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MUTTOLOGY (chapbook) — Small Harbor Editions
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tommy noun. (chapbook)—C&R Press
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awards & honors
Rhino Poetry’s 2024 Editors’ Prize winner — give
1st runner-up of Palette Poetry’s 2023 Resistance & Resilience Prize (selected by Natasha Rao) — Banjo Be
winner of the 2022 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest — Orion
honorable mention for the 2022 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest — for
runner-up for Southern Humanities Review’s Auburn Witness Poetry Prize (judged by Jericho Brown) — Dorothy Dandridge on White Men in Hollywood (2021)
1st prize winner of the Chestnut Review’s Stubborn Writer’s Contest — The “C” of Tommy’s Abecedary, Had He Lived, Not Shot Dead at Fourteen (2021)
Pushcart Prize nomination — “for” (2020)
finalist for the 2020 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest — Saint Matthew’s Hospital, December, 2018
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winner of C&R Press’ 2022 Winter Soup Bowl Chapbook Award
honourable mention winner for Vallum Magazine’s 2021 chapbook award
finalist for the 2021 Two Sylvia Press chapbook prize
finalist in the 2021 Quarterly West chapbook contest
fellowships & residencies
MASS MoCA residency — aug/sept 2024
Monson Arts residency — april/may 2024
Cave Canem Oakland regional workshop (fall 2023)—The World In & Around You, with devorah major
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts residency (VCCA) — jan/feb 2023
UC Berkeley ARC (Arts Research Center) Poetry & the Senses Community Fellow — 2021-2022
published
RED — Poet Lore: vol 117 (fall 2022)
My black — Inverted Syntax: Fissured Tongue Series, vol. 4 (november 2022)
Snow — Inverted Syntax, issue 4 (november 2022)
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Thirty-two White Men — Magma Poetry issue 83—Solitude
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paterfamilias — Southern Humanities Review: vol 55.2 (june 2022)
for — honorable mention in the 2021 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest (spring 2022)
north star — little somethings press, issue four (winter 2022)
Afterword: Inheritance — Vallum Magazine, Issue 18.2 | The Power of Words
A Toast, to the Enslaved and to the Free — Tupelo Quarterly, TQ25 (fall 2021)
Sonnet For the Black Girl — The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry
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to all y’all — Mason Jar Press’ Jarnal (fall 2021)
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Dorothy Dandridge on White Men in Hollywood — Southern Humanities Review, Volume 54.3 Fall 2021
runner-up for the 2021 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, judged by Jericho Brown
A Seven-Point Criteria for Racial Identity — Harbor Review: Issue #7: Other
Orion — Vallum Magazine, online blog
The “C” of Tommy’s Abecedary, Had He Lived, Not Shot Dead at Fourteen — Chestnut Review: Volume 2 Number 3 Winter 2021
1st prize winner of the Stubborn Writer’s Contest
anthology of Chestnut Review Literary Magazine, 2020-2021 — purchase
Saint Matthew’s Hospital, December, 2018 — Oyster River Pages: Composite Dreams (4.2)
and a finalist for the 2020 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest
for — Inverted Syntax: Issue 3, November 2020
nominated for a Pushcart Prize
We — InDance, Fall 2020
Venge — River Heron Review: Poems, for Now (2020)
Three Summers (part one) — Blue River Review: Summer ‘20—4.2