name.
Another poem is now appearing in The New Verse News. This time some biblical fanfiction— what the apostle Paul might say to a certain Christian denomination within the US.
“the first letter of Paul to the Church of [name withheld on advice of counsel] is about the ICE detention of Pastor Daniel Fuentes Espinal and uses direct quotes from people my publisher wouldn’t allow me to use. But I still have them. They’re still public on social media. You can do a search.
I have two new poems appearing in Cultural Daily.: “when asked what poets should do in response” & “when asked to read a poem for the Black History Month assembly, again,” both on the power of poetry (or lack thereof).
(The second poem is a sequel to my previous poem “when asked to read a poem for the Black History Month assembly” also published by CD.).
My six sentence work "apparently my last poem offended" has ben published in (go figure) Six Sentences.
What started as an interesting physical writing prompt during my Kenyon Workshop Residency, turned into this creative nonfiction piece.
Poetry, the movie Sinners, the Duvalier regime in Haiti, The Cleaning Lady tv show, and more wrapped into this small package.
“There Is No God-Damned Metaphor Here” now appears in New World Writing Quarterly.
I wrote a poem for a friend. They loved/hated it. So naturally I sent it into the world. “when asked why I'll never write you a sincere poem” was just published in The Lit Nerds.
