Greg Sendi
@gregsendi.bsky.social
Writer, communications professional, Chicagoan, native Detroiter. Find me in the Briar Cliff Review, Free State Review, Great Lakes Review, Image Journal, Masters Review, Plume and others.
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Greg Sendi
@gregsendi.bsky.social
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Thanks to editor @jrobertlennon.com and @epochliterary.com for including my odd little piece "Nineteen Footnotes on a Poem About My Marriage" as a featured essay in the Fall 2025 issue. I'm grateful to be part of such an impressive collection. You can find it at www.epochliterary.com/featuredessay
Thanks to editor @jrobertlennon.com and @epochliterary.com for including my odd little piece "Nineteen Footnotes on a Poem About My Marriage" as a featured essay in the Fall 2025 issue. I'm grateful to be part of such an impressive collection. You can find it at www.epochliterary.com/featuredessay
August 4, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Thanks to editor @jrobertlennon.com and @epochliterary.com for including my odd little piece "Nineteen Footnotes on a Poem About My Marriage" as a featured essay in the Fall 2025 issue. I'm grateful to be part of such an impressive collection. You can find it at www.epochliterary.com/featuredessay
Brain-damaged psychopath methamphetamine addict . . . we're now squarely in the "Tuco Salamanca" era in the history of the republic.
February 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Brain-damaged psychopath methamphetamine addict . . . we're now squarely in the "Tuco Salamanca" era in the history of the republic.
Many thanks to Adam Bechtold and Dylan Hogan at @samfiftyfour.bsky.social for their deep dive into my odd, cross-genre piece "Prayer for a Lost Child (with notes)" on the Jan. 16 edition of Samfiftyfour's "Loose Criteria" podcast. You can find it here: open.spotify.com/episode/0ef1...
Almost Unimaginable Suffering
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January 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Many thanks to Adam Bechtold and Dylan Hogan at @samfiftyfour.bsky.social for their deep dive into my odd, cross-genre piece "Prayer for a Lost Child (with notes)" on the Jan. 16 edition of Samfiftyfour's "Loose Criteria" podcast. You can find it here: open.spotify.com/episode/0ef1...
I'm excited to share that my poem "The Dardanelles: Hero and Leander at 60" has been selected as one of the winners of the Lazuli Literary Group's fall prize. I'm grateful to editor Sakina Fakhri for her support and guidance. You can read the piece here: www.lazuliliterarygroup.com/the-dardanel...
THE DARDANELLES (HERO AND LEANDER AT 60) by Greg Sendi
It shows the moment in the tale \ she wails to find his pale exquisite corpse. \ entangled in the kelp beside the water. \
The truth, of course, is odder.
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January 21, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I'm excited to share that my poem "The Dardanelles: Hero and Leander at 60" has been selected as one of the winners of the Lazuli Literary Group's fall prize. I'm grateful to editor Sakina Fakhri for her support and guidance. You can read the piece here: www.lazuliliterarygroup.com/the-dardanel...
Many thanks to the team at US Catholic magazine and its gifted editor Rebecca Bratten Weiss (@rbratten.bsky.social) for making a home for my poem "Prayer for a Lost Child." It's about a lot of things . . . fathers and daughters, prayers, grave things in the dark and old railroads and railroad men.
January 9, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Many thanks to the team at US Catholic magazine and its gifted editor Rebecca Bratten Weiss (@rbratten.bsky.social) for making a home for my poem "Prayer for a Lost Child." It's about a lot of things . . . fathers and daughters, prayers, grave things in the dark and old railroads and railroad men.
In Act III, Scene 1 of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, Titus has been presented with the monstrous reality of his daughter's assault and mutilation, the decapitated heads of two sons and his own severed hand. From the depth of his horror and grief, he starts to laugh . . .
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Titus
YouTube video by Greg Sendi
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December 10, 2024 at 6:32 AM
In Act III, Scene 1 of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, Titus has been presented with the monstrous reality of his daughter's assault and mutilation, the decapitated heads of two sons and his own severed hand. From the depth of his horror and grief, he starts to laugh . . .
youtu.be/VMHDO-bmba0?...
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Reposted by Greg Sendi
a few years ago I took this picture of a toilet on the street corner and it’s haunted me ever since
there are poems everywhere for those with eyes to see
there are poems everywhere for those with eyes to see
December 5, 2024 at 3:01 PM
a few years ago I took this picture of a toilet on the street corner and it’s haunted me ever since
there are poems everywhere for those with eyes to see
there are poems everywhere for those with eyes to see
Reposted by Greg Sendi
Feeling grateful for my sister, who for 20 years gathered our complicated clan at her house, until her passing a little over two years ago. She visited us, briefly, a few months later. This one's for her.
November 28, 2024 at 6:05 PM
Feeling grateful for my sister, who for 20 years gathered our complicated clan at her house, until her passing a little over two years ago. She visited us, briefly, a few months later. This one's for her.
Let's be honest about what is happening all around us now . . . we are entering one of our culture's frequent periods of violent erasure. Other cultures have these (the Inquisition, Stalinism, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the Rwandan genocide) but these cultures have one every thousand years.
