The Ekphrastic Review, Ekphrastic Challenge, May 5, 2023 – “When Telekinesis Trumps Precognition,” an ekphrastic flash science fiction story (twelfth piece down in the selections).
MacQueen’s Quinterly, Issue 18, 29 April, 2023: My NaB (Nuts and Bolts) essay, “Experiment in Poetry, Memoir, and Art: Four 1950s-Small-Town-Illinois Memoir-Poems Paired with Paintings by Van Gogh, With Author Commentary.”
My reading of my poem, “The Currency of His Light” with all 19 of Monet’s paintings in the series as background, on my blog.
MacQueen’s Quinterly, Issue 17, 29 January 2023: Prose poem (“The Fifth Way”) and Author’s Commentary (“On ‘The Fifth Way’—Epigraph as Image—Another Form of Ekphrasis?”).
The Ekphrastic Review, Ekphrastic Challenge, January 13, 2023 – “Mitochondrial Quirks.” (3rd poem below image.)
The COOP: A Poetry Cooperative : November 8, 2022 – “Blues Signs.”
My Facebook reading (October 19, 2022) of my poem, “Megarhyssa,” which first appeared in MacQueen’s Quinterley in August 2022.
MacQueen’s Quinterly, Issue 15, September 18, 2022: Ekphrastic poem, “Purgatory.”
The Ekphrastic Review Lucky 7 Ekphrastic Marathon Anthology (September, 2022), includes my microfiction piece, “After The Lantern Parade, by Thomas Cooper Gotch, 1918,” (pp. 40-41).
MacQueen’s Quinterly, Issue 14, August 2, 2022: Ekphrastic poem, “Megarhyssa,” inspired by ink sketch of the wasp species Megarhyysa nortoni by Craig Latke.
MacQueen’s Quinterly, Issue 13, May 22, 2022: Ekphrastic poem, “Insurrection,” and Poet’s Commentary; Ekphrastic poem “Letters from Vincent,” and Poet’s Commentary.
The COOP: A Poetry Cooperative, May 16, 2022: “Land of the Southwind.”
MacQueen’s Quinterley, Issue 12, March 10, 2022: “Grieving,” and “Opening Shutters.”
MacQueen’s Quinterley, Issue 11, January 1, 2022: “Starlings: Ode to Murmuration,” and “Hummingbirds.”
The Ekphrastic Review, November15, 2021: “Forever,” an ekphrastic flash historical fiction story inspired by Van Gogh’s “The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum” (1888).
The COOP: A Poetry Cooperative, October 15, 2021: “Lexicon.” Thanks to monthly editor Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg for choosing my poem.
Meadowlark Press posted a 30-page sample of my book Stage Whispers, winner of the 2019 Nelson Poetry Book Award, on ISSUU.
Selected Poems from the 2021 Issue of I-70 Review read by Ken Hada on his podcast, The Sunday Poems with Ken Hada, Episode 152, include my poem, “After Leaf Raking.”
The COOP: A Poetry Cooperative, September 6, 2021: “Clarity,” chosen by monthly editor James Benger. Thanks, James.
MacQueen’s Quinterly, Issue 9, August, 2021: My poems, “Shores,” and “Symphony Below the Threshold of Hearing.”
River City Poetry Spring (May) 2021 Issue: My poems, “Age Tries to Recall Youth’s Departure,” “After the Painting Sea Sprites in Flight by John Anster Fitzgerald (1860),” and “A Father Who Lives Longer Than His Son — A Villanelle.”
Meadowlark Press Celebration of Poetry Month (Readings of Meadowlark poets’ poems), April 6, 2021: Linzi Garcia reads my poem, “Spring, Bittersweet as Separation.”
On Ground Beef and Certainty, April 6, 2021, A republication of my poem, “Lies — A Performance Piece for Poet and Chorus.”
On Ground Beef and Certainty, March 24, 2021, A republication of my poem, “Jim.”
Watermark Books & Cafe, 16 February 2021: Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg and Roy Beckemeyer read from their newest books of poetry.
The Coop: A Poetry Cooperative, 15 February, 2021: My poem, “Whirl.” Thanks to Editor Laura Washburn for selecting my work.
MacQueen’s Quinterly, Issue 6, January, 2021: My poems: “The Way Night’s Lapidary Light Burnishes Your Skin” (Editor’s Choice $100 Issue 6 Award Winner), “Prothalamion.”
The Ekphrastic Review, November 23, 2020: My poem, “The Currency of His Light.”
