Publications

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“American Prairie Safaris, 1870” in Sandhill Review. Spring 2024.

“My Daughter Talks to Water” in South Florida Poetry Journal. July 2023.

Worrisome Creatures from Madville Publishing. May 2022.

“Burning First Street,” “Falling from the Sky,” and “Slam” in Sandhill Review. Spring 2022.

“Moonwatching,” “My Daughter Talks to Water,” and “Thundersnow” in REBUS: Where Words and Images Meet. Winter 2021.

“Dinner at Ruby’s” and “The Woman of the House” in Sandhill Review. Spring 2021.

*“For Sylvia Mae,” “Handlebar Moustache,” and “Masquerading” in Chasing Light: the Burgert Brother’s Anthology from Yellow Jacket Press. Summer 2020.

“Three Carrotwoods,” “Mistaken,” and “Ode to My Unfriendly Neighbor” in Creative Pinellas’ Art Coast Journal. Spring 2020.

“The Map Room Bar (Bucktown, Chicago)” in Flint Hills Review. Fall 2019.

“Meg Francis” in New Ohio Review. Fall 2019.

miCRo: “Postpartum” in The Cincinnati Review. Spring 2019.

“Why My Grandmother Reminds Me Of Sylvia Plath” and “At the Obstetrician’s Office” in Anomaly Literary Journal. Spring 2018.

*“The Cattle Driver’s Wife,” “To Start a Fire in the Rain,” and “Why My Grandmother Reminds Me of Sylvia Plath” in Glass Bottom Sky: 10 Years of Yellow Jacket Press from Yellow Jacket Press. 2015

“Estuary,” “The Fiesta Queen, or a Brief History of Florida,” and “Selective Inattention” in Ragazine. Winter 2013.

“Totem” in Poet Lore. Fall/Winter 2012.

“An Education in Steel” in Crab Orchard Review. Summer/Fall 2012.

“Dreaming of Exes” and “Epithalamium” in Foothill: A Journal of Poetry. Spring 2012.

“Advice to a Young Son in April” and “The Grief Orchard” in Sweet: A Literary Confection. May 2011.

—Sweet: The First Five Years: 2018-2013. Winter 2014.

“A Year Sober,” “Platonic Idealism,” “To Skin a Rabbit,” and “To the Statue of Christopher Columbus” in Word~River Literary Review. Spring 2011.

“On Hearing an Old Friend Works in the Mass General Burn Unit” in Poetry East. Spring 2010.

“Nerve” and “Swell” in Spoon River Poetry Review. Summer/Fall 2009.

“Two-Year Drought (Lettuce Lake, Tampa, FL)” in Hayden’s Ferry Review. Fall/Winter 2010.

*Better Accidents from Yellow Jacket Press. 2009.

“Death of the Hired Hand (Hiawatha, Kansas)” in Best New Poets 2009. 2009.

“The Honeymoon Suite (Cedar Key, FL)” in Tampa Review. Fall 2009.

“Death of the Hired Hand (Hiawatha, Kansas)” in The Rattle. Summer 2009.

“Remember This” in The New Delta Review. Summer 2009.

“Luminosity, 1900” and “The Cattle Driver’s Wife” in The New Orleans Review. 2008.

“To Start a Fire in the Rain” in Meridian. Fall/Winter 2005.

“Snake” in Poetry Midwest. Poetry 2005.

*For copies of works from Yellow Jacket Press, email Kate Sweeney directly.