Grateful to Spillway magazine for publishing this little poem of mine, and to Dripping Springs Garden, Arkansas, where new love and the idea of my daughter were first planted. To view the full list of contributors, visit Spillway Issue #28. Print copies are available for purchase at Small Distribution Press.
ABOUT: Spillway magazine is an annual publication of Tebot Bach, Inc., presenting poetry, reviews, and articles since 1993. Susan Terris was editor from 2010 to 2017, and now Marsha de la O and Phil Taggart are co-editors. Lynne Thompson has been the Reviews and Essays Editor since 2012.
Published each summer in Orange County, California, Spillway presents emerging and established poets of regional, national, and international interest including David St. John, Barbara Hamby, Mihaela Moscaliuc, Richard Garcia, and Norman Dubie.
Poems from Spillway have been featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. In recent years, poems by Eleanor Wilner, Ilya Kaminsky, Natalie Diaz, and Andrea Hollander have been awarded Pushcart Prizes for poems published here, and a poem by Sean Thomas Dougherty was published in Best American Poetry 2014. Clifford Garstang is currently (2017) listing Spillway as 16th among American literary magazines publishing poetry.
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