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 Here are some links to some recently published poems— 

Promo video for “Signs of Marriage”: The poem Stones depicted in video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3iNO7FXt2w

Promo video for “Intimacy with the Wind”: The title poem of the book depicted in video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGJ0Fx40WoA

Carla Schwartz reads her prize-winning poem "Pat Schroeder Was Our Mother," Carla Reads Pat Schroeder Was Our Mother (350) New England Poetry Club Prize-Winners' Reading, 2023 - YouTube

"Pat Schroeder Was Our Mother," winner, 2023 E.E. Cummings Prize, New England Poetry Club, https://nepoetryclub.org/carla-schwartz-pat-schroeder

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Haibun: Chicken of the Woods at MacQueen's Quinterly: http://www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ28/Schwartz-Chicken-Woods.aspx

Haibun: Feeling Used at MacQueen's Quinterly: http://www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ28/Schwartz-Feeling-Used.aspx

One Haiku at Sense and Sensibility https://sensesensibilityhaikujournal.wordpress.com/2025/04/26/sense-sensibility-may-2025/

"September 25, 2021" at Poetry Porch Online: https://www.poetryporch.com/schwartz25.pdf

Two Poems at Verse-Virtual: https://www.verse-virtual.org/2025/May/schwartz-carla-2025-may.html

Three haibun in MacQueen's Quinterly: 

"Kintsugi" http://www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ27/Schwartz-Kintsugi.aspx

"Learning to Pose" http://www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ27/Schwartz-Learning.aspx

"Missing" http://www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ27/Schwartz-Missing.aspx

SoFloPoJo (South Florida Poetry Journal Witchery page) Search for "Carla Schwartz" on this page:

https://www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/witchery.html

Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, "Nobody One," https://autumnskypoetrydaily.com/2025/01/27/nobody-won-by-carla-schwartz/

One Art Poetry, "Song of the Nude Marble Statue my Young Father Poses With," https://oneartpoetry.com/2025/01/17/song-of-the-nude-marble-statue-my-young-father-poses-with-by-carla-schwartz/

Verse-Virtual Online, "The MIstake of Cutting Down" and "The Mesh of Root" https://www.verse-virtual.org/2025/January/schwartz-carla-2025-january.html

Contemporary Haibun Online, "Musing Weather," https://contemporaryhaibunonline.com/table-of-contents-20-3/haibun-20-3/carla-schwartz-musing-weather/

Modern Haiku, 2024: "Cycling Truths" https://www.instagram.com/p/DBkAhIlPXgQ/

Black Coffee Review, 2024: "Winter Solstice," Winter Solstice by Carla Schwartz - Black Coffee Review

Spank the Carp, 2024: "Poemetry" Poemetry Spank the Carp - SPANK the CARP

Drifting Sands Haibun, 2024: "Fresh Ground," https://drifting-sands-haibun.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Issue-30-2.pdf (and jump to page 26, or search Carla Schwartz)

Verse-virtual, 2024: "Wind," and "Dear Scent of Being Away," Carla Schwartz Verse-Virtual October 2024

Poet's Touchstone audio: 2024 "Black Peppermint," read by Carla Schwartz black peppermint Touchstone Poem Audio Recordings – Poetry Society of New Hampshire

New Verse News, 2024 "A Week After Yet Another Cyanobacteria Watch on the Lake" TheNewVerse.News : A WEEK AFTER YET ANOTHER CYANOBACTERIA WATCH ON THE LAKE

Triggerfish Critical Review, 2024, "Cold Water Swimmers" Cold Water Swimmers, Carla Schwartz – Triggerfish Critical Review

The Solitary Daisy, 2024: "Haiku: ambling deer," The Solitary Daisy Issue 31 - The Solitary Daisy

Five Fleas (Itchy Poetry), 2024: "Nobody Knocks," and "Family Plot" https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2024/12/afternoon-of-december-8-2024.html

Verse Virtual Online, 2024 "Contemplating Humanity while Swimming," Contemplating Humanity While Swimming Carla Schwartz Verse-Virtual July 2024

Sheila-Na-Gig Online, 2024: Let Me Touch You, https://sheilanagigblog.com/poetry-archives/volumes-8-1-8-4-fall-2023-summer-2024/the-poets-volume-8-3-spring-2024/carla-schwartz-touch/

Poetry SuperHighway, 2024:  2020, https://www.poetrysuperhighway.com/psh/26th-annual-yom-hashoah-holocaust-remembrance-day-poetry-issue/#Schwartz

MacQueen's Quinterly, 2024:  Walking Alone, http://www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ23/Schwartz-Walking-Alone.aspx

MacQueen's Quinterly, 2024: To Argument, http://www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ23/Schwartz-Argument.aspx

