Publications
2024 Poem “Late October Light” featured in anthology of winners of the Women’s National Book Association’s Writing Contest (forthcoming)
2023 Poems “The Button Box,” and “Outside Modern Myths: Waiting in the Car while the Teens Battle on Game Night” featured in “My Bones are in You” section of anthology WAVES: A Confluence of Women’s Voices
2023 Poems “Talisman” and “To my Daughter, Departing for Indonesia” in The Los Angeles Press
2023 Three collaborative collage-poem exchanges from the project “Our Edges Away,” made with Elizabeth Paul, in Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry Issue 37: Collaborations
2023 Poem “The Swing Set Refuses Blame for the Wasps’ Offense” in 3Elements Review
2023 Poem “The Whale” in SWWIM Every Day‘s #tbt feature from their archives
2023 Poem “There’s No Place Like Home” featured in “This World I Want You to Save” section of anthology WAVES: A Confluence of Women’s Voices (A Room of Her Own Foundation)
2023 Poems “On Mothering, Mortality, and the Wankel T. rex” & “Telling the Bees” in On the Seawall
2022 Poem “Husk,” from Uncertain Acrobats, highlighted in Sundress’s “The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed” feature, chosen by Guest Curator Kirsten Kowalewski
2022 Poem “Wycinanki” in Hayden’s Ferry Review’s web issue “Tiny Architectures”
2022 Poem “Thank You for Your Labors, Pioneer, Undertaken Often at Night” (in response to a Julie Lapping Rivera woodcut of Rachel Carson from her “Look Again” series) shown in exhibit “Another World Is Possible” at A.P.E. Gallery in Northampton, MA
2021 Full-length poetry collection Uncertain Acrobats (CavanKerry Press)
2021 Two collaborative collage-poem exchanges from the project “Our Edges Away,” made with Elizabeth Paul, in Tiny Spoon Issue 7: “Collaboration”
2021 Poems “Fifteen” and “As Bees” in Jet Fuel Review’s spring issue in the special “Golden Shovel” section
2021 Poem “Wellfleet” in Wayfinding: Poetry Celebrating America’s Parks and Public Lands anthology from Parks & Points (Finishing Line Press)
2020 Short fiction piece “Grady’s Heart” in LINEA
2020 Poems “Woodcut of Sylvia” and “Tiger Lady” in the collaborative woodcut and poetry exhibit “Look Again,” inspired by the NYT’s “Overlooked” series
2020 Poems “A Pair of Gloves” and “Listening to the Neighbor Girl Who Beat the Moonrise to Pick Something up from the Corner Store during the Pandemic” in Bracken Magazine’s “Corona Hopelings” issue, along with audio recordings
2020 Poem “Wrecked, Off Pavilion Beach” featured in Crab Creek Review blog
2020 Poem “Cape Ann” in Mom Egg Review’s “Home” Issue, Volume 18
2020 Collaborative poem/collage pairings in Aperçus Literary Magazine
2019 Poem “Basho muses that poets make poems like woodcutters swiftly fell trees” in The Massachusetts Review
2019 Poem “Golden Shovel Full of Darkness, Southern Flowers, and Moondust” in Tinderbox Poetry Journal
2019 Poetry chapbook Dressing the Wounds (dancing girl press)
2019 Poem “Temporary Cowgirl” featured in New Feral Press horse poem project
2019 Poem “‘Grounds of Memory’ Tour at the Homestead Museum” in Ode to the Dead Writers Collection chapbook from Straw Dog Writers Guild
2019 Poem “Long Marriage” in Molecule
2019 Virtual exhibit of collaborative poem/collage pairings in diaphanous micro
2019 Selections from How the Letters Invent Us, a collaborative manuscript, featured in Adirondack Review
2019 Poem “In Which I Am Anne of Green Gables Avoiding Doing the Dishes” in Nightjar Review
2019 Poem “Goldilocks” in MockingHeart Review
2019 Poem “Visitation” in Bracken anthology
2019 Poems “Daily” and “Dysmorphia” in MER VOX online quarterly folio, “Motherhood & Guilt” edition
2019 Poem “Wrecked, Off Pavilion Beach” in Crab Creek Review
2019 Poem “Tahlequah” featured in anthology For Love of Orcas
2019 Poem “Turritopsis dohrnii” featured in the “Poetry Spotlight” blog for Woven Tale Press
2019 Collaborative blog post in epistolary form on the theme of text-and-image work, written with Elizabeth Paul and published on the See Double Press blog
2019 Poem “Make Believe” in Wanderlust: The Best of 2019 Anthology
2019 Poem “Wellfleet” in Parks & Points & Poetry 2019
2019 Poem “Inheritance” in Mom Egg Review
2019 Poems “Turritopsis dohrnii,” “Grand Central Station,” and “Supermoon” in Woven Tale Press
2019 Short fiction piece “Fainting Couch” in LINEA
2019 Poem “Cartomancy” in Lily Poetry Review
2019 Collage/poem collaboration with Elizabeth Paul in Les Femmes Folles
2019 Featured artist for collage collaboration with Elizabeth Paul in The Indianapolis Review
2019 Collage/poem collaboration with Elizabeth Paul in petrichor’s Issue IX: Renewal
2018 Poem “The Whale” in SWWIM Every Day
2018 Poem “The Cancer Is Back” in Silkworm 11
2018 Poem “Humble Pie” featured in poetry craft book The Practicing Poet: Writing Beyond the Basics (published by Terrapin Books)
