Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Happy to share that my poem "How Can It Be?" has just appeared in Poetry Salzburg Review. Many thanks to editor Wolfgang Görtschacher for including it among so many other fine pieces in Issue 43. 000
Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Thanks to editor @jrobertlennon.com and @epochliterary.com for including my odd little piece "Nineteen Footnotes on a Poem About My Marriage" as a featured essay in the Fall 2025 issue. I'm grateful to be part of such an impressive collection. You can find it at www.epochliterary.com/featuredessay 056
Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Brain-damaged psychopath methamphetamine addict . . . we're now squarely in the "Tuco Salamanca" era in the history of the republic. 020
Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Many thanks to Adam Bechtold and Dylan Hogan at @samfiftyfour.bsky.social for their deep dive into my odd, cross-genre piece "Prayer for a Lost Child (with notes)" on the Jan. 16 edition of Samfiftyfour's "Loose Criteria" podcast. You can find it here: open.spotify.com/episode/0ef1...open.spotify.comAlmost Unimaginable Suffering 130
Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 21/01/2025I'm excited to share that my poem "The Dardanelles: Hero and Leander at 60" has been selected as one of the winners of the Lazuli Literary Group's fall prize. I'm grateful to editor Sakina Fakhri for her support and guidance. You can read the piece here: www.lazuliliterarygroup.com/the-dardanel...lazuliliterarygroup.comTHE DARDANELLES (HERO AND LEANDER AT 60) by Greg SendiIt shows the moment in the tale \ she wails to find his pale exquisite corpse. \ entangled in the kelp beside the water. \ The truth, of course, is odder. 038
Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Many thanks to the team at US Catholic magazine and its gifted editor Rebecca Bratten Weiss (@rbratten.bsky.social) for making a home for my poem "Prayer for a Lost Child." It's about a lot of things . . . fathers and daughters, prayers, grave things in the dark and old railroads and railroad men. 058
Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 10/12/2024In Act III, Scene 1 of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, Titus has been presented with the monstrous reality of his daughter's assault and mutilation, the decapitated heads of two sons and his own severed hand. From the depth of his horror and grief, he starts to laugh . . . youtu.be/VMHDO-bmba0?...youtu.beTitusYouTube video by Greg Sendi 040
Reposted by Greg SendiHannah Cohen @hcohen.bsky.social · 05/12/2024a few years ago I took this picture of a toilet on the street corner and it’s haunted me ever since there are poems everywhere for those with eyes to see 4322
Reposted by Greg SendiMichael Bazzett @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Feeling grateful for my sister, who for 20 years gathered our complicated clan at her house, until her passing a little over two years ago. She visited us, briefly, a few months later. This one's for her. 1217023
Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Let's be honest about what is happening all around us now . . . we are entering one of our culture's frequent periods of violent erasure. Other cultures have these (the Inquisition, Stalinism, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the Rwandan genocide) but these cultures have one every thousand years. 110
Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 18/11/2024My long(ish) poem "Night Ride Across the Alleghenies" traces the story of my parents' hasty wedding in Feb. 1963. Along the way, it asks about memory, secrets, vagrancy, the Civil War, surveillance and the "just so stories" we invent to fill in the gaps. 246
Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Happy to share that my poem "Repair" has just appeared in the July edition of Plume Poetry. You can find it here (plumepoetry.com/repair/) with a few of my thoughts about it here (plumepoetry.com/poets-and-tr...). Many thanks to Danny Lawless and the entire Plume editorial team.plumepoetry.comRepair - PlumeRepair In this, our chapter on enamelware and waffle towels, it’s perfectly fair to recast me some adjutant for homeward things and puttering jobs— her greyloaf darling of hinges and knobs, and la... 033
Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Very excited to share that my poem "Memento Mori" appeared in Issue 118 of Image Journal. You can find it at imagejournal.org/article/meme... Thanks to the editors who made it happen, especially Shane McCrae and the fantastic Mary Kenagy Mitchell.imagejournal.orgMemento Mori - Image Journallet pass another word / of love impossible submerged. 010
Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024My short story, "Two Not Touch," appeared in Volume 22 of Bridge Magazine (www.bridge-chicago.org/bridge-store...). Grateful to fiction editor Meghan Lamb and the Bridge team for including this piece in their very impressive collection.bridge-chicago.orgBridgeBridge is Chicago’s independent, print only journal of art and public scholarship. 005
Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Many thanks to editor Celeste Schantz and Mason Street Review for including my poem "Bottom." It's about a lot of things . . . love, foolishness, ceramics, Shakespeare, enchantment, gift-giving . . . Find it here: masonstreetreview.org/2022/09/25/b...masonstreetreview.orgBottoma poem by Greg Sendi 000
Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Many thanks to M. I. Shokrian and The Thieving Magpie for including three poems of mine in Issue 19. You can find them here: thievingmagpie.org/greg-sendi-3...thievingmagpie.orgGreg Sendi – 3 Poemsa Garbo in Ninotchka, or Greta Gerwig in Greenberg, leaning on the jamb before you pause then wrist the knob 006
Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Thanks to the team at The Writing Disorder for making a home for my creative nonfiction piece "The Peshaman Fragments." I hope you'll take a look. writingdisorder.com/greg-sendi-n...writingdisorder.comGreg Sendi NonfictionThe Writing Disorder is a quarterly literary journal. We publish new fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art. We also feature interviews and reviews. 000
Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Many thanks to Nikki Boss and Natalie Byers at Skink Beat Review for publishing my piece called “Nineteen Footnotes from a Monograph on Attention Mechanics." You can find it here: www.flipsnack.com/nikkiax/augu...flipsnack.comAugust 25: State of Affairs: Issue 2.2Flipsnack is a digital catalog maker that makes it easy to create, publish and share html5 flipbooks. Upload a PDF or design from scratch flyers, magazines, books and more. 000
Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Thanks to the team at Third Wednesday magazine for making a home in their latest issue and online for my poem "The Owlet and the Turtle." I hope folks will take a look. thirdwednesdaymagazine.org/2021/09/19/t...thirdwednesdaymagazine.orgThe Owlet and the Turtle / Greg SendiFrom the fall issue of 3rd Wednesday now avialable free online or in print at Amazon for $8. 111
Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024My short, short story, "The Intervention," has appeared in the The Centifictionist. You can read it here: thecentifictionist.home.blog/2021/11/04/t... Thanks again to Editor Clara Ray Rusinek Klein for including me.thecentifictionist.home.blogThe InterventionThe call autologged at 3:51 am. Rebe screened for enrollment and talked with the grandma before deploying. “That boy gonna kill hisself.” “Does he have a weapon?” “He … 002
Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024 Sincere thanks to Eclectica Magazine and its talented editor Tom Dooley for making a home for my latest item of short fiction, "The Green Lion and the Sun." You can find it at eclectica.org/v25n4/sendi..... Take a look when you have a moment.eclectica.orgThe Green Lion and the Sun—Greg Sendi—Eclectica Magazine v25n4Fiction by Greg Sendi, Eclectica Magazine v25n4 020
Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Thanks to Great Lakes Review and and Managing Editor Mitch James for accepting my poem "The League of Impossible Gentlemen." I hope you'll take a look. greatlakesreview.org/league-impos...greatlakesreview.orgThe League of Impossible Gentlemen (A Love Poem)When once upon a wintry outing your eager true love tells you blithely that in her life she’s lost precisely no one noteworthy, surrounding then her winsome noggin—circling like the woozybirds that… 000
Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Take a look at my piece, "In Nineteen Whatever," appearing in Cathexis Northwest Press (with audio). Is it a bitterly angry screed? Sure. That and so much more. Thanks to the CNWP team for making a great home for it. www.cathexisnorthwestpress.com/post/in-nine...cathexisnorthwestpress.comIn Nineteen WhateverBy: Greg SendiThey are not lunatics, hypochondriacs, or frenetics; but they have a mixture of all these kinds of diseases, which, injuring their minds, cause them to become more ravenous than starving... 000
Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Thanks to the team at UCSB's excellent, long-established annual, Spectrum Literary Journal, for including my poem "A Drape of Underdown" in Volume 64. 010
Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024My short story "Lost in Hebron" appeared in Faultline Journal of Arts and Letters, Volume 30. Thanks to fiction editor Miguel Cid and the entire staff for giving the piece a great home in the world. You can read it here: issuu.com/faultlinejou...issuu.comFaultline Journal of Arts and Letters, Volume 30 000
Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Thanks very much to San Antonio Review (@sanantoreview.bsky.social) for publishing my short story "Gospel of the Four Septembers." I hope you'll have a look. www.sareview.org/pub/uqfwcgfi...sareview.orgGospel of the Four Septembers“Of their first meeting, little has come down to us and yet less is known for certain.” 011
Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Grateful to @coffinbell.bsky.social and Editor-in-Chief @tamaralikecamera.bsky.social for including my short story "Pointe à la Hache." Hope you'll have a look at coffinbell.com/pointe-a-la-...coffinbell.comPointe à la Hache - COFFIN BELLGreg Sendi If you ask why Moss Sr. come down on me first like he done, I’d say I don’t know except maybe I might coulda, you know. I don’t know. You can jest imagine. After we come home, I t… 022
Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024My poem "The Pastor and the Lobster" appeared in Consequence Forum back in 2021. (I hope you'll have a look and enjoy it. ) consequenceforum.org/the-pastor-a...consequenceforum.orgThe Pastor and the Lobster - Consequence Forum 000
Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Thanks to Burningword Literary Journal for including my poem "On Grey Rock Place" in their January 2021 issue. You can find it here: www.burningword.com/2021/01/on-g...burningword.comOn Grey Rock PlaceHer scent no longer on your face attests the word apartment is no accident — it’s parceling, like beans from squash or like the homebound from the lost. As gardens, so with rooms: and yet up… 010
Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Hope you'll take a look at my poem "Missa Corona Spinea" which appeared in Plume in Feb. 2021: plumepoetry.com/missa-corona...plumepoetry.comMISSA CORONA SPINEA Good Friday, Macomb County - PlumeMISSA CORONA SPINEA Good Friday, Macomb County GLORIA On one side of one dumpster behind the Dollar Tree at Romeo Plank and Hall a cluster of stencils made by three grackles caught in the backwa... 000
Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Hello, BlueSky. Glad to be here. youtu.be/Os2VnhHhsSA?...youtu.beAmerican KicklineYouTube video by Greg Sendi 120