Visitors to this archive will be aware that much of what is posted relates to new poetry collections and reviews. It's usual to promote, albeit in a small way, these more substantial publications, and publishers themselves have promotional mechanisms of a scope and depth greater than that available here. As such, we're only too happy to leave these matters in their capable hands.
However, what isn't shared widely are notifications of the publication of individual poems or poem sequences in periodicals, whether as digital or print platforms. The poetry collections are often developed around these representative poems, although any long poems are restricted to the collections themselves because of space limitations, particularly as affects print-based journals.
In the collections' preliminary pages, a listing pf periodical credits can be found. Because of the nature of submission windows, choices of poems and response times, it may take months to realise these successes. For that reason, timely listings of acceptances are all the more important, as book publication deadlines approach and the final publication credits are set. It's always with regret that a publication deadline is reached, with a periodical credit notification advised too late for inclusion.
Poems published recently by Estill Pollock, or sheduled for publication in the near future, are included in About Place, Soul Poetry Magazine, Packingtown Review and Vilas Avenue, to name but a few. These 'small press' publications, and others like them, provide valuable 'shop windows' for poetry. Whether through a standard submission process, or through a competition-based format, poets value the opportunities made available through these outlets.
Red River Review, founded in Texas more that 25 years ago and now published in Colorado, has recently published poems by Estill Pollock, in a "Featured Poet" profile for a recent issue of the magazine. The feature includes a commentary on the poems by Editor-in-Chief/Publisher Heather Robinson Hernandez.
'...clarity, resonance and a voice that truly energizes...poems shaped by a distinctly cinematic movement. Images unfold in successions -- shifting, accumulating and returnng, resulting in each element remaining distinct while contributing to a broader interconnected field of perception.'
The poems are part of a new series in development as a forthcoming poetry collection, with many of the individual poems selected through the processes described above. As Ms. Hernandez's comments might be of interest to a publisher seeking supportive commentary for a book, the comments themselves become part of an organic process in a cycle of writing, publication and review.
We hope that readers will continue to support these publications.
