Published Poems
Two poems in The Illanot Review 29 (Fall-Winter 2025).
- “The Gretel Apocrypha,” nominated for Best Spiritual Literature Anthology 2026
- “Exodus Diptych”
“Transient: Tanka for the Deep Ellum Squatters,” in Ribbons 21.2 (Fall/Winter 2025), 66. (Amazon)
- Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
“Hold it Again to the Light,” The Hippocrates Prize: Winning and Commended Poems (Hippocrates Press, 2025).
- 3rd Place for the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine.
Three poems published in Notes of Light and Dark: Southwestern Aubades and Nocturnes, edited by Scott Wiggerman and David Meischen (Albuquerque: Dos Gatos Press, 2025), pp. 109-111.
- “Superstition”
- “The Saguaro Gospel”
- “East Valley Nights”
“After Chemo Failed,” Los Angeles Review (February 3, 2025).
“The Knife, The Throat,” Poetry by the Sea (2024).
- 2025 Winner of The Gylys Villanelle Prize
“Here We Call the Rat Snakes Ralph,” Sonora Review (November 22, 2024).
“The Chronic Inflammatory Disease, Endometriosis, Talks Back,” Verse Daily (July 13, 2024).
“The Day After,” Verse Daily (June 24, 2024).
“The Day After,” 32 Poems 42 (Winter 2024), p. 39.
“The Chronic Inflammatory Disease, Endometriosis, Talks Back,” Pleiades 44.1 (Spring 2024), p. 100.
“Cora in Philly” in Philadelphia Stories (Winter 2022), p. 10. (online, PDF)
“Squatters: An Inventory” in The Fourth River 17, The Salvage Issue (Fall 2021), pp. 84-85.
Three poems in Prairie Schooner 95.4 (Winter 2021), pp. 119-122. (Project Muse)
- “After: An Origin Story”
- “Gretel in the Wilderness,” winner of the Hugh J. Luke Award
- “Scarlet Fever”
Three poems in On a Wednesday Night, edited by Kay Murphy (New Orleans: University of New Orleans Press, 2020), pp. 150-154.
- “Juanita”
- “Fables from the Petrified Forest”
- “Burning the Bodies”
“Women’s Work: The Flax Age” in CALYX 32.1 (Summer/Fall 2020), pp. 29-32.
Folio with five poems in Aeolian Harp Series: Anthology of Poetry Folios 5, edited by John Amen and Ami Kaye (Glass Lyre Press, 2019), pp. 51-58.
- “Leftovers”
- “Phoenix: Goodwill Orientation Night”
- “Propaganda for the People”
- “Teardrop: A Survival Guide”
- “Dark Angel: the Murderer as a Child”
“At the Lost Children’s Memorial Garden” in Fairy Tale Review 15, The Pink Issue (2019), pp. 91-92. (JSTOR)
- Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
“In the Bonehouse,” Poets Reading the News (May 26, 2019).
“Whosoever Holds This Hammer,” Women’s Voices for Change (January 20, 2019). (archived)
- With analysis by Rebecca Foust (archived)
“Hit, Run” Verse Daily (August 9, 2018).
“Map Making for Ex-Missionaries” in Crab Orchard Review 22.1-2 (2018), p. 316.
“The Archaeologist’s Field Notes” in Antiphon 23 (2018), p. 39. (PDF, audio)
“Whosoever Holds This Hammer” in Ecotone 13.1 Issue 24 (2017), p. 79. (Project MUSE)
“Last Rites,” American Poetry Journal (2017). (archived)
Venetian tanka, bio, and reviews in English and translated into Romanian in New Work by Philadelphia Poets, edited by Valerie Fox and translated by Daniel Dragomirescu (Iaşi, Romania: Editura Pim, 2016), pp. 88-93.
“Hit, Run,” E-Verse Radio (May 2, 2016).
A tanka in Moonbathing: A Journal of Women’s Tanka 13 (Autumn/Winter 2015), p. 13.
“Gifted” in The Raintown Review 13.1 (October 2015), pp. 20-21.
“Burning the Bodies” in Silk Road Review: A Literary Crossroads 14 (Fall 2015), pp. 42-43.
[Milky Way] tanka in Ribbons 11.3 (Fall 2015), p. 75.
- Honorable mention in the 2015 Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest
“Juanita” in Other Countries: Contemporary Poets Rewiring History, edited by Claire Trévien and Gareth Prior (Inpress Books, 2014), p. 53.
“Fables from the Petrified Forest,” Smartish Pace 22 (2014), pp. 104-106.
- First Place of the 11th Annual Beullah Rose Poetry Prize
- Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
“Salt Myth,” Unsplendid 5.3 + 6.1 (July 2014). (archived)
Two poems in The Burlesque Variety Show (April 2014).
- “Museum” tanka
- “Monet’s Poplars on the Epte”
Two poems in Crab Orchard Review 18.2 (2013), pp. 103-104.
- “Thriftscape with Buttons”
- “Forget What the Arsonist Took”
“The Widow’s Cinquains” in Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets, by Valerie Fox and Lynn Levin (Texture Press, 2013). (Amazon)
“Cinder” in The Yellow Issue of Fairy Tale Review 9, (2013), pp. 74-77. (JSTOR)
Two tanka in bottle rockets: a collection of short verse 14.2 (or simply #28) (2013), p. 61.
“O Tannenbaum” on Apiary 5 (2012), p. 13.
A tanka in A Hundred Gourds 2.1 (December 2012), p. 9. (archived)
“Night Watch,” escarp (September 21, 2012).
Fourteen tanka in Atlas Poetica 13 (Autumn 2012), pp. 37, 42.
“Hit, Run” in Mudfish 17 (New York: Box Turtle Press, 2012), p. 169. (Amazon)
“White Rabbit” in Silk Road Review: A Literary Crossroads 6.2 (Summer/Fall 2011), p. 52. (Kindle)
“Oranges in Winter,” The Centrifugal Eye (April/May 2011). (PDF)
“Oculus,” escarp (October 9, 2010).
“Birth, Labor,” qarrtsiluni (August 9, 2010).
Interviews
“Success, Failure, Money: The Interview” on Tell Tell Poetry (June 20, 2016).
“Showcased Writer: Dawn Manning” on Silk Road Review (July 22, 2015).
“Myths About Modern Poetry: An Interview with Dawn Manning” (April 28, 2014).
And More
“A Closer Look at ‘Self-Portrait as Eve’” on Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing
“Dawn Manning on Debra Wierenga’s Poem ‘Fork’” on Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing
“Leave this World Gently: A Review of Traci Brimhall’s Rookery” in Buried Letter Press (December 2011), 28-31.