It’s wonderful when your work resonates with a reader. It’s a bonus when that reader is an editor who’s delighted enough by the work to give it a home. These are the places where my published poems live!
Carolee Bennett poems/micro-fiction in print & online journals
2022
- “Exactly 299,792,458 Meters Per Second” / sonnet in The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy (anthology edited by James Crews; published by Storey Publishing) / previously published in Contrary and Sundress Best of the Net
- “Why Having an Alter Ego Increases Your Chances of Fame, Fortune and Really Good Sex” / microfiction in Moon City Review (nominated for 2023 Best Microfiction)
2021
- “Our Lady of Stubbed Toes” & “The Beginners Guide to Taking Things Into Account” / Voices From the Attic anthology (Madwomen in the Attic, Carlow University)
- “The water rising, we stay at the bar” / sonnet in Trampset / December 2021
- “Houseplants Hard to Kill” / poem in HAD / December 2021
- “Opening Chapter” / microfiction in Lost Balloon / November 2021
PRIOR
- “Wollstonecrafted,” “How to cure a hangover” and “Ama Cocina” / microfiction in (mac)ro(mic)
- Interview! Contrary blog, July 2019
- “Hold On” featured on Crab Creek Review blog
- “Hold On” included in Poems2go‘s Spring 2019 Quarterly Collection as a reprint from Crab Creek Review’s print contest edition (Fall 2018)
- “Exactly 299,792,458 Meters Per Second” / 2018 Best of the Net Anthology , Sundress Publications (originally published in Contrary)
- “Hold On” and “Window” / Crab Creek Review / semi-finalists in the 2018 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize judged by Maggie Smith
- “Stages of Grief and Other Lies*” / sonnet published in Atticus Review
- “Prettier When You Smile” / Glass: A Journal of Poetry
- “Great Reed Warblers Spend Winter Practicing Love Songs” / Spring 2018 issue of The Broken Plate
- “A Fetus in Every Garage” / The CDC Poetry Project
- “The Mystery of the Albany Mummies” / Tar River Poetry
- “Safety Glasses Required Beyond This Point,” “Sex Starved Fruit Flies Have Shorter Lives” (a sonnet) and “Playing House (A Warning)” / UCity Review
- “Benign, and Other Words for This Kind of Reprieve” / Crab Creek Review / Fall 2017
- “Cutting An Onion (A Love Poem),” The Teardrop Lounge” and “Fish in the Aquarium Always Want to Be Fed” / misfitmagazine.net / Issue 22
- “Benediction” / Naugatuck River Review / Issue 18
- “Ghost Song Montage” / The Mackinac / Issue #12
- “blackbirds baked in a pie*,” “Diving Horse” & “Exactly 299,792,458 Meters Per Second*” (sonnet) / Contrary / Summer 2017
- “Ornithophobia, Diffused*” / The American Poetry Journal / Issue 14, June 2017
- “Do not ask how long the sun will last” / Stone Canoe / Issue 11
- “What the surgeon couldn’t do” & “Triptych for Sirens in the Park” / Hoppenthaler’s Congeries, Connotation Press, September 2016
- “Mars and a Reflection of Mars” / Riverteeth “Beautiful Things,” September 5, 2016
- “Turn Coffee Off” / Lake Affect Magazine
- “On not shielding young minds from the dark” / finalist, TQ7 Poetry Prize, Tupelo Quarterly / June 2015
- “An Ode to Air” / Virginia Quarterly Review’s “Instapoetry”
- “The Evening Carolyn Forché Reads from a Manuscript in Progress” / Up the River (Issue One) / one poem in print; three online, along with some photographs
- “Apiary” / Split This Rock Poem of the Week / July 2012
- “Blue Shoes” / Blue Five Notebook / May 2011
- “I think I’ll go make a video about Ivan the Terrible” / The Found Poetry Review / April 2011
- “After we kissed for the first time” / Referential Magazine / January 2011
- “My brother train wreck” / Stirring / January 2011
- “Wednesday night poetry reading” & “Origami” / Scythe Volume IV / Winter 2010
