Some Recent Stuff: click on the image to read an essay
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"How to Stop Being a Survivor" in ENOUGH at The Rumpus
(Scroll to the last essay at the bottom of the webpage) |
"Monsters" at Hippocampus Magazine
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2018 Iron Horse Trifecta Winner, Leaving A Trace
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Geffrey Davis selected "Leaving a Trace" as the winner of the poetry Trifecta - an annual competition from The Iron Horse Literary Review for a long poem presented in a lovely e-book edition.
"In this haunting poem, Figg explores the discovery of patient/inmate remains in an abandoned asylum, now the Oregon State Hospital Museum of Mental Health in Salem, Oregon. In partnership with time, the poem says, we continue to confine, forget, and ignore the people who once lived here. The poem also makes use of David Maisel's beautiful series of photographs depicting the canisters, Library of Dust." |
Contributor, The Strategic Poet: Honing the Craft edited by Diane Lockward
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Named one of the Best Books for Writers by Poets & Writers!
I'm delighted to be part of this wonderful craft collection, The Strategic Poet: Honing the Craft edited by Diane Lockward (Terrapin Books, 2021), in which I offer commentary on a particular craft element (hyperbole!) in my poem, "A Rogue Dream." The Strategic Poet is chock-full of wonderful poets (Ellen Bass, Diane Suess, Ada Limon, Camille Dungy, and more!) offering craft talks, model poems, and prompts. It's a wonderful book for the poets in your life, or a nice treat for yourself. |
Contributor, and if that mockingbird don't sing: Parenting Stories Gone Speculative edited by Hannah Grieco
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I'm delighted to be part of this rich, angry, honest, wonderful collection, and if that mockingbird don't sing: Parenting Stories Gone Speculative, edited by Hannah Grieco (alternating current press, 2022) - a terrific collection of 75 flash pieces from 76 authors. Good News! My hermit crab in this collection - “step·moth·er (step-muhth-er)” - has been nominated by the editors of Alternating Current Press for Best Microfiction 2023. (A percentage of the proceeds from sales of this book will go to Family Equality: https://www.familyequality.org) |
Some Online Writings
"Haiku for a Young Mother" in coop zine #4
"First Bike Ride" in Rogue Agent, issue 92 - Nominated for Best of the Net!
"Dear Jim" - and an audio recording of me reading the poem, are in The Rappahannock Review, along with an interview with the editors.
"A Rogue Dream" - featured on the Academy of American Poets for their Poem-A-Day & Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
The hermit crab "Home for Rent" in The American Journal of Poetry
Three poems from by book Trace were re-printed in Soul-Lit: "After she returns, One Way Loneliness Falls, and Regardless of what is there to be seen"
"Rivercrest" is at Your Impossible Voice
"Dry Season" in Feral: A Journal of Poetry and Art
"Winter's Toll" in ONE ART
"Souvenir" and "Annunciate" in Amethyst Review
A prose poem in Lines + Stars
My long poem, “Leaving a Trace,” won the Iron Horse Literary Review’s 2018 Trifecta, and is available as a beautiful, free e-single.
“Untitled” in Nimrod - Finalist for the 35th Nimrod Literary Awards~Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry
My collaboration with visual artist, Yumi Hirokawa: “The Secret of Bells” and "Belonging"
Two poems in So To Speak
Four poems – with audio recording - in Menacing Hedge
“Almost Enough to Navigate By” in The Ekphrastic Review
“Belonging” in The Ekphrastic Review
My review of Dana Levin's terrific debut In the Surgical Theatre in Rain Taxi
"First Bike Ride" in Rogue Agent, issue 92 - Nominated for Best of the Net!
"Dear Jim" - and an audio recording of me reading the poem, are in The Rappahannock Review, along with an interview with the editors.
"A Rogue Dream" - featured on the Academy of American Poets for their Poem-A-Day & Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
The hermit crab "Home for Rent" in The American Journal of Poetry
Three poems from by book Trace were re-printed in Soul-Lit: "After she returns, One Way Loneliness Falls, and Regardless of what is there to be seen"
"Rivercrest" is at Your Impossible Voice
"Dry Season" in Feral: A Journal of Poetry and Art
"Winter's Toll" in ONE ART
"Souvenir" and "Annunciate" in Amethyst Review
A prose poem in Lines + Stars
My long poem, “Leaving a Trace,” won the Iron Horse Literary Review’s 2018 Trifecta, and is available as a beautiful, free e-single.
“Untitled” in Nimrod - Finalist for the 35th Nimrod Literary Awards~Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry
My collaboration with visual artist, Yumi Hirokawa: “The Secret of Bells” and "Belonging"
Two poems in So To Speak
Four poems – with audio recording - in Menacing Hedge
“Almost Enough to Navigate By” in The Ekphrastic Review
“Belonging” in The Ekphrastic Review
My review of Dana Levin's terrific debut In the Surgical Theatre in Rain Taxi
Poetry Chapbook
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Hurry, Love is a chapbook collaboration
with paper artist/metal worker, Doug Abbott. In workingman and fine arts editions. (Fuori Editions, 2014.) Sold Out. |
Thanks to the editors of these literary journals where my work is published
Academy of American Poets, ache, American Journal of Poetry, Colorado Review, Conduit, Crab Creek Review, Crab Orchard Review, Crania, Ekphrastic Review, Evergreen Chronicles, Fuori, Hippocampus, Iron Horse Literary Review (winner of the 2018 Trifecta), Iowa Review, Lines + Stars, LIT 9, Luna, Many Mountains Moving, Margie (aka American Journal of Poetry), Menacing Hedge, Mezzo Cammin, Mid-American Review, The MOON Magazine, Muddy River Poetry Review, Naugatuck River Review, Nimrod, Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts, Poet Lore, Quarterly West, Rappahannock Review, Rise Up Review, River Oak Review, The Rumpus, Saranac Review, Sinister Wisdom, So to Speak, Sonora Review, Soul-Lit, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Swerve, Your Impossible Voice, Water~Stone
