publications
"The Black Outside (Jazz)" and "Redemption" in Kenyon Review
"When I See the Stars in the Night Sky," in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series
"Joy Priest vs. Absurdity" on the Poetry Foundation's Vs. podcast
"It's Beyond Me" in Poet Lore, Summer/Fall 2022 - Vol. 117, No. 1/2
"The Black Outside (Blues)" in Indiana Review
"Bass," "Soulful Songs Found in Strange Places," and "My Sister" in Hayden's Ferry Review
"My First Kiss Was in a Choir Room" in Shenandoah
"We Had Dreams Named After Us," in The Bitter Southerner, a collaboration with the artist Johannes Barfield
"Looking for the Beautiful Thing" in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-day series
"Ghosts in Schools" as a part of the "Inheritance" project in The Atlantic
"I Feel Most Southern in the Hip-Hop of My Adolescence: On Black Southern Mobility, Intra-regionality & Internalized Misogyny," in The Bitter Southerner
"All My Mothers" in The Atlantic
"Denial is a cliff we are driven over" in the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-day series
"A Personal History of Breathing" in American Poetry Review
Four micro-essays in Poets & Writers
Two Poems in Poetry Northwest
Two Poems in Blackbird
"No Country for Black Boys" in Breakbeat Poets Vol. 1
Column in The Undefeated
"Blue Heart Baby" in Blunderbuss Magazine
"Rodeo" in Connotation Press
"Derby" in The Louisville Anthology
"In Her Shoes: Unlacing My Nike Air Swoopes" in espnW
"The Payphone" in Four Way Review
"Girl 6" in Gulf Coast
"The Athleticism of Beyoncé" in espnW
Two Poems in Reservoir Journal
Two Poems in Scalawag
"Drift" in The Shallow Ends
"My Father Teaches Me How to Slip Away" in The Southeast Review
"American Honey" in Southern Cultures
"Upon Reading James Lipton's An Exaltation of Larks" in The Puritan
Four Poems in The Rumpus
"Ghost Ride" in Vinyl
Three Poems in Virginia Quarterly Review
"Old to Hushpuppy" in Winter Tangerine
"Nightstick" in Verse Daily
"When I See the Stars in the Night Sky," in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series
"Joy Priest vs. Absurdity" on the Poetry Foundation's Vs. podcast
"It's Beyond Me" in Poet Lore, Summer/Fall 2022 - Vol. 117, No. 1/2
"The Black Outside (Blues)" in Indiana Review
"Bass," "Soulful Songs Found in Strange Places," and "My Sister" in Hayden's Ferry Review
"My First Kiss Was in a Choir Room" in Shenandoah
"We Had Dreams Named After Us," in The Bitter Southerner, a collaboration with the artist Johannes Barfield
"Looking for the Beautiful Thing" in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-day series
"Ghosts in Schools" as a part of the "Inheritance" project in The Atlantic
"I Feel Most Southern in the Hip-Hop of My Adolescence: On Black Southern Mobility, Intra-regionality & Internalized Misogyny," in The Bitter Southerner
"All My Mothers" in The Atlantic
"Denial is a cliff we are driven over" in the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-day series
"A Personal History of Breathing" in American Poetry Review
Four micro-essays in Poets & Writers
Two Poems in Poetry Northwest
Two Poems in Blackbird
"No Country for Black Boys" in Breakbeat Poets Vol. 1
Column in The Undefeated
"Blue Heart Baby" in Blunderbuss Magazine
"Rodeo" in Connotation Press
"Derby" in The Louisville Anthology
"In Her Shoes: Unlacing My Nike Air Swoopes" in espnW
"The Payphone" in Four Way Review
"Girl 6" in Gulf Coast
"The Athleticism of Beyoncé" in espnW
Two Poems in Reservoir Journal
Two Poems in Scalawag
"Drift" in The Shallow Ends
"My Father Teaches Me How to Slip Away" in The Southeast Review
"American Honey" in Southern Cultures
"Upon Reading James Lipton's An Exaltation of Larks" in The Puritan
Four Poems in The Rumpus
"Ghost Ride" in Vinyl
Three Poems in Virginia Quarterly Review
"Old to Hushpuppy" in Winter Tangerine
"Nightstick" in Verse Daily
