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Poems

[forthcoming] "Movement and Remembering," Dunes Review.

[forthcoming] "Autumn Stridulation," Northwest Review.

[forthcoming] "Thunder and Lilies," Notre Dame Review.

"A Fulfillment." Valparaiso Poetry Review, vol. 24, no. 1, Fall/Winter 2022-2023, https://www.valpo.edu/valparaiso-poetry-review/2022/11/30/john-linstrom-a-fulfillment/.

"What Child." The Christian Century, December 2022, p. 57.

Two poems. ("The Day the Machines Came" and "Chloe Gazes through the Window Blinds.") Adelaide Magazine, year 8, no. 55, November 2022, pp. 155-59 and https://anyflip.com/fypa/eliu.

"Elegy in Ash," Poets Reading the News, 28 February 2022, http://www.poetsreadingthenews.com/2022/02/elegy-in-ash/.

"Climate Signals, Sunset Park," Commonweal Magazine, vol. 148, no. 4, April 2021, p. 41 and https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/poem-climate-signals-sunset-park.

"Industry." Commonweal Magazine, vol. 148, no. 2, February 2021, p. 15 and https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/poem-industry.

"Brooklyn Radiator." Commonweal Magazine, vol. 148, no. 1, January 2021, p. 46 and https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/poem-brooklyn-radiator.

"Dear Shadow." Commonweal Magazine, vol. 147, no. 11, December 2020, p. 61 and https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/poem-dear-shadow.

"Liturgy of Next Door." Roanoke Review, 2020, https://www.roanokereview.org/poetry2020/john-linstrom.

"Dianthus Clavelina, Sprout!" The Citron Review, vol. 10, summer 2020, https://citronreview.com/2020/06/21/dianthus-clavelina-sprout/.

"Pumpkin on the Porch." Atlanta Review, vol. 26, no. 2, 2020, p. 27 and http://atlantareview.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Atlanta-Review-Spring-2020-04.30.20.pdf.

"Notes from an Epicenter." Writers Resist, "The Viral Resistance Issue," no. 107, 2 April 2020, http://www.writersresist.com/2020/04/02/notes-from-an-epicenter/.

"Snow-bound." The New Criterion, vol. 38, no. 6, February 2020, p. 30 and https://newcriterion.com/issues/2020/2/snow-bound.

"To My Father, on the Table, Several States Away." North American Review, “Open Space” online feature, 24 December 2019, https://northamericanreview.org/open-space/my-father-table-several-states-away.

"Earth Room." About Place, "Infinite Country" issue, vol. 5, no. 4, Oct. 2019, https://aboutplacejournal.org/issues/infinite-country/east-rebirth/john-linstrom/.

"Disclaimer." Vallum: Contemporary Poetry, "Fear" issue, vol. 16, no. 2, 2019, p. 62.

"On the President's Announcement of Our Hashtag." Writers Resist, no. 95, 19 September 2019, http://www.writersresist.com/2019/09/19/on-the-presidents-announcement-of-our-hashtag/. Previously appeared in This Week in Poetry, 9 November 2015, https://thisweekinpoetry.wordpress.com/2015/11/09/on-the-presidents-announcement-of-our-hashtag/.

"Storm's Breath." Free State Review, no. 11, Late Summer / Early Fall 2019, p. 48.

"Blueshift." (Poem.) Cold Mountain Review, vol. 47, no. 2, Spring/Summer 2019, print and https://www.coldmountainreview.org/issues/spring-summer-2019/blueshift-by-john-linstrom.

"Leaving the Party." Alluvian, vol. 5, Spring 2019, http://alluvian.space/leaving-the-party-john-linstrom.

"Church of the Epiphany." Bridge Eight, 15 Dec 2018, https://www.bridgeeight.com/church-of-the-epiphany/.

"Day Sleepers." Commonweal Magazine, vol. 145, no. 15, 21 Sept. 2018, p. 13 and https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/day-sleepers.

"Ice Sheet Archive." Broad River Review, 50th Anniversary Issue, no. 50, 2018, p. 104.

"Sunrise, with Motherly Influence." Commonweal Magazine, vol. 145, no. 12, 6 July 2018, p. 44 and https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/poem-sunrise-motherly-influence.

"Annual Thaw." Commonweal Magazine, vol. 145, no. 11, 15 June 2018, p. 8 and https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/annual-thaw.

"Found in the City." Commonweal Magazine, vol. 145, no. 11, 15 June 2018, p. 31 and https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/found-city.

"Sweet Potato Elegy." Commonweal Magazine, vol. 145, no. 9, 18 May 2018, p. 10 and https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/poem-sweet-potato-elegy.

"Losing Track of the Conversation." Dunes Review, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring/Summer 2018, pp. 47-8.

Three poems ("Soot of a Young Star," "Retting," and "Little Deaths"). Narrative Northeast, "Eco Issue," no. 5, 2018, http://www.narrativenortheast.com/?p=5337.

"What was Precious." Valparaiso Poetry Review, vol. 19, no. 1, Fall/Winter 2017-2018, https://www.valpo.edu/valparaiso-poetry-review/2018/01/04/john-linstrom-what-was-precious/.

"Out of State." Valparaiso Poetry Review, vol. 14, no. 2, Spring/Summer 2013, https://www.valpo.edu/vpr/v14n2/v14n2poetry/linstromout.php.

"Daedalus, Give Me the Farthest Distance Between Two Points." The Reed, Spring 2009, p. 4.