Winner of the 2021 Quarterly West Chapbook Contest, 'saanens, nubians, one lamancha' is a collection of poetry recounting the first six months experienced by a novice farmhand on a small raw goat milk dairy in the southern United States. The poems seek to expand the frame of the pastoral by leveraging the specific experience of a black body learning to work, live, and exist in a rural environment. From contest judge and Tuscon Poet Laureate TC Tolbert:

"Every time I re-read 'saanens, nubians, one lamancha,' I find another way to be in wonder, to be stilled by the scorch of song, and to delight in formal dexterity. Centering the experiences of a Black poet farmer in rural Florida, this collection is a corrective to a white supremacist eco-poetics canon. And it is nature poetry at its most sublime—brilliant and brimming with tender and incisive lyrical range."

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'rut' is a micro-chapbook of prose poems soaked in the wondrous revulsion of breeding and gestation. The work wanders through a herd of 75 nearly-feral mama goats, their shared buck, and pinpoints how procreation can feel both surreal and hyperreal. These poems explore the dank griminess that leads to the miracle of life, backgrounded by running injections of wisdom gleaned from a pregnant farm mentor.

'rut' was published as part of the Ghost City Press Summer Micro-Chap Series.