publications

 

Please enjoy reading my poetry at the links below!

 “The Day Before Moving Day” — The Missouri Review 

“Birth Ritual” — Southern Indiana Review

“Independence Day” — The Journal

“Duplex” — The Journal

“Love Poem with Parenthetical” — The Georgia Review

“Love Poem with Parenthetical, Shift, & What it means to forget” —The Georgia Review (print) 

“Mosque Sheikh Zayed, Abu Dhabi, UAE” — Poetry Daily

“The Star” — Salt Hill (print)

“My Body No Longer” — The Offing 

“Love Poem with Dreams and War Stories” — Muzzle Magazine

“Love Poem with Forgetting” — The Common 

“Read All of Their Names” — Meridian

Three Poems — Lambda Literary Emerge Anthology (print)

“Self Portrait With & Without” — The Massachusetts Review (print)

“Recitation (For Bayan)” — DIALOGIST

“On the Porch” — Blue Earth Review

“un/folding” — Salamander (Print)

“Falling Asleep After You” & “Is that Sappho you’re reading?” — The Boiler Journal

"On Thanksgiving my family mourns the empty seat"  — Superstition Review

"The Lucky Ones" — BOOTH

"Recitation," "Several Small Lights" and "Halves" — Tinderbox Poetry Journal

"I teach my little sister" — The Collapsar

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I am available for poetry readings/performances, commissioned poems, workshop facilitation, panels/lectures and more. 

 
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