Flat Ink Magazine published my poem "Damnation Does Not Impress Us" in their October 2025 issue #3! This was a fun one to play with--some good college memories attached to it. The whole issue is fantastic, so be sure to give it a read!
Eclectica publishes “Casting About for Images of Comfort, I Remember”
I'm thrilled to have my poem "Casting About for Images of Comfort, I Remember" appear in vol. 29 issue 4 of Eclectica Magazine! This poem is special to me, so I'm grateful the editorial team thought their readers would enjoy it!
ONE ART publishes “For the Friend Who Died Before We Could Reconcile”
I am pretty beside myself that ONE ART: A Journal of Poetry published my poem "For the Friend Who Died Before We Could Reconcile" today. I've had an old college friend on my mind a lot lately. Shara was that friend, part of my sister-group, the person I was closer to than anyone, together from... Continue Reading →
My first haibun accepted!
I am incredibly proud that my poem "Homecoming" will appear in the fall 2025 issue of Drifting Sands Haibun: A Journal of Haibun and Tanka Prose. I'm taking a course in poetics and learning more about forms, and I happen to have a few poems written that are refusing every form I test on them--sonnet,... Continue Reading →
Chapbook Now Available!
I am proud and excited to announce that Toothache in the Bone is now available from boats against the current! You can purchase your copy on Amazon. I am incredibly proud to have this chapbook of poems out in the world, and grateful to my editor and cheerleader, McKenna Deen, for all the work to... Continue Reading →
The Brussels Review and the Collidescope both released my work today!
My first short fiction piece in 10 years, "How Mythical Creatures End Up Becoming Librarians," was published today by The Collidescope! I'm so excited to see it up and out in the world. If the diction strikes you as a bit odd, it was initially a poem, but I thought it worked better (and was... Continue Reading →
Poem accepted at Harrow House!
I'm honored to have my poem "They Tell Me" accepted at Harrow House Journal, a space specifically dedicated to healing and a home for works on trauma, loss, and grief. Editor Kahn actually emailed about another poem which I was just withdrawing, and was very kind in finding space for another of my submitted pieces.... Continue Reading →
4 Poems Accepted today!
Today was a good inbox day. I racked up a few more individual poem rejections (healthy, because it means I put my work out there), and learned that my collection didn't make it to the shortlist for the award it was in the running for. Bummers. BUT my email held some very high points, as... Continue Reading →
Coming soon: a full collection AND a chapbook!
I am thrilled to report that in addition to releasing my new full-length poetry collection The Light Becomes Us (Main Street Rag) this summer and anticipating a fine press treatment of another full-length collection, Babylon Songs (First Bite Press, forthcoming), the small press boats against the current has accepted my poetry chapbook Toothache in the... Continue Reading →
Colleen S. Harris 