Happy New Year and congratulations to everyone who was published in 2019! Cheers to these writers whose work was published in December.
From “Vanishing Twin Syndrome” by Rachael Rifkin at Pulp:
IVF produced three embryos and my doctor implanted one, leaving two on ice.
When that one didn’t take, I took a couple month break from fertility treatments. I let myself become so used to the appearance of single lines, I wondered if my body could ever overcome my disbelief. I let myself believe I wasn’t a person concerned with getting pregnant, and for a couple months I was.
Congratulations to Ashunda Norris who had four poems published at Dreginald! From “My Therapist Says I’m Mourning the Loss of An Undead Sister:”
& the grief wrecks me a bride of caskets stabbing
heated cotton fields my sister’s manic curses slice through
my father’s prayers mid request & what else is there for god to do
From Helena Lipstadt‘s “All By Myself,” at Glint:
I am having an affair
with you
you don’t care
you don’t know
ty lubie
From Soleil David‘s “Last Transit of Venus This Century Draws Stargazers Around the World” at Sinking City:
High noon & I trek out to a Gangnam playground with you,
sit on a swing, trace larger & larger arcs & you fit
your face over the pinhole projector you made, staring into
the haloed reflection of a sun as yet unblemished. Around me
Also from Soleil, “Mt. Mayon” at Mary:
It is not Pompeii yet.
Not the stew of magma
& rainwater.
Congratulations to Romaine Washington whose poem, “1. Nuzzle and 2. Shrinking,” was published in Is It Hot In Here or Is It Just Me?: Women Over Forty Write on Aging!
Congratulations to Li Yun Alvarado whose essay, “Literatura, Música, y (Huracán) María: A Puerto Rican Poet’s Reflection After the Storm,” was published in Boricua en la Luna, a collection of work written by Puerto Rican authors!
Congratulations to Lituo Huang whose chapbook, This Long Clot of Love, was published this month!