chapbook
My debut poetry chapbook, Future Tense, was recently published by Baseline Press
selected poems
“long division” in DUSIE (forthcoming)
when the hour is perfect / and your body hums under it…
“first snow” and “For Saraí” in Volume (2025)
At five hours old his name has eclipsed / all the language we’d been learning…
“We Return in September to a Question” in The New Quarterly (2025, paywall)
If the purpose of our meeting / is not entirely certain…
“Future Tense” and “Thirtieth” in Poetry Salzburg Review (2024, print only)
Tough to say / if the sky today is / purely / blue cloud…
“Aubade at Olympic Station” and “40,000 Feet” in The Malahat Review (2024, print only)
I wake early to split the blue milk of morning / with the cat who haunts my building…
“reading Discipline & Punish” in Arc Poetry Magazine (2024, print only)
I confess: / I write close to the unlidded eye in my room / because it makes a performance of my thinking…
“Crossing New Mexico as Hecate” and “Freight Train” in Poetry South (2023)
But there are evenings like these / when I too forget / to protect the future, wide and brittle / as a windshield…
“Coastlines” in No Tokens (2022)
an outcropping of rock / at the end of the world / where objects unlatched / from their explanations…
“Plaza Saint-Hubert to get $55 million dollar makeover” and “Lower Animals” in Yolk (2022, print only)
At the end, when he’d drift, I’d turn / his face back to mine…
“Afterlight” and “Sati” in The Ex-Puritan (2019)
The ear / grows old conducting the alien house at night…
Five poems in If You're Not Happy Now (2019, print only)
selected prose
“The Ones Who Walk Away” in The Seventh Wave (2025)
I’d been teaching for three years—long enough to lose fifty pounds and develop an aggressive case of eczema—when a student asked a question that spun the classroom off its axis.
“Reading Poems, Revising Ourselves: An Essay in Five Acts” in ONLY POEMS (2025)
Some poets refer to this phenomenon as the “poetic turn.” I like to think of it as the curving wake of a poem that’s revising itself, driving through first thoughts and feelings to arrive at something deeper. And when we read a poem, I like to think we’re carried by this wake; that we’re impelled, however subtly, to revise ourselves.
“My Writing Space” in The New Quarterly Online (2025)
Unlike libraries, poems aren’t born out of social mandates, and nor should they be. And yet poetry is a powerful knowledge-making activity, even if the knowledge it produces is sinuous, impossible to quantify.
selected INTERVIEWs
Brandon Wint, poet and spoken word artist
essa may ranapiri, poet
Robin Myers, poet and translator
A. F. Moritz, poet
Lawrence Raab, poet
Eugene Serebryany, translator
Gail Mazur, poet
Karl Kirchwey, poet