Poems

For translated Swahili poems, please see “Swahili Translation” tab above

 

“Natural History” in Rattle (forthcoming)

“Examine Your Own Necks” in Redivider

“Samson’s Blues” in The Shore

“God I need your face in mine” in Pandemic Publications 

“Fear Music” in The Inflectionist Review

“Pantoum by Aimé Césaire” in Subtropics

“Things To Try That Might Knock Out the Virus” in Rattle: Poets Respond

“Arrest This Poem” in Rattle

Pantoum by Charles Mingus” in Palette Poetry

“Platypus Milk” in Third Coast

“Biosphere” in RHINO

“Prospect Park” in Relief: A Journal of Art and Faith

“Venus Retrograde” in Minnesota Review

“Pantoum by Frank O’Hara” in Ploughshares

“Bless Me, Editor” in Rattle

“Pantoum Found in Prince Lyrics” in Sycamore Review

“Jonah” in Sou’wester

“David With the Head” in By&By Poetry

“Love in the Time of Trump” in Rise Up Review

“Surrender” in jubilat

“On Miracles” and “This I Know” in Hobart

“Pantoum Found in Jesus’ Son” in Passages North

“Tomorrowing” in Bayou Magazine

“The Beverages” in Gargoyle Magazine

“Pantoum Found in Talking Heads Lyrics” in Gulf Coast

“Prosopagnosia” in Barrow Street

“Pantoum Found in Tom Waits Lyrics” in Willow Springs

“It’s my birthday” in burntdistrict

“Scarring the Linger” in Slipstream

“Pantoum Found in Glass” in The Pedestal Magazine

“Pantoum Found in Eric Garner’s Last Words” in Entropy Magazine

“Pantoum Found in Dylan Lyrics” in Cimarron Review

“Stories” in The Found Poetry Review

“Rare Soul” in Spry Literary Journal; see also my contributor’s interview

“Hedging” in The Raintown Review

“Songline” in The Emerson Review

“Pantoum by Thelonious Monk” in Booth

“The Anthropologist” and “While looking at some paintings by Howard Hodgkin” in Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics

“Zunguka” in The Baltimore Review

“Pantoum Found in Howl in Thrush Poetry Journal

“Memento Mori” in Strange Horizons

“I Touch” in Foundling Review

“Restless Sabbath” in Los Angeles Review

“Pantoum by Bob Kaufman” in B O D Y

“Kinnings” in Jersey Devil Press

“Pantoum by Leonard Cohen” in Redivider

“God take off your mask” in Painted Bride Quarterly

“The God Zoo” in Rattle

“Some God” in Los Angeles Review (also nominated for Best New Poets 2012)

“Genesis & Exodus,” “Sleepfaring” and “Pantoum By Judith Butler” in kill author

“Heresy” in decomP Magazine

“Dead Man” in Word Riot

“Pantoum Imitating Christ” and “Equinox Blues” in Why I’m Not a Painter: A Gathering of Poems by NYC MFA Students

“Overheard Haiku” and “Pantoum” in elimae

“My Familiar” in Boston Literary Review

“I Read Poetry For the Articles” and “The Content of This Advertisement Blues” in Anastomoo

“a saxophone’s the only thing” in Camroc Press Review

“The Garden” in Foundling Review

“The Algae Blues” in Zygote in My Coffee

“My Taphophile Dreams” in Six Sentences

“All Hallowed Out” in The Catalonian Review

“Joblibs” in Thirteen Myna Birds

“The Best Chaperone” in elimae

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