All Sex and No Story:
Winner of the Girls Like Us Chapbook Prize from Rabbit Catastrophe Press
I loved how this chapbook deftly explored gender, history, and sexuality with stunning lyricism, nuance, and sway. It was lush and mighty (sometimes boldly brash), but also cohesive as a collection. There was a stark self-awareness to these poems as well as experimentation with form, which kept my eyes and ears sated. There was personal and political indictment smashed with pleasure and grief, so many of the poems stitched to the corporeal experience, which I love and lust for in writing that pulses me to the page.
—Tiana Clark, judge
Recent Publications
Prose:
"‘Dirty Computer’ is Not a Coming Out Album—Because Janelle Monáe’s Music Has Been Queer All Along" at Electric Literature
"Watching Dolores O’Riordan Dance on Yeats’ Grave" at Electric Literature
Poems:
"Self-Portrait as Aquarium" at Zone 3
"Aphasia" at 8 Poems
"The Last of Us" at Glass: A Journal of Poetry
"You Are Not God’s Sparrow," "Blood on the Moon & Water on Mars," and "We See Fireflies Our First Night in Chicago" at Rust + Moth
"Drink Up," "Giant-Impact Theory of Lunar Formation," and "Project Excelsior" at Hobart
"Little Deaths" at Luna Luna
"Self-Portrait as Dissection" and "Prague Floods" at Sky Island Journal
Excerpts from "Time Enough at Last" at Cotton Xenomorph
Rust Belt Chicago: An AnthologyAh, Chicago. Where my parents and grandparents met, where I spent the coldest winters of my life. Get your copy of this new anthology today.
You can’t love this city
for long: you must allow the great, flat machine to mold you in its image. |
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PoemsMy poems have appeared in a variety of publications, in print and online.
Here are some you can read online: Three Great Lakes poems, at Chicago Literati "In Steubenville," at So to Speak |
Essays
Literary:
The Anachronist: Anne Carson, The Toast
Infinitely Concrete, Infinitely Metaphorical: In Praise of Oliver Sacks, The Toast
Discovering Muriel Rukeyser as a Young Writer, Muriel Rukeyser: A Living Archive
The Power of Suicide and the Refusal of Mythology – Sylvia Plath and Muriel Rukeyser, Muriel Rukeyser: A Living Archive
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950): The Beyoncé of Formal Verse, The Toast
Personal:
Trauma Is a Time Machine: On Loss, The Toast
Love, Isaac, The Archipelago
Sir David Attenborough, My Secular Saint, The Toast
The Day I Should Have Believed In God, The Toast
And so on:
What 'Making a Murderer' Reveals About the Justice System and Intellectual Disability, Rolling Stone
Mid-30s Women: Here’s Why You Can’t Stop Looking at Teen Wolf GIFs, The Archipelago
The Anachronist: Anne Carson, The Toast
Infinitely Concrete, Infinitely Metaphorical: In Praise of Oliver Sacks, The Toast
Discovering Muriel Rukeyser as a Young Writer, Muriel Rukeyser: A Living Archive
The Power of Suicide and the Refusal of Mythology – Sylvia Plath and Muriel Rukeyser, Muriel Rukeyser: A Living Archive
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950): The Beyoncé of Formal Verse, The Toast
Personal:
Trauma Is a Time Machine: On Loss, The Toast
Love, Isaac, The Archipelago
Sir David Attenborough, My Secular Saint, The Toast
The Day I Should Have Believed In God, The Toast
And so on:
What 'Making a Murderer' Reveals About the Justice System and Intellectual Disability, Rolling Stone
Mid-30s Women: Here’s Why You Can’t Stop Looking at Teen Wolf GIFs, The Archipelago
Internets
See my work as Sweet Machine at Shapely Prose and Captain Awkward.
Sorry, Mark Doty, for stealing the title of your wonderful poem to write about fat politics and periods and stuff.
Sorry, Mark Doty, for stealing the title of your wonderful poem to write about fat politics and periods and stuff.