Tag: blogging
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GLJ On Hiatus
Hello all, I hope you are well. I on the other hand, your lead editor, am not well. I recently got diagnosed with Pelvic Inflammatory Disease. It was constantly missed by doctors and now the infection has spread quite severely, impacting several organs and leaving permanent scarring of tissue. It seems resistant to antibiotics. As…
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“My poems arise out of an experience.”: Q & A With Kim Whysall-Hammond, our 2023 ROAR Showcase Finale
“[M]y poems arise out of an experience, […]”: Q & A With Kim Whysall-Hamond Q. What is your earliest memory of poetry? A: My earliest memory of any poetry would be of Nursery Rhymes – my favourites were Mary Mary Quite Contrary and Baa Baa Black Sheep. I always, even at an early age, questioned why a…
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Day Seven, 2023 ROAR Showcase: Rose Bower by Kim Whysall-Hammond
Rose Bower for Gita, wherever you are Enchantment beckoned at the end of your gardenmany climbing roses intertwined into aa concealing bower where we spied on hidden lovershunted magic deer that leaptskywards and away fromour orbital arrows that encircled the world we swapped shoes and dresseseach handmade by our motherseach smelling so differentyou said all…
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Day Six, 2023 ROAR Showcase: Wilma by Kim Whysall-Hammond
Wilma I sit on the stairsof another woman’s houseone I love deeplymy mother was the star to herrockfast grace and kindnessbut stars burn out and die Wilma still shinesher back may be bent buther eyes glowthis house was sanctuaryand freedom to methe love she and hers gave megentle and calm Kim Whysall-Hammond grew up in…
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Day Five, 2023 ROAR Showcase: Incremental Understanding by Kim Whysall-Hammond
Incremental Understanding In the lineup of superheroesyou were the lost housewife your dream of family and many childrencame late and was never enough a restricted life left you resentingyour daughters busy career all that lost time smelt of lemons Kim Whysall-Hammond grew up in London in a working-class family, but now lives deep in the…
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Day Four, 2023 ROAR Showcase: Toxic by Kim Whysall-Hammond
Toxic I’m so tall, I’m so tallYet you raised me to be so small As waves wash an uncaring shoreSo I would wash you with my love As they caress rocks and pebblesI used to kiss your uncaring cheek Waited with the patience of wavesFor you to regard me To see the woman I had…
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Revealing GLJ’s 2023 ROAR Showcase Winner: Kim Whysall-Hammond
Green Lion Journal is proud to announce our 2023 ROAR Showcase: Kim Whysall-Hammond. Over the next week GLJ will post Kim’s poems and her Q&A. Her work will continue to be featured on GLJ in the ROAR showcase until December 1st, 2024. Experiences are life. Fantasy and intellectualization, though integral to the human condition, serve…
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Okay Super-Procrastinators! Last Day To Submit To Green Lion’s 2023 ROAR Showcase
It’s here! The deadline is rapidly upon you! Submissions have been sliding under the door all year, it’s been a delight peeking at and seeing all the wonderful and moving pieces being sent in, but the submission window is now rapidly closing; get your poems in while you can. The last day to submit for…
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Revisit Candice Louisa Daquin’s The Abortionist’s Chair
In light of the United State’s Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, I invite you to revisit Candice Louisa Daquin’s powerful poem “The Abortionist’s Chair”. Candice is our 2022 ROAR winner; go read the rest of her work and her inspiring Q&A here. Stay brave. Love, Renwick Berchild, GLJ Editor The Abortionist’s Chair Candice…
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What the Trash Reveals by Renwick Berchild
What the Trash Reveals A woman’s reliquary. Whole photo albums doused in nicotine, each bit of uneaten Shepherd’s pie with scissor snips, split pencils, blue crayon nubs— for don’t you know— I adore blue, in the ways it wantlessly weaves the woad soul through button holes and Cuckoo wasp mouths, in the ways it waves…
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