I am beside myself in celebration--Bottlecap Press has published my chapbook The Girl and the Gifts. With an arc of self-discovery and self-determination, this collection connects mythological themes with quotidian life--a Long Island girl compares her home life with an old Irish selkie legend, trees discuss how they know Daphne after her flight from Apollo,... Continue Reading →
Proud to have my poem "An Arching Shrub Outshines the Roses" included in the new Skipjack Review #5!
I am very happy to have opened my email this morning to a lovely acceptance from San Pedro River Review for my poem "My Mother Asks Why I Never Relax"! Look for it in the next issue, August-ish. It always feels like a nod from the universe when a poem I think is good actually... Continue Reading →
I was very pleased to see my inbox this morning. Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, a daily poem I subscribe to (and you should, too), published my poem "The Letter L"! Editor Klocek-Lim does a fantastic job curating the daily poems, and it's always a treat to find fantastic poems in my inbox, so I am... Continue Reading →
The Argyle has kindly included my poem "Seeing a Bottle of Woodford Reserve at the Grocery" in their Vice theme! Isn't it funny how the most mundane things can bring back the smell, taste, and feel of moments decades in the past? What's the latest object/scent/sight that caught you unawares and threw your unprepared brain... Continue Reading →
I am excited to share that Floyd County Moonshine has accepted my poems "Sestina for College Years in Danville, Kentucky" and "Sojourn to Pleasant Hill" for a forthcoming issue! I am always proud when I can hang with the enormously talented poets of Appalachia, and to be able to do it with a sestina (a... Continue Reading →
I'm very proud to have my poem "They Tell Me" in the inaugural issue of Harrow House Journal (see p. 21). Editor Kahn has shaped this journal as "a healing space for poets to share works centered on trauma, loss, and grief." So be pre-warnd before you enter the issue that it's emotionally heavy (and... Continue Reading →
I am thrilled and honored to have FIVE poems in the June 2025 issue of Bellowing Ark! I am particularly excited about these, for a number of reasons. I think they're good poems, the issue is filled with fantastic writers I'm proud to be beside, and Bellowing Ark is the press that published my first... Continue Reading →
I am humbled and deeply honored to have my poem "Math Quiz" accepted for the anthology Betrayed: Violence Against Women out of Moonstone Arts Center. "How," you may ask, "does a math quiz have anything to do with the horror of violence against women?" Let me share the first few lines of the poem: Math... Continue Reading →
Excited to start my Sunday morning with an email from Anodyne Magazine, accepting my poem "Delayed Detonation" with some minor edits. I know most literary magazines don't have the time to be able to do this, buried as they are in submissions, so I always deeply appreciate those able to take the time and give... Continue Reading →
Colleen S. Harris 