Question 1

2026

Accepted Answer

• Not a barrow (forthcoming), Red Fern Review (https://theredfernreview.wordpress.com/category/current-issue/)
• On a pale road, moonlight breaks (forthcoming), Red Fern Review (https://theredfernreview.wordpress.com/category/current-issue/)
• When the whales sing (forthcoming), Red Fern Review (https://theredfernreview.wordpress.com/category/current-issue/)
• mystic man (forthcoming), Pinyon
• Magnetics (forthcoming): Cottonwood Journal 82
• Tomato Season (forthcoming): Swamp Ape Review 9

Question 2

2025

Accepted Answer

• winter storm: Kokako 43 (https://kokako10.wordpress.com/current-issue/)
 • sense: Backlit 2025
 • Ngā ngāi o te tuna nui: Backlit 2025
 • Ignace: a fine line (https://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/a-fine-line-magazine-Winter-Issue-2025.pdf)
 • Mynah's local 143: La Piccioletta Barca (https://www.picciolettabarca.com/posts/mynahs-local-143)
 • scrying ball (forthcoming): Ranger Magazine (https://www.rangermagazine.net/rinehart_issue12)
 • Stars (forthcoming): Ranger Magazine (https://www.rangermagazine.net/rinehart_issue12)
 • Everlasting Love:  Maryland Literary Review (https://www.marylandliteraryreview.com/everlasting-love/)
 • Engagement (forthcoming): Statement Magazine (CSULA)
 • Morning Chores (forthcoming): Statement Magazine (CSULA)
 • Witchfire: The Brussels Review,(https://shop.thebrusselsreview.com/products/tbr-blue-5-25) 5/25
 • Adrift silver boat: The Brussels Review,(https://shop.thebrusselsreview.com/products/tbr-blue-5-25) 5/25
 • In Bogor: North Dakota Quarterly 93.3/4

Question 3

2024

Accepted Answer

• hickory: tarot 9 Tarotpoetry(http://www.tarotpoetry.nz/tarot09/ )
 • building: tarot 9 Tarotpoetry(http://www.tarotpoetry.nz/tarot09/ )
 • Shasta: a fine line a fine line (https://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/summer-2025-a-fine-line.pdf#page=29 )
 • Tasting the sweetgrass: a fine line  a fine line (https://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024-Autumn-edition-a-fine-line-FINAL-2.pdf )
 • listen: Syncopation Literary Journal 4(1) Syncopation Literary (https://syncopationliteraryjournal.wordpress.com/poetry-7/)
 • listened: Syncopation Literary Journal 4(1) Syncopation Literary Journal  (https://syncopationliteraryjournal.wordpress.com/poetry-7/)
 • listening: Syncopation Literary Journal 4(1) Syncopation Literary Journal  (https://syncopationliteraryjournal.wordpress.com/poetry-7/)
 • 2024 walking on Jupiter: Concision Concision (https://www.concisionpoetry.com/robert-rinehart-4-2)
 • 2024 service: New Feathers Anthology (https://www.newfeathersanthology.com/service.html#/  )
 • 2024 fishing village: Suisun Valley Review
 • 2024 sweet tears: a fine line a fine line
(https://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/a-fine-line-spring-2024-1.pdf )

Question 4

2023

Accepted Answer

• crater lake: Indefinite Space Indefinite Space (https://www.indefinitespace.net/indefinitespace2023.html )
 •  seining: a fine line a fine line (https://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/afl-summer-purse-final-web-and-print-1-2.pdf )
 • escape: Tarot 6 Tarot (http://www.tarotpoetry.nz/tarot06/)
 • Ngarunui starfish: Tarot 6 Tarot (http://www.tarotpoetry.nz/tarot06/)
 • hidden potato: NZPS 2023 Anthology NZPS Anthology (https://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/product/nzps-anthology-white-hot-heart-2023/ )

Question 5

2020s

Accepted Answer

• If I could sing: Sky Island Journal Sky Island (https://www.skyislandjournal.com/issues#/issue-20-spring-2022/ )
 • A sombrero of pistols: Fleas on the Dog 12 (https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/9a0949f4-1d2a-4a7c-b9fb-a96b9b6bd861/downloads/I_12%20P_16%20_A%20Sombrero%20of%20Pistols%20and%20One%20Other.pdf?ver=1675906591198)
 •  Brenda's reliquary: Fleas on the Dog 12 (https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/9a0949f4-1d2a-4a7c-b9fb-a96b9b6bd861/downloads/I_12%20P_16%20_A%20Sombrero%20of%20Pistols%20and%20One%20Other.pdf?ver=1675906591198)
 • bathing: Emerge Literary Journal 19 (https://emergeliteraryjournal.com/issue-19/ )

Question 6

2000s

Accepted Answer

• 2020, October the Cathedral: Mayhem 8 Mayhem (https://www.mayhemjournal.co.nz/shop/product/471459/mayhem-2020--issue-8/?variantId=1114202)
 • 2020, October my own table: Mayhem 8 Mayhem (https://www.mayhemjournal.co.nz/shop/product/471459/mayhem-2020--issue-8/?variantId=1114202 )
 • Trump as strumpet (Wrestlemania 23; O Tycoon, My Tycoon!; Trump, by Trump), Qualitative Inquiry23(2) 
 • Female beekeeper, The Haiku Journal 52 Haiku (https://prolificpress.com/bookstore/haiku-journal-c-3/haiku-journal-issue-52-p-220.html )

Question 7

1990s

Accepted Answer

• 1997: Legacy, Cultural Studies: A Research Volume 2
 • 1997: Seraphim, Cultural Studies: A Research Volume 2
 • 1997: On Crescent Beach, 1989, Cultural Studies: A Research Volume 2
 • 1997: War Museum in Auckland, Divorcee's lament, Divorcing the children, In Leicestershire, divorcee's lament, II, Days of Anomie, Joint custody: 23% (Concatenations), Cultural Studies: A Research Volume 2
 • 1994/95: A small red spider, Sonoma Mandala 22
 • 1994/95: Young buck, Sonoma Mandala 22
 • 1990	On hearing Diane Wakoski read at California State University, San Bernardino, Negative Capability X(1)
 • 1990	Santa Monica Pier, 1986, Aethlon VIII(1)
 • 1990	Sharing deep fissures, Chants 2
 • 1990	Systems professor taking lunch, LIPS 16
 • 1990	Three haiku (Silent storm, Bullrushes, Empty chrysalis) The Red Pagoda 6(2)
 • 1990	The Large Bathers, Chelsea 49

Question 8

1980s

Accepted Answer

• 1989 Dancing in rain, shuffling along, TAPJoe: The Anaprocrustean Poetry Journal of Enumclaw 5
 • 1988/89	Words on wing, The Galley Sail Review IX(3) also in 1997 Concatenations, Cultural Studies: A Research Volume 2
 • 1988 Scrimshaw, Sonoma Mandala 15
 • 1988 The aging poet reads, Impetus 15 
 • 1984 oriental images, Midway Review 5
 • 1984, Spring	word knots, The Redlands Review also in 1997 Concatenations, Cultural Studies:  A Research Volume 2
 • 1983 candlestick park, Spitball 8

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