Thanks to editor @jrobertlennon.com and @epochliterary.com for including my odd little piece "Nineteen Footnotes on a Poem About My Marriage" as a featured essay in the Fall 2025 issue. I'm grateful to be part of such an impressive collection. You can find it at www.epochliterary.com/featuredessay

Brain-damaged psychopath methamphetamine addict . . . we're now squarely in the "Tuco Salamanca" era in the history of the republic.

Many thanks to Adam Bechtold and Dylan Hogan at @samfiftyfour.bsky.social for their deep dive into my odd, cross-genre piece "Prayer for a Lost Child (with notes)" on the Jan. 16 edition of Samfiftyfour's "Loose Criteria" podcast. You can find it here: open.spotify.com/episode/0ef1...

I'm excited to share that my poem "The Dardanelles: Hero and Leander at 60" has been selected as one of the winners of the Lazuli Literary Group's fall prize. I'm grateful to editor Sakina Fakhri for her support and guidance. You can read the piece here: www.lazuliliterarygroup.com/the-dardanel...

Many thanks to the team at US Catholic magazine and its gifted editor Rebecca Bratten Weiss (@rbratten.bsky.social) for making a home for my poem "Prayer for a Lost Child." It's about a lot of things . . . fathers and daughters, prayers, grave things in the dark and old railroads and railroad men.

In Act III, Scene 1 of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, Titus has been presented with the monstrous reality of his daughter's assault and mutilation, the decapitated heads of two sons and his own severed hand. From the depth of his horror and grief, he starts to laugh . . . youtu.be/VMHDO-bmba0?...

a few years ago I took this picture of a toilet on the street corner and it’s haunted me ever since there are poems everywhere for those with eyes to see

Feeling grateful for my sister, who for 20 years gathered our complicated clan at her house, until her passing a little over two years ago. She visited us, briefly, a few months later. This one's for her.

Let's be honest about what is happening all around us now . . . we are entering one of our culture's frequent periods of violent erasure. Other cultures have these (the Inquisition, Stalinism, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the Rwandan genocide) but these cultures have one every thousand years.

My long(ish) poem "Night Ride Across the Alleghenies" traces the story of my parents' hasty wedding in Feb. 1963. Along the way, it asks about memory, secrets, vagrancy, the Civil War, surveillance and the "just so stories" we invent to fill in the gaps.

Happy to share that my poem "Repair" has just appeared in the July edition of Plume Poetry. You can find it here (plumepoetry.com/repair/) with a few of my thoughts about it here (plumepoetry.com/poets-and-tr...). Many thanks to Danny Lawless and the entire Plume editorial team.

Very excited to share that my poem "Memento Mori" appeared in Issue 118 of Image Journal. You can find it at imagejournal.org/article/meme... Thanks to the editors who made it happen, especially Shane McCrae and the fantastic Mary Kenagy Mitchell.

My short story, "Two Not Touch," appeared in Volume 22 of Bridge Magazine (www.bridge-chicago.org/bridge-store...). Grateful to fiction editor Meghan Lamb and the Bridge team for including this piece in their very impressive collection.

Many thanks to editor Celeste Schantz and Mason Street Review for including my poem "Bottom." It's about a lot of things . . . love, foolishness, ceramics, Shakespeare, enchantment, gift-giving . . . Find it here: masonstreetreview.org/2022/09/25/b...

Many thanks to M. I. Shokrian and The Thieving Magpie for including three poems of mine in Issue 19. You can find them here: thievingmagpie.org/greg-sendi-3...

Thanks to the team at The Writing Disorder for making a home for my creative nonfiction piece "The Peshaman Fragments." I hope you'll take a look. writingdisorder.com/greg-sendi-n...

Many thanks to Nikki Boss and Natalie Byers at Skink Beat Review for publishing my piece called “Nineteen Footnotes from a Monograph on Attention Mechanics." You can find it here: www.flipsnack.com/nikkiax/augu...

Thanks to the team at Third Wednesday magazine for making a home in their latest issue and online for my poem "The Owlet and the Turtle." I hope folks will take a look. thirdwednesdaymagazine.org/2021/09/19/t...

My short, short story, "The Intervention," has appeared in the The Centifictionist. You can read it here: thecentifictionist.home.blog/2021/11/04/t... Thanks again to Editor Clara Ray Rusinek Klein for including me.

Sincere thanks to Eclectica Magazine and its talented editor Tom Dooley for making a home for my latest item of short fiction, "The Green Lion and the Sun." You can find it at eclectica.org/v25n4/sendi..... Take a look when you have a moment.

Thanks to Great Lakes Review and and Managing Editor Mitch James for accepting my poem "The League of Impossible Gentlemen." I hope you'll take a look. greatlakesreview.org/league-impos...

Take a look at my piece, "In Nineteen Whatever," appearing in Cathexis Northwest Press (with audio). Is it a bitterly angry screed? Sure. That and so much more. Thanks to the CNWP team for making a great home for it. www.cathexisnorthwestpress.com/post/in-nine...

Thanks to the team at UCSB's excellent, long-established annual, Spectrum Literary Journal, for including my poem "A Drape of Underdown" in Volume 64.

My short story "Lost in Hebron" appeared in Faultline Journal of Arts and Letters, Volume 30. Thanks to fiction editor Miguel Cid and the entire staff for giving the piece a great home in the world. You can read it here: issuu.com/faultlinejou...

Thanks very much to San Antonio Review (@sanantoreview.bsky.social) for publishing my short story "Gospel of the Four Septembers." I hope you'll have a look. www.sareview.org/pub/uqfwcgfi...

Grateful to @coffinbell.bsky.social and Editor-in-Chief @tamaralikecamera.bsky.social for including my short story "Pointe à la Hache." Hope you'll have a look at coffinbell.com/pointe-a-la-...

My poem "The Pastor and the Lobster" appeared in Consequence Forum back in 2021. (I hope you'll have a look and enjoy it. ) consequenceforum.org/the-pastor-a...

Thanks to Burningword Literary Journal for including my poem "On Grey Rock Place" in their January 2021 issue. You can find it here: www.burningword.com/2021/01/on-g...

Hope you'll take a look at my poem "Missa Corona Spinea" which appeared in Plume in Feb. 2021: plumepoetry.com/missa-corona...

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