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Selected Poems

“By Any Other Name,” Yalobusha Review, Finalist for Yellowwood Poetry Prize (judged by Jerrod Avant), forthcoming 2025

“thru Anite Baker, i sing joy into a symposium of prayer—or, sweet love is an urning,” Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Commissioned Poem performed at “Owning Our Future: A Symposium on BIPOC Institutional Ownership.” Summer 2025

“In Defense of the Spotted Lanternfly,” 2nd place in Literary Arts for Envisioning a Just Pittsburgh 2024 (on display in the August Wilson House and the Carnegie Museums of Natural History and Art in Pittsburgh), 2025. https://carnegiemuseums.org/envisioning-a-just-pittsburgh-2024/

“Portrait of Kratos Tendering the Wounds of his Son,” “Deadname Tanka from my Father” The Seventh Wave, 2025. https://theseventhwave.org/publication/on-gaming/avery-robinson/

“Vogue Femme at the 2019 Latex Ball,” Beloit Poetry Journal, Vol. 73 No.2, Spring 2024

“Elegy Alafaya Square” The Florida Review, Fall 2023

“Blood Excavations,” Black Warrior Review, Finalist for Fall 2022 Poetry Contest (judged by Diane Seuss). Summer 2023

“we finna abracadabra the fuck outta mangrove swamp” Porterhouse Review, Editor’s Prize (judged by Shayla Lawson). Summer 2023. https://porterhousereview.org/articles/we-finna-abracadabra-the-fuck-outta-mangrove/

“i feel most trans when i am thrown against a church mural,” So to Speak, Vol. 32. Spring 2023 “Demetrious Mighty Mouse Johnson Turns a Duplex into a Flying Armbar”, “another queer poem with

doors,” Obsidian, Vol. 48.2. Spring 2023

“You can’t run from this,” “busted love ghazal while i wait,” Hunger Mountain, Issue 27. Summer 2022.

https://hungermtn.netlify.app/issues/hunger-mountain-27/poetry/

(See CV for Full List)

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