Dale Wisely has had poems and short fiction published in America, Birmingham Poetry Review, National Catholic Reporter, Oak Bend Review, Main Street Rag, blink|ink, Three Line Poetry, Boston Literary Review, and elsewhere. Poems and stories appear or are coming online at Short, Fast & Deadly, Otoliths, Foliate Oak, Contemporary American Voices, Poet’s Canvas, Salt River Review, The Hiss Quarterly, Nanoism, Radiant Turnstile, Thunder Sandwich, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Ghoti, The Orange Room Review, Susurrus, Red Fez, and elsewhere. He is the author of a print chapbook, Visitation (Mercy Seat Press). Seven Stars, a narrative in 13 poems, is available online at the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature website. A poem in that series was nominated for inclusion in the 2008 Best of the Net anthology. His poem "Wave" was published in Pathways: Literature for Readers and Writers (Perfection Learning Press), a 2008 high school textbook. A second poem will be included in an upcoming textbook by the same publisher. Dale is the editor and designer of the on-line literary journal, Right Hand Pointing, which has recently started offering print books, the sales of which benefit charities. He founded and co-edited with F.John Sharp and Howie Good a special projects literary site, Left Hand Waving. Also with those co-editors, he edits cur.ren.cy, a new web journal of topical poetry. With Howie Good, he co-founded and co-edits White Knuckle Press, a web outlet for prose poetry chapbooks.
digital art & graphics
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"loving grace" by Dale Wisely samizdat review (November 2011)
"downtown diving" by Dale WIsely
unpublished 2010
"Dreaming in Red" by Dale Wisely abandoned concept for a book cover
"Cataract" by Dale Wisely cover art for Joshua Young's digital chapbook "To the Chapel of Light"
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"Damascus" by Dale Wisely
Dialogue and Appetite
by Dale Wisely, 2011
"At the Ballet" by Dale Wisely
cover art for Howie Good's book, "Little Tragedies" (graffiti kolkata)
"Love Dagger" by Dale Wisely
cover art for Howie Good's digital chapbook "Love Dagger"
"Tulip Habit'
by D. Wisely
Butting heads with tape cartridge
by D. Wisely
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Editing/Publishing
Right Hand Pointing
Founder/General Editor. Online journal of poetry, fiction and art, on the web since 2004. Fiction is edited by F. John Sharp. Over 50 regular issues, special issues, and digital chapbooks. Going strong at www.righthandpointing.com.
An online journal featuring poems and prose inspired by the current, uh, "tough economic times." Co-edited with F. John Sharp and Howie Good.
White Knuckle Press
A new publisher of digital chapbooks of prose poems. Co-edited with Howie Good.
www.whiteknucklepress.com
Selected
poems & stories
Deadly Chaps (In "Good, Sharp, & Wisely", a special issue of Short, Fast, & Deadly.)
Murder Your Darlings
Untitled prose piece about grief (December 2011, online)
Otoliths
Feathertale
Steel Toe Review
blink|ink
"Treatment" (Issue 7, 2011, print only)
Short Fast & Deadly
"Carbon" (Issue 78, 2011)
Three-Line Poetry
Untitled (Issue 1, 2011)
Untitled (Issue 2, 2011)
Boston Literary Magazine (Spring, 2011, print & online)
"No houses"
The Literary Burlesque (November 2010)
"Number me"
"Ionic Breeze"
Contemporary American Voices (May, 2010)
"6 Disorders of Sleep"
Red Fez
"6 Signs of the End Times" (2009)
(Nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology by Red Fez)
Guerrilla Poetics Project
Nanoism
The Orange Room Review
The High School Counselor at Target (2009)
Nanoism.net
A very, very short story (2009)
Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
Estrus"(2009)
Seven Stars, a narrative in 13 poems (2007, web chapbook, also presented here in a different format.) Here are a couple of comments on it.
Oak Bend Review
"The Beastie Boys" (web and print 2009)
Birmingham Arts Journal
"A Poem in Three Parts About Johnny Cash" (2005, print, pdf on the web)
"A Dream About Losing Things" (2005, print only)
Radiant Turnstile
"6 Studies in Radiology" (2008)
"6 Possible Sources of The Hum" (2009)
"Car Wreck" (2007, print & web)
"Expedition" (2007, print & web)
Susurrus
" Kentucky Fried Chicken and the Souls of the Faithful Departed" (fiction) (2007, web)
Podcast of above piece.
Ghoti
" 6 Entries on Calyx" (2008, web)
"Buffalo" (2008, web)
Foliate Oak
"6 Possible Sources of The Hum" (2008)
The Hiss Quarterly
"Animal Control" (2007, web)
"Sound Art" (2007, web, but link down at present)
Thunder Sandwich
"Aphids & Catholicism" (2005, web)
"Onlooker's Delay" (2005, web)
Salt River Review
"Girl From Anthropology" (fiction) (2004)
Blue Collar Review"
"Sleeping Crane at Sparrow Point" (2003, print)
"Mr. Davis Overhears" (2004,print)
National Catholic Reporter (print and archived on their website)
" A Good Hour" (2003)
"5:45 a.m." (2001)
"This Place" (2001)
"The Work of Brothers" (2002)
"Visitation" (2003)"
"Spleen" (2002)
"Visitating My Brother" (2003)
Poet's Canvas
" Blind Lemon Elephant"(2002, web)
"The Poem Codes" (2002, web)
Amaryllis
"Aunt Florine (2001, print)
"Ashok in Atlanta" (2001, print)
Main Street Rag
"What People Are Talking About (2002)
America: The National Catholic Weekly (In print and archived on their website)
" Akeldema" (2000)
Birmingham Poetry Review
" Death and Dying at Chik-Fil-A" (1997, print only)
Visitation (chapbook, Mercy Seat Press, 2 printings of 100 copies, 2003)
"Our Lady of the Damage Done" by Dale Wisely
Tape Cartridge Rhonda
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