Writing
Poetry
- “Faith,” The Atlantic (August 2025)
- “Hereafter,” Poetry Magazine (July/August 2025)
- “All Souls,” The Atlantic (October 2024)
- “Diptych,” Poetry (July/August 2023)
- “Ledge,” Poem-a-Day (April 2023)
- “Altarpiece,” The Bitter Southerner (April 2023)
- “Tonsure,” VQR (March 2020)
- “Dog Star,” VQR (March 2020)
- “Boneyard,” VQR (March 2020)
- “Hum,” Paris Review (March 2020)
- “Shade,” Paris Review (March 2020)
- “Egrets,” Orion (December 2019)
- “Mason Jar,” New Republic (November 2019)
- “Sting,” Yale Review (October 2019)
- “Halter,” Yale Review (October 2019)
- “Oblivion,” The New Yorker(January 2015)
- “from Winehouse,” The Paris Review(March 2013)
Nonfiction
- “Kevin Young on James Baldwin’s ‘Letter from a Region in My Mind,’” The New Yorker (February 2025)
- “Nikki Giovanni’s Legacy of Black Love,” The New Yorker (December 2024)
- “Rita Dove, The Art of Poetry,” The Paris Review (Spring 2023)
- “And I One of Them,” The New York Review of Books (December 2021)
- “Juneteenth Is a National Holiday Now. Can It Still Be Black?,” The New York Times (June 2021)
- “Ralph Ellison’s Slow-Burning Art,” The New Yorker (December 2019)
- “Going to the Movies with Toni Morrison,” The New Yorker (August 2019)
- “When You Go Away: Remembering W.S. Merwin,” The New Yorker (March 2019)
- “How to Hoax Yourself: The Case of A Gay Girl in Damascus,” The New Yorker (November 2017)
- “The Time Virginia Woolf Wore Blackface,” The New Yorker (October 2017)
- “Moon Shot: Race, a Hoax, and the Birth of Fake News,” The New Yorker (October 2017)
- “Uninhabited,” The New Yorker (May 2016)
- “Repast,” VQR (March 2015)