“Theater Selfie,” Pushcart Prize XLIX Best of the Small Presses, Bill Henderson, ed. Norton, New York, 2025

“Theater Selfie,” and “Charm for Enduring the Dark Night of the Soul,” The Markaz Review. Nov. 24, 2024

“Know Yourselves” and “Supernatural Bread,” Shanghai Literary Review. Issue 8, Sept. 21, 2024.

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

“Dragonflies,” The New Yorker, Jan. 15, 2024

“Giornata 4,” Poem-A-Day, Jan. 11, 2024

“Wishing Well,” Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World. Pádraig Ó Tuama, ed. W.W. Norton, 2023

“At Richard Rodgers Theater,” The Yale Review, Sept. 18, 2023

“My father Bacchus wanted a girl,” Poem-A-Day, Dec. 15, 2022

“Supernatural Bread,” From the Inside: NYC through the Eyes of the Poets Who Live Here, George Wallace, ed. Blue Light Press, 2022

“The Essay on Faith,” American Poetry Review Vol. 51, No.3, May-June 2022

“Occult,” Paris Review, Summer 2022

“The famous athlete doubts the planet,” The New Republic, May 19, 2022

“Allegory,” The New Yorker, March 1, 2021.

“The swear jar isn’t empty,” Poem-A-Day, May 19, 2020

“Written By Himself,” More Truly and More Strange, Lisa Russ Spar, ed. p. 130

“Convertible,” Written Here: The Community of Writers Poetry Review 2017. Morrisville, NC: Lulu Press. 2019

“Descapotable,” Diván. Vol. 1. Trans. Jorge Vessel. Granada: Centro Federico Garcia Lorca, 2019

“Descapotable,” Desperate Literature: The Unamuno Author Series Festival Anthology. Trans. Jorge Vessel. Madrid: Desperate Literature, 2019

“For Which It Stands” and “Written By Himself,” Misrepresented People: Poetic Responses to Trump’s America, Alvarez & Di Stefano, eds., New York: NYQ Books (2018)

Renga for Obama, Major Jackson, ed., Cambridge, MA: Harvard Review Chapbook, 2018

“Asking for a Friend,” “Thanks for Sharing,” and “Contumely for the Hyphen,” The Cortland Review. Spring 2018

“Landscape with Intervention,” Carrying the Branch: Poets in Search of Peace, Frank, Jones, Kaye, Larson, Mindock, & Studdard, eds. Glass Lyre Press; Glenview, IL (2017) pp.183-186

“Metaphor,” “Convertible,” and “Supernatural Bread,” The Fight and the Fiddle, 2017

“Dragonflies,” “The Dreamer Is the Subject of the Dream,” Callaloo, Summer, 2016

“Hey Good Looking,” Pine Hill Review, College St. Rose, Fall 2014

“Epistemology of the Phone Booth,” Poem-A-Day, Academy of American Poets, 2014

“Rolling Thunder,” Please Excuse This Poem, Brett Fletcher-Lauer, ed.

“Wishing Well,” Best American Poetry 2014, Terrance Hayes, ed.

“#136,” The Sonnets: Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare, Sharmila Cohen & Paul Legault, eds., Telephone Books, 2012

“Tall Poppies,” Meridian, Issue 29, May 2012

“Wishing Well,” Painted Bride Quarterly

“Philadelphia, Negro,” Tin House, 14:2, Winter 2012. 196-197

“Alienation Effects,” Ploughshares, Spring 2012, Nick Flynn, ed.

“Prom Lighting with Cummerbund,” Black Renaissance/ Renaissance Noir

“Copenhagen, 1995,” Muzzle Magazine, Winter, 2012

"Problema 3,” Gwarlingo, Oct. 22, 2011

“Copyright,” A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry, University of Akron Press. Spring, 2012

“Spirit of St. Louis,” Chronicle of Higher Education blog Monday’s Poem, Oct. 9, 2011

“Double Dutch” and “Written By Himself,” Poetry Foundation

“Raisin,” The Nation. August 1/8 2011

“Landscape with Intervention,” Rio Grande Review, Spring 2011

“Palling Around,” Boston Review (National Poetry Month online edition), April 2011

