Selected Publications
--last updated October 2016--
Suggested Reading:
As Falls Trees - Elohi Gadugi (Winter 2016 - The Coming Storm themed issue) http://egjournal.org/article/as-falls-trees/
Invasive - Route 7 Review (Issue 4, 2016) http://www.joomag.com/magazine/route-7-review/0058147001455911208?short
Night Spaces – Cordite (AU) Obsolete theme, Issue 49, Feb. 2015 (poem selected by guest editor Tracy Ryan) http://cordite.org.au/poetry/obsolete/night-spaces/
The Things We Throw Away – Grey Sparrow (Spring 2015 issue) https://greysparrowpress.sharepoint.com/Pages/Spring2015PoetryDanowsky.aspx
14 year old with two friends on bikes outside the Wawa on Germantown AveJune 2016 published by Ernest Hilbert's E-Verse Radio (prev. pub. in Red River Review (Nov 2015))http://www.everseradio.com/14-year-old-two-friends-bikes-outside-wawa-germantown-ave-mark-danowsky/
Nursing - Red River Review (Issue 59, May 2016) http://www.redriverreview.net/A55656/RRR.NSF/AllByPoet/21C8C031B1DB0DCD85257FB6005CFB1B?opendocument
The New Navigator – Mobius (Winter 2014 - Vol. 25, No. 4) http://mobiusmagazine.com/poetry/newnavig.html
The Landlord’s Husband - Illya’s Honey, Issue 22-3 Spring 2016http://www.illyashoney.com/A55656/ih.nsf/abadc97a3d9f865c85257f9200724f5c/7482eb07d3fc1b4685257f920072249e?OpenDocument
Worth Your Attention? - Beechwood Review (pub. 4.15.16)http://beechwoodreview.com/2016/04/mark-danowsky-worth-your-attention/
The war that would bring us together - Red Eft Review - 9/11/16http://redeftreview.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-war-that-would-bring-us-together-by.html
The Sentinels in the Woods, Night Underwater - Ekphrastic (Fall 2016) http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/the-sentinels-in-the-woods-night-underwater-by-mark-danowsky
Becoming Aware of the Tide - Burningword Literary Journal - Jan 2016 issue (p.43)http://www.magcloud.com/webviewer/1029999?__r=134323&s=v
The Fall - Plum Tree Tavern - 1.31.16 pub onlinehttp://theplumtreetavern.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-fall.html
Recluse – Right Hand Pointing (Issue 83 (Part 2) “very short poems” - Feb 2015) http://www.righthandpointing.net/#!83-mark-danowsky/cxm9
“Our office is with moments” – ALBA: The Journal of Short Poetry (Issue 29, Summer 2015)Dark Remix – ALBA: The Journal of Short Poetry (Issue 29, Summer 2015)http://www.ravennapress.com/alba/issue_29/danowsky.html
Forthcoming:
The Rocky Mountain Locust Surge - Gargoyle #65 - 2016
http://www.gargoylemagazine.com/gargoyle/Issues/Issue65.php
The Window Seat - The Lost River Review - 2016
Fall In - Beechwood Review - 2016
Fray - Indiana Voice Journal (November 2016 issue) Needful - Indiana Voice Journal (November 2016 issue) Seams - Indiana Voice Journal (November 2016 issue)
Residential - Poetry Pacific (to be published Nov. 5, 2016)
Sometimes Reality - The Donut Factory (Fall 2016)Night Air - The Donut Factory (Fall 2016)Days into a 17-year cycle - The Donut Factory (Fall 2016)
"In the best of times" - In In Thirds - Winter 2016
Sleep Eating - Poetry Breakfast (10.12.16)
Additional Reading:
Noise Pollution – Red River Review (Nov 2012) Suspicious Finding – Red River Review (Feb 2013) http://www.redriverreview.net/A55656/RRR.nsf/Bios/A326A0273510130985257AAF007CE945?OpenDocumentIn Lassitude – Snow Monkey (Dec. 2012, Issue 23.04) http://snowmonkeyjournal.blogspot.com/2012/12/mark-danowsky.htmlTubing the Delaware – Right Hand Pointing (Issue 57) 2012https://sites.google.com/site/57rhpissue/mark-danowskyForget the Egg Rolls – Short, Fast and Deadlyhttp://www.shortfastanddeadly.com/issue-44-10-october-2010/An Urban Drawl – Imitation Fruithttp://www.imitationfruit.com/Issue_8/urban_drawl/urban_drawl.htmlThey Wanted Smaller Government – Mobius: The Journal of Social Change (Fall 2012, Vol. 23, No. 3)http://mobiusmagazine.com/poetry/theywant.htmlrisk – bottle rocketsBonsai – Right Hand Pointing (Short Poem Issue 63 - May 2013 & Very Short Poem Issue 64 - June 2013)https://sites.google.com/site/63rhpissue/mark-danowskyThe City Is a River – Right Hand Pointing (Short Poem Issue 63 - May 2013 & Very Short Poem Issue 64 - June 2013)5am Summer Storm – Imitation Fruit (August 2013) --selected as the Imitation Fruit "Animals and their Human's" contest winner (2013)[A] Few Good Moles – The New Verse News (June 2013) http://newversenews.blogspot.com/2013/06/few-good-moles.htmlThe Hard-Boiled Egg Incident – Snow Monkey (November 2013)Issue 24.03http://snowmonkeyjournal.blogspot.com/2013/11/mark-danowsky.htmlDrive-By Protest – The New Verse News (June 2013) http://newversenews.blogspot.com/2013/06/drive-by-protest.html
They Wanted Smaller Government - SPFA (Science Fiction Poetry Association) Dwarf Stars 2013(presumably the poem was submitted on my behalf by F.J. Bergmann of Mobius: The Journal of Social Change who is on the SPFA board and originally published the poem) I was emailed by Linda D. Addison who said she nominated me.)
