Writer, Photographer, Hughman
Poetry (non-haiku)
Poems & Publications
(Some older links may be expired. Alternate links available.)
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Young Notes — The Shallot: Journal of Mental Health, Art & Literature (Oregon WI), "Reflection and Growth" issue, Fall 2025. TBA
A Minor Story — Prolific Pulse Press LLC (Raleigh NC), "Unhoused—Yearning for Home" anthology, early 2026. TBA
Quarry — Gotham Literature (NYC), Fall-Winter, online 2025. TBA
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Eulogy for Mikey — Lowlife Lit Press blog, April 11, 2025.
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Stock — Quarter Press: The Quarter(ly) Journal (Millen GA),"This is Where We are Now" issue,
Volume 13, Spring 2025.
[ $$ ] Print version available for purchase HERE, or View Screenshot
Sevin Siblings — Wingless Dreamer Publisher (Mumbai, India), "Ballads of Medieval Devotion" contest
top finalist, May 2025.
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Flow — The Shallot: Journal of Mental Health, Art & Literature (Oregon WI),"The Elements" issue, Volume 4, No. 1. May 2025.
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Thistle Do Nicely (ekphrastic poem paired with my photo, Thistle) — The Rush Magazine (Mt. St. Mary's University, LA, CA), Issue 14, March 2025.
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Jesus in Drag — Northern New England Review (Franklin Pierce U., NH), "Wicked" theme, March 2025.
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Jesus Fishing — Wingless Dreamer Publisher (Mumbai, India), "Awakening Within" contest,
February 2025.
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Jesus at my Birthday, and God on TV — LitBop: Art & Literature in the Groove (Chicago, IL), Volume 1, Issue 4, March 2025.
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To My Wife, Asleep In Bed — WayWords Literary Journal / The Writers Workout (Columbia, KY), "Kindness" Issue 17, February 2025.
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Joseph — Blue Crystal Lit (UK), "Christmas Rings" contest, awarded 5th place, Issue 14, January 2025.
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All Over Sylvia — Libre Lit (Pearl, MS), Issue 2, "Plath" theme, December 2024.
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Rose Bowl Parade — Instant Noodles / Current Words Publishing LLC (CA), Volume 4, Issue 3, “Holiday Noods” theme, December 2024. Read Online or View Screenshot
Mother Touring Paris (ekphrastic) — Sea to Sky Review (BC, Canada), Issue 2, Volume 5, November, 2024. Read Online or View Screenshot
Jesus in College — Wingless Dreamer Publisher (Mumbai, India),"Midnight Masquerade" anthology, November 2024.
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Deportment — Witcraft (South AUS), September 2024. [Site Retired]
Owl — The Raven Review (Harker Heights, TX), Summer issue, Volume 5, Issue 3, July 2024.
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Wendell — WayWords Literary Journal / The Writers Workout (Columbia, KY), Issue 15, "Nostalgia," July 2024.
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God at the Ballpark — The Twin Bill (Troy, MI), “All Star Game” anthology, Issue 16, July 2024.
Nominated for the 2025 Best of the Net Anthology.
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He Was a Soldier — Heron Clan issue XI (Chapel Hill, NC), June 2024. Print version only available from Katherine James books. View Snapshot
Imagine Space — Nat 1 Publishing LLC (Auburn, ME), “Not Enough Space” anthology, June 2024.
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The Furies — The Letters Home Collection, (Utah) "Shatter the Windows" Issue 1, March 2024.
[ $$ ] Print or digital version available for purchase at LULU.
Drowned in Nineteen Over Thirty — San Antonio Review, February 2024.
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Mark — San Antonio Review, February 2024. Read Online or View Screenshot
Them, and Cheat — BarBar Literary Magazine (Lexington, KY), Volume II, “I probably shouldn’t tell you this” anthology, December 2023.
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Extinction — WayWords Literary Journal / The Writers Workout (Columbia, KY), Issue 12, “Nightmares” October 2023.
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First Day of Spring — Wingless Dreamer Publisher (Mumbai, India), “Symphony of Seasons” contest, Volume 2, Issue 2, September 2023.
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Here To Tell You, Sorry, and The Muse — Trash Wonderland, Issue 2, “Don’t Talk to Me” theme, July 2023. Scroll way down to Read Online or View "Here to tell You" Screenshot,
[ $ ] Print version only available for purchase at Etsy
Bananas — Nat1 Publishing LLC’s The Skewies: An Award Anthology (Auburn, ME), June 2023.
“Bukowski” category honorable mention. Page 40. Read Online or View Screenshot
Drought — Garfield Lake Review (U. of Olivet, MI), "Atmosphere" issue, May 2023.
Read PDF Online page 65, or Download PDF
Play — WayWords Literary Journal / The Writers Workout (Columbia, KY), "Sandbox" Issue 10, April 2023.
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Frank O’Hara Gets Dirty in Bull City — Salvation South (Clarkston, GA), March 2023. Paired with my Lucky Strike smokestack photo. Read Online or View Screenshot
Also a finalist in the NC Poetry Society’s annual Pinesong Awards in the "Poet Laureate" category, May 2020.
God Poem — Molecule Tiny Lit Mag (Salem, MA), Issue 8, Spring 2023, page 46.
