publications
“Faith or Another Way of Being” 2023 Poetry Prize Winner for Third Coast “Listening to Nigel Hall Cover ‘Golden Time of the Day’ at Lafayette Square” in Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora “Origin of a Big Chief” in Afrosurrealism issue of African American Review “Her Little Laugh” in Massachusetts Review “The Hymn” in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series2 Poems reprinted in Another Last Call: Poems on Alcoholism, Addiction and Deliverance “Mountain Baptism” in West Branch “A Fox Appears” in Washington Square Review “Tell Him I’m Busy” nominated for Pushcart Prize in Mississippi Review “It’s Hard To Tell You This Without Picturing It” in EcoTheo Review “Before She Blooms” in Poet Lore “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy” | “A Couple in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY, 1990” photograph by Dawoud Bey in Jazz & Culture “Ars Poetica” Poetry Northwest “A Woman and a Child in the Doorway, Harlem, 1975,” photograph by Dawoud Bey in Black Warrior Review “Another (Damn) Crow Poem” nominated for Pushcart Prize & Best New Poets | “Some Awful Word” | “A Young Man Resting on an Exercise Bike, Amityville, NY 1988,” photograph by Dawoud Bey | “Shake Loose Tree” in Crazyhorse “Don’t Bury the Dead ”nominated for Best of Net in New Orleans Review “Tompkins Square Park, New York, NY” in Cola Literary Journal “Some Time” in Salt Hill Journal “Paradise Loser” in Hayden’s Ferry Review “I Eat Darkness for Breakfast” in Zone 3 “I’m from New Orleans” in Knights Library Magazine
