André F. Peltier: Poetry and Teaching

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My new chapbook, Poplandia, was released on September 2nd from Alien Buddha Press. Awesome cover art by the one and only Tim Fielder of Dieselfunk Studios. Get your copy at SE Michigan brick and mortars or at Amazon. You can donate on Ko-Fi here!

Andre F. Peltier (he/him) is a Pushcart Nominee and a Lecturer III at Eastern Michigan University where he teaches literature and writing. He lives in Ypsilanti, MI, with his wife and children. His poetry has recently appeared in various publications like CP Quarterly, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Provenance Journal, Lavender and Lime Review, About Place, Novus Review, Fiery Scribe, and Fahmidan Journal, and most recently in Menacing Hedge, The Brazos Review, and Idle Ink. His debut chapbook, Poplandia, is forthcoming from Alien Buddha Press in 2022. In his free time, he obsesses over soccer and comic books.

• “Stars Like Incisors Fall” in Rough Diamond 29 May 2023
• “Gaspé Peninsula” and “Wind Me Up” up at Resurrection Magazine 5 May 2023
• “Gregor Samsa in Reverse” has been republished by MicroLit Almanac. 27 April 2023.
• “The First Notes of ‘Dark Star” is available in the newest issue of Livina Press 15 April 2023.
• “Hard Lessons from Dawn Donuts” in Alt Milk Mag 15 April 2023
• “To Sit in Silence” is in the Spring 2023 issue of Viridian Door. 6 April 2023.
• “Spaghetti Western Gondola” is up at Sage Cigarettes 20 February 2023
• “Tears of Loss” is up at Roi Fainéant 19 February 2023
• “Fishing with Fred” is in the newest issue of The Paper Crow. 17 February 2023
• “The Wreck of the Federal Express” up at Skyway Journal 3 January 2023
• “There Will Be Wind” kind of a poem/kind of a translation at Defunct Mag 16 December 2022
• “Bristlecone Soul” is up at Pine Hills Review 7 December 2022
• “Alpine, 1988” is available in the newest issue of Rat World. You can order a copy here. It’s a found poem using clips of reviews of The Grateful Dead’s 1988 shows at Alpine Valley in East Troy, Wisconsin. Perhaps one of my stranger things.
• “Gregor Samsa in Reverse” is up at On the High 1 December 2022
• “To Meet the Midnight Beast” is now in Penumbra Online 28 October 2022… Have a Happy Halloween!!!
• “Family Game Night” is available in the new issue of Jupiter Review. You can order it here.

• “Not Quite” in Issue 0 of Healthline Zine: The Climb when you purchase the digital version of the magazine, you will be prompted to choose your payment price based on your financial ability. 6 September 2022

• “Boxing the Compass” and “I Never Heard the Ocean Sing” are available in the new issue of Field Guide Poetry Magazine by Honey Guide. You can order it here and all proceeds go to animal shelters. 14 March 2022
• “City in the Clouds” in Vermilion 28 September 2022
• “Forty Days & Forty Nights” originally published in Sunthia Magazine, but now hosted on Tree and Stone Magazine Fall 2022
• “Rosedale” in Vermilion 16 September 2022
• “Zaharoff with Fangs” at Lavender Lime Literary. 1 August 2022

• “In Time’s Dominion” at Vocivia in Chronos vol. 2 2 August 2022
• “Antebellum Echoes” and “When War Broke Out” in Chantarelle’s Notebook 8 June 2022

• “Night Terror Commodity Fetishism” at Untenured Spring 2022

• “Down and Out in Suburban Detroit” at Magpie Lit Spring 2022

• “Yub Nub, Motherfuckers” at A Thin Slice of Anxiety 5 June 2022

• “Above New River Gorge” & “New Potatoes” at Apricot Press 23 May 2022

• “Aunt Pam,” “Karloff in Drag,” “After Soccer Practice,” & “Hash Bash: Ann Arbor, 1994” at Substantially Unlimited 28 April 2022

• “See Rock City” and “Joshua Tree” at Elevation Review April 2022

• “Brunchtime of the Idols” at Menacing Hedge 19 April 2022

• “Waiting for the Sploosh: A Poem in Four Movements” at Menacing Hedge 19 April 2022

• “Choose Your Own Boredom” in VoidSpace 15 April 2022

• “Petoskey Sunset, 4 July 2010” & “Solar Winds or the Neon Dance” in Paddler Press Vol. 4 8 April 2022

• “Almost a Sonnet” at Neologism Poetry Journal 2 April 2022

• “Snow Drops” at Humana Obscura 1 April 2022… you can buy yourself a beautiful print copy too.

• “Les Bricoleurs et Le Jeu” and “Fireside Chats” at Riddled w/ Arrows 22 March 2022

• “Snowflakes” at Idle Ink 5 March 2022

• “Wyatt Earp in Outer Space” at Muleskinner Review 24 January 2022

• “Pallbearer on the Left” at Cajun Mutt Press 7 January 2022

• “Kim Fields at a Pistons Game,” “Anniversary Poem,” “Silent November,” and “With My Balls in a Sling” at Bullshit Lit Mag 6 January 2022

• “Gagarin in the Trees” at Sienna Solstice December 2021

• “Drifts of Time” & “After the Storm” at ShabdAaweg 31 December 2021

• “Robben Island Beach Break” & “Radioactive Smiles” at Pop the Culture Pill 31 December 2021

• “Injuries in Time and Space #3” at Fish Barrel Press 30 December 2021

• “Words from Clay” at Hearth and Coffin 27 December 2021

• “4: Beryllium; Be” at Hearth and Coffin 27 December 2021

• “Man, The Masochist,” “Doin’ that Dynamite Bridge Rag,” “Love Song for Kenosha Dead,” “At a High School Football Game,” & “Executive Toe-Jam” all up at Lothlorien Poetry Journal… 22 December 2021

• “Love in the Time of Trump” at Lavender Lime Literary Autumn 2021… a recently published poem… Trigger Warning: it’s pretty sexually graphic.