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Once (limerick) — Grand Little Things, February 2023. Read Online or View Screenshot
Something_diff — Troublemaker Firestarter (Riverside, NJ), Volume 3, Winter/early 2023.
[ $ ] Print version only available for purchase HERE
Poker Voice — The Shallot: Journal of Mental Health, Art & Literature (Oregon WI), Volume 1, Issue 2, December 2022. Read ISSUU Online, page 13.
Veterans Day — As You Were: Military Experience & the Arts (Morgantown, WV), Issue 17, November 2022. Read Online or View Screenshot
AIR — Quibble Magazine (Richmond, VA), Issue 3, “Level” theme, July 2022.
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Good Boys — Another Chicago Magazine, “Rituals” issue, Summer 2022. Paired with my photo Rocky. Read Online or View Screenshot
Husbandry — Hotpoet’s Equinox (Houston, TX), “In Our Back Yard” theme. Volume 2, p. 31, Spring 2022.
[ $$ ] Print version available for purchase, or digital version free HERE
After the D&C — Wingless Dreamer Publisher (Mumbai, India), December 2021 print anthology “Snowflakes and Mistletoes” contest top finalist.
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The Must — Fauxmoir (Knoxville, TN), Issue 1, Winter 2021. Read Online or View Screenshot
An Open Exchange, and 2 haiku (Visitation, Mirror) — Quillkeepers Press, October 2021, “Bare Bones” Spooktacular Halloween anthology.
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The Lesson — Tiny Seed Literary Journal blog and anthology September 2021.
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Aylesford time, Thinking of you, I don’t know, One time, Win — In Parentheses, April 2021.
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Quarantine Chicken Dance — Moonstone Arts Center (Philadelphia, PA), “Love & the Pandemic” anthology, March 2021.
[ $ ] Print version available for purchase HERE
Wiseness, and Listen — Iris Literary Journal by Assure Press (Cedar Hill, TX), Volume 1, “Wisdom”
Issue 4, 2020.
[ $$$ ] Print version available for purchase HERE
The Last Hunt — Tiny Seed Literary Journal, “Lessons from the Wild” Issue, December 2020.
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Little Ditty — HASH Journal (Berkeley, CA), December 2020. [Site Retired]
Shhh — Snapdragon: Journal of Art & Healing (Winston-Salem, NC), December 2020.
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Blue Milk — Tiny Seed Literary Journal, “Where is Your Wild” issue, October 23, 2020.
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Same Script — Austin International Poetry Festival (AIPF) digital online anthology of Coronavirus poetry, 2020. Scroll down to “Poet 16” to Read Online or View Screenshot
A Thought for Mother — The Silent World in Her Vase, online only, in honor of Parent’s Day, July 2020. [Site Retired]
To the poet, reading — Rue Scribe / Underwood Press (Phoenix, AZ), July 2020.
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Equinox — Tiny Seed Literary Journal, “Hindsight In 2020” project, April 2020.
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Go — Willowdown books, Anthology of Poems From the Lockdown, April 2020.
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Well so what? and From the convicted to his accusers — Barzakh (SUNY Albany, NY), Spring 2020. Incarceration Poems. Read Online or View Screenshot
Down at the Irish Pub — Dash (Cal St. Fullerton), 13th Edition, 2020.
Print and online copies unavailable. View Snapshot
Nam, Man — Pinesong 2020, WINNER of “Courage” category in the NC Poetry Society’s annual anthology of awards. Also nominated for a PUSHCART 2021 prize.
Read PDF Online page 39, or Download PDF
Broken — New Southern Fugitives, by Southern Fried Karma, March 2020, Volume 3, Issue 8, March 2020. [Site Retired]
Poem originally based on image from Rattle magazine’s ekphrastic challenge, February 2019. More Info
On American Avenue — San Pedro River Review (AZ), February 2020, “American South” Issue.
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Burning bed — 2019 NC Poetry Society’s Poetry In Plain Sight poster contest, November 2019. Posters placed in several public locations & businesses throughout NC. More Info
Teaching Nobody, and Teachers — Montana Mouthful, September 2019, “Schooling” issue.
[ $ ] Print or digital version available for purchase on MagCloud
Welcome to a Rock — Tiny Seed Literary Journal, March 2019.
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Older Published Poems:
Panacea — The Plastic Tower, May 1990. Publisher most likely OOB, status unknown.
Back — Amelia, 1990. Publisher most likely OOB, status unknown.
I’ve Been Thinking — The Dominion Review (formerly Old Dominion U; now Barely South Review) Spring 1990.
Reprinted in Heron Clan, issue IX, 2022. View Snapshot
Slone Hill — Calypso, Volume 2, 1990. Publisher most likely OOB, status unknown.
The Breeding — Context South, 1990-91. Publisher most likely OOB, status unknown.
Invasion of Privacy — Thema (Metairie, LA), Summer 1990, “The Last Time I Saw Jane” Issue. More Info
Miscellaneous poems forgotten to time published in several University of Kentucky publications, 1975-1980: Labyrinth (UK literary magazine), Fabbro (UK literary magazine), The Wandering Foot (UK literary magazine), Jar (UK honors program), The Kentuckian (UK student magazine).