Work – JOSHUA AIKEN

“Ishmael” in The Rumpus (April 2023)
“We as in We” and “Talking Balk” in Copper Nickel (March 2023)
“When They Kill Him, They Killed Him” in Pleiades: Literature in Context (February 2023)
“daydream of a garden” and “City of Fighting Prejudice Plan for Innovative Community Initiative-Based Public Safety” in Apogee Journal (2022)
“to love through what scares you” in Sixth Finch (2021)
“On Sovereignty“, “Nothing. Still.“, “Western Osprey“, and “…(it was not necessary to have a reason)…” in Green Mountain Review Online (2020)
“The creature takes” and “How should I stay” in The Indianapolis Review (2020, nominated for Best of the Net)
“Working Naked” in Forklift, Ohio (2019, print issue available for purchase here)
“Demand” in BOAAT (2019)
“Field Notes on a Brief Craze” in Muzzle Magazine (2019)
“The Timetable for My Freedom” and “The drought is still coming…” in NightBlock (2018)
“Bank Account of Many-Legged Longing” in Boulevard Magazine (2018, print issue available for purchase here)
“Disappearing Act(s)” in Ash Magazine (2016, winner of the Oxford University Poetry Society Prize)
“I Lied When I Said I Never Have Dreams”, “Two Blocks Off-Broadway, “The Trouble with Angels”, “Blood Orange Wings” in Assaracus (2015, print issue available for purchase here)
“me, my heart, and Paul Ryan” in the Winter Tangerine Review (2015)

“The Climate of Cook Avenue: Abandonment, Neglect, and Black Resistance” in The Common Reader: The Material World of Modern Segregation (2022)
“For the Black Child Is Confused” in The Common Reader: James Baldwin and the American Imagination (2019)
“And When It Is Death Which They Misplace“, Scalawag Magazine (2018)
“Conditions of Scarcity in A Time of Blackness“, Muse / A Journal (2016, nominated for a Pushcart Prize)

“What the Panthers Meant By Self-Defense: Race, Violence, and Gun Control” (August 2022, post based on Duke Center on Firearms Law Works-In-Progress Workshop paper)
“‘She Had Slain Her Favorite’: Race, Violence, and the Rule of Law in the Military Occupied South” (conference paper) for American Studies Association panel “Slaves Are Not Called: The Impact of Anthony Farley in Thinking Black Life & Law” (October 2021)
“Issued By Way of ‘The Issue of Blackness’” (co-author with Jessica Marion Modi and Olivia R. Polk, article) in Transgender Studies Quarterly Vol. 7, Issue 3 (November 2020, Duke University Press)
“Era of Mass Expansion: Why State Officials Should Fight Jail Growth” (lead author for Prison Policy Initiative report, May 2017)
“Reinstating Common Sense: How driver’s license suspensions for drug offenses unrelated to driving are falling out of favor” (lead author for Prison Policy Initiative report, December 2016)
“LGBT Health Care After Marriage Equality” (co-author with Katherine Warren, The Hill (March 2016)

“The Social Life of Gun Control: Handguns, Violence & Disorder in the 1960s & 70s” Wesleyan University Center for the Study of Guns and Society Conference (October 2022)
“Policing Proof: Korryn Gaines, Body Cameras, and Anti-Blackness as a Scene“, California State University, San Bernardino Conversations on Race and Policing (September 2022) (video here)
“Lit Fridays: Poetry Reading” with the August Wilson African American Cultural Center (May 2021)
“Building an Abolitionist University: Embedding Ivory Towers in their Chocolate Cities” with Professor Davarian Baldwin hosted by the Racial Capitalism and the Carceral State working group (February 2021)
“Abolition in the Now: K Agbebiyi and Joshua Aiken“, conversation hosted by the Racial Capitalism and the Carceral State working group (June 2020)
“Interview: Material World of Modern Segregation” (April 2017)
“Outsourcing Security: Mexico’s Southern Border Plan and America’s Unaccompanied Minor Crisis”, Dissertation for Masters in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies at the University of Oxford (June 2016)
“Picking Up The Gun: Black Resistance, American Citizenship, and the Mulford Act of 1967”, Dissertation for Masters in United States History at the University of Oxford, Graduated with Highest Honors (July 2015)