POEMS

ANTHOLOGIES

Best American Poetry, 2017
     Mounting the Dove Box

Beyond the Lyric Moment
    Dark Season

POEMS

New Letters (forthcoming)

Our Lady of Chartres; Looking for Grief’s Exit in the Glass

The Georgia Review (forthcoming)

Disconnect; When We Were Destined

The Southern Review, Vol. 59, No. 2, Spring, 2023

Bighorn; Erie Shore

Arts & Letters, Vol. 45, Fall, 2022

The Birth of Venus; Liminal Passage; Ice Storm; Journal of the Plague Year

Ocean State Review, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2021/2022

Liar; Statis & Verge

upstreet, No. 18

When I Woke, She Was Dead

Alaska Quarterly Review, Vol. 38, No. 3 & 4, Spring/Summer 2022

Having Our Passports Stamped at the Entrance to Dementia

 The Atlantic, September, 2021 

Squander

Southern Indiana Review, Vol. 28, No. 2
    These Dead Don’t Belong to Me; Pando’s Grove

Ocean State Review,  Vol. 11, No. 1
    The Clearing; Liar; Stasis & Verge

Nimrod, Vol. 64, No. 1
    The Latin Lesson

Pleiades, Vol. 41, No. 1
    Errant Eagle

River Styx, 103/104
    Speciesism

Boulevard, Vol. 35, Nos. 2 & 3
    A Homo Sapiens on the Brink of Extinction Speaks to the Fossil
   Mosasaurus; Lyuba

Nimrod Vol. 63, No. 1
    Northern Cardinal; The Double Drowning

Crab Orchard, Vol. 24, No.1
    Dear Specimen

Alaska Quarterly Review, Vol. 35, No. 3 & 4
     Hybrid

Salamander, Vol. 47
    Seamless Bead

New Ohio Review, No. 24
    Bay Sunday

Antioch Review, Vol. 76, No. 3
    Taxonomy

Greensboro Review, Vol. 104
    Geologist

Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review
    No. 44, Cardiomyopathy  

Nimrod  Award 40
    The Smell of Almost Rain

Upstreet,  No. 14
     Indio Date Grove

Boulevard, Vol. 33, Nos. 2 & 3
     Aye Aye

Southern Poetry Review,  Vol. 55, No. 2
    Northern Parula Warbler

Pleiades, Vol. 38, No. 1
     Aerial View & Red-Tailed Hawk

Alaska Quarterly Review, Vol. 34, No. 3 & 4
     A Pastoral Topography

Mid-American Review,  38.1
     Pine Vole

New Ohio Review,  No. 20
     Bluebirds are Cavity Nesters

Southwest Review,  Vol. 101, No. 1
    Mounting the Dove Box

Boulevard,  Vol. 29. No.3
    Before the Bonfire

Agni Online
    The Narcissist’s Daughter

Persimmon Tree,  No. 44
     Study of a Skeleton, 1542

The Montserrat Review,  Vol. 1, No.7
     The Travelers

The Southern Poetry Review,  Vol. 41, No. 1
     Metabolizing Light

• Nightsun,  Vol. 21
     Riddles of the Material World

• The Atlanta Review,  Vol. 8, No. 1
      Dovetail

• Chiron Review,  No. 65
      Ascension & Wastrel

• The Peralta Press , Vol. 1, No. 1
     The Mutineer

• The Madison Review,  Vol. 22, No. 1
     I Want to Be Oblivious

• Pearl,  No. 29
     Fifties Hosanna

• The Connecticut Review,  Vol. 22, No. 2
     Unlimited Time

• Ascent,  Vol. 25, No. 1
     Counterpoint

• Peregrine,  Vol. 19
     Dichotomy

• Confrontation,  No. 70/71
     Barbie Dolls

• Flyway,  Vol.1:3
     The Sewing Teacher

• Confluence,  Vol. 10
     Messiah

• Fiction & Reviews

• Crazyhorse  No. 52
     P.O. Boxes (fiction)
• The Wisconsin Review, Vol. 35, No. 1
     Shaping a Bonsai Willow (fiction)
• S. New Hampshire U. Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1
     Fair Haven by Vivian Shipley (review)

• Works by W.J. Herbert were published as Wendy J. Herbert prior to 2014.