Recent publications

 After posting about my new chapbook, I realized I also haven't collated recent publications.... My bad!

So here are some from the last few years. Enjoy!

Online Journals

§         “Heartbeat” – Sky Island Review, Issue #21 (Summer 2022)

§         “Scale,” “Ginkgo” – Ekphrastic Review, May 30, 2022

§         “Projection” – The Ekphrastic Review, Writing Challenge published 2/11/22

§         “The Most Magnificent Ice Sculpture,” “After theDying” – Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Issue 22:4, November 2021

§         “Threshold” – Gleam, Cadralor Issue 2, April 2021

Print Journals 

§         “Falling” – The Comstock Review, Spring/Summer 2022 or Fall/Winter 2022 issue TBD

§         “The Swimming” -- Sand Hills Literary Magazine, Spring 2022

§         “Lemon Tree,” “The Full Scope of Gravity Explained” – The Comstock Review, Spring/Summer 2019

§         “Ode to the Universe” – Pirene’s Fountain, Tenth Anniversary Issue, Volume 11, Issue 19, Spring 2018 (Pushcart Prize Nominee)

Anthologies

§         “At the Theatre,” “He’d Promised All of Us his Hand” – The Strategic Poet: Honing the Craft (ed. Diane Lockward, Terrapin Books, 2021)

§         “Kwashiorkor,” “My Father Asks What I Remember” – What They Bring: The Poetry of Migration and Immigration (ed. Irene Willis and Jim Haba, IP Books, 2020)

§         “And These Are My Fears,” “What the Computer Doesn’t Know” – Climate of Opinion: Sigmund Freud in Poetry (ed. Irene Willis, International Psychoanalytic Books, 2017)

Translations

§        “I am thinking about the autumn of these trees” (“Pienso en el otoño de estos árboles”, Alicia García Bergua) – Book of Matches, Issue 3, 2021

Lyric Essay

§         2022 – “Shifting Weight: 40 Years on the Dojo Floor” – Clinch, Vol. 1, May 2022

New chapbook

 Oh my. Long time no post.... But I have a big good reason now: a new chapbook out!

Letters to my Dead is sixteen poems addressed directly to some of my beloved departed, accompanied by illustrations by my brother, John Van Pelt. Written during the pandemic, they serve both as a kind of journal of the time and as communion with love and loss. 

Poet Justen Ahren, author of A Strange Catechism and A Machine for Remembering, describes the book thus: 

“Death takes from us not only a person, but also all the worlds we access with them and through them; places within and without, our unique togetherness: France, antelopes, weather, a collective history. These quiet poems, direct addresses to the deceased, invite the beloved to rejoin this side, from wherever they are now, talk with us again, kiss us, or send an answer, even by crows. This is a tender, beautiful, and healing collection.”

I'm thrilled to have this collection out in the world and would love to share it with you. Order from Amazon, using this link. And thank you for joining the correspondence!