Morning Jim (Jim Ransom’s weekly poetry vlog on YouTube), October 24, 2020: Dr. Ransom reads “Cowley County October,” and “Winter’s Weft.”
MacQueen’s Quinterly, Issue 5, October, 2020: My poems: “Barbara Hamby Embraces the Swedish Word Mångata,” and “The Color of Blessings.”
Mockingheart Review Volume 5 Issue 3, Fall, 2020: My poem, “Us” and my ink sketch “Randy Zellers Improvising” (original 8 by 11 cm) both appear in this latest issue.
Wichita Broadside Project 2020 (River City Poetry, Harvester Arts, Wichita Arts Council): September 2020 jury choices include the broadside “Our Love Is Stratigraphic,” in which I respond poetically to Malissa Long’s hand painted textiles. A higher resolution pdf version is available HERE.
River City Poetry June 2020 Issue: My poems, “Poem Written on the First Anniversary of My Son’s Death,” and “We All Breathe.”
River City Poetry Spring 2020 Issue: My review of Jason Baldinger’s poetry chapbook , Blind into Leaving.
River City Poetry Spring 2020 Issue: My review of Jase Buck’s and Linzi Garcia’s poetry chapbook, Live a Great Story.
River City Poetry Spring 2020 Issue: My review of Paul Austin’s poetry book, Notes on Hard Times.
Mockingheart Review: Volume 5, Number 1, 1 February 2020: My photos, “Sol Etude,” and “The Last of the Elm Leaves,” published in the arts section.
MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature Issue 1, January 2020: My poem, “Central Heat.”
River City Poetry Fall 2019 Issue: Four of my poems are in this issue, “Adjacence,” “Mark,” “Oxidation,” and “Declarative.”
River City Poetry Fall 2019 Issue: My review of Melvin Litton’s poetry book, From the Bone.
River City Poetry Fall 2019 Issue: My review of Lori Brack’s poetry book, Museum Made of Breath (Spartan Press).
Epistrophy 2019 – an afternoon of poetry and music, November 25, 2019. Musicians Bill Glenn (percussion) and Randy Zellers (Guitar) improvise music inspired by my reading of “Fifty-Eighth Anniversary” to my wife Pat on the day of our anniversary. Thanks to grandson Hank Honas for taking the video, and to all the Epistrophy participants for offering the opportunity.
At the 2019 Kansas Authors Club Convention, Holiday Inn East, Wichita, at Rhythm-A-Ning, Oct. 5th: I read my poem “Blackberry,” while Bill Glenn on percussion and Seth Carrithers on double bass improvise around the words.
Episode 52 of Ken Hada’s Podcast The Sunday Poet, Sept. 22, 2019: Ken reads poems by Bob Dean, Jr., Michael Poage, and Roy Beckemeyer. The two poems of mine he reads are “Currents,” and “Fishing with My Father,” both of which appeared in my first book, Music I Once Could Dance To.
KYSO Flash Issue #12, 22 July 2019: Table of Contents of Issue 12 of KYSO Flash containing links to all my work appearing in that issue.
KYSO Flash Issue #12, 22 July 2019: “The Mystery of Disappearing Bees,” a Wichita Broadside in which Skyler Lovelace and I collaborated. She did the original artwork in response to my poem; the piece is here reprinted in KYSO Flash with our permission.
KYSO Flash Issue #12, 22 July 2019: “Legacy’s Sunset” – a photo I took of a Kansas sunset that resulted from smoke from California wildfires drifting over Kansas along with a poem about the climate crisis written in response to the photo at the request of Clare MacQueen, KYSO Flash Editor/Publisher.
KYSO Flash Issue #12, 22 July 2019: “Connoisseurs of Verse” – prose poem along with an audio recording of me reading the poem.
KYSO Flash Issue #12, 22 July 2019: “Hail, Amphibia!” – free verse poem along with an audio recording of me reading the poem.
KYSO Flash Issue #12, 22 July 2019: “Conch Shells As Conveyances” – free verse poem along with an audio recording of me reading the poem.
KYSO Flash Issue #12, 22 July 2019: “Redolent & Baroque: an essay on the craft of ekphrasis”
River City Poetry, 15 July 2019: “The Cutting Songs of the Butcher Son” (Review of Michael Cissell’s poetry book of the same name.)
River City Poetry, 15 July 2019: “Every Girl Becomes the Wolf” (Review of a chapbook of the same name by Laura Madeline Wiseman & Andrea Blythe.)
