I’m honored to have my poem “Smooth Stones” included in Tinderbox Poetry Journal. It’s a difficult poem, my second difficult poem to appear in Tinderbox. I greatly appreciate this beautiful journal. Tinderbox embraces the challenging work that feels like our bones.
Tinderbox Poetry Journal
Summer Summary
It’s as gratifying when submissions work bears fruit as it is when seeds yield their harvest. I’m excited that my poem “Smooth Stones” will be featured in September’s Tinderbox Poetry Journal, one of my favorite journals. This will be my second appearance in Tinderbox. This summer I’ve received wonderful acceptances from Whale Road Review and The American Journal of Poetry. “Bent” will appear in December in Whale Road Review, and “Pulling” will appear in January 2018 in The American Journal of Poetry. This week, the British print journal Prole launched issue #23, including my poem “Cured.” And I received my copy of Kelly Ann Jacobson’s The Way to My Heart: An Anthology of Food-Related Romance, home to my poem “A, Your Name Is Anna.” There are links to all these publications in the POETRY section of this website. I’m looking forward to sharing my work in the online journals here in the coming months.
“The Events of 1989” in Tinderbox Poetry Journal
“The Events of 1989” is one of my favorite poems, I think of it as a signature poem. I’m thrilled it’s found the perfect home at Tinderbox Poetry Journal.
Sheila Wellehan 