Joanne Merriam » Publications

The hundred hidden chickadees

joannemerriam — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:58:30 +0000

“Larix laracina Anaphora” was just accepted for The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VI: Tennessee (Texas Review Press, 2013)!

Also! My short story “Facial Deficits” just appeared in PANK 6. I’m unusually proud (some would say smug) about this story, which is about a woman who gets a face transplant. It’s not one of my speculative stories—this is a real surgery, though very few of them have been done (two, in the USA, when I was researching the story). My day job is in academic otolaryngology, and I happened to be asked to escort one of the doctors involved in the first Cleveland Clinic surgery when he was visiting our campus to give a talk, and I asked him about it (some would say grilled) and then did a ton of research at PubMed and ended up condensing all of that into maybe 300 words in the story.

piteous recognition in fixed eyes

joannemerriam — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:32:09 +0000

My cento “Whose Tongue is the Wind’s Tongue?” just appeared in the Electronica issue of Cordite Poetry Review.

Settler’s Song

joannemerriam — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:09:49 +0000

Podcast journal StarShipSofa 208 contains my poem “Settler’s Song” at 1:19:25.

a multitude of daggers

joannemerriam — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:21:59 +0000

My ebook “A Multitude of Daggers” is now available on Amazon!

It’s a Kindle edition only for now. Once I finish working out the kinks for epub I’ll put that up too, and add vendors (Apple istore, B&N, etc.). I’m having a few technical difficulties with my process for epub which I expect to straighten out by November. This is by way of testing my books and the various vendors before I publish other people’s work for Upper Rubber Boot Books.

It’s a fantasy novella set in a world where the ruling class can fly and the afterlife is real—and it’s a giant therapist’s office, run by the Boatman from my short story “The Boatman” (I really need to pick less obvious titles sometimes) and Greek mythology. A half-blind goddess with a devilish sense of humour basically effs up the life of another goddess’ acolyte to try to avert the war that’s brewing people the people who can fly and the people who can’t. The first 2 1/2 chapters are available for free in the “look inside this book” feature.

the angle to tip an oar and tear through it

joannemerriam — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:03:09 +0000

Riddle Fence just accepted my poem “Getting Wet from Head to Toe” for their November issue! They published “The Hotel” awhile ago, and do a really beautiful job on the physical object of the journal with artwork and design and paper quality all beautifully balanced (as well as of course publishing genius work, present company perhaps excluded).

ETA: Riddle Fence is also publishing “Underfoot on Barrington Street”! Rock awesome.

long I stayed alone with the corpse

joannemerriam — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:28:24 +0000

My poem “Whose Tongue is the Wind’s Tongue?” will be in the December issue—36: Electronic(a)—of Cordite Poetry Review. Cordite pushes the boundaries in ways that few other journals do, and I really respect and admire their efforts, so I’m particularly pleased that they’ve accepted this poem, a cento* (or poetry mash-up) that I wrote back in 2008 after this conversation.

*From the Latin for “patchwork,” says the Academy of American Poets, not something to do with “hundred” as I would have expected.

loon cries

joannemerriam — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:38:07 +0000

The August issue of Four and Twenty is up, with one of my short poems in it.

bumblebee

joannemerriam — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:31:34 +0000

The Furnace Review has published my very short poem “Bumblebee.”

loon calls over the water

joannemerriam — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:30:02 +0000

This weekend has been kind of insanely productive. I’ve been hard at work on stuff relating to starting my publishing company, Upper Rubber Boot Books, and publishing a best-of-type anthology of work from Seven by Twenty, for several months now, and this weekend I finished a bunch of related tasks, notably getting an EIN, updating my spreadsheet of the 140 pieces I’ve asked for with info about who has sent me their contracts, and finishing a short video for a Kickstarter appeal – this is mostly notable because I know nothing about making videos and figured out how to make a stop-motion video. It was fun and interesting, but man am I glad to be done. I’ll of course be posting here when it goes up.

In other news, Four and Twenty: Short Form Poetry just accepted one of my haiku for their August 2011 issue. Sweet.

bragging on my Dad

joannemerriam — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:12:01 +0000

The July-August 2011 issue of Home Shop Machinist has my Dad Peter Merriam’s article “Digital Camera to Microscope Adapter” in it.