Published Work

POEMS IN PRINT

• "The Case for Acquisition" in The Texas Review All-Poetry Issue 2023

• "Owed" and "From the Dark Diary" in Foglifter 6.2 (order here​)

• "blackbody" and "On Neoliberalism or: Why My Black Ass is Tired" in Prelude Issue 4

• "Nostrand Avenue Dirge" in Copper Nickel Issue 24

• "Momma Said" and "In Kingdom Hall" in Redivider 14.1

• "Principles of Value" and "Quanta" in Bennington Review Issue 2

• "MEMO:" in No, Dear Issue #17

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ANTHOLOGIZED WORK

• Like a Hammer: Poets on Mass Incarceration (Haymarket Books). Preorder it here.

• The New Sentience: Reimagining Animal Poetry (Trinity University Press). Forthcoming.

• Queer Nature: An Ecoqueer Poetry Anthology. Buy it here.

• Already Felt chapbook. Buy it here.

• The Familiar Wild: On Dogs and Poetry (Sundress Publications). Buy it here. 

• Soul Sister Revue: A Poetry Compilation (edited by Cynthia Manick, Jamii Publishing). Buy it here.

• Bodies Built for Game: The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing (co-edited by Natalie Diaz and Hannah Ensor, from University of Nebraska Press). Buy it here.

• Cosmonauts Avenue Anthology (edited by Aliza Ali Khan, Aba Micah Collins-Sibley, and Bükem Reitmayer). Order it here.

• Nepantla: An Anthology for Queer Poets of Color (Nightboat Books). Buy it here.

• Bettering American Poetry 2016 (Bettering Books). Buy it here.

• Brooklyn Poets Anthology (Brooklyn Arts Press). Buy it here.​

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POEMS ONLINE

• "Blackbody" in the Poetry Project's Poetry Canon (appeared first in Prelude)

• "THE POWERPOINT SLIDE SAYS WHITE PEOPLE HAVE RACIAL ANXIETY BECAUSE THEY WANT TO BE LIKED BY BLACK PEOPLE" at The Rumpus (National Poetry Month, Day 15)

• "Momma Said" featured on Tracie K. Smith's podcast The Slowdown

• "blackbody" and "On Neoliberalism: or Why My Black Ass is Tired" in Prelude Magazine

• "After the rain" and "Desk Lunch Poem" in Sixth Finch's 10th Anniversary Issue

• "Black Sonnet" in Tin House Online (appeared first in Sixth Finch)

• "Momma Said" at the Poetry Project (appeared first in Redivider)

• "I'm leaning in" in Prelude Magazine

• "My Future Black/Certificate of Death" in Cosmonauts Avenue (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)

• "Explorer" in the PEN Poetry Series

• "Theorem" in Amazon's Day One (issue 4.17)

• "Bop: The Field" and "Spells for Black Wizards" in The Felt

• "Panther Gets Loose" in Wildness

• "Bop for a Black Man Caged in the Congo and the Bronx" in Blueshift Journal

• "When I was 12" in Hyperallergic

• "Commute" and an interview about its making in Foundry Journal's debut issue (nominated for a Pushcart Prize)

• "John Henry Suffering and Dying in the Arms of His Polly Ann After a Ventricular Rupture Resulting from Overwork" in Lambda Literary Review

• "Black Sonnet" in Sixth Finch

• "THIS BOOK IS THE PROPERTY OF" in Sixth Finch

• "Crown Heights" at Brooklyn Poets (nominated for Best of the Net 2016)​

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ESSAYS, INTERVIEWS, & REVIEWS ONLINE

• "I Killed Kurtz: The Generative Powers of Poetic Erasure" at Adroit Journal

• An erasure prompt for House Party #15 at the Poetry Project (video)

• "Bryan Washington’s “Lot” Reminds Us What Community Really Means" (interview with Bryan Washington) at Electric Literature

• "Gutting the Sonnet: A Conversation with Jericho Brown" at the Rumpus is the 15th most-read article at the Rumpus in 2019

• "Morgan Parker Thinks Black Women Are More than Just Magic" (interview with Morgan Parker) at Electric Literature

• "Eileen Myles Wants to Put a Poet in Every Supermarket" (interview with Eileen Myles) at Electric Literature

• "Why Aren’t Women Allowed to be Angry?" (interview with Soraya Chemaly) at Electric Literature

• "Michelle Tea on Archiving Queer History that is Often Erased" at Electric Literature

• #BeyondSpecialIssue Statement

• "The Anti-Lineage of Raquel Salas Rivera" at Shondaland

• "Jesse Ball Left His Main Character Out of His Book" interview at Electric Literature 

• "Black #Infosec Matters" at the Spin Cycle Blog

• Sue Jeong Ka and Candace Williams in Creative Conversation at the Spin Cycle Blog. 

