To Delight the Self: First Place in Hedge Apple Magazine’s 2025 Halloween Poetry Contest Back in 2006, an essay called “A Consideration of Poetry,” by Kay Ryan, appeared in the May issue of Poetry . Ryan’s argument supports Eliot’s assertion that “poetry is a superior amusement,” meaning that there is, at the foundation of poem composition, an experience of fun, humor, or amusement—or as Ryan terms it, the “nonsensical”—for the author herself in the creation of language, no

The cool lit mag Trampoline: A Journal of Poetry just published my poem Garage Trash: An Argument to Restore the Matriarchy in Issue...

Thrilled to announce my poem, A Single Width of Shade , appeared in the Digital Magazine, Fruitslice (Issue 8:Repair--scroll to pp....

I'm very honored to announce the publication of 7 prose poems in the Canadian literary magazine, The Mackinaw . Extremely grateful to...