Poetry
Poems & Publications
(Some older links may be expired)
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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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Owl — The 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.
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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
Drought — Garfield 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 Must — Fauxmoir. 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
Shhh — Snapdragon: 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 Script — Austin 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 Thinking — The 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 Breeding — Context 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).