{"id":12,"date":"2013-05-07T21:42:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T21:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.r-prins.com\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2026-03-30T12:45:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:45:25","slug":"poems","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.r-prins.com\/?page_id=12","title":{"rendered":"Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"

For translated Swahili poems, please see “Swahili Translation” tab above<\/em><\/p>\n

Chapbook<\/strong><\/p>\n

We May Eat Fruit<\/a> <\/em>(Ghostbird Press 2025), winner of 2025 Birdhouse Prize<\/p>\n

Journals<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Gondolier” in\u00a0Willows Wept Review<\/em><\/p>\n

“Natural History”<\/a> in\u00a0Rattle<\/em><\/p>\n

“Examine Your Own Necks”<\/a> in\u00a0Redivider<\/em><\/p>\n

“Samson’s Blues”<\/a> in\u00a0The Shore<\/em><\/p>\n

“God I need your face in mine”<\/a> in\u00a0Pandemic Publications\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

“Fear Music”<\/a> in\u00a0The Inflectionist Review<\/em><\/p>\n

“Pantoum by\u00a0Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire” in\u00a0Subtropics<\/em><\/p>\n

“Things To Try That Might Knock Out the Virus”<\/a> in\u00a0Rattle: Poets Respond<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cArrest This Poem\u201d<\/a> in\u00a0Rattle<\/em><\/p>\n

“Pantoum by Charles Mingus”<\/a> in\u00a0Palette Poetry<\/em><\/p>\n

“Platypus Milk” in Third Coast<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cBiosphere\u201d<\/a> in RHINO<\/em><\/p>\n

“Prospect Park” in\u00a0Relief: A Journal of Art and Faith<\/em><\/p>\n

“Venus Retrograde” in Minnesota Review<\/em><\/p>\n

“Pantoum by Frank O’Hara” in Ploughshares<\/em><\/p>\n

“Bless Me, Editor”<\/a> in Rattle<\/em><\/p>\n

“Pantoum Found in Prince Lyrics” in Sycamore Review<\/em><\/p>\n

“Jonah” in\u00a0Sou’wester<\/em><\/p>\n

“David With the Head” in\u00a0By&By Poetry<\/em><\/p>\n

“Love in the Time of Trump”<\/a> in Rise Up Review<\/em><\/p>\n

“Surrender” in\u00a0jubilat<\/em><\/p>\n

“On Miracles” and “This I Know”<\/a> in\u00a0Hobart<\/em><\/p>\n

“Pantoum Found in\u00a0Jesus’ Son<\/em>” in\u00a0Passages North<\/em><\/p>\n

“Tomorrowing” in\u00a0Bayou Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n

“The Beverages” in\u00a0Gargoyle Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n

“Pantoum Found in Talking Heads Lyrics”<\/a> in\u00a0Gulf Coast<\/em><\/p>\n

“Prosopagnosia” in Barrow Street<\/i><\/p>\n

“Pantoum Found in Tom Waits Lyrics” in\u00a0Willow Springs<\/em><\/p>\n

“It’s my birthday” in\u00a0burntdistrict<\/em><\/p>\n

“Scarring the Linger” in\u00a0Slipstream<\/em><\/p>\n

“Pantoum Found in Glass<\/a>” in\u00a0The Pedestal Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n

“Pantoum Found in Eric Garner’s Last Words” in\u00a0Entropy Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n

“Pantoum Found in Dylan Lyrics” in\u00a0Cimarron Review<\/em><\/p>\n

“Stories” in\u00a0The Found Poetry Review<\/em><\/p>\n

“Rare Soul”<\/a> in\u00a0Spry Literary Journal;\u00a0<\/em>see also my contributor’s interview<\/a><\/p>\n

“Hedging” in\u00a0The Raintown Review<\/em><\/p>\n

“Songline” in The\u00a0<\/em>Emerson Review<\/em><\/p>\n

“Pantoum by Thelonious Monk”<\/a> in\u00a0Booth<\/em><\/p>\n

“The Anthropologist” and “While looking at some paintings by Howard Hodgkin” in\u00a0Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics<\/i><\/p>\n

“Zunguka”<\/a> in\u00a0The Baltimore Review<\/em><\/p>\n

“Pantoum Found in\u00a0Howl<\/em>“<\/a> in\u00a0Thrush Poetry Journal<\/em><\/p>\n

“Memento Mori”<\/a> in\u00a0Strange Horizons<\/i><\/p>\n

“I Touch” in\u00a0Foundling Review<\/em><\/p>\n

“Restless Sabbath” in\u00a0Los Angeles Review<\/i><\/p>\n

“Pantoum by Bob Kaufman”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0B O D Y<\/em><\/p>\n

“Kinnings”<\/a> in\u00a0Jersey Devil Press<\/em><\/p>\n

“Pantoum by Leonard Cohen” in\u00a0Redivider<\/i><\/p>\n

“God take off your mask”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Painted Bride Quarterly<\/i><\/p>\n

“The God Zoo”<\/a> in\u00a0Rattle<\/i><\/p>\n

“Some God” in\u00a0Los Angeles Review<\/i>\u00a0(also nominated for Best New Poets 2012)<\/p>\n

“Genesis & Exodus,” “Sleepfaring” and “Pantoum By Judith Butler”\u00a0in\u00a0kill author<\/i><\/p>\n

“Heresy”<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0decomP Magazine<\/i><\/p>\n

“Dead Man” in\u00a0Word Riot<\/em><\/p>\n

“Pantoum Imitating Christ” and “Equinox Blues” in\u00a0Why I’m Not a Painter: A Gathering of Poems by NYC MFA Students<\/i><\/p>\n

“Overheard Haiku” and “Pantoum”<\/a>\u00a0in elimae<\/i><\/p>\n

“My Familiar” in Boston Literary Review<\/i><\/p>\n

“I Read Poetry For the Articles” and “The Content of This Advertisement Blues” in Anastomoo<\/i><\/p>\n

“a saxophone’s the only thing”<\/a> in Camroc Press Review<\/i><\/p>\n

“The Garden” in Foundling Review<\/i><\/p>\n

“The Algae Blues” in Zygote in My Coffee<\/i><\/p>\n

“My Taphophile Dreams” in\u00a0Six Sentences<\/em><\/p>\n

“All Hallowed Out” in\u00a0The Catalonian Review<\/em><\/p>\n

“Joblibs” in\u00a0Thirteen Myna Birds<\/em><\/p>\n

“The Best Chaperone”<\/a> in elimae<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n

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For translated Swahili poems, please see “Swahili Translation” tab above Chapbook We May Eat Fruit (Ghostbird Press 2025), winner of 2025 Birdhouse Prize Journals “Gondolier” in\u00a0Willows Wept Review “Natural History” in\u00a0Rattle “Examine Your Own Necks” in\u00a0Redivider “Samson’s Blues” in\u00a0The Shore “God I need your face in mine” in\u00a0Pandemic Publications\u00a0 “Fear Music” in\u00a0The Inflectionist Review “Pantoum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.r-prins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.r-prins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.r-prins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.r-prins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.r-prins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.r-prins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"http:\/\/www.r-prins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.r-prins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}