POEMS

POEMS

In Edited Collections 

  • “Le tue istruzioni/ Your Instructions,” “Una figlia perché possa toccare i dispiegamenti delle truppe/ A Daughter That She May Touch the Deployments,” “Una figlia cavallo in carne e ossa/ The Real Horse.” Nuova Poesia Americana Vol. 5/Contemporary U.S. Poetry Vol. 5, Giuseppe Cavatorta. Edizioni Black Coffee, Milan, Italy: Forthcoming: 12 ms. pp. 

  • “Video Tryouts for an American Grammar Book,” Here to Stay: Poetry & Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora. Eds. Marcelo Castillo, Janine Joseph, and Esther Lin. New York, NY: Harper Collins, 2024: 123-127. 

  • “Talk 1,” Talk 2.” Latino Poetry: A New Anthology. Ed. Rigoberto González. New York, NY: Library of America, 2024: 417-418. 

  • “from No Address.” We Call to the Eye & the Night: Love Poems by Writers of Arab Heritage. Eds. Hala Alyan and Zeina Hashem Beck. New York NY: Persea Books, 2023: 136. 

  • “Against a Daughter’s Natural Born Solutions.” Resist Much/Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance. Eds. Nathaniel Mackey et al. New York, NY: Dispatches Editions, 2017: 408. 

  • “The Hearsay of the Keystone Mutualists.” A Literary Field Guide to the Sonoran Desert. Eds. Chris Cokinos and Eric Magrane. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2016: 138-140. 

  • “My Daughter Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, AZ,” “My Daughter Not You,” “My Daughter Emily Dickinson.” Extraordinary Rendition: American Writers on Palestine. Ed. Ru Freeman. New York, NY: OR Books, 2015: 144-149. 

  • “July.” Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poems for the Next Generation. Eds. Lynn Melnick and Brett Fletcher Lauer. New York, NY: Viking, 2015: 89. 

  • "Do the Moth.” The Volta Book of Poets. Ed. Joshua Marie Wilkinson. San Francisco, CA: Sidebrow Books, 2015: 197-201. 

  • “Pantertanter,” “Shake the Bear Funny Name,” “My Daughter La Chola Martina,” poems. The &Now Awards 3: The Best Innovative Writing. Chicago, IL: Lake Forest College Press, 2014: 274-277. 

  • “New Romantics,” poem. Best American Experimental Poetry. Ed. Cole Swensen, Series Editors Seth Abramson and Jesse Damiani. Richmond, CA: Omnidawn Press, 2014: 106. 

  • “Eight Poems & Aesthetic Statement.” Angels of the Americlypse: An Anthology of New Latin@ Writing. Eds. Carmen Giménez-Smith and John Chávez. Denver, CO: Counterpath Press, 2014: 140-150. 

  • “Of Mule and Deer,” “Maybe Go to the Sea,” “Talk, 1” “Talk, 2,” “Of Our Porvernir (future, fortune),” “Immigrants,” “Southside Free,” “As You Accompany Your Death 1,” “As You Accompany Your Death 2,” “Tallying Song,” poems. American Odysseys: Writings by New Americans. Ed. Vilcek Foundation, New York, NY: Dalkey Archive Press, 2013: 312-341. 

  • “Inclinations of a Stable Marriage.” What’s Your Exit?, Ed. Joe Vallese. Middletown, NJ: Word Riot Press, 2010: 145. 

  • “Of Mule and Deer,” poem. Between Heaven and Texas, Ed. Naomi Shihab Nye. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2006: 51. 

In Literary Magazines and Journals 

  • “Prepossessed.” A Public Space no. 33, New York, NY: forthcoming. 

  • "Banner & Thrum." The Michigan Quarterly, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI: Spring 2025: forthcoming. 

  • "The Moon in Cancer." Poetry Daily, February 2025: forthcoming. 

  • “Closer,” Jewish Currents, Fall 2024: December 2024.

  • “A Page Without a People,” “Concentric,” “The Great Commission,” “Whatso Goes,” “Doubled Channel Past,” “Thirst Petition.” Lana Turner Journal, No. 17, Los Angeles, CA: Fall 2024: 11-17. 

  • “Crease.” The Paris Review no. 246, The Paris Review Foundation, New York, NY: 2024: 94. 

  • “Mimesis.” Poets.org/ The Academy of American Poets, 2022.

