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mick's chapbook threesome in the last Toyota Celica & other circus tricks was selected as a winner of Host Publication's Chapbook Contest and is available for purchase!
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Selected Works

 

Poems

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“Janet Jackson’s Venus is in Aries & i know before i read her birth chart because” at Honey Literary

 

but that's not the point at Split Lip Magazine

 

contrapuntal with maternal confession at RHINO Poetry (print - finalist for Founders Prize)

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[there are so many things i'm not allowed to tell you] at Indiana Review (print - finalist for 1/2 K Prize)

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thesis: here gender is elusive, if not slippery as silt at Blood Orange Review (Emerging Poet Prize Honorable Mention)

 

annotation: Frank Ocean performs Good Guy live at Exposition Park [Los Angeles, 2017] at MUZZLE

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thesis: Rock the Boat is a song about strapping, if for no other reason than at MUZZLE (nominated for Pushcart Prize)

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ode to Rihanna performing Love on the Brain live at the Benz Arena [Berlin, 2016]at Up the Staircase Quarterly

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good-bye, summer at Passengers Journal (nominated for Best of the Net Anthology)

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three poems (palinode for the year we did not touch / self-portrait as Fat medusa in conversation with Poseidon's wife / american sonnet [i made, of my bones, an earth for you]) at Iterant Journal

 

three poems (day, too, is a thing changed by time / monarch in the jasmine tree / caesura) at Honey Literary

 

when will you start to miss me at Voicemail Poems (nominated for Best of the Net Anthology)

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hologram at COUNTERCLOCK Journal (nominated for Pushcart Prize)

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poem in which my whole hand fits in my mouth at Frontier Poetry

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young americans tongue touching in the basement party right before the apocalyptic end at Tinderbox Poetry

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we will find an island & the only song that will play is the Whitney song that makes us cry at Tinderbox Poetry

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to Kimberly, as you were at Cosmonauts Avenue

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candy girls 1961, 1988, 2011 at Nat. Brut

 

dreamscape with distinct versions of myself at Winter Tangerine

 

i am thinking of fire forgiveness my mother (and fire) at Apogee Journal

 

4 poems at Crab Fat Magazine

 

on night terrors at Winter Tangerine

 

this is about snapchat but also about you & also about me & also about drowning  at FreezeRay Poetry

 

misplaced love note to all the women in the Drake songs at Winter Tangerine

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Interviews & Essays

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for Black femme survivors, including myself with Meg Reynolds at Working on Gallery

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Semi-Finalist Feature Interview at Honeysuckle Press

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Collective Love in the Time of Tension: On Racialized Sexual Harassment, Betrayal, and Forgiveness at The Feminist Wire

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