I am pleased to announce that my poem “Snowflakes” will be published in the second issue of the Calamus Journal. Check them out. The first issue will debut November 1st. The second issue -the one in which my poem will be featured- will be in December!
Will post a link when it goes live!
J.L.
#calamus journal
I am pleased to announce that Silver Birch Press will be publishing my poem “Burns (You Forgot How Snow Felt on Skin)” in their “When I Moved” Series. This poem details my move from the Nevadan desert to the Alaskan arctic. I will post when it goes live!
is out and I am pleased to announce that I have 3 poems and 1 fiction piece in this issue. Poems include “Someone May Have Said”, “The Diagnosis”, and “All Things Mundane.” “The Call” is my fiction piece. Available for purchase locally at Barnes & Noble in Anchorage and Fireside Books in Palmer. See more at Alaska Women Speak’s website.
http://www.alaskawomenspeak.org
Hi everyone!
I am pleased to announced that my poem “Acid Rain” will be featured in an upcoming issue of Bitterzoet. I will post when it goes live. In the meantime, please check them out here: http://www.bitterzoetmag.com/
Hey Everyone! Another one of my three line poems has been published by Three Line Poetry. Check it out here http://threelinepoetry.com/issue.php?id=38&issue=38
My short four line untitled poem has been posted to Quatrain.fish. See it here: http://quatrain.fish/post/145711733430/jl-smith
Raw excerpt for the day:
I found God
or at least, I found
Buddha in the least
likely places…
Prompt for the day:
Write about regret. Think of something you regret. Something you did or didn’t do.
Start it out like this: I regret that….
These two prompts deal with the senses.
Prompt #28: Think of an object in your hand, be it water, chemical, or a solid object. What does it feel like? What sensation does it give to you? How does it make you feel. Write about it.
Prompt #29: Think of sound. Maybe it is a person’s voice, a song, a bird’s cry. Write about that sound and its affect on you.
Raw excerpts for the 28th and 29th
In a brown moving box
I carried an entire country
in two pounds
—–
. . .until I stumbled in my hymn
book for the Korean words
to match the sounds I was hearing
and I noticed that she was
not on the right page
Prompt for the day:
Rocks, yes rocks. They can be made of any material. Volcanic rock like basalt or obsidian. Or even sedimentary. I once carried two pounds of a foreign country in a box of rocks.
Prompt of the day: what rocks do you carry? What are they made of and what do they mean to you?
J.L. Smith 