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Las Moradas (arrow as aarow, 2025) [chapbook]
A review in Little Mirror.
Scarecrow (Wesleyan University Press, 2016)
Honors for Scarecrow from Daniel Handler (a.k.a Lemony Snicket) (“books of poetry I found especially useful this year”); Tin House (“the very best of 2016”); the Washington Independent Review of Books (“roundup of the best poetry”); Flavorwire (a “must read” poetry book); Wild Detectives (“the bestest of 2016”).
Azure (Wesleyan University Press, 2015)
Reviews or features in The New Yorker, The Volta, and American Book Review.
Pink Reef (Canarium Books, 2013)
Pink Reef chosen by Joyelle McSweeney for the Poetry Foundation’s 2025 National Poetry Month recommendations as “an older collection that remains a touchstone, the book that comes to mind first when they’re asked for a poetry rec.,” introduced by Timothy Donnelly in Boston Review, selected as a best book by Cal Bedient for The Volta and Seth Graves for Coldfront, and called “one of the best books of the year” by Shane McCrae in an article in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
We Are Pharaoh (Canarium Books, 2011)
Honors for/related to We Are Pharaoh from the Poetry Society of America (named a New American Poet by Robyn Schiff); Poets and Writers magazine (named a “debut poet”/We Are Pharaoh named one of 10 “stand-out debuts”); the University of Massachusetts Amherst Juniper Literary Festival (named an “emerging writer”); The Offending Adam (We Are Pharaoh named a “book of the month”).