Publication in literary journals

Recognition

• The Dewdrop: "Samsara" forthcoming in October 2026
  

• Literary Mama: “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Baby,” forthcoming in Winter 2026/2027 and Menorrhagia, March/April 2025

• Tiger Leaping Review: Letter to a Younger Self, Spring 2026
  

• The Bluebird Word: The Farm, Three Months after Dad’s Death, April 2026

• Piker's Press: Death and the Maiden: An Elegy, Dec. 2025; The Farm, Nov. 2025; Summer Night Insomnia, August 2026;
  Disappearing in the Panhandle Sept. 2026; and "Lullaby to a Fawn," forthcoming in Nov. 2026
  

• Ekphrastic Review: Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld, January 2026

• The Write Launch: Aujargues in Mid-Summer, Summer Evening Walk After Rain & Eros & Philia: A Botany of Love, Nov. 2025
  

• Shot Glass Journal: Vishuddha & Parking Lot Prayer, Sept. 2025

• Neologism Poetry Journal: Psalm of the Heart: A Dizain, Sept. 2025
  

• Arkana Magazine: The Farm, Slivers of Memory & A Truthful Obituary, Spring 2025

• Ekstasis Magazine: Crucifixus, Winter 2024-2025
  

• Lullwater Review: I Have Loved You, in print, Spring 2024

• Uppagus: Another Night Song, May 2024
  

• Poetry Society of Virginia 2024 Anthology: Inversion, in print, Sept. 2024

• Richmond magazine: Sonata, Sept. 2021
  
  

• Framing Our Life Stories, Arkana Magazine, Substack, Nov. 2025

Articles

• Nominated by Literary Mama for 2026 Best of the Net Anthology, “Menorrhagia”

• Poetry Society of Virginia Contest Finalist, “Inversion,” “Disappearing in the Panhandle,” and “Menorrhagia” in 2024; and “Athena” in 2022

• Poetry Roundtable of Arkansas Poetry Day Contest Finalist in 2023, “Putting a Child to Bed: An Abecedarian”

• Shann Palmer Poetry Contest Finalist, Issued by James River Writers, published in Richmond Magazine, September 2021, “Sonata”

CLAUDIA KESSEL

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