Anthologized Work
Selected Poetry and Prose
Poems:
“Diasporican Interview from the Moon” and “Love Poem, Prefaced with an Ode to Tostones,” Blackbird, Volume 22, Issue 1, December 2022
“Diasporican Interview on the Question of Race,” “Dispersion Theory on Riddim and Flow,” and “A Reconsideration of Latinidad, Ending on a Lyric by El Conde,” Kweli Journal, March 2022 (Guest Edited by Ivelisse Rodriguez)
“Diasporican Interview feat. Manuel Fernández Juncos, Rafael Hernández, & Don Omar” and "Diasporican School of Poetry," Redivider, Volume 18, Issue 1, January 2021
“Portrait of My Dad as a Vejigante“ and “Portrait of the Author in Plátano Heaven,” Cosmonauts Ave, February 2020
“I Promised Myself I Would Never Become the Person Who Refers To His Rabbits as Children,” “The Day María Touches Down I Listen To Plena Libre’s ‘Huracán’,” and “Ode To Justin Bieber, Ending on Presidential Jumpshots,” Pretty Owl Poetry, Winter 2020
“Puerto Rico: An Etymology” and “Remake: West Side Story,” Tinderbox Poetry Journal, December 2018
“The Day María Touches Down I Listen To Cheo Feliciano Sing ‘La Borinqueña,’” Kweli Journal #PoetsForPuertoRico Special Issue, October 2018
"Fried," Crab Fat Magazine, January 2018
"Orpheus as El incomprendido," Breakwater Review, Issue 20, Fall 2017
"Because Mom Doesn't Sing Every Song by The Temptations," The Boiler Journal, Summer 2017
"malcolm meets tite curet alonso at hemingway's café, pittsburgh," Label Me Latina/o, Volume VII Special Issue: Black and Latin@: Conceptualizing Afro-Latinidad in Afro-Latina/o Literature and Performance, Summer 2017
"Bomba-Blues Dream Sequence," "Bomba-Blues Noise Report," and "The Bomba Man and The Blues Man Argue over Who Has to Bury Malcolm's Body," Winter Tangerine Review, Lineage of Mirrors, April 2017
"Prayer as Don Omar," The Rupture, Issue 89, February 2017
Three Poems, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, January 2017
Five Poems, Maps for Teeth, Issue 4, Winter 2016
"Afro-Seattleite Fragment #2: Richard Sherman" and "Afro-Seattleite Fragment #6: Prayer in the Mode of Sir Mix-a-Lot's 'Posse on Broadway,' or South End Kid Returns To Capitol Hill Six Years after Graduating High School," Kweli Journal, November 2016
Three Poems, Vinyl, September 2016
Two Poems and an Interview, Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, Issue VI, Volume VII (July 2016)
"Ode To the Barbershop," Backbone Press, 2016 Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize Winner
Two Poems, Ghost Town Literary Magazine, Issue 8, Fall 2015
"The Bomba Man and The Blues Man walk into a bar," Nashville Review, Issue 17, Summer 2015
"Cornbread," Apeiron Review, Issue 9, Summer 2015
Two Poems, The Acentos Review, May 2015
Poems, Moko, Issue 5, March 2015
"Afro-Seattleite Fragment #9: Ode To Rainier Beach," StepAway Magazine, Issue 16, March 2015
"Rice and Beans," Profiles by The Vanderbilt Review, Fall 2013
Prose:
“Gary Payton Once Told a Fan in Sacramento to Get on His Tractor and Go Home,” and “For a Brief Moment in Time, The Best Shooter in the NBA was a Seattle SuperSonic,” HeadFake Quarterly Vol. 1, January 2021
"¡Que te cante—yo tambien!: A Tribute To Tato Laviera," Winter Tangerine Review, Lineage of Mirrors, April 2017