  • “Moon Mirror Indivisible.” Poetry, The Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL: April, 2022: 44-45. 

  • “Sentences Upon Emergent Devotions,” “Poem.” The Brooklyn Rail, New York, NY: March 2022.

  • “Dambala Reaction Song & Notes for Lindon Barrett,” “Henequen Yarn Song Begun for Ángel Dominguez on Their Birthday.” Lana Turner Journal, No. 14, Los Angeles, CA: Fall 2021: 14-24. 

  • “Poem.” Rossocorpolingua. Trans. Guiseppe Cavatorta, December, 2021.

  • “The Butcher’s Fifth Quarter.” Poets.org/ The Academy of American Poets, 2021.

  • “Aug 2, 1990 – Feb 28, 1991,” Glistering.” Bomb Magazine, Issue 155, New York, NY: Spring 2021: 88-89. 

  • “Two Poems.” Berkeley Poetry Review, Issue 50, Berkeley, CA: 2020: 16-18. 

  • “from For a Daughter/No Address [walking toward a tribe somewhere…].” The Nation, New York, NY: April 21, 2020.

  • “Video Tryouts for an American Grammar Book.” The Brooklyn Rail, New York, NY: April 2020.

  • “Arts & Craft.” Lana Turner Journal, No. 12, Los Angeles, CA: Fall 2019: 273-278. 

  • “Okay, You Light-Headed Fathers,” “Rain Transit,” “Poem.” The Tiny Magazine, 2019.

  • “When I Look at Pictures.” Poets.org/ The Academy of American Poets, 2019.

  • “Scale Up,” “Redolent.” The Brooklyn Rail, New York, NY: December 2018.

  • “from For a Daughter/No Address” [like the things we said…].” NACLA Report on the Americas, Vol. 50 No. 1, New York University, New York, NY: Routledge, 2018: 59. 

  • “Excerpt from Don’t Call It Reginald Denny [but maybe…].” The Equalizer, Vol 3, No. 9, Concord, MA, Fall 2018: 228-233. 

  • “For a Daughter That She May Touch the Deployments.” The Literary Review, Vol. 60, No. 4, Madison, NJ, Fall 2018: 70-76. 

  • “from For a Daughter/No Address” [I guess yelling…].” Love’s Executive Order, January 2018.

  • “Having Been of the Type.” They Will Sow the Blue Sail, No. 52, November 2017.

  • “Coyote Lobo Versino Castiso,” “A Greedy Turning Over to Be Seen.” Huizache: The Magazine of Latino Literature, No. 7, University of Houston-Victoria, Victoria, TX, Fall 2017: 11-12. 

  • “Excerpt from Don’t Call It Reginald Denny.” A Dozen Nothing, May 2017.

  • “Whatso Goes” (individually authored portion of group poem “Renga for Obama”). Harvard Review Online, 6 April 2017.

  • “Pantertanter from Disco to Disco,” “My Daughter Ensconced,” “Tell Me Again.” Cream City Review, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, Vol. 40 No. 2, 2016: 80-83. 

  • “My Daughter Unbound in the Foot Fault.” The Tuesday Poem, Dusie Collective, No. 177, 23 August 2016. 

  • “My Daughter Carrier Up,” “My Daughter Unbound to the Task of What’s Missing.” Past Simple, No. 11, 2016. 

  • “My Daughter The Real Horse.” White Wall Review, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, No. 40, 2016: 92- 100. 

  • “Spider Plant,” “Sonnet My Daughter Sign Language,” “My Daughter the Voice.” Poem: International English Language Quarterly, Vol. 4 No. 1, London, England, March 2016: 105-109. 

  • “My Daughter Play the Finest Truck Dodge Record,” “For Those Who Would Stand Outside to See.” Sonora Review, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, No. 69, 2016: 50-53. 

  • “A Diptych.” One: The Journal of Literature, Art and Ideas. 30 November 2015. 

  • “The Magnificat.” Boundary 2: An International Journal of Literature and Culture, University of Pittsburgh, Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2015: 88-90. 

  • “Excerpt from Don’t Call It Reginald Denny.” Floor: A Journal of Aesthetic Experiments, No. 3, 4 August 2015. 

  • "Rodin Said Each Thing Is Merely the Limit of the Flame to Which It Owes Its Existence." Denver Quarterly, University of Denver, Denver, CO, Vol. 48, No. 2, 2014: 41. 

