New Poem in Harvard Review

The concept of belief and movement is sensual, provocative, and vulnerable. When he performs, we're watching someone in the midst of both a breakthrough and a breakdown using his body as the balm for his own healing. There is no such thing as too rowdy when the music hits.

Here's the trailer for the documentary that I am featured in called "Hope in High Water: A People's Recovery Twenty Years After Hurricane Katrina” by Trymaine Lee It comes out August 22nd on Peacock. Please support!

Got to meet Tank from Tank and the Bangas and gave her a copy of I'M ALWAYS SO SERIOUS

First time seeing my book in the wild with the @whitingfoundation.bsky.social sticker on it!

My poem, "In Defense of Brother John (1971)" is in the Poet Lore Ekphrastic Folio, curated by jason b. crawford. When the film first came out, it received negative reviews. But the film itself feels like a lyric poem and is a cool blend Blaxploitation and Southern Gothic.

My new poem "Gossip" in this newest edition of Gulf Coast Journal. Thanks so much for accepting it!

This week is too much already.

My poem, Castnet Seafood

(bringing more poems from "the other" app)

poets.org/poem/castnet...

Bringing my poems over to to Bsky. Here's what I consider my magnum opus (for now).

Y'all should hear this too.

Come hear me read at the New Orleans Words and Music Festival. 11/22nd 6:00pm. André Cailloux Center for Performing Arts and Cultural Justice

Poetic Reflections on “Captive State: Louisiana and the Making of Mass Incarceration."

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Okay so why did no one tell me Ta-Nehisi Coates was this tall?

Newest book buys!

Excited to read these!

Let Us Descend into Black Abundance

TW: gun violence

My poem, "The Art of London Firearms," which won the 2023 Stanley Kunitz Prize from APR. We need better gun control.