Rugged – ALBA: The Journal of Short Poetry (2013) -- Issue #25, August 13It’s Not Just Elsewhere – Mobius: The Journal of Social Change (September 2013 issue)(Fall 2013, Vol. 24, No. 3)Pushers – Mobius: The Journal of Social Change ( December 2013 issue)(Winter 2013, Vol. 24, No. 4)http://mobiusmagazine.com/poetry/pushers.htmlSpontaneous Generation – Right Hand Pointing (September 2013 “Sleep” themed issue)Number 9 – The New Verse News (August 2013)75 Years Later – The New Verse News (posted November 1, 2013)http://newversenews.blogspot.com/2013/11/75-years-later.html
Hope is on the Horizon this Holiday Season – The New Verse News (posted December 29, 2013)http://newversenews.blogspot.com/2013/12/hope-is-on-horizon-this-holiday-season.html
State of the Union – The New Verse News (posted January 30, 2014)http://newversenews.blogspot.com/2014/01/state-of-union.html
Inside the News – Shot Glass Journal (Issue #12 - February 2014)
Appearances – Medusa’s Laugh Press Microtext Anthology (Spring 2015)
Start Making Sense Again – APIARY (online) (published April 22, 2014)
Giveaways at Night – APIARY (online) (pub. 4/22/14)
Questions for the Realtor – Right Hand Pointing (Issue 72: Questions for the Realtor) - and Dale totally made it the issue’s title https://sites.google.com/site/72rhpissue/mark-danowsky
Passover – The New Verse News (pub. Sat, 3/8/14) http://newversenews.blogspot.com/2014/03/passover.html
Before (How it was) – ALBA: The Journal of Short Poetry (Issue 27, Summer 2014)Negligent Reader – ALBA: The Journal of Short Poetry (Issue 27, Summer 2014)http://www.ravennapress.com/alba/issue_27/danowsky.html
My City – Imitation Fruit: Issue 13 (end of September 2014) http://www.imitationfruit.com/Issue_13/city/city.html
Small Fish – Red River Review (Aug. 2014 issue)http://www.redriverreview.net/A55656/rrr.nsf/7684f5ba6525b72485257d1b001adadf/97e96877ac0be04d85257d1b001ac061?OpenDocument
Since You’re Asking – Star*Line (F.J.) (Fall 2014 -- 37.4)
Mandatory Presidential Vacations – The New Verse News (pub. Sat. 8/23/14)
After Seeing Fight Club – Right Hand Pointing (Issue 80 - Nov. 2014)http://www.righthandpointing.net/#!80-mark-danowsky/ckwh
Young Parasites – Shot Glass Journal (Issue #14, September 2014) http://www.musepiepress.com/shotglass/mark_danowsky1.html
And Splinter – The New Verse News (pub. Wed. 9/23/14)http://newversenews.blogspot.com/2014/09/and-splinter.html
East for Fall: A poem – Earthen Lamp Journal (India) (Vol. II, Issue III -- Migration theme -- Nov. Issue 2014)
http://www.earthenlampjournal.com/issue6/content.php?content_id=109
Change in the Evening Commute – Word Soup (Issue 4 - Oct 2014)Pride or Prejudice – Word Soup (Issue 4 - Oct 2014)http://wordsoup.weebly.com/issue-four-october-2014.html
Availability Heuristic – The Transnational (UK - bilingual English & German) (Issue #2) The Unanswered Questions – The Transnational (UK - bilingual English & German) (Issue #2)
In the Dark Room – Press 53: 53-word story contest (October) -- (10/7/14 appears on blog)
Ad I want to flag as inappropriate – Carbon Culture Review (January 2015)http://www.carbonculturereview.com/journal/poetry/ad-want-flag-inappropriate.html Deviant Behavior – Red Wolf Journal (online) -https://redwolfjournal.wordpress.com/https://redwolfjournal.wordpress.com/2015/01/13/deviant-behavior-by-mark-danowsky/https://redwolfjournal.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/rwj_play.pdf
