Betsy Martin

Poet

Publications

2024

“Of Kale,” Open: Journal of Arts & Letters, forthcoming

 

2023

“A Certain Place,” MORIA, Issue 12, Fall 2023
“Maybe It’s the Moon,” The Lake, September 2023
“A Little Wave,” Dunes Review, Volume 27, No. 1, Summer 2023
“Frames,” Poet Super Highway, July 24, 2023
“Slipcovers,” Poet Super Highway, July 24, 2023
“Bread Alone,” A Thin Slice of Anxiety, May 5, 2023
“Great, Sullen, Mauve,” A Thin Slice of Anxiety, May 5, 2023
“Living on Layers,” A Thin Slice of Anxiety, May 5, 2023
“Not From Sun,” A Thin Slice of Anxiety, May 5, 2023
“In the Warm Amber,” The Round, Fall/Winter 2023, Vol. 23
“You Are Eating Oatmeal,” California Quarterly, Vol. 48 No. 4
“The Dishes,” Third Wednesday, Winter 2023

 

2022

“Lightning the Way,” The Phoenix Soul, November 12, 2022
“A Head of His Time,” Brushfire, Fall 2022, Edition 75, Volume 1 
“Sovereign Realms,” Adanna Literary Journal, Issue 12
“Archeology,” The MacGuffin, Fall 2022, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 2
“Combs for the Bald,” Better Than Starbucks, August 2022
“Along the Flowing,” The Midwest Quarterly, Summer 2022, Volume 63, No. 4
“Twigs and Dried-Up Grasses,” Perceptions Magazine, 2022
“Looking for Something,” Perceptions Magazine, 2022
“The Wind,” Perceptions Magazine, 2022
“To Missoula,” Wrath-Bearing Tree, January 2022
“Female Figure in Photos,” Wrath-Bearing Tree, January 2022
“About What You Have,” Wrath-Bearing Tree, January 2022

 

2021

“Winged Words,” El Portal, Fall 2021, Volume 79, Number 2
“Talking Heads,” Visitant Lit, October 7, 2021
“Snow and Smoke,” Think: A Journal of Poetry, Fiction, and Essays, Summer/Fall 2021, Volume 11.2
“Trees,” The Opiate, August 20, 2021, in print Fall 2021, Vol. 27
“Fill ‘Er Up,” The Opiate, August 13, 2021, in print Fall 2021, Vol. 27
“The Dinner Party,” Evening Street Review, Number 30, Summer, 2021
“Elements from the Periodic Table,” Evening Street Review, Number 30, Summer, 2021
“In the Whale,” Pudding Magazine, Issue #70
“At the Perfume Store,” The Broken Plate, Spring 2021
“A Beautiful, Soft, Striped Coat,” Apricity Magazine, April 2021

 

2020

“On the Rug,” Crack the Spine, Issue 265, November 2, 2020
“Walking to the Piggly Wiggly,” Typehouse Magazine, Volume 7, Number 2, Issue 20, October 2020
“Going Down the Road Feeling Bad,” vox poetica, February 4, 2020

 

2019

“Climbing Down,” Litbreak Magazine, December 3, 2019
“Sex,” Litbreak Magazine, December 3, 2019
“The Death of Seraphim,” Litbreak Magazine, December 3, 2019
“Saving Christmas,” Picaroon Poetry, Issue 19, November 2019
“Love at First Sight,” Picaroon Poetry, Issue 18, September 2019
“Letting Go,” Flights, 2019
“My Greatest Ambition,” vox poetica, July 18, 2019
“From Somewhere at the Bottom,” SLAB, Issue 14, 2019
“Motorcycle Moon,” Modern Poets Magazine, March 2019
“The Old Mug,” Modern Poets Magazine, March 2019

 

