Pleased to learn a poem I’ve really liked over the years, “The Night is Our First Language,” will be published (by Willowdown Books) in Poetic Bond VIII (UK) along with two others.
The third poem was not short listed as the others were, but fit the theme and tone overall, the editor stated. I’m pleased about this because it is a poem about the power of poetry–specifically the power of the Li Young Lee’s poetry to motivate me to write!
Pleased to have a new poem, “Herstory Lesson” published in Coffin Bell today. Thanks for the gorgeous issue! While I wrote it as a feminist poem, I can see how it might seem supernatural. It sure is dark. Women’s voices won’t be silenced.
Thanks for reading!
Some of my poems, short stories, and nonfiction articles are included in books and magazines published in the UK, Greece, New Zealand, and the United States.
*”Moving Gravel” a short story at Crack the Spine – Themed Anthology Submissions – –“Routine”, print edition coming soon
*”Walk With Child” at https://www.snapdragonjournal.com/ to be published in their September 2018 Issue, “Here and Gone”
*Coffin Bell Journal,2018, “Herstory,” a poem, to be published October 1, 2018
*Spillwords Press, 2018, a poem, “Stopped” by Laura Lee at Spillwords Press
*Tuck Magazine, June 2018, a poem at Tuck Magazine
*Tuck Magazine, May 2018, a poem at Tuck Magazine
* Southernmost Point Guest House (UK), Poetry
* Journal of Modern Poetry 21 (Volume 21), “Hello No,” a poem at JOMP Volume 21 Dear Mr. President
* Journal of Modern Poetry 20 (Volume 20), poetry in JOMP Volume 20 Poetry Writer’s Guide to the Galaxy
* Journal of Modern Poetry 17 (Volume 17), poetry in JOMP Volume 17
* Magazine (New Zealand) , Raewyn Alexander, Publisher, poetry.
Raewyn Alexander NZ
* Fiction in: http://staxtes.com/2003/, “Between the Sunlight and the Skipping” in English Wednesdays
*Poetry in: https://poetsagainstthewar.org/ Archives
* Illinois English Bulletin, a publication of the National Council of Teachers of English, nonfiction article about teaching in an alternative education program.
* Poetry in Marginalia, Elmhurst, IL
Really pleased to learn one of my favorite poems I wrote will be published soon in https://www.snapdragonjournal.com/ @SnapdragonJrnl . Thanks!
After a rough summer of submissions and many “declined” (rejections), I am pleased to learn my poem “Herstory Lesson” will be published by Coffin Bell Journal on October 1st. I’ll put up a link when it’s published, but for now, the journal can be found here: https://coffinbell.com/.
I don’t write in the genre they publish, dark literature, very often, but I did my research, read there (fun!), and decided some of my work does fit. Phew, because I was correct. While I wrote this poem as feminist poetry, about killing women, it did fit the genre of dark literature.
(And now this post is longer than the poem!)
Lesson learned? Read before submitting, read more, think creatively, and keep on submitting!
Thanks for reading.
For decades, August has been my strongest “urge to poetry” month. Something about the light, the sounds, the smells–all is so REVVED UP. Poets, agree?
I used to be in vibrant online writing communities, and every August we would have a poetry challenge. We would write a poem a day, no editing allowed, just to “rev” up our creativity.
It was glorious.
We (I!) wrote a lot of bad poetry, but I am still finding some snippets of good poetry on old flash drives and in old posts.
Hmm…perhaps it is time to reinstate an AUGUST POETRY CHALLENGE?
It couldn’t be here, on a public blog, I fear, for that would preclude subsequent publication. Perhaps back on good old Facebook, with a private account only friends can access.
There’s an idea!
Readers, writers, what do you think?
Thanks for reading.
A few years ago, I found this old rough draft of a poem I started after we had moved. I keep losing it and then finding it. This time, I won’t lose it, but I will revise, edit, and work on the poem. There is something to the “moving on” theme that is compelling–maybe escape is the correct term?
In any case, thanks for reading.
Laura Lee
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first draft:
Moving Love
Note: …..many stanzas before this…won’t post here so I can publish one day… and took out middle stanzas
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Memories, you said. I cannot move.
These have been
the best years of my life here.
How can you say that, I asked,
not wanting to see the paint-peeled walls
or the missing tiled floors even one more time.
They were my years with you, you said.
Today I looked for photos
I am sure I threw away in my
haste to leave and I wonder
how I could have been so cruel
how can I
live with such moving love?
Pleased my poem “Stopped” was published here today:
http://spillwords.com/stopped/
This was quite a departure in style for me.
Thanks for reading!
I wrote two poems recently in a very different style from what I usually write. I brought one poem to a writing workshop tonight. Three of my colleagues in class cried. (They said it was a good thing.) It was a poem about the changing seasons and when I got to the line about when summer returns to autumn? I heard sniffling.
I think I’ll play around with the poem a few more times and make it better. Then submit it somewhere.
***Done. Worked a lot on this poem and submitted with the other one.
And what’s with speech to text that it does not recognize POEM? It types it as POME. Isn’t POEM a common word anymore?
Thanks for reading!
Laura Lee 