CNN’s cataclysmic decline began after it started hiring Trump surrogates and dubbing them Senior Political Commentators
Urban’s a de facto Trump surrogate—to listen to him is simply to hear Team Trump advertising, and why CNN thinks it passes as legitimate political commentary is entirely beyond me
Urban’s a de facto Trump surrogate—to listen to him is simply to hear Team Trump advertising, and why CNN thinks it passes as legitimate political commentary is entirely beyond me
CNN commentator praises Trump's choice of billionaire hedge fund manager Scott Bessent for Treasury Secretary. "Scott Bessent it's very, very qualified. I think he's a ten strike."
November 24, 2024 at 4:23 AM
Let's be honest about what is happening all around us now . . . we are entering one of our culture's frequent periods of violent erasure. Other cultures have these (the Inquisition, Stalinism, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the Rwandan genocide) but these cultures have one every thousand years.
My long(ish) poem "Night Ride Across the Alleghenies" traces the story of my parents' hasty wedding in Feb. 1963. Along the way, it asks about memory, secrets, vagrancy, the Civil War, surveillance and the "just so stories" we invent to fill in the gaps.
November 18, 2024 at 2:34 PM
My long(ish) poem "Night Ride Across the Alleghenies" traces the story of my parents' hasty wedding in Feb. 1963. Along the way, it asks about memory, secrets, vagrancy, the Civil War, surveillance and the "just so stories" we invent to fill in the gaps.
Happy to share that my poem "Repair" has just appeared in the July edition of Plume Poetry. You can find it here (plumepoetry.com/repair/) with a few of my thoughts about it here (plumepoetry.com/poets-and-tr...). Many thanks to Danny Lawless and the entire Plume editorial team.
Repair - Plume
Repair In this, our chapter on enamelware and waffle towels, it’s perfectly fair to recast me some adjutant for homeward things and puttering jobs— her greyloaf darling of hinges and knobs, and la...
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November 16, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Happy to share that my poem "Repair" has just appeared in the July edition of Plume Poetry. You can find it here (plumepoetry.com/repair/) with a few of my thoughts about it here (plumepoetry.com/poets-and-tr...). Many thanks to Danny Lawless and the entire Plume editorial team.
Very excited to share that my poem "Memento Mori" appeared in Issue 118 of Image Journal. You can find it at imagejournal.org/article/meme... Thanks to the editors who made it happen, especially Shane McCrae and the fantastic Mary Kenagy Mitchell.
Memento Mori - Image Journal
let pass another word / of love impossible submerged.
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November 16, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Very excited to share that my poem "Memento Mori" appeared in Issue 118 of Image Journal. You can find it at imagejournal.org/article/meme... Thanks to the editors who made it happen, especially Shane McCrae and the fantastic Mary Kenagy Mitchell.
My short story, "Two Not Touch," appeared in Volume 22 of Bridge Magazine (www.bridge-chicago.org/bridge-store...). Grateful to fiction editor Meghan Lamb and the Bridge team for including this piece in their very impressive collection.
Bridge
Bridge is Chicago’s independent, print only journal of art and public scholarship.
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November 16, 2024 at 6:42 PM
My short story, "Two Not Touch," appeared in Volume 22 of Bridge Magazine (www.bridge-chicago.org/bridge-store...). Grateful to fiction editor Meghan Lamb and the Bridge team for including this piece in their very impressive collection.
Many thanks to editor Celeste Schantz and Mason Street Review for including my poem "Bottom." It's about a lot of things . . . love, foolishness, ceramics, Shakespeare, enchantment, gift-giving . . . Find it here: masonstreetreview.org/2022/09/25/b...
Bottom
a poem by Greg Sendi
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November 16, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Many thanks to editor Celeste Schantz and Mason Street Review for including my poem "Bottom." It's about a lot of things . . . love, foolishness, ceramics, Shakespeare, enchantment, gift-giving . . . Find it here: masonstreetreview.org/2022/09/25/b...
Many thanks to M. I. Shokrian and The Thieving Magpie for including three poems of mine in Issue 19. You can find them here: thievingmagpie.org/greg-sendi-3...
Greg Sendi – 3 Poems
a Garbo in Ninotchka, or Greta Gerwig in Greenberg, leaning on the jamb before you pause then wrist the knob
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November 16, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Many thanks to M. I. Shokrian and The Thieving Magpie for including three poems of mine in Issue 19. You can find them here: thievingmagpie.org/greg-sendi-3...
Thanks to the team at The Writing Disorder for making a home for my creative nonfiction piece "The Peshaman Fragments." I hope you'll take a look.
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Greg Sendi Nonfiction
The Writing Disorder is a quarterly literary journal. We publish new fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art. We also feature interviews and reviews.
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November 16, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Thanks to the team at The Writing Disorder for making a home for my creative nonfiction piece "The Peshaman Fragments." I hope you'll take a look.
