Colleen Coyne

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Poet, Editor, Teacher

Poetry

Poems in Print

• "Some Remarks on the Great and Unusual Darkness" and "The Reluctant History of a Natural Suburb," Sou'wester (2019)
  
• "Tricks for the Camera Owner," LUMINA XVI (2017)
  
• "Wish You Were Here," Vector 4 (June 2016)
  
• "I write the dead,” So to Speak 24.1 (Spring 2015)
  
• “Garden of Metamorphosis,” in Devouring the Green: Fear of a Human Planet, ed. Sam Witt (Jaded Ibis Press, 2015)
  
• “The City Itself Is a Mystery School” and “The Family Plot,” Hayden’s Ferry Review 51 (2012)
• “Charm City,” Crab Orchard Review 17.2 (2012)
  
• “The Sin Eater,” Cream City Review36.1 (Spring 2012)
  
• “Collective Origins,” you are here: the journal of creative geography (2012)
  
• “The Hoodoos,” “The Ruin We Rode Upon,” and “On Leaving (I),” Handsome 4 (2012)
• “Flicker” and “Host,” Women’s Studies Quarterly 40 (Spring/Summer 2011)
  
• “Trinity,”Caesura (2011)
  

Poems Online

• "Memento Mori [2],"Heron Tree 11 (2025)
  
• "Wish You Were Here,""Doleful World Garden," and "The Mystic, Again Sick,"Doubleback Review 6.1 (2024)
  
• "Memento Mori" and "Edge Noise,"Unearthed (2019)
  
• "Understory" (reprint), Another Chicago Magazine 56 (2019)
  
• "The Sound of Them Loosening" and "(T)here nor (T)here,"TINGE 13 (Fall 2017)
  
• "Agrypnia" and "Origin Myth," Muse /A Journal 1.1 (2016)
  
• "Understory" and "The Birkenhead Drill,"TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics 4.4 (2016)
  
• "In the Sticks," BOXCAR Poetry Review (Winter 2015)
  
• "Echolocation," Really System 8 (2015)
  
• "Dangerous Ground," New Delta Review 5.2 (2015)
  
• "Nocturne (Optical Phenomenon)," Tupelo Quarterly 6 (2015)
  
• “The Running Wave” and “I am now about to make the great adventure,” Tinderbox Poetry Journal 1.3 (2015)
  
• “First Signs of Hunger,” written collaboratively with the Caldera Poetry Collective, Delirious Hem (December 2014)
  
• "Chorometry," DIAGRAM 14.5 (2014)
  
• "Take photographs," Journal of Compressed Creative Arts (2014)
  
• "How I Crossed," Hot Metal Bridge (Spring 2014)
  
• "Unincorporated (Welch, Minnesota)," the museum of americana 5 (2014)
  
• “Tenebrae” and “Out West,” alice blue review 17 (2012)
  
• “Epithalamion” (nominated for a Pushcart Prize), “After a Frost Night,” and “Lullaby,” Midway Journal 6.2 (December 2011)
  
• “The Kitchen Ghost,” What Light/mnLIT (March 2011)
  
• “Systems,” qarrtsiluni (March 2010)
  
• “St. Teresa,” Pebble Lake Review (Spring/Summer 2009)
• “Doleful World Garden,” “Freer,” and “A Mock Tent,” Drunken Boat 10 (2009)