books & chapbooks
Bright Along the Body, chapbook, Dancing Girl Press, 2017
Cover art and design by April Pierce.
published & forthcoming poems
Screen Door Review: “Every Day is Work,” “Risk Tolerance Assessment Logic,” “The End of the World“
Just Place: “Pelahatchie Bay,” “Midtown Lockdown“
Heavy Feather Review: “Our Poetica”
Dialogist: “Erasure“
Southern Women’s Review: “Reckoning for a Body,” “Undone Light”
Yemassee: “Say anything but,” “Hunger Strike”
Poet Lore: “To the Early 2000’s Internet, for Introducing Me to a Violator,” “National Trauma”
Doubleback Review: “If there is a place for bodies to be safe” (reprint from Public Pool, now defunct)
Scalawag: “Dear Sam“
Fugue: “On the Whole“
The Boiler: “Reflection on When I Heard You Were Sober,” “Judith Beheading Holofernes“
Rogue Agent: “Ekphrasis“
Ghost Proposal: “Woman Found Chained in Metal Container,” (with Emma Bolden)
Nightjar Review: “The New Year” (Nominated for Best of the Net)
The Fem: “In the Event of Conception“
About Place, SOUTH Issue: “Memphis Hustle III“
Watershed Review: “The Barn,” “To My Husband“
Public Pool (defunct): “If there is a place for bodies to be safe,” “Woman in Bathroom”
The Literary Review: “Blessing for the Use of New Houses“
Heron Tree: “Advice I Would Have Given Myself, If I Had Known”
Noble / Gas Qtrly: “Poem That Can’t Be Another Poem,” “Poem Taking Advantage of Tennessee,” “Poem with an Open Window,” “Memphis Hustle I”
Bear Review 2.2: “Self-Portrait with Arson,” “Self-Portrait with Fur”
Bone Bouquet: “Transition, with Bells and Leaves”
Academy of American Poets: “what you have left” / featured on Chapter 16
Superstition Review: “Seven of Swords, Reversed,” “sorry about the poem with feathers”
burntdistrict: “Green Tongue,” “Something the Previous Owners Never Told Us”
Squaw Valley Review: “Text Message Photographs”
Smartish Pace : “Third Summer,” “I’m From Nowhere”
Tinderbox Poetry Journal: “Rabbit Fever,” “Wildflowers Poetica”
District Lit: “what the bed thinks about is the unswept floor” (Nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
Rock & Sling: “Red Bird Elegy,” “Poem with a Line by Andrew Freiman”
Midway Journal: “Twin Cell”
THRUSH Poetry Journal: “Starlings”
Dunes Review: “Suffer Cure”
other writing
Review / My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, by Jenn Shapland: College & Research Libraries
Guest Blog, Superstition Review: The Privilege and Anxiety of Catharsis
Review / Stranger, by Adam Clay: Memphis Flyer
Memphis Scene Report (w/Danian Jerry): realpants.com
noteworthy
Catching Up with Ashley Roach-Freiman, Tinderbox Poetry Journal
Workshop: Risk and Restraint: Writing Poems Out of Vulnerability, Southern Literary Festival
Guest: Classroom visiting poet, 8th grade English, Power Center Academy
Writer in Residence: Crosstown Residency Program (watch my Pecha Kucha)
Judge – Poetry Contest: Chrysalis, the literary and arts magazine of Ferrum College in Virginia
Featured: Nightjar Review
Featured: The Dean’s List on Make Memphis blog
Writer in Residence: Firefly Farms, Sundress Academy for the Arts
Collaborating Artist: Words Matter, Crosstown Arts
Contributor interview (w/ editor Rebekah Bresee): Rock & Sling blog
Squaw Valley Community of Writers poetry workshop participant, 2014
coordinator / host
Impossible Language Reading Series, 2013 to 2017
editor
The Pinch Literary Journal – 2014 – 2016
Managing Editor – Issue 36.1
Assistant Managing Editor – Issue 35.2
Senior Poetry Editor – Issue 35.1
Senior Poetry Editor / Art Editor – Issue 34.2
Ashley Roach-Freiman 