Poems
“I Just Want to Live Long Enough to See Allen Iverson Live Long Enough to Get His Reebok Check,” -Poetry
“My Great-Great-Great-Great Grandfather Who Owned My Great-Great-Great-Great Grandmother Also Owned a Jewelry Store and a Railroad, so He Probably Had a Dope Watch,” -Poetry
“Are They Black Owned?,” -Gravy
“When It’s Hard to Name Your Favorite Restaurant Because It’s Hard to Name the Dead,” -Gravy
“My Grandmother’s Pound Cake Is as Close to Communion as I’ll Ever Get,” -Gravy
“When My Wife Gets to Tell You About White Sauce,” -Gravy
"We Want Some Brothers up on the Wall" -Tinderbox Poetry Journal
"If I Call It a Lasso, That Might Make It Okay" -Tinderbox Poetry Journal
"My Great-great-great-great Grandfather Was a Railroad Man Who Owned My Great-great-great-great Grandmother and Shares My Birthday" -Southern Humanities Review
"The Night I Turned Down a Tuscaloosa Threesome Because I Know My Worth" -Southern Humanities Review
"John Henry’s 8 Feet Tall, 3 Ton Statue Has Been Moved for Its Own Safety" -Waccamaw
"Watching Fixer Upper on Columbus Day" -Sixth Finch
"Montgomery, 1998" and "Apology to Montgomery" -Banango Street
"John Henry Meets Paul Bunyan" -MUZZLE
"Roll Call for Michael Brown" -Rattle
"January," "We Love Throwback Thursday," and "Wally West at the End of Time" -Rappahannock Review
"The Time God," -Poetry Genius vs. Poetry Is Dead
"Remix," "Sidekick Funeral: John the Baptist," "Sidekick Funeral: Ricky Baker," and "SYG" -Specter Magazine
"Job Description for Potential Hero Applicants," -Country Dog Review
Nonfiction
"Tha Carter V Means the South's not Dead, Either" -Nat. Brut
"My Dad Still Watches the NFL" -The Under Review
"5,000 Days" -Quarterly West
"When You Choose Thor: The Dark World Over 12 Years a Slave," -Lunch Ticket
"Oscar Grant's America," -The Rumpus
"Blame," -TAB
Reviews
"On Slash / Slash by Amorak Huey and W. Todd Kaneko & Between Us, Not Half a Saint by Rushi Vyas and Rajiv Mohabir" -On the Seawall
"Beneath the Craft, Your Face in Mine Is Only Skin Deep" -Los Angeles Review of Books
"The Past Is Not Dead: Time and Race in Kiese Laymon’s Long Division" -Los Angeles Review of Books
"Whitman with a boombox: A Review of John Murillo’s Up Jump The Boogie" -Weave Magazine
Interviews
Interview with Anne Bailey for Present Tense Podcast
Interview with James Figy for Fear No Lit
Interview with William Kelley Woolfitt for Speaking of Marvels
Interview with Anne Kimzey for Alabama Arts Radio Series
A joint interview with B.J. Hollars for The Los Angeles Review (part 1) (part 2)