JAY SIZEMORE

poet and author

Novels

  • APNEA: a novel of the future (2023)

Short Fiction Collections

Chapbooks / Collections


Poetry

  • The origin of water – Zephyrus and Nostrovia Poetry
  • Two poems – Zephryus

2012

  • Between Kansas and Oz – Red River Review
  • Two Poems – Toad le Journal
  • Two Poems – Apercus Quarterly
  • My mother’s deja vu time machine – Waterhouse Review
  • Two Poems – Transient
  • The fact of abstract absence – Big River Poetry Review
  • Florida vacation – Bicycle Review
  • Content – Turbulence
  • Three Poems – Wilderness House Literary Review
  • Oblivious deity – Emerge Literary Journal
  • Love replaced with a curse word – La Reata Review
  • Self loathing – siren
  • Three poems – cur.ren.cy
  • Adult film actress – Wild Goose Poetry Review
  • Five poems – Beyond the Dark Room anthology
  • Three poems – Prompted anthology

2013

  • Reflection in the grass – Words Dance
  • Empty nest – Big River Poetry Review
  • America is – Electric Windmill Press
  • Eight poems – Thirteen Myna Birds
  • Two Poems – Black Heart Magazine
  • Six Poems – Unlikely Stories
  • Narcissism born – ExFic
  • High blood pressure – Houston & Nomadic Voices
  • Isolationism – siren
  • Never – Camel Saloon
  • Scapegoating the pauses – Red Fez
  • What is seen is felt – Bay Laurel
  • Two Poems – Cease, Cows
  • First Responders – Spry
  • My New Bed – Aryis Online
  • Seventeen – Words Dance
  • Five Poems – Tongue UK
  • If I were a Latino cliche – DASH
  • How not to read poetry – Red River Review
  • Summer and Fall Magic – Emerge Literary Journal
  • Kentucky imaginings – OVS Magazine
  • disconnect – Poets/Artists
  • Awakening – Gloom Cupboard

2014

  • Five Poems – Menacing Hedge
  • Heart Strings – Lyre, Lyre
  • Noir, or imitating Tom Waits – Lunch Ticket
  • Imitating Bob Dylan – Prick of the Spindle
  • Two poems – Skinning Honesty anthology
  • Dealing with grief – Mother is a Verb anthology
  • Two poems – Negative Suck
  • How we are like crabs – Up the Staircase Quarterly
  • Sneezing while driving – The Blue Hour
  • Two poems – Red River Review
  • Seven poems – Thirteen Myna Birds
  • Sorry – Luciferous
  • Three poems – Stanzamonkey
  • Job interview – Scissors and Spackle
  • Autumn prayer – Still: The Journal
  • Trigger Warning – Black Heart Magazine
  • Four poems, featured author – ExFic
  • Two poems – Thirteen Myna Birds
  • make believe sonnet – Driftwood Press
  • mother – Montucky Review
  • How to remove a hazmat suit – Rattle Magazine
  • Three poems – Revolution John
  • Two poems – Words Dance

2015

  • Two poems – Melancholy Hyperbole
  • Four poems – Eunoia Review
  • lethologica – Redheaded Stepchild
  • In the veins of the Earth – The Lake
  • Disco ver(ses) in the key of American Hustle – Change Seven Magazine
  • Use me instead – New Verse News
  • A man burned alive... – New Verse News
  • Five poems – Revolution John
  • Six poems – Boston Poetry Magazine
  • Five poems – Novel Masters
  • Alabama attempts to stand still – New Verse News
  • Six months without sex – Cultured Vultures
  • Two poems – The Ofi Press
  • Two poems – Lyre Lyre
  • Five poems – Snapping Twig
  • Two poems – Black Heart Magazine
  • Two poems – Arsenic Lobster
  • Guilt – Philadelphia Review of Books
  • Five poems – FRiGG
  • Dear Stepfather – Mas Tequila Review
  • Reduce reuse recycle – Entropy/Enclave
  • Chalk outlines of a future self – Vending Machine Press
  • Two poems – Yellow Chair Review
  • Five syllables – Silver Birch Press
  • Tupelo Press 30/30 Challenge
  • Nashville, Tn – Calliope Magazine
  • Hunting season – New Verse News
  • Art made from ashes – Crab Fat Magazine / Christoph Paul
  • SCOWL – Revolution John
  • Featured poet – Calliope Magazine September 2015
  • Live Man Dead Man – EXPOUND
  • Triadelphia, WV – Fried Chicken and Coffee
  • Hope is a thing with blasters – Crab Orchard Review
  • My metaphors – Right Hand Pointing
  • Susurrus – McNeese Review
  • What war is good for – TruthDig
  • If the sun was a yellow t-shirt – Uut Poetry
  • A poet dies – Verse-Virtual
  • suicidal dreams – Uut Poetry

2016

  • I killed the child – New Verse News
  • 3 poems – Unlikely Stories
  • Proof is in the pudding – Uut Poetry
  • Ode to Justice Antonin Scalia – New Verse News
  • Think of an eclipse – Rat’s Ass Review
  • Three poems – Indiana Voice Journal
  • Five poems – Eunoia Review
  • A litany – Five2One Magazine
  • Gun of a bitch – Rattle
  • Grave robbing a life – Blue Fifth Review
  • Three poems – In Between Hangovers
  • Methamphetamine – Live Nude Poems
  • Five poems – Scarlet Leaf Review
  • How to know if God exists – Jabberwock Review (finalist for Editor prize)
  • The bloodied boy and the games – New Verse News
  • Two poems – Your One Phone Call
  • Dakota – New Verse News
  • Two poems – Prick of the Spindle print issue
  • Four Houses Down – Dissident Voice
  • Tomorrow’s anchor – Verse-Virtual
  • Disparities – Verse-Virtual
  • Two poems – Transcendent Zero
  • Four poems – Loch Raven Review

2017

  • State of emergency – The Crafty Poet II
  • A Precious Life – Praxis

2018

  • Five Poems – Change Seven
  • Four poems – PoeTree
  • Three poems – Lost River Magazine

2021


Fiction

  • The Amputee – The Horror Zine                                                         
  • Elm Shadow Lane – Ares Magazine
  • The Filibuster – Sante Fe Writer’s Project
  • A World for the Birds – Piker Press
  • The Antique – Scholars and Rogues
  • Conversations in the Future – Piker Press
  • Psoriasis – The Round-Up Zine
  • Terrorist – Horror, Sleaze, Trash
  • The Voice and the Pain – Fantastic Horror vol. 4
  • The Portrait with the Lazy Eye – No Rest for the Wicked anthology
  • Asphyxiation – Schlock UK

Editorial Credits


Awards

  • Finalist – 2016 Nancy D. Hargrove Editor Prize in Poetry from Jabberwock Review
  • Nominated Best of the Net 2015 for “Disco Ver(ses) in the key of American Hustle”
  • Second place, Poem of the Week – Cultured Vultures, March 2015
  • Winner – Day 13 of the 2014 April PAD Challenge on Writer’s Digest Poetic Asides.
  • Nominated – Best of the Net 2013 for the poem “My Despair Trivialized.”
  • Finalist – 2013 Blood Pudding Chapbook Contest for There’s No Place Like Hell.
  • Finalist – 2006 Goldenrod Poetry Contest at Western Kentucky University for “The Origin of Water.”

Interviews


Work in Progress

  • MEANINGLESS WORDS – a novel

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