stephanie roberts POETRY magazine
BOOKS AND ANTHOLOGIES
rushes from the river disappointment McGill-Queen’s University Press’ Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series, 25 May 2020.
New York Quarterly, Without a Doubt: poems illuminating faith, anthology, (forthcoming) 2023
Escape Wheel, great weather for MEDIA, anthology, August 1, 2020
The BreakBeat Poets Volume 4: LatiNEXT, Haymarket Books anthology, April 7, 2020
These Lands: A Collection of Voices from Black Poets in Canada, The League of Canadian Poets, February 25, 2020
NO TENDER FENCES: Immigrant and First Generation Poetry, anthology, September 21, 2019
The Sixty-Four: Best Poets of 2018, Black Mountain Press, September 2019 (First Prize Winner)
The Spirit it Travels: an Anthology of Transcendent Poetry, Cosmographia Books, August 3, 2019
Oxidant|Engine Mini-Collection BoxSet Series Vol. 2, April 4, 2019
The Anatomy of Desire: An Anthology of Distance, The Poetry Annals, December 28, 2018
Lean In, A Collection of Candian Poetry, Polar Expressions Publishing, anthology, December 4, 2018
Suitcase of Chrysanthemums, great weather for MEDIA, anthology, August 2018 (Pushcart Prize nomination)
Persian Sugar in English Tea Volume III, The Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Love Poems, August 2018
Counternarratives: An Anthology of Refusal, Resistance, and Joy, Four Chambers Press, May 2018
Nano Text, Medusa’s Laugh Press, anthology, February 8, 2017
SELF-PUBLISHED
The Melting Potential of Fire, March 2012 (poetry)
VIDEO READINGS
Atwater Poetry Project Online, stephanei roberts & Yusuf Saadi, October 22, 2021
Montreal Review of Books,Spring Launch, March 18, 2021
great weather for MEDIA, Escape Wheel Launch, January 9, 2021
rushes from the river disappointment, Book Launch, November 29, 2020
AELAQ Rapid Fire Reading, November 25, 2020
VerseFest Ottawa VerseFest Presents, November 25, 2020
Word on the Street, Books & Discovery Part II, September 27, 2020
Word on the Street, Books & Discovery Part I, September 26, 2020
Mijente LatiNEXT Poetry Salon, August 28, 2020
PERIODICALS
2023
Verse Daily Daily featured poem (first published in EVENT Magazine, Issue 49.3), Janaury 22, 2023
-Where Is My Hand Allowed to Be Beauty
2022
Experiment O (AngelHousePress), Issue 15, pp. 45-53, November 4, 2022
-A Left-Handed Scissors for Paul McCartney
-The Dog in Charge of Boy
-Scrub with Salt
-The Most Beautiful Thing Never Said to Me
-Doll’s Eye Weed
Arc Poetry Magazine Issue 98, Summer 2022, p. 39, August 2022
-Unmet
Pedestal Magazine, Issue 90, June 27, 2022
–Nothing of the Month Club (audio)
NationalPoetryMonth.ca (AngelHousePress 2022), April 14, 2022
-EINIGE KREISE (Several Circles) (first published in L’Éphémère Review Issue X )
#WeAllGrow Amigas March 21, 2022
–Lady Fine is for Sugar (first published in POETRY, March 2020 issue, Volume 215, no. 6, p.588.)
