Black Moon Magazine recently published my work—two poems and three photographs—in Issue XII, The Women’s Issue. This is not my first placement in a women’s feature (my work appeared in Women Speak, Volume 7 a few years ago) but it is my first placement in a literary mag featuring women’s work only, and my first photographic placement in a women’s issue. It seems fitting, and I’m ever grateful, that these firsts are with Black Moon Magazine, whose editors have been so supportive: they were not only one of the first magazines to publish my work a few years ago, but they also gave me my first Best of the Net nomination, for “[un]mask[ed].”
“Adam & Eve: After Temptation” is an ekphrastic poem in response to a classic artwork of the temptation story (Another ekphrastic poem,”Adam & Eve: After the Fall,” was published late last year in Sandcutters 2023. “Once in a Lifetime” focuses on a different timeline for humankind (here’s a hint: this blog banner photo is of the historic Chagyrskaya cave). Published photographs include the abstracted images “pipe dreams” and “Elemental” along with the nature photo “Bird on a Branch.”
I expect you will see more “Adam & Eve” poems from me in future. Maybe more early human history poems, too. (Hard to avoid when you spend a lot of time thinking about what it means to be human.)
Other Authors
Being part of a collection of women’s voices feels special. And I feel especially fortunate to be included with such authors as fellow Poetry Society of Tennessee member and talented poet, writer and essayist Chrissie Anderson Peters along with the amazing Linda Parsons, who serves as judge for the society’s Tennessee Collegiate Poetry contest. (Get her latest book, Valediction, here.)
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