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”
- Collective Aporia. “Like Mother–“
- Crannóg Magazine: “I Don’t Want Perfume.”
- 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”
- 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.”
- 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.“
- 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.”
- The Coe Review: “Brother Stone, Sister Rain.”
- Contemporary Verse 2: “A Supplication to the Homelocked.”
- 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.”
- 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, 2021.
- “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 (fiction) and The Name is Perilous (poetry). Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and anthologized in several collections, including Bending Genres, Fat & Queer and Best Small Fictions. In 2019, Sherre was a Parent-Writer Fellow at MVICW. Readers describe her writing as heartbreaking, richly layered, lyrical and intelligent. To read more of her work visit www.sherrevernon.com/publications and tag her into conversation @sherrevernon.
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