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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Scapegoat Review Fall 2010 issue out now!

The Fall 2010 issue of Scapegoat Review is out now! Click here to read the issue!
It contains two of my newer, shorter poems: "Three loons perched" and "I tend to leave splinters embedded in my skin".

Posted by John Sibley Williams at 8:00 AM

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About Me

John Sibley Williams: Portland, OR, United States; John Sibley Williams is the author of six chapbooks, winner of the HEART Poetry Award, and finalist for the Pushcart and Rumi Poetry Prizes. He has served as Acquisitions Manager of Ooligan Press and Publicist for Three Muses Press and holds an MFA in Creative Writing and MA in Book Publishing. Some of his over 200 previous or upcoming publications include: Bryant Literary Review, The Chaffin Journal,The Evansville Review, RHINO, Rosebud, Ellipsis, Flint Hills Review, and Poetry Quarterly.

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Education

Portland State University- MA in Book Publishing, 2011
Rivier College- MA in Creative Writing, 2006
University of New York- BA in English/Philosophy, 2004
Middlesex Community College- Associates in Journalism 2002

Publications (magazines/journals)

Marco Polo- "Stone" (FICTION)
The Satirist- "Charity" (FICTION)
The Adroit Journal- "What More Than Swallowing" (FICTION)
Corium Magazine- "The Speed of Progress" (FICTION)
Fast Forward - "Guide to Dissecting the First Bird of Spring" (FICTION)
The Zodiac Review- "One's Own Life" (FICTION)
The Prose Poem - "Guide to Becoming a Mole" (FICTION)
Inkwell Journal - "Always There is a Woman"
The Newer York- "Trunks" (FICTION)
Scythe Literary Journal- 4 poems from Controlled Hallucinations
Istanbul Literary Review- "The Elaborate Hour", "A Tender String", "Psalms", "A Conversation with Janus’ Two Heads", and "Agency"
Cream City Review- "Older Testaments"
Missive- "A Tender String" and "Half-Frozen"
Verse Wisconsin- "Ripples" and "Kansas"
Avatar Review- "The Burning Mirror", "Pavlovian Response", and "In the Closed Room"
Hawai'i Pacific Review- "In the Closed Room"
The Atticus Review- "Let's be moths together"
Moon Milk Review- "I am most defined by this hatred of fire escapes"
Decanto- "Ripples", "The Middle Door", and "Vantage Point"
Subliminal Interiors- "A Different Gravity"
Pipe Dream- "A Different Gravity" and "Rough Edges"
Sugar House Review,- "Neglect"
Curbside Quotidian- "Dream Interpretations"
The Chaffin Journal- "The Voice in the Shell"
Bryant Literary Review- "To Ansel Adams" and "The Propensity for Monologue"
322 Review- "Dream Interpretations" and "Water Hour Variations"
Counterexample Poetics- suite from "Controlled Hallucinations"
Umbrella Factory- "Today's Headlines" and "Dream Sequence"
Espresso Ink- "All Three Dimensions"
IMPROV 2011 Anthology- "From the Center"
Yes, Poetry- "Water Hour Variations" and "A Conversation With Janus' Two Heads"
The Montucky Review- "Priorities"
Cartographer- "Rebuilding Delphi"
The Pinch Literary Journal- "Description of the Sky" *2nd place winner for 2011 Poetry Contest
The Fiddleback- "Abandoned"
The Copperfield Review- "Anachronism", "Following the Thread", and "Sated"
The Nervous Breakdown- "Mantra"
Literary Fever- "I'm Not Sure to Which"
M Review- five poems excerpted from Controlled Hallucinations
MAYDAY- "What is Light" and "The Language of Shadows"
White Whale Review- "Today's Headlines"
Line Zero- "Dream Interpretation"
CRANE- "Breaking & Entering" and "Dream Sequence"
Isles Review of Poetry- "Is there enough"
Blue Fifth Review- "Mantra"
The Unrorean- "Each morning the clock"
491 Magazine- "IV"
Vox Poetica- "Because I Am No Hummingbird"
Epic Rites Press- "Bone"
Taj Mahal Review- "A Strange Place"
Unshod Quills- "Learning to Swim", "Invitation(s)", and "Portrait(s)"
Four and Twenty- "Negative Space" (Poem of the Week) and "Dear Reader"
Spork Press- "To stand", "Green green green", "We've lost the school", "Immersed in the game", and "Let's use the abandoned factory"
