Richard Jordan
@rich-jordan.bsky.social
Poet, mathematician, data scientist. Poems published or forthcoming in Southern Poetry Review, Rattle (Rattle Prize Finalist), Gargoyle, Tar River Poetry, Rust & Moth, New York Quarterly, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Sho. Assoc. Editor @ Thimble Lit.
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Richard Jordan
@rich-jordan.bsky.social
· Jan 29
Poets out there: which print litmags do you subscribe to & recommend? Looking for suggestions of smaller mags, though I not sure what smaller means other than not Poetry or the New Yorker, as we all know about them. As for me: Tar River Poetry, Ecotone, Orion, The Common, Southern Poetry Review…
extremely honored that my prose poem, “A Spot to Rest”, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by DMQ Review.
November 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
extremely honored that my prose poem, “A Spot to Rest”, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by DMQ Review.
November 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Happy to have a poem up at The Sunlight Press.
November 5, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Happy to have a poem up at The Sunlight Press.
Hi poets & writers. Thimble Literary Magazine is now open for submissions, November and December. Check out our guidelines here: www.thimblelitmag.com/submissions/
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November 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Hi poets & writers. Thimble Literary Magazine is now open for submissions, November and December. Check out our guidelines here: www.thimblelitmag.com/submissions/
Update on my chapbook, Spotting the Rise. It is now available for pre-order. It lists at $10, and I'm very happy that the publisher, Rockwood Press, is listing it at such a reasonable price. It is scheduled to officially be available on Nov 18.
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Spotting the Rise: Poems — Rockwood Press
There’s natural beauty here, but mortality, the end of a fishing trip with a dying friend, the Vietnam War—these things also hover. This is a fine collection from a wise poet, a soothing, necessary re...
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October 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Update on my chapbook, Spotting the Rise. It is now available for pre-order. It lists at $10, and I'm very happy that the publisher, Rockwood Press, is listing it at such a reasonable price. It is scheduled to officially be available on Nov 18.
www.rockwoodpress.com/bookstore/p/...
www.rockwoodpress.com/bookstore/p/...
Here’s the cover for my upcoming chapbook with Rockwood Press. I took the cover photo. It will go to press in mid-November.
October 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Here’s the cover for my upcoming chapbook with Rockwood Press. I took the cover photo. It will go to press in mid-November.
Thrilled to have a prose poem in the new issue of DMQ Review. Link to full issue in the replies.
September 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Thrilled to have a prose poem in the new issue of DMQ Review. Link to full issue in the replies.
My poem, “Offering”, in the new issue of Southern Poetry Review
August 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
My poem, “Offering”, in the new issue of Southern Poetry Review
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
July 17, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
My poem, “Approaching Summer”, in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily today:
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Approaching Summer by Richard Jordan
Editor’s Note: This poem’s beautiful imagery builds the framework for understanding that the only thing that can be experienced is the singular moment of now.
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July 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
My poem, “Approaching Summer”, in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily today:
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David Bottoms, “Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt”
June 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
David Bottoms, “Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt”
Sara Teasdale, “There Will Come Soft Rains”
June 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Sara Teasdale, “There Will Come Soft Rains”
David Hernandez, “Anyone Who is Still Trying”
June 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
David Hernandez, “Anyone Who is Still Trying”
Blas Manuel De Luna, “Bent to the Earth”
June 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Blas Manuel De Luna, “Bent to the Earth”
I have 3 poems up at January House Literary Journal this morning
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Three Poems by Richard Jordan
Herring Run No one will convince me the sky was ever cloudy over South River those late April afternoons when Grandpa and I went to the stone bridge to witness herring battle swift currents, the ru…
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May 31, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I have 3 poems up at January House Literary Journal this morning
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Linda Pastan, “The Death of the Bee”
May 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Linda Pastan, “The Death of the Bee”
Ron Rash, "At Reid Hartley's Junkyard", from his collection, Raising the Dead
May 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Ron Rash, "At Reid Hartley's Junkyard", from his collection, Raising the Dead
Beautiful day yesterday, got to do some fishing. Caught & quickly released this bass.
May 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Beautiful day yesterday, got to do some fishing. Caught & quickly released this bass.
Cold, rainy morning. What else ya gonna do!
May 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Cold, rainy morning. What else ya gonna do!
Alice Friman, “The Peach”
May 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Alice Friman, “The Peach”