publications
poetry.
'Praying Mantis'
(Poetry Daily - September 2023)
'NON–'
(Obsidian - July 2023)
'The Magic Your Body Becomes'
(Split This Rock/The Quarry - September 2022)
'Off-roading'
(Variant Literature, April 2022)
'Freefall' and 'After the Photograph'
(TriQuarterly Review, June 2021)
5 Poems
(Subnivean, March 2021)
'Touch Me Not'
(The Night Heron Barks, February 2021)
'I Always Wanted to Bang A Black Boi'
(RHINO Poetry, 2021)
'Invocation,' 'Prequel, Saturn's,' & 'Praying Mantis Is Remarried'
(Small Press Traffic, February 2021)
'In The Wake of A Transfer'
(Anomaly, October 2020. Nominee for the Pushcart Prize)
'Embrace'
(Ghost City Press, September 2020)
'And Everything Nice'
(wildness, August 2020)
'Safe Passage' & 'Palimpsest, Urban'
(Midway Journal, April 2020. Nominee for Best of the Net)
'Gone'
(Kissing Dynamite Poetry, February 2020)
'Record of Birth' & 'Nature/Nurture'
(Raising Mothers, February 2020)
'This poet'
(goodbaad poetry journal, November 2019)
'Turnstiles'
(Rigorous Mag, November 2019)
reviews & interviews.
Talking With Oakland Poet Michal 'MJ' Jones
(KQED, April 2023)
Love Repair, Ghosting Remnants, & Using Our Life Material: An Interview With Poet-Memoirist Arisa White
Foglifter Press, January 2021)
MFA Writers Podcast: Michal 'MJ' Jones
What’s it like to write a poem from the perspective of someone you despise? Michal “MJ” Jones of Mills College joins Jared to discuss their thesis project about the 2018 Hart family murders, writing from a place of anger, and pursuing an MFA as a working parent.
(MFA Writers Podcast, December 2020)
The ghosts that these moments have made: In conversation with Arhm Choi Wild
(Foglifter Press, August 2020)
essays.
As light-skinned people, it’s our job to make space for those silenced most by colorism (Black Youth Project, March 2018)
She Ain’t White Girl Pregnant: Black, Queer & Expecting In An Anti-Black, Anti-Queer World (Black Youth Project, November 2017)
3 Signs That Gentrification Is Inevitably Coming to Your Neighborhood
(Alternet, September 2017)
‘Moonlight’ Is A Masterpiece - And It’s the Film Many Black Queer Folks Have Been Waiting On
(Wear Your Voice Magazine, October 2016)
How Being ‘Selfless’ Taught Me Unhealthy Co-Dependence
(The Body Is Not An Apology, August 2016)
Loving Myself As Genderqueer In A Binary World
(Wear Your Voice Magazine, March 2016)
4 Reasons People Of Color Can’t Cater To White People’s Guilt - Or Their Tears
(Everyday Feminism, November 2015)
Being ‘Too Sensitive’ Isn’t the Problem – Oppression Is
(Everyday Feminism, April 2015)
5 Ways Marginalized People Can Recognize Their Privileges In Other Areas
(Everyday Feminism, December 2014)
In Defense of the Shy: Speak Up, Stand Out, Or Go Home?
(Black Girl Dangerous, October 2014)
Conversations With My Mother and the Impatience of My Youth
(Black Girl Dangerous, May 2014)
'Praying Mantis'
(Poetry Daily - September 2023)
'NON–'
(Obsidian - July 2023)
'The Magic Your Body Becomes'
(Split This Rock/The Quarry - September 2022)
'Off-roading'
(Variant Literature, April 2022)
'Freefall' and 'After the Photograph'
(TriQuarterly Review, June 2021)
5 Poems
(Subnivean, March 2021)
'Touch Me Not'
(The Night Heron Barks, February 2021)
'I Always Wanted to Bang A Black Boi'
(RHINO Poetry, 2021)
'Invocation,' 'Prequel, Saturn's,' & 'Praying Mantis Is Remarried'
(Small Press Traffic, February 2021)
'In The Wake of A Transfer'
(Anomaly, October 2020. Nominee for the Pushcart Prize)
'Embrace'
(Ghost City Press, September 2020)
'And Everything Nice'
(wildness, August 2020)
'Safe Passage' & 'Palimpsest, Urban'
(Midway Journal, April 2020. Nominee for Best of the Net)
'Gone'
(Kissing Dynamite Poetry, February 2020)
'Record of Birth' & 'Nature/Nurture'
(Raising Mothers, February 2020)
'This poet'
(goodbaad poetry journal, November 2019)
'Turnstiles'
(Rigorous Mag, November 2019)
reviews & interviews.
Talking With Oakland Poet Michal 'MJ' Jones
(KQED, April 2023)
Love Repair, Ghosting Remnants, & Using Our Life Material: An Interview With Poet-Memoirist Arisa White
Foglifter Press, January 2021)
MFA Writers Podcast: Michal 'MJ' Jones
What’s it like to write a poem from the perspective of someone you despise? Michal “MJ” Jones of Mills College joins Jared to discuss their thesis project about the 2018 Hart family murders, writing from a place of anger, and pursuing an MFA as a working parent.
(MFA Writers Podcast, December 2020)
The ghosts that these moments have made: In conversation with Arhm Choi Wild
(Foglifter Press, August 2020)
essays.
As light-skinned people, it’s our job to make space for those silenced most by colorism (Black Youth Project, March 2018)
She Ain’t White Girl Pregnant: Black, Queer & Expecting In An Anti-Black, Anti-Queer World (Black Youth Project, November 2017)
3 Signs That Gentrification Is Inevitably Coming to Your Neighborhood
(Alternet, September 2017)
‘Moonlight’ Is A Masterpiece - And It’s the Film Many Black Queer Folks Have Been Waiting On
(Wear Your Voice Magazine, October 2016)
How Being ‘Selfless’ Taught Me Unhealthy Co-Dependence
(The Body Is Not An Apology, August 2016)
Loving Myself As Genderqueer In A Binary World
(Wear Your Voice Magazine, March 2016)
4 Reasons People Of Color Can’t Cater To White People’s Guilt - Or Their Tears
(Everyday Feminism, November 2015)
Being ‘Too Sensitive’ Isn’t the Problem – Oppression Is
(Everyday Feminism, April 2015)
5 Ways Marginalized People Can Recognize Their Privileges In Other Areas
(Everyday Feminism, December 2014)
In Defense of the Shy: Speak Up, Stand Out, Or Go Home?
(Black Girl Dangerous, October 2014)
Conversations With My Mother and the Impatience of My Youth
(Black Girl Dangerous, May 2014)