Publications
forthcoming works:
poetry:
“Marshawn,” Prairie Schooner, 2024
“Declarations Over Your Life,” Wheatley at 250: Black Women Poets Re-imagine the Verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters, Edited by Danielle Legros Georges and Artress Bethany White, Pangyrus Literary Magazine, 2024
Published works:
poetry collection:
Besaydoo, Milkweed Editions, 2024
anthology:
What You Need to Know About Me: An Anthology of Youth Writings on Immigration, edited by Yalie Saweda Kamara, (The Hawkins Project, 2022)
Chapbooks
A Brief Biography of My Name, (Akashic Books/African Poetry Book Fund, 2018)
When The Living Sing, (Ledge Mule Press, 2017)
Poetry
“A Mouthful,” Pleiades: Literature in Context, 2023
“During lunch, Ms. Anne says,” The Journal, 2022
"A Golden Shovel for My Friend Michael," The Journal, 2022
“Memorializing Nia Wilson: 100 Blessings,” Post Road, 2022
“Freeborn,” World Literature Today, March, 2022
“Besaydoo,” Poetry Daily, November, 2020
“Besaydoo,” The Adroit Journal, August, 2020
“Listening to Nina Simone Sing ‘Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues,'” JuxtaProse Magazine, July, 2020
“Souvenir,” and “In Our New Home,” Oxford Review of Books, March, 2020
“Wahala: A Curse Has Many Heads,” Southern Indiana Review, November, 2019
“Elegy for My Two Step,” “Metaphors for My Two Step,” and “When the Trash Took Itself Out,” Callaloo A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters, February, 2019
“Eleven New-Generation African Poets” Poetry Society of America, March, 2018
“Kyrie Irving Explains the Flat Earth” FreezeRay Poetry, November, 2017
“Soumission Chimique,” Popup Mag, June, 2017
“New America,” Monster House Press Quarterly, April, 2017
“Haiku Love Letters for Gabby Douglas” Wusgood.Black, October, 2016
“When I Ask My Brother Jonathan To Write About Oakland, He Describes His Room” Amazon: Day One, Issue 3.50, October, 2016
“Rekia and Oscar and All of Their Sky Cousins” Entropy Mag, September, 2016
“Mother’s Rules” Vinyl: Poetry & Prose, August, 2016
fiction
“Your First Set of Seasons,” Black Voices Series, Puerto Del Sol, November, 2017
“Mirror” The Blueshift Journal, Issue VIII, September, 2017
NONFICTION
“Home,” Don’t Look Now: Things We Wish We’d Never Seen (The Ohio State University Press, October, 2020)
“Smile,” Being, Belonging and Becoming: An Introduction to Reading and Writing for College, Community College of Vermont, 2009
literary criticism:
“Joy and Pain, Sunshine and Rain, Exploring the Nuances of Janela Pineda’s Lineage of Rain,” Cincinnati Review, 2021
anthology contributions
Poetry:
“Besaydoo,” A Flame Called Indiana: An Anthology of Contemporary Hoosier Writing, Case, Paul Doug, Indiana University Press, 2023
“Le Champ Lexical #1: L’espoir [en 2020 c’est],” Urgencies=Insurgencies. California Poets, Volume One, edited by Forrest Gander (Nomadic Coffee, 2020)
“A Haiku Love Letter for Gabby Douglas,” Furious Flower Anthology (Northwestern University Press, 2019)
Fiction:
“Mirror” Forward: 21st Century Flash Fiction (Aforementioned Productions, 2019)
Interviews
“Boots Riley on I’m Sorry to Bother You and the Matter of the ‘Good Fight,” by Michael T. Martin with Yalie Kamara, Black Camera: An International Journal, Indiana University Press, Vol. 11, No. 2, Spring, 2020
“On the Commerce of Intimacy: Dany Laferrière on How to Make Love to a Negro… and Heading South,” by Michael T. Martin and Yalie Kamara, Black Camera: An International Journal, Indiana University Press, Vol. 9, No. 1, Fall, 2017
TRANSLATIOns
“Manifesto of Ouagadougou, FESPACO” Black Camera: An International Journal, Indiana University Press, Vol. 9., No. 1, Fall, 2017
“Benoît Ramampy (1947-1996): A Life Dedicated to Cinema” by Dr. Karine Blanchon, Black Camera: An International Journal, Indiana University Press, Vol. 8, No. 1, Fall, 2016
Editorial ASsISTANCE
“The Practice of Curating the June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive: A Conversation with the Founding Director,” by Michael T. Martin, Black Camera: An International Journal, Indiana University Press, Vol. 11, No. 1, Fall, 2019
“Close-Up: On the Colony's Postcolony Encounter in Claire Denis's Chocolat and White Material” by Michael T. Martin, Black Camera: An International Journal, Indiana University Press, Vol. 10, No. 1, Fall 2018
“Archival Notes” Black Camera: An International Journal, Indiana University Press, Vol. 8, No. 2, Spring 2017
Music
“A Healing” poetry/lyrics created for The Mourning Jewels, a choral and orchestral production by Indiana University Jacobs School of Music doctoral candidate, Sam Ritter, 2019
Featured on track “Tract for Valerie Solanas,” from Matmos album The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast (Matador Records, 2006)