The unpublished poetry manuscript We Hold These Truths was a runner-up in the 2019 Hopper Poetry Prize. The judge, Kathleen Hellen, offered very kind commentary here. It was also a finalist for the 2020 Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize, and a much earlier version was a semifinalist for the 2017 Philip Levine Prize.
POEMS
“Air Show” in West Texas Literary Review
“An American Villanelle [Adult Mix]” on L2T
“At Sunset” in STAND Magazine
“[Attention Grabber Goes Here]” in English Journal
“Bouncy House” and “Electrostatic & Magic” in New Plains Review
“Communion” in Ponder Review
“Descent” on Exposition Review: “Descent” was also nominated for Best of the Net for 2019.
“Disguises” in The Wayne Literary Review
“The Farm in Spring” and “Sam Cooke Said a Change is Gonna Come” in Dunes Review
“Fever Dreaming” was a finalist in Alexandria Quarterly’s 2018 End-of-Summer Poem Contest
“Field Trees” on The Hopper
“Fungus” in Nurture
“Homecoming” in English Journal (Requires subscription to view.)
“In the Early Days” and “Turned & Turning” in No Contact
“Inaugust” forthcoming in Great Lakes Review
“It’s All High Tide Now” forthcoming in The Hopper
“Lake Huron, June 2017” on 8 Poems
“The LeBroniverse (Brought to You by Gatorade)” in Barstow & Grand
“Measuring” on Perhappened
“Muertos” on Roaknoke Review
“Naming It” on Headline Poetry
“Periodic” in Plum Recruit
“Pulse” in The Blue Mountain Review (Page 43 of issue 15)
“Seasonless” on HAD
“So You’d Better Pay Attention” on Hobart
“Thank God for Ozzie Smith” and “To Judge the Living and the Dead” in LAJM (Click link, then click download.)
“Thank God for Ozzie Smith” is also in Cobalt Review’s 2018 baseball issue as a semifinalist for their baseball contest.
“There is No News Cycle on the Trail” on Rockvale Review
“The Trees” in Sunspot Literary Journal
“We Hold These Truths” in 433
“We Should Do That” on HAD
“What We Teach” in Porcupine Literary
“Why I Peed Outside with the Dog” in the Outrider Press anthology The Stars
FICTION
“Blood and Dust” on Flyover Country
“Scars” forthcoming on Rejection Letters
© 2021 Mitchell Nobis
