One of my sonnets, “2025.01,” has just been published in the second issue of The Alexander Review (if you scroll down, my poem is sixth down or you can “ctrl+f” “Bradley J. Fest” or “2025.01”). But this may be my strangest publication ever because I am not sure that the journal is real.[1]
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“2025.15” in Abundance Literary Magazine
Delighted to have a new sonnet from my ongoing series, “2025.15,” in the third issue of Abundance Literary Magazine (my poem is the second one in). Thanks to Yeiri Farias and the other editors for including my work.
“2025.13–14” in Dazed Santa
Happy to have a multisonnet, “2025.13–14,” in Dazed Santa (a very cool new little journal) that I wrote on my (very rare!) recent return to Tucson, Arizona in November reflecting a bit on the half of my life I have now spent away from there and what it means to return. Thanks to the Emma Grey Rose, Jeff Edwards, and Melinda Snyder for publishing!
“2026.01” in As of Fire: Poets and Pentecost (Bainbridge Island Press)
Another sonnet from the third volume of my ongoing sequence, “2026.01,” was just published in As of Fire: Poets and Pentecost, edited by Tamarah Rockwood and published by Bainbridge Island Press.
“2025.02,” “2025.04,” “2025.05–06,” “2025.07,” and “2025.11” in Other Rooms Press
And lo, today is one of those great good days in which I have two publications. “2025.02,” “2025.04,” “2025.05–06” (p. 2), “2025.07,” and “2025.11,” some of my most recent sonnets that most directly comment on this moment we find ourselves living through, just came out in Other Rooms Press. Here‘s a page that gathers the poems together (and then right click the images and open them into new tab so you can zoom in) or else click on the individual poem links above.
“2023.20” in The Colby Review
“2023.20” (also here), one of the last unpublished sonnets from the second volume of my ongoing sonnet sequence, is in the inaugural issue of The Colby Review. Thanks so much to Zach Peckham and the student editors of the journal for including my work.
“2025.12” in bethh
Cleaver Issue 49 Contributors Reading
To make up for missing the issue 48 Contributors Reading because I was sick, Cleaver has kindly asked me to read for their issue 49 Contributors Reading.
On Sunday, April 27, 2025 from 7:00–8:30 p.m. (EST) via Zoom, I’ll be reading “2023.32,” recently published in issue 48 of Cleaver, along with other contributors to issue 49: Sarah C. Baldwin, Brian Benson, Andrea Bishop, Lisa K. Buchanan, John Calderazzo, Jocelyn Jane Cox, Adam Doniger, Jeff Friedman, Vicki Mayk, Ess Pokornowski, Rachel Talbot, Matt Thomas, Gretta Trafficante, and Robyn Wheelock.
You can register for the reading here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/r3sThAH-R7K8aLsV_SNYEw.
Update June 2, 2025
A recording of the reading is now available on YouTube. I’m the first reader:
“2022.07,” “2022.08–09,” “2022.10,” “2023.17–18,” and “2023.19” in Lothlorien Poetry Journal
It’s been a dark week, so a tiny ray of something else: more sonnets from my ongoing sequence, “2022.07,” “2022.08–09,” “2022.10,” “2023.17–18,” and “2023.19,” are in Lothlorien Poetry Journal. Thanks to Strider Marcus Jones for taking these!
Cleaver Issue 48 Contributors Reading
UPDATE: I’m recovering from a nasty flu and won’t be able to make the reading tonight.
On Sunday, February 2 from 7:00–8:30 p.m. (EST) via Zoom, I’ll be reading “2023.32,” recently published in issue 48 of Cleaver, along with other contributors to the issue: David Lydon-Staley, Christopher David Rosales, Tracie Adams, Sinclair Cabocel, Eden Royce, Connor Fisher, Jeff Gabel, Coleman Bigelow, Jeffrey G. Moss, Krista Puttler, Herman Beavers, and Kiely Todd Roska.
You can register for the reading here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/mSovtLTCRmmjkSMqEZkqFg#/registration.
The Hyperarchival Parallax 
