Kaitaia poet Mercedes Webb-Pullman: published every week in 2016

It was an extremely impressive year for Kaitaia-born poet Mercedes Webb-Pullman, who published over 50 poems in 42 literary journals in 2016 alone.

Mercedes has prepared the following guide to her published work, which should be immensely helpful for Northland poets wanting to know some good places to get their writing published…

• “EAB has my poem ‘I could write a book’ in their Midnight Circus ‘Winter – vol #14.’ https://www.amazon.com/dp/1540883868/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1482012062&sr=8-1&keywords=midnight+circus%3A+winter
• In the beginning is in Turbine I Kapohau 2016 http://www.turbinekapohau.co.nz/2016-poetry-mercedes-webb-pullman.html
• Pilcrow and Dagger have published Sally Ann in their Nov/Dec issue
• Phantom Billstickers has published my story ‘The day Opo died’ in The Cafe Reader out on 1st December. Available to read at cafes throughout New Zealand and US. Also online here http://cafereader.rvrapid.com/?i=vol.+12%2C+Summer+2016#folio=26
• ‘Paekakariki Hill’ has now been installed on the Arts Walk; thanks to Dave and The Station Museum Trust, Paekakariki Arts Walk, and Rob Hack and Louie. https://scontent-syd2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14937244_1234829159910581_2026554532842538852_n.jpg?oh=d36234f4869e8b5b31d7d87fab5ca510&oe=58CD3FDC
• 4th Floor has published ‘East Cape’, ‘Year of the Fire Monkey dawns’, ‘A natural inversion’ (poems) and ‘Eugene kept the shed doors locked’ (prose) in 2016 issue

http://4thfloorjournal.co.nz/contents-2016/mercedes-webb-pullman/

• Tigershark has published The Chankiri Tree, A stranger in the woods, and A Matapouri story my father told me, for issue #12, out for Halloween http://tigersharkpublishing.wordpress.com
• Avis Magazine has published ‘A sort of love song’ in Issue #3, October 2016
• Mgversion2 has published Girls at tea, Noelene, Robyn Shirley and Help your father with the firewood in their Proletarian Poetry issue https://issuu.com/mgversion2/docs/mg86
• http://disappearing.com.au/?s=Mercedes+Webb-Pullman The Red Room Company has launched a new web site to replace the app The Disappearing. Two poems, Before Sydney had a Hard Rock Cafe, and The sky boat song, now have a new home here.
• Silver Birch Press has published ‘If I have to use words’ in their ‘If I …’ series. https://silverbirchpress.wordpress.com/2016/10/16/if-i-have-to-use-words-prose-poem-by-mercedes-webb-pullman-if-i-poetry-and-prose-series/
• Hope is a thing with petals and The singing bones are in this anthology of writings inspired by an online course examining Walt Whitman’s Civil War writing, from University of Iowa
• http://www.lulu.com/shop/various-authors/whitmanthology-on-loss-and-grief/ebook/product-22898702.html
• Breakfast with a ghost is in Plate in the Mirror anthology to be released 19 November http://printablereality.com/projects/plate-in-the-mirror-2016/
• Silver Birch Press has included my poem ‘I longed to be you, Nancy Drew’ in their Nancy Drew anthology https://www.amazon.com/Nancy-Drew-Anthology-Everybodys-Anthologies/dp/0997797215/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1475390155&sr=8-1&keywords=nancy+drew+anthology
• Gyroscope Review has published ‘A person from Porlock’ here http://www.gyroscopereview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/GR-ISSUE-16-4.pdf
• Cliterature has published ‘Ancient History’ in their Politics issue, http://www.cliteraturejournal.com/politics/mercedeswebbpullman.html
• Pure Slush has published ‘Effie and Jim’ in their Cake collection http://pureslush.webs.com/effieandjim.htm

 

