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Litzine Hobart now has new daily content — and today, five of my poems went up! Here’s the beginning of  one of them, titled “Operation”:

I get my sister to murder him before breakfast.
Midmorning I walk briskly to bleach the scene.
The angled sun aims with protracted accuracy.
A bedroom door’s innocuous façade –

Read the rest at Hobart. Enjoy –

The latest Poem of the Week at The Missouri Review is my poem — titled “Miracle Mile.”  Here’s the beginning:

The thinking game plays on. Halogen skies
and digital billboards snooze their big city dreams,
punctuated by the occasional minaret.

Read the rest at The Missouri Review, along with a little “statement” about the poem. Enjoy —

Issue 62 of Sonora Review — in which you can find five of my poems — is available now . Here’s one of them, titled “Who”:

Who approaches,
chair-like, blind legs demarcating
an exhausted plane.

Those had had knees —
bridges
to form the number ||
Llove: | No negatives in this algebra |

Read the other four by picking up for $12 a copy of Sonora Review, a literary journal published by the University of Arizona. The issue also has some great poems by Claire Sylvester Smith: “I need a volume conversion for / drizzle.”

Three of my poems are in the brand new November issue of PANK! I hope you enjoy reading them. Here’s the beginning of “Hollywood Forever”:

Halloween came, sticky with the amniotic glow
of cheap candles and slapdash saints. We went
to the cemetery uncostumed so I could find
his naked face among the grinning skulls.

The other poems are titled “The Smoking Sun” and “Swing Practice.” Read them all at PANK, along with great work by other contributors. I especially recommend “I Fall In Love With Every Attractive Woman I Meet (#17)” by Dillon J. Welch.

Image via PANK

The latest issue of LIT magazine is now out — and two of my poems are in it. Here’s the beginning of one of them, titled “Parable”:

The new healing process hit me like a ton
of feathers. Suddenly everyone looks
a lot like someone I know and despise.

LIT a literary journal published out of The New School in New York. Pick up a copy for $8 and you’ll also get great poems from Amaranth Borsuk, a former classmate of mine from USC, and Vanessa Place, co-director of the local Les Figues Press.

The last year or so has been crazy — Moving from West Hollywood back to Santa Monica, changing careers from freelance writing to teaching, and swapping out environmental blogging for poetry and fiction, among other things. Thanks for following me across blogs and genres!

On the creative writing front: New poems are forthcoming at LIT and Sonora Review.

LIT magazine‘s a literary journal published out of The New School in New York. Two of my poems appear in issue 22, which I haven’t seen yet, but which is being celebrated with a launch party tonight in NYC. Find a copy at a Barnes & Noble near you soon, or get a copy by subscribing (unfortunately, getting a subscription requires writing out and sending a check via snail mail).

Sonora Review‘s a literary journal that comes out of University of Arizona. Five of my poems in its next issue — number 62 — which I believe will be published early fall. Like LIT, Sonora Review requires snail mail subscription orders.

More soon —