Two Poems in the Bitter Melon Review

 

Hello all, here are two poems to read on a Sunday summer evening:

After Fantastic Obsessions

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Medium Trouble in Chinese Cottage, about an old Chinese place I used to visit on the Upper West of America's greatest island, Manhattan

From the Mouth of an Underdog

 

Pessoa approves

Azarão lit journal has published a poem of mine: Grave Silhouettes

"Don't Worry About the Background. Just Go for the Tonal Values"

Metphrastics a publication based on poems inspired by the art of the Metropolitan Museum of Art  has come out with its Summer 2025 issue

And wouldn't you know it, one of my poems is in it, called The Tonal Values. It's influenced by a painting from Edouard "Who is this Monet whose name sounds just like mine and who is taking advantage of my notoriety?" Manet, pictured here.

Take Two Pills and Holler in the Morning

 

Two poems by an up and coming poet whose work I admire in the Pill. 

The Freak Hope of an Infinite Rise

 

Step right up, step right up, here are two poems by Ben Nardolilli in the first issue of Ascendancy Magazine

Don't Forget This Writer

 

The summer edition for The Forgotten Writer has come out with two poems of mine in it. The first is How the Average Deals with the Skyscraper Craze and the second is The Tenacious All, which was inspired by my time in the "library" at Long Island University. 

A Blogpost Dealing with the Relative Size of Things in the Literary Universe and the Effect of Adding Another Link

 

Not sure about the relevance of this image. But certain editorial powers above chose it to represent my work. 

The Yesterday Review published two poems of mine. Feel free to celebrate with me. 

They did so in their first issue, aptly named First Draft

Of course my work is in the poetry section 

And if you have read this far, enjoy the two poems I got published

I Already Took Off My Bra - Griefcat (Official Music Video)

Rugby and Argyle

Is the name of a poem published in Obindo Magazine.  It refers to two streets in my neighborhood.

Links from the Literary Underground

 

The Literary Underground has published a poem by me Exile, Dystopia, etc.  

Without a Horizon

 

The Third Issue of Lodestar Lit has my poem "Remaking Our Everyday World," inspired by seeing Northern Virginia pass by at night.

Getting Ambrosial

 Ambrosial Literary Garland based in Manipur, India published a poem of mine in their new issue,

Promises to Outlive Career Day

 

Two poems published in The Soliloquist Magazine. Career Day and Promises to Outlive. 

Drip Drop a Poem Plop

 

Drip Lit Mag published a poem of mine. I fashioned it out of a body of text formed from John Cheever's the Swimmer. I ran it and backwards and forwards, dismantled the whole thing like a moth in a cocoon, and then assembled these lines from the soup of disjointed clauses. 

Trigger Warning: Catholic Gore

 

Got a short story published in Trashlight. It's called Binding and Loosing. Never thought it would find a home because of its rather...unusual nature.

Getting Big in Swindon

 

Thanks to THE SWINE, put out by Poetry Swindon in the UK. 

Go Empty into My Debris

 

Two poems in Arvilla Fee's Soul Poetry magazine. View it as a PDF or read it as a flip book.

Turns Out I Got "A Different World" and "Another World" Confused

 

Mailbox to Another World has published two poems of mine. Black Friday Blitzkrieg and Acts of Stopping and Disengaging

Read my Project Proposal

 At Haunted Portal Magazine

Calming the Polychrome Masses

 With my poem in The Swine, Calming the Monochrome Masses

Click with this Beetle

 

Wireworms come from these beetles doing the nasty

Wireworm Magazine has published a piece of experimental writing called Median Opportunities which I wrote and rewrote and rewrote again until it could now find a home. 

Come to My (Poem in Big) Window (Review)

 

The Big Windows Review, which is not a review about shopping for larger than average windows, has published a poem of mine in its current issue. It is called "Ok, Hinge."

I Am the Model of a Very Modern Artist

 

The Modern Artist has published three poems of mine:

Layout Review

Disguised Originality 

The Sugar Windows Open

The Grace of Rosslyn and Georgetown

 

Poem in Sola Poeta's second issue, based on my days walking across the Key Bridge every day to work

A Soul's a Sort of a Fifth Wheel to a Wagon

 

But they still have souls, right?

Soul Poetry, not Seoul Poetry, had published two poems of mine in their first issue. Nothing much about the soul per se. 

Soda or Pop or Poem

 

Sodapop Press has made me their first published poet. Here is The Station Approach, about entertaining for the holidays.

A Philosophical Play in Three Acts

Okay, not an actual play. Don't worry. It's just a poem published by Brushfire at  University of Nevada, Reno.

A Shot of Poetry

 

Shot Glass Journal has published a poem of mine, inspired by the Coney Island Avenue scene in Brooklyn. 

The Big Windows Are Open for a Hinge, Ok?

 

The Big Windows Review has allowed me to publish a poem about a certain dating site. 

Live From My Sick Bed, A Separation for Her Infirmary

 

Hello, The New Absurdist published a short story of mine. 

Rush for Some Rhyme

 Poem at The Rush Magazine maybe the first rhymed verse I've published

Lucky Page 13 of Issue 1 of the Pineberry Literary Review

Get a look at "That Extra Metropolitan Look," nominated for the 2024 Pushcart Prize

Not so elusive now with this link

The Conventional Outlook with Benjamin Nardolili

 

Three poems in Rethink Magazine. Click the issue, put a $ value from 0 or more for the PDF, download it, and read.

That's Not My Name

 

The Poet Heroic published something by someone with a name close to mine.