Poems accepted or published
(literary journals in parentheses -- Google them for fine creative works)
Welcome to Timothy Pilgrim's poetry! Explore his 160 published poems or give feedback on newer unpublished poems (under his picture --lower left) -- or on his "vintage" poems that have not yet found a home.
2012 - present
Airport security
(Urban Resistance)
Angle of repose
(Thick with Conviction -- republished from Idaho's Poetry: A Centennial
Anthology and Trestle Creek Review)
Breathing lesson
(The Curious Record)
Breathing snow
(accepted Sue Boynton Poetry Contest, 2013)
Cast away at Larrabee Beach
(Labyrinth)
Choosing a nickname
for Jesus (Electric Windmill Press)
Choppy water
(Cirque)
Congratulations
on your breast implants (Urban Reisistance)
Dashboard savior
(Madswirl)
Destined to rhyme
(Thick with Conviction -- republished from Trestle Creek Review)
Faint
memories of
beekeeper's daughther (Windfall)
Exhalation (Mastodon
Dentist)
Expect no rescue from a
Cyclops with delicate hands (Shadow Road Quarterly)
Gerunds running
down my leg (Trestle Creek Review)
Going south (Electric
Windmill Press)
Hope (Mastodon Dentist)
Invisible (Still
Crazy)
The leaving
(Convergence: an online journal of poetry & art)
Left for dead (Urban
Resistance)
Martha's Cafe
(Trestle Creek Review)
Painting the soul
(Cirque)
Pawnshop
(Thick with Conviction -- republished from Jeopardy)
Pee hate (Bat
Terrier)
Plotting romance
(Kumquat Poetry Challenge)
Red sky at night
(Madswirl)
Reprise for hope
(Tribute to Orpheus -- Kearney Street Books)
Rescue mission
(Whatcom Magazine -- Bellingham Herald)
Smudging (Whatcom Writes Anthology)
SWAG (Urban
Reisistance)
300 streams of
memory (Cirque)
Too fat to hang
(Convergence: an online journal of poetry & art)
Two dogs, one stick
(The Curious Record)
Unknown cliches
(Carnival Magazine)
Verbal agreement
(The Curious Record)
Water birthing
(Windfall)
2011
Accidental dawn
(Farthermost
Dream)
Aftermath (Labyrinth)
Anemic epiphany
(The Meadowland Review)
At the Aryan
Nations cross burning (Poetrymagazine.com -- republished,
different title, by Heavy Hands Ink)
At the Kootenai High
School homecoming (Burnt Bridge)
At the Nez
Perce camp with Spirit Woman(Poetrymagazine.com republished
from Trestle Creek Review)
At White House Ruins
(Poetrymagazine.com)
At the White
Supremacist cross burning (Heavy Hands Ink -- republished,
different title, by Poetrymagazine.com)
Bain Marie
(Blinking Cursor)
Brush with
godliness (The Curious Record)
Can you kill a priest
with a 1-iron if you keep your head down? (Candidum)
Count ravens (Farthermost
Dream)
Dark migration
(Everyday Other Things)
Day of beckoning
(Kumquat Poetry Challenge)
Doing nothing wrong and
still losing
(Cirque)
Gravity of the
situation (The Curious Record)
Ice caving
(Farthermost Dream)
I eat bitter
hearts (thenumberfive -- also published on tumblr.com)
Imposing
intelligence (Madswirl)
In my dream (Farthermost
Dream)
Knives in ice
(Madswirl)
Late call from Plato's
cave (Blinking Cursor)
Missed
connections (Mastodon Dentist)
Montana chicken-killing day (Windfall)
No more desert (Three
Line Poetry)
Noose (Candidum)
Painting lesson (Sue Boynton
Poetry Contest)
Picture please (Everyday Other
Things)
Poem to name
perfume after (Thick with Conviction)
Poem to scrape pelts
by (Candidum)
Post-cuckold stress
syndrome (Heavy Hands Ink)
Primary love,
complementary colors (The Bellingham Herald)
Publishing in the New
Yorker (Candidum)
Rafting with Fitzgerald
(Candidum)
