Publications

 

 

 

Poetry:

TriQuarterly:  “Today, My Cousin Brenda Would Have Been 50” (2022)

New Ohio Review: “On Our Way Back from the Protest” (2021)

Rattle: “Soprano from the Junior Choir at the Protest” (2022)

Cider Press Review:  

“1454 Gladys St.” (2022)

Dentist Appointment During the Pandemic by Shawn R. Jones

Obsidian Literary Journal: 

“Dirty Little Secrets are just Another Set of Facts” (2023)

“Dog Fight in Virginia Ave. Courts” (2023)

Langston Hughes Review: 

“Listening to Donna Summer Reminds Me of My Father” (2022)

“One Reason She Keeps A Switch Blade in Her Pocket” (2022)

River Heron Review: “Admission of Guilt” (2018)

Guesthouse: “Hypoglycemia During the COVID-19 Crisis” (2020)

Typehouse:

“The Undertow” (2020)

“To My Neighbor Who had the All Lives Matter Sign on Her Lawn” (2020)

“Eeenie Meenie Miney Moe” (2020)

“Afraid to Open this Letter from Inmate 17650-328” (2020)

Peregrine Journal: “Finding Uncle’s Dead Body” (2020)

Passengers Journal:

“After Our Pit Died on the Porch in My Husband’s Arms (2021)

“I Was Going to Name You Oni” (2021)

“Spying on Uncle Hector” (2021)

Essence: “Black Pearl” (2007)

Womb Rain (Finishing Line Press 2008) #61 in the New Women’s Voices Series

Essence “On Bourbon Street” (2009)

A Hole to Breathe (Finishing Line Press 2015)

Challenges for the Delusional: “Home Remedy 1968” (2018)

 

Prose:

Obelus Journal: “The Life that You Saved” (2020)

Typehouse: “Writing While Black in the Year of Protest” (2020)

 

Poems on Public Display:

Black Lives Matter Poetry Project in Maplewood, NJ : “Hypoglycemia during the COVID-19 Crisis” (2020)’

Atlantic City Poetry Walk: “Admission of Guilt”