Poetry Available Online
- Abstract: Contemporary Expressions. “The Lovers,” “The Chariot of Roland,” “The Sun,” and “Augury for Spring.”
- AHC: “The World” and “A Streetlight Lullaby”
- Antiphon: “If By Light.”
- Ars Medica: “Spiritus Nostrae Matris” and “Every Time You Die, Our Mother Cries.”
- Belladona: “For J.” and “Clearing Out.”
- Bending Genres: “In Deep.”
- Blue Hour Magazine:“She Said,” “The Bearer”,” and “The Blessing of Meetings.”
- The Braided Way: “I Remember You Later”
- Cajun Mutt Press: “The Empress.”
- Canyon Voices Press: “The Star” and “Yeah, I Got Your Message” (pg. 50)
- Chestnut Review: “Despedida”
- Dream Geographies: “Caught in Dreams of Home.”
- Dreams Walking: “Waking Up With You” and “In The End.”
- Duende: “Prayer Pieces” and “An Easter Homily in Los Angeles.”
- Feral Poetry & Art: “Juniper” , “Tell It Again: Bright Nova,” “Take This Body” and “Firstroots” (listen on Voicemail Poems)
- Fickle Muses: “Of Penelope and Calypso” and “Elijah Dreaming.”
- Flatpack Creative: “Praying for the Gift of Tongues” and two photos.
- Former People: “The Tower,” “A Prayer for the Dismantling,” and “My Father’s Last Letter.”
- Gleam: “Winter Bloom”, “Grandmother Liar” and “Sanctuary.”
- Global Poemic: “17-21 Days in a Pandemic”
- Gyroscope Review: “Flight” and “You Burn Me Up.”
- Helen Literary Magazine: “The Last Judgement.”
- The Ilanot Review: “The Hanged Man.”
- Inklette: “Mother Mirror, Mother Tongue”
- Inlandia: “Of Thee I Sing” and “The Dedication of the Fire-Fish.”
- Isacoustic: “Abba, Father” and “The Magician.”
- Juked: “Counting With You.”
- La Presa: “Extinction Event: Algae Bloom” (pg. 58)
- Last Leaves: “Letter To My Mother, From Quarantine.”
- Literary Mama: “Turning Three.”
- The Meadows: “Honey Packets, Coffee, Wine.”
- Medical Literary Messenger: “Epitaph.”
- MER Vox: “Photograph, As I’d Have You See Me.”
- The Misfit Quill: “Primal Nights.”
- Museum of Poetry: “Bubble Mornings With My Baby.”
- Oddball Magazine: “One More Role Playing Game.”
- One: “After Hiking The Coast.”
- Panoplyzine: “The High Priestess.”
- The Pedestal Magazine: “The Emperor” and “The Babysitter’s Sister.”
- Print Oriented Bastards: “Bridges, A Refrain.”
- Rappahannock Review: “The Hermit” and “The Devil.”
- Q/A Poetry: “The Last Time I Was Out Drinking, Drinking.”
- Rise Up Review: “On Leaving, Not Wanting To Leave.”
- Santa Fe Literary Review: “Raise Me Up.”
- Shift: “Roll for Hope.”
- Soliloquies: “In Nebraska.”
- Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Prize: “White Wedding, November Rain & Other Songs for a Wedding Playlist.”
- Sweet Lit: “A Descriptive Linguistics of Isolation” (reprinted in Uproar).
- TAB Journal: “Transition & Translation”
- Valiant Scribe: “Staying In” and “In Witness to a Pandemic Cleansing.”
- Waterwheel Review: “City Cancels 4th of July.“
- Westchester Review: “Con La Doña Eva” and “Hiking Las Ruinas.”
- What are Birds: “How Slowly.”
- The Wild Word: “Where the Veil is Thin.”
- 1870 Poetry: “Shortwave“
- 3by3by3: “Easter, of Sorts” and “9/11 Quake 2.0”
- 8 Poems: “The Deathcycle of Cats.”
Additional Poetry Publications
- !Pa’lante! “A Year In Family Housing.”
- Alternating Currents. Spectral Lines. ”St. Petersburg, 1969”
- Artistic Rights: “All Night Dreams of War.”
- Beloved on the Earth: “But Jane, I Have Seen the Room Weep” (reprinted in Snapdragon Journal)
- Bending Genres Anthology: “Augury for Spring” and “Who Brother”
- Bollman Bridge Review: “Pantomime.”
- The Cape Rock: “What Is Flammable,” “Mercy,” and “Spilling My Guts.”
- Collective Aporia. “Like Mother–“
- The Coe Review: “Brother Stone, Sister Rain.”
- Contemporary Verse 2: “A Supplication to the Homelocked.”
