POEMS

ANTHOLOGIES

Best American Poetry, 2024
    Pando’s Grove

Best American Poetry, 2017
     Mounting the Dove Box

Beyond the Lyric Moment
    Dark Season

POEMS

Alaska Quarterly Review (forthcoming)

When Knowing is the Same as Late Winter Waiting

Ocean State Review, Vol. 13, No. 1, Spring, 2024

Crossfire Highway; Codger; As I Write from the Afterlife

New Letters, Vol. 89, Nos. 3& 4, Summer/Fall 2023

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

The Georgia Review, Winter, 2023

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; The Clearing

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

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.