My Poetry in Literary Journals

For my latest list of online poems, see my poetry blog, Metaphorical Truths

Here are links to some of my poetry published in online journals:

• Ser and Estar and Safe Conversations
  Poetica Review, December 2019
   
• What Rough Beast
  Indolent Books, November 27, 2019
   
• Soothing the Nausea
  Dragon Poet Review, Fall 2019
   
• Mona's Mother
  Dragon Poet Review, Fall 2019
   
• Searching for a Prayer
  The New Verse News, December 17, 2019
   
• Billowing Overhead
  K'in Literary Journal, Issue 4, November 2019
   
• Digital Remains
  Hive Avenue, Issue 1
   
• Winter Solstice and What Did Not Happen Today
  The Beautiful Space -- A Journal of Mind, Art and Poetry, October 17, 2019
   
• Pentagon Memorial
  The New Verse News, September 11, 2019
   
• Another Couple in Our Circle
  Apeiron Review, Issue 16, Summer 2019
   
• Lonely Death, Families Embrace, If You Want To Help, A Bed on Wheels, and Daddy’s Lady
  In Parentheses Magazine, October 6, 2019
   
• The Beltway Snipers’ White Van and State of Suspension
  District Lit, October 11, 2019
   
• Inspiration
  Your Daily Poem, September 5, 2019
   
• Baby Survives Falling Under Train
  Black Coffee Review, Fall 2019
   
• Aquí
  Bold + Italic Magazine, June 23, 2019
   
• The Last Straw and Narrow Bridge
  The Literary Nest, Vol. 5, Issue 1, April 2019
   
• Dad Enjoys the Race
  Your Daily Poem, June 15, 2019 (Fathers' Day)
   
• When I Die
  The Poetry Society of Virginia, second place winner in Charlotte Wise Memorial 2019 PSV Poetry Contest
   
• Nana Prayed and Weather Sensitive
  YARN (Young Adult Review Network), May 12, 2019
   
• Hairpin
  memoryhouse magazine, Winter 2018
   
• The Story of Pastor Niemöller
  What Rough Beast, February 27, 2019
   
• First Jew
  What Rough Beast, February 21, 2019
   
• The Miles to Friday
  Your Daily Poem
   
• Bermuda
  Sinking City Lit Mag, Issue 5: Winter 2018/2019
   
• The City of Sodom
  What Rough Beast, February 12, 2019
   
• Second Story Bedroom and Questioning Eve
  Voice of Eve, Issue 5, October 30, 2018
   
• Pink Backpack
  HerStry, November 19, 2018
   
• Fun Facts for a Conservative Court
  What Rough Beast, March 6, 2019
   
• This Century's Code
  What Rough Beast, March 13, 2019
   
• Identifying Ivy and Bystander Effect
  Unlikely Stories Mark V, December 2018
   
• Día de los Muertos and But Other
  K'in Literary Journal, Issue 2, November 2018
   
• Old Soul
  Dragon Poet Review, Summer/Fall 2018, page 42
   
• Conjugating Spanish
  Dragon Poet Review, Summer/Fall 2018, page 43
   
• Two Goldfish
  Marsh Hawk Review, Fall 2018
   
• The Trees of the Talmud
  Hedge Apple, July 11, 2018
   
• Translating Tener
  Hedge Apple, July 6, 2018
   
• The Fisherman’s Wife and Wabi-sabi
  Rue Scribe, August 21, 2018
   
• Tongue Ring
  Message in a Bottle Poetry Magazine
   
• Illusions
  River River Journal, Issue 7, Spring 2018
   
• On the Altar
  The New Verse News, May 6, 2018
   
• The Jilted One and When a Child Dies
  Months to Years, Spring 2018
   
• Pigeon Eyes
  Rise Up Review, Spring 2018
   
  
• Unseen Hand
  FLARE: The Flagler Review, Spring 2018
   
• Counting Value, Kix Not Cheerios, and The Best Man
  The Broadkill Review, February 27, 2018
   
• Having Been Where You Are
  Germ Magazine, February 23, 2018
   
• Silent Screen
  30 for 30 National Poetry Month Celebration, April 6, 2018
   
• stopbullying.gov: A Found Poem
  Poets Reading the News, March 29, 2018
   
• Fire Ant
  The Turnip Truck(s), January 28, 2018
   
• The Unthinkable Happened
  Germ Magazine, Jan 9, 2018
   
• How Is Mom Holding Up? and Upon Visiting the National Museum Of African Art
  Redux Literary Journal, February 12, 2018
   
