What You Were Saying by George Franklin What You Were Saying If the world should end while we are on one of our walks, I won’t complain or use my last minutes to imagine All the places we could have traveled or all the things I wanted us…

What You Were Saying by George Franklin in ONE ART: a journal of poetry

oneartpoetry.com/2026/02/14/w...

How to Construct a Soul by George Franklin How to Construct a Soul First, you buy the kit from Target or Amazon.I heard that Costco has them as well, and theyMay be a little cheaper. There are people whoSay they all start out the same. I do…

How to Construct a Soul by George Franklin oneartpoetry.com/2025/11/11/h...

How to Construct a Soul by George Franklin How to Construct a Soul First, you buy the kit from Target or Amazon.I heard that Costco has them as well, and theyMay be a little cheaper. There are people whoSay they all start out the same. I do…

New poem up at One Art! It's a great magazine, and it makes me enormously happy that editor Mark Danowsky accepted the poem. Thank you, One Art! oneartpoetry.com/2025/11/11/h...

George Franklin George Franklin practices law in Miami. A Man Made of Stories (2025) is his fourth full-length collection with Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, complementing Remote Cities (2023) Noise of the World (2020) a…

My new book, A Man Made of Stories, will be shipping soon. sheilanagigblog.com/shop-sheila-...

George Franklin George Franklin practices law in Miami. A Man Made of Stories (2025) is his fourth full-length collection with Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, complementing Remote Cities (2023) Noise of the World (2020) a…

A Man Made of Stories, my new poetry collection from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions is now in pre-sales, shipping in July. If you order before the end of June, there's a nice discount. sheilanagigblog.com/shop-sheila-...

My new poetry collection, A Man Made of Stories, is coming soon from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions! sheilanagigblog.com/shop-sheila-...

Ep 15 of the Muse's Mic Check out James and Sandy's engaging conversation with George Franklin! The Muse's Mic Conversations with Creative Minds:... | By James | Facebook Ep 15 of the Muse's Mic Check out James and Sandy's engaging conversation with George Franklin! The Muse's Mic Conversations with Creative Minds:...

Many thanks to the folks at SpoFest, James Bryant and Sandra Feen, for inviting me to be interviewed on The Muse's Mic. It was a wonderful evening, with sharp, interesting questions. Here is the video: www.facebook.com/james.bryant...

Three Poems by George Franklin Andalusia At the train station in Córdoba, we rented an agingGray Renault and drove to the mountains, the car’sMaintenance light flashing red the whole time.From both sides of the road, rows of oli…

Thank you, Matter, for including my poems in the new issue! mattermonthly.com/2025/03/01/t...

I have no idea what salmonberrries are, but they look amazing! Food writing is great.

George Franklin George Franklin practices law in Miami. Remote Cities is his third full-length poetry collection with Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, complementing Noise of the World (2020) and Traveling for No Good Reaso…

A quick notice: my book, Poetry & Pigeons: Short Essays on Writing, is now shipping from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions. sheilanagigblog.com/shop-sheila-...

George Franklin George Franklin practices law in Miami. Remote Cities is his third full-length poetry collection with Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, complementing Noise of the World (2020) and Traveling for No Good Reaso…

Poetry and Pigeons: Short Essays on Writing is NOW PRINTING and will be shipping soon from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions. Order your copy today! sheilanagigblog.com/shop-sheila-...

SoFloPoJo SoFloPoJo South Florida Poetry Journal is an online literary journal established in 2016 that publishes poetry, flash fiction, essays, interviews, art, photography, and reviews. There are no submissio...

Two new poems in the always-great South Florida Poetry Journal. Check them out. www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com

Many thanks to editor Alan Catlin of Misfit Magazine for including 3 of my poems in the new issue alongside some of my favorite poets! Give us all a read! misfitmagazine.net/archive/No-3...

Thanks to Gyroscope and its editors for including my poem "The Sulphur Match," about one of Sargent's most insightful paintings, in the Winter Issue. It's a great issue with lots of excellent poets. Please check it out!

In Heaven - Solstice Literary Magazine In heaven, Goya’s no longer deaf.  He hears Everything Velázquez tells him when they sit Together in one of those gardens the angels Maintain for the blessed who care more For conversation and deep-co...

I'm excited that my poem "In Heaven" is in the Winter 2024 issue of Solstice Literary Magazine. Please check it out. solsticelitmag.org/content/in-h...

Review: Sapphires on the Graves by Scott Ferry - Cultural Daily Sapphires on the Graves by Scott Ferry is a book built around the juxtaposition of love and beauty on the one hand and injury, illness, death on the other.

My review of Scott Ferry's new book _Sapphires on the Graves_ is up at Cultural Daily. Please check it out! www.culturaldaily.com/review-sapph...

Many thanks to J.P. Dancing Bear for featuring "During the War" on Verse Daily today. The poem is from my book What the Angel Saw, What the Saint Refused, which is available from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions. Give it a read! www.versedaily.org/2024/duringt...

I liked Keix̱wnéi's poem, "The Storm," on the Poetry Foundation website. I'll have to keep looking for Skaay, and you're right: Kinchaalx doesn't show up.

Maybe the point of putting thinking into words for others to read is so, if they're interested, they'll make their own discoveries. And, if they're poets, their work may be richer for those discoveries.

If nobody ever mentions them, then that world of poets will never know them. Whenever I run across something interesting that I don't know anything about, I check first on Wikipedia, and if I like what I read, then I go deeper, usually by checking out some books. References are opportunities.

Vivian Faith Prescott, a great many things are a privilege, but that fact alone doesn't imply there is anything wrong with those things. Note I've never written that travel is necessary for poets. In fact, I wrote in the blog briefly about Larkin's almost complete resistance to it.

It stretches your sense of who you are.

Travel and Poetry - George Franklin There is something about the unfamiliar feel of a country where the architecture, food, customs, and even the money are different.  That unfamiliar something can free writers to reimagine themselves, ...

Poets seem to love to travel or hate to travel. I guess I fall into the former group. Here's a short blog piece thinking about why. gsfranklin.com/travel-and-p...

CRAFT First Chapters Contest 2024 - CRAFT CRAFT 2024 First Chapters Contest $2,800 Awarded Guest Judge: Kimberly King Parsons June 1, 2024 – August 4, 2024 Thank you to all who submitted work to the CRAFT 2024 First Chapters Contest. We are d...

My extraordinary daughter, Hadley Franklin, has just won the Craft First Chapters Contest, judged by Kimberly King Parsons! Bravo, Hadley! The first chapters of her novel will be on Craft's website next month. www.craftliterary.com/craft-first-...

I think there is some procedure for setting up a group, etc., but I haven't been here long enough to delve into it.

Perhaps the worst poem in the English language, but I am totally impressed that you memorized it and can recite it in a brogue. Wow!

Strong poem, and a great ending!

Cover picture of a pigeon from Poetry & Pigeons: Short Essays on Writing by George Franklin

I'm excited. My publisher, Hayley Mitchell Haugen, posted today on Facebook that Poetry & Pigeons - Short Essays on Writing will ship in January, 2025, and can be pre-ordered now!
sheilanagigblog.com/shop.../geor...

Thank you to Hare's Paw Literary Journal and its editor, Olivia Darlene Thomes, for publishing my poem "When Ximena Is Sad" in Issue 19, out today. Please give it a read.
(Just to reassure everybody, it's OK. Ximena is not sad, except about the election. 😁) www.harespawlitjournal.com/issue-19