Other Words

Poems

Naming Ceremony, Poets.org

Selah, Poets.org

Note to Black Women in America, The New York Times

Essays

Letter from Oklahoma: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers on the Endless Mourning of the Present, Literary Hub

Go Back and Fetch It, Poetry Foundation

Things Ain’t Always Gone Be This Way, The Kenyon Review

The Blues: A Craft Manifesto, The Kenyon Review

The Subjective Briar Patch: Contemporary American Poetry, VQR

Kwame Dawes’ Requiem—Or, A Defense of Narrative in Black Poetry, Poetry International