“Laure, 1862-63,” Third Coast, 2024, Poetry Contest Finalist

“I’ll Never Forget the Man Who Stepped Onto the Lorraine Hotel’s Balcony” Mississippi Review 2024, Poetry Contest Finalist

“Angela, You Are Part of Every Black Woman I Have Ever Known,” The Elevation Review 2023, Pushcart Prize nomination

“Unmarked Grave c. 1630,” Eastern Iowa Review, Issue 16 online ed., 2024, Best of the Net nomination

“I Am What Happens When Nature Has Its Way,” Shō Number 3, 2023, nominated for Orison Books’ Best Spiritual Literature Anthology and Pushcart Prize nomination

“After Learning of His Castration,” LEON: Literary Review, August 1, Issue, Pushcart Prize nomination

“What They Carried With Them,” The Good Life Review, Winter 2022 Issue (online) Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nomination

“They Came with the Night,” Gordon Square Review, Issue 9, online in November 2021, Pushcart Prize nomination

“The Hackensack River Early,” Exit 13 Magazine #26, 2021, Pushcart Prize nomination

“Today, I Heard Obama Sing Amazing Grace Again,” Poetry South 2021, Pushcart Prize nomination

“She Was All We Knew,” The Worcester Review, Vol. 42, 2021, Pushcart Prize nomination 

“Indentures, (Ars Poetica),” River Mouth Review – 2021 Pushcart Prize nomination

“I’ve Been Waiting For Hate To Die,” Gulf Stream Magazine – Gulf Stream Summer 2020, Poetry Contest Finalist