Poetry

Grief is a Many-Headed Monster: A Mixtape

Living in New Orleans, oftentimes reality feels like fantasy. Not a cookie- cutter kind of…

Girlhood, Or, So What If Diamond Is A Stripper Name

after Céline Sciamma’s film Girlhood (2014) Don’t act like you never met them—withering bright acrossthe…

Performance Studies

She must be having a seizure,La Lupe’s beau-to-be thinks as he sees her first sing…

Self Portrait As Aretha’s Gold Purse

My reputation walk in the room 
before I do.

Below the clouds

The day the DREAM Act failed – no graduation caps went up into the air…

Nonproprietary Forms: Diana Khoi Nguyen and Angie Cruz in Conversation

In Fall 2023 I had the pleasure to speak to Diana Khoi Nguyen about her…

Season’s Stranger

Summer’s unbothered streetlights, bitten legs.In this scene, it’s impolite to say mother, father; to saythis…

After Hours Elsewhere

I aim for bed, the bar is on the wayAnd you. I know that bright…

#3

Sometimes, my words come at the same time as seeing. The idea that one is not interior to the other.

Lookback Window

She tells me I am a loving human being the same day he tells me I am selfish and spiteful. She tells me I am brave the same day he tells me I’m a coward.