WHAT
Select Poems
“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”
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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
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INTERVIEWS
“Recommitment to the Unruliness of the Erotic — An Interview with Kemi Alabi”
20.35 Africa
“‘Writing Is a Way of Being, a Mode of Inquiry, a Compulsion, a Pleasure’”
The Republic
“Kemi Alabi vs. Divinity”
Poetry Foundation’s VS podcast
“Shamelessly Lyrical and Ecstatic”: An Interview with Kemi Alabi
Apogee Journal
"Writing a Queer Black Eco-Pleasure Politic"
Atmos
“10 Questions for Kemi Alabi”
Massachusetts Review
“Poets in Conversation: Kemi Alabi”
Beloit Poetry Journal
"Toward Radical, Queer, Erotic Movement-Building"
In These Times
ESSAYS
"The Nonbeliever"
Catapult
"Conflict can destroy movements..."
The Guardian
"The Names of Things"
The Toast
VIDEO
“black as: wound/portal”
OUTsider Fest