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Publications

ESSAYS

Gulf Stream Magazine “How to Cum In Spite Of—”

Little Patuxent Review “Beyond Resistance: Transcending the Boundaries in Poetry”

Waxwing “Black Girl Riding in the Back Seat of Privilege” 

For Harriet   “How I’m Learning To Not Be Ashamed of My Depression” 

Bitch Magazine “No One Looks for Black Girls”

INTERVIEWS

The Common "The Healing Nature of Truth: An Interview with Brionne Janae"

Brooklyn Poets Poet of the Week

The American Poetry ReviewInterview by Tyree Daye” 

The Rumpus "On Grief and Inheritance" 

PEN America “Defying Constraints: A Pen Ten Interview”

POEMS

A Gathering of Tribes The Wickedness of God x 3

Plume “Postcard” “If He Had Missed It Would Have Killed Him”

West Trestle Review “Every Poem I Write I Ask Permission

Paper Bag Magazine “Blessed are the Peacemakers”

The Rumpus “‘Say it Wasn’t My Fault You Suffered,’” “Capitalism,” “‘He Made Me Feel Like a Drug Addict’”

Vida Review “My Mother Fights for Every Last Dime of Her Mother’s Refund” “Brooklyn”

Ploughshares "Volunteer Lemons"

Rock and Sling “Dear Gabriel Fernandez”

American Poetry Review "Dear Devonte Harte," “Against Mastery”

Waxwing Aubade” “Fish Fry” “Self-Portrait with a line from Black Panther” “Self Portrait as Autophobe” 

Figure 1 “At the Nursery” “The Blacksmith as God” 

Diode “White” & “Steady Your Hands Brother” “As Passed from Auntie to Auntie to You” & “When Spite is the Only Thing that Feeds You”

The Academy of American Poets, Poem-a-Day "Child's Pose" 

The Los Angelas Review "For the Survivors of the Un-Numbered Dead" 

Raleigh Review “Momma”

The Sun “Praise Song for the Body” “Swimming Lessons” 

Little Patuxent Review “Alternative Facts”

New Limestone Review “Self Portrait with a Filter” and “Invocation”

Salamander Review “Airfield” & “Alternative Facts”  

Four Way Review “American Love Song: Omaha, Nebraska” 

Wildness Elegy for Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam” & “Schadenfreude" 

Frontier Poetry Review "Undone"

South Dakota Review  “Context Clues,” “Atonement,” & “Need”

Hobart “Queen of Night,” “Church Song,” “Cabin Child,” “Telephone Wires”  

Carve Magazine  “Going North” 

Memories “Portrait: Depression Addressing the Girl Child” 

Cimarron Review “So Loved,” & “On Survival”

The American Poetry Review “Corneas,” “Liver,” “Picture After the Big Game,” “And Then,”

Southern Indiana Review “Salvation” & “The Word” 

Dialogist “Self-Portrait With Hope Buried but still Breathing”  

Foundry   “Newyly Weds” 

The Shallow Ends“Breaking Man” 

Breakwater Review “Sisters” & “ Maple Jar” 

Mass Poetry “In Search of Our Mother’s Garden or Volunteer Lemons” 

Rhino “Naked Pizza Friday” 

Muzzle Magazine “Nude Study of Thomas E. McKeller”

Southern Humanities Review “First Rites” 

Rattle  “As You Recall the End of Their Marriage” 

Cincinnati Review“At the Crossroads” 

Sixth Finch  “Eye Shadow” 

Boaat Journal   “Even After Summer” & “Heart” 

HEart Magazine “After Angela Davis” 

Bayou Magazine “Swing Dance, A Spiritual” 

jubilat “In Defense of Violent Protest” 

Mobius  “Abduction” 

New South “Love Spell”  

Nashville Review “Cutting” 

The Comstock Review “Momma Blues” 

Kinfolks Quarterly “After Jubilee” 

Apogee Journal “Donor List: Kidney” 

Redivider “Preserves” 

Toe Good Poetry “Billy Harrison Speaks” 

The Merrimack Review “God I’ve Grown” 

Fjords Review “Mechanic” 2015

Twelfth House “Yellow Girl” & “Need”

Blast Furnace “Nightmare”