Seduced by metaphor
(Poetrymagazine.com, republished from Jeopardy)
Seduced by
metaphor
(Thick with Conviction, republished from
Jeopardy)
Seduced by
metaphor
(The Bellingham Herald (online edition), republished from
Jeopardy)
Sponges (NitTwitts:
A Collection of Twitter Length Poems)
Too much hope (The Curious Record)
Trek (Farthermost Dream)
Use two pillows, sleep fast (Madswirl)
Web mutiny (Farthermost Dream)
2010
All quiet on the Iraqi
front Apathy is Easy)
Bats at the
hummingbird feeder (The Curious Record)
Chicken (Caper
Literary Journal)
Deserted
advice (Kumquat Poetry Challenge)
Editing your life
(Labyrinth)
Eternal life
(Poets for Living Waters)
Fencing in darkness
(13 Miles from Cleveland)
Fragile X parent
(Convergence: an online journal of poetry & art)
Gourmet
(The Momo Reader)
Headboard
(Heavy Hands Ink)
The heaped
wheelbarrow (The Momo Reader)
If (The Tipton Poetry Journal)
I herded flies, Buzz,
when I dyed (The Curious Record)
John two
sixteen (The MoMo Reader)
Late warning
(Caper Literary Journal)
Letter found on a
flash drive near the British Columbia border (Cirque)
Note on my
windshield (The Curious Record)
Richter Scale
(The Momo Reader)
Screw the
pretentious poets (Apathy is Easy)
Slick -- to Exxon
then and BP now (Poets for living Waters)
This being America,
there were patriots present (The Curious Record)
Unknown cliches
(Carnival Magazine)
2005 -2009
Cell phone dolor at Seatac airport
Deep end
Defense for mailing panties back
Doing crank
Financial planning
session
Hear no evil
(Weathered Pages: The Poetry Pole by Blue
Begonia Press -- also published earler by Jeopardy)
Ironing my face
No design on the sky
No way in
Pawnshop
Plotting shadows from
the chaos
Redemption
Tending nuclear
bombs
Text message from the nursing
home
Vacuuming
your cat
Side effects
may include
Smoke follows beauty
Still
the only bar in Dixon, Montana
2000 - 2004
Destined to
rhyme
Fresh graves
in black sand
Hear no
evil (Jeopardy -- also published in 2005 in Weathered
Pages: The
Poetry
Pole
anthology)
In
which the romantic writes one last poem before having a beer
My only son
Poet
grants absolution to novelist
Sporadic
barbarian
1995 - 1999
At the Nez
Perce camp with Spirit Woman
Belly up
Burning to no
Death by
chocolate
Goodbye to Dad
Poem not
without sound bites
Seduced by metaphor
1989 - 1994
Catch-22
in Northern Idaho
Day
after reading Raymond Carver's "Late Fragment"
If I should
blow out
Instrument
of surrender: Breaking off love at the Little Bighorn
Battlefield
In
which he blames her infidelity on a throw-away society
Ketchum,
Idaho: At the Hemingway Memorial
Pondering
divorce number two
Supposing he
had been invited to the Donner party
To
Exxon a year later
1983 - 1988
Angle
of repose (also published in Idaho's Poetry
anthology)
Birches: the
father seeks absolution
Coeur d'Alene
spring
Conspiracy
of vegetarians
In
which he accepts the feminist point of view
Late autumn
run beside Lake Fernan
Pre-dawn vigil
at Kootenai Medical Center (also published in Idaho's
Poetry anthology)
Phoning
from the ant farm aisle at City Pets
Poet's
crossing at Pillar Point
Missoula,
Montana rodeo: Cuddly Bear snares the Copenhagen beauty
Ruling
out indictment
Student
loan repayment time
Journals and anthologies that published Pilgrim's poems since 2010 are listed above after each poem -- Google those fine publications for a bevy of other super works. A list journals and anthologies publishing Pilgrim's earlier poems is at the bottom of the page.
