Three poems at Mojave Heart Review

The November issue of Mojave Heart Review includes three of my poems. Each gets its own link, plus the bio: 

”distracting accomplishments burn in palm trees” 
”feeling this occasion’s context” 
”the making of each thoughtful aim” 

my bio!

Previously Published: a rejection horror story at Submittable

Submittable is a software program that handles submissions for literary magazines and arts organizations. Mid-October Submittable put out a call for Rejection Horror Stories, promising to post their favorites on their blog.

I wrote up a story that's haunted me for at least 15 years. The folks at Submittable liked it (or it scared them). Here's a link (scroll down; it's the fourth piece on the page):

Submittable 2018 Halloween Rejection Horror feature includes "Previously Published"

“Yes” at Quiet Lightning

The video features me performing the poem “Yes” during Quiet Lightning’s May 7, 2018 event at StudioToBe in Oakland. If the video doesn't appear above you can click through and watch on youtube. 

At each reading Quiet Lightning gives away a magazine called Sparkle and Blink that includes all the work performed on that date. If you go, you get a copy free. Often there are back issues for sale, too. I have picked up several that way. 

“Yes” originally published in the magazine, Askew.

“Live Here” at Mary: a journal of new writing

The Spring 2018 issue of Mary: a journal of new writing features: 

Live Here

Two poems at Courtship of Winds

Two poems in the Summer 2018 Courtship of Winds. 

Follow the link above to read 
“Rooted” 
“My Role in History”

Two poems at Visitant

The first poem posted in June: 
The Rarity of Snakes 

 The second posted in July: 
You Have to Look Through

Two poems at First Literary Review - East

The March 2018 issue features: 
loyal to the unadjusted just 
The poem appears near the bottom of the page. 

The July/August issue features: 
a wind picks up a hymn afloat upon one stem of flame 
You have to scroll all the way down the page. My poem is second from the bottom.

“The Homefront” at Crack the Spine

“The Homefront,” a poem written during the Iraq invasion back in 2003, found a place in Crack the Spine, an online magazine, issue 231:

”The Homefront”

My thanks to the editors.

Autobiography of a Book: 3 excerpts at Hawai’i Pacific Review

Autobiography of a Book is a book talking itself into existence. Every word is part of the book’s body; this is the book’s life. 

Three excerpts from the manuscript have been published in Hawai’i Pacific Review:

in which the book reviews its positions

in which the book, awake at last, revisits other readers

in which the book asserts a certain capability and exercises it

3 poems in Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine

Three poems appear in Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, issue #9, Fall/Winter 2018. 

Follow the link above and advance to pages 38 through 42 to read

“Sleep, my darling”

“The Elephant”

“I would like you to go now”

5 poems in Dodging the Rain

Five poems appear in the Irish ezine Dodging the Rain.

Follow the link above to read

“universal agent of slight chaos”

“understanding equivalent difference, its happy goodbye”

“trying to dust the light off an inner stone”

“I write on enlightened dice”

“sailing in on little tips of white knives”

My thanks to H. D. Moe for the titles.

iPad and fleas

Has anybody else noticed that when a flea jumps onto the glass face of an iPad the flea has a hard time jumping off?

That it is then pretty easy to crush the flea with a fingernail?

At first I thought it was just when the iPad was on, but the unpowered iPad seems to be a good flea trap too.

Ten poems found in the UC Berkeley library database

Back when I was a student at the University of California at Berkeley I crafted a series of poems using lists of titles I generated from searches of the library database. In the last year I got them out again, worked over some, and sent many back out into the literary world. 

This winter/spring two ezines posted poems from the series. 

Zombie Logic put these five up in March:

“The Dance”

“Could That Really Be Me?”

“Above the human landscape”

“Under a mantle of blue”

and

“We are all so interdependent that every action by each one of us affects in some way or other the welfare and destiny of the rest”

And Disappointed Housewife offered these in April:

“Love is”

“We were free”

“To you”

“They were number one”

“Important Questions”

Can I say, I love the names of these zines? 

Eleven poems

Eleven poems posted at three ezines in January. Ten of the poems are from a series I informally call “The Moe Poems” as I titled the poems after lines snipped from the poems of H. D. Moe, a longtime Bay Area poet whose poems fascinate and exasperate me. The poems themselves were written without reference to Moe’s work. I only thought his lines would interact fruitfully with mine after I’d already written mine. I wrote these poems in 2016, the initial versions at least. Revisions were somewhat influenced by H. D. Moe, mostly in that I used his inventiveness as goad to push myself further. The other poem is from another series, a batch of poems I built from titles I found in the database of the UC Berkeley library back when I as a student employee there in 1992 - 93. 

Five from the Moe Poems appear in Mannequin Haus, issue 10.2 (see under Glenn Ingersoll):

“mistaken for its own virginity”
“feel velvet before it becomes felt”
“heapbig approximate paradox gypsy of the rain”
“your light bulb in the egg-beat of a telephone crocodile”
“a waterfall that thinks it’s machine”

Five more from the Moe Poems appear in The Opiate. Each gets its own link, its own page, and its own image. The images were all chosen by editor Genna Rivieccio. She didn’t preview the images for me so I got to be surprised. Friends have said they think she chose well.

“needled into wanting”
“where cliffs are books, their titles deep in the mountains”
“fucked hollow by green banana dollars”
”we’re always new, impossibly repeating”
”life expands up to its panda bear”

And finally there’s the UC Berkeley library found poem which appears in the January issue of Neologism Poetry Journal:

“I Saw You from Afar”

brass bell haiku includes haiku by Glenn Ingersoll

Brass Bell Haiku is a haiku ezine formatted like a blog. Editor Zee Zahava publishes a new issue every month or so. Zahava announces a theme then chooses from what is sent her. She never publishes more than one haiku per poet. I think she may publish one haiku by every poet who offers work; if so, she has a pretty high calibre of contributor. 

