Dale Wisely has poems and short fiction published in America, Birmingham Poetry Review, National Catholic Reporter, Steel Toe Review, Oak Bend Review, Main Street Rag, blink|ink, Three Line Poetry, Boston Literary Review, Star*Line, and elsewhere. Poems and stories appear or are coming online at The Poetry Storehouse, Fried Chicken & Coffee, UnFold, egg, Otoliths, Uut Poetry, The Montucky Review, Verbatim Poetry Review, Contemporary American Voices, Orion headless, Mobius, Drunk Monkeys, Truck,, Nanoism, Sleet, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, The Orange Room Review, Red Fez, and elsewhere. He is the author of 2 print chapbooks, 6 Disorders of Sleep (2012, Flutter Press) and Visitation (2003, 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, "The Work of Brothers," was included in a social studies textbook, Individual Rights: The Blessings of Liberty by the same publisher. Dale is the founder, general editor and designer of the on-line literary journal, Right Hand Pointing. With Howie Good, he co-founded and co-edits White Knuckle Press, a web outlet for prose poetry chapbooks. He founded and co-edits, with Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco, One Sentence Poems. He also co-founded and co-edited the time-limited journals Left Hand Waving and cur-ren-cy. Upcoming is a chapbook with Howie Good, poems by Howie and images by Dale, due from Poetry WTF?!
audio/video
I've been doing some things with poetry, video, and sound. Some narration, some music, some writing, some video-making. There's a group of several artists that contribute in various ways to these projects.
digital art & graphics by dale wisely
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the fall of saigon
cover art for Raymond Farr's Eating the Word NOISE (white knuckle)
cover art for Gary Sloboda's "Lottery's Children"
"Cataract" by Dale Wisely cover art for Joshua Young's digital chapbook "To the Chapel of Light"
"absent" (cover for upcoming online chapbook of poems by Howie Good)
(Gee, this never made it on the cover. Too bad.)
"abandon ship" (unpublished. except here.)
cover by D. Wisely for digital chapbook by Josh Bernstein (White Knuckle Press)
"Analog Memory" by Dale Wisely
(right hand pointing)
"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
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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"
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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. Copy editing by F J ("Hawkeye") Bergmann. Going strong at www.righthandpointing.com.
White Knuckle Press
A publisher of digital chapbooks of prose poems. Co-edited with Howie Good. www.whiteknucklepress.com
One Sentence Poems
Co-edited with Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco and formerly with Robert Scotellaro. www.onesentencepoems.com. This thing has kind of taken off.
Selected published poems & stories
Coming soon
A chapbook from Poetry WTF?! Poems by Howie Good, illustrations by Dale Wisely (2017) New! Poetry WTF?! "Commands" (Remix of exorcism prayer and terms from Apollo moon program.) 2016, online)
New! The New Verse News
"Schoolyard Retort with 14 Letters" (2016, online)
New! Drunk Monkeys
"The Many Ways to Say 'Sorry' in Japanese" (2016, online, full issue here)
Truck
"The Language of Winter and Love" (2016, online)
Fried Chicken and Coffee
"A Wave of the Burger" (2015, online) "Harry Crews' Unfinished Novel" (2015, online)
Poetry Storehouse (2014, online)
She’s Not There (audio by author & Nic Sebastian)
Reprints: Fashion and Affliction (audio by author) The Society for the Prevention of Something (audio by author & Nic Sebastian) Balance (audio by author) 2036 (audio by author)
Star*Line "Quieter" (2014, print and online, p.27)
1947 Journal "Houston, I Swear I Don't Have a Gun" (2014, online)
Uut Poetry
"Emergency Treatment of Stubborn Stains" (2015, online)
"Dreaming of a Butcher: Found Poem" (2015, online)
"To Be Held at Least a Little More" (2015, online)
"Rusty McElwain on the Moon" (2014, online)
"9 Recent Technological Advances" (2014, online)
"11 Neurofunk Bands Named after New Diseases (2014, online
"Bootleg Waves Credible" (2014, online)
"Seppuko Collage" (collaboration with Howie Good), (2014, online)
"6 wild facts about lady gaga and despair" (2014, online)
"My Fellow Detainees, Their Medications, and Things I Know About Them" (2014, online)
Right Hand Pointing 10th Anniversary Issue
The Montucky Review
Verbatim Poetry Review
NEW! "Dear Shirley" (w/ Manfred Gabriel, 2016, online)
"Soil, Sand, Dust" (2015, online)
"Things Omitted From Masses for the Dead" (2014, online)
Mobius Magazine
"A Frontier of Ethiopian Transhumanism" (2013, online)
Orion headless (orionheadless.com)
egg (eggpoetry.com)
UnFold
Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
Three Line Poetry, Issue 9 (2012)
Deadly Chaps (In "Good, Sharp, & Wisely", a special issue of Short, Fast, & Deadly.)
"Metaphor" (2012, online) "Television" (1-III, 2012) online)
Murder Your Darlings
Untitled prose piece about grief (December 2011, online)
by Otoliths
Feathertale
Steel Toe Review
"Tore Up" (Issue 6, 2011, online and in their 1st print anthology)
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)
"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
"The Woods Unbounded" (2012) " 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" by D. Wisely

"Tulip Habit' by D. Wisely
Butting heads with tape cartridge by D. Wisely
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