Pilgrim's unpublished poems
The poem categories linked at left above under "Pilgrim's
unpublished
poems" are in various stages of
revision for submission to journals. You
are invited to read them -- and even offer
suggestions for revision (use the e-mail on Pilgrim's main page).
Under "New poems 2009-12," explore newer poems like "One-mime
town," "Black hole," "Boson-Higgs particle," "Not alone,"
"Panic knot," "Hope synchs," "Six ounces
late," "Things are well and going good,"
"Redundancy again" and "Quid pro quo."
Or, alpahabetically under "Poems: A to F," "G to L," etc., taste poems
written
some time ago (still under revision), like
"Reciting night sky," "Grim reaper," "MBA primer on divorce," "Spirit
Woman," "Wheelchair Warrior,"
"God walks out of math proficiency exam," "Stomping 'I love you' in the snow,"
or "Scattering Anne's ashes at Laguna Beach Cove."
Enjoy!
Pilgrim's early published poems
Pilgrim's published poems from the early years
Pilgrim has poetry publications or acceptances by
periodicals or anthologies (and newspapers) -- including publications such
as these: Weathered
Pages: The Poetry Pole (Blue Begonia Press); Idaho's Poetry:
A
Centennial
Anthology (University of Idaho Press); Cirque; Candidum; The Meadowland
Review; Shadow Road Quarterly; Carnival Magazine; Windfall; Words-Myth;
Seattle Review;
Trestle
Creek Review; Jeopardy; My Favorite Bullet; The Curious
Record; Still Crazy;
Convergence; Literary Chaos; Caper Literary Journal; Heavy Hands Ink;
Labyrinth; The Tipton Poetry Journal; Quaint Canoe; Farthermost Dream; The
Dirty Napkin;
Apathy is Easy; Poets for Living Waters; Bathyspheric Review; 13 Miles
from Cleveland; Momo Review; Tribute to Orpeheus 2 (forthcoming);
Wescolite; Bellingham
Herald; thenumberfive, Three Line
Poetry, Thick with Conviction, Everyday Other
Things, Urban Resistance,
Critical Perspectives on Accounting; SQJAET; Mastodon Dentist; Burnt
Bridge; Blinking Cursor; Bat Terrier; Reflections; The Kumquat
Challenge; Sue Boynton Poetry Contest (Walk Award winner); National
Poetry Anthology; NitTwitts: A Collection of Twitter Length Poems.
Some poems have been published in both journals or newspapers -- and
anthologies.
Pilgrim has poetry publications or acceptances by
periodicals or anthologies (and newspapers) -- including publications such
as these: Weathered
Pages: The Poetry Pole (Blue Begonia Press); Idaho's Poetry:
A
Centennial
Anthology (University of Idaho Press); Cirque; Candidum; The Meadowland
Review; Shadow Road Quarterly; Carnival Magazine; Windfall; Words-Myth;
Seattle Review;
Trestle
Creek Review; Jeopardy; My Favorite Bullet; The Curious
Record; Still Crazy;
Convergence; Literary Chaos; Caper Literary Journal; Heavy Hands Ink;
Labyrinth; The Tipton Poetry Journal; Quaint Canoe; Farthermost Dream; The
Dirty Napkin;
Apathy is Easy; Poets for Living Waters; Bathyspheric Review; 13 Miles
from Cleveland; Momo Review; Tribute to Orpeheus 2 (forthcoming);
Wescolite; Bellingham
Herald; thenumberfive, Three Line
Poetry, Thick with Conviction, Everyday Other
Things, Urban Resistance,
Critical Perspectives on Accounting; SQJAET; Mastodon Dentist; Burnt
Bridge; Blinking Cursor; Bat Terrier; Reflections; The Kumquat
Challenge; Sue Boynton Poetry Contest (Walk Award winner); National
Poetry Anthology; NitTwitts: A Collection of Twitter Length Poems.
Some poems have been published in both journals or newspapers -- and
anthologies.
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