Pushcart Nomination from Pangyrus Literary Mag

I’m happy to announce that my poem "what i learned during Black history month" by billy, age 8 (or 18) was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Pangyrus . You can read it below.

Collections forthcoming in 2023

I’ve been reminded how terrible I am at sharing news. So here’s an attempt to rectify that.

I have two collections forthcoming in 2023


The Third Renunciation - a full length collection from New York Quarterly Books (Spring 2023)

and

said the Frog to the scorpion - a chapbook from Harbor Editions (Winter 2023)!

More info to come about both in the coming months.

The Main Street Rag review of the Colored page

I am proud to have a new review of the Colored page in the Fall 2022 edition of The Main Street Rag.

"when she asks me about courage" published at Lover's Eye Press

Honestly, I really just need to stop writing “love” poems. It only ends with me in trouble with someone for some reason or another no matter what the actual content or context.

But until that happens, I am pleased to announce that my poem “when she asks me about courage” has found a home at Lover’s Eye Press.

It’s from chapbook with a limited run: two copies.

Three sonnets in The Anglican Theological Review

The Anglican Theological Review was among the first publications to take a chance on my work a decade ago when I was still finding my voice. Back then they took one of my poems.

Thus, I am surprised and ecstatic to have three of my theological sonnet in issue the Summer 2022 Edition, Grab a copy of ATR Volume 104 Number 3 to read

[Say a slave triptych composes the heart],

[Say on such legs that were left me—a heart], &

[Say Jesus has been saving a bottle ].

[Say prayer is just a fire alarm] in The Windhover

I'm proud to be published, once again, in The Windhover. This time it’s my theological sonnet [Say prayer is just a fire alar] in the issue 26.2.

Two school poems in Pangyrus Literary Magazine

Two new school poems—

“what i learned during Black History Month” by billy, age 8 (or 18)"

and

"an open letter to the student who will be convicted of rape in the next 3-5 years”—

are now live up at Pangyrus Literary Magazine. Give them a read.

This publication also provides short blurbs from me on the origins of both poems.