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2026

2 poems  “Dream Scenario,” “Riding Lessons With The Bull”
Callaloo (forthcoming Volume 44)
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“I Dove Into The Lake and Tried to Swallow but Floated Instead”

The McNeese Review (forthcoming Volume 63)
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“The Bull Teaches Me Dawn”
Ploughshares

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2025 

4 poems — “The Gate”; “Paint Brush or A Theory of Black Hair I”; “Paint Brush or A Theory of Black Hair II”; “Paint Brush or A Theory of Black Hair III” 
Lampblack Magazine
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“Clarity of Purpose” 
Wildness Journal 

“america, my ex-husband, won’t stop calling me”
Black Warrior Review

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2024

“When I Was a Boxer” 
Cincinnati Review 
*nominated for Best New Poets

2 poems — "Two Inlets in Winter"; "Our Names Are Not On the Mortgage but We Are Playing Homeowners For a Bit" 
Pigeon Pages 

“Alternate Holocene Where I Am The Maker (& you are still alive)”
Poetry Northwest



2023

After My Bipolar Diagnosis I Make Several Phone Calls & Everyone Says That Makes Sense“ 
Torch Literary Arts

*nominated for Pushcart Prize



2020

“somewhere on the edge of summer”
Rivercraft Magazine




2019

“june 4th, new york city” 
Homology Lit

“The Mirror Explains Things To Me”
Anti-Heroin Chic



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