Selected Publications (full listing upon request)

Online Poems

At Church, I Tell My Mom She’s Singing Off-key and She Says + 2 poems | POETRY Magazine | May 2024

After Marching at the Manhattan #BLM Protest for Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, I Try to Pray + 2 poems | EcoTheo | July 2021

“Irrational Fear of Home” & “The Japanese Characters for Kindness are 親切 Meaning Parent & Cut” | RHINO | May 2021

“When We Go Into This Store, Don’t Ask for Nothin…” | The Offing | 2021

“Mother & Son as Oyakodon IV” | Featured as Poetry Daily’s poem of the day | February 2021

“Eastern Standard Time; Japan Standard Time” | Tokyo Poetry Journal, Issue 10 | January 2021

“I try to seperate my black & american into a venn diagram but” | Tinderbox, Volume 6 Issue 6 | January 2021

“I Know My Life Matters But How Do You Translate That Into Japanese?” | The Seventh Wave | November 2020

“And just like that” | Brooklyn Poets | January 2020

“On the Morning of Graduation Each of us Woke up with a Crown” (Graduation poem. Audio here.) | Gallatin Today | 2017

Print Poems

“The Voice Inside my Head Says, ‘I Want to Die’” | commisioned poem in A Willing Spirit by Marty Woods (pg.166) | 2023

“Mother & Son as Oyakodon”| Cream City Review | February 2020

Three poems | Tokyo Poetry Journal, Issue 10 | January 2021

Prose

Tea Ceremony & Prayer | POETRY Magazine | forthcoming 2025

“It’s Not a Mask if you Wear it Right” (on writing persona & the musical “Langston Hughes in Japan!”) | POETRY Magazine | May 2024

“Making Umoja: The Voices of Black Artists in Japan” | Tokyo Weekender | March 2022

“Pecha Kucha, Low Coup, Hyperbolic Time Chamber” (Experimentation with Japanese forms) | POETRY Magazine | January 2022