Choke up – Allegro Poetry Magazine (UK) (Issue 3, March 2015)http://allegropoetry.org/issue-3-march-2015/ Living Fossil – The New Verse News (pub. 1.27.15) http://newversenews.blogspot.com/2015/01/living-fossil.html
New Year, Same Old Bullshit (2012) – Third Wednesday (Vol. VIII, No. 2)
A Thank You Poem – Snow Monkey (April 2015, Issue 25.08)
The Lost Poem – Amsterdam Quarterly (Published in AQ12) www.amsterdamquarterly.org & www.amsterdamquarterly.nl -- March 2015 and in the 2015 AQ Yearbook in December 2015) (note: Issue 12 of AQ is themed: writers on writers and writing)http://www.amsterdamquarterly.org/issues/aq-12-writers-on-writerswriting/
Identifications – Illya’s Honey (Spring 2015 issue)
Pleistocene Park, Mammoth Steppe, Siberia – Star*Line (38.4 Fall 2015)
Jaw Grinder – Right Hand Pointing (Issue 86, Sunspot - May 2015)
Nat’l Geographic Top 10 Travel Photos – Elohi Gadugi (Spring 2015 - Questions of Travel)
Life Hack – The Lost River Review: Technology themed issue (released online October 2015)Active Vs. Idle Time – The Lost River Review (2015 print edition) Deal of the Day – The Lost River Review
The Gamut – Message in a Bottle (UK) - Issue 24 (the crazy thing is I never heard back about this submission...only discovered the poems were published by Googling myself…) Not-Doing Everything – Message in a Bottle (UK) The Laundry People – Message in a Bottle (UK)
Arbitrary Lines – Mobius (Fall 2015, Vol. 26, No. 3)http://mobiusmagazine.com/poetry/arbitrar.html
Dear Doctor – Right Hand Pointing (Issue 90, September 2015) http://www.righthandpointing.net/#!90-mark-danowsky/c1ck6
Left Behind – The Lake (UK) (September 2015 issue)Shadow’s Territory – The Lake (UK) (September 2015 issue)http://www.thelakepoetry.co.uk/poetry/mark-danowsky/
Why Our Laughter Scares Other Animals – Third Wednesday (Vol. VIII, NO. 4)
Art of the Party – Allegro Issue 7 (Celebration theme) November 2015http://allegropoetry.org/issue-7-november-2015/
Called to the Front – Ekphrastic: writing on art and art on writing (posted 9.4.15) Foundations – Ekphrastic: writing on art and art on writing (posted 9.13.15)House, Home – Ekphrastic: writing on art and art on writing (posted 9.9.15)
Dance Craze – Red River Review (Nov 2015 issue)14 year old with two friends on bikes outside the Wawa on Germantown Ave – Red River Review (Nov 2015 issue)
Sleep Deprived - Word Soup -- http://wordsoup.weebly.com/issue-seven-october-2015.htmlDigital Vigil - Word Soup -- http://wordsoup.weebly.com/issue-seven-october-2015.html
The Disappearance - Red Wolf Journal (pub. 10.16.15) https://redwolfjournal.wordpress.com/2015/10/16/the-disappearance-by-mark-danowsky/Issue 7 published 11.3.15 includes The Disappearancehttps://redwolfjournal.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/red-wolf-journal-fall-2015-issue-7.pdf
Cleaning with a knife - Gyroscope Review - Issue 16-1 -- Jan 2016Downhill Drift - Gyroscope Review - Issue 16-1-- Jan 2016
Pre-K (5/My Earliest Memory) - Five - Pure Slush anthologyhttp://pureslush.webs.com/five.htmhttps://books.google.com/books?id=sE6CCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA16&lpg=PA16&dq=mark+danowsky+pre-k&source=bl&ots=Tck4MnWGYX&sig=HFTVQBYSAeA1tzkSmP5yec6-pns&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiVmtHkkILLAhWGcD4KHdBkB7UQ6AEIIzAB#v=onepage&q=mark%20danowsky%20pre-k&f=false
If Days Were Blackjack Each Night I Would Bust - Right Hand Pointing Issue 96 (Mar. 2016)http://www.righthandpointing.net/#!96-mark-danowsky/c1cwu
