poems. 

Anthologized Work

Everything Must Go, Best New Poets 2020

The Devil Wears Prada; Lean Ghazal, EMERGE: 2019 Lambda Literary Fellows Anthology (March 2020)

Desiree, after Claudia Rankine; after Cardi B, Voices of the East Coast Anthology (Penmanship Books), edited by Otter Jung-Allen (April 2017)

Select Poems

Progress Report, Muzzle Magazine (April 2023)

Kink, Poem-A-Day, Academy of American Poets (February 2023)

i am sane with the following exceptions (after morgan parker), VIBE Magazine (May 2022)

NEGRO HEPHAESTUS TAKES A TUMBLE; Succubus Switch; THE LIQUORICE BITCH HEAR’S RIHANNA’S KISS IT BETTER AND DECIDES TO LIVE AGAIN, Poet Lore, edited by Benjamin Garcia (September 2022)

Golden Shovel Sheltered-In-Place with Animal Crossing Log-Out Text and OCD, Knights Library Magazine (January 2022)

MAYBE ALL I NEED TO BE IS RICO NASTY; THE LIQUORICE BITCH COMES TO HER SENSES, Honey Literary (July 2021)

AFTER LEARNING OF THE AFFAIR, I DOWN TWO BOTTLES OF CHARDONNAY AND GIVE AN IMPROMPTU PERFORMANCE OF BEYONCÉ’S “DON’T HURT YOURSELF,” Frontier Poetry (July 2021)

MICRO ELEGY FOR THE COP IN MY HEAD, The Lickety-Split, selected by Chen Chen (June 2021)

Pantoum to Prove A’Lelia is Over the Whole Dark Tower Situation (with artist interview), Brooklyn Poets (June 2021)

Lean Ghazal, The Rumpus National Poetry Month Series (April 2021)

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen; FYI the Moon Is A Femme Top, The Adroit Journal (March 2020)

The Devil Wears Prada, The Offing (October 2019)

RuPaul Discovers His Blackness, Shade Literary Arts (August 2019)

Everything Must Go, The Adroit Journal (March 2019)

The Recital, Muzzle Magazine (June 2018, Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Winner of Best of the Net)

Testimony, The Rumpus (May 2018)

Marrow of a Wishbone; Repression; Unmentionables, Supplement  (May 2018)

Bloodwave, Winter Tangerine, selected by Kaveh Akbar (January 2018, Finalist for the Winter Tangerine Awards)

Trap Queen, Dangling Daydreams, Rookie Magazine (February 2016)

color theory, 2nd Place Award Winner of the World and Me Student Poetry Contest, Split This Rock (November 2015)