Hello, all. I am pleased that my short poem “Pray with Bones” was published in High Shelf Press today, online and in their print edition, Volume XXIII.
This volume is gorgeous, rich with beautiful and provoking visual art as well as with poetry.
Check it out online here, and support independent art/ literary magazines.
https://www.highshelfpress.com/issuexxiii
Volume XXIII, High Shelf Press, 10-15-2020.
Thanks for reading.
Laura Lee
I am pleased to learn my poem, “Pray with Bones,” will be published in High Shelf Press, online and in print on October 15th. I work shopped this poem in a class this summer, and must thank my colleagues there.
I’ve always liked this poem, but could not find a home for it for a long time. It is weird–but I admit to liking it. Grief and elephants–how could I not like my own poem?
In a fit of gloominess, I was just about the withdraw ALL my submissions everywhere–to match my mood.
Glad I didn’t. And once again, I hid grief in a poem.
Thanks for reading.
#poetry#amwriting #HighShelfPress
And it’s live. Pleased to have a poem in the debut issue here: https://www.highshelfpress.com/copy-of-poem-template-13
It’s been a week of rejections, including one I waited SIX MONTHS for, at the journal of my dreams. That one stung, and I know I need to improve, rewrite, revise, and rework my poetry if I am to ever publish there. And then…after four rejections, an acceptance of a poem I had a lot of fun writing.The background: I took a short class at the Art Institute of Chicago this autumn, but I missed one class since I FELL RUNNING FOR THE TRAIN and managed to end up in urgent care. Graceful I am not. But for the class I attended, I wrote a poem based on a prompt, a double sort of persona ekphrastic poem, with persons in one painting talking to persons in another. I am pleased to learn that High Shelf Press will publish this poem, “Saltwater Faces,” soon–in their debut edition.
Thanks for reading.
Laura Lee 