Splendid news! This month, I have poetry at both Flowers of the Field and New Contexts 8: An Anthology Check out these brief excerpts of a poem from each literary magazine and then hop on over to the literary-magazine websites to read the rest and the excellent pieces by talented writers in each issue.

Excerpt from Flowers of the Field:

“All the Women Who Write Letters in Oil Paintings”

by Vermeer and other Dutch masters

call out to me today. I know what the internet

says about symbolizing interiority and love, but

what I see most when I see their pensive faces, the lull

of the lemon light splashing in from a window their desks

face, their fountain pens poised above

pristine paper with wax and seals surrounding, at ready,

probably not what the painters wanted me to notice:

uninterrupted time…

Excerpt from New Contexts 8: An Anthology:

“For my nieces, 13 and almost 11, as they embark on learning the potter’s wheel”

I always wanted to sit where you will soon sit.

The closest I came at your age was

making pinch pots—tidy, slightly lop-

sided, shallow dishes we in regular art period

glazed with our brushes, dunking into plastic jars of glaze,

after an afternoon at a nicked wooden group table.

I recall pushing the pads of my thumbs

against the damp, cool clay, trying to stretch it out,

then pressing it smooth into a thinning barrier to air…

I have some prose that will be published in two additional journals this spring. Stay tuned, and write on! ✍️