Author: kerstenchristianson

Much gratitude to the editors of The Icarus Anthology for including poems “You Know You Walk in Bear Country,” “December 30th” & “Carol’s Laminaria” in their inaugural issue.

Thank you to editor Elizabeth Gibson of Foxglove Journal for publishing “raven’s eye.  for vivian.”  This poem is included in my upcoming chapbook What Caught Raven’s Eye (Petroglyph Press, 2017).

Much gratitude to the the editorial staff of Ink Drift for publishing “Dutch Fry Baby” in their January issue.  The issue can be accessed online.

Thank you to editor Sam Rose for including my poem “Dig Down” in the March issue of Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine.  A second poem, “The Wave of a Magic Wand” will appear in the 2017 Peeking Cat Anthology in October.

A surprise arrival in the mail today with my contributor’s copy of the San Pedro River Review.  Thank you to editors Jeffrey & Tobi Alfier for including two of my poems, “Quartz”  & “Resolve.”  I must also disclose a moment of writing star crush in that Naomi Shihab Nye’s poem, “Get-Away Car, United States, 2017” is also included in this issue and located not too many pages away.  Wonderful surprise on so many levels and I am excited to make this my weekend reading.

Thank you to the editors of Inklette for including my poem “Inventory” and audio recording in Issue #4, along with a handful of photos I took while visiting author and artist Vivian Faith Prescott (Planet Alaska) at her family’s fishcamp in Wrangell, Alaska a few summers ago.  Enjoy the sweet array of writings included in this fine issue.  As indicated by its byline, Inklette truly is “for the ink-hearted.”

Such an honor that two of my poems have published in the latest issue of 13 Chairs.  Here, you’ll read “Silver Trail, Yukon” and “Raiding the Mountain Ash.”   Vivian Faith Prescott also has work published in this issue, two stories titled “The First Assimilated Sami in the World” and “First Contact in Lituya Bay Revisited.”  I am so appreciative of northern publications!

Cirque was founded in 2009 by Anchorage poet Mike Burwell and is edited by both Mike Burwell and poet Sandra Kleven.   Published in Anchorage, Alaska, Cirque gathers and publishes poetry of the North Pacific Rim:  Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Hawaii, Yukon Territory, Alberta, British Columbia, and Chukotka.”  I love this journal for so many reasons, but certainly for the fact that publishing in its pages feels like home.  Thank you, editors, for including my poem “Goose & Grove” in this fine winter issue which is viewable both online and in print.

Happy to read my poem, “Gutted,” posted today on Rise Up Review. Thank you to Editor Sonia Greenfield for including this work.

The Life of the Party is this issue’s particular theme and within it I am so happy to find a home for my poem, “Elixir.” It needed a destination such as this.  Thank you to the editorial staff for including my work in the winter issue.