I've got a little punk poem about freckles (okay, maybe not the edgiest thing in the world, but still...) in the themed BODY POSITIVTY issue of Versification. Also, my first photo credit (taken at Las Vegas’ Neon Boneyard) is in here too!
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There’s so much energy and buzz when a new lit mag kicks off, and I love being a little part of it. I was very honored when my story “As Storms Gather in the Stereo” was picked to be the debut piece that launched Flash Frog. I mean, their motto is “We like our fiction like we like our dart frogs: small, brightly colored, and deadly to the touch.” How cool is that?
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So, I’m noticing a theme here. This seems to be the year of finding homes for things that have been hard to place in the past.
After being rejected twelve times (okay, yes, I might be a little stubborn), my poem “A Pink Shatter of Light” has happily settled in at the new Second Chance Lit, a magazine who specializes in taking those pieces that have always been “close, but not quite”.
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There are days in this writing journey when, honestly, not much happens. I don’t put words on a page, I don’t hear back from submissions. Things are just…quiet. But then there are days, when wonderful and unexpected things pop up without warning.
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Thanks to a poetry workshop last August which examined the poetry of Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, I’ve been playing around with short forms. In the current world of prose poems, free verse, lyric essays and long poems, I wasn’t sure if there was room for small quiet pieces. I’m slowly learning that there’s a place for everything. Two little poems (6 lines each) found a home at Emerge Literary Journal.
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I was going to give up on this piece. It’d been rejected 15 times by both literary and speculative fiction magazines. It just didn’t seem to belong in either, I guess. I was ready to either shelve it or put it through some major re-writes. But then, the final place I submitted it to not only accepted it, but made it the feature fiction piece of the issue. Sometimes, the right piece just needs the right home.
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This year, I had the opportunity to be mentored by ARC Poetry’s Poet in Residence Stevie Howell. One of my poems that we worked on was selected to be one of the features for the Poet in Residence program. “The Boxing Trees” is now in ARC Poetry Magazine 93.
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I seem to be writing about flowers these days. First, it was arnica and now it’s hellebores. Inspired by a twitter picture of a hellebore with black petals, here’s “Hellabora, Patron Saint of Dark Blooms” in the beautiful and moody Crow & Cross Keys - Issue 1.
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For my third collaboration with Sylvia Santiago, we decided to try something a little different. We’ve done stories together, but this is our first time trying a poem.
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