Stephen Connely Benz
Poetry in Journals
Here's a list of poems that I've published in journals; some are linked to websites.
"Uncle Bill's War" and "Uncle Jack's War Wound," War, Literature, and the Arts
"Weegee on the Beat," Mudlark
"Out of Bounds," Lowestoft Chronicle
"En Route: A Haibun Sequence," Novus Literary Arts Journal
"Wanderlust," Abandoned Mine
"So What," Slipstream
"John Berryman, Encyclopedia Salesman," Little Patuxent Review
"Birthplace," Rosebud
"From Fitzgerald's Notebooks" and "Off the Rails," Concho River Review
"Uncle Jerry, Missing in Action," Broad River Review
"Amsterdam Sonnet" and "Hutton's Epiphany," Peregrine
"Counterpoint: Scarlatti and Storm" and "Chagall's Village, 1948," Illuminations
"Urge for Going," "Down and Out," and "Hitchhiker's Nightmare," Wayne Literary Review
"Work Week," Steam Ticket: A Third Coast Review
"Poem Going Nowhere" and "Hitchhiking at Night," The Main Street Rag
"Ghost Towns Out West," California Quarterly
"Land of the Lost," Abandoned Mine
"Needles," RipRap
"Eccentric Instruction" and "The Tautology We Live By," Kestrel
"Night of Sorrows," Minetta Review
"Haibun: Stopover in Bend," Barely South Review
"Car Culture," Progenitor
"Five Phrases from Sontag's 'Anthropologist as Hero" and "Variations on a Theme from North by Northwest," Chariton Review
"Across the Great Divide," "Desert Crossing," and "Gallup, 1950," Southwestern American Literature
"Waking Early in a Cold House," Cooweescowee
"Insomnia and The Critique of Pure Reason," Confrontation
"Tractor, Baler, Old Man," Tar River Poetry
"Hopperesque," Nimrod
"Starlight," Naugatuck River Review
"Crossing Flagstaff," The Sow's Ear Poetry Review
"Her Last Wish," Tule Review
"Sestina for Solomon Grundy" and "Exhibition: Early Maps of the Americas," Coe Review
"Reaganomics: A Memoir" and "Song in Rainy Season," Welter
"Minor Incidents of War," War, Literature, and the Arts
"Variations on a Theme from an Advertising Flyer," Mudlark
"Haibun: Bashō's Last Journey," Portland Review
"Hopi House," Progenitor
"Midnight Oil, Bangkok" and "Hard Luck in Bangkok," Superstition Review
"Pop Runs Out of Gas and Mom Says I Told You So," El Portal
“Visiting the Asylum“ and “Broken Main,“ Burningword Literary Journal
“Double-A Pitching Change,“ Worcester Review
“Thinking of Du Fu Before the Start of a Journey,“ Chicago Quarterly Review
“Weeding the Flowerbed“ IthacaLit
“Su Sung's Heavenly Clockwork“ Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
“Troubled Sleep“ Chaffey Review
“Elegy: One Year Since He Died“ Tar River Poetry
“Winter Work“ Tar River Poetry
“The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone“ Contrary
“Escape West“ and “Vamos“ Southwestern American Literature
“Bangkok of the Mind“ Lowestoft Chronicle
“Havana, 1956: A Noir Sestina” Shenandoah
“Trailer Park” New Madrid
“The Desert Mirage” High Plains Journal
“Dead End in Istanbul” Valparaiso Poetry Review
“Reel Life” and “American Journey” Perihelion
“St. Ambrose’s Boarding School” Valparaiso Poetry Review
“Southbound” Mudlark
“Stark Hung Over in Belize” and “U.S. 77” 2RiverView
“Border Town” Clackamas Literary Review
“Tropical Litotes” Tar River Poetry
“Shore Leave in Monsoon Season” Mangrove
“Flotsam and Jetsam” San Fernando Poetry Journal
“Meeting Minos” Poetpourri
“The Farmer’s Ghost” and “Spartans” Trestle Creek Review
“Over the Andes” and “I–10” Exit 13
“Third World Roads” Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review
“The Pharmacy of God” Malcolm Lowry Review