jyocum
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“Sonnet 5” is forthcoming in the July 2026 issue of Moonday Mag.
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“Motor Mouth” is forthcoming in either the Summer or Winter 2025 issue of The Comstock Review.
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“Your father” is forthcoming in the Winter 2025 issue (Vol. 8 No. 3) of Thimble Literary Magazine.
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“Vernissage” appears in the December 7th feature of $ Poetry Is Currency.
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“Pegasus City” appears in the December 7th feature of $ Poetry Is Currency.
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$ (Poetry is Currency) is one of my favorite places to find new and exciting poetry, so it is with great pleasure that I can report I’m their featured poet today. I’m greatly honored to be included in their (digital) pages. I invite you to head over to their fantastic site and read my poems…
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Pinhole Poetry has published a series of interviews as a complement to their October issue, and I’m pleased as punk rock to have been featured among the subjects. Find a series of craft- and life-related questions from their editorial staff, with my answers, here: https://pinholepoetry.ca/an-interview-with-j-l-yocum/
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Thanks to all seventy-seven poets and writers who submitted to my half of the HAD guest co-hosted submission call! It was a great pleasure reading all of your works, and I’m really excited to see the accepted pieces up at https://www.havehashad.com/ in the next week. Aaron and Crow have advised that these works should start…
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On August 19th, during the literary journal HAD’s fifth anniversary submission call, the editors announced: “If anyone guesses the exact number of submissions we’ll get, we’ll let you guest edit a call.” Tanya Žilinskas and I both guessed 537, the closest guess of anyone by a long shot, thereby winning the prize of co-hosting a…
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“Where the kittens hide” appears in the October 2025 issue of Pinhole Poetry.