“Making Love to Buddy Guy”
The Oxford American, Issue 95, Winter 2016​

“Incendiary Art: Tulsa, 1921” and “Blurred Quotient and Theory”
Eleven Eleven, Issue 22, November 2016

“Incendiary Art: The Body”
The Baffler, Issue No. 32, September 2016

“Incendiary Art”
Poetry Foundation, July 21, 2016

“The Five Stages of Drowning”
Buzzfeed, June 6, 2016​

“Incendiary Art: Ferguson 2015,” “Emmett Till: Pick Your Own Adventure,” and "that's my"
The Normal School, November 10, 2015

“Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah”
Poetry Foundation, 2012​

“Tavern. Tavern. Church. Shuttered tavern”
Rattle, September 2, 2012

“What Garfield Park Kept Saying” and “An Open Letter to Joseph Peter Naras”
Sampsonia Way, August 20, 2012​

“A Colored Girl Will Slice You If You Talk Wrong About Motown”
Granta, 115: The F Word, April 26, 2011

“Siblings,” “8 A.M., Sunday, August 25, 2005,” “Up on The Roof,” and “Ethel's Sestina”
NPR, November 12, 2008