poet | teacher | artist
community-engaged
cultural studies scholar
Selected Poetry & Creative Publications
“daughter pull hard”
Finalist for 2024 Founders' Prize
RHINO 2024
Summer 2024
“When Language Fails and I Exist”
Pipe Wrench Magazine
August 2022
“pale stones: a triptych”
Writing the Land: Maine
September 2022 | Video here.
“turn to sugar Diana”
“on forgetting Diana when i cannot see the moon” | Nat. Brut
November 2021
"let me tell you: Diana”
"are you kidding me Diana”
We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics
November 2020
Winner of the
New Millennium Award for Poetry:
“grandfather: a dialect of water,” New Millennium Writings
July 2020
“Diana: impending” | Early version
The Feminist Wire
February 2016
“a dialect of water
“earth, water, and what is built”
“pale grandfathers”
Hinchas de Poesía
April 2014
“risk feast,” “sub/merge,” +
“memory memory is a tricky trick.”
awarded Honorable Mention for
the 2025 Furious Flower Poetry Prize
forthcoming in Obsidian
“habitat: where i stay deciding”
Maine Public | Poems From Here
January 2024
“Three Poems by Ian Ellasante”
The Feminist Wire
June 2013
“breathe here but not here”
It Rains Diamonds On Neptune
May 2025
“elsewhere” + “pale stones”
From Root to Seed: Black, Brown, and Indigenous Poets Write the Northeast
May 2023
Evening Will Come
The Volta
“hinge: tongue | poems & poetics”
The Volta: Evening Will Come
December 2012
Works in Progress and Development
stay girl: don’t
poems
stay girl: don’t
Poetry Collection | Currently Under Review
Finalist for National Poetry Series 2024 Competition, June 2024
Finalist for Ohio University Press Hollis Summers Prize, April 2024
Runner-up for Red Hen Press Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award, January 2024
Semifinalist for Mason Jar Press 1729 Book Prize, January 2024
Umbilicus State
Hybrid Collection | In Development