Category Archives: Publication News

Book Gift Recommendations

Posted on December 15, 2020 by Mark Kerstetter

None of the arts are more varied or bewildering than the visual arts. For that person in your life who would like an overview, I don’t know of a better one than The Art of Looking at Art, or a … Continue reading →

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Dinosaur Jones

Posted on November 6, 2019 by Mark Kerstetter

In the chaos of the Trump administration–and at the moment impeachment inquiry and Middle East policy dominating the news–it’s hard to pick one bad move from another out of the pile (at least for those of us whose brains have … Continue reading →

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Of Ice Crystals and Flaming Hearts

Posted on November 27, 2018 by Mark Kerstetter

My poem, The Effulgent Heart is out now in the new issue of Survivor’s Review. It’s a poem very close to my own heart. I wrote it at the end of the cycle of poems that became my chapbook Prayers … Continue reading →

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Eunoia and Panoply

Posted on September 7, 2018 by Mark Kerstetter

I’m pleased to announce some recent poetry publications. Eunoia Review has published  a little thing I call Spring Training and four links from my “Limits” poem project: Limits Limits Limits Limits Panoply has published my poem, Are We Not Acceptable, Moon? … Continue reading →

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A poem inspired by Faith No More

Posted on May 15, 2018 by Mark Kerstetter

I’m happy to say my poem, Velveeta! has been published by Razor Lit. On their “About” page they cite Anton Chekhov’s advice about revising: “Throw out the first three pages. Slice them off with a razor.” Razor Lit publishes poems and … Continue reading →

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Wild at the CDC Poetry Project

Posted on April 2, 2018 by Mark Kerstetter

I’m stoked to be kicking off National Poetry Month at the CDC Poetry Project. Each poem in the project uses all seven words banned by the Trump administration from all Centers for Disease Control communications: entitlement, diversity, vulnerable, fetus, transgender, … Continue reading →

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Will croton be the one?

Posted on January 11, 2018 by Mark Kerstetter

  Many thanks to Lynn Otto and Dave Mehler for publishing three of my poems in issue 19 of Triggerfish Critical Review. The poems are CRO Open Call Frank Kaufman’s White Suit The participants of TCR review each other’s work … Continue reading →

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Prayer for Tomorrow

Posted on December 6, 2017 by Mark Kerstetter

Monday morning, 9:30 your life will change —from Prayer for Tomorrow, the first poem of my chapbook, One Step: prayers and curses. On the 12th of this month it will be exactly one year ago. I was at work when … Continue reading →

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One Step: Prayers and Curses

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Mark Kerstetter

My Prayers and Curses chapbook of poems will be published by Atomic Theory Micro Press in an edition of fifty hand-sewn and numbered copies. Pre-sale begins on the 30th.  

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The Day I Met Leroy Jenkins

Posted on December 17, 2016 by Mark Kerstetter

I am gratified to Jonathan Penton of Unlikely Stories Mark V for welcoming three of my noisier more biting poems. Is It Too Soon? is most recent, written shortly after and in response to our infamous November 8th election. I … Continue reading →

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