• “I Never Heard the Ocean Sing” at Words and Whispers

• “Rolling Machine” at Fiery Scribe 24 November 2021

• “The Allegory of the Turtle Tank” & “Sinkhole” at The Damnation 17 November 2021

• “Uber through the Sands of Arrakis” at The Daily Drunk 2 November 2021

• “Christ at the Comedy Store” at Bomb Fire Lit 6 November 2021
• “The Witching Hour in Washtenaw” at Skyway Journal 31 October 2021

• “At the Grave of Little Sadie” at Cape Magazine October 2021

• “Coffee w/ Rimbaud” at The Dillydoun Review October 2021

• “Injuries in Time & Space #s 1 & 2” at Cypress Journal 25 October 2021

• “The Hell-Bound Fool” at The Daily Drunk 6 May 2021

• “Guy in the Gobi” at The Daily Drunk 13 September 2021

• “When I Eat My Masterpiece” at Agapanthus Collective Fall 2021

• “Ensconced in Only Velvet” at Discretionary Love 2 September 2021

• “The Center of Gravity” at Discretionary Love 2 September 2021

• “With the Tenderness of the Rainforest” at Amethyst Review 26 August 2021

• “Skywriting in Westchester” at Overheard Lit Mag 30 July 2021

• “Six Feet Under” & four other poems at Alternate Route July 2021

• “Course Catalogue Number LITR 207: An Archeology of the Giants of Latin American “Literature” at La Piccioletta Barca July 2021

• “The Flicker” at The Writer’s Den June 2021

• “Ten Minutes Over Tokyo” at The Writer’s Den June 2021

• “Before the Gold of June” at Grand Little Things 6 June 2021

• “Manufacturing a Snow Day” at The Writer’s Den June 2021

• “The Cannibalism of Yesterday and Tomorrow” at The Closed Eye Open June 2021

• “The Last Stand of the Intergalactic Doo Doo Heads” at Sage Cigarettes Summer 2021

• “Uncle Sam in Black Face” at Punt Volat Summer 2021

• “Someone Else’s Stars” The Write Launch Issue 48 April 2021

• “Hockey Night in Emmet County” at The Write Launch Issue 48 April 2021

• “Graceland” at The Write Launch Issue 48 April 2021

• “Down the Barbed Wire Highway” at About Place May 2021

• “Era of the Silent Song” at Sledgehammer Lit 21 May 2021

• “Still Life w/ Locomotives” (and four other poems) at Lothlorien Poetry Journal 5 May 2021

• “Ishirō Honda to the Edge of Panic” at Sledgehammer Lit 19 April 2021

• “I Pity the Poor Hunchback” (and five other poems) at In Parentheses 7 April 2021

• “Let the Rigatoni Be My Reeds” (and three other poems) at Tofu Ink Press Spring 2021

• “79: Gold; AU” at CP Quarterly Spring 2021

• “Antebellum Echoes in the Candelabrum” at Big Whoopie Deal (Journal closed)

• “The Rue and the Swallowtail” at Eucalyptus and Rose

• “The Rocket’s Red Glare” at Rulerless August 2021

• “Across Pigeon Key” at Amphibian Lit Journal (site no longer working)

• “Stand and Shout” at The JFA (also at Melbourne Culture Center) 8 May 2021

• “The Post-Modern Mouth” at The JFA 24 September 2021

• “Jumpsuit” at Melbourne Culture Center April 2021

• “Martha Wayne’s Pearl Necklace” & “2 Helium; HE” at Openwork Mag (site is down)

• “Lord Buckley, Lord Buckley”& “Space Commies from Dimension X” at Openwork Mag (site is down)
• “The Ebullient Signpost,” Words from Clay,” “I Never Heard the Ocean Sing,” Cast Me Skipping,” & “A Fistful of Ennui” at Sixfold Winter 2021

• “A Science Fiction Story” at Spillover Mag 1 May 2021

• “An American in Paris” at Barzakh Spring 2021

• “Bucephalus Rising” at Rabid Oak Spring 2021

• “Come See the Grave of Cecil Rhodes” at Griffel April 2021`

• “Walter Benjamin at the Emmys” & “Considering Publication” at Version 9 Summer 2021

• “Snow Angels” at The Madrigal Spring 2021

• “Gazing Waterward” at the Madrigal Spring 2021

• “Ghosts of Ypsilanti” at Provenance Journal Winter 2021

• “Icarus and the Rip Tide” & “Uncle Ebenezer / Uncle Stockhausen” in Cerasus Summer 2021

• “South to Noblesville” & two other poems at Fevers of the Mind July 2021

• “Jim Crow Sun Set” at The Ekphrastic Review 12 March 2021

• “Mexican Slayride: Mark 2” at Lucky Jefferson Summer 2021

• “Northern Lights” at Outcast Press Winter 2021

• “Our Garage, Our Dagobah” at Riveting Rants 13 August 2021

• “Running” at Spectra Poets 14 September 2021

• “She Showed Me Her Scars” & “The Treachery of Age” at Corporeal Mag Winter 2021

• “The Age of Conquest” at Rough Diamond Winter 2021

• “The Molecular Level” at Novus Review Spring 2021 (page down)

• “The Title of This Poem Has Been Redacted” & “Sea-Music Still”at C*nsorship Mag

• “Those Hexagonal Corals” at Dynamis Journal

• “When War Broke Out” at The Great Lakes Review

• “Winter Aconite” at Fahmidan Journal