Publication Day: America’s Slide Towards Authoritarianism from IHRAM Press

Nancy FlynnApostrophe Blog Archive, Political News, Publication News, Writing

I took the above photograph at the No Kings Rally and March in downtown Portland, Oregon on June 14, 2025. It was one of my favorite signs at the march—after all, we are avid community gardeners! I had previously seen it at the April 5, 2025 Hands Off Rally but did not get a good photograph at the time. It sums up so much about this moment we find ourselves in. Luckily, IHRAM Press and its authors and artists are fighting back. I am one of those authors. As of today, October 1st, IHRAM Press is publishing America’s Slide Towards Authoritarianism, a folio of American and international writers and artists…

 
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Acceptance News: The “Burn It Down” Issue of TrashLight Press

Nancy FlynnApostrophe Blog Archive, Publication News, Writing

My poem, “Rewind, or One More Reminder of Our Long and Ongoing History of Ochlocracy”, has been accepted for publication in the Fall 2025 “Burn It Down” Issue of TrashLight Press. This poem is included in my yet-unpublished chapbook, Postcards of the Hanging. Many of the poems in this manuscript—including this one—were informed by the newspaper articles and editorials collected in 100 Years of Lynching by Ralph Ginzburg, first published in 1962 and re-released by the Black Classic Press in 1988
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Revisiting an Earlier Publication: “Untold Varieties of Potato Make a Poem”

Nancy FlynnApostrophe Blog Archive, Gardening, History Lessons, Publication News, Writing

I have been thinking lately about the myriad ways one can construct a poem in multiple parts. I did exactly that when I wrote Great Hunger, my multi-part poem investigating the intersection of landscape and place as it relates to one ecological and humanitarian disaster, the mid-19th century Irish potato famine that was published by Anchor & Plume Press in Baton Rouge, Louisiana…

 
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Publication News: Two Poems in the Halfway Down the Stairs 20th Anniversary Issue

Nancy FlynnApostrophe Blog Archive, Publication News, Writing

Two of my poems “A Baffling Earth” and “It Ends, It Begins: A Cento” are now online in the lovely September 2025 edition of the literary magazine, Halfway Down the Stairs. The theme of this issue is “Muse” in honor of their twentieth anniversary. In modern usage, a muse is a person who serves as a source of artistic inspiration. Recently, I did a number of poems that are “in conversation” with Emily Dickinson and her work; I guess that makes her my 21st century muse. And the cento form itself is a bit of collage/homage to the voices of other poets who inspired me as well. …

 
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Acceptance News: American Writers Review 2025

Nancy FlynnApostrophe Blog Archive, Publication News, Writing

My poem, “A Long Way Around,” has been accepted for publication in American Writers Review 2025, a publication of San Fedele Press. This year’s collection has the theme of “Buyer’s Remorse.” This poem is in a form called a golden shovel in which the last word of each line is made from each word of pre-existing poem to which the poet is paying homage. It was created by Terrance Hayes whose 2010 poem
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Poem-a-Day Publication at Second Coming

Nancy FlynnApostrophe Blog Archive, Publication News, Writing

My syllabics poem, “Another Catalog of the Ending,” was featured as the poem of the day on August 22, 2025 online at Second Coming. Second Coming is a poem-a-day protest against the threat posed to our democracy by the current occupant of the White House and his fascist regime and is edited by Michael Broder. Second Coming is a project of Indolent Books

 
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The Running List…

Nancy FlynnApostrophe Blog Archive, Publication News, Writing

Here is my (mostly accurate) running life list of my published writing—print and online—in descending chronological order of the year of publication. Sadly, a number of these journals, magazines, and websites are no longer publishing—the fate of so much literary these takes of screen supremacy over words. Still, gratitude to all the venues who continue to put the word out there. Even when the odds (and finances) are against success…

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Acceptance News: Halfway Down the Stairs

Nancy FlynnApostrophe Blog Archive, Publication News, Writing

Two of my poems have been accepted for publication in the September 2025 edition of Halfway Down the Stairs with its theme of “Muse.” Halfway Down the Stairs is (per their website) “a quarterly literary magazine established in 2005 to publish cutting-edge fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by talented writers.  New issues are published every March, June, September, and December.”

 
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Acceptance News: America’s Slide Towards Authoritarianism Anthology

Nancy FlynnApostrophe Blog Archive, Publication News, Writing

My poem, “the pattern of vanishing,” has been accepted for publication in America’s Slide Towards Authoritarianism, the IHRAM Publishes 2025 Rapid Response Anthology. IHRAM stands for the International Human Rights Art Movement and was founded out of artist-activist Tom Block’s passion to use creativity to spur positive social change. According to their website, IHRAM works to “bring together all members of society through our programming…

 
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Don’t Fence Me In!

Nancy FlynnApostrophe Blog Archive, Publication News, Reading, Writing

I was overjoyed to have two of my poems published in the spring/summer 2025 issue of the literary journal, Fence. Maybe it is because the way I feel about poetry—and writing in general—meshes with their raison d’être. From their website:

“Fence is committed to publishing from the outside and the inside of established communities of writing, seeking always to interrogate, collaborate with, and bedevil all the systems that bring new writing to light…

 
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