Ellen June Wright poet/artist/photographer
Poems:
“I Put Life on Hold,” Southern Humanities Review issue 57 no. 2! June 2024
“When I Only Knew Your Name,” Orange Blossom Review, June 15, 2024
“Tangerines,” Wild Roof Journal, Issue #26, June 5, 2024
“Studying Vincent on The Last Day of May,” SWWIM EVERY DAY, May 31, 2024
“The G. I. Bill and the Shore House,” Saranac Review 2024
“I Listen to You Each Night,” Volume 38.2 of Zone 3 May 9, 2024
“When I Tell the Story” Pigeon Pages, January 15th, 2023
“My Sister, Angela,” Talking River Review, Issue 55, January 2024
“Fallen Angel,” Talking River Review, Issue 55, January 2024
“Partus Sequitur Ventrem,” Talking River Review, Issue 55, January 2024
“Innocent You, Innocent Me by Amy Sherald,” Elevation Review
“Self-Portrait 2012 by Jordan Casteel,” Prelude
“Betye Saar in her Laurel Canyon studio, 1970,” Prelude
“I Love the Night,” South Dakota Review: Volume 58, No. 4.
“Self Portrait as a Gray November Morning,” Glassworks Magazine
“I Say Yes,” Lily Poetry Review
“Midnight Among Fig Trees,” North American Review
“Orpheus I,” The 2River View: 27.4 (Summer 2023)
“Orpheus II,” The 2River View: 27.4 (Summer 2023)
“Blood Orange,” Journal of New Jersey Poets
“I Imagine You Slim, Even Slender,” Room Magazine 2023
“Memorial,” Red Coyote
“Sometimes I Hear You Singing,” Red Coyote
“If I Have Been Too Sentimental,” Red Coyote
“Angela, O’ Angela,” Red Coyote
“The Undertaker,” Gulf Coast Online
“Letter to Ntozake Shange #2,” Quarter After Eight
“Narcissus,” The Amistad Spring 2023 issue
“My Mind Wanders Down to the Darkness” Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices, Spring/April 2023
“I Am What Happens When Nature Has Its Way,” Shō Number 3, nominated for Orison Books’ Best Spiritual Literature anthology, nominated for Pushcart Prize 2023
“The Desert Where I Am Lost,” Rappahannock Review, Issue 10.2, released May 2023 with interview questions
“I Remember Good Days,” The Good Life Review, Issue #11 ~ Spring 2023, with interview
“After Learning of His Castration,” LEON: Literary Review, August 1, issue, nominated for Pushcart Prize 2023
“Haymaker” LEON: Literary Review, August 1 issue
“After News of a Young Woman’s Death,” Bellevue Literary Review,
“The Table,” The Central Dissent: a Journal of Gender and Sexuality 2023,
“Desire,” The Central Dissent: a Journal of Gender and Sexuality 2023
“Babylon,” Abandon Journal, Issue #4, Pub. March 24, 2023
“What Shocks Me These Days,” NY Writers Coalition Anthology, now on Amazon.
“Tho’ Much Is Taken, Much Abides,” Exit 13 Magazine #28 summer 2023.
“Clifton Upon Rising,” The Closed Eye Open, ”Maya’s Micros” feature. pub. 2/6/23 also featured on CLMP Feb. 13, 2023
“Solas,” The Closed Eye Open, “Maya’s Micros” feature
“Of Ordinary Men and Ministers,” Poetry South, December 2023 issue
“Angela, You Are Part of Every Black Woman I Have Ever Known,” The Elevation Review, nominated for Pushcart Prize 2023
“Unmarked Grave c. 1630,” Eastern Iowa Review‘s Issue 16 online edition, nominated for a Best of the Net (2024)
“Janus,” Hole In The Head no. 4 issue 1
“I Am Watching,” Aji Magazine, spring 2023 issue
“Of Buena Vista Farms and Heaven,” Aji Magazine spring 2023 issue
“Time’s Traveler” Passengers Journal
“Angela Disappears c. 1625,” Scoundrel Time
“Angela Under the Fig Tree c. 1619,” Scoundrel Time
“Angela Dream of Wings c. 1619,” Scoundrel Time
“Perennials” Thin Air, Issue 30, 2024
“Tulip Fever” Thin Air, Issue 30, 2024
“While Thinking of Another’s Suffering” Ocean State Review,
“Portrait Of the Subject As a Free Bird,” in Moon City Review 2023.
