A lot of my writing/performance work is documented online, but I wanted to set up a page here just with a handful of personal favorites. They’re in no particular order; some I wrote when I was like 18, and some I wrote when I was 40. You can find more on my own channel, and via Button Poetry’s channel, but this is a solid introduction to my work.
Also: not videos, but two of my most recent pieces:
- Discourse (Let Your Heart Be a Whistle) – Dec 2025
- Ode to the Unarrest – Jan 2026
RELATED LINKS
- A lot of people find my work via online or live performances, but I wrote a book too.
- Check out my spoken word resource hub for resources, playlists of other people’s poems, and much more.
- The videos here are all spoken word poetry performances; I also have a bunch of music videos. Here are two examples:
A SINGLE PLAYLIST WITH ALL THESE VIDEOS (AND MORE)
For anyone out there who wants to listen to me talk for a couple hours:
In addition to the poems mentioned above, this playlist also includes:
- BTS 40K
- To the Informants in the Audience Tonight
- A Hundred People Died on First Hill
- All the People I Want To Say “I Told You So” to Are Dead
- Hen March Outlaws Cops
- Ten Responses to the Proposal To Overcome the Current Plague by Challenging It to a Duel
- Police Make the Best Poets
- Pro-Life?
- Thoughts & Prayers
- Dust
- Action
- “A Frank and Honest Conversation About Race”
- A Pragmatist’s Guide to Faith (and a newer version here)
- An Open Letter to Pinocchio from Dracula
- 10 Excerpts from New York Times Op-Eds in Fictional Realities
- Starfish
- The Invisible Backpacker of Privilege
- Level Up (My Autobiography as a Learner)
- The Mommy Effect
- Lightning
- A Prayer for Indie Rappers
- You Might Be an Authoritarian If…
- All the Threads Between Us
- Wolves, They Said, Prayer-Like
- City of Heart
- REACH
- Small Talk
- An hour-long reflection on my book
- An hour-long podcast interview
I guess I’ve written a lot of poems. Hope something in there can be useful.