New Poem in the August Rotary Dial

The August Rotary Dial is out today with a new poem of mine, “Muse-Charmer,” as well as fantastic poems throughout. Well-worth your time, especially for formal poetry-lovers.

Two of My Poems in the June Dial!!

The June Rotary Dial is now live with two of my poems! It’s a fantastic issue, so please check it out here.

Two Very Different Poems Published Today!!!

Two fabulous and very different online venues have gone live today, the first working day of June, both with poems from me: Möbius, The Journal of Social Change, and The Rotary Dial (enter password “ektoplazm)–(see? It pays to read this blog!), which publishes “formal poetry” (meaning in this case poetry that usually involves meter or rhyme or a strong sense thereof).

Both links will lead you to the contents page, from which you can use the links (Möbius) or scroll to the page containing a poem by Siham Karami. The Rotary Dial also downloads as a PDF, if so desired. It’s also a fantastic journal full of top-notch poetry from both established geniuses in whose August company I now bask, and relative newcomers, one of whom wrote a totally enjoyable poem about…basking. There’s a tear-jerking love poem, and my tears do not easily jerk, and a villanelle (and who doesn’t love a well-turned villanelle? Not an easy thing!) about the incident in Ohio where a man kidnapped 3 young women and kept them locked up for 10 years before one bravely escaped his unimaginable torture chamber. My poem therein is entitled “Branching,” and has many branches.

Möbius is also a fine and fascinating journal and, I might add, very hard to get into, so these are all exceptional poems and stories on the theme of social change. My poem, “Somalia,” offers a view of that country after the war when Al-Shabab, a terrorist group, took over much of the ruins. I hear now the country is emerging finally from that horrific period. The journal also publishes fiction and essays, well-worth your time.

Am I excited or what??? The Comstock Review, a top tier literary magazine in print, is also coming out some time in June with a poem of mine, “Lawnmowing in America,” written using only the letters in the title——not an easy form to write in. They publish all types of poetry, and only publish the best. So getting into that magazine means no less than Cloud Nine, known to be both stratus and cumulus simultaneously. I’d recommend subscribing, which you can do here.