Poetry
2025
Harbor Review: “What is at the Heart of It”
Solstice Literary Journal: “Yew Tree and You“
Terrain: “Anti-Trans Legislation at What Feels like the End of the World“
Birdbrains: A Lyrical Guide to Washington State Birds, “Guillemot: Will, Desire, Strength”
Indianapolis Review, “Habitat“
Painted Bride Quarterly, “Mother’s Braid“
West Trestle Review, “About Death, They Were Never Wrong“
Naugatuck River Review, “Lament”
Wordpeace, “The God Squad“
The Poetry Department, “One of the Best Parts of August,” essay
Washington State Queer Poetry Anthology, “Parsing the Nonbinary,” “And Still I Pry It Loose“
One Art: A Journal of Poetry, “Into the Quiet Hours“
Pirene’s Fountain,“Self Portrait with Childhood Sex,” “Wound in the Shape of a Wound I: A Burning Haibun”
Why I Write, essay
Moonstone Arts Center Featured Poets Anthology, “Jaheim Bella Pugh, 19, Prichard, AL, December 18”
Moonstone Arts Center: Chaos, Crisis, Conflict, “In Another World: A Palimpsest”
Action/Spectacle, “Pantywaist. He looks like he sits down to pee.
Collateral, “Recycling“
San Pedro River Poetry Review, “Dreams and Portents”
Mockingheart Review, “November Mourning,” “World of Men,” “Survey: Thirty 18, and Under,” “A Letter from History”
Wordpeace, “Killdeer“
One Art Magazine, “Invasive”
Judith Magazine, “We Persist Despite It All”
Prosetrics Magazine, “As Within”
Quartet Journal, “If I give you my heart, will you promise not to break it”
2024
The Black River Anthology, “With Time,” “Years: A Koan”
Psaltery & Lyre, “The Sanctimonious Light“
Split This Rock, “Anthropocene Pastoral“
Green Linden Press, “Transmuting as Witness: A Conversation with Subhaga Crystal Bacon,” Interview
Solstice Literary Review, “Requiem for Girl“
River Heron Review, “Pro-nominal”
Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift: “Radioactive Afterglow”
Elysium Review: “Shades of Blue“
The G & L Review: “Embracing My Identity with New Words,” Essay
Beyond Queer Words: “After Reading Saeed Jones Prelude to a Bruise”
Mockingheart Review, “Late Fire Season“
Shrub-Steppe Poetry Journal, “Whiling/Whittling,” “Bear Season”
Action/Spectacle: “Why I Count Trans Suicides as Hate Crimes“
Wordpeace: “Pride,” “On Philandering,” “Communion”
SWWIM, “Poem for My (Non-Existent) Adult Child“
Halfway Down the Stairs, “All that Blue”
San Pedro River Review, “Vintage Doll with Three Faces”
2023
Limit Experience Magazine: “Auguste Hill INTERVIEWs writer Subhaga Crystal Bacon“
Lyric Essentials: An interview and reading of three poems by Eli Shipley.
Nixes Mate Review, “What She Said“
Medmic.com, “When I Wasn’t There” (reprint from Bellevue Literary Review)
Diode, “Petrichor,” “Reading Plath on the Anniversary of Her Death”
Naugatuck River Review, “A Brief History of My Sex Life”
Anti-Heroin Chic, “I wait and ache. I think I have been healing.”
Wordpeace, “Nina Pop, 28, Sikeston, MO, May 3,” “Helle Jae O’Regan, 20, San Antonio, TX, May 6,” “Jayne Thompson, 33, Mesa County, CO, May 9, 2020: Misgendered for a Month,” “Dominique “Rem’mie” Fells, Philadelphia, PA, June 8,” “Riah Milton, 25, Liberty Twp, OH, June 9,” “Michelle “Michellyn” Ramos Vargas, 33, San Germán, Puerto Rico, September 30”
Unbroken, “For My Father, Decades Dead: A Zuithitsu“
Sangam, “Mal’occhio“
Ghost City Review, “Night in Winnemucca, NV”
MUSE Literary Journal, “All I have to do is look at her.”
Queerlings, “In Memoriam of Past Rain,” “This/Sister,” Transgender Day of Remembrance, 2022″
The Fourth River, Bumpass, Untitled
Indianapolis Review, “Naming and Claiming”
MER—Mom Egg Review, “Mother’s Braid”
Bellevue Literary Review, “When I Wasn’t There”
Alice Says Go Fuck Yourself, “Leash on Life”
Mocking Heart Review, “Changeable”
scissors & spackle, “Na Sik Elt: Icicle Creek,” “The Town of Broken Things,” “The Wind, My Mother, and Grief”
Anti-Heroin Chic, “To the Doug Fir at Twisp Park,” “I came back because there was nowhere else to go.”
2022
San Jose Poetry Center: Caesura, “Reconfiguration”
Mini-Interview Series with Subhaga
Limit Experience Journal: Part one
Limit Experience Journal: Part two
Limit Experience Journal: Part three
Limit Experience Journal: Part four
Rise Up Review, “Why I’m Writing about the Murders of Trans and Gender Nonconforming People in the Year of COVID”
Rogue Agent, “Is There a Noun Called Disrupture?”
humana obscura, “Guillemot,” “The Nature of Nature”
Wild Roof Journal, “What the River Says: McFarland Creek Boat Launch & Methow Columbia Confluence”
humana obscura, “Lessons in Survival: Bridge Creek”
Indianapolis Review, “Season of Fire, Season of Loss”
Night Heron Barks, “No Reservation, Colville National Park”
Rise Up Review, “Yunieski Carey Herrera, 39, Miami, FL, November 17
Queer Southeast Asia, “Cautiously Watching for Violence,” “Selena Reyes-Hernandez, 37, Chicago, IL, May 31, A Pantoum,” “Bree Black, 27, Pompano Beach, FL, July 3,” “I Have Room for You in Me: A Litany”
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