“Bones,” Plainsongs, winter issue, January 2023,
“UPON ARRIVAL AT FORT COMFORT II,” River & South Review, Winter issue, January 2023.
“Washing Day c. 1950,” MER: Mom Egg Review-Online Folio, Motherhood, Literature and Art,
“When I Tell the Story” Pigeon Pages
“Impressionism #1” reprinted in West Trestle Review, November/Dec.issue,
“At Four In the Morning” (aka July Nights) Wild Roof Journal, Issue #17, Nov. 2022 release.
“Roberta Cleopatra Flack c. 1973” upcoming issue of Atlanta Review,
“Pastoral with Angela,” New Note Poetry, July Summer 2022
“Malcolm X, I Lost Him Twice,” 2022 issue of Poetry South.
“I Marveled When Obama Sang Amazing Grace,” 2022 issue of Poetry South.
“The Earth Should Be Mine,” for the fall issue of Peregrine.
“If We Could Fly,” for the fall issue of Peregrine.
“Please Do Not Forget My Name,” for the fall issue of Peregrine.
“Angela Keeps Unearthing Grief,” summer/fall 2022 issue of Naugatuck River Review.
“I Need to Learn the Language of the Earth II,” (Re) An Ideas Journal, spring 2022 issue, ( May 18, 2022)
“A House Is Not a Home Luther Vandross 1981,” New Limestone Review,
“Judith Beheading Holofernes,” Plume, for August.
“Parable of the Sower,” So to Speak, Summer 2022 Online Issue! contract
“The Dead,” The Closed Eye Open, Issue VII, summer release.
“Construction Of,” When Women Speak Poetry Anthology,
“Grandeur,” When Women Speak Poetry Anthology,
“Song for James Byrd,” SoFloPoJo – South Florida Poetry Journal, May 2022 issue,
“The Last Time,” SoFloPoJo – South Florida Poetry Journal, May 2022 issue
“All My Loves Have Grown Old” Tulsa Review. Thursday, April 21st in person
“I Talked to the Sun,” National Poetry Month issue, The Elevation Review, (online) Monday, April 11th
“The Anticipation of Flight,” National Poetry Month issue, The Elevation Review, (online) Monday, April 11th
“Landscape with Sheep Grazing” in a future issue of Louisiana Literature.
“Angela,” (Before the Mayflower) Vol. 6, Issue 1 of Ponder Review. ( March 28, 2022)
“The Blessed,” Tar River Poetry—probably Fall 2022, ( March 16, 2022)
“The Egg,” The South Carolina Review, ( March 14, 2022) contract signed and returned 4/4/22
“In Memory of Angela, Enslaved, Who Arrived Before the Mayflower,” spring quarterly, Burningword Literary Journal, published April 5th, 2022:
“Six,” Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices, Spring Issue, March 2022.
“Mother at Twilight,” Slant, for May 2022 issue
“Swimming Lessons,” Black Sunflowers Poetry Press, Anthology,
“Storm Coming,” Black Sunflowers Poetry Press, Anthology,
“A Portrait That Begins With Porridge,” PLATFORM REVIEW! Went live June 21st.
“What My Work Is Not,” PLATFORM REVIEW! Went live June 21st.
“Like Flour Through a Sieve,” PLATFORM REVIEW! Went live June 21st.
