poems, fictions, essays, interviews

books

Chasms (essays, in progress)

All This Metonymy (a novel, in progress)

Coastal California (experimental poetry, in progress)

Septet for the Luminous Ones (Wesleyan University Press, 2024)

Maroon Choreography (Duke University Press, 2021)

poems

“Breatharian” Brink (forthcoming, 2027)

“2 poems” Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora (forthcoming)

“3 poems” California Poets (online, 2026)

“2 poems” Touch the Donkey [ a small poetry journal ] (above/ground press, 2026)

“Duende, A Vocabulary I Return To” Winter in America (Still (Carbonation Press, 2026)

“Wild Horses, New Mexico 2025” HERE (2026)

“3 poems” The Brooklyn Rail (2024)

“still away” Indiana Review (2024)

“entheogenic rush” Transition Magazine (2024)

“i am like a radio, channel of my own” Poetry Daily (2024)

“abalone” Albion Books (chapbook) (2023)

“alchemical sirens” The Kenyon Review (2023)

“communicado, two sips” Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora (2021)

“our general banality” American Academy of Poets Poem-A-Day (2021)

“2 poems” mercury firs (2021)

“Wayward Would” Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora (2021)

“2 poems” Interim (2021)

fiction

“from BLUE VIPERS” mercury firs (2025)

essays

“Red as in Dawn Lundy Martin’s Instructions for the Lovers” The Rumpus (2024)

“On the Poet’s Social Responsibility” Poetry Daily (2022)

“Restless Flying / ‘i believe in echoes’” ASAP/J (2021)

“Grief Aesthetics” liquid blackness (2022)

“skilled black hands braid geometric insignia as poetry” Air/Light Magazine (2021)

interviews

“TtD supplement #313: seven questions for fahima ife” rob mclennan’s blog (forthcoming, 2026)

“12 or 20 (second series) questions with fahima ife” rob mclennan’s blog (2025)