“Everlastingness” and “Sparse and Scattered Unrhymes on a Cloudy April Fool’s” in Triquarterly:
https://www.triquarterly.org/issue-167/yt9j8ptaru25au1loy0z3sc8qgj24u
https://www.triquarterly.org/issue-167/sparse-and-scattered-unrhymes-on-a-cloudy-april-fools
— Bruce Beasley’s author note on “Undertaking”: It’s a peculiar rite of passage to surpass the age at which your father died, becoming oddly older than he ever got to be. And it’s a stranger rite to realize with a shock 15 years later that your father is held in an equipoise suddenly, dead exactly as long as he was alive. A dream taught me that: my father insisting I throw him another funeral, exactly 48 years after he died at age 48, as if he were dying into a new realm of death and wanted me to undertake that going-across with him. I’m not especially a believer in psychics, but once visited one who uncannily knew things she could not have known. She told me my parents, who died five years apart when I was 15 and 20, would speak to me in my dreams, so I started intently listening. It’s been certainly strange since then to feel closer to my father in my dreams than I ever was to him alive. This poem is a downpayment on the debt of closeness I have owed him all these years.
“Palm Sunday” (recording) at Notre Dame Review
“Like Mowing the Grass” and “Annunciation Triptych” in Hudson Review
“Fixed” (with Author’s Note) at Missouri Review
“Self-Portrait in Ink” from Virginia Quarterly Review and Poetry Daily at Vandal Poem of the Day
“This Living Hand” and “Atoms of Unmeaning” in Field
“No Resting Place”: Janet Jennings essay on “Will” in 32 Poems
“Eccentric Votive Offering” and recording of reading of the poem, Poetry, September 2019
“Fishers” (with recorded reading) on Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, October 3, 2019
“Sibboleth” from New England Review
Recording of “Gnomic” from Southern Review
“Called to Lapse” and “Like Warm Ice Cubes” from Plume
“Lullaby, with Bough-Break” from 32 Poems
“Mappamundi Ouroboros” in Image
“Sunrise Insomnia Service,” “Cleft for Me Let Me Hide Myself from Thee,” and “Repetition Compulsion” at Image
“Consolation” from Poetry magazine
“Reading about Retrotransposons in Amish Country, in the Fall” on Verse Daily
“Like Unto a Merchant Man Seeking Goodly Pearls” at Free Verse
“The Scale by Which the Mapped Concerns the Map” in Denver Quarterly and Vandal Poem of the Day
Poem of the Week three poems and an interview
“Unbehold,” Academy of American Poets
Five Poems, Winter Anthology
“Year’s End Paradoxography” with author commentary in Poetry Northwest
“The Parable of the Mustard Seed,” Verse Daily
Bruce Beasley 