Small Doggies- "Certainty", "I fell into the Grand Canyon", "I've chosen to believe", "These hastily made marks", "and "The shutter clicks"
Poetic Matrix- "Origins", "Fine Print", "Attempts", and "Inattention"
The Neglected Ratio- "An Intimate Cannibalism" and "Attempts"
Poets & Artists- "An Intimate Cannibalism" and "Perforated"
Calliope Nerve- section XIX from "The Trouble With Resonance"
Psychic Meatloaf- "Kiss" and "We all arrive by different streets"
Accents Publishing- "Psalm Two" and "Cross, how comfortable you are"
The Henniker Review- "Traveling Through the Rust Belt"
The Delinquent- "The Dead in the Castle" and "I'm Not Sure to Which"
Young American Poets- "Psalm Two"
The Citron Review- "The Dead in the Castle"
Poetry Quarterly- "White Space"
Symmetry Pebbles- "A Conversation With Janus' Two Heads", "Vacancies", and "Do not worry"
BluePrint Review- "Overtures" with accompanying artwork by Staci M. Cole
Five Poetry Journal- "Let's be moths together", "I've been marked", and "A nightingale speaks"
Calliope Nerve- "Don't be late", "The shutter clicks", "That scratching sound", "And each morning", and "I've returned to the abandoned factory"
Red Ochre Lit- "Door", "Gambler(s)", "The Middle Door", "Secret(s)", and "Door"
Barnwood International- "Don't worry"
Anemone Sidecar- "When I go there" and "We all arrive by different streets"
amphibi.us- "I Say I Sing"
The Oklahoma Review- "March 4th" and "In the Hills of San Luis Obispo County I Go Down"
vox poetica- "Vantage Point" along with mp3 recording
Nostalgia Press- "Icelandic Church"- winner of the 2011 Heart Poetry Prize
Nostalgia Press- "Motionless from the Iron Bridge"
Connotation Press- "Plumage"
Scribble- "Equinox"
Grey Sparrow Press- "The Eroding Hourglass", "Communion", and "Procession"
O Sweet Flowery Roses- "I'm Not Sure to Which" and "What is Light"
RHINO- "Away"
Munyori Literary Review- "A Village South of the River", "Hymn Similar to Yesterday’s", "Rails West", "Baltic Covenant", and "Aegean Melancholy"
Blue Lake Review- "Following the Thread"
Carcinogenic Poetry- "Who will lay flowers", "I cannot keep this poem", and "The Rhetoric of Silence"
Caper Literary Journal- "At Exactly Three" and "I tend to leave splinters"
Heavy Hands Ink- "A Strange Place"
Word Salad- "Two Rivers"
Cirque- "Sleepless Harbor"
322 Review- "The Nort Sea"
Exercise Bowler- "The Torch"
Ken*again- "Varied Views From the No. 49 Tram" and "The Dead in the Castle"
Psychic Meatloaf- "Invitation(s)", "Portrait(s)", and "Flight"
Tertulia Magazine- "Acolyte", "Reykjavik", "It is Midnight. I am Here."
Portland Alliance- "At Daybreak" and "Revolution"
Scapegoat Review- "Three loons perched" and "I tend to leave splinters"
LEVELER Poetry Journal- "Some Notes Beginning With Winter"
Rosebud- "Beneath the long shadows of crosses and crows"
The Houston Literary Review- "Reykjavik" and "A Strange Place"
20 Minutes in Portland anthology- "The Face Upon Which Faces Appear"
Third Wednesday- "Portrait of My Grandmother" and "Baltic Covenant"
Other Rooms- "Tonight I have finally broken the spines"
Tipton Poetry Journal- "Et Cetera"
The Scrambler- "Equniox"
Willows Wept Review- "Winter", "Rebuilding Over and Again", "South Texas Shadow", and "Baptismal"
Tuesday: An Art Project- "Cutting Along the Edges"
Now Culture- "Answering Where?"
Naugatuck River Review- "At Thirteen"
Gloom Cupboard- "Cross to City"
Sleet Magazine- "Cross, how comfortable you are"
The Furnace Review- "Manners of Distortion"
Blue Moon Literary and Art Review- "Two Rivers" and "Equinox"
Cutthroat- "A Sign on the Road"
Spectrum- "I Say I Sing"
Literary Tonic- "Not Even Names"
The Heartland Review- "Historic Scenes"
The Chaffey Review- "A Pure River"
Mad Swirl- "I Say I Sing"
Verdad Magazine- "November"
Eclectica Magazine- "Kansas"
Offcourse Literary Journal- "Historic Scenes", "Farmer's Almanac", "Blissful Democracy", and "Waking to a Strange Letter" via http://offcourse.org
The November 3rd Club- "Common Enemies" via http://www.november3rdclub.com.
Four and Twenty- "Invitation(s) via http://4and20poetry.com
Euphony- "It Is Not You" via http://euphonyjournal.com
Ellipsis- "Psalm One" via http://www.westminstercollege.edu/ellipsis/index.cfm?parent=7563&detail=8929