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Many thanks to Nikki Boss and Natalie Byers at Skink Beat Review for publishing my piece called “Nineteen Footnotes from a Monograph on Attention Mechanics." You can find it here: www.flipsnack.com/nikkiax/augu...
August 25: State of Affairs: Issue 2.2
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November 16, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Many thanks to Nikki Boss and Natalie Byers at Skink Beat Review for publishing my piece called “Nineteen Footnotes from a Monograph on Attention Mechanics." You can find it here: www.flipsnack.com/nikkiax/augu...
Thanks to the team at Third Wednesday magazine for making a home in their latest issue and online for my poem "The Owlet and the Turtle." I hope folks will take a look.
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The Owlet and the Turtle / Greg Sendi
From the fall issue of 3rd Wednesday now avialable free online or in print at Amazon for $8.
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November 16, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Thanks to the team at Third Wednesday magazine for making a home in their latest issue and online for my poem "The Owlet and the Turtle." I hope folks will take a look.
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thirdwednesdaymagazine.org/2021/09/19/t...
My short, short story, "The Intervention," has appeared in the The Centifictionist. You can read it here: thecentifictionist.home.blog/2021/11/04/t... Thanks again to Editor Clara Ray Rusinek Klein for including me.
The Intervention
The call autologged at 3:51 am. Rebe screened for enrollment and talked with the grandma before deploying. “That boy gonna kill hisself.” “Does he have a weapon?” “He …
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November 16, 2024 at 6:26 PM
My short, short story, "The Intervention," has appeared in the The Centifictionist. You can read it here: thecentifictionist.home.blog/2021/11/04/t... Thanks again to Editor Clara Ray Rusinek Klein for including me.
Sincere thanks to Eclectica Magazine and its talented editor Tom Dooley for making a home for my latest item of short fiction, "The Green Lion and the Sun." You can find it at eclectica.org/v25n4/sendi..... Take a look when you have a moment.
The Green Lion and the Sun—Greg Sendi—Eclectica Magazine v25n4
Fiction by Greg Sendi, Eclectica Magazine v25n4
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November 16, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Sincere thanks to Eclectica Magazine and its talented editor Tom Dooley for making a home for my latest item of short fiction, "The Green Lion and the Sun." You can find it at eclectica.org/v25n4/sendi..... Take a look when you have a moment.
Thanks to Great Lakes Review and and Managing Editor Mitch James for accepting my poem "The League of Impossible Gentlemen." I hope you'll take a look.
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The League of Impossible Gentlemen (A Love Poem)
When once upon a wintry outing your eager true love tells you blithely that in her life she’s lost precisely no one noteworthy, surrounding then her winsome noggin—circling like the woozybirds that…
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November 16, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Thanks to Great Lakes Review and and Managing Editor Mitch James for accepting my poem "The League of Impossible Gentlemen." I hope you'll take a look.
greatlakesreview.org/league-impos...
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Take a look at my piece, "In Nineteen Whatever," appearing in Cathexis Northwest Press (with audio). Is it a bitterly angry screed? Sure. That and so much more. Thanks to the CNWP team for making a great home for it.
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In Nineteen Whatever
By: Greg SendiThey are not lunatics, hypochondriacs, or frenetics; but they have a mixture of all these kinds of diseases, which, injuring their minds, cause them to become more ravenous than starving...
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November 16, 2024 at 6:15 PM
Take a look at my piece, "In Nineteen Whatever," appearing in Cathexis Northwest Press (with audio). Is it a bitterly angry screed? Sure. That and so much more. Thanks to the CNWP team for making a great home for it.
www.cathexisnorthwestpress.com/post/in-nine...
www.cathexisnorthwestpress.com/post/in-nine...
Thanks to the team at UCSB's excellent, long-established annual, Spectrum Literary Journal, for including my poem "A Drape of Underdown" in Volume 64.
November 16, 2024 at 6:14 PM
Thanks to the team at UCSB's excellent, long-established annual, Spectrum Literary Journal, for including my poem "A Drape of Underdown" in Volume 64.
My short story "Lost in Hebron" appeared in Faultline Journal of Arts and Letters, Volume 30. Thanks to fiction editor Miguel Cid and the entire staff for giving the piece a great home in the world. You can read it here:
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Faultline Journal of Arts and Letters, Volume 30
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November 16, 2024 at 6:12 PM
My short story "Lost in Hebron" appeared in Faultline Journal of Arts and Letters, Volume 30. Thanks to fiction editor Miguel Cid and the entire staff for giving the piece a great home in the world. You can read it here:
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Thanks very much to San Antonio Review (@sanantoreview.bsky.social) for publishing my short story "Gospel of the Four Septembers." I hope you'll have a look.
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Gospel of the Four Septembers
“Of their first meeting, little has come down to us and yet less is known for certain.”
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November 16, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Thanks very much to San Antonio Review (@sanantoreview.bsky.social) for publishing my short story "Gospel of the Four Septembers." I hope you'll have a look.
www.sareview.org/pub/uqfwcgfi...
www.sareview.org/pub/uqfwcgfi...