“Pantoum after Today’s Mass Shooting” in The Nation
“Aperture” in wildness (Finalist for the 2024 Fischer National Poetry Prize)
“Double Golden Shovel Sonnet Found on the Q Train” in WB Yeats Society of NY (Winner of the 2024 Yeats International Poetry Prize)
“Where Language Ends” in Hole In The Head Review (Finalist for the 2024 Charles Simic Memorial Prize)
“My Chipped Front Teeth” in Button Poetry (Winner of the 2024 Button Poetry Short Form Contest)
“Ghosts of Abolition” in The Quarry: A Social Justice Poetry Database
“Last Sundays at Bootleggers” in New England Review
“C(h)ord” in Cultural Weekly (Winner of the 2019 Fischer National Poetry Prize)
“Elegy for Breath” in Philadelphia Stories (Winner of the 2019 Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry)
“What Happened” in BuzzFeed Reader (2019 Pushcart Prize nominee)
“Underground” in Atlanta Review (Winner of the 2018 Atlanta Review International Poetry Prize)
“Elegy for the Longest Year” (Finalist for 2018 Anthony Cronin International Poetry Award & 2020 Pushcart Prize nominee), “Revisionist” (Finalist for 2018 Oxford Brookes International Poetry Prize), & “Inertia” in The Journal
“Native Tongue” in The Yale Review
“Poem about Death Ending with Reincarnation” in Brooklyn Poets (Finalist for 2018 Frontier Poetry Industry Prize)
“Father” in Psaltery & Lyre
“Above the Speed Limit” in Glass: A Journal of Poetry
“Intersection” (Finalist for 2018 New Millennium Flash Fiction Prize & 2020 Best of the Net finalist) & “Alive” in Burningword Literary Journal
“Praise,” “A Blessing for the Internet Troll,” & “Thieves in the Temple” (Finalist for 2018 Mikrokosmos Poetry Prize) in Prism Review
“Diablo,” “After the Cab Driver asks me—How you like Black pussy?,” & “Captive” in Menacing Hedge
“When Two Words Fracture the Mirror,” “at the playground, on the bus, everywhere,” & “Changing My Name” in The Acentos Review
“Cool” in Sequestrum Literary Journal (Winner of the 2018 Sequestrum Editor’s Award in Poetry)
“Abecedarian for the Pimp I Almost Took a Bullet For” in Southword Literary Journal (Finalist for 2018 Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize)
“Race Was Not a Factor” in Philadelphia Stories (Runner-up for 2018 Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry)
“‘Mein Kampf’ has Better Reviews Than ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’” in Smartish Pace (Finalist for 2018 Erskine J. Poetry Prize)
“Twelve Reasons to Abolish C.B.P. & I.C.E.” in Queen Mob’s Teahouse
“Edge of the Dance Floor” in The Ocotillo Review (Finalist for 2018 Julia Darling Memorial Poetry Prize)
“When Our Black Son Arrives” in The Rumpus
“The Afternoon You Moved Out” in Paterson Literary Review
“(muted): All Lives Matter ghazal” in Queen Mob’s Teahouse
“Pronounced” in Crab Creek Review, 2017 v2 (2017 Pushcart Prize nominee)
“Before the Last Shot” in Solstice Literary Magazine (Runner-up for 2017 Stephen Dunn Prize in Poetry)
“There were Two Unanswered Voice Mails from You” in the North American Review (Finalist for 2017 James Hearst Poetry Prize & shortlisted for 2024 Aesthetica Creative Writing Award)
“Murambi (Rwanda 2008)” in Philadelphia Stories (Selected for Editor’s Choice Award, 2017 Sandy Crimmins National Poetry Contest, & finalist for 2019 Aryamati Poetry Prize for Peace and Social Change)
“Hijito” in Backbone Press (Winner of 2015 Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize)
“Kigali Memorial” in Smartish Pace (Finalist for 2015 Erskine J. Poetry Prize)
“Belief” in Beloit Poetry Journal
“Morning, Rikers Island” in Painted Bride Quarterly
“Black Hair” in Painted Bride Quarterly
“Interracial in Flatbush, Brooklyn” in Painted Bride Quarterly
“Afro-Latino” in decomP
“Hunger vs. Hunger” and “Homeboys” in Radius
“Handstitch” in CHORUS: A Literary Mixtape (MTV Books/Simon & Schuster)
“Wait” (co-written with Jeanann Verlee) in Muzzle (2010 Pushcart Prize nominee)
“What’s Genocide?” in Rattle
