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Derek Kannemeyer
PERIODICALS
Some links to my JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS since October 2021
(For a list of earlier periodicals where my work is featured, see "Archives," farther below.)
July 2024
My vignette “Class Warfare Skirmish” appears in the July Verse-Virtual. Go to: https://www.verse-virtual.org/2024/July/kannemeyer-derek-2024-july.html
March 2024
Thanks to Cindy Cunningham and Wellspring Literary Journal for featuring two of my poems, “A Becoming” and “Writer Unknown: A Found Journal” in their inaugural issue, “The Source.” Website: https://wellspringliteraryjournal.com/
"Writer Unknown" is also now available in my long chapbook Found Voices.
November 2023
“For the Dusts of Us,” the closing poem in YGIBTGTIT, is featured in Verse-Virtual.
https://www.verse-virtual.org/2023/November/kannemeyer-derek-2023-november.html
October 2023
Thanks to James Morehead for inviting me to recite and discuss “Laura in April," about the actress and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, for his Viewless Wings podcast.
May 2023
For the May Verse-Virtual, Jim Lewis accepted two poems: “In Praise of Memory” and “In Memoriam the Nonsense Verse Nuts.” Both also appear in You Go In By The Gate That Isn’t There. Visit https://www.verse-virtual.org/2023/May/kannemeyer-derek-2023-may.html
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After July 2024, I stopped updating this page, merely adding info about my my new publications to PNEWS. But most of that PNEWS page is soon to be abridged as Pnews Crevés; I'll start updating this one again soon.
February 2023​
I have two lyrical narrative poems in February’s Verse-Virtual.
https://www.verse-virtual.org/2023/February/kannemeyer-derek-2023-february.html
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September 2022
(a) “For the Fools of April” appears in the 2022 Artemis. https://artemisjournal.org/store/
(b) Verse-Virtual’s September issue features a poem I wrote in my late twenties: https://www.verse-virtual.org/2022/September/kannemeyer-derek-2022-september.html.
August 2022
Dear Booze posted “In Which I Jump Off The Right Train,” to their blogspot. The link no longer works, but the poem is in YGIBTGTIT. https://dearbooze.com/cocktales.
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July 2022
(a) Dear Booze posted "An Absurdist, an Absurdist, and an Absurdist Go into a Bar" to their blogspot. As of February 2025, the link no longer works.
(b) Two poems this month in Verse-Virtual. “Postcard from the Smoke” tells about my first (cold) year in London, at the age of six. “T’ai Chi with the Finches” is about Beijing in 1993.
May 2022
(a) "Corgis and Bess," my tribute to Queen Elizabeth and her corgis, appears in the current issue of LIGHT. Read it here: https://lightpoetrymagazine.com/derek-kannemeyer-winter-22/
(b) I have two poems in the May Verse-Virtual. Visit: https://www.verse-virtual.org/.../kannemeyer-derek-2022... "Boat Woman, Towson," is reprinted from Mutt Spirituals.
"Eva in April" is about the marriage and death, two days later, of Eva Braun.
April 2022
(a) KIRKUS REVIEWS interviewed me. See "Praise and Press" at the PUBLICATIONS tab.
(b) For Virginia Poet Laureate Luisa Igloria's National Poetry Month initiative (visit her website blog at http://www.luisaigloria.com/.../09-april-poetry-postcard...) she invited contributors to mail her a postcard featuring our artwork and a poem exploring our concerns about natural environment and community." My poem is "Sonnet On My Neighbor's Holly Tree."
(c) I also contributed to (and won) Mike Maggio's NPM challenge. The theme: Love on an imaginary boulevard. The rules: an 11 line poem, each line having 11 syllables. Forbidden words: I, you, love. My poem: "Two Sleepwalkers," https://mikemaggio.net/derek-kannemeyer-3/?fbclid=IwAR0gkrvAyowkk7DARBt9Jt99nbqd-ZnsNzOk0-VJVmi0-YF7S0Igrt53BZU
(d) The Life In Ten Minutes Project periodically puts out an anthology of mini-memoirs under the rubric "Unzipped." The current issue, BARE, features my pieces "Stubborn" and "Indoctrination Training." https://www.lifein10minutes.com/unzipped-issues/unzipped-issue-6-bare-anthology
(e) I'm also in the current LUCKY JEFFERSON, with "Nistle." See https://luckyjefferson.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Gibberish-Online. It's also in YGIBTGTIT. A nistle is a word that can form anagrams begun with each of its letters in turn. (Acronym, from nistle, inlets, silent, tinsel, listen, enlist.)
March 2022
My two poems in the March VERSE-VIRTUAL are a portrait of me as a 16 year old, and a narrative lyric about a father and his 16 year old daughter. At https://www.verse-virtual.org/2022/March/kannemeyer-derek-2022-march.html. (The former poem is now in YGIBTGTIT and the latter in Found Voices.)
February 2022
RIDDLED WITH ARROWS Valentine's month issue featured one of my photographs (of grasshoppers pitching woo) as visual art. Here's the site: https://www.riddledwitharrows.com/ [NOTE: this photo was one of dozens I took of mating grasshoppers. I used a different image for The Flap Over Tree Debris Island, but the quatrain I chose fits this pic just as well:
"All August, in the lakeside grasses,
we see their clasped shapes, groins to asses:
the grasshoppers, in slow, locked pairs—
no world and time but this; but theirs."]
January 2022
"Alibi" is about my grandmother, and about me being questioned in a murder investigation. The version intended for Sort By Title was 200 words longer than this one, and it included Americanisms. The Pine Cone Review (issue theme: "brown") had a 600 word limit and insisted on British English only! I found this a fun and instructive adaptation challenge. Visit https://thepineconereview.com/poetry-issue-3/
December 2021
(a) RIGOROUS ran my snarky Donald Trump sonnet (in Scattershots called "A November Prayer") as "Because the Man Just Won't Go Away." Visit https://www.rigorous-mag.com/v5i4/v5i4-index.html
(b) VERSE-VIRTUAL (theme: "endings") features my poems: "Taxiing" and "A Wasp." Visit: https://www.versevirtual.org/archives/2021/December/verse-virtual-archive-2021-december-vol-8-no-12.html
November 2021
I am thrilled to have work in the latest ANMLY: the journal is running two of my translations/adaptations from (excuse me while I fanboy out) RUTEBEUF himself! There are lots of writers I love. Many writers have influenced me. But who has ever cast a double spell to surpass the 13th century French poet Rutebeuf? ANMLY generously offers space for both a translator's note and an audio presentation. Check them out at https://anmly.org/ap33/, and why not browse the rest of the issue too? Thanks, Sarah and Maxine!
October 2021
My first VERSE-VIRTUAL poem! Thanks, Jim Lewis. "I Wouldn't" is part of my group of formal persona poems "Parental Advice." (This one and three others are now in YGIBTGTIT.) Here's the link: https://www.verse-virtual.org/archives/2021/October/verse-virtual-archive-2021-october-vol-8-no-10.html