Verse-Virtual, Online, April, 2024: Megan, TIAA Specialist, Golden Shovel: Drive your Cart and your Plow over the Bones of the Dead, and Hospice Hospital, https://verse-virtual.org/2024/April/schwartz-carla-2024-april.html

Silver Birch Press, 2024: Remembering My Mother Series: Raspberries, https://silverbirchpress.wordpress.com/2024/03/13/raspberries-by-carla-schwartz-all-about-my-mother-series/

Stone Poetry Quarterly, February, 2024: "What to Take With You,"  https://stonepoetryjournal.com/carla-schwartz/

Gone Lawn, January, 2024, "The Color of Lake Water," https://gonelawn.net/journal/issue53/Schwartz.php

Verse-Virtual January, 2024, "Who Cares, Ice Means I'm Alive," and "January Mud," https://verse-virtual.org/2024/January/schwartz-carla-2024-january.html

Pulsebeat Poetry: Locked In, https://pulsebeatpoetry.com/pulsebeat-08/carla-schwartz/

Remington Review: "Art Project with Instructions from my Mother" https://www.flipsnack.com/remingtonreview/remington-review-fall-2023.html?p=44

New-Verse News https://newversenews.blogspot.com/2023/09/no-one-told-olga-carmona-her-father.html?m=1

Verse-Virtual Online: "Saying Goodbye to my Father" and "Not Merely a Player on this World's Stage" https://verse-virtual.org/2023/September/schwartz-carla-2023-september.html

Remington Review, 2023: "Niagara Falls" https://www.flipsnack.com/remingtonreview/remington-review-summer-2023.html

Banyan Review, 2023: "Eat, Swim, Nap" thebanyanreview.com/issue-15-summer-2023/carla-schwartz/

Bluepepper, 2023: "Praise the Insects"  https://bluepepper.blogspot.com/2023/05/new-poetry-by-carla-schwartz.html

"Survival Instinct" The Old Frog Pond Farm. Survival instinct by Carla March 2023 — Old Frog Pond Farm & Studio

Verse-Virtual Online: May, 2023 Three poems: "Remembering my Mother While Riding to the Grocery Store," Watermelon," and "Holocause Remembrance Day" https://www.verse-virtual.org/2023/May/schwartz-carla-2023-may.html

Poetry Porch Online, 2023: Three Poems: "Fugue for a Winter's Day" poetry porch fugue for winter day - carlaschwartzthree23.docx

"Stings" Poetry Porch stings- carlaschwartztwo23.docx

"The Mouse Nesting in our Grill" Poetry Porch mouse grill - carlaschwartzone23.docx

"Deliverance" (first published in the Smoky Quartz Anthology, 2022, and now online at NHPR) https://www.nhpr.org/arts-culture/2023-01-19/we-asked-for-your-original-poems-about-new-beginnings-here-they-are#deliverance

The Inquisitive Eater: "Rhubarb," and "Applesauce," https://inquisitiveeater.com/2022/12/12/rhubarb-and-applesauce-by-carla-schwartz/.

Leon Literary Review: "Farm Life," a commentary on someone's wishes for end of life

https://leonliteraryreview.com/issue-14-carla-schwartz/

Triggerfish Critical Review: "The Flawed Melody of  Family," https://triggerfishcriticalreview.com/the-flawed-melody-of-family-carla-schwartz/

The Ear: "Umbilical" and "How He Leaves," Two poems about death by drug overdose

https://www.the-ear.org/schwartz-poetry

PoetsOnline: "Dream with a President of Princeton," and "August." Search link for "Carla" https://poetsonline.org/archive/arch_beach-august.html

Two Hawks Quarerly: "Brother to Brother," a poem about families and suicide

https://twohawksquarterly.com/poetry/2022/05/13/brother-to-brother-by-carla-schwartz/

Misfit Magazine: "Voodoo."  http://misfitmagazine.net/archive/No-31/schwartz.html

Glassworks Poetry Journal, "If I visited my Mother's Grave," https://issuu.com/glassworksmagazine/docs/issue23/56

WCAI Poetry Sunday "Forsythia Drive By" July 28, 2019 https://www.capeandislands.org/post/poetry-sunday-carla-schwartz#stream/0

 Lunch Ticket "Anthem", May 2019, Lunch Ticket Twitter Poetry Contest Winner, https://lunchticket.org/anthem/

 The Sunlight Press "To the Posting Facebook Users," https://www.thesunlightpress.com/2018/10/02/to-the-posting-facebook-users/

Lost River Literary Magazine  "This Rope," https://issuu.com/lostriverlitmag/docs/lost_river_summer_2018_final/17 

and "Weighing a December Swim," https://issuu.com/lostriverlitmag/docs/lost_river_summer_2018_final/18

 Tales from the Forest  "Sweet Potato Harvest," and "String Theory," May, 2018. https://talesfromtheforest.net/2018/05/27/carla-schwartz-sweet-potato-harvest-string-theory/

 Paddock Review "Rings" https://paddockreview.com/2018/05/09/a-poem-by-carla-schwartz/, May 2018. This poem also appears in Intimacy with the Wind, Finishing Line Press, Oct 2017. 