• What Mothers Do
  Rat's Ass Review, Winter 2017 Issue
   
• Complicit: Word Of The Year 2017
  The New Verse News, December 9, 2017
   
• Signs and Smoking Bans
  Tuck Magazine, November 29, 2017
   
• Instructions from the Dead
  Germ Magazine, November 10, 2017
   
• Practicing Humility
  What Rough Beast, Indolent Books, October 24, 2017
   
• Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving and Dry Needling
  Bourgeon, December 11, 2017
   
• Missing That Woman
  The Literary Nest, Volume 3 Issue 3, Fall 2017
   
• Spanish at Sixty
  Public Pool Literary Journal, October 16, 2017
   
• Reading Advice
  Germ Magazine, October 13, 2017
   
• Difference Between Heaven and Hell
  Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Issue 18:4, Fall 2017
   
• When I Got the News
  Gyroscope Review, Issue 17-4, Fall 2017
   
• Mrs. Watson’s Bible
  The Rising Phoenix Review, August 25,2017
   
• The Children Next Door, 1939
  The Rising Phoenix Review, August 29, 2017
   
• Proper Etiquette for the First Year of Mourning
  Panoply, Issue 7 - Summer 2017, August 18, 2017
   
• To Picnic Under Pink Clouds
  Postcard Poems & Prose, August 25, 2017
   
• Breaking News
  Postcard Poems & Prose, July 18, 2017
   
• Stone Soup
  The Broke Bohemian, July 9, 2017
   
• On a Scale of One to Ten
  The Human Touch, Volume 10, 2017
   
• The View from the 8th Floor
  The Human Touch, Volume 10, 2017
   
• Tender Muscles
  The Human Touch, Volume 10, 2017
   
• Missing Tokens
  82 Review, Issue 5.2, June 2017
   
• Dear Paul Ryan
  Pre-existing Poems, May 16, 2017
   
• Stepping Over the Bodies
  Pre-existing Poems, July 3, 2017
   
• Fable of a Silent Spring
  Germ Magazine, May 6, 2017
   
• Last Witness to My Childhood
  Wild Violet Literary Magazine, Mar. 12, 2017
   
• Re-Watching Titanic
  Germ Magazine, Feb. 5, 2017
   
• Dear Paul Ryan
  The New Verse News, Feb. 16, 2017
   
• My One Relief, Summer 2016
  Rat's Ass Review, Feb. 3, 2017
   
• Hogwarts Motto Expanded
  Spank the Carp, Pond 26 - 2017
   
• Poetic Tribute to a Badass Lady in History: Sacagawea
  Germ Magazine, June 20, 2017
   
• Poetic Tribute to a Badass Lady in History: Rosa Parks
  Germ Magazine, May 16, 2017
   
• Passionate Persistence
  Germ Magazine, Mar. 17, 2017
   
• Red Cross Angel
  Germ Magazine, Mar. 9, 2017
   
• Jars of Hope
  Germ Magazine, Feb. 22, 2017
   
• Betty's Book
  Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Winter 2017
   
• Clemente's Team
  The Write Place at the Write Time, Winter-Spring 2017
   
• The Greatest
  Scarlet Leaf Review, January 15, 2017
  
  
• Who Remembers?, The Distance on a Red and Blue Map, and After the Election, November 2016
  Gravel Magazine Blog, January 27, 2017
   
• Tinker Bell Calling
  River Poets Journal, 2016 - Seasonal Issue, Volume 10 Issue 2
   
• No Option to Own
  Route 7 Review, Issue 4, 2016
   
• Avocado Secret and The Longest River
  Burgeon, December 8, 2016
   
• Handling Knives
  Post Card Poems and Prose Magazine, December 6, 2016
   
• Dog Whistle Politics
  The New Verse News, November 18, 2016
   
• Two Elderly Aunts
  All Roads Will Lead You Home, Virtual Artists Collective, September 2016
   
• Spoiler Alert
  Snakeskin Poetry Webzine, No. 235, December 2016
   
• Slowing Down
  Snakeskin Poetry Webzine, No. 235, December 2016
   
• Broken Bones
  Healing Story Alliance Diving in the Moon Journal, November 2016
   
