E=mc2
The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why. — Albert Einstein
Book Review | The Black Condition ft. Narcissus
“This body prophesied transfiguration,” jayy dodd testifies in The Black Condition ft. Narcissus (2019), the book she says she wrote to save her own life. Described as a blxk trans womxn, creative, and educator, dodd tapped Narcissus to illuminate her transition between worlds demarcated by gender, race, and class. “Beamed down in Los Angeles ‘92,” …
Red Noise Collective | My poem falls down the steps
The Writer on the Steps of Walter Library is a poem with a weird history. Initially an insightful [I thought] attempt at describing an otherworldly incident that occurred in my college days that nobody wanted to publish, at some point it inexplicably splintered into all sorts of interesting verbal shards of strange stuff that is …
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Half and One
I could not have found a better home for these two poems than the daring burst of light, sound, color, print that is Half and One under Babatdor Dkhar & friends.
Releasing the Mandala (and all the angst) | Homecoming
A couple things stand out for me about Homecoming. First of all, that it got picked up by visionary editor Vijay R. Nathan for volume four of Nine Cloud Journal/Releasing the Mandala, which he dedicated to inner healing. Right before that happened, I subbed the poem for some feedback from a person who hated everything …
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Wild Roof Journal
The whirlwind of creativity that is Wild Roof Journal made room for one of my poems in a recent edition. Respect to editor Aaron Lelito for his encouragement and kind words!
Peatsmoke Journal Pushcart Nominee 2022
So exciting arriving in Paris and then receiving notice that I would appear in the Fall 2022 edition of Peatsmoke Journal, hard to say which I enjoyed more, publishing along with a sumptuous collage by Alison Cimmet that was almost as radiant as the City of Light itself, joining talented poets Katherine Gaffney, Natalie Marino, …
Maya’s Micros
Editor Maya Highland regularly curates a selection of micro poems for the Closed Eye Open, where she was kind enough to include a sample of my recent silliness. What fun!
Nostalgia | Cinéma Cernunnos
I’m so grateful to the editors of Sepia Quarterly for selecting my work to appear in their beautiful anthology, which they crafted with the expert assistance of photographer Monique Islam. I could not have found a more perfect image than the one she chose to accompany my work. Happy to appear alongside the likes of …
A place where sparrows live | Experimental Poem
Happy to be headlining High Shelf XXXV, that gorgeous imprint of Cathexis Northwest Press founded by C. M. Tollefson ad Monet Sutch, filled with haunting images by Thomas Oscar Miles, Kris Casey, Ali Headley, and many more, I can’t look away.