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“In Retrospect, Blackstreet’s Card Tower was Wildly Incomplete”
ONLY POEMS
November 2025 Poem of the Month

“When Asked If She's Afraid of Anything, Nikki Giovanni Answers”
Common Ground Review

“GED”
Breakwater Review
Finalist for the 2025 Peseroff Poetry Prize

“Evolution Didn’t Plan for This”
Hunger Mountain
Runner-up for the 2024 Ruth Stone Poetry Prize

“The Odds”
Peatsmoke Journal
Winner of the 2025 Summer Editor’s Contest

“After the 527th Anti-LGBTQ Bill This Year, I Remind Myself”
Red Wheelbarrow, Volume 25, 2024
Semi-finalist for the Poetry Prize

“Eleven”
Rattle Magazine

Collage by Emily Portillo

“No Pretense”
Poet Lore, forthcoming 2026

“I am Trying to Fluoresce Like and Owl Wing”, “In Place of God”, and “While We Still Have Time and Voices”
New Ohio Review, forthcoming, Issue 38

“A Common Ache”
New Ohio Review, Issue 37, 2026
Special mention for the Ellis Prize in Poetry

“Whirlpool”
Reed Magazine, Issue 159, 2026
Winner of the Edwin Markham Poetry Prize selected by Claudine Rankine

“The Gift”
Naugatuck River Review, Issue 35, 2026
Finalist for the Narrative Poetry Contest

“Ding Dong”
Crab Creek Review, Volume 2, 2025
Semi-Finalist for the Poetry Prize

“Paradox”
Sand Hills Literary Magazine, Issue 48, 2024
Finalist for the Poetry Contest

“Ode to My Twenties” and “The End of 31”
The Comstock Review, Volume 37:2, 2023
Finalists for the Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Contest

“The Cold”
Little Patuxent Review, Issue 33, 2022
Winner of the Ellen Conroy Kennedy Poetry Contest