My Father Transformed By Dying, Rattle Poetry Prize Finalist appearing in Rattle Issue 74.
7 Poems featured in ONLY POEMS including “Natural Selection,” “Hannele on Her Death Bed Reads Garcia Lorca,” “Sestina for Darkness and First Light,” “What to Do If You’re Surrounded by Coyotes on the First Warm Day of Spring,” “Fission is a Bomb is a Fist is a Kiss,” and “The Fig, the Firefly, and What We Carry.” Have I mentioned how much I LOVE ONLY POEMS and how the feature poets starting with delightful interviews?
Custom Coffin responding to the murder of children in Ulvalde, published by Whale Road Review
Spring Gone Missing – a collaborative poem written with Steve Bloom, Basman Derawi, Michal Rubin in our bi-monthly meeting of five poets — Jewish and Muslim; American, Israeli and Palestinian (from Gaza and the West Bank)—who began meeting and exchanging poems with each other Autumn of 2024. We’ve learned to appreciate each other’s voices and poetry enough to collaborate on writing this poem —which is an attempt to express and understand what has been lost by residents of Gaza.
I respond to Rattle’s Ekphrastic Challenge most months. This is my fave of the ones Ive written: At the End of the World Is Forgetting
What the Astrologer Failed to See in Our Stars winner of May 2023 Rattle Ekphrastic Challenge.
The Keeping of Secrets Among Forgetful Lovers —February Poem of the Month in ONLY POEMS.
There Can Be No Blackberries Without Blood and Eve After Eating the Apple in Issue 9 of Minyan Magazine
The Nearly New Moon and the Crescent Earth, responding to the photo taken from the Orion spacecraft from beyond the moon. Published in Rattle’s Poets Respond
An Awakening in Oaxaca in The Inquisitive Eater. Not for the faint of heart!
Perhaps Prayer is Thinly Scattered Matter in Braided Way prompted by news of The Voyager Spacecraft, having moved into integer space, detecting a “hum.”
A Walk Interrupted in Tiny Seed Literary Journal
Ecclesiastes 3 in Stone Poetry Quarterly – a musing about mortality and seasons.
Into the Metaverse, about Facebook’s plans for its (and our) future, is more a commentary on my own relationship with the internet than on theirs. Published in Rattle’s Poets Respond
Three poems prompted by stargazing in ONE ART: a journal of poetry.
Intersection about Amanda Gormans effect on the politicians listening to her inaugural poem, published in New Verse News.
I, Like Muons published in Rattle’s Poets Respond (interview with Tim Green, Rattle editor, here.)
Intervention in the Waning Day and The Heart Is a Brain Is a Muscle Is Pain in Anti-Heroin Chic
An American Jew Fails to Make Sense of the Carnage in Gaza. published in Rattle’s Poets Respond (interview with Tim Green, Rattle editor, here.)
Activism In the Age of Social Media, in Rise Up Review Summer 2021 issue about the death of Homero Gómez González, protector of the monarch butterfly breeding grounds in the oyamel forests of central Mexico.
Failing Nine Eleven (scroll down) & Broken Swings in Rats Ass Review
When sleep comes easy in Sparked Literature Magazine
I, Astronaut and Praise Song to the Weavers, the Wearers and the Water in Sparked Literature Magazine
Three poems in the summer 2021 edition of Sheila-Na-Gig online:
Fear and COVID, March 11, 2020,
Of Bauble and Bullet and Stone, and
The Delusion of Title and Deed
Social Media In the Moments After the Derek Chauvin Verdict published in the New Verse News.
From Quarantine I Think About Growing Things – part of Poetry Month 2020, “Postcards From the Pandemic,” convened by Pauletta Hansel, Cincinnati Poet Laureate Emeritus (April 2016-March 2018)
Cracking the Code published in the New Verse News.
Uncommon Ground in the anthology, I Thought I Heard a Cardinal Sing
Nine Poems in Blue As An Orange Journal, Volume 1. This fledgling journal took all nine poems I sent them. I am particularly fond of the rather wordy, “The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars,” an early effort on my part that captured deb’s and my relationship quite well, I think.
And Somebody Lay This Book Down, published in New Verse News – a found poem of lines selected from the transcript of the January meeting of the McMinn County, Tennessee School Board considering the removal of the Pulitzer Prize winning book Maus from their curriculum teaching about the Holocaust.
In preparing for the winter storm published in Autumn Sky Daily
The Day the Streets Rose Up published by Silverbirch Press
My Son Slows Me also published by Silver Birch Press
Dick Westheimer 