It’s pouring outside, and our backyard will become gumboot territory by the end of the day. And by chance, I just realized the Spring/Summer issue of Valparaiso has been out for a couple of months, including my poem “Flood Zone.” Enjoy!

Sarah Carleton: “Flood Zone”

I just noticed that issue #60 of The Wild Word is out (it probably came out weeks ago), including my poem “Among Wolves.”

Sarah Carleton

The gorgeous Kosmos summer 2021 issue, Realigning with Earth’s Wisdom, is out, including my poems “Slant” and “Vernacular.”

https://www.kosmosjournal.org/kj_article/slant-vernacular/

In other news, our Texas Star finally bloomed!

The May issue of Verse-Virtual is up, with my poems “What Does Covid-19 Smell Like?” and “Stuck-at-Home Soup” (plus a lot of other wonderful poetry). 

http://www.verse-virtual.org/2021/May/carleton-sarah-2021-may.html

Issue 32 of Misfit Magazine is out, including my poems “Six Flamingo Postcards” and “Food Medicine.”

http://misfitmagazine.net/archive/No-32/carleton.html?fbclid=IwAR2vdPWJvI_uorKYzLSPUFK7HnXDJzRL7NsTnSSBKrv7OIj4PImJSywzxj0

Lots of other fine poets in this issue, too, so check it out!

My poem “How to Be Here” is up at Dissonance magazine:

https://www.dissonancemagazine.co.uk/zine/how-to-be-here

Happy spring! We’ve swept away the matzoh crumbs, and it’s raining poems in Sarah land. You can now read “That Poem Looks Like a Typewriter” on As It Ought to Be magazine.

https://asitoughttobemagazine.com/2021/03/31/sarah-carleton-that-cloud-looks-like-a-typewriter/?fbclid=IwAR3cxhOJ2m-OscFsjiY8E2ewMsf7wLS5WDqm5zXfbH3Ynm1F7CJ_xfUfIwg

And you can read “Fortune” on Gyroscope.

https://www.gyroscopereview.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Spring-2021-2-Gyroscope-Review-Web.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1D7LWdHOaFKePq1KR34zCGgp76bG-kR3DT5dZRQ2vpoZBc7DkXuDqWCWM

Pirene’s Fountain’s Bridging Divides issue is (finally!) out, and it includes my poems “The Guardians,” “Miami Airport Nocturne,” and “English Lessons.”

Issue #84 of Offcourse is out, with three of my poems: “Happy,” “To Whoever Is in Charge,” and “Happy Freaking Earth Day.”

http://Issue #84 of Offcourse is out, with three of my poems: https://www.albany.edu/offcourse/issue84/carleton_sarah.html

Free Issues

My poem “Early Shift” has been published in the Spring 2021 issue of Third Wednesday. You can access a free digital copy of the magazine:

https://thirdwednesdaymagazine.org/free-issue/