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Poems & Publications

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Wash (haiku) — San Antonio Review, "hibernation/rest/pause/renewal" issue 7.2, December 23, 2024.  TBD

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Jesus in College — Wingless Dreamer, "midnight masquerade" Halloween special anthology, 2024-5.  TBD

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Aging (haiku) — Dulcet Literary Magazine, "dusk & dawn" issue 2, February, 2025.  TBD

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Trek (haiku) — Tiny Seed Literary Journal, "water" issue, February 16, 2025.  TBD

 

Mother Touring Paris (ekphrastic) — Sea to Sky Review, Issue 2, Volume 5, November 21, 2024.  TBD

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Jesus at my Birthday, and, God on TV — LitBop, Issue 4, late 2024.  TBD

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All Over Sylvia — Libre, Issue 2, "Plath" theme, Winter 2024.  TBD

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Rose Bowl Parade Instant Noodles / Current Words Publishing LLC, Vol. 4, Issue 3, “Holiday Noods” theme, Winter 2024.  TBD

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Deportment — Witcraft, September 20, 2024.  Online only at https://witcraft.org/2024/09/20/deportment/

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Roots & Leaves haiku  (Time, Fall, Leaves, Zen)  — Wingless Dreamer, "Roots & Leaves" contest issue, September 2024.

[ $ ] Print or digital version available for purchase at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DFM66GFX

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OwlThe Raven Review, Summer issue, Vol. 5, issue 3, 2024.  

Online only at https://www.theravenreview.org/owl-findlay.html

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Wendell — WayWords Literary Journal, Issue 15, 2024.   

[ $ ] Print or digital version for purchase at:  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0D1D2L1XJ

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God at the Ballpark — The Twin Bill, “All Star Game” anthology, issue 16, July 2024.  

Online only at https://thetwinbill.com/god-at-the-ballpark/

 

He Was a Soldier — Heron Clan issue XI, June 2024.  Print only from Katherine James books.

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Imagine Space — Nat 1 Publishing LLC, “not enough space” anthology, June, 2024.  

[ $ ] Print or digital version available for purchase at 

https://www.Amazon.com/not-enough-space-Nat-anthology/dp/B0D49BS9XQ/ 

 

Eulogy for Mikey — longlisted (but not published) in the Black Fox Literary Magazine “Rhapsody of Regret” contest, Issue 26, March 2024.  

Online and print at https://blackfoxlitmag.com/current-issue/

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Becoming (haiku) — Hotpoet’s Equinox online magazine, Volume 6, “just add water” issue, March 2024. Page 18.

Online only at https://www.hotpoet.org/equinox?utm_campaign=cd9307bb-8039-49fc-9615-1afd8beb6569&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail_lp&cid=d7e5e2dc-8d36-4918-91bd-c12697b6b9f7

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The Furies — The Letters Home Collection: "Shatter the Windows" Issue 1, MAR 2024.  

[ $ ] Print or digital version available for purchase at https://www.lulu.com/shop/the-letters-home-collection/issue-i-shatter-the-windows/paperback/product-2mvevm8.html?q=issue+i%3A+shatter&page=1&pageSize=4

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San Antonio Review, Feb 28, 2024.  

- Drowned in Nineteen Over Thirty.  Online only at https://www.sareview.org/pub/jn2lsvg5/release/1

- Mark.  Online only at https://www.sareview.org/pub/4joxineg/release/1

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Them, and Cheat — BarBar Literary Magazine, Volume II, “I probably shouldn’t tell you this” anthology.  December 20, 2023.  

[ $ ] Print or digital version available for purchase at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP2RTFBW

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Extinction — WayWords Literary Journal, issue 12, “nightmares” OCT 2023.  

[ $ ] Print version only available for purchase at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CLCKLDJN

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Next haiku (Rain, Night, Nuts) — The Shallot: Journal of Mental Health, Art & Literature

“Next” theme, Volume 2, Issue 2, September 2023. 

[ $ ] Print or digital version available for purchase at https://thelayeredonion.com/the-shallot/.

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Calendar haiku (12 poems), and First Day of Spring — Wingless Dreamer Publisher, 

“Symphony of Seasons” contest, Volume 2, Issue 2, September 2023.  “Calendar haiku” won first place.

Announcement at https://www.winglessdreamer.com/our-announcements-2/winner-of-the-symphony-of-seasons-was-adorned-with-a-crown-of-flowers

[ $ ] Print version only available for purchase at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJBFXMHY

 

Trash Wonderland, issue 2, “Don’t Talk to Me” theme, July 2023.