- Crannóg Magazine: “I Don’t Want Perfume.”
- Derailleur Press: “Fine-Drawn.”
- A Driftwood Highway Anthology: “A Recurring Vision,” “A Mural For My Skin,” and “The Metatron.”
- Eclipse: “Canticle of Tin” and “Lamia.”
- Freshwater: “Under These Periodic Cables.”
- FutureCycle Weathering Anthology: “Why You Walk Alone.”
- Grasslimb: “Ask Questions of the Stairs” and “Any Landscape Without My Brother.”
- Great Weather For Media: “I Spun You” and “Seers Through The Dark.”
- Havik: “In The Workshop,” and “I Never Tell You I Love You.”
- Heartlodge: “Quondam.”
- The International Journal for the Theory and Practice of Creative Writing: “Like Blood From Corners.
- Levee Magazine: “The Moon” and “Temperance.”
- Medusa’s Laugh: “There Will Be Wool.”
- New Rivers Press: “Who, Brother?”
- Non-Binary Review, Zoetic Press: “Beneath This Skin, Myself At Night.”
- The Oyez Review: “Christopher is a Name of Resurrection” and “What is Flammable.
- Perigee: “Losing the Fifth,” “Highway 710,” “Harem Women,” “Creosote Exhumed,” “Candid,” “On Entry,” and “Heavy.”
- Poetica Review: “Too Much Shape,” “10 o’clock and 10 degrees” and “Waiting in July”
- The Pointed Circle: “The Angel of Death” and “They Ask America.”
- Red Hawk Review: “Beloved.”
- Restless & Contraposition: “Speak, Road.”
- The River Poets Journal: “Beyond the Rain.”
- Rock & Sling: “The Hierophant.”
- Santa Fe River Review: “Spiraling St. Isaac’s.”
- Sheepshead Review. “You, Again.“
- South Broadway Ghost Society: “About My Breasts, Since You Asked” (reprinted in Fat & Queer).
- Susan B. And Me: “The Ghost of Francis Laura.”
- Tapestries: “Refracted.”
- Write Like You Are Alive: “Justice.”
Lyric Essays & Creative Nonfiction
- “Do You See The Light In Me?” in Grub Street, 2022.
- “Wishing Big” & “Hot Bath” in The Rush, May 2021.
- “You Called It Fairyland” in K’in, May 2021.
- “From This Body–Music“ in Mothers Always Write, August 2020.
- “Speaking of Teaching” lyric essay published in Teach. Write. April 2019.
- “How Fragile The Seam” lyric essay published by The Ilanot Review, March 2019.
Book Reviews
- Review of Her Kind by Cindy Veach for Mom Egg Review, October 2021.
- Review of The Burning Where Breath Used to Be by Jen Karetnick for Mom Egg Review, August 2021.
- Review of West : Fire : Archive by Iris Jamahl Dunkle for Mom Egg Review, June 2021.
- Review of Chroma by Sharon Tracey for Mom Egg Review, March 2021.
- Review of Madonna, Complex by Jen Stewart Fueston for Mom Egg Review, January 2021.
- Review of Before the Fevered Snow by Megan Merchant for Mom Egg Review, May 2020.
- Review of Mercy by Shirley Camia for Mom Egg Review, December 2019.
- Review of Defining by Tasslyn Magnussun for Mom Egg Review, October 2019.
Guest Blog Posts
- “Managing the Emotional Load of the Submission Process,” in A Selfish Poet, March 2021.
- “Circles Are for Adults, Too” Ensemble Learning, November 2019.
- “Building Effective Classrooms: The RSI Spiral” Ensemble Learning, October 2019.
- “Hey PBL, What’s Your Story?” Ensemble Learning, July 2019.
- “How TPS Supports Special Education Students” NGLC, February 2019.
- “Children are Individuals” with Michael Tong, Education Week, October 2018.
- “Helping Students Develop Discernment, Agency & Empathy” with Shelli Kurth and Joe Acker, Getting Smart, September 2018.
- “4 Tips to Help Your Newly Hired Rockstar Become a Thriving Leader” with Nicole Assisi, Education Week, April 2018.
- “Project-Based Learning: Necessary but Insufficient” with Nicole Assisi & Jaclyn Vasko, NGLC, September 2016.
Bio
Sherre Vernon (she/her/hers) is the author of two award-winning chapbooks: Green Ink Wings and The Name is Perilous. Sherre has been published in journals such as TAB and The Chestnut Review, nominated for Best of the Net, and anthologized in several collections including Fat & Queer and Best Small Fictions. Flame Nebula, Bright Nova, her full-length poetry collection, is available at Main Street Rag.
Sherre Vernon 