UPDATED: February 24, 2024 The listings below are literary magazines/journals that are known for taking poetry on current event topics. Many respond quickly, several are always open, others are open now, and one is paying. These literary magazines/journals are listed alphabetically. I’ve also included brief notes and whether […]
I’m pleased to share that my poem “Ex-Ballerina” was published by ONE ART: a journal of poetry. This is a personal poem and one that reminds us how impressionable we are as children and the importance of body image. ONE ART is incredible kind to work with, fast […]
Tremendous thanks to The Journal of Compressed Arts for publishing two micro fictions “Expectancy” and “I Am Meg White.” These two compressed pieces are lyrical and could be considered prose poems. The first is based on a true story from an interaction I had with my husband and […]
UPDATED: December 2023 Why limit yourself to being published in lit mags in the U.S., Canada, or the U.K? There are many countries with English-language lit mags you can also submit your work to. For example, my poem “My Monkey Grammarian” was published in Hong Kong and even […]
I’m honored to have two poems published in the December issue of Anti-Heroin Chic alongside so many incredibly talented poets! My poems “The Hospital Bed Floats” and “Anniversary” are poems of recovery. It’s important to me that these personal poems are out in the world. Many of you […]
POETiCA REViEW is an online poetry journal with fast response times of one week to one month, that “hope[s] to give voice to the myriad of disparate voices within the artistic community, locally, and internationally, regardless of notoriety or who is currently favoured by this or that magazine. […]
Tremendous thanks to OyeDrum Magazine for publishing my poem “Lazarus Women” was published in OyeDrum’s Hybrid & Writing Works 2023 Issue. This issue is edited by jo reyes-boitel. “Lazarus Women” is a remixed found poem from Margaret Fuller Ossoli’s “Appeal for an Asylum for Discharged Female Convicts.” You […]
Tremendous thanks to the editors at Does It Have Pockets for publishing three of my poems in their September issue: “Breast-giver,” “Preparation,” and “Quentin Tarantino Loves the Grateful Dead.” These three poems are wildly different from each other and I’d say quirky at the very least. You can […]
I’m excited to announce my poem “I Know I Have Loved Patricia” was published in Volume 11, Issue 3 of TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics. You can download the issue in PDF or listen to audio read by each contributor on their current issue page. This […]
I’m pleased to share my poem “Nocturne to Uterus” has been published in The Gravity of the Thing. The Gravity of the Thing is an independent magazine dedicated to innovative and defamiliarized creative writing. Since the journal’s inception in 2013, The Gravity of the Thing has been named […]
