POETRY

[Many of the poems listed below may be viewed in PDF format by clicking on the link that follows the bibliographic information.]

“First Light” and “Pelvis as Viewfinder,” The Westchester Review (forthcoming, Winter, 2026).

“Ascent: 5 Haiku After Georgia O’Keeffe’s ‘Drawing XIII’ (1916-17),” Jackdaw Haiku: A Haiku Journal 1 (Spring 2025): 31. See also here: ASCENT 5 Haiku .

“Two Crows” and “A Day’s Work,” Reform Jewish Quarterly (forthcoming, 2025).

“Viewfinder,” Bicoastal Review 9 (2025); see here: https://bicoastalreview.com/karlplank .

“What It Was,” Santa Clara Review 112:2 (2025): 73; and Illuminations 40 (2025): 91. PUSHCART NOMINATION (2025). See also here: WHAT IT WAS.

“Lime Kiln,” Connecticut River Review (2025): 77. See also here: Lime Kiln (CRR)

“Clarity,” The Louisville Review 95 (2024): 34. See also here: CLARITY

“The Ends of Barns,” Orange Blossom Review 13 (2024). BEST OF THE NET NOMINATION (2025) and PUSHCART NOMINATION (2025). See also here: THE ENDS OF BARNS

“Star Gazing 1” and “Star Gazing 2, Route 7 Review 12 (2024) and Reverie 4 (May 2025). See also here:  Star Gazing 1 and 2

“Precarity” and “Sky Above Clouds,” MacQueen’s Quinterly 24 (August 2024). See also here: PRECARITY and SKY ABOVE CLOUDS

“One Year Later,” Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel 27 (2024): 48.

“Waiting” and “Our Mother the Mountain,” Spirit Lake Review (2024): 61-62.  See also here: Waiting (poem, rev) and here: OUR MOTHER THE MOUNTAIN

“Song of a Dying Man” and “Gravity and Grace,”  The Ocotillo Review 8.1 (2024): 50-51. See also here: Song of a Dying Man.

“Christ Our Passover,” Dappled Things  19.1 (Candlemas, 2024): 37. See also here: CHRIST OUR PASSOVER.

“At the Reading of the Gospel,” Barstow & Grand 7 (2023): 30. See also here: at-the-reading-of-the-gospel.

“Doxology,” Quiet Diamonds (The Orchard Street Press, 2023): 31. Semi-finalist for the Malovrh-Fenlon Poetry Prize. See here: https://karlplankpoetry.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/doxology-quiet-diamonds.pdf

“Prayer Before A Sermon in the Nave,” Homage to Soren Kierkegaard: A Poetry Anthology, eds., Dana Gioia and Mary Grace Mangano  (Wiseblood Press, 2023), 67. See also here: prayer-before-a-sermon-sk-contest-1 .

“And Also With You,” Valiant Scribe (Peace Like a River) 3 (2024): 69 See also here: and also with you .

“Our Sins, To Be Confessed,” Saint Katherine Review (January 15, 2024); text here: https://www.stkathreview.org/our-sins-to-be-confessed/

“Thy Kingdom Come,” Saint Katherine Review (November 16, 2023); text here: https://www.stkathreview.org/thy-kingdom-come/

“Grave Stones,” Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel 25 (2022): 152-154. See also here: grave-stones

“The Sound of a Tree Falling As We Hear It,” Willows Wept Review 25 (2022): 51. See also here: the-sound-of-a-tree-falling-ww 

“Echoing Impressions,” Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel 24 (2021): 163. See also here: Echoing Impressions

“Olive Hill Flood,” River Heron Review 4.2 (2021); Best of the Net Nomination (2022); text here: https://www.riverheronreview.com/issue-42#/karl-plank

“Awaiting Rain,” basalt 15 (2021): 4. See also here: Awaiting Rain (basalt)

“Janus 4: Guardian of our Breath,” basalt 15 (2021): 4. See also here: JANUS 4-GUARDIAN OF OUR BREATH

“Impressions Revisited,” Tahoma Literary Review 20 (2021): 16. See also here: IMPRESSIONS; Audio: https://tahomaliteraryreview.com/pages/listen

“Janus 6: A Window is a Door,” Briar Cliff Review 32 (Spring 2021): 27. See also here: JANUS 6

“Sentences,” Tiferet (Autumn/Winter 2019): 111-114. See also here: sentences

“Quiet Night,” Jelly Bucket 9 (2019): 124. See also here: Quiet Night 

“Venus Rising in the City,” The Ekphrastic Review, July 20, 2019 (also here: http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/venus-rising-in-the-city-by-karl-plank)

“Neither Can Floods Drown It,” Zone 3  34/1 (2019): 50. See also here: Neither Can Floods Drown It–Zone 3 ; and here: https://www.zone3press.com/entry/view/neither-can-floods-drown-it).

