Poems Published Here and There

In the year or so since I've posted to this blog, I've had a handful of poems published online that I can link to here. Eratio published four of my poems that combine found text from the New King James translation of the Bible with some autobiographical reflections. I also had a poem in Impossible Archetype, a cool PDF-format journal that focuses on work from LGBTQ+ writers. And finally, one of my poems appears in Red Eft Review, a straightforward journal that reminds me of classic lit zines like Nerve Cowboy and Right Hand Pointing.

My work was also recently included in some print publications that aren't available online: Crosscurrents, Gold Man Review, and Sinister Wisdom.

Maybe listing these publications will encourage me to send work out more--or maybe even to get to work on one of my own zines again.

I'm posting to the blog again because I've just put together a new online writing class, with prompts meant to appeal to both poets and prose writers. It runs for five weeks starting on Monday, May 17. For more details, please check out this page.

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