Shannon Swearingen Gabriel
Publications
COMING SOON FROM ALTERNATING CURRENT PRESS
“The Women Who Carried the Water”
Coming soon in the anthology We’ve Always Done It!: Poems About Wartime Women from Alternating Current Press.
BEYOND WORDS
“Why I’m Not a Morning Person”
Issue 59, available in print now. This poem was one of four winners of Beyond Words‘ creative writing contest!
NEW: LAST LEAVES MAGAZINE
“Self-Portrait at Thirty-Three”
Issue 10, available on Amazon and as a free download.
Talking river review
“On the Way to Midway International Airport”
Issue 57, available for purchase now.
“Remember—just a mile west are the greenest fields, your emergency exit. / You can make your own peace.”
—from “Instructions for Staying Put,” Boats Against the Current Issue II
“Gaze out over the miles of rotting white fences / and desolate barns dotting your mothers’ lands / as the sun sets over your roots.”
—from “Lewis County,” samfiftyfour Issue X
“But the wildflowers were real, and even / in this merciless summer I know / I can still find what I’ve been searching for.”
—from “Holding On,” Thimble Literary Magazine Vol. 6 No. 4
