My poem “Away with the Bitterness” is included in Peeking Cat Poetry‘s 9th issue. Download the 9th issue for free!
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Peeking Cat Poetry
I am pleased to announce that my poem, “Away with the Bitterness” will be published in Peeking Cat Poetry‘s ninth issue, coming out just in time for Christmas. Check them out! Will post more when it debuts!
Alaska Women Speak
I am pleased to announce that my first nonfiction work is going to be published in Alaska Women Speak’s Winter issue. They have accepted my work “The Important Things.”
Lost manuscript found
The things you lose. How does one lose a 60,000 word manuscript so easily? Even worse yet, how does one forget that they were almost done with said manuscript when it was abandoned. A mythological story abandoned. I guess I know what fiction work I will be focusing on now. #Atlossforwords #foundmanuscript
Eunoia Review Publication
Eunoia Review has published another one of my poems, “Three Times My Baby’s Stoller Passes By.” Check them out!
Throwback Thursday
A poem published in Cirque this summer. Enjoy and check them out!
Femininity
With my femininity under my arm,
we hustled down the dusty
shell of a broken college town,
past the crooked props
that used to sell feed
and pens to students, where
I offered my femininity to my fiancé.
He refused it.
Passersby frowned and jeered:
The wrinkled grape thought it was
best suited for a child;
Her charge thought that I was just too old.
A fluffy pink, the doll’s dress was
–with pink bows, of course.
Blonde with pigtails, the hair was
–with tight curls, of course.
Shattered sidewalks failed
to absorb the shame,
as my femininity receded
into my ragged college jacket along
with my spent youth
and thrift store receipt,
only to allow patches of its plastic
head and feet to emerge
when I least wanted it.
J.L. Smith 