Heaven (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2015).
Winner of the 2016 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.
Shortlisted for the 2016 Griffin International Poetry Prize.
Longlisted for the 2015 National Book Award.
Selected as one of the best Books of 2015 by The Washington Post, NPR, Commonweal Magazine, The Adroit Journal, Flavorwire and House of Speakeasy.
The Ground (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2012).
Recipient of a 2013 Whiting Writer's Award, the PEN/Osterweil Award for Poetry and the GLCA New Writers' Award for Poetry.
finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry.
Finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Poetry.
When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness: essays (Dalkey Archive 2010).
Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth: stories (Dalkey Archive, 2012).