“After My Life by Mary J Blige,” blog at The Coachella Review, online 2/25, ( Feb. 10, 2022)
“You Ask Me Where It Comes From,” blog at The Coachella Review, ( Feb. 10, 2022)
“The Mistake,” blog at The Coachella Review, ( Feb. 10, 2022)
“Spirit Made Flesh,” blog at The Coachella Review, online 2/25, ( Feb. 10, 2022)
“The Poet’s Life,” will appear in Lips 55/56, scheduled for late spring 2022. ( Feb. 9, 2022)
“When My Brother Speaks For Hours…,” Black History Month Special, You Might Need To Hear This, ( Feb. 4, 2022)
“While It Is Still Dark,” climate change/sustainability issue Friends Journal, May, ( Jan 24, 2022)
“What They Carried With Them,” The Good Life Review, Winter 2022 Issue (online) ( Jan 5, 2022)
“A Question of Ownership,” The Good Life Review, Winter 2022 Issue (online) ( Jan 10, 2022)
“Good Hair c. 1968,” West Trestle Review, ( Dec. 13, 2021) Summer 2022 issue
2021
“Nocturne #2,” The Nassau Review, ( Dec. 8, 2021)
“The Numbering of Friends,” Sheila-Na-Gig online, ( Nov. 20, 2021) 4/3/22 Reading published on Youtube
“To My Poet Sister” Lunch Ticket ( Nov. 15, 2021)
“They Came with the Night,” Gordon Square Review, Issue 9, online in November 2021 ( Nov. 10, 2021) 2021 Pushcart Prize Nomination
“Today, I Heard Obama Sing Amazing Grace Again,” Poetry South 2021, ( Nov. 3, 2021) 2021 Pushcart Prize Nomination
“Michael Brown,” Poetry South 2021, ( Nov. 3, 2021)
“Mistaken Identity,” Miracle Monocle, the University of Louisville, Fall 2021 issue. ( Nov. 3, 2021)
“painting ourselves c. 1980,” Miracle Monocle, the University of Louisville, Fall 2021 issue. ( Nov. 3, 2021)
“Dear Dr. King,” The Journal, BWP/NYWC Summer 2021, (published Oct. 28, 2021)
“I Watch Her Out of the Corner of My Eye,” The Journal, BWP/NYWC Summer 2021 (published Oct. 28, 2021)
“Wear Your Crown,” The Journal, BWP/NYWC Summer 2021, (published Oct. 28, 2021)
“On the Raising of Children,” featured interval in The Banyan Review end of Nov. of 2021( Oct. 28, 2021)
“The Needle,” featured interval in The Banyan Review end of November of 2021( Oct. 27, 2021)
“Home,” (short version) featured interval in The Banyan Review end of November of 2021( Oct. 27, 2021)
“Longing for Blooms,” in the spring issue of Scapegoat Review. ( Oct. 26, 2021)
“Windsor Road, Teaneck,” (short version) in Exit 13 Magazine #27 in Spring 2022 ( Oct. 11, 2021)
“Mother Poem #9,” Collateral. ( Oct. 7, 2021)
“Pears,” New York Quarterly magazine. ( Sept. 14, 2021)
“In Praise of those Winter Sundays 2,” Willawaw Journal. ( August 18, 2021)
“Where Guns Melt in the Sun,” Passengers Journal ( August 1, 2021)
“Translator’s Note,” River Heron’s Review’s supplemental issue, Poems, for Now, ( July 31, 2021)
“Note to Self,” summer online edition of Penumbra Literary and Art Journal 2021 ( July 23, 2021)
“The Ground Here is Soft and Broken,” Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. 47.1 ( July 23, 2021)
“Friday’s Child,” in a future issue of Louisiana Literature. ( July 9, 2021)
“Hope For the Day,” Summer Issue of In Parentheses (Volume 7, Issue 1) July 15 ( June 26, 2021)
“Even on Her Days Off Mother Rose Early,” SoFloPoJo – South Florida Poetry Journal. ( June 21, 2021)
“Self Portrait with Affirmations,” SoFloPoJo – South Florida Poetry Journal. ( June 21, 2021)
“Rhododendrons in Full Bloom,” The Antonym on 21st August ( June 21, 2021)
“Salt,” The Antonym on 21st August ( June 21, 2021)
“Poetry Is Not A Flight Of Birds,” Prevention at the Intersections, (Vol I, Issue II) ( June 21, 2021)
“Open Letter to Silent Friends,” Prevention at the Intersections, (Vol I, Issue II) ( June 21, 2021)
“Freddie Gray and the Last Ride,” Prevention at the Intersections, (Vol I, Issue II) ( June 21, 2021)
“Stardust,” Remembering Lucille Clifton Anthology, Moonstone Arts Center ( June 20, 2021)
“After Years,” The Dillydoun Review, Issue 6 (July 2021) ( June 18, 2021)
“African Penguins Explore the Florida Aquarium,” Gyroscope Review. ( June 2, 2021)
“Abattoir,” Journal of Compressed Creative Arts. ( May 27, 2021)
“To Come of Age,” Making Waves: a West Michigan Review in the fall 2021 ( May 24, 2021)
“Dear Auden,” The Missouri Review a Poem of the Week for website. ( May 22, 2021) sub manager
“INTERROGATING THE POET,” Death Rattle—Oroboro Vol. 5. ( May 16, 2021)
“Sorrow,” (AKA Dream Sorrow) Death Rattle—Oroboro Vol. 5. ( May 16, 2021)
“TODAY IS NOT THE DAY FOR POEM MAKING,” The Elevation Review, May 2021 ( April 23, 2021)
“8:46 AND MARTYRDOM,” The Elevation Review May 2021 issue ( April 23, 2021)
“Life Cycle,” Glassworks Magazine online and print Fall 2021 ( April 17, 2021)
“She Was All We Knew,” The Worcester Review, Volume 42 (2021). ( April 15, 2021) 2021 Pushcart Prize Nomination
“Ophelia’s Flowers,” Westchester Review, fall or winter issue 2021 ( March 15, 2021)
“Fabric Emporium,” Westchester Review, fall or winter issue 2021 ( March 15, 2021)
“Dead Yard, Montego Bay, Jamaica,” Jelly Bucket (Number 11) ( March 2, 2021).
