Poetry

Published Poetry

Full-Length Books

Thresh & Hold, Winner of the New Southern Voices Poetry Prize, Hub City Press, 2022

i am from a punch & a kiss, self-published, 2017

Anthologies

Coast Lines, ed. by Libby Bernardin, Linda Ketron, & Daniel Cross Turner, “The Rice Planters”, “Ghost Town”, “Atlantic Beach, South Carolina”, CLASS Publishing, 2025

This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets, ed. by Kwame Alexander, “For the Healing”, Little, Brown, 2024

What Things Cost: An Anthology for the People, ed. by Rebecca Gayle Howell & Ashley M. Jones, “I Am Bound for de Kingdom”, University of Kentucky Press, 2023

Ecological Solidarities: Mobilizing Faith and Justice in an Entangled World, ed. By Krista E. Hughes, Dhawn B. Martin, & Elaine Padilla, “What If?”, Penn State University Press, 2018

Selected from Journals & Magazines

“Wild Violets” & “Coming to Life” | Salvation South

“Gaadin/Garden” | Orion Magazine, edited by Camille Dungy

“Things about My Body” | Limp Wrist Magazine, edited by Dustin Brookshire

“I Am Bound for de Kingdom” | American Life in Poetry, edited by Kwame Dawes

“Grain Memory”, “My Grandma Told Stories or Cautionary Tales”, & “Perhaps I Am a Fugitive of Empathy” | POETRY, edited by Ashley M. Jones

“Ars Poetica: A Meditation” | beestung mag, edited by Sarah Clark

“Jackson Village Road” | Southern Cultures, edited by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

“Pine Tree”, “The Shade Tree”, & “I Wonder If” | Annulet: A Journal of Poetics, edited by Alicia Wright

“Acres of Ancestry” and “Recordkeeper” | Emergence Magazine, edited by Seana Quinn