I got my first haiku in brass bell in 2015’s November issue on the theme “Morning”:

I wash my morning bowl over last night's dishes

*

The theme for the May 2016 issue was “Small Things” and included this one of mine:

the huge black bee

comes back in the window

I didn't close

*

The September 2016 issue was “Kitchen” and included this one by me:

sweeping broken bowl into cracked dustpan

*

Each of the above haiku were written after Zahava’s call for poems. I did also send along poems written at other times, but she only was going to include one, and the one she chose was one that happened to be fresh. The theme for the October 2016 issue, on the other hand, was all about  freshness. The theme: “September 22, 2016,” that is, the haiku had to have been written on that date. Here Zehava picked:

back from vacation

a voicemail message

what's my password

I have a haiku in the next issue, which will be posting on December 1st, I believe. The theme is “Homeplace.” I will give her first dibs on exposing the ‘ku to the world. 

Futures Trading 4.2 contains two poems by Glenn Ingersoll

The literary ezine Futures Trading 4.2 includes two of my poems, “The Idea” and “Because a man stood up for human rights!”

--ah: anthology of American Haiku, edited by Jonathan Hayes & Richard Lopez

contains four haiku by Glenn Ingersoll -- get yours today!

Ivanka Trump for Supreme Court

Respectfully submitted to President-elect Donald J. Trump:

9 reasons for nominating to the Supreme Court Ivanka Trump!

1) Because Ivanka is a woman. You just beat a woman in the election so women are feeling a little tetchy. If you nominate a woman to the Supreme Court you will get a lot of credit. Women will love you. She is post-feminist, that is, nobody will use the word feminist around her but everyone will clearly see that she is a strong, independent woman, which will show up the feminists. Women will love you

.

2) Because you trust Ivanka. You don’t want to pick some old dude from a list pushed in your face by people who claim to know better. You want somebody who will treat your concerns seriously in the context of the present, not somebody who has some inflexible ideology to push. Who knows what business you will have before the Supreme Court? Best to get someone there you have no doubts about.

3) Because Ivanka is smart. Ivanka graduated cum laude from the Wharton School. She will be able to talk to the old farts on the Supreme Court and talk back to lawyers who think they can put something past her.

4) Because Ivanka is post-partisan. Like Obama, but blonde and more right. She has thrown fundraisers for both Republican and Democratic candidates. Ivanka is friends with Chelsea, as everyone knows. Ivanka will garner support from both sides of this divided nation. 

5) Because Ivanka is beautiful. You will be looking right down at the Supreme Court justices when you give your state of the union address and you know how ugly they are. Imagine what a relief it will be to see that bright face, even with its natural wattage dimmed slightly to emphasize the importance of the occasion. 

6) Because Ivanka is young. You need to cement your legacy. If you choose some old dude he will croak in just a few decades. Ivanka, being female and young, will outlast any other Supreme Court pick. You want somebody on the court who can watch out for your interests far into the future. Besides, it can’t hurt to elevate a member of the Millennials, the largest generation since the Baby Boom. Young people will love you for it. 

7) Because this pick is transformative. Your supporters want you to drain the swamp. They want you to shake things up. When George W. tried to nominate that old lady in his pocket, Harriet Miers, the Senate Republicans wouldn’t even give her a hearing. But you ran against that sort of high-and-mighty think-they-know-better stuff. Just remind Mitch McConnell that you won the election and you have a mandate and didn’t he notice that the Republicans actually lost seats in the Senate so he needs to back a winner. This is a real winner. Ivanka is not beholden to old Washington and ivy league elites; she’s not up to her waist in the Washington mire. Ivanka is clean. Very clean and shiny. 

8) Because Ivanka is Jewish. There are enough Catholics on the Supreme Court already. 

9) Because you know it’s a great idea. You pride yourself on finding the best people. There could be no one better than Ivanka Trump for the Supreme Court. 

BlazeVOX #16, which includes 4 Ingersoll poems + pwoermds

  BlazeVOX16 - Spring 16 by Geoffrey Gatza

Published Poems 2015

poem: a haiku

whole poem: “sun on one ear / tuning the / ukulele”

written: TBD

publication: tiny words, issue 15.1, 14 April 2015

link

online

editors: Kathe Palka & Peter Newton

some other contributors: Billy Collins, Michael Dylan Welch, Dave Read, Don Wentworth

poem: five haiku

poem one first line: “at Rose & Spruce / the STOP sign”

poem two first line: “with a knife / you could dig another heart”

poem three first line: “raven croak / touch of class”

poem four first line: “bush daisies / lemons”

poem five first line: “sun behind his head”

written: TBD

publication: Berkeley Times, vol.5 no.19, Aug 13, 2015

PO Box 559

Berkeley CA 94701

editor@berkeleyx.org

editor: R. Todd Kerr

some other contributors: Alan Bern, Mary C. McCarthy, Julia Vinograd, Sharon Coleman

poem: a one-line morning haiku 

whole poem: “I wash my morning bowl over last night's dishes”

written: 2015

publication: Brass Bell: a haiku journal, 01 November 2015

link

online

editor: Zee Zahava

some other contributors: Alan Bern, Alan Catlin, Dave Read, Ana Drobot

poem: a haiku

first line: “a little bitter”

written: 2015

publication: Hedgerow: a journal of small poems, no. 55, Nov 13, 2015

editor: Caroline Skanne

link

online

some other contributors: Anna Cates, Christine L. Villa, Ken Sawitri, Sabine Miller


[This post will be continuously updated until I have organized my archives and the list is complete. I will be creating a separate blog post for each year. Contact information for publications is for historical purposes only.]