Lit Rag Roulette

Poems accepted by Full of Crow poetry journal

Recently had five poems accepted by Full of Crow, an online poetry journal. This April 2016 issue marks the journal’s return to publishing after a year long hiatus, so I’m happy to be a part of it. Plus, I’m thrilled to have been named a “featured poet.” My poems can be found on this page in the journal. They are “Coming to Ground at an Oblique Angle,” “The Scales VS. the Serpent,” “Dwarfed by the Sun,” “The Layoff” (both free and haiku versions), and “Time Release Discovery of Need.”

5 poems published in Zombie Logic Review

Zombie Logic Review just published five of my poems: “Wardrobe Malfunction on a Foggy Bottom Stage,” “Covenant of the Golden Idol,” “Customer Service,” “Justice in the City,” and “Willow Oak Daydream (Acorn Porn)”. You can read them here.

In its masthead, the journal stakes its territory as “dadaist, surrealist, Outsider, and Outlaw poetry.” Once I read that, I felt like I’d found my literary tribe in this world of academically inclined journals. Nice to have that sense of belonging rewarded.

This online journal thing works fast. I just sent the editor the poems this morning, and he posted them in the afternoon. The encouragement is welcome at the moment, as I’ve been sending out quite a bit of material lately.

Rejections are pouring in

I recently dug out this book-length collection of poems for revision, and decided I needed to send some of them out to poetry journals. It would be great to just put out another book, but it seems like it would be more prestigious if at least some of the work had found favor with an outside editor.

Finding a journal that looks like it would be sympathetic with my work is hard. Ultimately, I just have to take the plunge and see what happens. There are a bunch of batches out there now. Recently, I started to receive the all-too-familiar form rejection letters. First I got one from Mudlark, then Rappahannock Review. In-Flight Literary Magazine and Slipstream soon followed. Now I have 15 poems come home to roost that need to go out again. Back to the grindstone!