In addition to five volumes of poetry (see Books), Meredith Davies Hadaway has published poems, essays and reviews in the journals and anthologies listed below.
Poems
Summerset Review, Fall 2024, “[Among the many disappearing things]”
Rust & Moth, Autumn 2024, “Zenith”
A-Minor Magazine, 2024, “And No Birds Sing“
Synkroniciti, 2024, “Fourth of July” and “By Hand”
OPEN: Journal of Arts & Literature, 2024: “[Among the many disappearing things]”; “Your Past Will Surprise You”; “Crocuses”; and [Gone]
Cumberland River Review, 2024: “Like Stonehenge”
Gemini, forthcoming, 2024, “Halfway Heart”
The MacGuffin, forthcoming, 2024, “My Mother as Fragrance”
Birmingham Arts Journal, 2024, “[I no longer squander grief]”
One Grand Books (website), 2024, “[Because love cannot be said]”
Grub Street, Vol. 73, 2024, “Long Story Short”
Red Wheelbarrow, February, 2024, “Bloom”
failbetter, January, 2024, “My Mother Closes the Book”
Waxing & Waning, Issue 12, 2024, “For the Banjo Man”
ellipsis, vol 20, 2024, “Book Notes”
The Spy, Dec, 2023, New Year’s Day
MORIA, Issue 12, Dec, 2023, “When Dreams Go Walking”
The National Poetry Review, Issue 21, “Palpable Sustenance”
Thin Air, 2023, “What My Hands Say”
Waxing & Waning, 2023, “For the Banjo Man”
Courtship of Winds, 2023, “Sky Lessons”
The Round, Issue 24, 2023, “Robins”
Cider Press Review, Oct and Dec, 2023, “Variations on the Word ‘Soft’” and “Across Time”
Perceptions, June, 2023, “The Sloping Roof” and “Hokusai’s Lions”
Chestertown Spy, 2022, “Solstice”
Western Humanities Review, 2022, “After Much Chatter”
Sonora Review, 2022, “River & Stream”
The Spotlong Review, 2022, “Remains”
Sepia, Issue 6, Fall, 2022, “Spark & Blaze”
Press Pause Review, 2022, “Spin” and “Tired of Words”
Words & Whispers, Fall, 2022, “Weather Report”
Josephine Quarterly, Winter, 2022, “To a Widow, Living Alone”
Chestertown Spy, 2021, “Still Life”
Slant, Fall, 2021, “Begin Anywhere”
The Opiate, 2021, “Lingering” and “On Finding an Obituary for my Sixth-Grade Teacher”
The Non-Conformist, 2021, “De Sidere”
Verdad, 2021, “Echo”
Mudlark, 2021, “Notes for My Obituary”
Whistling Shade, 2021, “Van Gogh’s Sunflowers are Wilting”
Southern Poetry Review, 2021, “Passage”
Good Works Review, 2021, “Aubade,” “Mangata,” and “Soundings”
Chestertown Spy, 2020, holiday message “Synonyms for Faith”
Chestertown Spy & Delmarva Review, “Thanksgiving”
Summerset Review, Summer, 2020, “Synonyms for Faith” (nominated for Pushcart)
Chestertown Spy & Delmarva Review, “On a Broad Reach They Are Magnificent Craft”
DASH, Issue 13, 2020, “Bones”
Chestertown Spy, 2019 holiday message, “End of the Season”
Chestertown Spy & Delmarva Review, 2019, “State of the Union”
Delmarva Review, Vol. 12, 2019, “In Green Ink,” “State of the Union,” “Thanksgiving,” “On a Broad Reach they are Magnificent Craft,” “Dead Are Deadly,” and “Spiderweb in a Sycamore Tree”
Evening Street, 2019, “October: The Week in Review” and “Vigil”
Jelly Bucket, Number 9, 2019, “Stonehenge”
Bluestem, March 2019, “Deepening”
Slag Review, Issue 10, Jan, 2019, “Dark Furniture”
Potomac Review, 2019, “Snow in Spring”
Mount Hope Magazine, 2019, “Mirror & Smoke,” “Safety Pin,” and “The Swimmer II”
Pretty Owl Poetry, Fall 2018, “Birdsong / Whale Song”
WomenArts Quarterly, Vol. 8, Issue 1, 2018, “Mama Teaches Me”
