Category: Poetry

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8 tiny pieces in New Flash Fiction Review

NewFlashAre they micropoems or microstories? I’m not sure — but eight of my tiny little prose works are now up in the latest issue of New Flash Fiction Review! Here’s one to whet your appetite:

The Good Day

I braced hard but what I feared did not happen.
For that I am grateful.

Each one’s about ten words long, so they’ll be a quick read. Hope you enjoy them! Let me know what you think —

Thank you to Nin Andrews, guest editor for this prose poetry issue. I’ve been a huge fan of Nin’s work since I read Why They Grow Wings back in grad school, so to have her read and take my work was a real treat.

Image from New Flash Fiction Review

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Two poems in Gargoyle

gar62My copy of Gargoyle #62 finally arrived in my mailbox — after a little detour to my former apartment. Thanks to the postal service for sending it on!

The 394-page thick issue has within its covers two poems of mine: “A Reading” and “A Drinking Solo.” Here are three lines from a poem:

Water under the ridge, I say. It’s a day
when the news fills with familiar
terrors: suicide, parricide, coincide.

The issue — edited by Richard Peabody — also contains work by Nin Andrews, Thaisa Frank, and many many others. Pick up a copy at Gargoyle for about $20.

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Feelings Are Chemicals in Transit

Siel Ju Feelings Are Chemicals in Transit chapbookMy second chapbook, Feelings Are Chemicals in Transit, came out late last year from Dancing Girl Press!

You can read a sampling of the poems at Hobart, The Missouri Review, Pank, and other journals, where some of the poems in the chapbooks were originally published.

Based in Chicago, Dancing Girl Press publishes a chapbook series “to publish and promote the work of women writers and artists.” Other L.A.-based Dancing Girl poets include Lauren Eggert-Crowe (In the Songbird Laboratory) and Lisa Cheby (Love Lessons From Buffy the Vampire Slayer). The three of us plan to do a Dancing Girl reading in 2015 — so look out for us!

Get Feelings from Dancing Girl Press for $7.

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Two poems in So and So

So and So‘s latest issue just launched with two of my poems: “Assignation” and “Santa Monica.” Here are three lines from a poem:

What clings to the brick wall is gray. How plastic
numbers shuffle across tables, collecting
fingerprints.

Read the rest at So and So — which also has great new work by Amy Lawless (“His fingers are small matte pigs”) and Adam Soldofsky (“Incredible lengths of time are pressed into your head”) and other poets —