Publications: Poems
Note: if you need accessible versions of any/all of these poems, please reach out to me using the contact form!
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2024​
HAD - “Queer Desire”
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and under the name Gretchen Rockwell:
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2024​
ALOCASIA - “If I Lived on the International Space Station”
The Café Review - “Self-Portrait as NOPE”
Hallaren Literary Magazine - “I Wait for My New ID”
Right Hand Pointing - “My Name Goes Missing”
Sonora Review - “Voyage Extraordinare”
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2023​
ANMLY - “I Hold a Gender Reveal Party for My Shadow Self”
Cold Mountain Review - “& Every Iteration Reveals Something”
FERAL - “My Therapist Asks Me To Confess Something” — nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2023
HAD - “Neo Insists Agent Smith Call Him By the Right Name” // Five Poems
new words {press} - “Quarto for V.—”, “Binary Star Systems” in Iss. 2, available for purchase here
Poet Lore - “NEOWISE Passes” in Vol. 117 Iss. 3/4, available for purchase here
Rogue Agent - “I Go Looking for My Shadow Self—Find Him”
Up the Staircase Quarterly - “One Day I Will Love Gretchen Rockwell”
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2022​​
Comstock Review - “Bird Quarto”
Defunkt Magazine - “I'm Something of a Scientist Myself”
Drunk Monkeys - “One Day When Someone Says "Rodin" I Will Think of the Sculptor”
Eclectica Magazine - “I'd Tell You What I Said but I'm Not Sure You Want to Hear It”
From the Farther Trees - “The Late Cretaceous” in The Mesozoic Reader, Vol. 1, available for purchase here
HAD - “Wheel of Fortune”
Impossible Archetype - “Reflection”
Mithila Review - “In My Utopias”
Moist Poetry Journal - Two Poems
Okay Donkey - “The Lure”
perhappened mag - “The Hourglass of Us is Running Out”
random sample review - “Quarto for Juniper Trees at Night”
Stone of Madness Press - “Discovery in Five Parts”
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2021​​
Chestnut Review - “Ode to Wikipedia”— nominated for Best of the Net 2021
Cotton Xenomorph - “Duplex for Dead Whale & My Therapist”
Drunk Monkeys - “Abecedarian Quarto for Ms. Frizzle”
Eunoia Review - “Another Bird Poem,” “Another Bird Poem II,” “Self-Portrait as Praying Mantis in 3D Glasses,” “Through Burnout, the Planet Still Spins”
HAD - “Nyctophobia / Nyctophilia”
Jet Fuel Review - Two Poems
Jupiter Review - “Cosmic Expansion” and “Launch Sequence”
No Contact Mag - Two Poems
The Offing - “After My First Kiss”
Palette Poetry - “I'm Not Saying Anything About the Schmidt Pain Scale”
Parentheses Journal - “To My Future Self”
Stone of Madness Press - “I Go Out With My Gender”
Streetcake Magazine - “Quarto for the Animorphs”
Superstition Review - Four Poems
Whale Road Review - “I Think About How Otters Hold Hands”
Wizards in Space - “I Share an Article Announcing Spinosaurus Is Now Confirmed to Be the First Aquatic Dinosaur," available for purchase here
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2020​​
AGNI - “Medusa Takes the Stand,” available for purchase here
Atlas & Alice - “'Pay Attention,' She Says, And I Try” — nominated for Best of the Net 2020
Corvid Queen - “Lost Girls”— nominated for Best of the Net 2021
Drunk Monkeys - “Places to Keep the Moon”
Emerge Literary Journal - “Dead Animals and Other Things I Avoid Thinking About” — nominated for Best of the Net 2021
FOLIO - “Godzilla & I Declare Our Pronouns,” available for purchase digitally here (or print here)
FreezeRay Poetry - Two Poems
Glass: A Journal of Poetry - “The Last of Us”
The Hellebore - “Aposematism”
Lammergeier - Two Poems with interview
The Lumiere Review - Two Poems
Marías at Sampaguitas - "Seven Minutes of Terror"
Moonchild Magazine - Five Poems
Okay Donkey - “Bath”
Peregrine - “Hades Sets the Record Straight,” available for purchase
perhappened mag - “Hic Sunt Dracones”
perhappened mag - “Haibun for Late November”
The Poeming Pigeon - “Telescope,” available for purchase
Poet Lore - “Bodies I Have Inhabited” in Vol. 115 Iss. 1/2, available for purchase here
Prismatica Magazine - “Twilight,” “Self-Portrait as Replicant,” “Self-Portrait as Avatar,” “Self-Portrait as Thing”
Revolute - “Quarto for Godzilla”
Santa Fe Literary Review - “[un]seen / [un]known”
Whale Road Review - “I'm Crying at the Nail Salon” — nominated for the Orison Anthology 2020
Wizards In Space - “Ouroboros,” [reprint], available for purchase
Yes Poetry - “Achilles, Barefoot,” also available online in ebook "The Queer Body"
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​2019​
BARNHOUSE Journal - “Not That Smile,” online and available for purchase
Crab Fat Magazine - “Séance For Past Selves”
FreezeRay Poetry - “Creature Feature” and “Ode to Left Shark” (illustrated by Bridgid Cassin)
Glass: Poets Resist - ​“After Watching Star Trek, I Return to the Real World”
homology lit - “Elegy”
Ink&Nebula - “Other Holes in the Fabric of the Universe”
Kissing Dynamite - “Everybody Remembers Neil and Buzz (a quarto for Mike Collins)”
the minnesota review - “Quarto for My Father”
Nonbinary Review - “Invisible? Man, I Wish”
OCEANS & TIME (a blog through honey&lime lit) - Three Poems
Okay Donkey Magazine - “Ouroboros”
Roanoke Review - Two Poems
Up the Staircase Quarterly - “In Which I Do Not Thank Stephen King for 'The Mist'” ​
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2018
The Coil - “Flight and Other Impossibilities”
Glass: Poets Resist - “The Rebellion”
Into the Void Magazine - “Tooth and Claw,” “Quarto for S.—,” Issue 10 online and available for purchase here
Meat for Tea: The Valley Review - “Heliocentric,” “In Memoriam,” “Spell for Forgetting," Vol 12.3 available for purchase here
New Plains Review - “O Say Can You See,” Spring 2018 issue available for purchase here
Noble/Gas Qtrly - “SS Sagaing: WWII shipwreck refloated by Sri Lanka navy,” “Night Visions”