J. L. Yocum

Pinhole Poetry

  • “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/

  • I keep finding the corpses of kittensin the last place you’d expect. The hamper,my briefcase, the bulk nuts bin, in the librarytucked behind reference volumes of medievalfolklore, or the poetics of astronomy. They won’t say how they died, but they tell metheir names: Clover, Honeydew, Thorn.Each becomes a tender task:how to dispose of them without…

  • 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…