Here To Tell You — online only, https://www.trashwonderland.com/issue-2-dont-talk-to-me

[ $ ] - Sorry, and The Muse— print version only, available for purchase at https://www.etsy.com/shop/TrashWonderland?ref=profile_header

 

Bananas — Nat1 Publishing LLC’s The Skewies: An Award Anthology, June 2023. 

“Bukowski” category honorable mention. Page 40.

Online only at  https://audienceaskew.com/the-skewies/

 

San Antonio Review, May/June 2023

 - 3 Tree haiku (Autumn, New, Horizon).  Online only at https://www.sareview.org/pub/c02j2oxx/release/1

 - 4 People haiku (Old Spice, Solo, Partisan, Time).   Online only at https://www.sareview.org/pub/w973iy1p/release/1

 

DroughtGarfield Lake Review, Olivet College, MI, “atmosphere “ issue, May 2023.  

Print version TBA at https://www.garfieldlakereview.com/recent

 

Play – WayWords Literary Journal, “sandbox” issue 10, April 2023.  

[ $ ]  Print version only available for purchase at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C1JCT9GY

 

Frank O’Hara Gets Dirty in Bull City — Salvation South, March 16, 2023.  Paired with my “Lucky Strike” smokestack photo. 

Online only at https://www.salvationsouth.com/frank-ohara-gets-dirty-in-bull-city-hugh-findlay/.

 

God Poem — Molecule Tiny Lit Mag, Issue 8, Spring 2023, page 46. 

Online only at https://www.scribd.com/document/631577443/Molecule-A-Tiny-Lit-Mag-Issue-8-Spring-2023

 

Once (limerick) — Grand Little Things, Feb 22, 2023. 

Online only at https://grand-little-things.com/2023/02/22/once-by-hugh-findlay/

 

Something_diff — Troublemaker Firestarter, volume 3, Winter 2023.  

[ $ ]  Print version only available for purchase from their website at https://troublemakerfirestarter.com/

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Poker Voice — The Shallot: Journal of Mental Health, Art & Literature, Volume 1, issue 2, December 2022, page 13.

Online only at https://issuu.com/thelayeredonion/docs/shallot_v1_n2_-_digital

 

Veterans Day — As You Were: Military Experience & the Arts , Fall/Winter issue 17, November 2022.  

Online only at https://militaryexperience.org/as-you-were-the-military-review-vol-17/veterans-day/

 

AIR — Quibble magazine, Issue 3, “Level” theme, July 2022.

Online only at https://www.quibblelit.com/air-by-hugh-findlay

 

Day (haiku) — Blood Tree Literature, issue 11, “brevity” issue, summer 2022. 

Online only at https://www.bloodtreeliterature.com/i11-poetry/day-hugh-findlay

 

Good Boys — Another Chicago Magazine, “Rituals” issue, summer 2022.  Paired with my photo “Rocky.”

Online only at https://anotherchicagomagazine.net/2022/06/21/good-boys-by-hugh-findlay/

 

Husbandry — Hotpoet’s Equinox online magazine, “In our back yard” theme.  Vol 2, page 31, Spring 2022. 

Online at https://simplebooklet.com/equinoxbiannualjournal#page=32

 

After the D&C — Wingless Dreamer.  December 2021 print anthology “Snowflakes and Mistletoes” contest finalist. 

Announcement: https://www.winglessdreamer.com/dark-snow-poetry-contest-2021

[ $ ] Print version available for purchase at https://a.co/d/cSxDZE2

 

The MustFauxmoir.  Issue 1, Winter 2021.  

Online only at https://fauxmoir.com/winter-2021-2?tag=Findlay

 

An Open Exchange, and 2 haiku (Visitation, Mirror) — Quillkeepers Press, October 2021, “Bare Bones” Spooktacular Halloween anthology.  

[ $ ] Print version available for purchase at https://www.amazon.com/Bare-Bones-Quillkeepers-Press/dp/B09J7JDL53

 

Aylesford time, Thinking of you, I don’t know, One time, Win — In Parentheses, April 8, 2021.

Online only at https://inparentheses.art/2021/04/08/aylesford-time-and-other-poems-by-h-findlay/

 

5 Spring haiku (Hunger, Flicker, Migration, Oceanic, Spring) — Temenos (CMU), Spring 2021. 

[ $ ] Print version available for purchase at https://issuu.com/lilahgalvin/docs/tspring2021.final

 

Moonstone Arts Center:

- Quarantine Chicken Dance — “Love & the Pandemic” anthology.  March 2021. 

