In dark times, I'm grateful to have my poems "Agglutination", "Chicxulub Köçekçe / Pioneer Species", and "Snowglobe" in the Home Is Where You Queer Your Heart anthology, out in March via Foglifter Press! Shoutout to the brilliant, beautiful queer fam who I'm privileged to share this space with, including my loves Jubi Arriola-Headley, Carson Beker, and Kay Ulanday Barrett! You can preorder here.
I'm happy to announce that my poem "Trickle-Down Theory" has been anthologized in Lamar University Literary Press's Odes and Elegies: Eco-Poetry from the Texas Gulf Coast. I'm super happy to be featured with some of my Texas poetic heroes in Kevin Prufer, Martha Serpas, and more! You can grab a copy here.
This issue features an Evan James-curated folio entitled America Fantastica, and it's all worth a read!
One of my longtime dream journals, Gulf Coast, has published my poem "Chicxulub Köçekçe / Pioneer Species” as an Online Exclusive! You can read it here now. Gulf Coast's contribution to Houston's literary community is immeasurable, and I personally credit many Boldface Conferences for Emerging Writers for my literary development. I highly recommend subscribing!
This is really a dream journal of mine, y'all! My poem "Snowglobe" has been published in Pleiades! Unfortunately it's behind a paywall but if you have institutional access or or $ you can read it here.
I'm beyond excited to have my poem "Foundation" featured in one of my #dreamjournals, The Missouri Review, as their Poem of the Week! Shout out to Houston's best riot grrl band Giant Kitty (though, sadly, they're on hiatus) and the video whose shoot initially inspired the poem. Check the poem out here!
I'm very grateful to have previously-published pieces "Sickle", "Molluscs", "Resolution", "Trickle-Down Theory", and "Ode to United Fruit" in the anthology Misrepresented People: Poetic Responses to Trump's America, published by New York Quarterly Books. I'm excited to share space with idols like Kaveh Akbar, Fatimah Asghar, Martin Espada, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Gregory Pardlo, Kevin Prufer, sam sax, and many others! <3
I'm a bit behind the curve on this one, since I received my copy a couple of months ago, but the winter has been full of travel and I'm just catching up on the site. You can purchase the latest issue of peculiar: a queer literary journal, which features my Utah Pride Center Poetry & Prose Contest-winning "Sickle" here!
I'm feeling more and more at home in Salt Lake lately, and a large part of that is due to the creative, intersectional activists at Wasatch Rising Tide. My poem "Quijote" has been re-published in their Brine Waves project; check it out here!
So excited that my poem "Sickle" was selected as the 1st place winner in the Utah Pride Center Poetry and Prose Writing Contest! There will be a reading featuring all the winners on April 4; Salt Lakers, I'd love to see you there. "Sickle" is currently published in Black Heart Magazine and will be re-published in the fabulous local queer poetry magazine Peculiar.
If you like "Sickle" or my other work, please consider donating or sharing to help me make it to the Lambda Literary Writers' Retreat. I can't make it without your help, and the Retreat would help me continue to develop my writing while surrounded by other queer poets and writers. Thanks for all your support <3 |
AuthorKenan Ince is a mathematician, poet, and organizer from Denton, TX, living on occupied Shoshone, Paiute, Goshute and Ute territory (so-called Salt Lake City). Their work has appeared in Gulf Coast, Pleiades and Word Riot, among others. They are the recipient of scholarships to the Antioch Writers’ Workshop and Lambda Literary Writers' Retreat and the winner of the Utah Pride Center Poetry & Prose Contest. Archives
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