Haiku Canada Review, Volume16, Number 1, p.7, February 22, 2022
-your obit contains
2021
Pom Pom Lit, December 2021
-Not Dead in A Ditch
EVENT Magazine, Issue 49.3, 2021, pp. 25-26, 28
-Where Is My Hand Allowed To Be Beauty
-The Rest
-To Call Myself
2020
Underblong, Issue 5, December 29, 2020
–Unmet (audio)
Twyckenham Notes, Voices of Color Issue, Fall 2020, October 26, 2020
–George Junius Stinney Jr (audio)
Poetry Pause, August 31, 2020
–Allhallowmas, rushes from the river disappointment, McGill-Queen’s University Press 2020
Poetry Pause, June 11, 2020
–Mall of the Sirens (originally printed in EVENT Magazine, Issue 47.2, Fall/Winter 2018)
Shenandoah, Volume 69 Issue 2, Spring 2020, June 5, 2020
–Black Conversation
–ECTOPIA CORDIS
Scrivener Creative Review, Issue 45, Spring 2020, p. May 5, 2020
-Subcutaneous Organ Music
Room Magazine, Issue 43.1, pp. 8-10, March 2020
-Tenderheaded
POETRY Magazine, March 2020, Volume 215, no. 6, ISSN 0032-2032, p. 588, March 1, 2020
–Lady Fine Is for Sugar
2019
Watershed Review, Fall 2019, December 20, 2019
-Bourbon Moon
Ice Floe Online, New Works December, December 11, 2019
–SKELETON::LAKE
-LIGHTNING
-Sun Don’t Rise
Bacopa Literary Review 2019, p.120, September 7, 2019
-Middle-Age Cartwheel
Burning House Press, July 28, 2019
-July Under the Bridge
–He Said
Poetry Pause, July 11, 2019
–Overcast (originally printed in Banshee, Issue 6, April 2018)
Bluestem Magazine May 27, 2019
– The Blue Distant
Emrys Journal 2019, Volume 36, pp. 1-2, May 16, 2019
-WITH SOFT EYES SHE LEARNED TO SEE THE CURVATURES OF SPACETIME IN THE OMNIPRESENT GRID OF HOPE AND THEN CRY ACCORDINGLY
DASH Literary Journal, pp. 168-169. May 8, 2019
-Japanese Maples
The Festival of Literary Diversity May 2, 2019
– Looking Everywhere But Inside (originally printed in Room Magazine)
Banshee, Issue 8, Spring 2019, pp. 14-16, April 4, 2019
-If We Are Savage & Lucky
-If We Are Savage & Lucky II
Arc Poetry Magazine, Issue 88, Spring 2019, pp. 101-105, March 27, 2019
-YE RADIAL NURVE EXAME: SUNDAY DECEMBER SIXTEENTH FOUR FIVE TWO AY EM
-As I Damn Well Say
-To A Meteor Elongating Night
Writers Resist, Issue 83, March 21, 2019
–The Way You Talk About Love: A Found Poem Like What Is Discovered at Autopsy After a Massive Coronary Thrombosis
Reality Hands, Issue 19, February 10, 2019 (defunct)
–Establishing an Airway
Two Chairs Poetry, Issue 1, February 1, 2019
–Tell Me Where
–Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Frog
CV2 (Contemporary Verse 2), Winter Vol. 41 No. 3, p. 23, January 28, 2019
-Junkyard Tornado
2018
The Anatomy of Desire: An Anthology of Distance, The Poetry Annals, p.28. December 28, 2018
-MY TIMELINE IS GLAD
Quiddity, Issue 11.2, December 1, 2018
–Never Abuela
A VELVET GIANT, Issue 2 – Autumn 2018, November 10, 2018
–I/U , audio
Crannóg Magazine, Issue 49, p.73, October 26, 2018
-Hawk Crow Adagio
Brain Mill Press, BMP Voices, October 23, 2018
–OMFG: UNTIL THE TYGER LEARNS HOW TO WRITE
Red Coyote, 2017 – 2018 Volume 32, p. 38, October 2018
-Denim Angel
The Write Connection, Issue 1, October 13, 2018
–Wolf
Ariel Chart, October 3, 2018
–It Happened Fast
EVENT Magazine, Issue 47.2, Fall/Winter 2018, pp. 36-39, October 1, 2018
-A Grand Epiphany
-Mall of the Sirens
-Vision
Chaleur Magazine, Summer 2018, pp.15-17, September 2, 2018
-Hiatus
-Till We Know Not When
Panoplyzine, Issue 10, September 2, 2018
–No Songs About this Childhood
The Slag Review, Issue 9, Summer Fall 2018, August 27, 2018
–GUT
–There is a Year of Telling Now
–Hold Desire as Sand
-(accompanying graphic)
my (small press) writing day, August 17, 2018
–No Need for Tears
Persian Sugar in English Tea Volume III, The Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Love Poems, pp. 182-185, August 14, 2018
–People Believing Badly
–Love Like a Waning Moon
Suitcase of Chrysanthemums, great weather for MEDIA, pp.13-14. August 1, 2018
-Now is Probably a Good Time to Say I Love You (Pushcart Prize nomination)
River Heron Review Issue 1.1, August 1, 2018
–The Woods of Perhaps
Fire Poetry, Issue 4, July 31, 2018
–Tender Nest
-Silver Needle Press Poem of the Week July 30, 2018
– SOPRATTUTTO/VORFREUDE (audio)
The Woven Tale Press, Vol. VI #6 July 3, 2018, p.43
–Meridian
Canthius, Issue 5, pp. 48-51, June 27, 2018
–Cross Words
Priestess & Hierophant Press, Issue 5, p.12, June 21, 2018
-Lovers Quarrel
-April Finally (Pushcart Prize nomination, Best of the Net nomination)
L’Éphémère Review, May/June 2018 Issue X, June 21, 2018
–Hades
–EINEIGE KREISE (Several Circles)
New Reader Magazine, Issue 2, p. 54, June 18, 2018
-Never was the Girl Next Door
Burning House Press, June 15, 2018
–How the Wind Heels You
–Father Son Spirit
–Times & Spaces
So to Speak, Spring 2018, June 11, 2018.
