Publication Announcements/Poems

Two Poems Up at Formidable Woman Sanctuary

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colored glints, reminiscent of stars, against a black backdrop.

I’m pleased to share that I have contributed two poems, “Urn” and “Nocturne,” to d ellis phelps’s random beauty ii series at formidable woman sanctuary. Please scroll down to the end of page iii to read my little ditties and take some time to explore some of my co-contributors’ soul-fortifying testaments along the way! Upon accepting my poems for publication, d thanked me for being supportive of fws projects (as a contributor to several series so far), but please know that I believe in the uplifting energy of communal creativity that d curates at fws, and it’s my honor to participate.

In-titled Poem Live in New Feathers Anthology!

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My In-titled Poem (inspired by Ross Gay), “Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude,” has finally found its home among the lovely pages of New Feathers Anthology! I’m grateful to EIC Wade Fox for selecting it for publication in the winter 2025 issue. Despite this poem being my all-time record-holder (probably twice over!) for number of rejections received at 47 whoppers, it still happens to be a personal favorite, which I’m ever so pleased and proud to share with you now…

Poem Live in Taos Journal of Poetry

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Astrophotography: Andromeda Galaxy.

Andromeda Galaxy by Matthew Harper

I’m pleased and honored to share that my poem, “The Final Frontier,” is featured among the radiantly vital (digital) leaves of the just-released Taos Journal of Poetry #15. I’m grateful to editor/publisher/poetess extraordinaire Catherine Strisik for welcoming this piece into TJOP’s splendorous folds. “The Final Frontier” also appears in my newest chapbook, We Have Seen the Corn, released in June 2025 by the lovely independent press and “publishers of fine poetry,” Kelsay Books.

Photo by Matthew Harper

“Embodied”

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I’m proud to share that Robert Okaji and I both have poems (pasted below) appearing in The Body – An anthology of poetry, an inspiring volume of body-centric poetry (available internationally via Amazon) published by Rough Diamond Poetry Journal. We’re grateful to EIC Charlotte Cosgrove for including our work in this luminous collection.

Four Baby Robins in the Front-Porch Holly Bush

Poem Live in Hare’s Paw Literary Journal

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I’m pleased to share the news that my poem, “Sestina for My Birthright” (a.k.a., “the pickle poem” 😉🥒), has been housed in the loveliest of neighborhoods at Hare’s Paw Literary Journal. I’m grateful to editor Olivia Thomes for selecting this piece for publication.

In-titled Poem Live in Neologism Poetry Journal

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A brown donkey wearing a bridle and looking down, in close-up

I’m honored to be a repeat contributor to the very fine online literary entity, Neologism Poetry Journal.  I’m grateful to editor Christopher Fields for his impeccable professionalism — not to mention his fantastic sense of humor! — and for selecting for publication my In-titled Poem, “Would You Come Looking for Me?”

Thanks, also, to my dear friend and poetic colleague extraordinaire, Michael Vecchio, for supplying this piece’s title and inspiring (however inadvertently) the shenanigans that ensued…

In-titled Poem Live in The Dodge Magazine

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Close-up of a partly-submerged northern green frog's face and eyes, with water droplets suspended around him.

I’m so pleased to share that my In-titled Poem, “By the Moonlit Water Where the Dombiki Sing,” is now featured in the lovely eco-literary journal, The Dodge. I’m grateful to editors Edward Sambrano III and Jamie A. M. for selecting my work for publication, and for their kindness and enthusiasm, in general, throughout the publication process.

“By the Moonlit Water Where the Dombiki Sing” also appears in my chapbook, We Have Seen the Corn, forthcoming summer 2025 with Kelsay Books, which I’m shamelessly taking advantage of this opportunity to plug, once, again :). 

Digital illustration of the sun setting behind a cornfield, shafts of light bleeding through the stalks, fading to a distant thunderhead and starry night sky beyond.
Conspiring Skyward by Cameren Harper

Poem Live in The Calendula Review

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I’m pleased to share with you another of my In-titled Poems, “Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria,” which has been published in issue 3 (Inhale/Exhale) of The Calendula Review, a boldly heartening journal of “creative narrative medicine.” I’m grateful to the editors for including my work.

Poem Live at Formidable Woman Sanctuary

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Astrophotography: Andromeda Galaxy.

Andromeda Galaxy by Matthew Harper – September 24, 2022

Please join me in extending my heartfelt thanks to Editor D. Ellis Phelps for including my poem “Glory Be…” in the Fall 2024: solace vol. 1 no. 1 issue of the lovely online journal, formidable woman sanctuary (scroll down). Who knew this little ode of mine would find such an absolutely perfect home?

Note on the above accompanying photograph: Matthew was immersed in the awesome enterprise of backyard astrophotography in approximately the same timeframe during which I first drafted this poem, which may explain some things…

Also, please consider submitting work that uplifts, comforts, and consoles for the current issue of fws: solace HERE. Works are being published in the issue as they are accepted. Submissions for the fws: solace issue will remain open until March 2025.

Poem Live at Rat’s Ass Review!

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Two watermelon carvings, mirrored images, side-by-side, hollowed as "monster mouth" baskets filled with fruit and concerned-looking eyes made of pineapple chunks and blueberries... Representative of large, middle-aged boobs.

My poem, “Of These One and All (after Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself 15),” is now live in the Fall/Winter 2024 issue of Rat’s Ass Review! Poems appear in the order of their poets’ last names; please enjoy some terrific writing as you scroll to, and beyond, Harper :D).

As a long-time admirer of (as well as previous contributor to) this top-notch web-journal, I’m truly grateful to editor Roderick Bates for his passion and integrity in steadfastly promoting poets and the poetry community, and especially for selecting my little ditty for publication in this fantastic issue!