Becoming Aware of the Tide - Burningword Literary Journal - Jan 2016 issueColeridge Stares at the Sea in Search of Star Ratings - Burningword Literary Journal - Jan 2016 issuep.43 & 44http://www.magcloud.com/webviewer/1029999?__r=134323&s=v
Where You End & I Begin - Poppy Road Review https://poppyroadreview.blogspot.com/2016/01/where-you-end-i-begin-by-mark-danowsky.html
Monday Shopping - ALBA (Issue 30, Winter 2016)http://www.ravennapress.com/alba/issue_30/issue30TOC.htmlhttp://www.ravennapress.com/alba/issue_30/danowsky.html
X GAMES - The New Verse News (posted online February 16, 2016)http://newversenews.blogspot.com/2016/02/x-games.html
Red Flags in the Rearview (prose poem) - Donut Factory (Issue 2 - Spring 2016)
http://www.amazon.com/Donut-Factory-Spring-2016-Volume/dp/1530944880?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=ox_sc_act_title_1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
[also]
Red Flags in the Rearview - Donut Factory (Issue 3 - Summer 2016)
Worth Your Attention? - Beechwood Review (pub. 4.15.16)http://beechwoodreview.com/2016/04/mark-danowsky-worth-your-attention/
Bleak for the Farsighted - Ekphrastic (pub. 2.19.16)http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/bleak-for-the-farsighted-by-mark-danowsky
Picturesque, but Night - Ekphrastic (pub. 2.24.16)http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/picturesque-but-night-by-mark-danowsky
Not Taken - About Place (Harambee issue) Bystander Effect (Notable Examples, Revised Edition) - About Place (Harambee Issue)published June 4, 2016http://aboutplacejournal.org/reimagine/s2-iv-i/mark-danowsky-iv-i/http://aboutplacejournal.org/reimagine/s6-iv-i/mark-danowsky2-iv-i/
The New World - Melancholy Hyperbole 3/8/16At The Bus Stop - Melancholy Hyperbole 3/8/16http://melancholyhyperbole.com/2016/03/08/the-new-world/http://melancholyhyperbole.com/2016/03/08/at-the-bus-stop/
At the Chain Bar - Ink in Thirds (Issue 2 - 5/1/16)https://issuu.com/inkinthirds/docs/issue_2_-_may
Technological Limitations at Grandfield Correctional Facility - (fiction) - The Wolfian (Issue 7)
The Dose Not Taken - The Broadkill Review - TBR Vol 10 No 4Underwater Photography- The Broadkill Review - TBR Vol 10 No 4To the Creature that Lives in the Ceiling at Work- The Broadkill Review - TBR Vol 10 No 4
Primed to Dream Apocalyptic - Eye To The Telescope (ETTT) - Family themed issue - 4/15/16http://eyetothetelescope.org/archives/020issue.html The Amish Child - Poetry Quarterly (Spring 2016)https://prolificpress.com/bookstore/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1
Double Helix - Plum Tree Tavern (May 2016)http://theplumtreetavern.blogspot.com/2016/05/double-helix.html
Holo Debate - Eye To The Telescope (ETTT) - “Male Perspective” themed issue - July 2016http://eyetothetelescope.com/archives/021issue.html
Sleepers - The New Verse News - 8.9.16http://newversenews.blogspot.com/2016/08/sleepers.html
Nominations/Anthologies:
Best of Every Day Poets Vol. 2http://www.amazon.com/The-Best-Every-Day-Poets/dp/0988125706
2013 Dwarf Stars nominationhttp://www.sfpoetry.com/ds/13dwarfstars.html
2016 Rhysling Award nomination http://www.sfpoetry.com/ra/rhyscand.html
Microtext Anthology 1 (Medusa’s Laugh Press)
Awards:
5am Summer Storm won Imitation Fruit's "Animals and Their Human's" contest in 2013http://www.imitationfruit.com/Issue_12/storm/storm.html
In the Dark Room (53 word story - Press 53, Prime Number magazine) -- 2014http://press53.tumblr.com/post/99410656996/53-word-story-contest-winner-september-mark