–JESUS DOESN’T LOVE THE LITTLE CHILDREN AS MUCH HAS HE USED TO
-Blackberry at the Rialto
Juke Joint, Issue 2, May 2018, June 3, 2018
–Black Lashes & White Pickup Accents
Counternarratives: An Anthology of Refusal, Resistance, and Joy, Four Chambers Press, May 2018
-Orange Party
River River, Issue 7, May 12, 2018
–Of Course this Brick
Chaleur Magazine, V. I Issue II, May 1, 2018
-Back in the Day
Subterranean Blue Poetry Magazine, Volume VI, Issue V, May 2018, April 27, 2018
-Via Rail Dream
bloodsugarpoetry #1, April 9, 2018
-Something Terrible is Going to Happen
-re: stacks
–Come Back and Solve for X
{isacoustic*} #4 April 8, 2018
-Snatch
–Wear You Out: Letter to a Southern Poet
Banshee, Issue #6, p. 82, April 5, 2018
-Overcast
The Woven Tale Press, Vol. VI #3 April 3, 2018, pp.
-Odysseus Rex
-The Clutch
antinarrative journal, Week 35, March 28, 2018
–Bombycilla
FLAPPERHOUSE #17, Spring 2018, pp. 48-52, March 20, 2018
-What More Don’t You Want From Me
-Menace
-Disconnect Connection
The Write Launch, March issue, March 6, 2018
-Forest Nocturne
-Lunar Light
–Superposition: Love on a Quantum Level
Crannóg Magazine, Issue 47, p. 17, March 2, 2018
–i never tire of the moon (Pushcart Prize nomination)
JARFLY Magazine, Issue 1, p. 7, March 1, 2018
–Nerve Damage
Twyckenham Notes, Issue 4, Spring 2018, March 1, 2018
–Skinned & White Knuckle
Gaze, February 12, 2018
–Because
Goat’s Milk Magazine, Issue 1, February 1, 2018
–Set Fire to Stop Fire
The Temz Review, Issue 2, January 31, 2018
-FORCE (Cosmographia Books Transcendent Poetry Anthology 2018)
-Mi Dispiace (Best of the Net nomination)
-Unbridled
L’Éphémère Review, ‘Gossamer’ Issue 8, January 21, 2018
-Commute the Sentence
-Canadian Goose Summer
–Spider Kiting
Claudius Speaks, ‘Fever’ Issue 5, January 18, 2018
–Love Like a Waning Moon
The Maine Review, Issue 4.1, Fall 2017, p. , Jaunuary 17, 2018
-Catching Sight of The Niña The Pinta & The Santa Maria
Before After/Godwink, Issue 0, January 16, 2018
–Now I Know
Canada Quarterly, Issue 1, January 16, 2018
–Passages North
–Music
–Make the Next Second Chance
Gyroscope Review, Issue 18.1, Winter 2018, pp.13,71-72, January 15, 2018
-The Dental Hygienist Shares the Pain
-Part for Me
Ocotillo Review, Issue 2, January 15, 2018
-Tempesta: Tuesday December Twentieth Three Three Three Ay Em
2017
Claudius Speaks, ‘Fever’ Issue 5, December 8, 2017
–Scene V
Reunion: The Dallas Review, Vol. 7 Fall, p. 127, November 30, 2017
-A Firefly Turns on the Evening’s First Light
Hold The Line Magazine, Issue 1 December 23, 2017
-Tender Nest (excerpt)
Before After/Godwink, December 11, 2017
-It’s the Smoke that Kills You
Atlanta Review, Volume XXIV Issue 1, p. 50, Fall/Winter 2017
-Entanglement
OCCULUM, Issue 1 November 1, 2017
-Big in Japan
-No Such Forever
-Slim Tuesday
litter, Issue 1, October 31, 2017
-They Named the Ship OH SHIT!