2018

“The Brink,” Delmarva Review, Volume 11, 2018
“What’s a Coat,” Delmarva Review, Volume 11, 2018
“Enough,” Drunk Monkeys, Volume 3, Number 6, June 2018
“Trying to Place It,” Steam Ticket, Volume 21, Spring 2018
“Rain on the Roof,” Ignatian, Volume 30, Spring 2018
“The Radio,” The Cape Rock, Issue 46, 2018
“Centuries,” Straight Forward Poetry,” Issue Fourteen, 1/23/18

 

2017

“The Quiet Family, Too, Has Its Drama,” The Penmen Review, December 25, 2017
“Matching Hats,” Coe Review, Volume 48, Number 1, Poetry Issue, Fall 2017
“What Remains,” Pennsylvania English, Volume 39.1, Fall 2017
“Jim,” Pennsylvania English, Volume 39.1, Fall 2017
“Irises,” Whistling Shade, Spring-Summer 2017
“At the Marsh,” The Briar Cliff Review, Volume 29, 2017
“Homeland Security,” Common Ground Review, Fall/Winter Issue, Volume 18, Number 2

 

2016

“The Biosphere,” Vending Machine Press, September 2016
“Where She Is Now,” Vending Machine Press, September 2016
“Russet Eggs,” Westview, Summer/Fall 2016
“Buying Jewelry at the Reservation,” Westview, Summer/Fall 2016
“Under the Fragrance Tree,” Cloudbank, Issue 10, Summer 2016
“At the End of the Sofa,” Atlanta Review, Spring/Summer 2016
“Queen of the Road,” The Binnacle, Spring 2016
“A Strange Place,” The Binnacle, Spring 2016
“A Pair of Whales,” Dash Literary Journal, Issue 9, Spring 2016
“The Heavy Head of the Moon,” Westview, Winter 2016
“Impossible Lightness,” Westview, Winter 2016

 

2015

“About Nightgowns,” Corium Magazine, Issue 21, Fall 2015
“Under a Winter Sky,” Corium Magazine, Issue 21, Fall 2015
“Up Waban Hill,” Ghost Town, Issue 8 (Fall 2015)
“Before It Closes,” Weber: The Contemporary West, Fall 2015
“Traveling with My Mother,” Weber: The Contemporary West, Fall 2015
“The Worm,” Weber: The Contemporary West, Fall 2015
“Blood Spread,” Juked, May 2015
“Thanksgiving Morning,” Inertia Magazine, Issue 13, April 2015
“The Restroom at Mount Auburn Cemetery,” Limestone, Spring 2015
“The Currents,” The Chaffin Journal, 2015
“Standing as Instructed,” Burningword, Issue 73, January 2015
“Summer Vacation in Europe,” Burningword, Issue 73, January 2015

 

2014

“After Dinner,” The Louisville Review, Fall 2014
“Baking in the Sun,” Existere, Spring/Summer 2014
“Chasing a Sunset Down Union Street,” Organs of Vision and Speech Magazine, Summer 2014
“Cradle of Being,” Organs of Vision and Speech Magazine, Summer 2014
“By Whatever Name,” Schuylkill Valley Journal, Spring 2014
“My Uncle’s Tarns,” Schuylkill Valley Journal, Spring 2014

 

2013

“Byzantine Stillness,” Diverse Voices Quarterly, Volume 5, Issue 19, November 2013
“Composure,” Barely South Review, Fall 2013
“A Shadow on the Floor,” The Green Hills Literary Lantern, Volume 24, Summer 2013
“Rare Earth,” Gemini Magazine, June 2013
“Christmas Eve, Watertown,” Front Range Review, Spring 2013
“Dimple,” Sanskrit, 2013

 

2012

“Robin’s Egg Blues,” Assisi: An Online Journal of Arts & Letters, Volume 3, Issues 1/2, Fall 2012/Spring 2013
“Getting Ready,” Helix Magazine, Fall 2012
“Whale’s Eye,” Minetta Review, Fall 2012
“Mermaid,” The Alembic, 2012

 

2010

“Ruby Towers,” Pirene’s Fountain, October 2010
“In the Orchard,” Pirene’s Fountain, October 2010
“Barnacles,” Magnapoets, July 2010