PUBLICATIONS
Books, comics, poems, illustrations + essays.
2024
POEMS
Three Love Poems [Nominated for Pushcart Prize]
OYEDRUM
It Is Possible to Be in Love and Be Bored of Each Other’s Faces
BODEGA JOURNAL
Rewilding / I’m Feeling Myself Again
NIMROD INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
Adulting
(RE): AN IDEAS JOURNAL
2023
ANTHOLOGIES
Essay in SAD HAPPENS (Simon & Schuster)
Edited by Brandon Stosuy + Illustrated by Rose Lazar
Essay, Poems + Comics in
THAT’S A PRETTY THING TO CALL IT (New Village Press)
Edited by Leigh Sugar
POEMS
The Direction Love Moves In
THE BLUE MOUNTAIN REVIEW
The Summer Phife Was Born
MOM EGG REVIEW
One of Many Settings
HOT POT MAGAZINE
2022
NONFICTION
…The Importance of Dialogue Across Divides
OPRAH DAILY with Nicole Shawan Junior
The Unique Challenge of Designing a Book by Incarcerated Writers
LITERARY HUB with Melissa Joskow
PEN Ten with Ada Limón
PEN AMERICA
PEN Ten with Cheryl Boyce Taylor
PEN AMERICA
2021
BOOKS
The Sentences That Create Us (Haymarket Books)
Edited by Caits Meissner
Foreword by Reginald Dwayne Betts
ILLUSTRATIONS
Future Casting Poster
Commissioned by Mahogany L. Browne
Exhibited at Lincoln Center
POEMS
Quittin’ Time Anthems
HUMAN PARTS ON MEDIUM
NONFICTION
Essays on Freedom
HARPER’S BAZAAR
2020
BOOKS
Pep Talk For Broke(n) People Poetry Comix Zine /
Participatory Art Show
LIMITED EDITION, OUT OF PRINT
POEMS
What We Remember
PIGEON PAGES
Growing Bold
THE JOURNAL
COMICS
Sometimes When You Look For Other People…
360 MINUTES RESIDENCY
NONFICTION
Lyric Essentials: Caits Meissner reads Ai
SUNDRESS PUBLICATIONS
So, am I a writer yet?
THE CREATIVE INDEPENDENT
VERVE {IN} VERSE: Soul Sister Revue: Reflections
THE KENYON REVIEW
2019
POEMS
Feeling New Agey
[PANK]
Making Sisters
SOUL SISTER REVUE ANTHOLOGY
Edited by Cynthia Manick
Hand As Golden Shovel
VOICEMAIL POEMS
Here is a Sculpture of a Bird: Write about it.
GLASS POETRY
COMICS
How I Got Out: A Self Help Comic
[PANK]
The Day We Turned Into Rainbows
GIGANTIC SEQUINS
You Can’t Have It All
THE NORMAL SCHOOL
NONFICTION
Caits Meissner reads ‘Miss Bradshaw’
PALETTE POETRY
What Incarcerated Writers Want the Literary Community to Understand
LITERARY HUB
Tiger Lily Wants to Know About Freedom
THE FOURTH RIVER, Issue 16
2018
COMICS
DREAMS: A Pep Talk For Couples
THE RUMPUS
Illustration FOR SOPHIA
ILLUSTRATED PEN
Homegirl Manifesto
THE OPERATING SYSTEM
NONFICTION
Want to write fiction in US prisons? It might be censored…
THE GUARDIAN
Just Dangerous Enough
VIDA REVIEW
A Year in the Life of a Teaching Artist, PARTS 1-4
TEACHING ARTIST JOURNAL
2017 + BEFORE
BOOKS
Let It Die Hungry (The Operating System)
Poems, Illustration and Prompts
2016, LIMITED EDITION, OUT OF PRINT
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The Letter All Your Friends Have Written You (Well & Often)
Poems by Caits Meissner and Tishon
2012, LIMITED EDITION, OUT OF PRINT
POEMS
Loving the Enemy
SPLIT THIS ROCK
The Visiting Room
NARRATIVE MAGAZINE
Two Days Later
RESIST MUCH/OBEY LITTLE ANTHOLOGY
Praise Poem
VERSEY DAILY
Following Faye
BUST MAGAZINE
Mostly Water
ADROIT
13 Hours in the Future
SPLIT THIS ROCK
Three Micro Poems
THE OFFING