Counterexample Poetics- "Timepiece" at http://www.counterexamplepoetics.com/
Unfettered Verse- "Kafka", "Keep Driving", "Surely I'm Convinced" at http://unfetteredverse.blogspot.com/
Bijou Poetry Review- "Bottle(s)" at http://bijoupoetryreview.blogspot.com/
The Write Room- "Somewhere Over the Vltava", "Graffiti", and "Judgment!Judgment!" at http://thewriteroom.wordpress.com
Boston Poet Journal- "From the Sumner Tunnel", "Infidelities", "Judgment!Judgment!", "In the Wilderness Between", "In Peacetime", "A Bridge of Sorts", "Farmer’s Almanac", "Driving Nebraska", and "Three Carpenters" available soon at www.bostonpoet.com
Wildnerness House Literary Review- "Everyone is Cold, Sometimes", "Artificial Light", and "An Aftermath" early January at www.whlreview.com
Tertulia Magazine- "Foreigner", "Accents", "Mother Tongue", "Hymn Similar to Yesterday's", and "Elegy of Rope" available Dec. 2009 at www.tertuliamagazine.com
Amarillo Bay- "A Sign on the Road" available soon at www.amarillobay.org
Seven Cirlces Press- " Accident Of Clouds", " Village South Of The River" and "A Song Without Music" available in print Feb 2010 and online soon at www.sevencirclespress.com
New Verse News- "I'm Reading Sunday's Headlines" available at newversenews.blogspot.com.
Folly Magazine- 'March 4th" at www.follymag.com
Mad Poets Review- "Infidelities" available in print Fall 2009
Stirring- "Confessional Hymns" available at www.sundress.net/stirring
Pure Francis- "Power Outage" available this Winter at www.purefrancis.org.
San Pedro River Review- "Black and White" available in print Fall 2009
Third Wednesday- "Silent in Hand" available in print Fall 2009
Wild Goose Poetry Review- "A Handkerchief Waving" available Oct. '09 at www.wildgoosepoetryreview.com
Poet's Ink- "Hypotheticals" in September at poetsink.com
Other Rooms- "Gregor Samsa" soon at otherroomspress.blogspot.com
Open Letters- "Surely I'm Convinced" January 2010 at http://openlettersmonthly.com.
Silenced Pres- "The Art of Raining" at http://silencedpress.com
River Poems Anthology Chapbook- "Two Hometowns on the Same River" due in print later 2009
River Poets Journal- "Reunion" upcoming at http://www.riverpoetsjournal.com
Hawaii Review- "This Other Island" upcoming in 2009 print edition
Aries- "Foreigner" upcoming in 2009 print edition
Literary Bohemian- "Icelandic Horses" coming August 2009 at www.literarybohemian.com
Concho River Review- "Keep Driving" coming Spring 2010
The Shine Journal- "Flowers" at http://theshinejournal.com
Arlington Literary Review- "Distant Vacation", "The Day Before", and "From Under a Sari" at http://www.arlijo.com.
Wilderness House Literary Review- "Walk With Me Now" and "No Fire Left to Ravage" at http://www.whlreview.com
Red Wheelbarrow- "Lullaby of the Spider" in 2009 print edition
Desert Voices- "In the Western Night" and "Preparing for Fire" can be found in print and at http://pages.paloverde.edu/staff/desertvoices/desertvoices.pdf
Glass: A Journal of Poetry- "And Then Like a Saber" can be found Aug. 2009 at http://www.glass-poetry.com
Illogical Muse- "I Dream a Horse" can be found soon at http://www.geocities.com/illogicalmuse
Illogical Muse- "As Summer Sinks Over Erlauf Lake" is Poem of the Week at http://www.geocities.com/illogicalmuse
Poetic Diversity- "For Federico Garcia Lorca" can be found Aug. 2009 at www.poeticdiversity.org
Lines + Stars- "In the Wilderness Between" can be found June 2009 at www.linesandstars.com
Paradigm- 'Still the World" can be found soon at http://www.paradigmjournal.com
Amarillo Bay- "Stillborn Calf" and "Idaho, Moments After Sunset" can soon be found at http://www.amarillobay.org
The November Third Club- "Poetry is Dead, Says the Poet" can be found at www.november3rdclub.com
Language and Culture- "For Federico Garcia Lorca" can be found Dec. 2009 at languageandculture.net
Nibble- "Winter" can be found in upcoming print edition and on http://nibblepoems.wordpress.com
Verdad- "As Summer Sinks Over Erlauf Lake" and "Hostel Room on Sofokleous Street" can be found soon at verdadmagazine.org
Southwestern American Literature- "Escalante Bat Hymn"- Fall 2009 print edition
