I’m excited to say Diannely Antigua has selected my poem “semicolon” to be featured in the Aplomb Project‘s 2025 Portrait Project Book. It’s become an annual mixed-media anthology of sorts of art, stories, and poetry about resilience in the face of trauma. There will be a gala at the gallery on Jun 21, which I… Continue reading

RipRap, a literary journal out of California State University – Long Beach, just accepted two more of the hip hop poems for publication in their next issue. One is a blues that goes out to both Cardi B and Lillian Randolph, who voiced the Mammy character in the original Tom & Jerry cartoons and had… Continue reading

Gulf Stream Magazine just accepted one of the dreamscapes for its next issue (which has the theme “Last Words”). They’ve had the piece for a while and indicated to me that they held off on responding because they knew that eventually they’d have an issue in which it belonged, so I suppose this is the… Continue reading

Dadaist magazine Pfudalmda is looking for one-word poems around the theme of “lofve” for March. I submitted one at 8:03pm my time and got the acceptance at 8:16. The previous issue, “warfair,” really is worth a read, and I am genuinely excited to be part of this little mag. Continue reading

A poem I wrote for/about my mom and her relationship to her deceased parents and my relationship to her relating to them, “the agnostic’s three branches,” just got accepted by Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality & the Arts. Continue reading

So, my book-length project for 2025 (I’m sure going to regret that combination of words due to SEO at some point) is a collection of poems dedicated to hip-hop artists. I’ve completed 25 of the 26 poems/sequences in it already (I was on a tear in January and February), and I just received my first… Continue reading

My poem “Turing Test,” which involves AI, Alan Turing, and a Ouija board, just got picked up by Allium. It’s one of my personal favorite pieces in the manuscript of which it’s a part, so this is particularly nice. Continue reading

Quite a while back, I wrote a sequence of poems about people finding enlightenment (in the buddhist sense) in usual situations. That sequence is part of a manuscript I’m sending out now, but in the meantime, I’m happy to say one of the paths less traveled is forthcoming in HOOT, a magazine with one of… Continue reading

The Midnight Snack, a subset of The Family Room, a subset of Press Pause Press, is going to be publishing a food poem of mine in January (most likely): “bubble, bubble, toil and trouble.” Continue reading