POETRY LIT PICKS _ VOL. 7
~ highlights and recommendations from recent issues of literary journals ~
by Mark Danowsky, Managing Editor for the Schuylkill Valley Journal
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The Adroit Journal
Issue 31, January 2020
https://theadroitjournal.org/issue-thirty-one/nate-marshall-poetry/
Nate Marshall – Imagine
[excerpt]
you better imagine
like your life depends
since it does.
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Yalobusha Review
Issue 28, Winter 2019
https://yr.olemiss.edu/piece/mcmurry/
Wyatt McMurry – Spirit Animals
[excerpt]
I took pictures
of everyone I knew and dumped them
through the surface
of the screen.
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Night Music Journal
Volume 6
https://nightmusicjournaldotcom.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/nmj-v.-6.pdf
Howie Good – Pond Life
[excerpt]
you pointing out a swan with a head like a big white wedge of wedding cake
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Plume Poetry
Issue #101, January 2020
https://plumepoetry.com/night-rising/
Afaa Michael Weaver – Night Rising
[excerpt]
the city’s limit now blind
Dean Young – Dark Enough
https://plumepoetry.com/dark-enough/
[excerpt]
I’ve lain on the ground in the dark enough
To know what comes crawling out
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Right Hand Pointing
Issue 134
https://www.issues.righthandpointing.net/134
Judy Kronenfeld – Bodily Pain
[excerpt]
He’s a proselytizer
for a church of one.
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Palette Poetry
https://www.palettepoetry.com/2019/11/25/the-water/
Wendy Miles – The Water
[except]
Anytime someone you love leaves a room
and you wish they wouldn’t.
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Nashville Review
https://as.vanderbilt.edu/nashvillereview/archives/15803
Angie Mason – After Watchmen Chapter IV
[excerpt]
4 years ago I win the hand. 2 minutes from now
he’ll walk 28 steps to the bedroom.
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The Shore
Issue 4, Winter 2019
https://www.theshorepoetry.org/bob-hicok-bring-your-daughter-to-work-day-all-her-life
Bob Hicok – Bring your daughter to work day (all her life)
[excerpt]
Then she wanted to know
how fast wind would have to be going
to suck jelly out of a jar.
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The Offing
https://theoffingmag.com/poetry/two-poems-4/
Danez Smith – My Poems
[excerpt]
i poem the president on live TV, his head raised above my head, I say
Baldwin said.
Imani Davis – The Devil Wears Prada
https://theoffingmag.com/poetry/the-devil-wears-prada/
[excerpt]
Admit it. Anyone wearing this much
leather will never govern themselves
with guilt.
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Guesthouse
Issue 4, Winter 2019
https://www.guesthouselit.com/i4-murr-kate-poetry
Kate Murr – Gig Economy
[excerpt]
He’s a freeprancing window washer. Speaks bird.
Writes real estate blogs. Substitutes. Knows how
to move property. Bat bat.
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