Must be time for my annual apology, er, update! I'm grateful to the editors of the following publications who have accepted my work over the last year:
“The Fire Responds to Questioning,” “And If It Is Beautiful” –
“On the Origins of Love,” “Culaccini” -- Eunoia Review, September 2023
“The Bird Nests in Bloom Fingers” and “Easter 2020” – Third Wednesday Magazine, Fall 2023 (print); also online at https://thirdwednesdaymagazine.org/2023/08/12/two-poems-by-lisken-van-pelt-dus/
“Amplitude,” “Gold” – Amethyst Review, 8/23/23 and 9/8/23, https://amethystmagazine.org/
“Shoes in a Circle” (“Los zapatos en círculo”), “When my
mother took us out as children” (“Al llevarnos de niños por la calle”), “I
exist alone” (“Soy sola”) -- translations, poems by Alicia García Bergua – Epiphany 06/16/23,
https://epiphanyzine.com/features/3-poems-alicia-garca-bergua
“Excavation,” “Edmonia Lewis Carves Hagar,” “When the Fireflies Call Your
Name,” “Letters from the
“In Which Consciousness Holds Space for Stupidity” – Porlock: New Poetry, April 2023 -- https://www.porlockpoetry.com/36-lisken
“Falling” and “Between Damage and Lighthouse” (Special Merit Award) – The Comstock Review, Volume 36.2,
Fall/Winter 2022 (print only)
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
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“Heartbeat” –
§ “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
Oh my. Long time no post.... But I have a big good reason now: a new chapbook out!