• Itzhak Perlman's Broken String
  Apeiron Review, Issue Eleven, Summer 2016
   
• The Village Not Reached
  Apeiron Review, Issue Eleven, Summer 2016
   
• Ladies Lunch
  Apeiron Review, Issue 11, Summer 2016
   
• Field Hockey Lesson
  Imitation Fruit, Issue 15, October 2016
   
• Two Dirt Roads
  Lowestoft Chronicle, Summer Issue 2016
  
  
• My Allotted Suitcase
  Aji Magazine, Issue 4 - Spring 2016
   
• Train  Therapy
  Aji Magazine, Issue 4 - Spring 2016
   
• Brain-Eating Amoeba
  Wild Age Press, May 17, 2016
   
• Punctuated Text and Letter to 30 year Old Self
  The Lake, April 2016
   
• Massage Table
  Post Card Poems and Prose Magazine, March 30, 2016
   
• Words Offered to the Grieving
  Truck, June 16, 2016
   
• The Feathered Thing
  Missed Connections, Dirty Chai Magazine Blog, March 22, 2016
   
• Fashionable Footwear
  The New Verse News, March 17, 2016
   
• Preparing for Disaster
  Folia Literary Magazine, February 16, 2016
   
• The People on the Pier
  Postcard Poems and Prose Magazine, February 10, 2016
  
  
• Like a Sweater in the Wash
  Mothers Always Write, January 18, 2016
   
• Modeling Speech
  Mothers Always Write, January 18, 2016
   
• Finding Waldo
  Imitation Fruit, Issue 14, October 2015
   
• Broken Seams
  99 Pine Street, April 5, 2015
   
• If I Lived in Boston
  Two Cities Review, Issue 5, Spring 2015
   
• The Art of the Stoic Face and The White Flags of Spring
  Carcinogenic Poetry, January 31, 2015
   
• A Game Played With Helmets, Unknown Caller, Mitzi's Obit, and Last Apology
  EmptySinkPublishing, Issue 10, December 2014
   
• Ode to a Pink House
  Spank the Carp, Pond 5 - 2014
   
• Pandora's Echo and Sleeping in the Dark
  The Riding Light Review, Halloween 2014 issue
   
• The Pit or the Pendulum
  Yellow Chair Review, Horror Issue, October 2015
   
• Deciduous Strength
  Perspectives, September 2015
   
• Dwindling Light, Removing Red-eye, and Too Sentimental For a Trash Can
  The Write Place At the Write Time, Autumn/Winter 2014
   
• Things I Can't Have Back
  Offcourse, a Literary Journey,  No. 58, September 2014
   
• Comforting Stories
  Storyacious, August 19, 2014
   
• The King Who Grieved for a Diamond (Audio)
  Garbanzo Literary Journal, Book No. 4, September 2014
   
• Obsolete Angers
  Really System, Issue Three, Summer 2014
   
• Staying Gold
  Red Booth Review, May 2014
   
• Free Fall, A Sharp-Beaked Bird, and Online Introductions
  YARN (Young Adult Review Network), April 7, 2014
   
• 70% Chance and The Night After the Diagnosis
  The Barefoot Review, Winter 2012
   
• Tag Your Dreams, Volleyball, and Rebounding Luck
  Young Adult Review Network, March 2011
   
  
• Island People and Selling that House
  Gravel Magazine, March 2014
   
• Reckless in Joy and Call a Friend
  Scapegoat Review, Winter 2014
   
• Ostrich Behavior
  Glass: A Journal of Poetry Volume Six Issue Two, January 2014
   
• Role Reversal
  Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, December 2013
   
• Tidal Basin Stars
  Imitation Fruit, Issue 12, September 2013
   
• Dinner Meeting on a Damp Night and other poems
  Off Course, A Literary Journal, Summer 2013
   
• Cleaning for Cancer
  Hospital Drive, The Literature and Humanities Journal of the UVA School of Medicine, July 2013
   
• Extracting Memory, Harry Potter Style
  Pirene's Fountain, April 2013
   
• The Stick in the Big Boy's Hand
  Rkvry Quarterly Literary Journal, Summer 2013
   