  • “Happiness.” Evening Will Come: A Monthly Journal of Poetics, No. 45, September 2014. 

  • “My Daughter Charity Thinketh No Evil.” Poetry, The Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL, No. 204 Vol. 2, May 2014: 162. 

  • “A Handsome Woman, Waving.” Flag + Void, May 2014. 

  • “My Daughter Night Terrors the State." The Baffler, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, No. 23, 2013: 92-93. 

  • “My Daughter La Chola Martina,” “My Daughter La Chola Near Sonnet.” The Iowa Review, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, Vol. 43, No. 2, Fall 2013: 109-110. 

  • “My Daughter All Yourn.” Poets.org/ The Academy of American Poets, 2013. 

  • “In from Shore,” “A New Rule in Algebra,” The White Wall Review, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, No. 36, May 2012: 40-43. 

  • “My Daughter Among the Names.” Poets.org/ The Academy of American Poets, 2012. 

  • “In From Shore,” collaboration with video artist Cara Baldwin. On and On Screen, Winter 2012. 

  • “That You Are Sold Over the Throwing,” “My Daughter Shout Pouch,” “Say Providence,” “Winnowing Sieve.” Critical Quarterly, Oxford, England, Vol. 54, No. 1, April 2012: 109-113. 

  • “New Romantics.” Black Warrior Review, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL No. 38.1, Fall/Winter 2011: 154-155. 

  • “The Arch Rock,” “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” Third Coast, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, Fall 2011: 51-52. 

  • “Commoner Garden.” Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas/Nueva Escritura de las Américas , No. 14, 2011: 137-141. 

  • “Tallying Song.” Everyday Genius, August 2011. 

  • “Pantertanter,” “Shake the Bear Funny Name.” Esque, No. 2, Spring 2011. 

  • “From Tallying Song (excerpts).” 6x6, New York, NY No. 21, Winter 2010: 17-24. 

  • “Hollywood.” IndieFeed Performance Poetry Channel, April 2010. 

  • “Carols,” “Long Before and Shortly After,” “San Martincito,” “Anamorphosis,” “But Richard, Will You Show Me an Ethic of Freedom?” The Boston Review, July/Aug 2009: 53. 

  • “After a Western,” “July 18,” “Poem,” “We Talk of Having a Baby.” Big Bridge, Summer 2009. 

  • “Hollywood.” Barrelhouse No. 7, Spring 2009: 182-189. 

  • “The Good Object (iv),” “American Copper,” “Girl With a Violin.” EOAGH, No. 3, Spring 2008. 

  • “An American in Dallas.” Shampoo, No. 28, Summer 2006.

  • “You’re Dead, The Astronaut Corps,” “You Walk Past,” “Sparklers Branch, New Year,” “I Remember Voices Saying ‘Voda’ Then the Felt of Their Tents,” “Open Letter to Johnson.” Origin, 6th Series, Spring 2007: 218-230. 

  • “The Good Object Dismissed.” Kadar Koli, No.1, Spring 2007: 19. 

  • “History as a War of Poses.” Cannibal, No. 2, Spring 2007: 7-8. 

  • “Marco & Amelio: fragments.” O Poss, No.1, Summer 2006: 47-51. 

  • “Marco & Amelio: a thousand adventures passing.” Bimbo Gun, No. 1, Spring 2006: 7-8. 

  • “All Stories Great and Small,” “Of Our Porvenir.” Lungfull Magazine, No. 14, Spring 2006: 54-57. 

  • “The Good Object (ii),” “On Entering My Mother’s Bed.” Hot Whiskey Magazine, No. 1, Spring 2006: 21-22. 

  • “Some Notes for a Panel Discussion on Song, Spirit and Healing in Contemporary Poetry.” Painted Bride Quarterly, No. 72; and Painted Bride Quarterly Print Annual No. 3, 2006: 17-19. 

  • “Immigrants (i),” “Immigrants (ii).” Effing Magazine No. 3, Winter 2005: 21-23. 

  • “Maybe Go to the Sea,” “Riverside Property.” Borderlands Texas Poetry Review, No. 23, Fall/Winter, 2004: 76-82. 

  • “The Inclinations of a Stable Marriage.” Painted Bride Quarterly No, 70; and Painted Bride Quarterly Print Annual, No. 2, 2004: 230.