This morning's email check brought me great joy--my poem "Anaphora of Regrets" has been accepted by Gone Lawn for their corn moon issue #61! I love this poem so much I'm considering using it for the title of the manuscript it's in. (I know, I know, we're not supposed to be in love with our... Continue Reading →
The Windhover accepts “Primum Non Nocere (First, Do No Harm)”
I am looking forward to August, when The Windhover will publish my poem "Primum Non Nocere (First, Do No Harm)"!
Soundings East Publishes “A Guest in the Assembly of God Congregation”
Also in today's very generous mailbox, I was delighted to find two copies of the Spring 2025 volume 47 of Salem State University's literary magazine Soundings East, where you will find my poem "A Guest in the Assembly of God Congregation": A Guest in the Assembly of God CongregationThe loamy sermon runsthrough my fingers and... Continue Reading →
Santa Clara Review publishes “Courage”
I just received the print copy of the Spring 2025 Santa Clara Review (vol. 112, issue 02), which features my poem "Courage." I wrote this one many years ago for my mother, and am proud it found its way to a literary review that I love. Courage for my mother, JoanneIs to stand on a... 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 →
“Chronic Pain” is published!
I am very excited that one of my personal favorite poems, "Chronic Pain," is now published at The Disappointed Housewife. This one means a lot to me--I was trying to find ways to explain what it is like living with chronic pain without talking about pain itself. For folks who don't live with it, they... Continue Reading →
MacQueen’s Quinterly accepts “Nosophobia”!
I am thrilled and honored that my poem "Nosophobia" has been accepted for publication in MacQueen's Quinterly! Look for it in the September issue. Until then, go give MacQueen's Quinterly a read, there are a number of really fantastic poems published by the outlet (I particularly enjoyed Crystal Taylor's "Scales").
Read “The Tattooed Patient Fears Needles” in Trampoline!
My poem "The Tattooed Patient Fears Needles" is now available to read in issue 27.10 of Trampoline: A Journal of Poetry. It's the second poem on the page, but do read the others by Isabel Chenot and Patrick G. Roland. I enjoyed them, you will, too!
The Disappointed Housewife accepts “Chronic Pain”!
I'm very happy to have received an email from the Editor Brennan of The Disappointed Housewife--they've accepted my poem "Chronic Pain"! This one is particularly personal--my attempt at finding language to explain to non-sufferers what it feels like to live in a chronically painful meatsuit, and I'm grateful it found a wonderful home.
Viridine Literary accepts “Memoirs of a Goddess”!
In an absolutely lovely birthday gift, Viridine Literary has accepted my poem "Memoirs of a Goddess"! I've really enjoyed their first two issues and am grateful to be included in the next. It's so difficult to write about personally meaningful memories and still make them fresh and unique for a reader who doesn't have the... Continue Reading →
Colleen S. Harris 