Carolyn’s Publications

2025

Amethyst Review, “Sometimes Grace,”  “What the Buddha Taught Me While Painting by Numbers”

Poetically Magazine, “So are the days of our lives”

Prosetrics, “Q&A”

The Hyacinth Review, “Night School”

Witcraft, “Sears Automated Response… ”

Poetically Magazinem, “So are the days of our lives”

New Verse News, “Dispatch from Gaza” 

Merion West, “What will unleash” and “Embers”

Prosetrics, “Q&A”

Slant, “Improvisation,” “Right Now,” “Embers,” “On Both Sides of a Storm,” “You Call It ‘the Blues'” – Winner of the 2025 Hudson-Fowler Prize in Poetry from the University of Central Arkansas.

The Glass Post, “Dear Writing Coach”

Last Leaves Magazine, “To: The first day of spring,” “In Our Home of the Lost and Found”

Gyroscope Review, “From the Women’s Locker Room”

2024

The Fear of Monkeys, “Saving

Shift, “Dear Shame,” “An Autobiography in Forty Lines”

Last Stanza Poetry Journal, “Sightings”

Ars Sententia, “Direction,” “After Reading ‘My Favorite Kingdom’”

Home Planet News, “Before the Beginning

LitShark, Best of 2023 Anthology, “Resilience,” “Whale Watching Spoken Here”

LitShark Volume 5, “Touchpoints”

The Minison Project: “A Sonnet for My Feral Cat,” “In Praise of Free Verse: A Dizain”

Teach.Write. “Creative Writing 101,”  “Waiting to Meet an 8 Grade Poet for the First Time”

Peacock Journal, “Sonder,” To Bob,” With Apologies to My Creative Writing Student”

The Gentian Journal, “Lost & Found in the Universe”

Change Seven, “I have faith in nights.”

S/He Speaks 2: Voices of Women & Trans Folx, “Broadway Matinee”

Deal Jam, “To a Dear Friend Dealing with Acute Anxiety”

Tiny Moments, Vol III, “Promises” and “A Conversation with My 6-year-old Ethiopian Neighbor”

New English News, “Dear News Editor”

Gypsophila, “Invitations”

Redrosethorns, “To the Friend Who Spent Two Months in a Psych Ward”

The Sunlight Press, “Storm Advisory”

After, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at Haystacks”

Amethyst Review Thin Places Anthology, “Along the Desert View Trail on Mount San Jacinto”

The Scapegoat Review, “To My Soon To-Be Favorite Advice Columnist”

Snapdragon Journal, “Timelines”

The Power of the Feminine Anthology, “Abishag Finds Her Voice,” “The Prodigal Son Returns and His Mother Has Her Say,” “Innkeeper’s Wife Irate Over Loss”

The Scapegoat Review, “To My Soon To-Be Favorite Advice Columnist”

Home Planet News, “Before the Beginning”