WORK
Essays
PAPER: 21 Artists on the Unique Joy of Performing at Afropunk
50 Photos That Show the Power of Afropunk
Salon: The Ocean Is “Endless”: Frank Ocean’s new visual album is a heroic read on digital culture
Indiana Review: Contemporary poetry on the politics of race
ESPN: Sequins and Surya Bonaly: What Figure Skating Taught Me About Body Acceptance
This is Africa: On Trump
Poetry
Barrelhouse: Street Fighter, Songs for Women
ESPN: Float like a butterfly
Winter Tangerine: forrest gump, Pantone 71-4C
Guernica: White
The Offing: Start
Witness: Strawberry Swing
INTERVIEWS
NPR/OPB: Oceanography: Poet Shayla Lawson On Frank Ocean
Chicago Review of Books: The Rihanna of Poetry on Frank Ocean and Enjambment
Connotation Press: Shayla Lawson Interview, with Julie Brooks Barbour