Words
Poems
“Roadside Park, Saint Albans, West Virginia,” “At a Shore, at Night, Against My Better Knowing,” “Having Still Not Found You.” Arkansas International (forthcoming)
“Breathing Through the Famine,” “The Joys Between Them.” Drunken Boat (forthcoming)
“The Three Mothers,” “Ceremony Toward Mourning,” “[Rerun: again I topple starving-headed].” Kestrel: A Journal of Literature and Art (forthcoming)
“After, Still, I Want Someone to Want My Body.” Braving the Body, edited by Nicole Callihan, Pichchenda Bao, and Jennifer Franklin, Harbor Editions, 2024, pp. 165-7 (forthcoming)
“What Proof You Need of Love.” What Things Cost: An Anthology for the People, edited by Rebecca Gayle Howell, Ashley M. Jones, and Emily Jalloul, UP of Kentucky, 2023, pp. 64-5.
“Excerpts from Let the Forest Go.” Black Warrior Review, Queer Ekphrasis Folio, edited by Anais Duplan, vol. 48, no. 1, 2022.
“Dispatch: Unknown Festival, Galicia, April.” Image, vol. 114, 2022, https://imagejournal.org/article/dispatch-unknown-festival-galicia-april/.
“The Mystic in the Shed.” Ran Off with the Star Bassoon, vol 1., 2022, https://ranoffwiththestarbassoon.com/firstsession/justin-wymer/.
“From Let the Forest Go.” Quarterly West, Queer Space and Time Issue, edited by Matty Layne Glasgow, no. 110, 2020, https://www.quarterlywest.com/qts-wymer.
“Excerpt from Let the Forest Go,” “Why Can’t Men Be Kind.” Foglifter, vol. 4, issue 2, 2020.
“The Soul Is Not an Apology,” “Dream in which Water Bares Red.” Kestrel: A Journal of Literature and Art, no. 40, 2019.
“For Lorca” (reprint from Boston Review). Verse Daily, 2019, https://www.versedaily.org/2019/forlorca.shtml.
“Owl Pellet.” West Branch, vol. 89, 2019.
“What Men are Made Of,” “Again the Mind Apart.” Cream City Review, vol. 43, no. 1, 2019.
“Man.” Gulf Coast, vol. 31, no. 2, 2019.
“Be Quit of Being Seen,” “Face,” “Man in Hope.” Manchester Review, no. 20, 2018.
“Benediction,” “Bouquets.” Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, no. 55, 2017.
“All month I dreamt of losing,” “The Dead,” “Offering, with Frost and Spoiled Fruit.” The Adroit Journal, vol. 21, 2017, https://theadroitjournal.org/issue-twentyone-justin-wymer-the-adroit-journal/.
“Edge Habitat” (reprint from Kenyon Review). Poetry Daily, 2017.
“Dear E. (Much talk here lately of sorcery),” “Spared.” Souvenir, 2017, https://www.souvenirlit.com/justin-wymer.
“Dear E. (My father still thinks I’m possessed).” Beecher’s, vol. 5, 2017.
“Vinculum,” “Edge Habitat.” Kenyon Review, vol. 38, no. 5, 2016.
“Mannequin,” “Dear E. (Three thin friends were given spells).” Nat. Brut, no. 6, 2016.
3 translations from the Spanish poems by José Barroeta: “Art of Being Night,” “Sin Is Tulle,” “Fields of Playing Cards and Rabbits.” Atlantean Poets, 2015, https://atlanteanpoets.wordpress.com/2015/05/17/justin-wymer/.
“Appalachian Sunday.” Harvard Divinity Bulletin, 2015, https://bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/appalachian-sunday/.
“Not What’s Found but Where One Looks.” THRUSH Poetry Journal, 2015, https://www.thrushpoetryjournal.com/july-2015-justin-wymer.html.
“Apocryphal Will,” “Litany: Lord I strove but could not change.” Web Conjunctions, 18 Aug. 2014, https://www.conjunctions.com/online/article/justin-wymer-08-19-2014.
“Angles of Fog,” “Genius Loci,” “Lupercalia” (reprint from Lana Turner), “For Lorca.” Boston Review, Poet’s Sampler, intro by Peter Sacks, 2013.
“A Hawthorn, Rooted Close to Other Guests,” “[An absence needs very few attendants],” “Being Present,” “Chair,” “Prayer at Eventide,” “Philomela.” Conjunctions, vol. 60, 2013.
“Deed,” “Lupercalia.” Lana Turner Journal, vol. 5, 2013.
“Mammon at Winfield Park.” The Round Literary Journal, no. 11, 2011.
“On Waking.” Off the Coast, 2011.
Interviews
Adroit Journal: Conversations with Contributors—Justin Wymer
Coal Hill Review: M. Randal O’Wain Talks with Poet Justin Wymer
Fresh FM’s Me, My Shelf, and I, Pt. 1 (NZ radio)
Fresh FM’s Me, My Shelf, and I, Pt. 2 (NZ radio)
WRBH Reading Radio (New Orleans): The Writer’s Forum: Justin Wymer (extended interview)
The Rumpus: "Chewing Rocks: A Conversation with David Biespiel" (as interviewer)
The Rumpus: "Moments Within Days Within Seasons: Talking with Alicia Mountain" (as interviewer)
Other
Denver Quarterly: Queer Trauma Folio (as editor)
Denver Quarterly: “Conduit or Bust: a Review of Jerika Marchan’s SWOLE” (forthcoming)
Electric Literature: “31 Poets Recommend 31 Poetry Books to Read Every Day in August”