• ​"Blood and Breath in High Fidelity: A Review of Hanif Willis-Abdurraquib's The Crown Ain't Worth Much" at Fanzine / excerpted by the staff of the Harriet Blog (Poetry Foundation) 

• "Against Hegemony, Toward Integrity: The Dissident Artist’s Struggle" at Vida Review

• "A 70-Day Web Security Action Plan for Artists and Activists Under Siege" (featured on Quartz, The Rumpus, The New Inquiry, and other outlets) on Medium

• You can read pieces where I've been interviewed in the Press section. 

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COMMISSIONED POEMS & PERFORMANCES

• "Black Sonnet" collaborative paper lithography print with Laimah Osman for Parallax 6.

• "blackbody" is a prose poem/meditation on thermal radiation, race, and climate justice (performed on 7/30 at Oye Group's Ghetto hors D'oeuvres and published in Prelude).

• Grand Bassam is a 20 minute multimedia, spoken word, and violin (Maja Cerar) performance devised for Kaimera Production's Living Altar Project.  It debuted on 5/23 - 5/24/17 at the at the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center.

• "Panther Gets Loose" (Wildness) and "Bop for a Black Man Caged in the Congo and the Bronx" (Blueshift Journal) are two poems written for the 2/2/17 opening of Black Panther Got Loose from the Bronx Zoo: an Exhibition by Ido Michaeli

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EDITORIAL WORK

• Co-editor, Bettering American Poetry Vol. 3 with Chen Chen, George Abraham, Kenning JP García, and John Yau.

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SOCIALLY-ENGAGED PROJECTS

• Storyfolks is a month-long series of storytelling for self-care events at Concord Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center organized by Abby Dobson and Candace Williams. Residents made art, meditated, took portraits with their families, sang, and broke bread. A celebration and exhibition of their work will be held on 9/23/17 at the nursing home as part of the Laundromat Project's 2017 Bed-Stuy Field Day. 

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TALKS, WORKSHOPS, & PANELS

• Otherwise Obscured: Erasure in Body and Text exhibition programming at Franklin Street Works and UConn-Stamford. Two generative erasure workshops, a reading, and a discussion with curator Danilo Machado. Co-sponsored by Franklin Street Works and UConn-Stamford's English Department and Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies program.

• Refusing Racial Capitalism: Poetic Erasure and Redaction at the Mellon Research Initiative in Racial Capitalism at UC Davis. Poet-educators Jordan Abel, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Erin Gray, Margaret Ronda and Candace Williams.

• Generative Erasure: A Reading by Candace Williams - (Re)Patterning Performance at the Center for Performance Research 

• The Poet At Work—Workshop with Candace Williams via Brooklyn Poets in Summer 2019

• Poet Against Empire: An Erasure Workshop—Workshop with Candace Williams via Brooklyn Poets in Spring 2019

• Poet Against Empire: a Generative Erasure Workshop — Workshop with Candace Williams at the Poetry Project. View the workshop description here. 

• Collab: Writing and Chapbooks at Parsons the New School—Guest Lecture in Laimah Osman's book arts course

• Intersectional Feminism: a conversation with artist luciana achugar, writer Laina Dawes, artist Michelle Y Lee, and poet Candace Williams, organized by A.I.R. Fellowship artist Naomi Elena Ramirez. A.I.R. Gallery.

• Critical Matter of Performance Colloquium at the New Museum—Artist Talk

• Web Security for Dissidents and Artists at Anti-Trump Free School/Escuelita Anti-Trump

• AlterConf NYC 2016 @ Microsoft, It's Not Lit: Strategies for Exposing and Eliminating Cultural Appropriation in Marketing (video here)

• CryptoParty at Eyebeam: Secure and Resist! (Notes from my email/messaging talk can be found here)

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WHERE MY WORK IS TAUGHT

• New York University (Creative Writing, Sarah Herrington and Omotara James)

• Sam Houston State University (MFA program, Ginger Ko)

• Brooklyn College (ENGLISH 1012, Drew Pham)

• University of Connecticut - Stamford (English, Grégory Pierrot)

• Parsons School of Design, The New School (Printmaking and Bookmaking classes taught by Laimah Osman)

• University of Wisconsin–Madison (Creative Writing, Natalie Eilbert)

• Franklin & Marshall College (Upper Division Poetry Workshop, Meg Day)

• SUNY, Nassau Community College (Creative Writing, Amy King)

• Paragraph NY, Erasure Poetry Workshop (Mariam Bazeed)

• Mount Mercy University (LGBTQ+ Literature, Mary Vermillion)

• University of Southern California (African American Popular Culture, Lanita Jacobs)