Category: Literary Journals

Litzine Toad‘s latest issue went up today, April Fool’s Day — with my poem “Picnic.” Here are three lines from the poem:

He said we should go away, like to Poland.
Why so cold, I whispered from under the blindfold.
It was a nice day for killing deer.

Read the rest at Toad!

LEVELER‘s latest poem is up — and it’s mine! Here are the first three lines of “Resolutions:”

Tomorrow when lawnmowers grow silencers,
when job offers line my inbox and G-string,
when cats go faux fur but remain seductive.

The rest of the poem is at LEVELER — along with an editor’s note that’s a lot longer than the 11-line poem itself. LEVELER’s an online po-zine that publishes a poem a week, each with a “levelheaded” note that investigates “what a poem conveys and how.” Enjoy —

The website for Denver Quarterly hasn’t been updated for quite a while, but the print issues continue on — and latest issue of the literary magazine is now available. One of my poems, titled “Carrington’s Cavalry,” can be found on page 22. Here are the first three lines:

In the skirmish he’s the one body moving.
Mostly I play voyeur. The scattershots
by which he organizes the battalion’s horses.

Read the rest and more by getting an issue or subscription. I especially Kate Greenstreet‘s series of numbered poems, collectively titled “The End of Something,” and Kate McIntyre’s “Be Prepared,” a small collection of dreamy-creepy little surreal snippets.

The website hasn’t been updated yet, but the winter 2013 issue of Spoon River Poetry Review is now out, with one of my poems in its pages. Titled “Ozone,” the poem begins thusly:

Read the rest plus other lovely poems and stories by picking up the issue — available for $10 by mail order from SRPR.

The L.A. Telephone Book Vol. 2 is now out! Put together by poet Brian Kim Stefans, this directory of sorts pulls together work by SoCal writers and text-artists. Four of my poems are in the book. Here’s the beginning of “Eager”:

These days I’m an accidental sadist, scouting out inconveniences. Throw me a curve ball and I’ll catch it, if it falls in my quiet hand. Masochism’s so pedestrian, haven’t we all almost been hit by a car.

The other poems are “Opener,” ”Tidier,” and “Brighter.” Download the whole book as a PDF — free! — to enjoy poems from Will Alexander, Diana Arterian, Chris Stoffolino, Thérèse Bachand, Molly Bendall, and many others.

So Drunken Boat 18 just went live — and a poem of mine called “Might Club” is in the new issue. Here are the first three lines:

Read the rest at Drunken Boat 18, which features special folios on Debt, the Ocean, the Librotraficante movement, and more.