Antsy
Current week --
Stuck between
Xmas and Auld
Lang Syne --
Is tough weak
Literary journal
Periodwise for us
Ambitious poets
Slow regards
Submission to
Few open mag
Publishers, plus
Myriad myrmeds
Gather inside to
Escape torrential
Rains: cute (nice
Feature!) social
Bugs also flood
Our bathrooms
During what has
Now become usual
Summer very dry
Spells: Gerry must
Admit I’m too antsy!
Gerard Sarnat (He/ they) Poet, aphorist or sometimes meanderist; Gerard Sarnat is widely published internationally in print and online. He has been nominated for the pending Science Fiction Poetry Association Dwarf Star Award, won San Francisco Poetry’s Contest, the Poetry in the Arts First Place Award plus the Dorfman Prize; and has been nominated for handfuls of Pushcarts plus Best of the Net Awards. Gerry’s publications include 2024 University of Idaho/Confluence Lab, 2024 Laughing Ronin Press, Hong Kong Review, Tokyo Poetry Journal, Buddhist Poetry Review, Gargoyle, Main Street Rag, New Delta Review, San Diego Poetry Annual, Potomac Review, Hamilton-Stone Review, Northampton Review, New Haven Poetry Institute, Texas Review, Vonnegut Journal, Brooklyn Review, San Francisco Magazine, Monterey Poetry Review, The Los Angeles Review, and The New York Times; as well as by Oberlin, Yale, NYU, Slippery Rock, Northwestern, Pomona, Brown’s College as well as its Alpert Medical School, Colorado-Boulder, Harvard, Missouri Baptist, Stanford, Dartmouth, Penn, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Grinnell, North Dakota, Nebraska, McMaster, Maine, Universities of British Columbia and Toronto and Chicago and Virginia presses; Awakenings Review, Arts & Cultural Council of Bucks County Celebration, Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival Anthology, the erozine, Antithesis, Magma, Ginosko, Chiron Review, WORDPEACE, Midwest Zen, Cordite Poetry Review, Young Ravens, Fjords, Turtle Island, MIPOesias, Ocotillo Review, Gravity of the Thing, American Writers Review/ San Fedele Press, San Francisco Creative Writing Institute, Israel Association of Writers in English, In Parentheses, Sacramento Review, Pocket Samovar, Black Sunflower, Free State, The Broken City, Sandy River Review, Three Rooms Press/Maintenant, New World Writing, Songs of Eretz, New Verse News,The Font, BigCityLit, HitchLit Review, Lowestoft, Washington Square Review, The Deronda Review, Jewish Writing Project, Arkansas Review. Gerry is a Harvard College and Medical School-trained physician who’s built and staffed clinics for the disenfranchised as well as a Stanford professor and healthcare CEO. Currently he is devoting energy/ resources to deal with climate justice, and serves on Climate Action Now’s board. Gerry’s been married since 1969 with progeny consisting of four collections (Homeless Chronicles: From Abraham To Burning Man, Disputes, 17s, Melting the Ice King) plus three kids/ six grandsons — and is looking forward to potential future granddaughters. gerardsarnat.com
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