“The Lamp,” The Caribbean Writer Volume 35, ( Jan. 17 2021) (email)
“Symmetry,” Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing – Poetry to be pub. Dec 2022 ( 01/11/2021)
2020
“THE UNDERGROWTH WITH TWO FIGURES,” Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora – Poetry – General Issue 11/25/2020
“I Imagine Two Women Singing,” Paterson Literary Review: Vol. 49, 2021. (November 25, 2020)(email)
“In the Autopsy…,” New York Quarterly – General Poetry Submissions 11/20/2020 to appear 4/19/2021
“INDENTURES (Ars Poetica),” River Mouth Review – Poetry Subs: Nov 2020 11/15/2020 2021 Pushcart Prize Nomination
“The Albatross,” Santa Fe Writers Project – Issue 24 – BIPOC Writers ONLY 11/13/2020
“From Under the Dryer…” Santa Fe Writers Project – Issue 24 – BIPOC Writers ONLY 11/13/2020
“I Don’t Dream of Poets,” Penumbra Literary and Art Journal – POETRY Submission (Black Women’s Voices and Experiences) 10/17/2020
“As I Wake, I Hear Children Crying,” Penumbra Literary and Art Journal – POETRY Submission (Black Women’s Voices and Experiences) 10/13/2020
“A Time for Flowers,” Penumbra Literary and Art Journal – POETRY Submission (Black Women’s Voices and Experiences) 10/03/2020
“The Hackensack River Early,” Exit 13 Magazine #26 in spring 2021. ( Sep. 22, 2020) (email) 2021 Pushcart Prize Nomination
“44’s ELECTION DAY,” The RavensPerch – Poetry 08/23/2020
“AM I BLACK WHEN I’M ALONE?” The RavensPerch – Poetry 08/23/2020
“THE GROUND ON WHICH I STOOD,” The RavensPerch – Poetry 08/23/2020
“I’ve Been Waiting For Hate To Die,” Gulf Stream Magazine – Gulf Stream Summer Contest – Poetry 08/21/2020——————————————
Earlier Publications:
“Egg Gatherers,” Plainsong; Vol. XXXII: No 2, Winter 2012, p. 31
“Go West,” Exit 13 Magazine, #16, 2012, p. 11
“Only the Poem Stays the Same Forever,” Paterson Literary Review; 2011-2012, Issue 39, p. 47
“Impressionism #1,” Louisiana Literature; Vol. 28: Issue 2, 2011, p. 150
“Inherited Memory: Jamaica WI c. 1935,” Louisiana Literature; Vol. 28: Issue 2, 2011, p. 151
“Communion,” Time of Singing; Vol. 38: #1, Spring 2011, p. 15
“The Work My Mother Did,” The Hurricane Review; Vol. I: Issue 8, 2010, p.36
“Why I ♥ Pennsylvania,” Fourth River; Issue 7, Autumn 2010, p. 38
“Hungry For My Island Home,” Plainsong; Vol. XXX: No 1. Fall 2009, p. 31
“What I Gave in Return,” Louisiana Literature; Vol. 25: Issue 2, Fall/Winter 2008, p. 65
“By Fountain’s Edge,” The Hurricane Review; Vol. I: Issue 6, 2008, p. 87
“Eve’s Grief,” Pinyon; Issue 12, Spring 2003, p. 8
“Fire-breathing Poet,” Spindrift; 2003, p. 47
“A Night to Remember,” Paterson Literary Review; 2003, Issue 32, p. 106
“I Get Only Four Hours Sleep These Days,” Princeton Arts Review: Winter 1998, p. 59 https://princetonol.com/groups/artsreview/wright.html
“Ford, Tempo and Time,” Exit 13?
PoetryHeaven:Teacher’sGuide. The1996 GeraldineR.Dodge Poetry Festival.
Adviser to Fooling With Words, Teachers Packet,
Ellen June Wright 
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