It’s 2022! Here are the poems selected by editors for publication in their fine journals. My thanks to them, and for what they do to promote poetry.
“A Morning in Mexico.” Mad Swirl. April 23, 2022.
“Stars and Possibility.” Soul-Lit. Spring 2022.
“Girl on the Cusp,” “At the Center of the World, At the Beginning of Time,” “The Fleeting.” Verse-Virtual. April 2022.
“Eating Grapes,” Bramble. February 5, 2022.
“Our Extravagant Plants,” Trouvaille Review. February 10, 2022.
“The Responsibility of Good-Bye” and “The Post-Holiday House,” Verse-Virtual. February 2022.
“Morning Bird Feeder,” Three Line Poetry. #58, January 2022. (available in print only)
“Grateful,” Silver Birch Press. January 2, 2022.
Forthcoming:
“The Silence Inside.” Amethyst Review. June 11, 2022.
“Laughing Buddha.” Amethyst Review. November 24, 2022.
“Found by Instinct.” Your Daily Poem. March 24, 2023.
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I am grateful to the editors of literary journals who published my work in 2021. The following list is in order by date published.
“In 1910, Mildred Watches Her Brother Row Into Lake Superior,” Barstow & Grand, 2021. Printed journal.
“Ghazal for the Athens-Concord Town Social, West Virginia,” Your Daily Poem. August 11, 2021.
“Border Crossing” and “The Adobe Wall,” Verse-Virtual. August 2021.
“The Summer Garden” and “The Strawberry in the Sky,” Better Than Starbucks: Poetry for Children. Vol. vi no. iii. August 2021.
“For a Night Without Stars or Moon,” Bramble. June 16, 2021.
“The Way of the North, 1959.” The Main Street Rag. May 2021. Printed journal.
“The Meanness Afoot,” The Raven Review. April 2021.
“Highway 40 Rest Stop,” Tipton Poetry Review. Issue 48, Spring 2021. pp 40-41.
“On the Edge,” Pangolin Review. April 2021. Issue 18–Part 3. (scroll alphabetically for Peggy)
“The Prettiest City in Mexico,” MockingHeart Review. Vol. 6, issue 2, 2021.
“The End, The Beginning,” Mad Swirl. January 1, 2021.
“Romantic Youth,” Shot Glass Journal. January 2021. Issue #33.
“Suddenly,” Right Hand Pointing. January 2021.
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Thank you to the editors of these fine literary journals who published my work in 2020. I am proud to be represented in each.
“No Necklace for Me” and “Classified Ad, Mining Gazette, 1904.” Hummingbird XXX, no. 2. 2020.
The River’s Gift. As It Ought to Be. November 18, 2020.
“Kristallnacht, Again,” and “The Tenderness of an Airport.” Sanctuary, October 2020. (reprints)
Night Ferry. As It Ought To Be. October 5, 2020.
One Eye, Two Eyes, and Three Eyes. Mad Swirl. August 7, 2020.
The Pink Lady’s Slipper. Poppy Road Review. August 4, 2020.
The Fifth Graders’ Rebellion. Writing in a Woman’s Voice. July 29, 2020.
Overloaded Garbage Truck. Quatrain.fish. July 26, 2020.
When Summer Breathes. Your Daily Poem. July 19, 2020.
When Mountains Shimmer. Bluepepper. June 24, 2020.
“Western Dad” and “The Searcher at the Christian Retreat.” Anti-Heroin Chic. June 4, 2020.
During the Pandemic, I Teach My Husband Yoga. Rats Ass Review. Summer 2020.
This poem was nominated for Best New Poets 2020 (www.bestnewpoets.org)
Invisible Woman in a Northern City. Sheila-Na-Gig. Spring 2020, vol. 4.3.
Marriage Soup. Bramble. February 8, 2020.
Midwest Different. Poetry Super Highway. February 8, 2020.
Here I am with Bob Turnbull, my inspiration. Taken at Esry Park, near Eagle Harbor, Michigan, in 2019.
