2021  “Being a Trans-Affirming Parent is Support, Not Abuse.” Pride Source Magazine. 

 

2021  “Michigan mom: My transgender child is a person, not a political football.” Detroit Free Press

 

2016  “La Gringa Negra.” Cosmonauts Avenue. Nominated for Pushcart Prize. https://cosmonautsavenue.com/yma-johnson-la-gringa-negra/

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2015  “May You Live Long Enough to Return Home.” St. Petersburg Review.

 

2015  “First Kings.” 4th Annual EcoJustice and Activism Conference. Eastern Michigan University.

Sixteen-page epic poem on atomic testing in the Marshall Islands from 1946-1958.

 

2015  “First Kings.” School of Social Work Social Justice Arts Festival. University of Michigan.

Audio interpretation of epic poem with soundscape.

 

2015  “May You Live Long Enough to Return Home.”  EMU English Graduate Student Association

Conference. Short story reading and discussion of the emotional impact of war-fueled diaspora. 

 

2014  “August Lokken.” Cthulhu Lies Dreaming. Ghostwoods Books.

 

2014  “Captain Blood is Coming.” Encyclopedia Project L-Z. Editors: Tisa Bryant and Miranda Mellis.

 

2014  “May You Live Long Enough to Return Home.” Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention.

 

2014  “History of the Freedom Struggle in Puerto Rico 1898-1999.” International Agenda.

 

2014  “Unbreakable Rebellion: The Maroons of Jamaica.” International Agenda.

A history of slave revolts led by the Maroons of Jamaica.

https://www.schoolcraft.edu/docs/librariesprovider47/International-Agenda/Archive/international-agenda---winter-2014.pdf?sfvrsn=2

 

2012  “A Bed for Damaris.” Current Magazine Poetry and Fiction Contest, 1st place winner.

Judge:  Davy Rothbart https://www.ecurrent.com/music/a-bed-for-damaris/

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2011  “Life, Death and Madness: Coping or Not with Mental Illness.” Ann Arbor Observer (reprint).

https://annarborobserver.com/articles/life__death__and_madness.html

 

2009  “Defusing Mental Health Crises: How CCRT Keeps People Out of the Hospital.” Ann Arbor Observer. https://annarborobserver.com/articles/defusing_mental_health_crises.html

 

2003  “Poisoned Lives.” Ann Arbor Observer.

 

2003  “Bridging the Gap.” Ann Arbor Observer.
 

2002  “Life, Death, and Madness: Coping – or not – with Mental Illness.” Ann Arbor Observer.

https://annarborobserver.com/articles/life__death__and_madness.html

 

2002  “Travels in Mind and Space.” Michigan Today.

Autobiographical profile exploring issues of race and class in the context of travels in Puerto Rico and Sierra Leone in west Africa.

 

1997  “Indifference.” The San Juan Star.

An autobiographical account of my attempt to get medical help for a heroin junkie dying from AIDS on the streets of Old San Juan.

 

1997  “Somebody's Child.” The San Juan Star.

Explores the impact of drug-related violence in Old San Juan through the story of a man whose son was killed by the police.