My Phone is Full of Cute Cats and Dead Children
Alien Buddha Press, 2025
“The poems in this exquisite collection… describe the incongruity in today’s societal polarization with laser focus and unwavering veracity…keening for victims of war…the poet’s spirit wends its way with rhythm and strength.”
Rod Carlos Rodriguez
Via Dolorosa & Advent Wreath
WINNER 2023 COW CREEK CHAPBOOK PRIZE
In 2018, I traveled to Palestine and Israel on a religious pilgrimage even though I wasn’t sure I still believed in God. I told myself I was going for the food and adventure. In preparation, I tried to educate myself re: the history and politics of the Holy Land, and while I thought I understood, my education didn’t truly begin until I arrived.
100% of author proceeds go to nonprofit orgs working to being relief in Gaza.
Honey in the Vein
Bric-a-Brac Press, 2023. 98 pp.
Like a female John the Baptist or Siddhartha Gautama, Mary of Egypt was a mystic who sought liberation in the wilderness, away from society. Tradition holds that she was a reformed prostitute, but Honey in the Vein presents a feminist retelling, filling holes in the tale with daring possibilities. This Mary is saint turned flesh-and-blood woman.
Anorexorcism
Bottlecap Press, 2022. 40 pp.
The poems in Anorexorcism are a reclamation of appetites and a battle-hymn of self-love. They call out predators by name. These poems shed shame and run naked with scars and cellulite on display. They masturbate. They bleed and shit and meditate. They won’t sit still in church. They are a little bit gay. They are not for your mom. They are for you.
E. D. Watson 