Poems
I think if I were a fruit I’d be
a passion fruit,
I think I’m a wild artichoke, I think I kiss
people harder than others - but that’s
a secret.
—from “Fruit Shopping”
2023
“Samuel by Sam” in Cream City Review
“Butt Stuff Flower Bush” in The Cincinnati Review
“Community Check-in” and “Leave your Legacy at the Door” in American Poetry Review
“Fruit 4 Fruit” and “Self-Portrait as the astral emergency you’re fielding on facetime” in Gulf Coast
“Ars Hippoetica” in Josephine Quarterly
2022
“Fishing With Dad” and “Josh and His Family and Me and My Family” in Diode Poetry Journal
“It’s so brave of you to be here” in Redivider
“Omg it’s Rose by Rose” and “How to Cook Your Family” in & Change
“food porn from the 70s” in Quarter After Eight
“If You Give the Sun a Beer” in Spoon River Poetry Review
“Hey my Bagel” in Blue Earth Review
“Friendship Song” in Muzzle Magazine
“Allergy Season,” “Dying of Heat” and “Sailing on Tuesday” all rehoused with Doubleback Review”
“I’m tired of the gays, bring me a Grade A Faggot,” “Sonnet" and “The Great Runway of Life” in Waxwing Mag
2021
“Vegetable Condominiums” in Split Lip Magazine - nominated for Best New Poets!
“In the Hotel Room” and “My Mother Washes the Kitchen with Her Face” in Moist Poetry Journal
“Try Putting Your Dissociation on Display” as part of the incredible project Bait/Switch
“All You Are to a Hospital is a Guest” and “Tappety Tap Tap” in Hooligan Mag
“Bock Rottom” and “People Say I Look Cute…” in Shenandoah
“All the Places I Was” in The Adroit Journal
“Peach Compote Avalanche” and “Now More Than Ever, We Are in a Moment of Time,” collaborations with Chen Chen, in Dear Poetry Journal
“a breakfast of all my past loves” in perhappened mag
2020
“How To Cook Your Family” in Flypaper Lit
“Good For Your Insides” in Parentheses Journal
“Today, the Begonias” and “Wearing a jockstrap to see RENT on the last night of my lover’s stay in Chicago” in Sundog Lit - Jockstrap nominated for Best of Net!
"I Showed You a Poem About My Car Accident and You Though It Was About Yourself, Again" in Moon City Review
“The ikea bags remind me of my exes” and “I went to pick up my collar at his house” in Crab Fat Magazine - IKEA bags nominated for Best of Net!
2019
"Early Phases, Qualitative Research," "Everything is Going to be Just Fine" and "Poem For Lost Keys" in Kettle Blue Review
“Hibiscus Knowledge” a collaboration with Chen Chen, in Verse of April
“For the Glitter” and “Be a professional bitch” in The Indianapolis Review
“first prayers I can remember” in Bat City Review
2018
“All My Friends Are Dead: Non-Dinosaur Version” in Glass: A Journal of Poetry
“Instagram photo, hoop earring,” “Throwing the Book” I read the articles, gay men with significantly higher rates of depression, of suicidal ideation” + an Interview! at Connotation Press: An Online Artifact - “Instagram Photo, Hoop Earring” - Nominated for Best New Poets!
“The Inside Job/Exit Strategy” in Glass: A Journal of Poetry
“Friendship” and “Not all poems are forks” in Cotton Xenomorph
“INFP Ghost” a collaboration with Chen Chen, in A Restricted View From Under the Hedge
“Something I’ve Owned” in Hobart Pulp
“a total sum compilation of my most intimate failures” in Mojo - Nominated for Pushcart Prize!!
“Teething” and “Leave your legacy at the door” in Construction Literary Magazine - “Teething” Nominated for Best of Net!
2017
“What the Mansion Could Look Like” in No Assholes Literary Magazine
“Tongue to Tongue Cool” in PANK Magazine
“Thinking about whistles” in Vinyl Poetry and Prose
“Hey Fat Boy” in Pretty Owl Poetry (p. 26) - Nominated for Best of Net!
“essay on eating picture frames,” “Angst in Threes” and “For Barney” in TL;DR Magazine
“Put Down the Book” and “Rules for When I am Sleeping” in Connotation Press: An Online Artifact
“Invisible Whale” in decomP
2016
“Allergy Season” and “Dying of Heat” in Word Riot
“Homorigin” and “It All Bubbles Down to Your Education" in Nightblock Magazine
“Some Official Statement Proceedings” developed as part of the art exhibit “another document: a translation project” by catalina ouyang
“Fruit Shopping” in Gabby Journal
“Yellow Scarves” in Salt Hill Journal (print only)
“Privilege” in Cahoodaloodaling (p. 99)
“Sailing on Tuesday” in Red Paint Hill
“Asking for Sugar” in New Plains Review (print only, although can be read in the preview on Amazon)
“knife party” in Mobius Magazine: the Journal of Social Change