White Whale Review- "A Kind of Loss", "Songs and Visions", and "Rainy Season" can be found soon at http://www.whitewhalereview.com
Miranda Literary Magazine- "Strangers on a Beach", "Between the Sand and the Wooden Planks", "An Incomplete Picture of Weather", and "An Experience With Metals" can be found soon at http://mirandamagazine.com
The Oklahoma Review- "South Texas Shadow" and "Badlands" can be found at http://www.cameron.edu/okreview
Sangam Literary Magazine- "Post-Fire" can be found Fall 2009 at http://www.sangammagazine.com
Clapboard House- "Railyard at Rest", "Baptismal", and "Variations on a New Dam" can be found at http://clapboardhouse.wordpress.com/about-the-house/john-sibley-williams/
ken*again- "Palace Gardens", "Don't Fear", and "The Poem Tells Us Death" can be found summer 2009 at http://kenagain.freeservers.com.
Munyori Literary Review- "On Footprints", "On These Warmer Nights of Sleepwalking", "National Anthem", "Oia Sequence", "Little Sun, Pinpricked Night" can be found at www.munyori.com
Poet's Ink- "Stone Sagas" can be found at http://www.poetsink.com
The Evansville Review- "Et Cetera"
Seven Circles Press- "Bonfires", "A Train to the Coast", "Those Washed By the Sea", "A Night's Song for Lake Traunsee" can be found at http://www.sevencirclepress.com/johnsibleywilliams.htm
Barnwood International Poetry- "Left Hand" & "For Federico Garcia Lorca" can be found at http://web.mac.com/tomkoontz/Site_26/Williams.html
Ghoti Magazine- "Autism" & "Upon Looking Up at Kahlo’s Unos Cuantos Piquetitos, She Just Hung Over Our Bed" http://www.ghotimag.com
The Journal- "Stone Sagas" & "Autumn Rain"
Southern Ocean Review- "Icelandic" can be found at http://www.arts.org.nz/jsw.htm
Third Wednesday- "A Brief Respite"
Flutter Poetry Journal- "Six Fires" can be found at http://www.freewebs.com/rarepetal/williamsoct08.htm
River Oak Review- "Winter Sequence, Santorini"
Juked- "Skyscraper" can be found at http://www.juked.com/2008/08/skyscraper.asp
Private Poetry Line (via CA State Poetry Society)- "Kafka" & "Danube"
Flint Hills Review- "Confessional Hymns"
Cherry Blossom Review- "I Dream a Horse"
Cadillac Cicatrix- "Kafka"
Blue Fog Poetry Journal- "Moving as One" can be found at http://bluefogjournal.com/Past_Issue/NamasteFiji_PoetryAnthology.pdf
Ampersand Poetry Journal- "In My Darkest", "Backup Singers", "Yours is the Shadow", "A Simple Prayer" can be found at http://www.ampersand-poetry.org/ under Spring 2008
Poetic Diversity- "Echoes Across Sand" can be found at http://www.poeticdiversity.org/main/poets2.php?nameCode=john%20sibleywilliams
Wild Goose Poetry Review- "The Deer Under My Porch"
Tertulia Magazine- "Rebuilding Over and Again" can be found at http://www.tertuliamagazine.com/published_articles.php?news_id=69&start=0&category_id=3&parent_id=3&arcyear=2007&arcmonth=10
Phantasmagoria- "The Smell of Free Sky"
Collected Stories- "The German Board" {FICTION} can be found at http://collectedstories.com/files/storytime/germanboard.html
Raving Dove- "Sandswept" {FICTION} can be found at http://ravingdove.org/j.s.williamsfallwin06-07
Red Hawk Review- "To Speak Gray"
Hot Metal Press- "Danube", "This Me", Reflections", "Blank Canvass" & "Such Murmurs" can be found at http://www.hotmetalpress.net/JohnWilliams.html
Language and Culture- "Ganges Verse" can be found at http://languageandculture.net/gallery-summer-fall-2006.html
Typically Unusual- "Crocodile Tears" & "An Empty Pillow"
Black Rock & Sage- "Ramblings From a Strange Mexican Morn'"
Main Channel Voices- "Echoes Across Sand"
The Leaflett- "Floating Ashes"
Voices- "Camel Lights" {FICTION}
The Alembic- "While I Slept" & "Morning Train"
Samizdada- "Unraveling" {FICTION} can be found at http://www.samizdada.com/2007/04/02/unraveling/
The Furnace Review- "Manners of Distortion"
Third Wednesday- "Portrait of My Grandmother" and "Baltic Covenant"

Affiliations

Ooligan Press
Three Muses Press
HoboEye
Pacific Northwest Writers Association
Moonlit Poetry Caravan
Poets & Writers
Poetry Society of America
Academy of American Poets
Stone Soup Poets
New England Poetry Club
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