The WWS members included in this post published their work in amazing places during February 2024. I’ve included an excerpt from published pieces (if available), along with a link (if available) to where the pieces can be purchased and/or read in their entirety.
Please join me in celebrating our members who published in February 2024!
Congratulations to Ashunda Norris, whose poem “You Cain’t Help What Come Up On You” appeared in Salamander Magazine.
A Grandma Ossie proverb
it’s 90 degrees in a georgia august
& there goes my sister marchin down buckeye barren
fingers twirled around a 30 gallon dolla sto trash bag
full of no one knows what the fuck & she got that
determined gait on her…
Congrats also to M. Anne Kala’i, whose poem “Endless Summer” appeared in San Pedro River Review.
Kudos to Romaine Washington, whose poems “Lineage,” “We See You Tribe on the Other Side,” “Stay Woke,” “naked i go,” and “Elle est ici” appeared in Cholla Needles #86, published by Cholla Needles Arts & Literary Library.
A shout out to Carly Marie DeMento, whose poem “to all those who’ve asked why i have no children” and “staring at a lamp while naked in front of an art class, i ponder how i got here” appeared in Kestrel.
Congratulations to Karin Aurino, whose poem “the open vale of my X” appeared in Salamander Magazine.