J. L. Yocum

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  • “An Interview with J. L. Yocum” in Pinhole Poetry

    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/

  • Made it through!

    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…

  • On Tuesday I’ll be co-hosting a HAD submission call with Tanya Žilinskas

    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…

  • Poem published today in Pinhole Poetry

    In the immortal words of Cady Heron, “It’s October 3rd.” And that means that Pinhole Poetry published their Issue 4.3 today, featuring works by twenty-five different contributors, including yours truly. My poem “Where the kittens hide” appears on the fifth page, and I couldn’t be more pleased to see it there. This little piece was…

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