is a writer, educator, performer, and skilled living room dancer from Akron, Ohio. He received his BA in Political Science from Eastern Michigan University and his MFA in Creative Writing-Poetry from Mills College. Darius was a recipient of the 2020 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship.​ He hopes to inspire that feeling you get that makes you scrunch up your face after a good bite of  homemade Mac N Cheese.  

Darius' poems have appeared in  POETRY Magazine, The Adroit Journal, American Poetry Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and others. Currently he lives in Oakland, CA where, as a Teaching Artist, he partners with organizations to facilitate writing and performance workshops throughout the Bay Area. Darius believes in the dissolution of empire and the total liberation of all oppressed people by any means available. Free the People. Free the Land. Free All Political Prisoners.

"ma'am i'm sorry to tell you your son is d-" Split This Rock

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"early 2000s fashion was a confusing time for all of us" The American Poetry Review

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"we don't die" New Ohio Review

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"etymology of 'fuck 12'" The Adroit Journal

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"word problems" TriQuarterly

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"i left the church in search of god" Southern Humanities Review

"dreamgirls soundtrack track 5" Tinderbox Poetry Journal

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"if i'm caught between a badge and a hard place three hours after the street lights turn on" Palette Poetry

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"perhaps we are our ancestors' wildest dreams" POETRY Magazine

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"the role of the artist" Hood Communist

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"you're not a poet til the state betrays you" Flypaper Lit

To book Darius to facilitate a writing  workshop, host/emcee your event, perform an individual piece or feature-long set, or talk about 90s R&B, please fill out this form.