Mockingheart Review, Volume 4, Issue #2, July 1, 2019: “At Home on the Shore.”
Enduring Puberty: annual volume of literary, visual, and epistolary art, Issue #2: pp. 52-53, June 30, 2019: A short epistolary prose piece, “Returning Home–Conversation with a Self I Can’t Remember.”
Gasconade Review #4, “Storm A Comin’!” May 2019: Three poems, “Falliteration,” “Mephitus mephitus,” and “A Woodworker’s Words.”
Heartland: Poems of Love, Resistance, & Solidarity, March 11, 2019: “Refugee Shores.”
KYSO Flash, Issue 11, Spring, 2019, February 25, 2019: Three Lineated Poems: “Cathedral,” “Fracking Oklahoma,” and “Gavotte.”
KYSO Flash, Issue 11, Spring, 2019, February 25, 2019: Ekphrastic Creative Non-fiction and Photo: “Transit East”
Heartland: Poems of Love, Resistance, & Solidarity, December 21, 2018: “IED/PTSD.”
Zingara Poetry Review, December 5, 2018: “Reading Moby-Dick Again.”
Heartland: Poems of Love, Resistance, & Solidarity, November 23, 2018: “Footage from Aleppo.”
Epistrophy: An Afternoon of Poetry and Improvised Music, Advanced Learning Library, Wichita, Kansas, October 21, 2018: Me reading my poem, “You, Sweet, Your Heart,” accompanied by improvised music by Susan Mayo (Cello) and Bill Glenn (Percussion).
The COOP, September 17, 2018: “Anderson Creek Creed.”
Me reading my Honorable Mention-winning entry in the 2018 Kansas Authors Club Spoken Word Poetry Contest: “Blackberry.”
Watkins History Museum, July 28, 2018: Me reading from my poem, “After the Storm“.
River City Poetry, May 15, 2018: “Traumas” (Review of Tyler Robert Sheldon’s chapbook of the same name).
River City Poetry, May 15, 2018: “Anarchy and Pancakes” (Review of Dan Pohl’s chapbook of the same name).
River City Poetry, May 15, 2018: “A Crooked Door Cut into the Sky” (Review of Melissa Fite Johnson’s chapbook of the same name).
River City Poetry, May 15, 2018: “Following the Curve” (Review of Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg’s chapbook of the same name).
River City Poetry, May 15, 2018: Three Poems, “Family,” “When Is It Summer in Kansas?” and “Breathe.”
SageGreenJournal, April 7, 2018: “At Night in the Southern Rockies,” a poem reprinted from my first book, Music I Once Could Dance To, Coal City Press, 2014.
Zingara Poetry Review, April 5, 2018: “Late Freeze,” an interlocking Rubiyat form poem.
Psaltery & Lyre, 2/26/2018: “Angel Ordering Exiles from Paradise” (A poem that is included in my chapbook Amanuensis Angel, Spartan Press, 2018.)
KYSO Flash, 2/28/2018: Three lineated poems, “Annunciation Angel,” “Front doors…” a cinquain, and “Hospice,” a Haibun, “Peru,”, and three prose poems, “Revolving Toward That End,” “With Apologies to Walt,” and “Words for Snow.” [Pleased that KYSO Flash editors Clare MacQueen and Jack Cooper selected “Words for Snow” as one of their nominees for the Best of the Net Anthology for 2018.]
Heartland! Poetry of Love, Resistance, & Solidarity, 2/19/2018: “Grain Elevator Gray” (A “Golden Shovel” poem inspired by Liz Berry’s “Birmingham Roller.”)
River City Poetry, 2017: “Solar Flair” (A “broadside” that combines art and poetry. Roy Beckemeyer’s ekphrastic poem responding to Malissa Long Wilson’s art.)
phanaerozoic, 11/20/2017: “Benevolent Angel” (An ekphrastic poem inspired by a Leonard Baskin etching. This is also included in my chapbook, Amanuensis Angel.)
MockingHeart Review, 8/31/2017: “Sweet, Your Heart”
The Tittynope Zine, 2017 Issue: Poem, “Meanings,” p. 94; prose, “An Awkward Glossary of Terms,” pp. 95-97. (Link to issue as a pdf document, then advance to pages indicated.)
Whale Road Review, Summer 2017: “Poetry As Conversation: Renga As a Class Project” (A short pedagogic essay.)
River City Poetry, 7/13/2017: “First Breaths of Arrival” (A review of Tyler Robert Sheldon’s chapbook of the same name.)
