Works on the Web
A Selection of James Penha's Recent Online Publications
Poetry
[the curtain parts haiga.] Black & White Haiga/Haisha 2 April 2024.
“Quicksilver.” A Plate of Pandemic Spring 2024.
“Stitches in Time.” The Westchester Review Spring 2024.
[Two Politiku.] Setu Magazine February 2024.
[beneath solemn boughs haiku.] Pure Haiku 25 February 2024
[branches prolongate haiku.] Pure Haiku 21 February 2024.
“Secrets in My Indonesian Garden.” Secrets in My Garden: A Fifth Wheel Anthology 19 January 2024.
“From Empathy to Tonglen.” MacQueen’s Quinterly 21 (2024).
“Justin Peck.” MacQueen’s Quinterly 21 (2024).
[The UnBorneo.] Cold Moon Journal 1 January 2024.
“Halloween Haiku 24.” Haikuniverse 31 October 2023.
“Tumbler.” Coalition for Digital Narratives 2 (2023).
“Ella Sings the Herbal Cookbook.” Silver Birch Press 26 September 2023.
[arranging ourselves] and [railway steps.] Cold Moon Journal 7 September 2023.
“Bali Hai Ku.” Synchronized Chaos 1 September 2023.
[bridal veil mushroom haiga.] DailyHaiga 29 August 2023.
[smashed antique haiku.] Cold Moon Journal 26 August 2023.
“Haibun Adapted From a Sumatran Folk Tale.” Drifting Sands 22 (2023).
“Our Hands” audio. Stanza Cannon 6 (2023)
[Hanshan’s selflessness.] Cold Moon Journal 28 June 2023.
“A Queerly Platonic Child.” Third Street Review 1.2 (2023).
“Air-Gen-Ku.” The Sciku Project 22 June 2023.
[no inclination.] Heterodox Haiku 3 (2023).
“Li Po’s Last Line.” One-Sentence Poems 14 June 2023.
[sunrise haiku] and [soursop haiku]. Folk Ku Journal 1 (2023): 24, 52.
"Where There Are Forks." Plum Tree Tavern 12 May 2023.
"Valkyrie-ku." Light Winter/Spring 2023.
“Cows.” Gyroscope Review 30 April 2023.
"Night Sea Haiku." The Primer 3 (2023).
"Bali Metamorphosis." Plum Tree Tavern 21 April 2023.
[Cold Night Haiku.] Cold Moon Journal 12 April 2023.
“Alternative Supper.” DaDaKuKu 7 April 2023.
“If a Tree Talks in a Forest.” The Sciku Project 6 April 2023.
"A Maizing Graze." Culinary Origami Journal 1 (2023).
“At Bay.” Come Sail Away, ed. Nat Raum (New York: Fifth Wheel Press, 2023).
"Brooding." Terse Journal 6 March 2023.
[Haiku Valentine.] HaikUniverse 14 February 2023.
"After Flunking the Modern Dating Vocabulary Quiz in the NY Times." dadakuku 13 February 2023.
[Whimpering Haiku.] HaikUniverse 7 February 2023.
"Monument." ZiN Daily 1 February 2023.
"Quantumku." The Sciku Project 19 January 2023.
"Under the Falls." Niagara Falls Poetry Project 15 January 2023.
“To Be Human.” Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry) 15 December 2022.
“The Portrait of Durian Gay.” Lighten Up Online 60 (2022).
"No Autumn in Bali But." Plum Tree Tavern Autumn Moon Festival 2022.
"Scene Along a Road in Bali" and "Ups and Downs." Indecent Magazine 2 (2022).
"Circumspection." Silver Birch Press 27 October 2022.
"Promenade." Fevers of the Mind 7 October 2022.
"In Name Only. Bulb Culture Collective 30 September 2022.
"Proscenium in Bali” and “Life of Plants.” Audio versions. Stanza Cannon 3 (2022)
[Two LGBTIQA Haiku: basketball teammates and frozen brushes.] Heterodox Haiku Journal 1 (2022): 21, 22.
"Scareman" and "Just Maple." The Field Guide Poetry Magazine 3 (2022).
"The Fingernails of History." All My Relations 3 (2022): 52-54.
"Too Graphic." The New Verse News 15 July 2022.
"Sunflowers & Dark Paint." The Hyacinth Review 9 July 2022.
"Quantum Hair." Consilience 9 (2022).
"Life of Plants." Hyacinth Review 25 June 2022.
"Caught." A Plate of Pandemic 21 June 2022.
“Leaves of Bamboo.” Hyacinth Review 25 May 2022.
“AARP.” Light Winter/Spring 2022.
"De-Empathize." Isele Magazine: The Reborn Issue (2022).
"Stage Set." Mental Rhythm Magazine 1 (2022).
"Just Maple." Scrawl Place 7 April 2022.
"Found in Amber." The Hyacinth Review 30 March 2022.
[Eventide: a Vardhaku]. Moonflower Journeys 1 March 2022.
