The Red Shoe Poet

Shawn Aveningo Sanders

Journals & Anthologies

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I’m truly honored and grateful to have my poetry published in these fine literary journals and anthologies:

(Online journals have link to the poem published, when possible)

  1. Calyx, Winter 2019 (forthcoming) –“Getting Through Menopause Without Killing Everyone You Love”
  2. Is It Hot in Here or Is It Just Me?, Beautiful Cadaver Project Anthology, 2019 — “Becoming Our Mothers” and “Getting Through Menopause Without Killing Everyone You Love”
  3. Blue Heron Review, Featured Poet June 2019 — “The 2nd Time I Lost My Kidney,” “On Making Bisque to Comfort the Mother Who Lost Her Son” and “Unfurling”
  4. WRATH, Vol 5 of Seven Deadly Sins Series, Pure Slush (Australia), 2019 — “Headline: A mother protects her son”
  5. More Queer Families, An LGBQT & Allies Anthology — “A Singular Aluminum-Foiled Horn”
  6. Cliterature, Special Edition by Invitation Only — “How to Seduce Me”
  7. Blue Heron, Issue 11, Winter 2019 — “Letting Go”
  8. SLOTH, Vol 4 of Seven Deadly Sins Series, Pure Slush (Australia), 2019 — “Lazy”
  9. Kosmos Quarterly, Summer 2018 — “How to Build a Home”
  10. Amsterdam Quarterly, Genealogy Issue, 2018 — “From Those Who Came Before”
  11. Rising Phoenix Review, November 2018 — “Desperate Choices”
  12. Writer’s Resist, 2018 — “Liberty Turns Her Back”
  13. Amethyst Review, 2018 — “To Question a Seed Pod in Autumn” and “To Fly”
  14. Quiet Storm, 2018 — “Taking Away the Pain in Georgia” and “Metal in My Mouth”
  15. GREED, Vol 3 of Seven Deadly Sins Series, Pure Slush (Australia), 2018 — “An American City”
  16. Poets Reading the News, Summer, 2018 — “Jars of Clay”
  17. Northampton Poetry Review (UK), Summer 2018 — Liberty Turns Her Back (a ghazal)
  18. Visual Verse, Vol 5, Chap 7, May 2018 — “Not Too Cold / Not Too Hot”
  19. Pilcrow & Dagger, 2018 — “Black Sheep”
  20. Awakened Voices, Issue #6, May 2018  — “What Happens Later — Sometimes Much Later”
  21. Panoply — “From Those Who Came Before”
  22. The Poeming Pigeon: In the News, May 2018 — “For Eric and Erica”
  23. GLUTTONY, Vol 2 of Seven Deadly Sins Series, Pure Slush (Australia), 2018 — “Teacups, Teacups Everywhere and Not a Scone in Sight”
  24. Dissident Voices, 2018 — “Word Gate” and “On a Winter Sunday”
  25. Suisun Valley Review, 2018 — “Benign?,” “Collected, Standing the Test of Time” and “Kidney Beans”
  26. Voicecatcher: a journal of women’s voices & vision, Summer 2018 — “Getting Through Menopause Without Killing Everyone You Love”
  27. Verseweavers (Oregon Poetry Association, 2018)– “Today I Am Venus” (Won 2nd prize, members only category)
  28. Degenerates: Voices for Peace, Mental Illness Issue, 2018 — “Prescribed Addiction”
  29. LUST, Vol 1 of Seven Deadly Sins Series, Pure Slush (Australia), 2018 — “Dental Impressions”
  30. American Journal of Poetry, July 2018 — “Another Page in the Fraternity Scrapbook” and “My Name Doesn’t Appear in Your history Pages”
  31. The Poeming Pigeon: Love Poems, Decl 2017 — “Our Love Isn’t Photoshop’d”
  32. Visual Verse, Vol 4, Chap 10, November 2017 — “Emma Jane“
  33. PoeticDiversity – The Poetry Zine of Los Angeles, April 2017
    — “A Groupon for Women’s Plus-Size Mermaid Swimsuit” (nominated for Best of the Net, 2017)
  34. Delaware Poetry Review, March 2017, This Thing Called Life–The Prince Issue — “Forever 19“
  35. mgversion2>datura: La petite mort, Jan 2017, Issue #87 — “Ecstatic Death” and “The Gift”
  36. Writers Resist, Dec 2016 — “The First Snow after the Election”
  37. Red Sky (Anthology on Violence against Women, Sable Books) — “The Day I Saw My Rapist at the Corner Texaco, parts 1 & 2”
  38. Visual Verse, Vol 4, Chap 1 — “Never Wore the Same Pair Twice”
  39. Allegro Poetry Magazine (UK), Dec 2016 — “Borscht, Bolshoi & KGB”
  40. Visitant Lit, Oct 2016 — “On Making Bisque to Comfort the Mother who Lost her Son”
