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  Jay Sims

publications

Poetry
"I WANNA PLAY WHERE YOU PLAY WITH THE ANGELS," Yale Daily News Magazine, November 2020
"Untitled," Vs. The Podcast, May 2020
"With Love, From Our Corner of the Night," People Against Police Brutality One-Year Commemoration of Justice for Stephanie and Paul, April 2020 
"Sanctuary," Journal of Latina Critical Feminism, February 2020
"Dispatches from a Country Without Name," Yale Daily News Magazine, September 2019
"Black English Major Speaks of Rivers," Yale Daily News Magazine, September 2019
"Too Much and Not the Mood," Yale Herald, April 2019 
"Invocation // Liner Notes for a New World," Yale Herald, 2019
“Freehanding Maps of Minnesota,” Lunch Ticket, July 2017 
“Canción Bilingüe,” Lunch Ticket, July 2017  
“Twilight,” Literary Orphans, July 2016
“Continuum,” Glass Mountain, Spring 2016
“The Three Things She Was Most Afraid of--Until She Wasn’t,” F(r)iction, Fall 2015
“Impression,” Rookie, November 2015
Non-fiction
"Nine Texans on How They Survived a Frozen Week," Texas Observer, February 2021
"'Wings of Ebony' Brings Black Girl Magic to Life," Texas Observer, January 2021
"In Houston’s Third Ward, Community Groups are Fighting for Equitable Development," Texas Observer, November 2020
"Black Towns Matter," Cite Digital, August 2020
"Environmental agencies aren't protecting Texans from a cancer-causing chemical," One Breath Houston, June 2020
"Dispatches from the Underbelly of Democracy," Brink: A Review of Books May 2020
"Required Reading: A Review of Sana Sana by Ariana​ Brown," Broad Recognition, April 2020
"A(Broad): The Minutes Don't Stop," Broad Recognition, February 2020
"We're Not Going Anywhere," One Breath Houston, February 2020
"This House is Ours," Broad Recognition, February 2020
"Lest We Forget: A Hometown Review of 'Just Mercy,'" January 2020
"Sterling's Hold On Me," The New Journal, December 2019
"Absent By Design: Fifty-five years of racial exclusion at the Yale School of Architecture," The Politic, May 2019
"What ER&M Gave Me," Broad Recognition, April 2019
"Betting on the Nickel," Curbed, October 2018
"Where is Houston Affordable?" Houston Chronicle, August 2018
"Can the National Lynching Memorial Help Houston face its past?" Houston Chronicle, August 2018
"Prestige, Power, and Junot Díaz," The Politic, July 2018
Press
Looped In: "A Gen Z's take on Houston housing and affordability," Houston Chronicle, August 2018
​Photo: Nyla Jennings
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