Select Poems

Four Centos
Beloit Poetry Journal

“How to Fornicate”
The Nation

"WE WOULD HEX THE PRESIDENT BUT"
Boston Review

“Against Heaven [There’s Earth]”
The Atlantic

“Against Heaven [I can take the pain]”
Beloit Poetry Journal, Adrienne Rich Award semifinalist and Pushcart nominee

“A Wedding, or What We Unlearned from Descartes”
Guernica

“black as: wound/portal”
Redivider, winner of the 2020 Beacon Street Prize

“Voice Clear As”
Poem-a-Day

“Love Letter from Pompeii”
Waxwing

“A Financial Planner Asks About My Goals, or Golden Shovel with Cardi B’s Money”
Poetry Magazine

“you must believe in spring”
Jewish Currents

“Goodbye Letter to My Lover’s Wife”
The Atlantic

“Eulogy for the Voice in My Head”
Djëku

“The Lonely Sleep Through Winter”
TriQuarterly

"44 Questions to Ask While Bingeing"
American Poets

"Love Poem -1: Chicago (CST) to Bangalore" (GMT +5:30)
American Poets

“prayer in child’s pose” and “Polyamory Defense #324”*
underblong, *nominated for the Pushcart Prize

“the oldest song”
them.

Undelivered Message to the Sky: November 9, 2016
Boston Review

"Dendrochronology of This Want" and "Theory of Plate Tectonics"
The Rumpus, shortlisted for the 2019 Brittle Paper award

ESSAYS

“Archive As Oracle: On Grief, Anger, and My Surrealist Curatorial Approach”
Beloit Poetry Journal

"The Nonbeliever"
Catapult

"Conflict can destroy movements..."
The Guardian

"The Names of Things"
The Toast