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New poem up at One Art! It's a great magazine, and it makes me enormously happy that editor Mark Danowsky accepted the poem. Thank you, One Art! oneartpoetry.com/2025/11/11/h...
How to Construct a Soul by George Franklin
How to Construct a Soul First, you buy the kit from Target or Amazon.I heard that Costco has them as well, and theyMay be a little cheaper. There are people whoSay they all start out the same. I do…
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November 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
A Man Made of Stories, my new poetry collection from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions is now in pre-sales, shipping in July. If you order before the end of June, there's a nice discount. sheilanagigblog.com/shop-sheila-...
George Franklin
George Franklin practices law in Miami. A Man Made of Stories (2025) is his fourth full-length collection with Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, complementing Remote Cities (2023) Noise of the World (2020) a…
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June 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
My new poetry collection, A Man Made of Stories, is coming soon from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions! sheilanagigblog.com/shop-sheila-...
George Franklin
George Franklin practices law in Miami. A Man Made of Stories (2025) is his fourth full-length collection with Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, complementing Remote Cities (2023) Noise of the World (2020) a…
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June 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Many thanks to the folks at SpoFest, James Bryant and Sandra Feen, for inviting me to be interviewed on The Muse's Mic. It was a wonderful evening, with sharp, interesting questions. Here is the video: www.facebook.com/james.bryant...
Ep 15 of the Muse's Mic Check out James and Sandy's engaging conversation with George Franklin! The Muse's Mic Conversations with Creative Minds:... | By James | Facebook
Ep 15 of the Muse's Mic Check out James and Sandy's engaging conversation with George Franklin! The Muse's Mic Conversations with Creative Minds:...
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March 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
A quick notice: my book, Poetry & Pigeons: Short Essays on Writing, is now shipping from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions. sheilanagigblog.com/shop-sheila-...
George Franklin
George Franklin practices law in Miami. Remote Cities is his third full-length poetry collection with Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, complementing Noise of the World (2020) and Traveling for No Good Reaso…
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March 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Poetry and Pigeons: Short Essays on Writing is NOW PRINTING and will be shipping soon from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions. Order your copy today! sheilanagigblog.com/shop-sheila-...
George Franklin
George Franklin practices law in Miami. Remote Cities is his third full-length poetry collection with Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, complementing Noise of the World (2020) and Traveling for No Good Reaso…
sheilanagigblog.com
February 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Two new poems in the always-great South Florida Poetry Journal. Check them out. www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com
SoFloPoJo
SoFloPoJo South Florida Poetry Journal is an online literary journal established in 2016 that publishes poetry, flash fiction, essays, interviews, art, photography, and reviews. There are no submissio...
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February 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Many thanks to editor Alan Catlin of Misfit Magazine for including 3 of my poems in the new issue alongside some of my favorite poets! Give us all a read! misfitmagazine.net/archive/No-3...
misfitmagazine.net: George Franklin
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January 23, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Thanks to Gyroscope and its editors for including my poem "The Sulphur Match," about one of Sargent's most insightful paintings, in the Winter Issue. It's a great issue with lots of excellent poets. Please check it out!
January 23, 2025 at 6:06 AM
I'm excited that my poem "In Heaven" is in the Winter 2024 issue of Solstice Literary Magazine. Please check it out. solsticelitmag.org/content/in-h...
In Heaven - Solstice Literary Magazine
In heaven, Goya’s no longer deaf.  He hears Everything Velázquez tells him when they sit Together in one of those gardens the angels Maintain for the blessed who care more For conversation and deep-co...
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December 8, 2024 at 6:04 AM
My review of Scott Ferry's new book _Sapphires on the Graves_ is up at Cultural Daily. Please check it out! www.culturaldaily.com/review-sapph...
Review: Sapphires on the Graves by Scott Ferry - Cultural Daily
Sapphires on the Graves by Scott Ferry is a book built around the juxtaposition of love and beauty on the one hand and injury, illness, death on the other.
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December 3, 2024 at 1:25 AM
Many thanks to J.P. Dancing Bear for featuring "During the War" on Verse Daily today. The poem is from my book What the Angel Saw, What the Saint Refused, which is available from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions. Give it a read! www.versedaily.org/2024/duringt...
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November 29, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Poets seem to love to travel or hate to travel. I guess I fall into the former group. Here's a short blog piece thinking about why. gsfranklin.com/travel-and-p...
Travel and Poetry - George Franklin
There is something about the unfamiliar feel of a country where the architecture, food, customs, and even the money are different.  That unfamiliar something can free writers to reimagine themselves, ...
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November 26, 2024 at 5:47 PM
My extraordinary daughter, Hadley Franklin, has just won the Craft First Chapters Contest, judged by Kimberly King Parsons! Bravo, Hadley! The first chapters of her novel will be on Craft's website next month. www.craftliterary.com/craft-first-...
CRAFT First Chapters Contest 2024 - CRAFT
CRAFT 2024 First Chapters Contest $2,800 Awarded Guest Judge: Kimberly King Parsons June 1, 2024 – August 4, 2024 Thank you to all who submitted work to the CRAFT 2024 First Chapters Contest. We are d...
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November 19, 2024 at 12:50 AM
I'm excited. My publisher, Hayley Mitchell Haugen, posted today on Facebook that Poetry & Pigeons - Short Essays on Writing will ship in January, 2025, and can be pre-ordered now!
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November 15, 2024 at 4:20 AM
Thank you to Hare's Paw Literary Journal and its editor, Olivia Darlene Thomes, for publishing my poem "When Ximena Is Sad" in Issue 19, out today. Please give it a read.
(Just to reassure everybody, it's OK. Ximena is not sad, except about the election. 😁) www.harespawlitjournal.com/issue-19
Issue 19 | Harespawlitjournal
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November 14, 2024 at 2:58 PM