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BOOKS

It Was Written: An Anthology of Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop,
          Co-editor with Jason McCall, 2017 from Minor Arcana Press

POEMS

"Iterations" - The Journal, forthcoming

"The Road to Old Fort" - Frontier Poetry, 2017

excerpt from supple((ELE|MENTAL)) - TYPO, ​2016
"For My Father, Who Will Someday Die," - Rappahannock Review, ​2016
"Magnesium" - The Academy of American Poets, 2015

"Elegy" - The Adroit Journal, 2015
"Dendrogenealogy" - The Pinch, 2015

"Morning Devotion" - Banango Street, 2015

“My Father Grows Up With A Black Dog Named Nig” - Ninth Letter, 2015
"Black Snake Moan" - Carolina Quarterly, 2014

"Dyin' Bird Blues" - Carolina Quarterly, 2014
“Displacement” - Raleigh Review, 2014 - Nominated for Best New Poets
"Old Fort, North Carolina, 1954” - Salt Hill, 2014
"Totally Undone But Singing" - MAYDAY Magazine, 2014

“Greyhound Bus Station” - Weave Magazine, 2014
“Reclamation” - Puerto del Sol, 2014
“Stroke” - Puerto del Sol, 2014
“Catfish Blues” - Cincinnati Review, 2014
“Myth” - Cincinnati Review, 2014
          On writing "Myth"
“Relativity” - Cincinnati Review, 2014
"Georgia Warhorse" - The Midwest Quarterly, 2014
"Hymn" - Sugar Mule, 2014

“Artifact” - Ostrich Review, 2014

“Everyday Struggle” - Cloud Rodeo, 2013
“Machine Gun Funk” - Cloud Rodeo, 2013

“Juicy” - Hobart, 2013
“Respect” - Hobart, 2013

“(m+11)” - Tuscaloosa Writes This, Slash Pine Press, 2013
“(m+46)” - Tuscaloosa Writes This, Slash Pine Press, 2013
“Ready to Die” - DIAGRAM, 2013
“Warning” - DIAGRAM, 2013

“(m+3)” - Four Way Review, 2013
“(m+11)” - Four Way Review, 2013
“(m+39)” - Four Way Review, 2013
“(m+46)” - Four Way Review, 2013

“Elegy” - Nashville Review, 2013

“Self-Portrait in Binary” - Nashville Review, 2013

“Roots” - Crab Creek Review, 2013 - Nominated for Pushcart Prize
“Broadcast Meridian” - burntdistrict, 2012
“What We Know of the Decimation of Lips” - burntdistrict, 2012

“We Listen to Biggie in English II” - Specter Magazine, 2012

“Sometimes I See Hope for Us On the Porch” - Salamander, 2012
“Delivery” - PANK Magazine, 2012

“Family Dream” - Counterexample Poetics, 2011
“Of Complications” - Counterexample Poetics, 2011
“Three Conversations I’ve Actually Had” - Counterexample Poetics, 2011

“Blues Poem (You are the rhythm in my heel)” - Mixed Fruit, 2011

“Heredity” - Cartographer: A Literary Review, 2011
“Basic Training” - Red River Review, 2011

Latest work 

"The Road to Old Fort"

from supple(ele|mental)

"How many people
wonder like
you do how
to love this day
as much as
the earth
is persistent
in its rolling?"

DENDROGENEALOGY

"In my dream it's over
& over again: my brother becoming
a tree: his lips going wooden & striped
with pine grain, his feet
turning to roots & finding creases
in the floor from which he becomes immovable.
His broad human shoulders smooth
even with his neck, his face
widens, & whatever words I try
to say to him, his needle ears
do not hear, twitching silently."

FOR MY FATHER,

WHO WILL SOMEDAY DIE

"Likely because his lungs
have turned umber, lost the color

 

flesh first learns when filled with air:
pink under soft ribs like

 

clouds washed in flame. Strung
up, deflating like a birthday..."

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