Published Works

Poetry:

Full-length Collection:
Dogetry, Middlepoetry Press, November 2017

Publications and anthologies:
-“St. Chad Stanza” Written for St. Chad Festival Sunday, St. Chad’s Episcopal Church, February, 2023
-“A Poem of Thanks” Written for Folk Mass with Liturgical Folk, St. Chad’s Episcopal Church, November 2022
-“Family Reading” Abandoned Mine, February 2022
-“Coastal Communication: A Mother and Son’s Moving collaboration” With Jane Jackson Daily Good, June 2019
-“Defendable Dog” The Furious Gazelle, July 2017
-“My Neighborhood” Babbling of the Irrational, June 2017
-“I Remember” Babbling of the Irrational, September 2016
-“Strength” San Francisco Peace and Hope Issue 5, September 2016
-“Eleven Years” Breaking Free, An anthology from Scripting Change, March 2016
-“ChiKu” The Prompt Literary Magazine, December 2015
-“Marking Rebellion”, “Man Invisible” Section 8 Magazine, October 2015
-“Dying Parent” RoguePoetry Review 2015, An anthology from PunksWritePoemsPress, September 2015
-“Jasmine Joy” Babbling of the Irrational, July 2015
-“Broken Blue” Ampersand Literary, June 2015
-“Minimum Wage” The Social Poet, May 2015
-“Taser” The Social Poet, May 2015
-“The Economy of Time” The Insomniac Propagandist, April 2015
-“Undocumented Tutor” Beyond the Words, An anthology from Scripting Change, December 2014
-“Fantastic Decision” Pawsh Magazine, Fall 2014
-“The Letter B” Remarkable Doorways, August 2014
-“Dirty Fingernails” TimBookTu, July 2014
-“Empty City Street” San Francisco Peace and Hope Issue 4, June 2014
-“Newsflash” Buck Off Magazine, May 2014
-“Spring Recline” Pawsh Magazine, Spring 2014
-“Shaving Dad” The Tattooed Poets Project, April 2014
-“Expensive Dirt” Rogue Particles Magazine, March 2014
-“Shaving Dad” The Furious Gazelle, January 2014
-“Flummoxed” Instigatorzine Vol. 21, December 2013
-“Face” Coalesce Magazine, December 2013
-“Sick it Seems” Seeing Past Sickness, An anthology from Scripting Change, November 2013
-“Without Power” Pawsh Magazine, Fall 2013
-“The Revolution Will Be Poeticized” The Social Poet, August 2013
-“Gentrifying Nomads” Contraposition, August 2013
-“Woman Wife”, “Corruption Outside” The Forgotten Issue, August 2013
-“History Woven”, “Night of Stars” The Forgotten Issue, July 2013
-“Held” Like One: Poems for Boston, An anthology to benefit The One Fund, June 2013
-“Perch of Cat” Jersey City Independent, April 2013
-“Inhabiting Wall Street” The Social Poet, March 2013
-“What Animal I Would Be” Mercury Retrograde Anthology, Kattywompus Press, March 2013
-“Coffee Bubbles” The Whirlwind Review, February 2013
-“Irene” Runaway Parade, February 2013
-“Tea Timed” Timepiece Literary Journal, December 2012
-“Clang of the Dog Bowl” All I Want to Do Is All I Want to Do to Your Brain, Cloud City Press, November 2012
-“An Afternoon Game”, “Catch” Baseball Bard, November 2012
-“Dental HMO” Fat City Review, October 2012
-“Right Field Inspiration”, “Baseball Is True Ballet”, “Why They Play” co-written with Jane Jackson, Baseball Bard, March 2012
-“And Dog Makes Three” The Bark Magazine, September 2011
-“Tea Timed” The Nu Bohemia, June 2011
-“Coastal Haiku”, “Walking Buddy” Four and Twenty Journal, April 2010
-“In a Moment” Vwa: Poems for Haiti, edited by Lisa Marie Basile, March 2010
-“Slumber” Word Catalyst Magazine, March 2010
-“Classified”, “Mathematics”, “Skid Row Streets” Unhoused Voices: Granting Change for the Homeless, Sabella Press, August 2009
-“I’ll Be Your Huckleberry”, “Hollywood Interview” The Commonline Journal, July 2009
-“Have You Seen My Girl?”, “Things That Are Getting on My Nerves” Afterword Magazine, July 2009
-“Democratic Transition”, “Mixed Me” A Brilliant Record Magazine, December 2008
-“Motion in Music” Halving a Baby, December 2006
-“Hollywood” Joey Magazine, September 2006
-“Trouble in Her Whisper”, “Summer Evening”, “Elegance”, “Last Night” Bare Back Magazine, Spring/Summer 2006
-“Meta-Middle Love Poem” The Written Voice, March 2006
-“Mythic She” Bar Back Magazine, December 2005
-“Refrain” Humdinger Zine, November 2005
-“Downtown at Night” The Los Angeles Journal, October 2005
-“City Streets” Tales from the Heart of Hollywood, June 2005
-“Six Wishes” The Hudson Current, March 2005
-“Window”, “New Jersey Transit”, “Melted Pot”, “Last Night”, “Dreams, Drool and Her”, “For Those Who Have Moved On”, “Ashes of Genetics” The Waterbug Hotel Digest, Summer/Fall 2004
-“City Streets”, “Canned Sardines” Take Magazine, April 2004
-“Gossip” Brew Ha Ha Anthology, 2003
-“The Duality of Me” Burlington Slamthology, Summer 2000

Awards/Honors/Recognitions:
-Semi-Finalist, PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellowship, 2006
-Recipient of two grants from the Puffin Foundation, 2005 and 2004
-Named Poet Laureate of Jersey City, NJ, June 25 2004
-Second place Poetryshelf month long poetry slam, March 2004
-Burlington Political Slam Champion, Burlington, VT, March 17th 2000

Mixed Media:
-“Age” Photography and poetry collaboration with Roya Movafegh as part of the A Moment In Time project, August 2014
-“A Dear John Letter to Hip-Hop” in collaboration with Jan Tompkins as part of the Tupac Project, original photo by Chi Modu, May 2011

Judge:
–National Poetry Month Contest Judge, Jersey City Independent, April 2015
–COA (Connecticut Office of the Arts) Poetry Fellowship Judge, April 2013
–Notes & Grace Notes Poetry Judge, December 2008

Fiction:
-“Commands” The Written Voice, April 2006
-“Drugs and the Corner (Mid-Wilshire At Night)” Bruise Magazine, March 2006

Audio:
-“I’m Tired” Weerai Music Company, March 2010
-“Newsflash”, “Things That Are Getting On My Nerves”, “A Dear John Letter To Hip-Hop” 20 Dissidents, Winter 2007

Photography:
-Photo included in Day in the Life JC exhibit curated by Honey and Moon Photography, October 2016
-Photo of Roscoe’s House of Chicken ‘N Waffles, Schmap, March 2011
-Photos of Vermont, Border Hopping, February 2010

Television:
-Performed in an episode of “B Side” for Starz in Black, 2005
-“Numbers” Public Service Announcement written and performed by Aaron B. Jackson, directed by Rich Newey and Tamim Nashir, 2004

Voice Over:
-Freshpic theatrical ad campaign, July 2005
-Raptools, music business legal guide, April 2005