Tampa Review, 55/56, pp. 150-151, 2018, “At the Monterey Bay Aquarium”
CALYX, 2018, “A Wheel of Brie”
FRiGG, Issue 50, Fall/Winter 2017, “Lightning,” “Miles Away,” “Ten,” and “Via Marechiaro”
Rattle, Issue 58, Winter 2017, “Genealogy”
Silk Road, Issue 18, Fall 2017, “My Mother Puts Her Face On” and “Sorting My Mother’s Photos” pp 95-96
Holiday Message from The Chestertown Spy (“Why the River”)
Yemassee, Issue 24.1, 2017, “Personal Pronouns”
Poetry East, Fall 2017, “Glissade” p. 200
The Midwest Quarterly, Winter 2017, vol. LIX, No. 2, “Swans” and “Intimations Over Breakfast” p. 187-188
Studio One, 2016, “My Mother in Sepia” and “My Mother as Lawrence of Arabia”
The Doll Collection, 2016, Terrapin Books, “My Mother’s Doll”
Common Ground Review, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2016, “Karesansui” and “My Mother’s Birds”
DUCTS, Winter, 2016, “Kennedy Drive” and “My Mother Holds Her Great-Granddaughter”
OxMag, Issue 36, Winter 2016 “Gravity“
Valparaiso Poetry Review, Spring/Summer 2015, Vol. XVI No. 2, “My Mother in the Darkroom”
Crack the Spine, 2015, “The Blacklist”
RipRap Journal, Issue 37, 2015, “Spline”
Mantis, Issue 13, “Sweeping Up the Bees”
Main Street Rag Anthology: Creatures of Habitat, 2015, “Here After”
Qwerty, No. 32, 2015, “In Season”
Green Writers Press Magazine, Issue 1, 2015, “Even the Dark,” “In Season”
The Book of Scented Things, Literary House Press, Fall 2014, “My Cat Knocks Over the Perfume”
New Ohio Review, #17, 2015, “At the Narrows”
poemmemoirstory, #14, 2015, “Wash Day”
Salamander, Issue 39, Winter 2014-2015, “A Cardinal, Hurling Himself at my Window”
Hawaii Pacific Review, Spring 2014, “To a Sycamore, Lately”
The McNeese Review, Spring 2014, “The Lost Dolphin”
Noctua, Spring 2014, “Life Sentences”
Willow, Spring 2014, “Kittiwake” and “Monument”
Passages North, January 2014, “The Swimmer”
So To Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language & the Arts, Spring 2013, “Elephant Teeth”
The Minetta Review, Fall 2012, “End of the Line”
Forge, October 2012, “We Share 60 Percent of Our DNA With A Banana” and “Pepper II”
Folly, Fall 2012, “Blade by Blade,” “Puddle” and “Hardware”
Grey Sparrow Journal, Fall 2012, “Love Triangles”
Nimrod International Journal, 2012, “Heron & Harp”
Delaware Poetry Review, Summer 2012, “Yellowjackets,” “Red Right Returning,” and “The Royal We”
Fledgling Rag 11, pring 2012, “Homeostasis,” “Blessing of the Animals,” “Warnings for the Journey,” and “In the Middle of an Ice Storm, I Take my Cat Chloe to be Cremated”
Delmarva Review, 2012, “Heavenly Bed,” “Blizzard,” “On International Waters”
Pisgah Review, Spring, 2012, “Clockwise”
The Puritan, Spring, 2012, “Dear Amazon.com Customer”
Pembroke Magazine, Spring, 2012, “Silent Night”
Controlled Burn, Spring, 2012, “Under the Piano”
Alaska Quarterly Review, Fall/Winter, 2011, “Echocardiogram”
The MacGuffin, XXVII, No. 2, Winter, 2011, “Strange Comforts”
New Millennium Writings, 2011, “Drift”
The Cincinnati Review: Issue 7.2, Winter 2011, “Heron”
Stand: 2011, “You May Have” and “Theater” (University of Leeds, UK)
Green Hills Literary Lantern, 2011, “The Book of Omens”
The Cape Rock, Fall 2010: “Flight Path”
Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Vol. VII, 2010: “Orchid and Snow”
