Poems
2024
“Falso Cognato,” “En Cognato,” and “In Cognate,” The Kenyon Review, forthcoming 2024.
“The Rivers, The United States, and Me.” Georgia Review, forthcoming 2024.
2023
“Sentimental Evening,” The New Republic. September 2023.
2022
“Sophia Wants a Baby and So Do I,” —Colorado Review.
“Drone,” “Because I am a Good Shot,” and “Another’s Living Soul,” —Narrative.
“Object Mother” and “A Tiny Nest of Paper,” —Southern Indiana Review.
2021
“1,723 Miles Away From Home,” and “The Aeryon R80D Skyraider,” —The Yale Review.
“Present This Receipt to CBP,” and “Agent,” —New England Review.
“Small Unmanned Aerial Systems,” “CCTV,” and “The Lockheed Martin Indago 3” —Gulf Coast 34.1, Fall 2021.
“Fable,” “Smolder,” and “In Youth”—Puerto Del Sol, Vol. 56 Issue 1, Fall 2021.
2020
“Pledge Allegiance.” -The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day. 1October 2020.
2019
“After Making Red Chile.” Ploughshares, forthcoming.
“The Trick is to Pretend.” Paris Review, forthcoming.
“Paper Cuts.” The Academy of American Poet’s Poem-A-Day, July 2019.
2018
“Notes on My Present: A Contrapuntal,” “In The Culture of Now,” and “More Than One Man Has Reached Up My Skirt.” POETRY, December 2018. Print and Online.
“Macho :: Hembra” and “Receta en El Cajon.” Kenyon Review, Vol. XL No. 4, July/August 2018. Print.
2017
"Kept" -POETRY, November 2017.
"For My Son" & "My Gift" -Tin House, Winter Reading 2017.
"Border Crossing Simulation" -Boulevard. No. 97.
"Aesthetic Translation" -Zócalo Public Square, Nov. 17, 2017.
"Buen Esqueleto" -Buzzfeed Reader, July 7, 2017.
"My Brother" & "Amerigo Vespucci" -Los Angeles Review of Books, No. 15.
"In The Age of Los Zetas" & "Name Search"- Indiana Review, Volume 39, No. 2.
"There Is No Such Thing as Confession in Latinx Poetry" -Gulf Coast, Volume 29, Issue 2.
"I Wait For a Bus" & "At a Party I Tell a Story & Ask:" -West Branch, Fall 2017, No. 85.
"A Crown of Gold Snakes on My Head" -Bennington Review, Issue 3.
"I am á la Mode" & "She is á la Mode" -Western Humanities Review, Volume 70.2.
"Women's Work"-Boston Review, February 2017.
"One Body" & "He Has An Oral Fixation"-POETRY, February 2017.
"One Body" -Poetry Daily, February 16th, 2017.
2016
"You Are a Dark Body" -The Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day, October 2016.
"You Say Tomato, Yo Tomatl" -The Shallow Ends, October 2016.
"Lima Limón" & "Dear Drone" -Tinderbox, July 2016.
"Neomachismo" -NACLA:Report on the Americas, July 2016.
2015
"There Is a Bird in My Mouth" -The Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day, 9 December 2015.
"I am with Child" & "On Ash Wednesday" -HEArt Human Equity Through Art, October 2015.
"Argyria" -The Awl, October 2015.
"Endnotes on Cd. Juárez" -Best American Poetry 2015 (originally published in West Branch).
"Angel and I Are Both Great Pretenders" & "Like Victorian Women" -The Massachusetts Review, Fall 2015.
2014
"Because They Lack Country," "Mouth in my Kitchen," & "Placement" -American Poets, Introducing Series featured by Dana Levin, Winter/Fall 2014.
2013
"Crossing" & "Broken Initials" -Prairie Schooner, Fall 2013. Winner of a Glenna Luschei Prize.
"Notes on Cd. Juárez as a Play" & "Endnotes on Cd. Juárez" -West Branch, Fall 2013.
"Angels Fall From the Sky to El Paso, Texas" & "Your Mouth is Full" -Crab Orchard Review, Spring 2013.
"The City is a Body Broken" -Four Way Review. 2013.
2012
"Bibbed in Paisley he Reads Zizek Instead" -The Believer, Fall 2012.
"This Bitter Salt"-The Cortland Review. Fall 2012.
"Dear Angel" & "La Mariscal" -PALABRA, Spring 2012.
"I Light the House on Fire and Lie Down" & "A Torero's Daughter is Killed" -Cream City Review, Spring 2012.
"Escaping The Verging Cities," "The Archeologist Came To Hunt Trilobites," "The Corner Store Clerk Says Her Name Was Ofelia," "The Verging Cities Watch Me," & "The Poems Shows Up" -As/Us, Spring 2012.
"After I Read Your Obituary" -Cura, Fall 2012.
2011
"Succulence" -Bellevue Literary Review. Fall 2011.
"Guerrero Pears" -The Acentos Review. Fall 2011.
"How Borders are Built" -The Minnesota Review. Spring 2011.