Getting Big in Swindon

 

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

Calming the Polychrome Masses

 With my poem in The Swine, Calming the Monochrome Masses

Up, Up, and Away

 

UP! an outfit in the UK dedicated to positive writing published two poems of mine in their February issue. If they like them, they must be uplifting. Search for my name and read the issue here:

https://positivelyup.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Up-February-2024-Edition.pdf

Fungi and Feathers

 

POETiCA REVIEW in the UK has published a poem of mine: On Mushrooms or on a Feather. Click to open the PDF of your dreams with my work enclosed. 

Give Peeking Cat a Little Peek

 

Who is the Socrates here? Who is the Plato? A poet asks these questions to themselves in my newest poem, "Dissertation, Defenestration, and Defense." Thanks to the good people at Peeking Cat for posting it. 

Two Poems in TWO Publications

 

Hello all, it's been a while since I had any news to share. Well here's two. One is in the Summer 2021 edition of the Split: Quarterly, a publication from Splintered Disorder Press. The other is in Cerasus, a publication based in the United Kingdom. Sigh, here is the Amazon link. 

Your Word of the Day Is Mehfil

A Mehfil is a festive gathering where people gather to perform music and poetry, often of a religious nature. They are commonly seen (or heard) in Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh. It is also the name of a journal that has published a poem of mine called "A Solid Theory."

As Online, so in Real Life (or Not)

Two more poems to share with you. The first is in the Rye Whiskey Review. That place is quickly becoming a satellite of this blog. But I can't complain. Exposure is exposure, unless its northern. In addition to this poem, there's another in As Above, So Below. The theme of the current issue is freedom/imprisonment. My works are called "The Prison State" and "The Price of a Gazebo."

Come See Me in Issue 4 of the Northampton Poetry Review!

This folks is the flag of Northamptonshire. It's a shire in England. It's also where they publish a poetry review, where I am the featured poet for their fourth issue! In case you're confused about the subject for one of the poems, here's the Figure from Sedona.

I Got the Best Poetry Folks

I got the best poetry. The best. That's why they all come to me. The editors. They say, Ben, we just have to have your poems. They're the best. People want them. People are reading. People, they say things, things about me! Folks, Best Poetry published me, so it has to be true. They have my works, three of my works folks, Compositions Without Gloves, Human Perfectibility, and Hyperbolic Times.

Also, there's poems of  mine at River Poets Journal, part of their napkin poems series in honor of national poetry month.

Let Them Eat Streetcake

A poem of mine is in the latest issue of Streetcake. It's a publication in the U of K. I'm talking about Great Britain, folks. The Big Uneasy. The Windy Country for Old Men. I'm the other Big Ben now, in case you were wondering. Pretty soon I'll get the DM to be the PM.

Dividing Lines

The flag of Birmingham, England

Not Blurred Lines, but Dividing Lines is the topic of today's bog post. More specifically, the poem of that title. It's featured in Constellate Magazine and it's by Ben Nardolilli. Who is also me. Go over and read it. It's like traveling to Birmingham, England, which is the name of the city where Constellate is based.

I'm a Regular Noah Webster

But not a Daniel Webster. No, not yet.

Check out Droppelganger, a word I got approved for Urban Dictionary.

It's a Poetry Discount Blowout!

Thanks to the wonderful Sophie Moss, I've got five poems up at Dirty Press. It's a British invasion, or an invasion of Britain, or maybe just more of a skirmish, or perhaps cutting in the queue. Yeah, that's probably more like it. Or being rude in a tea house. Some of you from Northern Virginia may recognize the title of "The Four Courts." Those of you from Ireland may recognize it as well and think it refers to you too. That's okay. It's all one big circle of self-referential meaning.

Unknown Words With Ben Nardolilli

Hello everyone. I've got a new medium to share with you. SOUND. Matthew Anderson was kind enough to interview for his podcast Unknown Words.  Sit down, pour yourself a stiff one, and listen to me here.

A Poem Published by Brits

Look, if you're going to try and take tiger mountain by strategy, then you're going to need Key Tiger Dialogue.

The Fireworks Go Out

Read the poem at Randomly Accessed Poetics that commenter bzniditch writes the following about:

"A Commodity culture’s language forcibly commensurate with Ben Nardolilli’s poem in layered pattern of a brandished verse finely cast with a poet’s castaway feel for intonation and wrought in an international need for language."

Not to Be Confused with a Pushkin Art Nomination

Because really, Vasily Tropinin would win the prize anyway

Proving I'm still good for something, I've been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in poetry by the swell folks at the Conium Review. Here is the issue my work was in and for proof, read this announcement. Tumblr never lies.

National Novel Writing Month Is Here

Or NaNoWriMo for short. This November writers across the Anglosphere will work to churn out a 50,000 word novel by the end of the month. The event has been going on for several years. It's not too late to get started if you've been looking for an excuse to get writing on the tome you've always wanted to write. There are events, forums, emails, tips, and classes for those who want them as part of the experience. This is the first time I will be participating officially. I have written novels before (thought none have been published yet) and some during the month of November. But none of them were written entirely within the 30 day period as stipulated per the rules.  Now I am writing away on my work and have 2,210 words to my credit, a decent start. My plan is to produce a short, picaresque novel that functions as a thinly veiled retelling of my burned out days here in Arlington, Virginia.

New Poems From the Edge to the Center

Hello y'all. Here are two poems of mine featured in Radius. If you either love/hate Beowulf, I think you'll enjoy the second one. The first? I have no idea.