Poet 💌 Forthcoming @BellePointPress
Oklahoma
Joined September 2009
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"It’s okay, Sedo. I smoke too.
He fiddles his worry beads.
No, no, habibti,
women do not smoke."
—Mandy Shunnarah
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“The dance floor becomes...a sanctuary, a sacred space keeping you all together...Outside, masked men watch and infiltrate your neighborhoods from inside unmarked white vans.
This was the year you saw the paletero man disappear from your block.”
🖤
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Ahh! Just a couple of days ago, our Summer Issue dropped! Please join us for wonderfully brief creative writing. We are so thankful to have an amazing lineup of writers for you. citronreview.com
A review of Woody Poets in @thepickupdotcom 🦬
Protest Poetry Is Alive And Well In Oklahoma: At the Woody Guthrie Center, 12 writers delivered urgent messages about labor organizing, injustice, mass deportation, and the power of names. 🇺🇸
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Oklahoma honors Woody Guthrie🌟❤️🎼 Poets presented original work, inspired by Guthrie’s song “Deportees (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)” 📝 I wrote about migrant work in agriculture, the changing climate, and New York City + read at the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa.📍🦬🌃
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New Fiction at Five South:
A Parisian Affair by Kevin Wranovix
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I'm super excited to share the cover of my story collection After Last Call, coming out next April from Malarkey Books. And thanks to David Wojciechowski for the amazing work he did designing the cover 💙
Pre-order link: malarkeybooks.com/store/afte…
ALT Book cover, features a hops plant that appears to have mugs of beer as buds. Text reads: After Last Call Stories Will Musgrove
"Night drops on this town
like dirt at a funeral:
a few fistfuls at first,
then shoveled in and
stamped down flat."
💌 from Revision, June 27 by Cullen Whisenhunt
📍 A poem about my hometown in @ninthletter
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I love a pretty cover. In awe of these beautiful spring releases from @BellePointPress 💙
"three new collections + two debuts by deeply talented poets from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky coming in May + June"
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"Each granddaughter is a doll reborn in a mall this big.”
💝 from Girl of the Year™ by Alyx Chandler in @BicoastalReview Issue 12
Submission readers loved this poem for its fresh tone and on-the-nose nostalgia.
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As a first reader in submissions, I fell in love with this unique eco-story for @MastersReview 💚A doctor meets a client who deals with insomnia and memories brought on by unusually blooming corpse flowers. 🌺 Together they reflect on familial connection, history, and climate. 🌿
Under normal conditions, the flower can take a decade to bloom as it stores up tens of thousands of kilowatts of sunlight in its corm.
—Thomas Heise, "The Corpse Flowers"
Summer Short Story Award 2nd Place
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"There were swaths of her life about which she remembered little. Yet she could describe books she read and paintings or photographs she saw in extraordinary detail. Language seemed to flow from a continuous river within her."
Thomas Heise @MastersReview
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“The possum, o-less in its lowly state, no vanity in its topaz eyes adorned now with flies, dead here in the hairpin turn….”
Crossing by Sarah Elkins @BicoastalReview
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Submission readers called this poem “lovely, dark, & compassionate.”
"no matter how gorgeous this day started, I stroll the streets like a little boy who broke a vase and won’t go home until day throws in the towel and night pokes her head in."
Ridiculous by Charlie Peck in @PassagesNorth
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we have five gorgeous new Daniel Fraser poems! here’s one!
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"Meanwhile the books will all
have been recycled and the paper pulp will be
used to insulate space-age homes on
open prairies where the wind gets up to
forty knots."
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by Jessy Randall @RattlePoetry
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"My father stops calling me honey because boys are not sweet...I watched how honeysuckle grew on backyard fences and the brick walls of public pool houses"
from Harvest by Allen Means @onlypoemsmag
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Submissions for Moss Puppy Magazine: Issue 9: Echoed Howls are open until October 1st. buff.ly/CGCePPA
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I just love this poem!
Maggie Rue Hess 💙
from THE BONES THAT MAP US (Belle Point Press)
Day 22 - #SealeyChallenge
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