Selected Work(s)
Poems
(published)
Where Do We Bury the Lute Boy? | Chestnut Review
The Lute Man of Theresienstadt | Minyan Magazine
Bone Work & Clay of the Remembered House | Berkeley Poetry Review
A Basquiat Premonition | Lit Fox Poetry Series
Vocabulary | Poetry Wales
Tessellation, Petals of the Unsayable, Bottle Shards in Shoe Soles & Brinepulse | The Malahat Review
The Couples at Table Nine | BREW
The Naturalist | The Poetry Lighthouse
How to Love Like a Child | JAY Lit
After the Mockingbirds | Twin Literary Flame
The Mothers of the Gridline Awaken | The Poetry Archive
Cost of Being Equal | Mobius
But We Stayed | Writers Space Africa Magazine
Gravestones Don’t Always Point North & The One Who Stays Too Long | Lotus-eater Magazine
Glory of the Blacker Berry | Ink Sweat & Tears
I Want Diane Seuss to Teach Me How to Become a Man | Full House Literary
Ballad of the Green Beginning | Geist
(forthcoming)
Congo Naturalisation | Transition Magazine
My Mother’s Icarus | PERVERSE
The Difference Between Wait and Stay | JMWW
Hollow Hearts and Thimble Skins | California Quarterly
Translation of the Deep Ice | Magma
Ars Poetica of Holding the Night | Tint Journal
The Dissonance of the Sunday Cookout | Cottonwood
Odo Nnyew Fie Kwan, Self-Portrait as the Gallery Wall & and After the Vote | 20.35 Africa
Prime Numbers | Lily Poetry Review
The Loom of the River: Kisangani, 1967, Writing the Revolution in 4/4 Time & Blind-Side Manners | The New Anthology of African and African American Poetry (Olongo Africa)
Vines of Becoming | Humans & Nature Press
Ode to the Wells of Salaga, A Plot Twist in the Holiday & God and Other Easy Metaphors | Tampered Press
Ceiba of Unborn Questions | Mantis
The Playground at Aleppo & Nothing Is Over | Protean Magazine
Short Stories
Oath | Decolonial Passage
Another Day in Atonsu | NENTA Literary Journal
The Caretaker | Flash Fiction Magazine
The Ties That Bloom | Lolwe
Walking Home | Literatur.Review
Book Reviews/Essays
Cold Thief Place | Colorado Review
Translating Pain and Possibility: A Review of My Perfect Cognate | North American Review
Beast of Burden | Orion Magazine
Between Elegy and Exile: On Gbenga Adesina’s Death Does Not End at the Sea | Prairie Schooner