Poetry Features

Messages in Murakami (A Blackout Poetry Series)

Poem Titles: "Messages in Murakami"
Teaser: A collection of poems found in Murakami's "Norwegian Wood."
Publisher: N/A (Posted on Twitter)
Other Iterations: N/A
Highlight for CW: Cosmic Horror, Existentialism, Strong Emotions, Gender/Sexuality Struggles, Implied Mutilation, Death

Screencaps Collected Here!

Photo by M. Regan
Cover Art by Julie Dillon

The Deadlands (Issue #12)

Poem Title: "Owl's Head, 1980s"
Teaser: The story of a ghost, both haunted and haunting.
Publisher: The Deadlands
Other Iterations: N/A, though this poem is referenced in my Victoria's Lift episode, "Art Therapy!"
Highlight for CW: Death, Storms, Possession/Haunting

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Strange Horizons (2 August, 2021)

Poem Title: "The Hollow"
Teaser: An apple’s life is not long, she notes, nearly slipping in puddles of pulp.
Publisher: Strange Horizons
Other Iterations: This poem also featured in the issue's podcast!
Highlight for CW: Body Transformation, Death/Dying, Snakes, Spiders/Insects, Suffocation

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Issue Cover Art by Gianne Encarnacion
Photo by M. Regan

Polychrome Ink (Vol III)

Poem Title: "When You Tell Me I Am Stardust"
Teaser: How often we stare at the canopy
Of cosmoses woven above us
And indulge in mortal vanity
Publisher: Zillion Press
Other Iterations: N/A
Highlight for CW: Death, Language

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Polychrome Ink (Vol IV)

Poem Title: "Bindweed"
Teaser: Sixteen and supine in the swell of the sward
I would imagine the plaits
You might weave through my hair
Publisher: Zillion Press
Other Iterations: N/A
Highlight for CW: Nature's Violence, Thoughts of Self-Harm

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Photo by M. Regan