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Steven Searcy

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Below the Brightness (Solum Press, 2024) Poems in Southern Poetry Review, Commonweal, New Verse Review, Atlanta Review, The Windhover, Blue Unicorn, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, & more

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Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · Sep 10

I was honored to receive my first Best of the Net nomination from the fabulous journal New Verse Review!

New Verse Review @newversereview.bsky.social · Sep 3

NVR has nominated six poems for this year's Best of the Net. Congratulations to Midge Goldberg, Alice Allan, @stevensearcy.bsky.social, Jenna Le, @tyndallbrandon.bsky.social, and @sallythomasnc.bsky.social!
Read their poems 👇.

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Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · May 3

I’m excited to have two poems in the latest issue of Blue Unicorn. Here’s one:

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · May 3

I’m happy to have a poem in Atlanta Review. The Spring/Summer issue also includes a section of work by living authors from another country (in translation)

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · Mar 7

My 7yo enjoyed reading this recently!

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Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · Mar 3

The B-rhyme that won’t go away epitomizes marcescence

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · Mar 3

Monomaniacal Petrarchan sonnet? 😆

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Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · Mar 3

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Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · Jan 17

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed these. And I greatly appreciate your cover photos!

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · Jan 17

I’m excited to have two poems included in the latest issue of New Verse Review. Check out the full issue for tons of excellent poems!
www.newversereview.com/2-1-steven-s...

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Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · Jan 17

Thanks for the shout-out, Eric! The entire issue is full of really good stuff!

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · Jan 11

I didn’t write this poem in response to your call, but it was the only alliterative poem I had that fit the theme.

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · Jan 11

I have a new poem in the Winter 2025 issue of Forgotten Ground Regained, alongside some other very nice work. Thanks to editor @rhunedhel.bsky.social
Check out the issue:
alliteration.net/current-issue/

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Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · Jan 8

Could call it a chiastic rhyme scheme?

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · Jan 2

Thanks to the editors of @ballastjournal.bsky.social for including this little anagrammatic curio in the most recent issue!

ballast journal @ballastjournal.bsky.social · Jan 1

Steven Searcy from “Stave Scenery”

@stevensearcy.bsky.social

Read the poem in ballast issue 2.4!

www.ballastjournal.com/steven-searcy

#poetry

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Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · Dec 31

Jimmy Carter was actually a capable poet and released a collection in 1995 called Always a Reckoning (which I discovered a few years ago via my local library). Here’s one of my favorites.

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Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · Dec 26

A poem about the incarnation, from my book Below the Brightness, originally published by Ekstasis

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · Dec 10

I really liked this poem

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · Dec 8

Thanks!

Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · Dec 7

I’m grateful to have this new poem in the latest issue of The Orchards Poetry Journal

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Steven Searcy @stevensearcy.bsky.social · Jul 8

My first collection of poems has been released into the world!
Grateful to the team at Solum Press for turning these poems of mine into a genuine physical book (and a very beautiful one, if may say so, in my completely unbiased opinion…).
www.solumpress.com/publications...

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