Courtney Mandryk

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Courtney Mandryk

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  • Home
  • ABOUT
  • WRITING
  • GRAPHIC DESIGN
  • BOOK COVER DESIGN
  • BOOK INTERIOR DESIGN
  • ILLUSTRATION / PAINTING
  • PORTRAITS
  • LUNAR CALENDARS
  • DEAR SIMONE: MUSIC

I have published numerous poems, listed below. 

A chapbook is coming out in 2026.

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SELECTED POETRY PUBLICATIONS

* "Dog Puking," Basilisk Poetry, 2026

* "My Kind of Carnage," I-70 Review, 2026

* “Reasons for Leaving," Th e Fourth River, Spring 2026

* “A Sea of Silk,”  Mudfish issue 23

* Numerous literary contributions to Root & S tar, 2015-2020

* “Condensation Early Morning,” Hayden’s Ferry Review

* “Containers that Hold Prayer,” Poydras

* “Our Bones Like Stars Like Milk” and “To Get Inside Something,” Appalachian Heritage

* "The Looped Pauses," Epiphany, Summer 2014

* “On This Sharp Planet with My Water-Balloon Heart,” boxofjars.com, Spring 2014

* “Write After Breakfast," essay in PRISM Magazine, Winter 2013

* “Scrim” Literary Mama, October 2013

* “Dark (40 Weeks)” the Adirondack Review, June 2013* 

“Folding Space to Bring You Back: three poems” in conjunction with Christina P. Day’s exhibit in Napoleon Napoleon Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, April 2013

* “Poem to get my brother’s little finger back” and “Poem as My Brother, Gluing

the Airplane Back Together,” Listen Up, 2007, guest edited by Peter

Markus

* “Twin” in Cream City Review, Fall 2007 Volume 31 Number 2

* “Shift,” in Cimarron Review, Summer 2007, issue 160

* “60% of Marriages End in Death” and “Poem to Climb a Mountain Bearing

Gifts” in Listen Up, 2006, guest edited by Brian Evenson

* “[When it rains it pours],” in Southeast Review, Winter 2006/07, volume 24

number 1-2

* “[Trees whipped bare]” in Slope (slope.org), Spring/Summer 2006, issue 23

* “Daydreams with Ex-wife as Destroyed Dressers” Th e Dia gram at

www.thediagram.com issue 5.6

*”Flat” in Writing Ann Arbor: A Literary Anthology, ed. Laurence Goldstein,

University of Michigan Press, Spring 2005

*”Flat” and “Light Burden” in Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 2005

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