What's Denise Shelton Writing Now?

More poetry, microfiction, and essays

Aug 15, 2020

Happy August! I just got back from a few days vacation at beautiful Great Sacandaga Lake in the Adirondacks. It was quiet, relaxing, and peaceful. Now it’s back to work with a vengeance!

As I reported last month, three of my haiku poems are going to be published in the Better Than Starbucks literary magazine’s May 2021 issue. I just found out that another poem of mine “Can You See the Light?” will appear in both the e-book and print versions of the premiere edition of Written Tales’ anthology. I will let you know when it’s released. I expect it to be fairly soon.

I’m establishing a presence on Twitter and Instagram. If you follow me there, you’ll see what I’m writing right away.

https://twitter.com/DeniseS_Writes

https://www.instagram.com/denisesheltonwrites/

I wrote the following poem about my friend Veronica who has always been very supportive of my writing. Enjoy!

“Upon Request”

Veronica will thumb her nose
When I present a page of prose
She prefers my poetry
It’s frankly all the same to me

And yet, I wonder if I wrote
About a man and boy afloat
Who hope so hard to get their wish
To catch a grand ginormous fish
If she read it, would she say,
“Denise, you’re just like Hemingway?”

Most likely not

I’ve not the juice,
I’ll settle then for, just like Seuss

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Here links to some of my latest stuff on Medium:

Microfiction:

“The Man Who Wasn’t There”

Poetry:

“Song of the South”

“Into the Sunset”

“Domesticity”

Essay:

“Why Are You Working for Free?”