  41. The Poeming Pigeon: Poems about Music, Fall 2016 — “Forever 19”
  42. Timberline Review, Inaugural Issue, Summer 2015 — “Floating in her Mouth”
  43.  Museum of Awkward (Oakland Installment)
    — “What Pray Tell Is a Pussy Fart?”
  44. Visual Verse, Vol 3, Chap 12 — “Her Blue Period”
  45. PoeticDiversity – The Poetry Zine of Los Angeles, Nov 2016
    — “Keeping the Rabbit Warm”
  46. Visual Verse, Vol 3, Chap 11 — “Quick, Before the Gate Closes”
  47. Visual Verse, Vol 3, Chap 9 — “On the Ocean’s Edge”
  48. Social Justice Poetry — “A Mothers Dream”
  49. Verse Virtual, July 2016 — “One Final Inning in St. Louis”
  50. Inwood Indiana (The Reaping Issue) — “Alone in this Place”
  51. Silver Birch Press (Beach Issue) — “For the Boy in a Wheelchair at a Florida Beach”
  52. Verse Virtual, April 2016 — “Poetically Opposed”
  53. Pure Slush (Australia), The Mirror Issue — “Corsets”
  54. Silver Birch Press (Starting to Ride Issue) — “Training Wheels”
  55. Social Justice Poetry — “Just Another Day”
  56. Silver Birch Press (Mane Issue) — “Angel Hair”
  57. Verse Virtual, January 2016 — “Pink Ribbons”
  58. Sparrow’s Trill (Minerva Rising, Jan 2016) — “Human”
  59. Suisan Valley Review, 2016 — “Arranged” and “Nadine’s Knuckles”
  60. The Poeming Pigeon: Doobie or Not Doobie? (4/20/16)– “Ivy and Weed”
  61. Kind of Hurricane Press Editors Award Finalist — “Arranged”
  62. OccuPoetry, March 2016 — “Behind Bars” and “Taken Down by the Police”
  63. Elohi Gadugi, Jan 2016 — “Get Yourself a New Weather Girl”
  64. Songs of Eretz (Annual Contest Finalist, Dec 2015) — “Crabgrass in Suburbia”
  65. Suisan Valley Review, 2015 — “Decisions, Decisions”
  66. The Poeming Pigeon: Poems about Food (Fall 2015)— “How to Eat a Strawberry”
  67. Oregon Poetry Association (Spring Contest, Honorable Mention for Ghazal Category) “Safe Distance from the Flame”
  68. Poeming Pigeons: Poems about Birds (Spring 2015)– “What They See” (aka “Bird Watching”)
  69. Songs of Eretz (March 2015) — “Bird Watching”
  70. Shattered (Kind of Hurricane Press, Anthology) — “Becoming Ophelia”
  71. Léannan, Love & Marriage Issue (South Africa) — “Saturday Nights”
  72. PDXX Collective (Dec, 2015, now Visitant Lit) — “Nothing Left to See”
  73. PDXX Collective (Dec, 2015, now Visitant Lit) — “On Why The Editor Can’t Objectively Select Poems  After Sex”
  74. FIVE  (5 yr Anniversary Print Issue from Pure Slush, Australia) — “Take Five”
  75. MUSED Quarterly, Winter 2015 — “Angel Hair” and “It’s Soothing Gift”
  76. *Star 82 Review, Issue 3.4, Dec 2015 — “Safe Distance From the Flame”
  77. Snapdragon, Summer 2015 — “Perpetual”
  78. Of Course, I’m a Feminist! (Anthology celebrating International Women’s Day, 2015) — “Empty”
  79. Page & Spine (Jan 2015) — “This Is My Body”
  80. Deep Waters Literary Journal (South Africa, Aug, 2014) — “He Doesn’t Know”
  81. Weatherings (Future Cycle Press, 2015) — “They Call Me Mary”
  82. Elohi Gadugi, Fall 2014 — “Jasmine”
  83. Minerva Rising (Food Issue, 2014) — “Strawberry Jam”
  84. Munyori Literary Journal (Featured Poet) — “Born Where Men Go to Die”, “And the Question Is…”, “Shape Shifting”, “Last Call” and “Citizen’s Mistress”
  85. VoiceCatcher – A Journal of Women’s Voices & Visions, Summer 2014 — “Binders Full of Women”
  86. Whisperings Literary Journal (Volume 3, Issue 1,Mountain Tales Press) — Featured Poet: “Thought Drops,” “American Cannibals,” “Crabgrass in Suburbia,” “Poetically Opposed” and “Virtuoso”
  87. Napalm & Novocain — “black widows and divorce”
  88. Kind of a Hurricane Press (Something Brewing Anthology)– “Saturday Morning at Starbucks”
  89. Eternal Snow (Anthology edited by Yuyu Sharma) — “Himalaya”
  90. Boston Poetry Magazine (Feb 2014) — “Blue Moon,” “Cancer Beetles” and “Shane’s Beach”
  91. PoeticDiversity – The Poetry Zine of Los Angeles, April 2014
    — “Can’t Quite Fill the Space” (Pushcart Nominee)
