Below is a running list of my publications:
2024
- Four Poems
- My mother counts down in reverse every year
- On west mulberry and mlk
- Morning Ritual, Interrupted
- Realization at a Crab Feast
- On the dance floor
- more to Vickers Road than the address
- Squeegee boys
- ESSAY: God is Us
- Reasons I don’t write about the moon
2023
- Rite of Passage
- brain teaser
- On finding permission to talk about my childhood
- Mama doesn’t measure how much rum she puts in a cake
- Control
- Memory
2022
- Daydream
- Am I Racist?
- almost nothing gets me out my chair hootin and hollering faster than Serena Williams at the us open
- we don’t play with Candyman over here
- INTERVIEW with kith books
2021
- Chickenboxwitsaltpepperhotsauce, a word
- Burnt Sienna
- lipservice
- I don’t know pleasure until she convinces me to skip French class
- Please
- It is no surprise that we are articulate, page 27
- hey you, a voicemail I don’t send
- Hair Tales from a Black Babe
- & do it with a smile
- Four poems:
- Chile, it’s finna be lit
- It was a bad day
- ain’t y’all tired?
- Why it doesn’t matter
2020:
- Two Poems: welfare check & “Not what we expected”
- Writer of the Month (June 2020) at Drunk Monkeys — 5 poems
- you were supposed to be a friend, a chapbook — available in pdf, print, and Kindle
- black has every right to be angry , and you get three poems in one 🙂
- Flash CNF: Death Comes for the Best of Us & an excerpt from a manuscript I am working on “Good Girl” (aka I Hate Not Having Control)
- A taste of memory in mashed potatoes
- wanton
- Four poems: Kitchen Conversations, above, After two weeks on Ancestry.com I find Africa in my blood, & Discover
- CNF: Mama Calls
2019:
- Chaplet: letters from an old mistress
- Before any new medical procedures, page 26
- Mama Nevel, page 40
- black hands pick cotton in 2019
- Dear Black mothers whose children die by white hand
2018:
- A Family Thing
- The Safe Addiction
- Two Poems: savage servant & amerikkka 2017
- refusal to pledge
- young people sipping on lemonade
2017:
- Three Poems: Emmett Till, on police, grandma’s bowl
- growing up black girl
- things that scare wypipo and/or police in 2017
2016:
- how to be black in amerikkka
- Five Poems: Light, Best, This isn’t Friendship, 6 Inch Heels, Pretty
- not prayer
2015:
All Essays
- Her Name is Quvenzhané
- Love Hurts but Not This Much
- Respectability Politics Aren’t So Respectable
- Names Are Not Innocent
- Why I Am Not Here for Kylie Jenner
- No, Not “Pretty for a Black Girl”
- Toya Graham is Not Your Hero
- The N-Word
2014:
All Essays
- Mike Brown is Human and Human is Enough of a Qualifier
- What Hashtag Activism Does Wrong
- I Wanted to Be White
- Racism is Not a Game
- The Obama Girls and Black Womanhood
- Father’s Nightmare or Nah?
- #blacklivesmatter
- Whitewashing in the Media
Let me know in the comments below which were your favorite pieces to read.
Ashley Elizabeth 