 Submittable "Submittable," a runner up in the Submittable-centric poetry contest. https://submittablecentriccontest.submittable.com/gallery/cdad0def-afc4-4f3c-946c-b4eb6ff40b60/10154807/

 Zingara Review "The Road" https://zingarapoet.net/2018/05/09/the-road-by-carla-schwartz/ May, 2018

 Mojave River Review "Photographs of my Mother," and "Phone Call to a Functionary," 2018 https://issuu.com/mojaverivermedia/docs/mrr-vol4no1-spring-summer2018_final/170

 Leveler "The Wood Pile" April 23, 2018 https://www.levelerpoetry.com/the-wood-pile/

 Gyroscope Review "Self-Portrait with Perlmutter, a Father, and a Dead Mother" (search the pdf)  (you might have to open this link in an incognito window) https://www.gyroscopereview.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/SPRING-ISSUE-2018-PDF.pdf 

 Weatherbeaten Literary Journal "Antidote" https://weatherbeatenlit.com/summer2017/welcome-to-weatherbeaten/authors/carla-schwartz/ 2017

 Amsterdam Quarterly "Tax Reform" https://www.amsterdamquarterly.org/aq_issues/aq21-money/carla-schwartz-tax-reform/ 2018

 Varnish "Wormageddon" and "Beginnings" https://varnishjournal.com/issues/issue-2/issue-2-poetry/2-poems-by-carla-schwartz/ 2018

 First Literary Review - East  "Scars" (click this link  https://www.rulrul.4mg.com/ and search for Carla Schwartz (November 2017 issue). 

 Long Island Literary Journal  "Trimmed and Burning" and "Burning Bushes" https://www.longislandliteraryjournal.com/carla-schwartz 2017

 Triggerfish Critical Review, 2017 "On the Aqueduct" https://triggerfishcriticalreview.com/carla-schwartz-on-the-aqueduct/

 "On Seeking Forgiveness, After Simic" https://triggerfishcriticalreview.com/carla-schwartz-on-seeking-forgiveness-after-simic/  2017

 Somerville Times  Asparagus https://www.thesomervilletimes.com/archives/80269 Also in Intimacy with the Wind, 2017

 Sweet Tree Review Photoshopping the Body: https://www.sweettreereview.com/loss-of-mass-steven-pan-1 Also in Intimacy with the Wind, 2017

 The Wild Word  "At Breakfast" (Also in Intimacy with the Wind, 2017) and "Cape Cod Thanksgiving" https://thewildword.com/poetry-carla-schwartz/

 Eyedrum Periodically  "Hot and Cold" Fusion Issue: https://www.eyedrumperiodically.org/issue-12-fusion/hot-and-cold-carla-schwartz/ Also in Intimacy with the Wind, 2017

 First Literary Review - East  click this link, and search for "Our Dance" or "Carla Schwartz" ... https://www.rulrul.4mg.com/index_51.html Also in Intimacy with the Wind, 2017

 Inkstain Press Lost Hour: https://inkstainpress.weebly.com/lost-hour.html Also in Intimacy with the Wind, 2017

 Panoply Zine "Trying to Leave Mallets Bay" https://panoplyzine.com/trying-to-leave-mallets-bay-carla-schwartz/ (Also in Intimacy with the Wind, 2017)  

 "When Someone Dies" https://panoplyzine.com/when-someone-dies-carla-schwartz/

 Switched-On Gutenberg "Black Trumpets" https://switched-ongutenberg.org/black-trumpets Also in Intimacy with the Wind, 2017

 Bluefifth  "The Bereaved Mother"  https://bluefifthreview.wordpress.com/ Spring 2017 issue, or see archives.

 With Painted Words "Water Under the Bridge" June 2017 (from May 2017 Challenge) https://www.withpaintedwords.com/view_submission.php?news_id=1135

 Soul-Lit "My father's Hiking Boots", and "Dream", Summer, 2017 https://www.soul-lit.com/poems/V17/Schwartz/index.html Also in Intimacy with the Wind, 2017

 Art on the Trails Five Ekphrastic poems by Carla Schwartz (search for my name) 2017 https://artonthetrails.com/2017/10/20/the-poetry-of-art-on-the-trails-2017/

 SHARKPACK Annual "Nick Flynn Reads My Feelings" https://sprannual.com/iv/teeth/schwartz-nick.html Also in Intimacy with the Wind, 2017

 

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