• Water Knows The Secret
  Inkapture, March 2013
   
• Cushions in the Crib
  South 85 Journal, Spring/Summer 2014
   
• Daylilies
  The Whirlwind Review, February 2013
   
• Piñata, The Consolation of Clouds, & A Tougher Crust
  Young Adult Review Network, February 2013
  http://yareview.net/2013/02/pinata-the-consolation-of-clouds-and-a-tougher-crust/
   
• Physical Therapy
  Inkapture, September 2012
  http://www.inkapturemagazine.co.uk/2012/09/physical-therapy-by-jacqueline-jules/#.UGTrwzw_UaU.facebook
   
• Running with the Bulls
  The Innisfree Poetry Journal
  http://authormark.com/artman2/publish/Innisfree15JACQUELINE_JULES2.shtml
  
  
• Boogey Man at the Bottom
  Imitation Fruit, Issue 10, April 2012
  http://imitationfruit.com/Issue_10/boogey_man/boogey_man.html
  
  
• A Kudo for Mr. Death
  The Potomac, Spring 2012
  http://thepotomacjournal.com/issue12/Poetry/Jules.html
   
• A Legible Mark and Poet Laureate from Yugoslavia
  The Whirlwind Review, Issue 2, Spring 2012
   
• The Big Bad Wolf
  Imitation Fruit, November 2011
  http://www.imitationfruit.com/Issue_9/big_bad/big_bad.html
   
• The Coarse Truth
  Lines and Stars, Spring 2011
   
• Finding a Sock
  Imitation Fruit, October 2010
  http://www.imitationfruit.com/Issue_7/finding_sock/finding_sock.html
   
• Daddy and Venice
  Imitation Fruit, May 2010
  http://www.imitationfruit.com/Issue_6/daddy_venice/venice.html
   
• Wise Gardening
  The Posiealbum Project, November 22, 2010
  http://theyearofgoodbyes.blogspot.com/search?q=jacqueline+jules
   
• Scott Williams in the Doorway
  FutureCycle Poetry
  
  
• To Sasha on Becoming First Daughter
  Tidal Basin Review, Spring 2010
  http://issuu.com/tidalbasin/docs/tbr_inaugural_issue_-_spring_2010
   
• Salt, Varnished Apple, & Baby Doll
  YARN (Young Adult Review Network), March 2010
  http://yareview.net/2010/03/salt-varnished-apple-baby-doll/
   
• Forgiveness at the Train Station
  Poetica Magazine, Rosh Hashanah/Yom Kippur 2010
  http://www.poeticamagazine.com/yomkippuredition.htm
  
  
• Perfect Husband for a Poet
  Imitation Fruit, Issue 5, November 2009
  http://www.imitationfruit.com/Issue_5/perfect_husband/perfect_husband.html
  
  
• Albino Morning
  The Innisfree Poetry Journal, Innisfree 9, September 2009
  http://authormark.com/artman2/publish/Innisfree_9_24JACQUELINE_JULES.shtml
   
• A Decision on Ivy
  LanguageandCulture.net, Summer/Fall 2009
  http://www.languageandculture.net/poem_jules-1.html
   
• Lovers in the Park
  Imitation Fruit, Issue 4, May 2009
  http://www.imitationfruit.com/Issue_4/lovers/lovers.html
  
  
• Cicada Politics
  Imitation Fruit, Issue 4, May 2009
  http://www.imitationfruit.com/Issue_4/cicada/cicada.html
  
  
• Pink Patience
  Christian Science Monitor, May 17, 2007
  http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0517/p19s03-hfpo.html
   
• Graceless Girl Skis Down Slope 
  Christian Science Monitor, December 23, 2004
  http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1223/p18s02-hfpo.html 
   
• The Argument
  Christian Science Monitor, February 22, 2006
  http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0222/p18s03-hfpo.html 
   
• Chocolate on the Wedding Dress
  Winner Arlington Arts Moving Words Contest, 2007
   
• Dripstone
  Winner Arlington Arts Moving Words Contest, 1999 


• Tabernacle in the Desert
  The New Verse News
  
  
• Tidal Basin Stroll and September 12th
  Arlington Literary Journal (ArLiJo), Issue 28
   
• Hours and Pedaling Truth
  Arlington Literary Journal (ArLiJo), Issue 72

FLASH FICTION:

• His Grey Hoodie
  r. kv. r. y quarterly literary journal, Spring 2018, vol. xv. no. 2
   
• Listen to Me
  Ghost Parchute Literary Magazine, April 1, 2018
  

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