It has been a busy year so far, but I’m not complaining at all, as I’m happy to have so many works published. Many of these are re-publications. Since I’m not a famous person, I value re-publishing as it’s a great way to find new audiences for one’s work. It’s also great for getting print pubs online or vice versa. I love both.
Note, you will find some of these on my Unlinktree at the time of this writing (what’s new page), but here I provide more details (and the Unlinktree gets updated with deleted entries).
I just added some photos to my photo gallery here on this site. New photos are appended to the bottom and in no particular order. I’m trying to not impose rules because if it’s a drag, I won’t update it. Enjoy!
In January, Duets, edited by Amy Marquez, was released, an interesting anthology of mostly flash and micro fiction by writers she has worked with. Each piece was paired with her artwork, and she also invited an accompanying story and thoughts about the intersection of her work with the art. Download a free copy or buy the print version here.
Other anthologies out include Milkweed Press’s Dead of Winter III, Fifth Wheel Press’s Secrets in the Garden, and Querencia Press’s Winter ’24 Anthology. I have work, much of it about suicide and grief, in these. All of the editors were lovely to work with.
I was happy to publish visual erasure poetry in Permafrost and in Sage Cigarettes (along with a landscape swamp sketch).
Bull published two micro fictions. Also see my previous publications with them. In February, Prelude published what I call a transformer poem, which was an embellished erasure from a section of The Waste land. Also see my previous publication with Prelude Magazine.
Action Spectacle, a new ‘zine by Adam Day published one of my “bad dating” poems in February. It was a huge issue full of really great writers. They are a very promising journal you should check out (as of this writing, they’re open for submissions).
San Pedro River Review published a poem I wrote about narcissism in their Shapes and Secrets Issue. It’s a wonderful issue and includes several poetry pals and writers I really admire.
Diode published an update on my forthcoming book in their Substack newsletter. Check it out here (you can also sign up for news about their other publications and happenings.
Winning Writers also included my recent and forthcoming publications in their newsletter, which was lovely. Note their Wergle Flomp Contest deadline is approaching at the end of March. Read about my 2021 win here.
I had five poems re-published on Anvil Tongue, plus two early Wuthering Heights erasures and two photos (previously unpublished). Check them out along with some other experimental pieces on the site.
Two poems (re-published) are forthcoming from Chiron Review in the winter issue, which hopefully will be out in the fall as they are both sort of Thanksgiving pieces (from an anti-colonialist/indigenous perspective). One was previously published in Spoon River Poetry Review and one in Lumiere, so they may be new to you. Also due in March is a poem about loss in Ovation, an anthology edited by Jimmy Broccoli, and three poems in diode poetry’s 17th anniversary issue due out any day.
SugarSugarSalt Lit is publishing, or re-publishing a work called Affection on March 22. This work was first published by Variant Lit and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. I didn’t win, but the nomination was really an honor.
In April, I’ll have a personal craft piece published in Reckon Review. Other than a blog piece I wrote about list poems, this is the first of its kind. Bulb Culture Collective accepted a poem about one of my ancestors in their arbor issue, also out in April. Also, I have artwork in Mom Egg Review’s next print issue, due out in late April.
Also out in April, five new photographs in Anti-Heroin Chic. Find the photos here and the main issue here. This is a wonderful issue. I really admire Anti-Heroin Chic’s “heartful” mission and that they publish working-class writers (and writers of all persuasions).
I’ll be doing a reading with Milkweed Press to celebrate the release of Dead of Winter III on March 18. Sign up for the Zoom reading here. I’m looking for reading venues for fall/winter when my book is released. Please contact me on social if you think I might work for your venue.
Lastly, I have work forthcoming in Amethyst Review’s Thin Spaces & Sacred Places anthology in July, a flash in Midway Journal (in April), and work in Hyacinth Review in May and August, and a large suite of micros in Mythic Picnic in April. It’s a busy year, and my book will be released in the fall, but I don’t see any other publications in the winter (as I think I’m finished for now).
Thank you for stopping by. Keep writing, submitting, creating art, making it in whatever ways it takes, and reserve plenty of time for living. And happy spring (it will arrive any time).
*Update: There was a reading for the Dead of Winter anthology on March 18. It was recorded, so you can see it on YouTube.
