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The Pinch Journal | Issue 44.3 Spring 2025

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It’s very pleased to have art in The Pinch Journal, a journal I really admire. Very grateful to Editor-in-Chief, Courtney Miller Santo, Managing Editor, Joshua Carlucci, Art Editor, Isaiah Kennedy and the rest of the staff for putting together such a lovely issue (and for including me). There is lots of great art, poetry, and writing in here–it’s really a stellar lineup, so be sure to check it out (I’ve included screenshots of the TOC so you can see the contributor list). It isn’t yet on their website as of 3/27, but I’m sure they’ll have it listed soon! Here is a link to The Pinch print page.

Photo of print journal drawing reproduction of androgynous women in black dancing in a field with a tornado in the background.
Koss drawing of woman and tornado in The Pinch Journal | Issue 44.3 Spring 2025
The Pinch Journal | Issue 44.3 Spring 2025 magazine cover with abstract, painterly hand, whale head, and wave and ship motifs.
Cover art The Pinch Journal | Issue 44.3 Spring 2025
table of contents photo from The Pinch Journal | Issue 44.3 Spring 2025
Table of contents page 1 The Pinch Journal | Issue 44.3 Spring 2025
Table of contests page two of The Pinch Journal | Issue 44.3 Spring 2025
Table of contents page 2 The Pinch Journal | Issue 44.3 Spring 2025

Book Review Dancing Backwards Toward Pluperfect | Carla Sarett | Trampoline Poetry

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Carla Sarett wrote a beautiful book review of Dancing Backwards and Trampoline Poetry published it. It is a very thorough and generous review—I’m sure you will enjoy it. Note that their reviews seems to be loaded on one page, one after the other, so if you arrive on my page in the far future, you will need to scroll down, or, faster, just type “dancing backwards” after hitting control F on a keyboard for PCs and it should take you to the review. Very grateful to both Carla and Trampoline for this.

woman on a trampoline with two kids watching and a windmill in the distance in black and white
Image courtesy of Diode Editions.

Review of Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect by Erin Vachon

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Very pleased and honored by this very queer book review of Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect by Erin Vachon and published in Moist Poetry. Aside from the flattering recommendation, it’s nice to see my work resonating with other queers. And I agree that we need queer poetry right now more than ever as our basic civil rights are being dismantled by this evil regime. I’m also grateful to Han Vanderhart for publishing it in their queer poetry journal, Moist Poetry.

Interview (RE) An Ideas Journal, Kristine Esser Slentz

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Very grateful for this interview in (Re) An Ideas Journal, today. Thank you, Kristine Esser Slentz for your time and thoughtfulness in this interview. And thank you, Felice Neals and H.E. Fisher (editors) for the publication. So honored! We talk about grief, healing, trauma, religion, and writing queer and working class. Be sure to read the whole issue as it has great poetry, art, and other creative goodness!

Book Review | Barton Smock | Kings of Train

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Pleased and surprised to find this lyrical book review by Barton Smock, a brilliant language-kind-of-poet with a heart. Barton published one of the poems (the last long list poem) in Isacoustic, his journal, a few years ago. Find the review here.

Book Review: Heterodox Haiku by Jerome Berglund

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Very surprised and grateful for this spicy book review by Jerome Berglund in Heterodox Haiku. It makes me feel good when someone gets pleasure out of reading my work. Here is a little excerpt, but please, if you have a few minutes, check it out here. And check out the ‘zine while you’re there!

graphic with red black and white shapes and quote from a book review for dancing backwards towards pluperfect.
Promo for book review by Jerome Berglund published in Heterodox Haiku

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