Recorded Lectures and Conversations
“The Poetics of the Climate Crisis,” The New School, 2022
“The Gulf Stream and the Atlantic World: a conversation between Ada Ferrer, Bernard Ferguson, Hugh Hayden and Stephanie Herdrich,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2022
Essays & Reviews
“The Lantern, the Lightning, the Sea, and the Raft,” Keynon Review, 2023
“Damage and Loss,” The New York Times Magazine, 2021
“Searching for Gwendolyn Brooks,” The Paris Review Online, 2021
“Hurricane Dorian Was a Climate Injustice,” The New Yorker, 2019
Micro-Review of Jenny Odell’s How to Do Nothing, The Common, 2019
“Through the Doors of History: Tiana Clark’s I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood,” Washington Square Review, 2019
“HBO’s Insecure and the End of Black Love,” LEVEL, 2018
“Infinity War and The Reckoning on its Way,” Entropy, November 2018
"Look At How The Bullets Have Missed," The Rumpus, May 2018
"Toward Chester: On Loneliness, Anime and Healing," Medium, 2018
Poems
“awaiting a carriage, any,” Academy of American Poet’s Poem-A-Day
“at last rationing the blue,” Daly News, 2022
“the wrong horses,” Bat City Review, 2022
“niggas in the sun,” No Tokens, 2021
“far past the beginning and quite close to the end,” The Georgia Review, 2020
“origin story,” Nimrod International Journal, 2020
“forecast for tomorrow says snow,” New Ohio Review, 2020
“laugh track,” Indiana Review, Summer 2020 Issue, 2020
“it might be a hurricane year,” Narrative, 2020
“the gnats” and “juxtaposition with seeds,” A Long House, 2020
“you’re welcome,” Winner of The Cincinnati Review’s 2019 Robert and Adele Schiff’s Award for Poetry, 2020
“Mr. Jailer,” Winner of the 2019 Hurston/Wright Foundation College Writers Awards, 2019
“noseeums,” The Southampton Review, 2019
“LDR,” The Common, 2019
“hearsay,” Breakwater Review, 2019
“The Weekend,” Water~Stone Review, 2019
“i just don’t think we should have to subject ourselves to the violence that beckons outside,” Pinwheel, 2019
“on the night my father died,” SLICE Magazine, 2019
“death is a currency,” Berkeley Poetry Review, 2019
“up the creek of my nostril, with an uncoiling thing,” The Paris Review, 2019
“only so many types of hunger you can pack onto an island before you’re surrounded,” “on humor,” and “juxtaposition with foliage”, The Adroit Journal, 2019 (republished upon winning a Adroit Journal Djanikian Scholarship)
“in defense of selfies,” and “the thing about touch,”Up North Lit, February 2019
“the #2 bus riding along franklin avenue in minneapolis is filled with black people,” Winter Tangerine, January 2019
“the immigrant drafts a cover letter”, The Adroit Journal, August 2018
“under fireworks, the immigrant remembers his feet,” The Boiler, February 2018
"when i say yall dont move like we do" and "love does not want this body," Tinderbox Poetry Journal, February 2018
“all these flavors and you chose salty,” “on nihilism,” Up The Staircase Quarterly, February 2018
“self-portrait with nostalgia,” “only so many types of hunger you can pack onto an island before you’re surrounded,” Raleigh Review, March 2018
"on eagerness", Best New Poets 2017, January 2018
"on humor," Epiphany Magazine, November 2017
“juxtaposition with foliage,” Nashville Review, November 2017
"common and john legend's Glory echoes in the background during the march on downtown minneapolis after Jamar Clark was shot... " and "one day the tide will recede and we'll all be dead," HEArt Online, November 2017
"for the call to comcast," Glass: A Journal of Poetry, July 2017
"weeks after announcing her boycott of the death penalty, state attorney Aramis Ayala is pulled over by the police," Poets Reading The News, July 2017
“alternate universe in which no human body is illegal,” Mizna Summer Issue: Surviving, July 2017
“in which i mistake ruby from blackish as a family member” and “while standing in the kitchen, my roommate say luke cage aint shit,” FreezeRay, June 2017
“folks come out the woodwork to like your successes on facebook” and “for the commute,” The Rush, June 2017
“and Batman never came back to my island,” TRACK//FOUR, June 2017
“glory,” Santa Ana River Review, May 2017
“on eagerness,” Third Point Press, April 2017
“and Batman never came back to my island,” Glass: A Journal of Poetry, March 2017
Press
“In the Field: Conversations With Our Contributors,” Water~Stone Review
Q&A, The Hurston/Wright Foundation
On “you’re welcome,” winner of the 2019 Robert and Adele Schiff Poetry Prize, The Cincinnati Review
“Vanity, Pop Music, Self-Love & Brave Fashion Choices w/ Bernard Ferguson,” Say More Podcast with Melissa Lozada-Oliva and Olivia Gatwood