Author: joe.robert.wilkins

Jazzed to find out Orion will be taking two of my poems, “The eye of the radio was red, and its round mouth was talking–” and “The Fixt and Random Universe Is Seen to Move.”

Just got word Linebreak has taken my poem “Encomium: Driving Highway 49” and Cave Wall has taken “One More Time Durango” and “The Old Ways Fade and Do Not Come Back”; I’m more than pleased to have poems coming up in such fine venues!

Though I’m a little late getting this up, my essay “You, All of You” was featured in the September 2009 issue of The Sun. The piece has occasioned emails and letters from folks across the country; so puzzling and wonderful to have readers!

I’ve got two poems up in the latest issue of Terrain.org, a journal of the built and natural environments. Lots of very fine writers in this issue, including Pam Uschuk, Ben Quick, and Alison Hawthorne Deming.

Sweet, a beautifully-designed online magazine that describes itself as “a literary confection,” has two of my poems up in their most recent issue. Lots of great stuff at Sweet. Definitely a journal to keep an eye on.

My essay “Northern Pike” has just been accepted for publication at Harvard Review, the literary journal that calls the one-and-only Harvard University home!

Here’s a bit from their website:

In the decade and a half since it was launched, Harvard Review has emerged as a major American literary journal with an eclectic mix of contributors in a wide variety of genres and styles. Contributors to the journal include: Arthur Miller, Alice Hoffman, Seamus Heaney, Gore Vidal, David Mamet, Joyce Carol Oates, John Ashbery, Jorie Graham, Jim Crace, John Updike, and Thomas McGuane, as well as those who are making their literary debut. Recent selections have been anthologized in: Best American Poetry 2008, 2006, and 2002, Best American Short Stories 2005 and 2003, Best American Essays 2004 and 2003, Best American Mystery Stories 2006, Best New Poets 2008, Pushcart Prize Anthology 2004 and 2001.

The September/October 2009 issue of Orion, which includes a print and podcast version of my essay “Out West,” has just been released!

The Boston Globe calls Orion “America’s finest environmental magazine,” and I’m delighted to have another essay in such a fine venue.

I have two poems, “A Prayer” and “Then I Packed You Up the Ridge Like a Brother on My Back,” appearing in the latest issue of the Southern Review, the esteemed and long-standing journal out of Louisiana State University.

I’ve been reading the Southern Review for the last year or so and have been incredibly impressed; from cover to cover each isssue is nothing less than stunning. If you’re looking for great new literature, this quarterly is well worth the money.

Just heard this morning that my poem “Notes from the Journey Westward,” which originally appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, was chosen for inclusionin Best New Poets 2009 by National Book Award-finalist Kim Addonizio.

My poem “How to Bring Down Rain” was featured in Best New Poets 2006 as well, and I’m delighted to have another poem chosen for the series!

I have three new poems, appearing alongside work from the likes of Sherman Alexie and Richard Robbins, in the current issue of New Madrid, the national literary journal out of Murray State University.