Upon the Body:
Poems of/to a Black Social Epi, Vol.II
LOVE // Resistance in the Time of COVID
#ByEpiMeansNecessary
MASKS//Exposed
Amplify (2022)
LATENT//Missing
Health Education & Behavior (2020)
2021 Lawrence W. Green Paper of the Year Award
PRESENCE//Gifted
Health Promotion Practice (2023)
ANTIBODIES//Shots
Resistance Poetry (2020) and featured in
”ANTIBODIES//Shots: Engaging Public Health Critical Race Praxis to Counter Epistemic Violence in Discourse of Dual Pandemics,” in ILLMATIC CONSEQUENCES: The Clapback to Opponents of ‘Critical Race Theory’ (2023)
IMAGINATION//Immunity
Amplify (2022)
TOGETHER//Untethered
Brain Mill Press (2020)
2020 National Poetry Month Award
2020 Pushcart Prize Nominee
PARTICULATES//Tulips
Health Promotion Practice (2021)
RELATIVES//Risks
Critical Public Health (2022)
BLACK//Gold
Amplify (2022)
FRUIT//Labor
Resistance Poetry (2020)
PERSONAL//Unequipped
Resistance Poetry (2020)
PEDICURES//Distance
TOGETHER // Untethered
National Poetry Month Award for “Interconnection + Community,” Brain Mill Press
2020 Pushcart Prize Nominee
LATENT//Missing
As published in Health Education & Behavior (2020). This is the first poem ever published by HEB, and the first work of public health scholarship to use poetry as a format for critical commentary and analysis of structural racism and COVID-19.
2021 Lawrence W. Green Paper of the Year Award
“...We know who you are, that you’ll return
as surely as paragraphs,
bringing forth funds to examine
the labyrinths of your power;
you’ll want us to run models to feed our kids,
specify parameters to meet mortgages,
partition variance, publish papers, polish portfolios like nails
so we can break them on the dark side of a door
closed on our existence:
reanimated
by imputation.
We, the undead, will be here in the mourning —
eyes turned upon you,
vile clay beneath our feet.
And that data better be clean.”