krsamuels
  • About
  • Poems & Prose
  • Books
  • Contact
  • About
  • Poems & Prose
  • Books
  • Contact

Select Poems | Online

"Argument against Verdancy & "Landscape as Clean, Untroubled, Swept Bare" | The Westchester Review
Here & Here
"Lessons in Grief," "Temporal Asymmetry" & "Note to a Poet" | The Glacier
"Re: Talking of Wallpaper" | ballast
"Spare and Unadorned" | 
Azarão 
"Re: Questionable Spirits" | A-Minor Magazine
"Along a Shore, Burning, I" | Action, Spectacle
"A Cigar Is a Cigar" | Cottonmouth
"Processing Disruptive Information" & "We Realize Stairs, if We Take to Them, Might Kill Us" | Sixth Finch
"Burdened by the Particular" | Delta Poetry Review
"The Particular Sorrow of Following Behind a Poultry Truck" & "Cut-a-Cross Road" | South Florida Poetry Journal
"Hiking to Lake Agnes in Snow" & "Lotte Laserstein on Exile in Northern Climes" | Bracken
"From Where We Thought of Different Places" | SWWIM
"I Am Speaking of a Tree" | Nine Mile Magazine
"Driving Lessons" | Feral
"Of the Mayfly, Past" | The Maine Review
(Finalist, 2024 Environs Prize)
"Harbinger I" | Fatal Flaw
"Ambiguous Loss" | Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters
(Honorable Mention, 2023 Poetry Contest)
"Me as Penelope Asking: What if We Didn't Lie Talking After?" & "Me as Penelope Speaking of the Plows Coming Late" |
Jet Fuel Review
"Post-Pandemic Melancholia" | Poetry Online

"Of the Trail that Goes in the Direction We Find Ourselves Going" | Juked
"Blue Mind | Green Skies" & "Maladaptation" | The Dodge


Select Poems | Print

"The Law of Conservation of Mass" | Laurel Review 58.1
"What I Learn from Rita" | Blue Earth Review 34
"El Camino" | River Styx 105/106
"Swiftly Transitioning from One to Another" | Faultline 33
"Only Somewhat Sleeping" | The Massachusetts Review LXII, No 2
"Watching CNN without Sound in the Hotel Lobby Bar" | Sugar House Review #24
| Featured at Verse Daily, August, 2022 |
"Driving Back from Iowa in November" | Pembroke Magazine #55
"Lan" |Vassar Review 2022
"Fine, Particulate Matter," "Skeleton Coast" & "The Wandering Axis" | Denver Quarterly 58.2
"Haugr" | RHINO 2022
"Rainbowed" & "Roaming Radius" | Kestrel 48

"Glacial Surging" & "Plummet" | The Champagne Room 2
"From the Mouth of, Down" | The Tusculum Review 17
"Catalpa speciosa" | The Carolina Quarterly 67.2

"When Even Colors Are Going the Way of" | Little Patuxent Review 36


Nominated Pieces

"Lethe, Daughter of Eris, Thinks on Fire" | Up the Staircase Quarterly | Best of the Net
"Fraught and Most Likely Fruitless" | Bear Review | Best of the Net
"The Sea a Field" | Empty House Press | Best of the Net
"Associative Thoughts on an Image of the Forest at Sandarmokh" | Peatsmoke | Best of the Net
"In Search of the Nordmann's Greenshank" | The Summerset Review | Best of the Net
 "To Marie Antoinette, from a Woman Who Prefers Cremation" | Sweet Tree Review | Best of the Net
"After Eva Hesse's Two-Handled Orange Keyed Utensil" | Emrys Journal | Best of the Net
"The Anatomical Venuses: Clemente Susini & Wax"  | Menacing Hedge | Pushcart Prize
"On Cells Renewing, or Not" | Sweet Tree Review | Pushcart Prize
"Cast, Credited and Not" | apt | Best of the Net



Prose

"Cleaning Other People's Houses" | The Argyle
"The Things Adjuncts Carry" | McSweeney's Internet Tendency
"Teresa: Saint & Otherwise" | Five on the Fifth
"Phase Three of Baz Luhrmann's Red Curtain Trilogy" | Cleaver
"Gradually but Steadily Dropping" | Blood Tree Literature
"Flat Line" | Five on the Fifth
"Contemplating Distances" | Midway Journal
"Imagined Absolution" | Grey Sparrow Journal



Interviews & Press

Body of the Book
The Massachusetts Review
Cross-Ties at West Trestle Review
Fatal Flaw
The Champagne Room Journal
The Rappahannock Review
The Spectator

Proudly powered by Weebly