[ $ ] Print version available for purchase at https://moonstone-arts-center.square.site/product/love-the-pandemic/262?cp=true&sa=false&sbp=false&q=true

- 4 haiku (Going, Pals, Day, Who) — Haiku day, April 17, 2021, June 2021. 

[ $ ] Print version available for purchase at https://moonstone-arts-center.square.site/product/haiku-2021/268?cp=true&sa=false&sbp=false&q=true

 

Wiseness, and Listen — Iris Literary Journal by Assure Press, Volume 1, “wisdom” issue 4, 2020. 

[ $ ] Print version available for purchase at https://assurepress.org/bookstore/iris4

 

HASH Journal:

 - Little Ditty, December 21, 2020.  Online only at  https://houseofhash.net/findlay

 - 5 Haiku by Hugh, February 12, 2021.  Online only at  https://houseofhash.net/findlay5

 

ShhhSnapdragon: Journal of Art & Healing, December 2020.  

Online only at https://pub.lucidpress.com/014cb06c-122a-4d38-822b-0602d71e29a5/#rXC4bO6YrIN9

 

Child (ekphrastic haiku) Ember Chasm Review, issue 1, September 2020.  Paired with my photo “Beach Baby.” 

[ $ ] Print version available for purchase at https://www.amazon.com/Ember-Chasm-Review-Issue-Fall/dp/B0BD2CQJXT

 

Same ScriptAustin International Poetry Festival (AIPF) digital online anthology of Coronavirus poetry, 2020.

Online only:  Scroll down to “Poet 16” at https://www.aipf.org/corona-virus-anthology.html

 

A Thought for Mother — The Silent World in Her Vase, online only, in honor of Parent’s Day July 26 2020.  [Link Retired]

 

To the poet, reading — Rue Scribe (est. 2018), an online journal published by Underwood Press, July 5 2020. 

Online only: https://underwoodpress.com/ruescribe/2020/07/05/to-the-poet-reading-by-hugh-findlay/

 

Seeing (haiku), and Absolu-zen (haiku) — Shift, A Publication of MTSU Write, Vol 3, Fall 2020.

Online PDF at https://shift-write.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/SHIFT_MTSU_WRITE_VOL_3_2020.pdf

 

Go —  Willowdown books, Anthology of Poems From the Lockdown, April 2020.

[ $ ] Print version available for purchase at https://www.amazon.com/Poems-Lockdown-Trevor-Maynard/dp/B0875YYF7X

 

Well so what?, From the convicted to his accusers, 5 haiku (Place, Danger, Prisoner, Song, Homies)

Barzakh magazine, Spring 2020. (SUNY Albany, est. 2009).  Incarceration Poems. 

Online only at:  https://www.barzakhmag.net/spring-2020-on-incarceration/2020/7/2/hugh-findlay

 

Down at the Irish Pub — Dash (Cal St Fullerton, est. 2007), 13th edition 2020. Print only.

 

Sunfish (haiku) — Canary Literary Magazine, Hip Pocket Press, issue 50, Fall 2020. 

Online only at  https://canarylitmag.org/archive_by_author.php?id=535

 

Nam, Man — Pinesong 2020, winner of “courage” category in the NC Poetry Society’s annual anthology of awards.

Virtual online reading at the NC Poetry Society’s awards ceremony, May 9 2020.  Also nominated for a PUSHCART 2021 prize.  

Online PDF at https://www.ncpoetrysociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/PineSong_2020_E-file.pdf

 

Spider (haiku) — Arachne Press (London, est. 2012), Spider Anthology for Arachne’s 8th anniversary. 

Entitled “No Spider Harmed In The Making Of This Book”.  Recorded reading for launch August 8, 2020.

[ $ ] Print version available for purchase at https://arachnepress.com/books/anthologies-poetry-and-short-fiction/no-spider-harmed-in-the-making-of-this-book/

 

Broken — New Southern Fugitives (est, 2016) by Southern Fried Karma, March 2020, Vol 3 issue 8, March 2020. [Link Retired]. 

FaceBook recorded reading online April 21 2020.  

Ekphrastic poem originally based on image from Rattle magazine’s challenge February 2019. 

