My poem, New Arrival, was published this morning at Every Day Poets. It’s pretty short, so even if you don’t usually think you like poetry, it might be worth popping over for a read anyway. Ya know, not that I’m biased or anything 😉
Category Archives: Poetry
I write poetry — sometimes it’s even pretty good. Anything poetry related will be under this section :)
Sale: Choice
My zombie poem, Choice, has been accepted for publication in issue #3 of Disturbed Digest (a relatively new publication edited by Terrie Leigh Relf). Issue #3 is due out this December so I look forward to pointing you toward it again then. 🙂
Sale: The Grotesque
Good news! My poem, The Grotesque, has been accepted for the April 2014 issue of Bete Noire magazine. I am especially fond of this poem and ecstatic to have it find a home with Bete Noire as they have treated me well in the past.
Whoot!
Published: My Whole World
My poem, My Whole World, was published yesterday at Every Day Poets. I really like this piece and I don’t seem to be alone in that, the star rating and comments have been pretty positive so far. Pop over and take a peek, you might just like it too 😉
Sale: Patchwork Quilt
Recognize this picture? It’s of the patchwork quilt my mother made me when I was very young. I blogged about it a while back, talking about how much I loved it, how old it was getting and the remarkable coincidence that Jo’s family tartan appears in it. At the time I blogged about it I thought that, no matter how much I loved it, it was time to throw it away. I was wrong. Since then I have actually started taking the quilt apart, stitch by stitch to save it and turn it into something else. Since the passing of my mother, especially, it has been made clear to me that I definitely made the right decision.
I also wrote a poem about this quilt entitled (creatively enough) Patchwork Quilt. Patchwork quilt has just been accepted for inclusion in the summer issue of Westward Quarterly.
Long live the quilt! 😉
Sale: New Arrival & Mary Lee
Have I mentioned that Every Day Poets has become one of my favourite markets? One of the many reasons for that is it doesn’t require me to classify my poetry according to genre and since more and more I’m writing pieces that aren’t speculative, that is a lifesaver.
Last week I received notification that two more of my poems have been accepted for future publication at Every Day Poets (One speculative and one not). New Arrival and Mary Lee will be coming soon to EDP. You can be sure I’ll keep you updated on that 😉
Fuck It
I’m revising and transcribing poems from my April Poem a Day notebook onto my computer to send out. The prompt for Day Fourteen was “A Sonnet”.
I don’t love sonnets, I find iambic pentameter awkward and just not my favourite. That being said, I’ve written a couple I was pretty pleased with… but not this April. The top of my page for that day says “Day Fourteen — A Sonnet” It is then followed by two and a half pages of things that have been written and then scribbled out. And then, finally, the poem I ended up with this:
Fuck It
I’m supposed to write a sonnet
but my pen doesn’t know how.
It keeps inking haiku,
limericks and jokes (low-brow).I’m supposed to write a sonnet,
that is fourteen lines long
but all of my rhymes
are far too sing-song.I’m supposed to write a sonnet
minding rhythm and feet
but it’s not going to happen
so I might as well cheat.I’m supposed to write a sonnet,
but I wrote this instead.
It made me lawl so I thought I’d share it. I hope no one was offended by the profanity.
Ya know, one day I’m going to self-pub a book full of my bad poetry and give it away. Just for the hell of it.
Sale: Hold This Camel
Back at the beginning of April, when I was doing the April Poem a Day Challenge, I tweeted this:
When given the poetry prompt ‘Hold that _____’ my first thought was camel. Yup. Hold that camel. I wanna write that poem. *thinking*
— Rhonda Parrish (@RhondaParrish) April 9, 2013
Well, today I’m ridiculously pleased to announce that my poem, “Hold This Camel” has been accepted for publication by The Germ. This is a new market for me and I’m very much looking forward to this poem’s publication in their autumn issue due out in September.
Published: Alien Skin Creme
My poem, Alien Skin Creme, was published today at Every Day Poets. If you’re intrigued but the title (c’mon, you are, right?) then you ought to check it out. I wrote the first draft of this one as part of April poem a day last year and am especially pleased with how it turned out.
Published: The Day After
My poem, The Day After, is up at Napalm and Novocain 🙂
Sale: My Whole World
Yay! My poem, My Whole World, has been accepted for publication by Every Day Poets. I’m not sure when it will be out, but I am really, really looking forward to sharing this one. It’s a completely non-speculative piece I wrote as a part of the 2011 November poem-a-day challenge but only got around to revising last year and I adore it 🙂
