Brand new poems now up at In Parentheses, a journal of new modernist writing. They’re from a series I’ve been writing based on a few of my favourite jazz compositions, in this case “Pannonica” from Monk’s Brilliant Corners and Ellington’s “The Mooche”, best version to be found on Ellington Uptown. Both are on Youtube and well worth a listen. Currently working on a longer narrative sequence based on Duke’s life.
North America is being teabagged by the arctic low-pressure zone as we speak, so here’s a poem about a snowstorm I wrote last winter. Up now at Toad Suck Review. Don’t everyone freeze to death now. Over and out.
A poem I wrote in the Spring about seeing a big moon in some clouds is out now in this year’s edition of Paper Nautilus. Most importantly, check out the cover!
The poem I got into BU’s Clarion magazine recently is now up on their website: www.bu.edu/clarion/16/owen-lucas.htm
A gloomy English nature poem I wrote in May got into the decidedly lighthearted English magazine Monkey Kettle. Issue 40 (!) is out now and it’s two pound fifty. You can buy a four pack of Ginster’s pasties from Tesco, or you can be a real mensch and give your money to a ramshackle-looking poetry mag from Milton Keynes. Here’s the online shop: monkeykettle.co.uk/shop. The picture on the front has a chimpanzee and a cow. Come on.
Over the past six months, Mountain Tales Press has been serialising Afterworks, a set of my ekphrasis poems, in their publication Whisperings. The latest issue features the final six poems in the sequence, and is available on Magcloud in print or digital editions.
My application for a listing with Poets & Writers has finally been approved. Visit and check it out:
AGNI is the literary magazine that usually springs to mind when you think of Boston University, but it’s not the only one. Clarion is a small print journal that has been produced by the BU Literary Society since 1999. Issue 16 is now in print and features “275”, a poem that I’m quite proud of. Its inspiration was a gigantic Alphonse Mucha painting entitled “Plamínek naděje”, meaning “Flame of Hope”, depicting the last moments of an exiled Bohemian church father as he looks out across the Baltic sea. See here for subscriptions (currently the only way to purchase the magazine). That’s all for now!
A poem I wrote for the Adroit Journal summer workshop is being published in A Clean, Well-Lighted Place. It’s about a guy who waits out a huge storm on an island, taking shelter in an old shack. Any magazine named after a Hemingway short story is alright with me. Pick it up in print or digital here.
Update: the issue is now also available on Amazon.
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