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Greg Sendi

@gregsendi.bsky.social
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Writer, communications professional, Chicagoan, native Detroiter. Find me in the Briar Cliff Review, Free State Review, Great Lakes Review, Image Journal, Masters Review, Plume and others.

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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Happy 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.
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Thanks 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
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Brain-damaged psychopath methamphetamine addict . . . we're now squarely in the "Tuco Salamanca" era in the history of the republic.
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Many 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...
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Almost Unimaginable Suffering
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Yes. It absolutely feels like watching a plane crash. It feels like "wishing this weren't happening" is the best one can do. But that's actually not true. The feeling that things are sadly inevitable is a kind of toxin secreted on the skin of malignancy to paralyze the impulse to do more than wish.
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
As individuals, as a culture, as adherents to an idea, we are what we do and create. Full stop. We are not the things we wish for, justify or explain. If you care for someone, you are a caregiver. If you wish someone would somehow be cared for, even if you wish for it with passion, you are nothing.
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I'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...
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THE DARDANELLES (HERO AND LEANDER AT 60) by Greg Sendi
It 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.
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Many 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.
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
In 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?...
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Titus
YouTube video by Greg Sendi
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Not gonna lie, I'm about 88% Pearl with Jupiter in Torgo.
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Hannah Cohen @hcohen.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
a 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
A picture I took in 2020 of a white toilet discarded on a street corner in a neighborhood. It’s sitting upright on a storm drain. The toilet appears as if waiting for a bus. It’s a very lonely picture.
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The beige with the white seat makes it almost too much to bear.
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
So beautiful and well made. Beyond.
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Michael Bazzett @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Feeling 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.
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Instead of what it actually is . . . a madness intended to exterminate the people and ideas whose existence calls into question assumptions about what it means to be worthy of participation in American life.
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
The insanity will (probably) dissipate and end. But it's hard to imagine how things will return to being "ok" again . . . except via a countervailing act of erasure that papers over the hate-frenzy we are in the midst of, recasting it as something in the mainstream of human possibility . . .
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
If you are white and of a certain age or economic or educational lineage, speak to your neighbors. You'll discover how much many of them are rooting for this erasure. You will see the kind of bacchic frenzy they are welcoming into their midst. It's the nature of Americans to do so from time to time.
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Our culture has existed for about 250 years and we have had, perhaps, ten of them . . . or thereabouts. They are part of our culture, not an exception to it . . . They are (malignantly) a feature, not a bug. And, if we're honest, they come not from some lunatic ruling class, but from the grassroots.
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Let'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.
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Thanks to Free State Review and editor Barrett Warner (@riskingmelodrama.bsky.social) for having confidence in this piece.
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
My 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.
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Happy 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.
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Repair - Plume
Repair   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...
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Very 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.
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Memento Mori - Image Journal
let pass another word / of love impossible submerged.
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
My 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.
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Bridge
Bridge is Chicago’s independent, print only journal of art and public scholarship.
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Many 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...
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Bottom
a poem by Greg Sendi
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Many 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...
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Greg Sendi – 3 Poems
a Garbo in Ninotchka, or Greta Gerwig in Greenberg, leaning on the jamb before you pause then wrist the knob
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Thanks 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...
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Greg Sendi Nonfiction
The Writing Disorder is a quarterly literary journal. We publish new fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art. We also feature interviews and reviews.
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Many 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...
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August 25: State of Affairs: Issue 2.2
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Thanks 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...
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The Owlet and the Turtle / Greg Sendi
From the fall issue of 3rd Wednesday now avialable free online or in print at Amazon for $8.
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
My 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.
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The Intervention
The 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 …
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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.
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The Green Lion and the Sun—Greg Sendi—Eclectica Magazine v25n4
Fiction by Greg Sendi, Eclectica Magazine v25n4
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Thanks 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...
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The 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…
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Take 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...
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In Nineteen Whatever
By: 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...
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Thanks to the team at UCSB's excellent, long-established annual, Spectrum Literary Journal, for including my poem "A Drape of Underdown" in Volume 64.
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
My 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...
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Faultline Journal of Arts and Letters, Volume 30
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Thanks 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...
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Gospel of the Four Septembers
“Of their first meeting, little has come down to us and yet less is known for certain.”
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Grateful 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-...
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Pointe à la Hache - COFFIN BELL
Greg 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…
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
My 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...
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The Pastor and the Lobster - Consequence Forum
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Thanks 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...
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On Grey Rock Place
Her 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…
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Hope you'll take a look at my poem "Missa Corona Spinea" which appeared in Plume in Feb. 2021: plumepoetry.com/missa-corona...
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MISSA CORONA SPINEA Good Friday, Macomb County - Plume
MISSA 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...
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Greg Sendi @gregsendi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Hello, BlueSky. Glad to be here. youtu.be/Os2VnhHhsSA?...
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American Kickline
YouTube video by Greg Sendi
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