Books
Poetry from the streets that raised me, for the hearts that still beat in the dark.
Poetry
Collections and chapbooks — barroom gospel, alleyway confession, river-song.
Love & Murder
Full-length collection, 2025 • 162 pages
"These are 3 a.m. poems: scrapped from napkins, carried up the 6 train, washed in vermouth and headache light. No clean arcs. No moral victory. Just the truth I could stand to say out loud—and the parts I couldn't, yet."
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My Name is Vincent
Chapbook, Crying Heart Press
"A noir confession from the streets. Raw, unfiltered, and unapologetic."
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Harlem River Hymns
Chapbook, Crying Heart Press
"Hymns for the river that carried my sins and kept on moving. Harlem nights, soft knives, cheap mercy. I wrote these to keep breathing."
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All the Ghosts of Harlem
Chapbook, Crying Heart Press
"A roll call of the things I should've left behind—and the borough that never leaves you."
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After Life: A Posthumous Gospel of Harlem
Chapbook, Crying Heart Press • Pre-order
"The gospel according to the dead. What comes after the last breath, the last train home."
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The Book of Drunken Saints
Chapbook, Crying Heart Press
"A liturgy for the lost. Saints who drink, sinners who pray, and the blurred line between the two."
Cover coming soon
Symphony of Home
Forthcoming poetry collection
"A long song for the city that keeps us — Harlem at the hour the lamps come on, love rebuilt in the rooms we almost lost. Coming soon."
Novel
The debut — upmarket literary fiction, set in Harlem.
Cover coming soon
How I Met Leann
Debut novel — forthcoming
"An adult upmarket literary novel. Jay arrives in Harlem a disgraced ghostwriter with a collapsed marriage, a scandal closing in from Europe, and a drinking problem he keeps glorifying. Then he meets Leann — a Brooklyn-born actress with a bold voice and just enough faith in him to be dangerous for both of them. Their love story begins, naturally, in a holding cell after a Bryant Park arrest. For readers of Jen Beagin's Big Swiss and Coco Mellors's Cleopatra and Frankenstein: unreliable narrators, toxic love, addiction, and a man who can describe his own collapse beautifully — then learn almost nothing from it."
How I Met Leann combines the damaged comic intimacy of Jen Beagin's Big Swiss with the messy romantic fallout of Coco Mellors's Cleopatra and Frankenstein. It will appeal to readers drawn to unreliable narrators, toxic love, addiction, New York, and men who can describe their own collapse beautifully, then learn almost nothing from it.
Leann is not Jay's salvation. She is smarter than that and smarter than him. But she sees the book inside him before he does — and when Jay finally gets a chance to write his own story instead of laundering everyone else's, he faces the thing he has been dodging all along: can art redeem a man who keeps using beauty as an alibi?
For Booksellers & Librarians
ISBN (Paperback): 979-8998855009
ISBN (Ebook): 979-8998855016
Pages: 162 • Publication: May 2025
Publisher: Crying Heart Press
Format: Limited edition chapbooks