Ian U Lockaby

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Books

Defensible Space/if a crow— // Omnidawn (2024) ~~~

read excerpts:

Denver Quarterly, from “Defensible Space/if a crow—”

Sixth Finch, “Songbirds Mysteriously Dying”

Poet Lore, from “Defensible Space/if a crow—”

VOLT, from “Defensible Space/if a crow—”

Sprung Formal, from “Defensible Space/if a crow—”

Poetry Daily, “Once a whale…”

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A Seam of Electricity // Ghost Proposal (2025)~~~

read excerpts:

FENCE, from “A Seam of Electricity”

Cleveland Review of Books, from “A Seam of Electricity”

Poetry Daily, from “A Seam of Electricity”

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Blue Phlox in a Bad Cornfield // Greying Ghost (forthcoming)~~~

Translated Chapbooks

Probable Synonyms of the Word Sololoy by Diana Garza Islas // Carrion Bloom Books~~~~~~~~~~

read excerpts:

Black Warrior Review, 3 from “Sololoy”

Anomaly, 5 from “Sololoy”

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Gardens / Jardines by Carlos Cociña // Cardboard House Press~~~~~~~~~~

[ Reviewed in Latin American Literature Today by Diego Alegría here ]

[ Included in Action Books’ Favorite Books of Poetry in Translation 2021 here ]

[ Included in 12 Books that Bridge the Natural and Human Worlds by Dennis James Sweeeney at Electric Lit ]

More poems & prose

Chicago Review, “The Jealousy of the Child” (forthcoming)

Indiana Review, “Some Moorings” (forthcoming)

Capgras Mag, “Antlers Inquiring” (forthcoming)

West Branch, 2 poems from Vegetable With

Bennington Review, “Causeway”

Dusie, “Super Ego Holding”

Works & Days, 4 poems from “Half the Soybeans…”

Strange Hymnal, 2 poems from Vegetable With

Washington Square Review, 2 poems from “Half the Soybeans…”

Rampage Party Press, 5 from “Halfway the Soybeans…

Kenyon Review, “Fig Rennet”

Poetry Daily, “On Edward Salem’s ‘Fullness’”

Noir Sauna, 4 from “Half the Soybeans of the World Float by Me on the River”

NEW: The Journal of American Poetry, “Spirits Rejoice!”

Ecotone, “After Waking from a Dream in Which…”

Poetry Northwest, “Benny the Robin”

Michigan Quarterly Review Mixtape, “While Reading Vallejo Before the Show”

Annulet, “I Have Been Reading The Baudelaire Fractal…

Typo, “A Word for a Word We Can’t Remember”

Grotto, “Contact and Piss Odes”

Prelude, “The Self, i.e. in a Field”

Afternoon Visitor, 2 poems from Vegetable With

Poetry Daily, “November Is Never”

Interim Poetics, “Where in the Morning (Goosefoot)”

Posit, 5 poems from Vegetable With

APARTMENT, 2 poems

Translations

The Los Angeles Review, 5 poems from Animal Muerto by Sebastián Gómez Matus

Denver Quarterly, 5 from “Probable Synonyms for the Word Sololoy” by Diana Garza Islas (print)

Circumference Magazine, 3 from “Probable Synonyms for the Word Sololoy” by Diana Garza Islas (print)

Washington Square Review, “[Unititled] to Alfred Starr Hamilton” by Sebastián Gómez Matus (print)

Black Warrior Review, 3 poems from “Probable Synonyms for the Word Sololoy” by Diana Garza Islas

The Arkansas International, “Love could be there” by Sebastián Gómez Matus (print)

The Canary, 4 poems from “Gardens” by Carlos Cociña (print)

Anomaly, 5 poems from “Probable Synonyms for the Word Sololoy” by Diana Garza Islas

Sink Review, “The Theory of the Poem of Anne Carson” by Mario Montalbetti

Desuetude Journal, 2 poems by Carlos Cociña


Older Misc…

New Delta Review, Interview with Eric Baus

New Delta Review, Review/essay: Arnaldo Calveyra’s Letters so That Happiness, trans. by Elizabeth Zuba