- “Breakfast” / Stirring / December 2010
- “When the wife brings love back from the dead, she creates a monster” / Goblin Fruit / Fall 2010
- “one afternoon again” / 5X5 / Fall 2010
- “My God, the tailor …” / The Centrifugal Eye / August 2010
- “Yield” / Wicked Alice / Fall 2010
- “Providence” / The Mom Egg 2010
- “I am lost,” “The romantic fantasizes about being inseparable from her lover” & “Revision” / The Centrifugal Eye / May 2010
- “Living with peacocks” & “Impossible to Tell the Years Apart” / Carcinogenic Poetry / May 2010
- “Jalopy dear” / Pirene’s Fountain / April 2010
- poems (group of five) / The Awakenings Review/Winter 2009-10
- “Reasons to stay locked up at home” & “The magician offers a lame apology to his lover, who began as a volunteer from the audience” / Scythe / Volume II
- “Tryst” / a handful of stones/ February 2010
- “Painting walls around a new lover” & “The Marginal Way: A love story” / Hobble Creek Review, A journal of poetry and place / Issue 1, vol. 4 (February 2010)
- “the ferocity of temporary things” / Glass: A Journal of Poetry / Winter 2009-10 (issue 3)
- “Word problems: The universe’s most impossible questions” / Umbrella / September 2009
- “I am drunk in a strange city” / a handful of stones / July 21, 2009
- “Riding a horse in circles around the marriage” / Ouroboros Review / Issue 3, Summer 2009
- “That dream with the wolf” /a handful of stones / June 17, 2009
- “The seamstress turns on herself” & “How to mourn” (collaborations with Jill Crammond) / Blue Fifth Review / Spring 2009
- “Rearranging the disaligned (poems in response to Anne Sexton)” (collaboration with Jill Crammond) / Qarrtsiluni / april 2009
- “Inspired by a deer carcass” / JuiceBox: A journal of the ordinary / Issue 4, Spring 2009
- “What Humpty Dumpty told his therapist” / Ouroboros Review / Issue 2, Spring 2009
- “Systole (excerpt)” / Shore Tags / December 2008
- “After the apocalypse, an English tutor considers her own corpse” / Qarrtsiluni / November 2008
- “Retirement” / Tipton Poetry Journal / Fall 2008
- “Tricky” / Postal Poetry / August 2008
- “How to disappoint your mother” / Literary Mama / May 2008
- “How to let wild birds out” / Ballard Street Poetry Journal / Winter 2008 (Pushcart Prize nominee)
- “My bug collection of stories” / Qarrtsiluni / 2007
- poems (group of three) / Other: _______ / issue five (publication of albanypoets) / 2006
- poems (group of four) / Womensynergy Online Zine / Summer 2006
* received a nomination for Sundress Publication’s Best of the Net Anthology
Anthologies, collections & podcasts
- 2015: “Thirty Days: The Best of the Tupelo Press 30/30 Project’s First Year“
- 2013: “After We Kissed for the First Time” / The “Best of” Referential Magazine
- 2013: The Centrifugal Eye 5th Anniversary Anthology
- 2011: Woodrat Podcast 34: Platonic love
- 2010: Woodrat Podcast 31: Emily Dickinson at 180
- 2010: Award-Winning Poems, Smith’s Tavern Poet Laureate Contest, 2010 Edition
Credentials, editorships & projects
- Book Reviewer, The American Poetry Journal, 2017 to present
- Twitter Guru, Tupelo Press 30/30 Project, 2017 to present
- Contributor, Tupelo Press 30/30 Project, December 2017
- Contributor, Tupelo Press 30/30 Project, May 2014
- Contributor, Tupelo Press 30/30 Project, December 2013
- Contributor/manager, Big Tent Poetry
- Contributor/manager, Read Write Poem, October 2007 – April 2010
- Editor, Ouroboros Review, January 2009 – December 2009
- Contributor, Poets’ Quarterly, September 2009 – May 2010
If available online, I’ve tried to link directly to the poem. Otherwise, I link to the publication. It can be tough to stay on top of the links, so if you find one that doesn’t work, let me know!