Category: Poetry

  • 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 —

  • Might Club!

    Might Club poetry chapbook by Siel Ju
    Might Club poetry chapbook by Siel Ju

    My first chapbook, “Might Club,” is now out from Horse Less Press!

    You can read a sampling of the poems at Drunken Boat, The Offending Adam, and Otoliths, where some of the poems in the chapbooks were originally published.

    Get it from Horse Less Press for $8.

  • A Poem in The Volta

    My poem “Sunk Costs” is in the They Will Sew The Blue Sail section of the July issue of The Volta, a poetry and poetics site edited by Joshua Marie Wilkinson and Afton Wilky. Enjoy!

  • One poem in Toad

    Litzine Toad‘s latest issue went up today, April Fool’s Day — with my poem “Picnic.” Here are three lines from the poem:

    He said we should go away, like to Poland.
    Why so cold, I whispered from under the blindfold.
    It was a nice day for killing deer.

    Read the rest at Toad!

  • One poem in LEVELER

    LEVELER‘s latest poem is up — and it’s mine! Here are the first three lines of “Resolutions:”

    Tomorrow when lawnmowers grow silencers,
    when job offers line my inbox and G-string,
    when cats go faux fur but remain seductive.

    The rest of the poem is at LEVELER — along with an editor’s note that’s a lot longer than the 11-line poem itself. LEVELER’s an online po-zine that publishes a poem a week, each with a “levelheaded” note that investigates “what a poem conveys and how.” Enjoy —

  • One poem in Denver Quarterly

    The website for Denver Quarterly hasn’t been updated for quite a while, but the print issues continue on — and latest issue of the literary magazine is now available. One of my poems, titled “Carrington’s Cavalry,” can be found on page 22. Here are the first three lines:

    In the skirmish he’s the one body moving.
    Mostly I play voyeur. The scattershots
    by which he organizes the battalion’s horses.

    Read the rest and more by getting an issue or subscription. I especially Kate Greenstreet‘s series of numbered poems, collectively titled “The End of Something,” and Kate McIntyre’s “Be Prepared,” a small collection of dreamy-creepy little surreal snippets.