C.M. Rivers

Books

Along The Way ~ Poems for the Wayward (2024 Nautilus Silver Medal for Poetry) (Wayfarer Books, 2023)

How To Carry Soup (2019 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize) (Homebound Publications, 2020)

 

Poems

Prescription – forthcoming in Shoreline Voices Anthology of Food and Drink (Gunpowder Press)

Last Supper – Connecticut River Review, 2025; also forthcoming in The Connecticut Poems Anthology (Grayson Books)

Angel, Morning – Noon: Journal of the Short Poem, 2025

Snapshot, 1975 – Grey Sparrow Journal, 2025

Flight Pattern – California Quarterly, 2023

Unbelonging – California Quarterly, 2023

Plums, Icebox – Shot Glass Journal, 2023

There’s No Shame in Making a Comfortable Deathbed – Shot Glass Journal, 2023

Arts and Crafts – Gyroscope Review, 2023

Walls – Cricket Children’s Magazine, 2023

Moon So Bright – The Wayfarer, 2021

Service Worker – The Wayfarer, 2021

Note Written Between Two Lives – Society of Classical Poets, 2021

Anchor – Two Hawks Quarterly (Antioch University), 2020

Net Man – Crosswinds Poetry Journal, 2020

Reckoning – Stonecoast Review, 2020

Starlight Stay – The Adirondack Review, 2019

Instructions – The Wayfarer, 2019

Pileated Woodpecker, Early April – The Wayfarer, 2019

Remodel – Schuylkill Valley Journal, 2019

The Hands That Make Things – IthacaLit, 2018

Candle – The Society of Classical Poets, 2018

Incarnation – Badlands Literary Journal, 2018

Field Row’s End – The Cape Rock Literary Journal, 2017

This Is Earth – Written River: A Journal of Eco-Poetics, 2016

Plants and Animals – Written River: A Journal of Eco-Poetics, 2016

Of Time and Earthly Life – The Road Not Taken: A Journal of Formal Poetry, 2015

Memorial – Spoon River Poetry Review, 2015

Wish – Soundings Review, 2015

Compass – The Wayfarer, 2014

Knapsack – The Wayfarer, 2014

Ephemeral – The Wayfarer, 2014

A Measure of Grace – Poetry Pacific, 2014  
Zen – Poetry Pacific, 2014

Oregon – 50 Haikus, 2014

What My Fingers Know – Big River Poetry Review, 2013

Affair – Wilderness House Literary Review, 2013 

What Your Apartment Said – Wilderness House Literary Review, 2013

Heroic – Wilderness House Literary Review, 2013

The Wisdom of Not Being Industrious – Orbis Literary Journal (UK), 2013

Me and Dean – Rosebud Literary Magazine, 2013

Stripped – The Whistling Fire, 2013

The Opposite of Flowers – The Whistling Fire, 2013

Backbone – Red River Review, 2013