  92. The Kentucky Review (2014) — “Pie Filling” and “Mapping His Freckles”
  93. Rubicon: Words and Art Inspired by Oscar Wilde (Sybaritic Press) — “From the Depths”
  94. Benicia Annual Love Poetry Contest, 2014 Finalist — “The Shape of Your Mouth”
  95. River Poets Journal – Special Edition Anthology — “Runaway”
  96. From the Depths Quarterly Review (Haunted Waters Press, Summer 2014) — “Emma Jane”
  97. Crossing Over (Main Street Rag, 2014) — “Jungle Fever”
  98. PoeticDiversity – The Poetry Zine of Los Angeles, April 2014
    — Post Divorce Tarot Reading: A Courtship Trifecta
  99. Keeping It Weird: Stories and Poems of Portland, Oregon — “A Girl and a Pole”
  100. Chicago Literati — “Too  Soon”
  101. Tule Review (Sacramento Poetry Center, Fall 2013) — “The Second Time I Lost My Kidney”
  102. From the Depths Quarterly Review (Haunted Waters Press, Fall 2013) — “How to Build a Home,” “Take Five” and “Root Beer Floats”
  103. Paper Bag Writers Project (Nov, 2013) — “In From Out of the Cold”
  104. Sacramento Voices (Cold River Press) — “Unfastening,” “Midnight in Missouri,”  “Mirror, Mirror” and “Waiting for the Age of Aquarius”
  105. From the Depths Quarterly Review (Haunted Waters Press, Summer 2013) — “Unfinished Sentences”
  106. Metric Conversions (Nazar Look – Romania) — “Union”
  107. National Poetry Month Anthology (Writing Knights Press, 2013) — “A Single Drop of Sweat”
  108. Savage Melodies & Last Call Serenades (Six Ft Swells Press) — “What Hat?” and “Journey’s Rush”
  109. Nefarious Ballerina (Shoe Music Press) — “The Hungarian Adventurer”
  110. Voice of Lincoln Annual Contest Anthology, 2012 — 1st Prize Winner (What Money Can’t Buy): “And Life Goes On” and 2nd Prize Winner (Unbelievable but true): “Fingerpainting”
  111. Longest Hours: Thoughts While Waiting (Silver Boomer Books) — “Biopsy”
  112. Zingara Poetry Picks — “Now You See It, Now You Don’t”
  113. WTF?! (Rattlesnake Press, Fall, 2012) — “This Ain’t No Bangles Song”
  114. Harbin Hot Springs Poetry Contest — 3rd Place Winner: “Canopy”
  115. From the Four-Chambered Heart: Anais Nin Tribute Anthology (Sybaritic Press) — “Dear Henry”
  116. Seattle Erotic Festival Anthology (2012) — “Fucking Alliteration,” “Ecstatic Death,” “Bewitched” and “My Religion”
  117. Skin 2 Skin: Art of the Lesbian — “A Mother’s Dream”
  118. New Orleans by Gaslight (Black Tome Books) – “Pocketful of Coppers”
  119. Tincture Journal (Australia) – “Traffic Jam”
  120. Featherlit — “He Loved”
  121. Cliterature — “Was Black Friday Part of Mayan Calendar?”
  122. The Oddity (Absurd Publications) — “Empty”
  123. Pirene’s Fountain (Beverage Issue, Glass Lyre Press) — “Morning Ritual”
  124. The Possibility Place — “A Mother’s Dream”
  125. WTF?! (Rattlesnake Press, 2011) — “Muse-ic”
  126. Poets Corner – Sacramento News & Review  (April 2012)– “R(ela)x”
  127. Wait a Minute, I Have to Take off my Bra (Inkspotter Publishing (Canada) — “Pink Ribbons”
  128. Convergence: Journal of Poetry & Art (Editors Choice, 2011) — “Business Proposal,” “Let My Soul Dance” and “Patchwork Heart”
  129. Survivor’s Review (July 2010) — “Pink Ribbons”
  130. Prospective: Journal of Speculation (Loyal Stone Press) — “Hell Hath No Fury”
  131. Poetry Now (Sacramento Poetry Center,  print issue, 2009) — “Where Does Poetry Live,”
  132. Poetry Now (Sacramento Poetry Center,  print issue, 2009) — “Red Dress,” “Taurus Fell Under the Moon,”
  133. Poetry Now (Sacramento Poetry Center,  print issue, 2008) — “Play for Me Claire de Lune,”
  134. Poetry Now (Sacramento Poetry Center, print issue, 2008) —  “Generations” and “Capitalism”
  135. Survivor’s Review (June 2008) — “Remission”
  136. Rattlesnake Review (Spring, 2009) — “Speak” 
  137. Rattlesnake Review (Summer, 2008) — “Gadzooks,” “Laughter,” “Doohickey,” “Rules of 4” and “Saturday Morning at Starbucks”
  138. Rattlesnake Review (Winter, 2008) –“Like Snow”
  139. The Obsidian (Rattlesnake Press) — “Pancakes”