Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize

Epic Black: Poetics of Protest in the Era of Black Lives Matter has won the Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize for writing on African or African American artistic, cultural, and/or historical issues, administered by the History of Art and African American Studies Departments.

Two poems in Agni

“Bermuda Triangle” and “Diaspora” are in Agni 93

Pleiades Magazine

Pleiades Magazine 41.1

“On a Field in the Present” has been published in Pleiades Magazine 41.1

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Best of the Net

“IN WHICH I TRY TO USE NAMING CONVENTIONS TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND ‘UNINCORPORATED TERRITORY’” was selected by Jasminne Mendez for Best of the Net 2021.

Até Mais: Latinx Futurisms

Latinx Futurisms Anthology

Three poems from The Cats of Old San Juan will be in Até Mais: An Anthology of Latinx Futurisms

Yale Review Year in Review

David reviews his pick for most notable cultural artifact of the year, “WAP.” “‘WAP’ is both an acronym and onomatopoeia, but its meaning? Everything.” The Yale Review

PANK-LONGLISTS-FINALISTS

[Pank] Book Contest Longlist

The Cats of Old San Juan has been longlisted at [PANK].

Up the Staircase Quarterly issue 51

Two poems in Up the Staircase QUarterly

“Precarity” and “The Cats of Old San Juan”

Yale English Dissertation symposium: Oct. 30

Best of the Net Nomination

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