• Silver Birch Press published my poem ‘Moving Out’ in their feature ‘When I Moved’. https://silverbirchpress.wordpress.com/2016/09/16/moving-out-poem-by-mercedes-webb-pullman-when-i-moved-poetry-and-prose-series/
• Thank you for swallowing has published my poem The lycanthrope who loved, in Volume 2 – Issue 3 https://thankyouforswallowing.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/sept161.pdf
• My poem ‘Night rain’ is in The Phoenix Soul – Sage edition, Issue 55
• http://www.thephoenixsoul.com/sage
• Plum Tree Tavern has published my poem Mourning rose in their Drought collection http://theplumtreetavern.blogspot.co.nz/2016/09/mourning-rose.html
• Scum magazine has published my poem Long hollow head http://www.scum-mag.com/long-hollow-head/
• net has published my poem Balcony – 8 September http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/balcony-by-mercedes-webb-pullman
• Tigershark has published Seven decades of Wonder and Steampunk Ghazal in Issue 11, 6 September https://tigersharkpublishing.wordpress.com/home/issues-of-tigershark-ezine/
• net has published Painted by a Drunk in Gumboots 30 August http://www.ekphrastic.net/
• Abyss and Apex have published my poem Death of a flower. http://www.abyssapexzine.com/2016/06/death-of-a-flower/
• My poem ‘Can’t go home’ is in Fast Fibres Poetry 3 from Northland, released on National Poetry Day August 26 https://fastfibres.wordpress.com/fast-fibres-3-book/
• Matariki kanohi iti’ is in the KCDC anthology ‘If you’re a poet we want to know it – 4’ available in September https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/655210
• Summer morning, Sandy Bay’ is in the new Pure Slush anthology ‘Summer’. http://www.lulu.com/shop/pure-slush/summer-pure-slush-vol-12/paperback/product-22836559.html
• Whirlwind has published my poem ‘Resisting the dark’ in issue 9 https://issuu.com/whirlwindreview/docs/whirlwind__9_digital/29?e=0/38073101
• The train to the city doesn’t stop here’ is in The Gambler Magazine’s Summer edition. http://www.thegamblermag.com/mercedes-webb-pullman/
• Thank You For Swallowing has published Woman Eternal in Volume 2 Issue 2 https://thankyouforswallowing.wordpress.com/2016/08/08/vol-2-issue-2/
• Three poems – First time was an accident, Duluoz Dreaming, and The Darkening, up on Degenerate Literature today http://degenerateliterature.weebly.com/3-poems-by-mercedes-webb-pullman.html
• My poem ‘Paekakariki Hill’ is included in the Paekakariki Arts Walk – check it out here http://www.paw.org.nz/
• New poems here; The columns of Karnak, A wanderer returns, A sluggish morning https://melancholyhyperbole.com/category/themed/unseen/
• Two poems, The Harbour of Freedom and The dairywoman’s dance, here in Indiana Voice journal, July ‘Freedom’ issue
• http://www.indianavoicejournal.com/2016/07/two-poems-by-mercedes-webb-pullman.html

 

• My poem ‘Magical shores’ up on Silver Birch Press 6 July https://silverbirchpress.wordpress.com/2016/07/06/magical-shore-poem-by-mercedes-webb-pullman-beach-and-pool-memories-poetry-and-prose-series/
• Two poems, Family Traits (A ghostly figure hunches) and Ghosts and Roses in Corpse Road print anthology from Folk Horror http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/folk-horror-revival-corpse-roads/18393243
• My poem ‘Ophelia’ is in Riverbabble 29 http://www.iceflow.com/riverbabble/issue29/P-WEBB-PULLMAN-29.HTML
• ‘Dreams of sea monsters’ in Gyroscope Review Summer issue 16 – 3 http://www.gyroscopereview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ISSUE-16-3-SUMMER-2016.pdf
• ‘Little Miracle’ is in EAB Publishing’s Midnight Circus = In the Age of Miracles Volume 12 https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Circus-Age-Miracles-12/dp/1534600221/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1466593174&sr=1-2&keywords=midnight+circus+in+the+age+of+miracles
• Faces in the mirror’ is in Pure Slush today 22 June 2016 http://pureslush.webs.com/facesinthemirror.htm
• Grendel’ has appeared in Walt’s Corner, a poetry column in The Long Islander (founded by Walt Whitman 1839), a weekly newspaper, general circulation, in the town of Huntington, NY in May 2016
• We light the oven so everyone can bake bread’ is here in Eyedrum Press https://eyedrumperiodically.org/index.php/article/we-light-the-oven-so-everyone-can-bake-bread-jose-marti/
• My poem ’12 totara tottering’ is in Pure Slush’s “Tall…ish” available here in print, and as eBook on Amazon soon. http://bit.ly/tallbk
• 5 poems – ‘Some days you’re just angry’, ‘Seasons of love’, ‘Tane, Tu and Rongo’, ‘13 uses for love’ and ‘Alchemy’ in KOAH Press Storm Cycle 2015 – Best of a kind here http://www.amazon.com/Storm-Cycle-2015-Hurricane-Press/dp/1530834570/
• My poem ‘A lesson in love’ is here https://silverbirchpress.wordpress.com/2016/05/23/a-lesson-in-love-poem-by-mercedes-webb-pullman-starting-to-ride-poetry-and-prose-series/
• My poem ‘When you run out of papers there’s always the Gideon’ is in this Poeming Pigeons release, Doobie or Not Doobie? available here http://www.amazon.com/Poeming-Pigeon-Doobie-Journal-Poetry/dp/0986330485/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1461634277&sr=1-1&keywords=The+poeming+pigeon+Doobie+or+not+doobie
• My poem Custom Built in Silver Birch Press series Learning to Drive https://silverbirchpress.wordpress.com/2016/04/15/custom-built-poem-by-mercedes-webb-pullman-learning-to-drive-poetry-and-prose-series/
• Part of a reading in Wellington 15th April https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/12932944_1064993743560791_3935018250677331005_n.jpg?oh=58c915f6e40ef13d2cb399d30c7b3946&oe=57B43251&__gda__=1472088168_19e3bbaea634ae2155f5939db5fb5adc

 

• ‘Shine’ – a sestina, is in the Rats Ass Review’s feature Love and Ensuing Madness here http://ratsassreview.net/?page_id=1070
• Three poems – The Margaret Collection – in StarCat/CatStar, issue #33 of Clockwise Cat http://clockwisecat.com/2016/02/907/
• Two poems in poetryrepairs 16 January http://www.poetryrepairs.com/v16/001.html
• My new book The Jean Genie published by Coda Crab Press 15 January http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1943900043?keywords=The+Jean+Genie&qid=1452895499&ref_=sr_1_1&s=books&sr=1-1