March 29, 2024

Kory’s Poems Online

My newest work:

Anniversary – SWWIM

Never Without Her Umbrella – The Literary Bohemian

Reception – The Literary Bohemian

The American Romantic in Rhineland – American Diversity Report

If you were here my love, you’d be all talk – Scrawl Place

 Three Psalms for the Other – Dream Geographies: An Arts Collaborative, second dream

We’ve Never Been Here Before – Dream Geographies: An Arts Collaborative, third dream

Select poems included in Sugar Fix, available from Terrapin Books:

Untold Story – As It Ought To Be Magazine

When the Watched Pot BoilsAs It Ought To Be Magazine

On This Uncertain EarthParks & Points’ National Poetry Month Series, 2017

Fall Sanctuary – Chapter 16 / Humanities Tennessee

Questions from the Women for Dorothy, Wife of Richard Cantrell, Before the Grand Jury for Masking in Men’s Clothes, Walking, and Dancing at Nine O’Clock at Night, 1703museum of americana (based on my 10th great-grandmother)

The Assistant Marshal Makes an Error in JudgmentAs It Ought To Be Magazine (based on my 3rd great-grandfather)

GetawayTypishly (scroll down to see poem)

They Taught Us in School to Sing of the Huddled MassesApiary

My Zinnias Grow Like Good IntentionsKissing Dynamite

Postcards from the Cookie JarStirring

Dear Reader – Autumn Sky Daily

Poems which appear in Heaven Was the Moon:

Highway 64, Between Beech Grove and Wartrace and New Frontier, 1970 – Chapter 16 / Humanities Tennessee

Hope Universal –Literary Mama

Other poems related to my ancestry and family, a theme in Sugar Fix:

Remnant – Deep South Magazine (based on an 1869 letter concerning my 4th great grandparents and many other kin)

Chapter in Which the Great Nation Unsings – Contemporary Haibun Online

Our Spirits Shall Sorrow No More – Deep South Magazine

Seasonal poems – winter and Christmas

There’s a God of False Starts and Tragic Mistakes and In the Deep of Winter’s Forest (scroll down) – The Wild Word

Travel-related poems (more on the way!)

On a Ferry South of Oslo – Unsplendid (includes audio)

Other writing, reviews and interviews related to Heaven Was the Moon (all of these include a sample of poems from the book)

Interview with Kory Wells, Heaven Was the Moon on William Woolfitt’s Speaking of Marvels

Kory Wells: Mixing Past and Present on the My Name Is Tennessee blog

Poet Writes of Life in Murfreesboro, Book Available Now by Bracken Mayo in The Murfreesboro Pulse

Writing about poetry

Although it was interrupted by the pandemic, I’ve often had a monthly column in the Murfreesboro Pulse. Read it here.

I’ve also written reviews of some of my favorite poetry books, with an eye toward regionally-connected poets, for National Poetry Month for several years.

2016: Stories roll in Darnell Arnoult’s ‘Galaxie Wagon’; Murfreesboro Daily News Journal

2015: Poetry books transport readers to other lands (Vandana Khanna’s Afternoon Masala; Irene Latham’s poetry book for children, Dear Wandering Wandering Wildebeest); Murfreesboro Daily News Journal

2014: A Trio of New Books for National Poetry Month (Lisa Coffman’s Less Obvious Gods; Irene Latham’s The Sky Between Us; The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VI: Tennessee from Texas Review Press); The Murfreesboro Pulse

2013: Read These Tennessee Poets During National Poetry Month (Sandy Coomer’s Continuum; Jeff Hardin’s Notes for a Praise Book; Bobby Rogers’ Paper Anniversary); The Murfreesboro Pulse