2018 Selections from How the Letters Invent Us, a collaborative manuscript written with Elizabeth Paul, featured in They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing (published by Black Lawrence Press)
2018 Selections from How the Letters Invent Us, a collaborative manuscript, featured in Duende
2018 Poem “What the Digital Sign Flashed at Me as I Drove Downtown” in Literary Mama
2018 Poems “How, Drinking One Monday in Massachusetts, I Remembered What I Felt on the Carrer de Mallorca in Spain One Long-Ago Winter” and “Make Believe” (with accompanying photographs) in Wanderlust Journal
2018 Poems “Soundtrack for Growing Up,” “Avian Envy” and “A New Song” in Hedge Apple magazine “Mix Tape: The Music Issue”
2018 Poems “Plein Air,” “On Learning about the Craft of Quilling from an Exhibit in the Field Memorial Library,” and “Where Lost Streets Go” featured in Compass Roads: Poems about the Pioneer Valley (published by Straw Dog Writers Guild)
2018 Poems “The Snail” and “Untethered” in the Plath Poetry Project February retrospective
2018 Poem “Pressed Flowers” in Mom Egg Review Vol. 16 – Play & Work Issue
2018 Poem “I Bet Beavers Never Want to Live a Different Life” in the Plath Poetry Project January retrospective
2018 Poem ” ‘The Finding of Erichthonius’: A Study in Stages” in “Pictures” edition of The Ilanot Review
2018 Poems “The Conception of Immaculate” and “Perigee” in the Plath Poetry Project December retrospective
2017 Poem “Ball & Chain” in the Plath Poetry Project November retrospective
2017 Poem “Fawn” in MER VOX online quarterly folio, #MeToo edition
2017 Poem “Wish” in the Plath Poetry Project October Week Three retrospective
2017 Poem “Book of Changes” in Anthem: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen, a charity anthology from Nocturnicorn Books
2017 Poem “The Terrible Rooms of Mirrors” in the Plath Poetry Project October Week One retrospective
2017 Poem “Mockingbird Elegy” in Silkworm 10
2017 Poem “Sylvia’s Present” in the Plath Poetry Project September retrospective
2017 Poem “Reading Tarot before our Eighteenth Anniversary” named “Poem of the Moment” at masspoetry.org
2017 Poems “I Have Nothing to Confess” and “On Learning to Say No” in Plath Poetry Project July retrospective
2017 Poem “Dark-eyed Junco” in Solstice Literary Magazine
2017 Poem “Gloucester Music” in the Plath Poetry Project May retrospective
2017 Poem “Paradelle for the Robins” in Iowa Bird of Mouth (IBOM) Project
2017 Poems “The Bow” and “Trigger” in the Plath Poetry Project April retrospective
2017 Poem “Hurricane Necklace” in Virga Magazine
2017 Poem “Malum” in Mom Egg Review
2017 Poem “What I Remember About Heidi” in Naugatuck River Review
2017 Poem “Visitation” in Bracken Magazine
2017 Poem “Dressing the Wounds” in Radar Poetry
2016 Poems “Maid of Honor” and “Considering Delores” in Queen of Cups
2016 Guest column “Time to listen, avoid hypocrisy” in Daily Hampshire Gazette
2016 Poem “Seneca Deer” in Yemassee Journal
2016 Poems “Oz” and “Biomimicry” in The Gallery of Readers Anthology
2016 Book review of Dinner with Emerson in Solstice Literary Magazine
2016 Poems “Mass on the Mammogram,” “Poetry,” and “Why I Became an English Teacher” in The Dandelion Review
2016 Book review of Admit One: An American Scrapbook in Solstice Literary Magazine
2016 Poem “Strange Fruit” on Joshua Michael Stewart’s blog, as Jazz Poetry #13
2016 Book review of Waving Back in Valparaiso Poetry Review
2015 Book review of The Land Has Its Say in Rain Taxi Review of Books
2015 Poem “Strange Fruit” in Brilliant Corners
2015 Poem “Green Halloween” in 30 Poems in November! anthology
2015 Book review of Seascape in Rain Taxi Review of Books
2015 Poem “Alita Darcy” on Danny Earl Simmons’ poetry blog, as Poems I Admire #10
2015 Book review of I Carry My Mother in Solstice Literary Magazine
2014 Poem “Late October Light” in Bookwoman
2014 Poem “Return to Great Meadows” in Lemon Hound
2014 Poem “Driving Lessons” in 30 Poems in November! anthology
2014 Poem “In Memorium” in Silkworm
2014 Poem “Alita Darcy” in Naugatuck River Review
2014 Poem “Kimona” in Naugatuck River Review
2013 Poem “Alita Darcy” in 30 Poems in November! anthology
2013 Poem “Reciprocity” in Common Ground Review
2012 Poem “Veterans Day on Authors Ridge” in 30 Poems in November! anthology
2011 Poem “Before the Divorce” in 30 Poems in November! anthology
2010 Poem “On Walking Past the Cemetery Gates” in 30 Poems in November! anthology
2009 Poem “Modest Joy” featured on “The Bill Dwight Show” radio program
4 Comments
Linda Murphy Marshall
I especially LOVED “The Terrible Rooms of Mirrors” — wow…..spoke to me….wish I’d read it decades ago! Thanks for your beautiful art and poetry, Rebecca!
Rebecca Hart Olander
I really appreciate your comment, Linda. Thank you for checking out my work. I wish I had taken in that message decades ago, also!
Dale Jones
I really enjoyed your poem I BET BEAVERS NEVER WANT TO LIVE A DIFFERENT LIFE that was published in The Plath Poetry Project in January.
Rebecca Hart Olander
Thanks so much for reading and for saying so, Dale!