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
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