“Shades of Green,” “Four Improvisations on Ursa Corrigendora,” “Chapel Avenue After Closing,” and “All God’s Chillun,” Beltway Poetry Journal, Vol. 12:2, Spring 2011

“Boethius,” and “Heraclitus,” The Collagist, Issue 19, February 2011

“After Charles Caryl Coleman’s View of Vesuvius: Effect 11:25AM,” “Pool Table,” and “ZoSo,” Jerry Magazine, #2, February, 2011

“Double Dutch,” Beltway Poetry Journal, Vol. 12:1, Winter 2011

“Attachment: Atlantic City Pimp,” and “St. Augustine,” Ploughshares, Winter 2010-11, Terrance Hayes, ed.

“The Clinamen Improvisations” Callaloo, 33:3, Summer 2010. 598-603

“Written By Himself,” Best American Poetry, 2010, Ed. Amy Gerstler. New York: Scribner, 2010. 118.

“Marginalia,” So Much Things to Say, Kwame Dawes, ed. New York: Akashic, 2010. 191-199.

“Aquinas,” “Occam,” and “Gassendi,” The Awl, July 23, 2010.

“Atlantic City Sunday Morning,” What’s Your Exit?, Word Riot Press

“Suburban Noir,” “Man Reading In Bed By A Window With Bugs.”  Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. Ed. Camille Dungy. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2009. 306.

“Ghosts In the Machine: Synergy and the Dialogic System,” Harvard Review

“Four Improvisations on Ursa Corregidora,” “Written By Himself,” “All God’s Chillun,” American Poetry Review, Jul-Aug 2009

“Marginalia,” and “Conrad in Harlem,” Poet Lore, 104:1/2, Spring, Summer 2009: 93-105.

“Four Improvisations on Frank Morgan, Saxophonist,” P.S.1 MoMA Newspaper, Fall/ Winter 2008

 “Copyright,” “Title It Shotgun Wound,” and “Atlantic City Sunday Morning,” Academy of American Poets.

 “Double Dutch,” American Poetry Review, 37:4, 2008

 “Raisin,” “Renaissance Man,” “Shades of Green,” “Copyright,” Black Renaissance/ Renaissance Noir, 7:3, 2007: 110-111.

 “Vanitas: Mother’s Day,” Gulf Coast, 20.1, 2007

“Winter After the Strike,” Poem of the Week, June 22, 2007

“Winter After the Strike,” Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2006. 142.

“Soundtrack,” Callaloo, Summer 2006, 29:3.

“Double Dutch” and “Minaturist,” Saranac Review, Issue 2, 2006

“glass,” limited edition broadside printing by Center for Book Arts, NYC, Nov. 2005

“Totem,” “Miniaturist,” “Suburban Passional,” “Double Dutch,” “Roller Coaster,” and “Soundtrack,” From the Fishouse, 2005

“Restoring O’Keeffe” and “Title It Shotgun Wound,” Volt No. 11, 2005

“Totem” and “Libretto,” Callaloo Fall 2004, 27:4.

“Vincent’s Shoes,” Seneca Review Vol. XXXIII, No. 2, Fall 2003

“Portrait of the Artist as a Child,” “Sugar Pie Honey Bunch,” and “Volume Control, Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas, 9:1, Spring 2003

“Atlantic City Sunday Morning,” Painted Bride Quarterly, Issue 69, Spring 2003

“Dolphin Charter, Cape May, NJ,” Blue Moon Review, Summer 2002

“Winter After the Strike,” Ploughshares, Spring 2002, 28:1.

“Must Be the Music,” Suburban Noir,” “Man Reading In Bed By A Window With Bugs,” and “In Canal St. Station Late At Night,” La Petite Zine #8

“Double Dutch” (previously titled “Study of Motion With a Clothesline in It”), Cave Canem 2001 Anthology

“Chapel Avenue After Closing,” Lyric, Winter 2001, 1:1.

“Arsonist” (previously titled “Pyro”), Cave Canem 2000 Anthology

“Oils,” Callaloo, Fall 1999, 22:4.

“Harvest: A Line Drawing,” Cave Canem 1998 Anthology

“Only Child,” “Sweat,” Black Bear Review, Fall/ Winter 1998, Issue #26

“Cat,” Hawai’i Review, Fall 1997, 52:22.1.