Judith Mikesch McKenzie
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Recently Released
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October Hill Magazine, January 15 2015, "Last Words" and "Learning NSL (Namibian Sign Language")
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Miracle Monacle, "The Least We Know" and "On The Kulshan Or How to Love an Ugly Boat," December 9, 2024
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Calyx , A Journal of Art & Literature by Women, Fall 2024 issue, Vol 34:3 -, "Apology While Throwing Daisies In the River"​
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The Wave, Kelp Journal, Winter 24/25 Issue "Triolets-Seeking After Driftwood." and "Taking Flight"
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Hycinth Review, "Historians" Feb 2025​​
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Upcoming Publications​​​
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Tiny Seed Review, Water Issue, "On First Beach, Olympic Peninsula" March 6, 2025​​
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Wild Roof Journal, "What the Widow Scott Left Behind" Spring 2025
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The Journal of Undiscovered Poets, "An Encounter in Grants Pass" Spring 2025
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Monterey Poetry Review, "On The Path To Sweet Creek Falls" and "A Taxonomy of Water." Spring 2025
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Permafrost Magazine, "Barometric Pressure Falls And It's All So Familiar" Issue 46.0 Release date TBA
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Clackamas Literary Review, "The Staircase" and "The Astronaut at the Mini-Mart" release May 2025
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AS Of May 2023, the full list of PUBLISHED Poems has been moved to the "All Publications" page - the list was getting a bit long and cumbersome for this page. Here instead I will be listing links to some of my favorite poems already published:
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MY FAVORITES
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Monterey Poetry Review, Spring 24 release, "Impersonating the Carpenter's Apprentice" and "Learning the Apostles Creed."
October Hill Magazine, Summer issue "The Forest of the Bitterroot" page 91
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Cathexis NW Press, January 2023 Issue, "How It Was When the Comet Came."
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The Bookends Review, Sept 17 2021, “Ten Seconds On The Santa Monica Pier, Long Past Midnight”
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Happy to announce....
The editor of "Poetic Bond X" offered this commentary about my work in that anthology in a Press Release: "Judith Mikesch McKenzie’s “Post Hoc” moves from refrain to refrain, like an echoing prayer, looking to the future, each negative word ‘poisoned’ ‘twisted’ ‘wounds’ countered by a positive ‘spring’ ‘sing’ ‘hearts’, a concise, beautiful poem. In “Looking Out the Upstairs Window” the longing to be outside is palpable, but when imagination does reign, Judith lets loose like a warrior before resting again to a whisper. Sweeping and uplifting." Like any writer, I'm grateful and elated to receive such commentary. To see the works, see the "All Publications" page for a link to "Poetic Bond X"
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More good news from Willowdown Books - who've published my story "A Perfect Circle Around the Moon" in their Anthology "Who We Are"
So happy to announce that my piece "A Matter of Rocks" won in the top ten for the Tillie Olsen Short Story Contest, and was one of two semifinalists published in the July issue of the Tishman Review.
Link to the pdf of the magazine here:
UPDATE: The Tishman Review (like many nonprofits) had to close their doors recently, so the link above no longer active.
The story published there up for a reprint soon - more info as available.
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