Poetry Available Online
- 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”
- Briefly Write: “My Daughter Asks Me If I Was Happy”
- 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.”
- 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,” “The Dedication of the Fire-Fish”, “Bedtime,” “Before Combustion,” and “Holiday Newsletter.”
- Isacoustic: “Abba, Father” and “The Magician.”
- La Presa: “Extinction Event: Algae Bloom” (pg. 58)
- Last Leaves: “Letter To My Mother, From Quarantine.”
- Literary Mama: “Turning Three” and “Sagan”
- The Meadows: “Honey Packets, Coffee, Wine.”
- Medical Literary Messenger: “Epitaph.”
- MER Vox: “Photograph, As I’d Have You See Me.”
- Museum of Poetry: “Bubble Mornings With My Baby.”
- Oddball Magazine: “One More Role Playing Game.”
- One: “After Hiking The Coast.”
- Palette Poetry: “Quite Contrary”
- Panoplyzine: “The High Priestess” and “Keepsake.”
- 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” and “I’d Like a Little More.”
- Soliloquies: “In Nebraska.”
- Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Prize: “White Wedding, November Rain & Other Songs for a Wedding Playlist.”
- Superstition Review: Хотелки.
- Sweet Lit: “A Descriptive Linguistics of Isolation” (reprinted in Uproar) and “3,000 Turns Against Death”
- TAB Journal: “Transition & Translation“
- Uproar: Late Spring Rites of the Middle-Aged Apostate
- 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.”
- Abstract: Contemporary Expressions. “The Lovers,” “The Chariot of Roland,” “The Sun,” “Augury for Spring” “Self-Portrait As If I Were Stumbling” and “She Said Eight Things About Love.”
- 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.”
- Flatpack Creative: “Praying for the Gift of Tongues” and two photos.
- 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.
- Juked: “Counting With You.”
- Levee Magazine: “The Moon” and “Temperance.”
- Medusa’s Laugh: “There Will Be Wool.”
- The Misfit Quill: “Primal Nights.”
- 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.
- Pawling Living: “Cold.”
- 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.”
- San Pedro River Review: “Spiraling St. Isaac’s.”
- Santa Fe Literary Review: “Raise Me Up.”
- Sheepshead Review. “You, Again.“
- Shift: “Roll for Hope.”
- South Broadway Ghost Society: “About My Breasts, Since You Asked” (reprinted in Fat & Queer).
- Spirit: “I Want to Stop Wearing White” and “Psalm 23.”
- Susan B. And Me: “The Ghost of Francis Laura.”
- Syracuse Cultural Workers Datebook: “Song of Submission”
- The Tahoma Literary Review: “Open, Persephone Ate It.”
- Tapestries: “Refracted.”
- Write Like You Are Alive: “Justice.”
Lyric Essays & Creative Nonfiction
- “Do You See The Light In Me?” in Grub Street Literary Review, 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 Imperfect Present by Sharon Dolin for Mom Egg Review, December 2022.
- Review of Queen of Queens by Jennifer Martelli for Mom Egg Review, May 2022.
- 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
- “Overcoming the Obstacles to Book Publication”, in A Selfish Poet, May 2022.
- “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.
- “Professional Development Reimagined” with Jamie Little, Education Week, December 2017.
- “Project-Based Learning: Necessary but Insufficient” with Nicole Assisi & Jaclyn Vasko, NGLC, September 2016.
Bio
Sherre Vernon (she/her/hers) is the award-winning author of Green Ink Wings (Elixir Press) and The Name is Perilous (Power of Poetry). Her debut full-length poetry collection, Flame Nebula, Bright Nova was released in 2022. Sherre has been published in journals such as Tahoma Literary Review and The Chestnut Review, nominated for Best of the Net, and anthologized in several collections including Fat & Queer and Best Small Fictions. Sherre teaches poetry at the Downtown Writers Center for the YMCA of Central New York. Read more of her work at http://www.sherrevernon.com