W. Norton, 2006) and Leaving Saturn (University of Georgia, 2002), which won the 2000 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. He has received critical attention in the Boston Globe, the Christian Science Monitor, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Washington Post, and on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. His poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Poetry, Triquarterly, and the New Yorker, among other publications.