This one’s a little unique! Blue Heron Review was looking for submissions for Spring 2025, their issue on Offerings. I submitted a couple of poems; one of them, while it won’t be in that issue, was selected for the following one: What We Gather For Tomorrow! And that issue is now available to read online, for free, right here!
It was very flattering to have the editor like my poem so much they wanted to find a place for it! I hope it’s not bad manners/a literary faux pas to print this here, but in her acceptance, she said, “I can’t fully put my finger on why I like this poem so much, but it genuinely feels like something we need for our times—to build a fort together, to have a safe space.” What a wonderful thing to have said about something I wrote!