River City Poetry, 7/1/2017: “Fumbles Revelations” (A review of Jason Baldinger’s chapbook of the same name.)
River City Poetry, Summer 2017: “Night Sounds,” Pretense,” and “Mayflies Rise”
Konza Journal, Summer 2017: “Photographic Essays of Place ~ KwaZulu Natal South Africa” (A creative-non-fiction photo-essay.)
one-sentence poems, 5/2/2017: “Under Prairie Skies”
Rusty Truck, 4/27/2017: “The prodigal son goes to the disco”
Prospero’s Books, 4/23/2017: Reading various poems.
The Ekphrastic Review, 4/19/2017: “Horizons”
Pilgrim: A Journal of Catholic Experience, 12/3/2016: “Obeisance”
Zingara Poetry Review, 11/23/2016: “Great Blue Heron”
Danny Earl Simmons’ Poems I Admire, 11.20.2016: “Ruby (1954)”
Chrysalis: Journal of Transformative Language Arts, 10/27/2016: “Coping through Connections: Faith, Rationality, and Poetry” (An essay on the creative process.)
Whispering Prairie Press, 9/22/2016: “Poetry, Memoir, and ‘Biomythography’” (A short pedagogic essay.)
Whispering Prairie Press, 9/22/2016: “Theme and Variations – Epigraphs and Poems” (A short pedagogic essay.)
Konza Journal, Summer, 2016: “Dainty Dancers: Slender Blue Damselflies of Kansas Tallgrass Streams” (A short photo essay.)
Poetry Breakfast, 6/30/2016: “Remnants in the Kitchen, after You Leave for Work”
The Ekphrastic Review, 5/12/2016: “Pink Angels” (An ekphrastic poem inspired by a Willem de Kooning painting of the same name.)
The Syzygy Poetry Journal, 4/4/2016: Five Poems: “Skull of Sirius, Crossbones of Cassiopeia,” “The Chase,” “Daylight’s Starring Role,” “Sunset,” and “Magisterial Moon.”
The Ekphrastic Review, 2/25/2016: “Jacob’s Angels”
Silver Birch Press, 10/28/2014: “Fables for Children of the North”
We Wanted To Be Writers, 9/15/2014: Excerpts from Music I Once Could Dance To
Zingara Poetry Review, 9/9/2014: “A Classification of Poets”
The Light Ekphrastic, 8/2014: “Oh, Come Share,” and “Lessons” (Ekphrastic works: poems by Roy Beckemeyer, music by Earle Wood)
Watermark Books, 7/31/2014: Reading “Kahsantatieh” from Music I Once Could Dance To.
Kansas Humanities Council, 4/2014: “Front doors” (An American Cinquain). NB: The link to the original website has been broken, so the link now goes to KYSOFlash, where the poem was reprinted in 2018.
Kansas Humanities Council “Pin-up Poetry”: “Meadowlark Hymnal”
Big Nasty Press “50/50 Trade Portfolio,” 2014: “Big Arkansas” (Poem: Roy J. Beckemeyer, Art: Lacey Schekter)
Zingara Poetry Review, 2/6/2013: “The Baltimore Catechism – Unrequited Love”
200 New Mexico Poems, 12/13/2-12: “A Day at White Sands”
A Kansas Renga in 150 Voices, 2/4/2012: “…the universal truth of a broken owl”
Scientific Papers of The University of Kansas Natural History Museum, Nr. 44: pp. 1-19. 10/21/2011: “Upper Carboniferous Insects from the Pottsville Formation of
Northern Alabama (Insecta: Ephemeropterida, Palaeodictyopterida, Odonatoptera)” [a scientific paper I coauthored with Michael Engel of KU, included here because it includes a number of scientific names (new genera and species), like Anniedarwinia alabamensis, and Agaeoleptoptera uniotempla, that have interesting (to me, anyway) etymologies.]
Kansas Poems, 2011: “In Kansas to Stay”
150 Kansas Poems, 11/19/2011: “A Kansas Farmwife’s Snow Song”
150 Kansas Poems, 4/5/2011: “We Discuss the Geomorphology of Life”
The Kansas School Naturalist, 46(1), February, 2000: “The Permian Insect Fossils of Elmo, Kansas” [What I did with my writing time before rediscovering poetry.]
The Kansas School Naturalist, 43(2), February, 1997: “Checklist of Kansas Dragonflies” [More of what I did with my writing time before rediscovering poetry.]
Roy J. Beckemeyer 
