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Poetry

I write speculative and contemporary poetry.

I am also an occasional poetry busker.

Online & Magazine Publications

Fortunately most of my poetry is free to read online! If you'd like to read any that aren't, consider supporting the magazines. If that's not possible, please email me and I can send you a PDF. 

After the Chemicals Decay

Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, March/April 2025. (Vol. 49, #3 & 4)
https://www.asimovs.com/current-issue/poetry/

possum poem

Gutter, 2025. Issue 31. 
https://www.guttermag.co.uk/getgutter/p/gutter-31

Not available to read online

the time travel treehouse takes its final bow

The Sprawl Mag, 2024. 

https://www.thesprawlmag.ca/vol-2-1

Nominated for Best of the Net 2024.

swimming in the dying light of summer (tennessee, 2023)

true story

Saving Daylight, 2024. 

https://www.savingdaylightmag.com/order-issue-4/p/issue-4-new-beginnings-preorder

Not available to read online

in the cave she walks away

we used to meet in the drowned station

ferried away

Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, 2023.

https://www.penumbric.com/archives/February2k23/mcnerneyFerried.html

Sestina for
a Summer Solstice

I had the honor of editing one of the Science Fiction Poetry Association's Magazines, Eye to the Telescope! It was an absolute delight to open this themed call, select from the hundreds of submitted poems, and build a table of contents that covers all sides of food and feasting. Click the link above to read the issue!

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