I am pleased to announce that Cold-Hearted Boys, a chapbook poetry collection, has been released and is now available from the Main Street Rag bookstore.
Part memoir, part love letter, documentary, elegy, therapy, and patient notes, Cold-Hearted Boys roams the territory of my youth, occupying that unsettled space between home and leaving home where everything lost is saved.
Joyce Peseroff, author of Petition and Eastern Mountain Time, calls the collection “poems of labor, tenderness, and grief for the losses in a life seeded in one soil that blooms in another.”
I hope you’ll give it a read, and if you know someone who might be interested, please pass this announcement along.
Ordering Information/links :
https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/…/cold-hearted-boys…/
The MSR Online Bookstore: http://mainstreetragbookstore.com/
Praise for John Glowney & Visitation
Glowney writes tilted, furious poems worthy to be read next to the Pacific and the tides of bad news that describe our contemporary world. His poems are sometimes heartsick, sometimes darkly comic expressions of our powerlessness, but they are such redeeming company.
—Kathleen Flenniken, author of Plume & Post Romantic
John Glowney’s poems have a way of leaping from one image to another, from the profane to the sacred and back again.
—Charlotte Pence, author of Code, 2020 Book of the Year from Alabama Poetry Society
Visitation is a terrific achievement, a toast to Americana and an extended elegy all in one.
—David Rigsbee, author of This Much I Can Tell You & others
available from https://www.broadstonebooks.com/
Poetry Journals, Reviews, & Magazines
“Word” https://www.press53.com/issue-257-mayaug-2024
“Darien Gap” (second place, Crosswinds Poetry contest)
“Crow Eats This Rotten World Every Day, Circa 2022” the Shore
“The Surfers at San Clemente Pier, September 2021” Narrative (poem of the week)
“Sunday Morning” The Lascaux Review (Finalist, 2023 Lascaux Prize in Poetry)
“Aspects of Post-Modern Godzillaism” Little Patuxent Review
“Motel Room Just Down the Street From the Last Chance Bar” “For the Iguana on the Red Tiles” Slipstream
“Wrong-doers” Catamaran
“Burning Down the House” “Forest Fire’s Last Words” “A Map of Australia” “Proof of Life” Canary
“Praiseworthy” Pontoon Poetry, 2022
“Jaywalker” theamericanjournalofpoetry
“Flu” “Wings” 32poems.com
“Black and White” passagerbooks
“This Wreckage, the Harvest” The Cider Review
“Salvation Through Dentistry” and “Translation” theamericanjournalofpoetry
“Three Poems for My Colon Cancer” aqreview.org
“Shelf Life” The Bitter Oleander
“Boy Astride a Grand Piano” North American Review
“Advice” ZZYZZYVA
“Angel Island” Crab Creek Review
“Chorus” Iron Horse Literary Review (Verse Daily)
“Stings” The Birmingham Review
“Map Making” “Out On Turnigan Arm, Resurrection Bay” “The Whale Skeleton at Long Beach, Washington” “Protest” Crab Orchard Review
“At The Alaska Sealife Center” “Driving Home from Sea-Tac Airport After Midnight” “Accident” Connecticut Review
“Cul-De-Sac” Cranky
“Guilt”: “Our Natures” Green Mountains Review
“The Talkeetna Queen: Steve Mahay’s Riverboat Service”; “To A Woman in An Elevator” Michigan Quarterly Review
“Word Of the Cure” Mid-American Review (Poetry Daily poem, January 3, 2004)
“Good Cloth” Nimrod
“Solstice” “Traverse City Poem for Mike and Carolyn” “A Recent Convert” “Two Stanzas from November” “The Folding Chairs at the Bannister Methodist Church” “Passing Through the Metal Detector at the King County Courthouse” “Indian Guides Weekend at Camp Orkila, Beach Cabin, Daybreak” “Agricola Laboriosus” “Skamania Lodge” Northeast
“Spotlight” “What She Kept” Northwest Review
“Evening On Lake Washington, December 31, 2003” Pebble Lake Review
“The Milk-Hauler” “On a Country Road After Midnight: A Rabbit in My Headlights” “At the Holiday Inn” “The Railroad Crossing” “Illumination” “Melville in Paradise”; “Tristan & Isolde: The 1981 Seattle Opera Poster”; “Giving Blood” “Her Roses” “Venus in Transit” “A Fragment of a Personal History of Love” “Illegal” Poetry Northwest
“Praiseworthy” “Reno” “Visitation” “1-900” “Flight Path” “Sparrows Dust-Bathing” “Against the Cold Everlasting” “Black Ice” Pontoon/Floating Bridge Review
“Boys In a Speeding Car, Late August, 1969” River Styx
“Park City Silver Mine Tour” Southeast Review
“About Life” “Mom In Florida” Passager
“Cigarettes” “Boys” “Paradise of Wounds” “At the Museum of Don’t Come Back” “Sunday Morning” “The Bus Stop Outside Ajax Bonds” “A Change in Circumstance” “Zenith” “From the Book of Common Office Prayers” “Learning a Trade” Sixfold
“Hansel’s Valley, Utah” Alembic
“Farm in Winter” “The Reservation” Anesthesia Review
“The Prized Horse” Beloit Poetry Journal
“Here” “Woods Sleep” “Elbert Slone’s Gro” “The Family Gathers for a Funeral” Green House
“The Way Out” Ohio Review
“Three Deer Cross a Field at Daybreak” Pacific Magazine
“The Headwaters of the Family” “Grandfather” “Promise” “The Green Land” “A Gesture Resembling Prayer” Poetry Miscellany
“Leaving for Another Country” Road Apple Review
“Stacking Hay in the Shadow of the North Star” The Seattle Review
“Sentences for My Father” Xandau
“Before Starting Out for Michigan, I Deliver Holly and Poinsettias Across the Mississippi, Christmas Eve, 1977” Antaeus
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