"Chasing Waterfalls"
"Cartographies of Heartache"
"All Eyes on Grief: Processing the Pain of Loss in Public"
"Juneteenth Reflections: Grief Work is Freedom Work"
"Black Dreams, Black Love, Black Freedom Through The Eyes Of Assata Shakur"
"Moving Memorials: Adornments and Altars as Sites of Remembrance"
"For fahima On the Occasion of Flight: Words from the Overground"
Dance My Pain Away
Non-Fiction
"My dad also taught me grooming rituals—how to repair and restore. How to salvage. How to bring healing to things."
From "Cartographies of Heartache"
"Reclaiming Our Time"
"Lottie"
"The Concise Catalog of Deep Grief Objects"
"PERISHABLE"
"Second Helping of Grits"
"Belle's Boy"
"You Will Know Your Tribe by Their Joy"
Fiction
“ I didn’t get a fresh start like you getting. Wasn’t no leaving behind my sorrow. I was sleeping in the bed with it. Packing yours up and taking it north feel like a choice to me.”
From "Belle's Boy"
“After Lingui: The Sacred Bonds”
“If This Were a Lifetime Movie”
“I Became the Miracle in the Absence of the One I Wanted”
“Ůsmëllļìkėøus§idê (Sonku)”
"Edges"
"The Magic Church Bus for Sinners"
Poetry
"...The trees have shook themselves/to the ground./An exercise in letting go..."
From "I Became the Miracle in the Absence of the One I Wanted”
Survival Where the Sea Meets the Sky: Alisa Sikelianos-Carter’s Stars Are Born in Darkness
Before You Drown Your Own Fool Self: Survival in Kendra Allen’s The Collection Plate
2004: DESTINY’S CHILD, DESTINY FULFILLED
A CONCISE CARTOGRAPHY OF DEEP GRIEF OBJECTS
Alive with André 3000: Notes from a New Blue Sun LIVE
Cultural
Musings
"...with The Collection Plate, we are called to the altar so that we may collect our breath, testify how we endured our near drowning(s), and yet, managed to LIVE."
From "Before You Drown Your Own Fool Self..."
The South Still Got Something To Say: Ashley M. Jones Becomes The First Black Poet Laureate In Alabama History
Joseph Coelho On His New Children's Book, Magical Worlds and Poetry
MADAMENOIRE Talks To Shauntavia Ward About Finding Your Element and Loving the Skin You’re In
Q&A: Major Jackson of
The Slowdown
Q&A: Phillips Edits Princeton Poets
Interviews
"When people think of the south, particularly a state like Alabama or more specifically, a place like Birmingham, they instantly think of a legacy of terror but can you tell me about your Birmingham...?"
From "The South Still Got Something To Say..."
Publications
POETRY
Black Mermaids, 2016
Black Mermaids:
Anniversary Edition, 2017 BUY
Black Mermaids:
Gratitude Edition, 2018 (Chapbook)
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Kareemah and the
Black Mermaids, 2017 BUY
BREATHE, 2018 BUY
HYBRID
Survivor’s Guilt, 2019
Survivor’s Guilt, 2021 (2nd Edition)
SPECIALTY
2024 Generational Healing Calendar
2023 HE(ART) & Healing Calendar
2021 Stop Shrinking Calendar
2020 Do Your Work Calendar
Do Your Work Zine, 2020
2019 Nah, This Lifetime Calendar
China Martens, editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines
“Survivor’s Guilt is a modern classic...”