I've been writing and thinking about poetry since I was 8 years old. I'm interested in the poetry of the everyday, and what it can do to liberate & suspend, interrogate, heal and transcend.
Published Poems
Addis Hot Box, Harar to Dar Chant, Last Letter to Kenya -- Fortunate Traveller
This Fall I Will Teach a Course on Loneliness -- Punch Drunk Press Loving Ghazal--The Pedestal Magazine Sunday School for Lovers -- The Moth Magazine (Ireland) Blind Ghazal--In Posse Review Alone Ghazal--Horse Less Review Antiques --La Petite Zine Failure--Konundrum Engine Literary Review Sketching a Birth--Comstock Review Cleaning Up at Midnight--The Evansville Review How Love Changed Me--After Hours The Optimist (excerpt)--Paul Revere's Horse Ready for All This--Paul Revere's Horse |
Stephen Muruli Dies in Campus Fire -- Contrary Magazine
Picture This--Contrary Magazine Leaving--Contrary Magazine Our Father is a Heart-Ist--Horse Less Review Two is One Now--Horse Less Review Desert Walking--Painted Bride Quarterly Autobiography with Bones--Primavera Anthropology of Pain--Stray Dog Goat Shadows -- Wicked Alice Let's Isolate and Make a Baby -- Wicked Alice How Slow -- Wicked Alice Men Return to Your Waiting Wives! -- Wicked Alice |
Completed Manuscripts:
Anthro(a)pology: Poems Written from an Apologetic Distance
Take Me With You
Anthro(a)pology: Poems Written from an Apologetic Distance
Take Me With You
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