Sky Island Journal, Issue 2 October 21, 2017
-I Come To
The Indianapolis Review, Fall Issue #2 October 18, 2017
-The Week Late Answer to That Hot-Tempered Text on My Birthday
Banshee, Issue #5 Autumn/Winter 2017, 70, July 19, 2017
-Connections (audio)
Arcturus, September 11, 2017
-Rushes from the River Disappointment
The Gambler, Spring 2017 August 2, 2017
-The Physics of Love and Other Uncertain Phases of the Chemistry in Coulumb’s Law
Burning House Press, July 15, 2017
-A Conversation in Poetry (collaboration, artwork also published)
The Inflectionist Review, Issue 6, June 12, 2017, p.13
– Pistol Whip (audio)
Snapdragon Journal, Issue 3.2 “Surrender” Summer 2017 June 10, 2017 p.17
-The Pull of the Moon
The Arsonist Magazine Issue 1 June 20, 2017 p.
-Icestorm
-Catawampus (audio)
Writers Resist Issue, 28 June 8, 2017
-Take a Knee
Priestess & Hierophant Press, Issue 3 June 4, 2017 (Pushcart Prize Nomination, Best of the Net nomination)
–Tigers in Cages
Room Magazine Issue (40.2) June 3, 2017
– Looking Everywhere But Inside
After the Pause, Volume 4, Issue 2 Summer 2017 June 1, 2017 p.84-85
-Soft Part
Daphne Magazine, Issue #3 May 22. 2017
-Surgery
-For a Time Desire
Rising Phoenix Review, May Issue May 23, 2017
-Blackbirds
–Off Hours
The Acentos Review, May 2017
-Slugger
Rat’s Ass Review, Spring-Summer 2017
-Butter Cake II
The Thing Itself, Issue 44 May 10, 2017 p.
-Hepatitis A
The Stockholm Review of Literature, Issue #19 March 26, 2017
-Look at the Time
–Circle Earth: Meditation After Reading Tropic of Cancer
-Pure Dictation: This is How My Dreams Have Flown Most of My Life But Tonight it All Makes Sense
Burning House Press, March 9, 2017
-Tinder of the “Desperate Man”
-Dead Ahead
-Fetter
Waxing & Waning, Issue 1, March 5, 2017
– Tame
Shooter Literary Magazine, Issue #5 Winter 2017 p. 41-42
-Often I Begin A Thought with It’s Funny When Nothing is Funny at All
-Assault in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
2016
The New Quarterly, Issue #140 “Cities” Fall 2016
-This is About Being Black
-Charles Mingus Means I Love You
Breakwater Review, Issue XV Spring 2016
-Thirst
-The Opening Liturgy of the Morning’s First Draft Makes Love While the Evening’s is All Fucking as the Good Poet Puts It
Blue Lyra Review, Issue 5.1. Spring 2016, (Verse Daily Web Weekly feature June 6, 2016)
–People Believing Badly
CV2 (Contemporary Verse 2), Poetry Only Spring 2016 Vol. 38 No. 4 p.61
-Colourblind
A Literation Magazine, April 25, 2015 (Volume 4) p. 24
-Renegade2
A Literation Magazine, February 6, 2015 (Volume 4) p.33
-Buttercake
HONORS
-Pushcart Prize Nomination 2019
-Pushcart Prize Nomination 2019
-Pushcart Prize Nomination 2019
-Pushcart Prize Nomination 2018
-Best of the Net Nomination 2018
-Best of the Net Nomination 2018
-Silver Needle Press Poem of the Week Contest Winner July 30, 2018
-QuillsEdge Press, Chapbook Contest semifinalist May 3, 2018
-Two Sylvias Press, Wilder Poetry Prize finalist March 26, 2018
-Big Pond Rumours 2018 Chapbook Contest finalist March 1, 2018
-Best of the Net Nomination 2017
-Eyewear Publishing LTD 9th Fortnight Prize finalist November 22, 2017
-Eyewear Publishing LTD 7th Fortnight Prize finalist September 25, 2017
-Anomalous Press Open Reading finalist July 3, 2017
-Medusa’s Laugh Press finalist NanoText Contest February 8, 2017
-Causeway Lit Fall Poetry Contest Finalist and Honorable Mention
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