Whiskey Island: Issue 58, Fall 2010, “Refraction”
Harpur Palate: Issue 10.1, Summer 2010, “Why The River”
Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation News, Summer 2010, “Hall of Records”
The Spoon River Poetry Review: Spring 2010, “Galileo’s Telescope” and “Pumping the Bilge”
The Jabberwock Review: Spring 2010, “Waiting For You in the Lobby Bar” and “New Year’s Morning”
RHINO: A Poetry Forum, Spring 2010: “Discrepancies”
Pearl 43, Fall 2009: “Blank Pages”
Atlanta Review, Fall 2009: “Landing”
Fourth River, Fall 2009: “Night Light” and “Doubts About My Father”
Apalachee Review, Spring 2008: “Sooner” and “Early Spring”
Rio Grande Review, Fall 2008: “The Point”
Madison Review, Fall 2008: “My Great-Grandfather’s Tomato”
Limestone Review, Fall 2008: “Pathetic Fallacy”
Sacred Journey, Fall 2008: “Basso Profundo”
Poem, Fall 2008: “Kinsey’s Vault”
Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Vol. VI, 2009: “Papa Billy’s Mule Barn,” and “Snow Angel at Starbucks”
Eclipse, 2008: “Papa Billy’s Mule Barn”
Zone 3, Spring 2008, “The River Once Again”
Alembic, 2008: “(Who) Art In Heaven”
Spillway, No. 13, 2007: “Afterthought”
RiverSedge, Vol. XX, No. 1, Spring 2007: “Begins With”
Bayou, Issue 47, 2007: “The Billy Collins Challenge”
Chaffin Journal, 2007: “Days of Grace”
South Carolina Review, Vol. 40, No. 1, Fall 2007: “DVD”
River Oak Review, 2007: “Everywhere The Lake”
Schuykill Valley Journal, Vol. 24, Spring 2007: “Fog”
South Carolina Review, Vol. 40, No. 1, Fall 2007: “My Father Brings Jacques Cousteau Home
Gulf Stream, Vol. 27, 2007: “Not Another Poem About Looking Out the Window”
Poet Lore, Volume 101, 3 & 4, Fall/Winter 2007: “Sacred Spaces,” “White Ribbon,” and “Storm
Illuminations, Issue 23, 2007: “Yahrzeit” (nominated for Pushcart Prize)
Milestone, Vol. 2, Issue 10, October 2004: “Fish Bowl”
Currents, Vol. 17, 2007: “Catch and Release”
Here On The Chester, Literary House Press, 2006: “Rupture,” and “Here On The Chester”
CQ (California Quarterly), Vol. 32, No. 4, 2006: “By All Accounts”
Currents, Vol. 16, 2006: “Morning”
Coe Review, Vol. 37, No. 1: Fall 2006: “How Do You Keep A Dog”
Isotope, Fall/Winter, 2005: “Signs”
Delmarva Quarterly, Autumn 2005: “Rupture,” “Tuxedo,” “Fruitwood”
Ellipsis, Vol. 41, Spring 2005: “In A Future Tense”
Margie, The American Journal of Poetry, Vol. 3, 2004: “Something Blue”
Essays & Reviews
Delmarva Review, Vol 16, 2023, review of Blue If Only I Could Tell You, by Richard Tillinghast.
Bodies of Truth, University of Nebraska Press, 2019, “Overtones.”
The Summerset Review, Spring, 2016. Cooking With the Muse by Myra Kornfield and Stephen Massimilla.
The Summerset Review, Winter, 2015. The Narrow Gate by Robert Stewart.
Poetry International, Vol. 18-19, 2013. New Titles by Betsy Sholl and David Young.
Poetry International, Vol. 17, 2011. New Titles by Kathy Fagan and Patty Seyburn
Poetry International, Vol. 15/16, 2010. New Titles by Jericho Brown and Jan Wesley
Poetry International, Vol. 13/14, 2009. New Titles by Cynthia Hogue and Deborah Bogen
Poetry International, Vol. 10, 2006: New Titles by James Richardson, Frannie Lindsay, Jane Tassi, trans. Italian, Ned Condini
Poetry International, Vol. 9, 2005: New Titles by Maxine Kumin, Judith Skillman, Jan Lee, and Milo de Angelis, trans. Emanuel Di Pasquale