BOOKS
- Red Clay Suite (Southern Illinois University Press, 2007)
- Outlandish Blues (Wesleyan University Press, 2003)
- The Gospel of Barbecue (The Kent State University Press, 2000)
- Work in progress:
Phillis Wheatley Poems
PROSE
- “Miss Tar Baby: Dark and Lovely and Such (as Told to Mr. J. C. Harris, Esquire)”
- “Easter Lilies in the West Room”
- “The Blues: A Craft Manifesto,” Kenyon Review, Summer 2012
POEMS
- “Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay, Great-Niece of Lord Mansfield, and her Cousin, Lady Elizabeth Murray, c. 1779 (by unknown artist)” on Academy of American Poets.
- “Mothering #1”
- “For the First of Two Times, Belinda, Former Slave of the House of Issac Royall, Petitions the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for a Pension in her Old Age”
- “Draft of an Ex-Colored Letter Sent Home from the Post-Race War Front”
first appeared in Black Renaissance - “The Glory Gets”
first appeared in Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art - “Apologia for Something”
first appeared in Lowball
CRITICISM
- Phillis Remastered, a blog”
- “The Blues: A Craft Manifesto”
from The Kenyon Review, summer 2012 - “The Subjective Briar Patch: Contemporary American Poetry”
from VQR (Virginia Quarterly Review), spring 2012