Poems & conversations.

The Middle Ages

Read here · first appeared in Queer Poem-A-Day · 2026

This Is Not a Horse

Read here · first appeared in Poem-a-Day · 2025

Gold

Read here · first appeared in The Account · 2025

The Belltower

Read here · first appeared in The Account · 2025

Ars Poetica: A Cento

Read here · first appeared in The Account · 2025

The Wake

Read here · first appeared in Poetry · 2024

Ars Poetica

Read here · first appeared in Shenandoah · 2023

A faded picture of our father and

Read here · first appeared in The Adroit Journal · 2023

The Good Guy

Read here · first appeared in The Adroit Journal · 2023

Que Significa

Read here · first appeared in The Georgia Review · 2022

The Hummingbird

Read here · first appeared in Orion · 2020

My Son Wants to Know Who His Biological Father Is

Read here · first appeared in Poem-a-Day · 2019

A Man and a Woman Touched

Read here · first appeared in The New York Times Magazine · 2018

Dear America

Read here · first appeared in Terrain · 2018

Apology for My Son Who Stops to Ask About His Mother Once More

Read here · first appeared in Harvard Review Online · 2018

Use Your Words

Read here · first appeared in Poets.org · from Forgive the Body This Failure

To Orpheus

Read here · first appeared in A Question of Gravity and Light

Dear Friend

Read here · first appeared in A Question of Gravity and Light

Lighter,

Read here · first appeared in Poetry Society of America (Latino/a Poets Roundtable)

Orphan

Read here · first appeared in Poetry Magazine · 2016

Revolution

Read here · first appeared in Poetry Magazine · 2016

The Battle of Nashville

Read here · first appeared in A Question of Gravity and Light

A Ride in the Rain

Read here · first appeared in Poetry Foundation