2 Poems: "Falling Out" and "aubad (sic)." Discretionary Love 27 February 2022. Audio of "Falling Out" read by the poet at Stanza Cannon 1 (2022).
"A Vardhaku [These Eggs]." Waterways 42.8 (2022): 4.
"February." Brave Voices 11 February 2022.
"Unforgettable." Versification February 2022. Scroll down at site.
3 Poems: "Elementary My Dear," "Flying," "Now We Know." Angel Rust 8 (2022).
"Witness." Silver Birch Press 21 January 2022.
5 Poems: “Pleas,” I Met Allen Ginsberg in the Balcony,” “Roof Dreams, “Confidence, “Our Father’s Garage.”New World Writing 15 January 2022.
[Cold Sijo.] One Art 11 January 2022.
"Bali Haiku." Hyacinth Review 7 January 2022.
"Fall." Lavender Lime Literary 2 (2021).
"Metamology." The New Verse News 30 November 2021.
"Making History." Provenance Journal 1 (2021).
"Setia." Poetry and Places 1 August 2021.
"Platt." Niagara Falls Poetry Project 20 (2021).
"Poem for the Poet." Live Nude Poems 31 May 2021.
"Allen v Woody." Impspired 11 (2021).
"Joycean." Aji Magazine 14 (2021): 128.
“Death Mask.” High Shelf XXX (2021): 80.
“Writing Process.” Silver Birch Press 15 May 2021.
"Ravin' Baltimore." Last Leaves Magazine 2 (2021): 162.
"Cupped." Tealight Press 1 May 2021.
“Brass Rail.” époque press e-zine 9 (2021).
"Cypress." Impossible Archetype 9 (2021): 89-90.
“Eyes of Argus; Eyes of Argos.” Beliveau Review 2.2 (2021): 48.
"Embrace," "Duplex: Complex," and "La Vie En Rose." Fragments 1 (2021): 12, 18, 19.
"Crash." Burrow 2 (2021).
"The Old Ball and Chain." The Raven's Perch 13 December 2020.
"The Good Life." The Raven's Perch 13 December 2020.
"National Park." The Raven's Perch 13 December 2020.
"Waiting for the Fall, or The Uncertainty of the Plague.” Poemeleon: The Plague Papers 30 October 2020.
"Roots." Poetry and Places 10 October 2020.
"Choice." Burrow 1 (2020).
"Bali Kite Season 2020." Impossible Archetype 8 (2020): 38-39.
"When I Die of This." New Feathers Anthology 1.2 (2020).
"Crossing Sunda Strait by Ferry." Silver Birch Press 8 August 2020.
"A President So Vile." The New Verse News 19 July 2020.
"Night School." Red Earth Review 8 (2020): 124.
"Masquerade." Silver Birch Press 1 June 2020.
"The Dreadful Figure." The New Verse News 17 May 2020.
"Grandfathers." Aji 12 (2020): 89.
Fiction
“The River Where There Are Forks.” Open Door Magazine 27 (2003): 139-141.
“In Equilibrium.” Lothlorien Poetry Journal Blog 29 August 2023.
“Tattoos Tell the Tale.” The Creative Zine 6 (2023): 7.
“The Sensitive Sons.” Orion’s Beau Summer 2023.
“Star Turn.” The Blue Mountain Review September 2022: 263.
"Dust and Stone." Carmina Magazine September 2022.
"The Poet, His Husband, and The Fox" Part I & Part II. Soft Star Magazine 8 & 10 September 2022.
"Kuntilanak." Indecent Magazine 1 (2022).
"Will Be Boys." Unlikely Stories Mark V 28 July 2022.
"Jessica." Rhodora Magazine 5 (2022). Scroll down pdf to page 87.
"Tinta Putih." Brown Bag Online 4 (2021).
"His Last Post-Game." Burningword 100 (2021).
"The Snake Boy." Carmina Magazine September 2021.
"The Great Encyclopedia." Book of Matches 1 (2021).
"Junk." Levitate 4 (2020): 73-80.
"Filling Station." Rpt. Bewildering Stories 884 (2020).
"Chutes and Ladders." Sad Girls Club 30 August 2020.
"All Fall Down." Rpt. Down in the Dirt 172 (2020).
"Charming." Rpt. Bewildering Stories 858 (2020).
"Unlocking Purple." Unlikely Stories Mark V 18 May 2020.
“Candlenut Farm.” Rpt. Bewildering Stories 848 (2020).
“Leaves of Peace.” Rpt. Bewildering Stories 839 (2020).
Non-Fiction
“It’s Now Or Never.” Emerge Literary Journal 29 (2024).
“Good Things.” Magazine1 1 (2024).
“Earning Points.” The New York Times Metropolitan Diary 19 November 2023.
"Better Off." The Good Life Review 1 (2020).
"Smith's Last Season." New Pages Blog 24 September 2020.
“First to Last.” Amsterdam Quarterly 27 (2020).