po·ems | ˈpōəms

“/ ritual” New Verse News, 2023.

“she opened her mind, “calculations,” and “random experiments in bioluminescence,” An Anthology of Non-Conformism, Rebel Wom!n Words, Ways, and Wonders, Dio Press.

“Mixolydian,” and “The Location of Worms” The Letters Project, Shmutzik Shmates, 2023.

“I Was Someone’s They and They Were Mine,” Tikkun, 2023.

“thesaurus,”Reformatting the Pain Scale, 2023.

“witness” New Verse News, 2023.

“considering war,” New Verse News, March 2022

“cemetery / cemíterio / cementerio;” “Villanelle For Yemanja / Villanelle Para Yemanja;” Black Woman of Sound / Mujer Negra de Sonido / Mulher Negra, Sonora” in Everything Connected: Land, Body, Cosmos, Self Help Graphics, fall 2021. The exhibition is archived on Google Arts & Culture.

“art + work / arte + labor,” Tilt West, Fall 2021. Read & Listen

“bounty,” in Written Here and There, Community of Writers, 2021.

“stop a war” New Verse News, May 2021

Performance of “born in LA on LA street” with Nancy Sanchez, and Las Colibri, May 2021

“the future of music” Prairie Schooner, winter 2021.

“whereas” and “waiting for the president to be impeached” Gnashing Teeth Publishing, forthcoming winter 2021.

“white supremacy’s identity crisis as a slow-motion-crash” and “shades of white” BOOM California, winter 2021.

“born in los angeles on los angeles street,” ASAP/J, fall 2020.

“tree of lemon” commissioned poem for Invertigo Dance Theatre, fall 2020.

“and still we are trying — to dream,” ArtPlace America, 2020.

“endless bowls of sky” long poem selection in Special Isolation Edition of Capsule Stories, 2020. Order Capsule Stories Special Isolation Edition here.

“sweet moon” Honey and Smoke, 2020.

“single motherhood is a party, ”Poetica: Inner Circle Poetry Group Writer’s Anthology of Poetry 2019, Clarendon House Books, United Kingdom.

“evacuation” and “arma virumque cano”, Yes Poetry (June 2019)

“all the things (he never said),” “piñata (effigy),” and “what’s time anyway?” Anti-Heroin Chic (May 2019)

“grace” and “ambidextrous” in Rag Queen Periodicals (March 2019)

“cabelo” Anti Heroin Chic (January 2019)

“mantra para votar / mantra to vote,” PCC Inscape Magazine (2018)

“mandala to unravel deception” and “attention,” Full Blede, Issue Six: The Parapraxis (2018)

“ontology of feeling” and “wishbone,” Awkward Mermaid Lit Mag (2018)

“hopscotch,” Yes Poetry (2018)

“good fuck poem (a definition)”, Rose Quartz Journal (2018).

“borderless” Lady Liberty Lit (2018). Nominated for 2018 Best of the Net.

“the descendent” Zocalo Public Square (2017).

“naked congress” Lady Liberty Lit (2017).

“(of course) we are in the same room,” Spectrum 3 (2016).

chap·books | ˈchap-ˌbu̇ks

Endless Bowls of Sky, Placeholder Press Inaugural Flashbulb, 2020.

Summer of Mourning, Creo Books, 2015.

#ElaraMoves, Creo Books with Exploring the Arts, 2015.

Empty Nest, 2013.

Democracy, 2012, Letterpress.

Alphabet Quest, 2012.

Writing with Nina, 2011. Mother writer projects at the William Grant Still Art Center funded by the National Endowment for the Arts’ Big Read Program

Speaking in Signs, 2010.

Tree Fruit, 2009.