SELECTED POEMS


Ballast Poetry Journal

“What the Baha’i Boy Said to the Platypus” & “What the Platypus Said to the Baha’i Boy”

Taos Journal of Poetry

“i want to write a poem in the shape of home”

Streetlit, 2023

“Malcolm X at the West Babylon KMart, 1990”

Half and One, 2023

“I Don’t Know How to Talk to People”

Home Planet News, 2021

“Climate Change” “Broken Word Artist” & “Childhood Prime”

Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit, 2020

“Beside(s) the Bees”

Passengers Journal, 2020

“Parent-Teacher Night”

Long Island Quarterly, 2020

“When I Start the Timer”

Usawa Literary Review, 2020

“After a Shoot at Heckscher Park” & “Poet of the Year”

Down in the Dirt, 2019

“Throwing at the Sky"

Esthetic Apostle, 2019

“Rorschach"

YES Poetry, 2019

“Dear Super Loud White Guy"

Counterclock, 2019

“Coughing Up the Flag"

Mobius: Journal of Social Change, 2019

“Dear Clinical Board of the United States of Artillery"

Rise Up Review, 2019

“Unnatural Selection"

Amethyst Review, 2019

“Dear Doves"

Writers Resist, 2019

“How to Eat a Soldier"

Korean Expatriate Literature, 2018

“No New Water" (Korean translation by Stanley H. Barkan)

Wordpeace, 2018

“Original Programming"

Cagibi, 2018

"In the Cemetery of My Defense Mechanisms", "Pedestal", "Of Fish and Smoke" & "On Being (Reminded)” *with audio

Long Island Quarterly, 2017

"Symbiosis"

Cobalt Review, 2017

"The Strawman & Dr. K"

The BeZine, 2016

"When Joy Breaks"

The BeZine, 2016

"Toll"

The BeZine, 2016

"Silence"

The BeZine, 2016

"Tanyou (In Search of Quietude)"

Woven Tale Press, 2016

"Beber", "Atitlan" & "Schist"

The BeZine, 2016

"Grace"

The BeZine, 2016

"Walking Around Monaco"

Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art, 2015

"Raven Wire"

Occupoetry, 2014

"Skinsuit"

Eunoia Review, 2014

"Second Child Blues"

Eunoia Review, 2014

"Eight Ways of Looking at Washington"

Eunoia Review, 2014

"The End of Silent Film"

Turtle Island Quarterly, 2014

"Walking Around Monaco" & "Museum of the Heart"

Home Planet News, 2014

"Why a Car Is Not a Gun”, "The Ferry”, "The Mahatma's Sandals" & "National Portrait Gallery (An Ode to George P.A. Healy)"

Synchronized Chaos, 2014

"The Ferry" | "Why a Car is Not a Gun" | "Icon-O-Plastic" | "The Foley Artist Followed Us Home"

poetrybay, 2013

"South on Broadway"

String Poet Magazine, 2012

"Receiving Line” & "What Men's Words Are For"

poetrybay, 2012

"Rainer and the Rio Grande"

Red River Review, 2012

"Four Corners"

Vox Poetica, 2012

"By the Window"