More info here: https://www.rattle.com/tan-hides-and-hard-stuff-by-lisha-nasipak/

 

On American Avenue — San Pedro River Review (est. 2009, Arizona), February 2020, “American South” issue.

[ $ ] Print version available for purchase at https://www.amazon.com/Pedro-River-Review-Spring-2020/dp/B084DFYMW6

 

4 Haiku: She, Dove, Passing, Wife — Literary Accents (est. 2019, Lexington  KY) Volume 1, issue 3, 2020, “Family” issue. 

[ $ ] Print version available for purchase at http://accents-publishing.com/literaryaccents.html

 

Six Haikus (Spring Cycle, Flow, Her, October, Dog Zen, Rise) — Dream Noir (est. 2018):, November 8, 2019.

Online at https://dreamnoir.art/2019/11/08/six-by-hugh-findlay/

 

Teaching Nobody, and Teachers — Montana Mouthful (est. around 2017), September 2019, “schooling” issue.

[ $ ] Print version available for purchase at https://issuu.com/montanamouthful/docs/mmv2iss2issuu

 

Haiku Soup, and Try — Bangalore Review (est. 2015, India), September 2019.

[ $ ] Print version available for purchase at https://bangalorereview.com/2019/11/haiku-soup-try/

 

Tiny Seed Literary Journal:  

Wildflower haiku (Slit, Daybreak, Fly) — “Poetry of the Wild Flowers” anthology, blog version, 6/27/2023. https://tinyseedjournal.com/2023/06/27/wildflower-haiku/

[ $ ] Print version (p. 89) available 10/14/2023 for purchase at https://www.blurb.com/b/11727827-poetry-of-the-wild-flowers

- The Lesson, blog 7/31/2021, and in anthology Sept. 2021.

Online at https://tinyseedjournal.com/2021/07/31/my-tree/

 - The Last Hunt, “Lessons from the wild” issue, December 17, 2020.

Online at https://tinyseedjournal.com/2020/12/17/the-last-hunt/

 - 5 Haiku (Hola, Timeout, Sailing, Life, Frog), “Through the eyes of nature” issue, October 12, 2020.

Online at https://tinyseedjournal.com/2020/10/12/5-haiku/

 - Blue Milk, the “Where is your wild” issue, October 23, 2020.

Online at https://tinyseedjournal.com/2020/10/23/blue-milk/

 - 5 Pollinator haiku (Quickie, Rain, Paint, So, Too), the “Pollinator” project, 7/27/2020.  Paired with my photo Mexican Sunflower Monarch.

Online at https://tinyseedjournal.com/2020/07/27/mexican-sunflower-monarch-5-pollinator-haiku/

 - Equinox, 4/16/2020 the “Hindsight In 2020” project.

Online at https://tinyseedjournal.com/2020/04/16/equinox/

 - Planet Earth Haiku (22 poems), “Plant a Tree” project, January 2020.  Paired with my photo Fontana.

Online at https://tinyseedjournal.com/2020/01/22/planet-earth-haiku/

 - Welcome to a rock, March 2019.

Online at https://tinyseedjournal.com/2019/03/21/welcome-to-a-rock/

 - 4 Haiku (Urges, Catnap, Harvest, Look), June 2019.  “Nature In the Now” issue.  Paired with my photo Shroom & Cone.

Online at https://naturenow.home.blog/2019/06/12/4-haiku/

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Burning bed — 2019 NC Poetry Society’s Poetry In Plain Sight poster contest, November 2019. 

Posters placed in several public locations & businesses throughout NC.  More info:  https://www.ncpoetrysociety.org/pips/

 

Older:

Panacea — The Plastic Tower.  May 1990.  No internet presence.

 

Back — Amelia, 1990. No internet presence.

 

I’ve Been ThinkingThe Dominion Review (Old Dominion U; now Barely South Review) Spring 1990, and reprinted in Heron Clan issue IX 2022. 

 

Slone Hill — Calypso.  Volume 2, 1990.  No internet presence.

 

The BreedingContext South, 1990-91.  (My best guess, due to the passage of time.)  No print or online copy available.

 

Invasion of Privacy — Thema, Summer 1990, “The Last Time I Saw Jane” issue.  More info: http://themaliterarysociety.com/issues.html

 

Miscellaneous poems forgotten to time published in several University of Kentucky publications, 1975-1980:  Labyrinth (UK literary magazine), Fabbro (UK literary magazine).  The Wandering Foot (UK literary magazine), Jar (UK honors program), The Kentuckian (UK student magazine).

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