Read "what one can see in the dark" in my new book W/Make (Bottlecap Press). This poem won the Susan Maxwell Campbell Prize (The Poetry Society of Texas).
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child in snug lean against a mother's ribs, the book splayed before us, from "voice like linen" by Corbett Buchly
Read "voice like linen" in my new book W/Make (Bottlecap Press). This poem first appeared in Quail Bell Magazine (and was first written as a Mother's Day gift!)
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but your eyes pinned back like slick barrettes/you, unlike this distracted mortal see everything, sky and ground, past and predator/the worm slips easily into your hinged beak, from "timberdoodle" by Corbett Buchly
Read "timberdoodle" in my new book W/Make (Bottlecap Press). This poem first appeared in The Fourth River.
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Read "upon entering her garden" in my new book W/Make.
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Check out my latest blog post, which involves shout outs to some of my favorite lines from other authors at Scissortail Festival 2026 and a tornado.
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Read "how to determine whether you're standing up straight" in my new book W/Make.
First published in The Champagne Room Journal.
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the gamblers on their smart phones, playing fantasty poetry league, badgerig each other to trade this lyricist for that language poet, from "vision board" by Corbett Buchly
Read "vision board" in which I imagine what poetry could mean to the world at large. Hey, it could happen.
First published in The River.
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when did they first replace the processed snacks in the break room vending machine with poems, from "vision board" by Corbett Buchly
What's on your vision board?
Read "vision board" and other poems in my chapbook "W/Make" (Bottlecap Press). This poem 1st published in The River.
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Read "considering the audience" and other poems in my chapbook "W/Make" (Bottlecap Press). This poem 1st published in The Ravens Perch.
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we wait for the rumble that starts in the wet light and ends in our veins, from the "film" by Corbett Buchly
Read "the film" and other poems in my chapbook "W/Make" (Bottlecap Press). This poem won The Pauline Durrett Robertson Award.
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#ScissortailFestival 2026 saw a lot of great writers read their work, a lot of great discussion, rewewing of old friendships and forging of new ones. I got to read from my new chapbook. Even had an impromptu hotel party waiting for a tornado to pass. #poetrycommunity #poetry @ecutigers.bsky.social
Just back from #scissortailfestival 2026. Here's the haul!
Joshua Grasso, Sarah Webb, Paul Juhasz, @kygeorgewrites.bsky.social , @emerge-magazine.com , @josephfasano.bsky.social , @tracibrimhall.bsky.social , Brady Peterson and Zhenya Yevtushenko.
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You can check out my new poem "the night is not what you think" published today in The River (Sandy River Review ).
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Read "gates" and other poems in my chapbook "W/Make" (Bottlecap Press). This poem 1st published in Stone Poetry Quarterly.
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the sermons have suggested that any portal will do us, we can ride the flattened wave, the flash and dazzle of lithe and youthful form, the pulse of fire and vulgar song, from "gates" by Corbett Buchly
Read "gates" and other poems in my chapbook "W/Make" (Bottlecap Press). This poem 1st published in Stone Poetry Quarterly.
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Launch event for my poetry collection W/Make (Bottlecap Press), at Half Price Books. It was great seeing new and old friends alike, all come to enjoy in the sharing of poetry and discussion.
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W/Make Book Launch, Poetry by Corbett Buchly, March 29, Reading 1 p.m., Signing until 4 p.m, Half Price Books, 100 South Central Expressway, Richardson, Texas
If you want to talk about poetry, or hear me read some poems, drop by tomorrow. #poetrycommunity #halfpricebooks @halfpricebooks.bsky.social
the bob of fur on his tail swished across the page stirring trouble and ideas, from "the line abused" by Corbett Buchly
Read "the line abused" and other poems in my chapbook "W/Make" (Bottlecap Press). This poem 1st published in the Rio Grande Review.
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Read "the line abused" and other poems in my chapbook "W/Make" (Bottlecap Press). This poem 1st published in the Rio Grande Review.
Purchase here: bottlecap.press/products/wma...
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Read "among primrose" and other poems in my chapbook "W/Make" out by Bottlecap Press.
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I write science fiction too! So happy to have my story "The Spot" appear in JAKE magazine. What to do when a water spot turns into something altogether different? Read it here: jakethemag.com/the-spot/
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Read "do not rent to poets" and other poems in my chapbook "W/Make" out by Bottlecap Press. This poem 1st published in The Ravens Perch.
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Read "do not rent to poets" and other poems in my chapbook "W/Make" out by Bottlecap Press. This poem 1st published in The Ravens Perch.
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Oops, typo. That should read "rent to poets" not "transforming echo."
upon arrival the three poets began dismantling immediately, from "do not rent to poets" by Corbett Buchly
Read "transforming echo" and other poems in my chapbook "W/Make" out by Bottlecap Press. This poem 1st published in The Ravens Perch.
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the voices have much to relate forever turning over new leaves and driving axes into frozen seas inspiring epiphanies like a rose suddenly blooming in the gut, from "transforming echo: a cry and a shout, the text enters night" by Corbett Buchly
Read "transforming echo" and other poems in my chapbook "W/Make" out by Bottlecap Press. This poem 1st published in Harbinger Asylum.
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Read "I am another's dream" and other poems in my chapbook "W/Make" out by Bottlecap Press. This poem 1st published in Dream Catcher.
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Read "timberdoodle" (1st published in The Fourth River) and other poems in my chapbook "W/Make" out by Bottlecap Press.
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