Word by Word: A Sampling of Publications

• “Poets Resist, Refuse, and Find a Way Through” (introduction to poetry series), SAPIENS, co-written with Grace Zhou and Alma Simba, January 13, 2025
  
• The Mountain-Ear Podcast, Poetry Spotlight (audio), May 4, 2025
  
• Poetry From the Stacks (video): Poetry Reading, Nederland Library, May 10, 2024
  
• “Poems of Witness and Possibility: Inside Zones of Conflict” (introduction poetry series), SAPIENS, co-written with Ather Zia and Toiba Naseema, January 29, 2024
• Medicine for the Dance: Wisdom for the 21st Century: Book I (self-published book of letters), 2024
• “Free” (poem), Wild Roof Journal, Issue 23, November 2023
• “Heart Match” (poem), Wild Roof Journal, Issue 21, July 2023
• “Indigenizing What It Means to be Human” (introduction to poetry series), SAPIENS, co-written with Margaret Noodin and Jason Vasser-Elong, January 19, 2023
• “A Home, a Trap” and “Ravens: Untitled” (poems), Bristlecone, September 2022
• “What Is Anthropological Poetry?” (essay), SAPIENS, co-written with Día Joy Wright, August 30, 2022
• “Which Dance?” (poem) Wild Roof Journal, Issue 11, November 2021 and discussion of the poem December 7, 2021
• “I Trace Your Tongue” and “I(exquisite)you” (poems). In Wild Gods: The Ecstatic in Contemporary Poetry and Prose, edited by Joel Peckham Jr. and Robert Vivian. New Rivers Press, 2021
• “Lead Me to Life: Voices of the African Diaspora” (introduction to poetry series), SAPIENS, co-written with Leah Zani and Día Joy Wright, September 23, 2021
• “What Will It Take to Stop Swimming in the Waters of Racism?” (essay), SAPIENS, May 24, 2021
• “Presence” (creative nonfiction piece), DASH literary journal, Volume 14, Spring 2021
• “Desert Pulse” (prose poem), Wild Roof Journal, Issue 6, January 2021
• “Notes on a Desert Muse” and “[The moon walks above the ridge]” (poems), The Halcyone Literary Review, Volume 3, Number 3 (Fall), 2020
• “Why Capitalizing ‘Black’ Matters” (Ask SAPIENS piece), SAPIENS, July 29, 2020
• “Grandmother of Light: A 21st-Century Tale” (short story), Wild Roof Journal, Issue 3, July 2020
• “One” (poem), SAPIENS, June 26, 2020
• “Why Capitalize ‘Indigenous’?” (Ask SAPIENS piece), SAPIENS, May 19, 2020
• “Why Poetry + Anthropology?” (introduction to poetry contest), SAPIENS, March 20, 2020
• “Glistening Aspen Tree” (poem), The Language of Trees, edited by Gail Watson. Letterpress printed on the 1889 Chandler & Price platen press. Limited edition of 15 printed. Gilpin County, CO: Birdwood Press, 2020.
• “Heart Vessels” (poem for choral piece), Shared Visions, Ars Nova Singers. Boulder, 2019
• “Luck or Curse? The Stories of Two Hibakusha” (interview), Kyoto Journal, August 15, 2019
• In the Understory of Her Being (bilingual poetry chapbook). Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press, 2018
• Sastrugi (poetry chapbook), self-published, 2009