Houston Landing, “Tired of #HoustonStrong” co-written by 70+ Houstonians
Bayou Review, “Scaffolding”, “An Elegy for Lot’s Wife”, and “We Were Wrong about Pluto, Too”
Houston Public Media, “Angels Fly to My Place for Dinner”
Counterstream Media – Peace & Riot Issue 02, “Tired of #HoustonStrong”
Praisesong for the People, “To you who locked our arms at the standoff”
Houston Arts Journal, “Oh, Lola’s”
Shift Press, “In Texas We Pop Prayers like Pills” and “my grandmother say, inside or outside”
West Branch Wired, “Under Construction”
Green Mountains Review, “Protest”, “Mythtropolis”, “blacademic”
Pidgeonholes, “Ekphrasis”, “Sex is a multiple-choice test I always fail, so I answer the same letter for every question.”
The West Review, “In which I no longer see my face as full of potential”
The Rumpus, “I’m Told”
Unstamatic Magazine, “ENGL 3331: Intro to Poetry”
Bareknuckle Poet, “university tour guide”, “black existentialist trauma”
Contra: Texas Poets Speak Out Anthology, “Can A Body Be”
Houston Review of Books, “black hair ghazal”, “Brown Protagonist”, “Circus Act”, “Away with the Sun”, “Code Switch”
Panoplyzine, “Bottled Ship”
Defunkt Magazine, “A Scaffold is Only So Safe in the Nighttime
Thirty West Publishing House, “Key”, “Indigo Hour”, “Violet Night”
Underground Journal, “B-Side”
Houston Chronicle, “Opinion: It wasn’t all peaceful. What HPD doesn’t want you to know about Houston’s George Floyd protest”
Prism, “‘Defund the police’ is not a slogan. It’s a demand”
Shift Press, Poet Laureate Inauguration Speech
ARIS KIAN. 