Journals/Magazines/Anthologies
2025
PollyNation: A Seminary of Self — Winner of Aggrey Book Prize for Poetry (Inverted Syntax) (Upcoming)
Radical Radio Riddling of The SPNX/R (Transistor Revolution) • Sherese Francis in Issue 55 • January 2025 (Non)Binaries
“Supersonics of Q-YaRa: Cardiograms Dataflow Language” in Obsidian Vol. 49.2
2024
“Aunt Sarah (The Process of Storage or Place of Exchange or Sarah’s Pedagogical Pan/Orama)”in Women Studies Quarterly Issue: Unbearable Beings
Anvil Tongue Issue: “Saint Veronica (Naming Ceremony Part II),” “Battle of the Quiet, Contemplative Oracle” and “Theory of My Minds: I Having a Conversation with Myself Having a Conversation with Des/Cartes Having a Conversation with Himself (Meditations with Enlightenment and Freedom)
2023
“The Re/Sum of All Logos Under the I?’s Skin,” and “Sam/Els: The AL/TRS of One — A Polysemic Play maS (a ritual possession)” in OyeDrum Magazine. Hybrid & Writing Issue
ALTeks: NGLitcholalia poetic broadcasts web project. Akademie Schloss Solitude
“JU/NKonnu Costum (Oko)NKo Je (Printing a Rag(Wo)man Tempest on a Pierrot Plate)” in Obsidian Literature and Arts of the African Diaspora. Vol. 48.2 (Special Issue: Obsidian’s GenderQueer/GenreQueer)
2021
“An/d De Wata Breaks SomeOne Serious” in Sand Journal Issue 22: “Archaeology of Water and Air”
Pele (Variations on a Sun Hero) in Armstrong Literary
“How Can You See in the Dark? (EnTalechy of a Diasporic Misfit)” in Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 3: Diaspora
2020
“SAME Nobody” in Obsidian Literature And Arts of the African Diaspora Vol. 46.2
“SumNuh/Mbulist (Patois Possession)” in Volume 35 of The Caribbean Writer
Poem Received The Vincent Cooper Literary Prize
“SAMO ’12: You Are What You Eat” and “Trans/Script of Black/Nuss: A Coding in the Hood” in Inverted Syntax
“Cymande (How Dove Found Land Again through Ex/Communication)” and “Can I Be/a Queen in ConVerse (KU Comes Out of the Beak of Sé/Mwen)” for PREE Lit Issue 6: Rub-A-Dub-Dub
“She Who Is the Image of God” Mer Vox Folio. Mom Egg Review.
“To Be Gifted & Talented & BLack (Arkology from the Last Angels of History)” from Root Work Journal’s Issue “Convening in the Ark: Black & Sacred Sites of Revelation“
2019
“What Is a Black Poem?” from Issue 11 “BlackArtistChallenge of Culture Push’s PUSH/PULL Journal
“SeMutOnge” and “Wave Theory ([K]not Seeing God Through the Shadows)” in Underwater New York’s Governor island Un-Earthed Issue
“N(R)TR: A Ghost In the Machine” — Spilt Milk (Poetry Society of NY)
“The Voyage of Kianda” —“Furious Flower Anthology (February 2020)
Inclusion in Furious Flower Syllabus (2024) — 38: “The Poetic Intersectionality of Identities: ‘Genius’-ing a Poem – Assignment”
“Diasporic End/Beginning” and “B.A.G. Lady (Black Ark Goddess)” — Obsidian Literature & Arts 45.1 (February 2020)
“The Electric Impulse: The Legba Circuit in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man” (Essay) — The Black Speculative Arts Movement: Black Futurity, Art+Design (November 2019)
“When the Phantom Strangles Liberty’s Chimera”- Cosmonauts Avenue
“Black Mother Dada” — Pierian Literary Journal’s Issue: Dream’s Giddy Sound In Honor of Gwendolyn Brooks (50th Anniversary of Publication)
2018
“Naming Ceremony III: Free Lady Creole” and “Blood Is Thicker Than Water ∞ Blood of the Covenant Is Thicker Than the Water of the Womb” — La Pluma Y La Tinta 2018 New Voices Anthology
“On the Shoreness of Dominica” — No Dear Magazine Issue 22
“Liberty Ashes” reading on Soundcloud for Queensbound project
“Celestial Mary (Galilean Daughter)” — Apex
Magazine and Review on Quick Sip Reviews
Mentioned in Tor.com Article, “Weird as Hell: Falling in Love With Speculative Poetry”
“Moon Flow” and “Andromeda on the Seashore ∞ Andromeda on the Seahorse” — Newtown Literary. Issue 12 (2018)
“For Veronique (A Bop)” and “Letting Go” — Spoken Black Girl Issue #1
2017
Haiku poems — African Voices Summer 2017 Digital Issue
“The Journey Is Just As Important As the Art (A Prose Poem)” and “Reception In an Odd Place” –Art in Odd Places
“Naming Ceremony” — Bone Bouquet
2016
“Liberty Ashes,” “The Image of God as The Cowardly Lion (How to Act Despite My Fears)” and “41 Cents and a Dream” — Poets of Queens
“Swelling Chants (Kaba)” — Bared: Contemporary Poetry and Art on Bras and Breasts
2015
Books and Chapbooks
Lady Liberty Smashing Stones Chapbook and A Eulogy for the American Dream Broadside (THRASH Press, 2022)
Recycling a Why That Rules Over My Sacred Sight (DoubleCross Press, 2021)
Variations on Sett/ling Seed/ling (Harlequin Creature, 2018)
Lucy’s Bone Scrolls (Three-Legged Elephant, 2017)
Editorial Work
Baby Suggs and a Purple Butterfly (Poetry Anthology/Guided Journal) from Get Fresh Books (2024)
Co-Editor of harlequin creature Issue 10 (2021)
Editor of Culture Push Issue 10 (2020)
Jam Journal Sampler: Sound and Silence
Editor of Spoken Black Girl (2018)
You Better Strut: Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie Walks In Her Truth in Her Latest Collection
“A book that asks questions” — A Talk with Strut Author, Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
Letting Go by SBG Poetry Editor Sherese Francis
A Triptych of Poems from Safia Jama
Co-Editor of Harlequin Creature’s Social Justice Subscription Chapbook Series (2018-2021)
Substitute Teacher Chronicles (Yasmine Lancaster)
Listen, an excerpt from the novel The Volcano-Daughters (Gina Balibrera)
You Almost Home Boy (Robert Gibbons)
Glitter Priestess Recipe Zine by Damali Abrams
Unparallel by Zahura Akter
Sherese Francis 