Selected poetry publications in online and print literary journals.
4AM Poetry Review: Song
13th Warrior Review: Homecoming
Anti‑: A Love Poem for a Time When People Didn’t Fly Planes into Buildings and Giant Spiders Had Never Been Committed to Film
Artisan: Elegy at a South‑Side El Stop; Ground
BarBar: There; Echo; The Faith She Keeps in Secrets
Barstow and Grand: Late Learner
Beatific Magazine: Hypomania
Black Tongue Review: The Rapture Might Not Have Happened Again
Blast Furnace: Post‑Postmodern Love at a Poetry Reading
Borderlands: Apprehension on Jones Street; Old Love in August
Broad River Review: Afternoons
Chaffin Journal: Theoretical; The House on the Bridge
Chattahoochee Review: Baseball with the Dead; Looking
Chariot Press: In the Moment of Being Nostalgic for a Past that Didn’t Happen
Chiron Review: Clean Animals; Insomniac’s Lament
Claw and Blossom: Still Life
Clockhouse Review: Why
The Coil: Things I Want to Discuss with the Girl I Took to the Movies on Friday Nights
Devil Blossoms: Hopes
Dunes Review: Backflow
The Ekphrastic Review: The Opposite of Antipodes
Euphony: I Total Another Car Just Before My Birthday
The Fear of Monkeys: The Internet Café at the End of the World
Freshwater Review: The Barrelman
Funicular: Diurnal; Furrow
Garfield Lake Review: Story at the East St. Louis Bus Station
Grey Coven Press: At the Church Lock‑In
Gyroscope Review: Book Ends
Indolent Books: Cattle Prod; On Wanting My Dentist to Accept the Void; Prayer on the Bob Jones University Campus
Ink and Ashes: Bottle and Song; To Sleep Alone; She Is; Word Problems; Solstice; After the Orange Alert
Kallisto Gaia Press: Soot
Kitchen Table Quarterly: Pandemic Intervals; What Is a True Thing About Thornton, Illinois?
Laurel Review: On Stabbing a Man and Being a Good Listener; Surroundings
Lily Poetry Review: In This Draft the Woman Dies
Meniscus Literary Journal: Form; After; Ending
Modern Poetry Quarterly: Meditation on Three Spaces; An Honesty
Nightsun: Crossing Rivers
North of New Orleans: Untangling the Trainwreck
North Texas Review: The Age‑Old Love Story of Laurasia and Gondwanaland
Old Crow Review: The Cropduster’s Epistle to the Earthbound; To Sleep Alone; Catching Strays
Poetry Super Highway: Advice to Hitchhikers; Doodah the Hamster Died for My Sins; Lubbock, Texas; What If the World Ends Tomorrow?
Poets Against the War Anthology (online): Walking in War‑time America
Pointed Circle: Shards
Rag Mag: Modeling Nude
Red Flag Poetry: Braille
Rubbertop Review: A Murder of Crows
Rue Scribe (Underwood Press): Breath; Acceptance; The Gardener
Smartish Pace: Conversation; False Spring
Snowapple Review: The Woman Above Me
Stirring: A Literary Collection: For Kevin, Who Died Before Everything Happened; Why You Leave; The Masturbating Baboon at the Brookfield Zoo; Waking Near Family
Sycamore Review: After the Long Illness; The Frog Finds His Home in the Damp, Damp World
This So‑Called Life Anthology: In Defense of Darkness; What Might Catch Your Eye; Meeting the Witnesses; Procession
ThreePenny Review: A Concerned American Tries Greek Food for the First Time
The Weekly Degree: Treatise; The Cold Asks a Question; Performance; Questions for the Modified Woman
Welter: American Prayer
West Trade Review: Cicadas
Wicked Alice: Again; Late History; There
Wrath‑Bearing Tree: Suffer the Children; This Is a Drill. This Is Only a Drill.
Writing on the Edge: My Friend the Poet; My First Love Sat Next to Me in My High School Physics Class
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Todd Heldt | Librarian and Writer 