“Decalogue: Rules for the Guests of the Earth and Below,” basalt 13/1 (2019): 4. See also here: decalogue).

“For the Time Being,” basalt  13/1 (2019): 4. See also here: For the time being.

“First Kiss,” Indian River Review 6  (2019).

“What Botticelli Did Not Portray,” QU  9 (2019): 34. See also here: WHAT BOTTICELLI DID NOT PORTRAY.

“Variations on a West Kerry Saying” and “From Out of the Bass Do I Cry,” Number One 46 (2018): 29-31.

“Wedding Night,” Potomac Review 63 (2018): 150-51. See also here: WEDDING NIGHT (rev).

“as when a mortal flees a lion,” Bluestem 28/1 ( 2018): 24 (also here: as when a mortal flees a lion (rev 2).

“Options,” The McNeese Review 55 (2018): 196-199. See also here: OPTIONS (McNeese).

“Night Fight: Jabbok Ford,” Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry (2018): 89. See also here: NIGHT-FIGHT (Presence)

“Night Prayer: Bethel” and “He Stammers,” Saint Katherine Review 6/2 (2018): 31-33. See also here: Night-Prayer and STAMMER (REV2)

“How Hunger Sounds,” Ponder Review 1/2 (2017): 10. See also here: HOW HUNGER SOUNDS

“Apophatic Prayer 3,” The Merton Seasonal  42/2 (Summer 2017): 11. See also here: APOPHATIC PRAYER 3 .

“But Still We Ate,” New Madrid 12/2 (Summer 2017): 59. See also here: but still we ate.

“Apophatic Prayer 2,” New Madrid 12/2 (Summer 2017): 58. See also here: APOPHATIC PRAYER 2 (NM).

“Apophatic Prayer,” ARTS 28/2 (Spring 2017): 16. See also here: AN APOPHATIC PRAYER.

“Mudmen,” Briar Cliff Review  29 (Spring 2017): 62. See also here: MUDMEN.

“As A Mother Who Once Had A Child,” Poetry South  8 (2016): 73. See also here: as-a-mother-who-once-had-a-child

“Well-Lit,” Hospital Drive (Winter 2016-17). See here:  Well-Lit

“Gift From A Mountain Field,” Pittsburgh Poetry Review  4 (2016): 78. See also here: gift-from-a-mountain-field.

“Stability,” Kestrel 35 (Spring 2016): 57. See also, here: STABILITY

“Hedgerow,” Zone 3 31 (Spring 2016): 37. See also, here: HEDGEROW (pdf) .

“After Eden: Hopper’s Pennsylvania Coal Town,” Rappahannock Review 1 (December 2015): http://www.rappahannockreview.com/karl-plank/. Interview and Commentary: http://www.rappahannockreview.com/interview-with-plank/

“Obedience,” Notre Dame Review 41 (Winter, 2016): 88.  Audio: http://ndreview.nd.edu/assets/187993/obedience_2.mp3; Commentary: http://ndreview.nd.edu/assets/187991/author_commentary_ndr_.pdf

“Cave Air,” VDS Voices, August 4, 2015 (https://my.vanderbilt.edu/vanderbiltdivinity/2015/08/alumniae-tuesday-karl-plank/)

“Bonhoeffer, 1939,” The Cresset 78/4 (2015): 28 (http://thecresset.org/2015/Easter/PoemPlank_E15.html)

“Blue Ghosts,” Exit 7 (2015): 15. See also, here: BLUE GHOSTS (pdf)

“The Sound of One Poem Tapping,” Spiritus 15 (October 2015): 240. See also, here: http://ndreview.nd.edu/assets/187990/3_poems_ndr_.pdf

“Fireclay,” Still: The Journal (Fall 2015): http://www.stilljournal.net/karl-plank-poetryhs.php

“Double-Exposure” and “Witnessed in the First Month of the Year,” New Madrid 9/2 (Summer 2014): 114-116. See also here: witnessed-in-the-first-month-sub

“Gravity,” Beloit Poetry Journal 64/4 (Summer 2014): 8; featured on Poetry Daily, June 2, 2014 (also, here: http://ndreview.nd.edu/assets/187990/3_poems_ndr_.pdf ); reprinted in Loon Magic and Other Night Sounds (Chicago: Outrider Press, 2019).

“Tools of the Trade,” The Meadow (Summer 2014): 79. See also, here: TOOLS OF THE TRADE (pdf)

“Empty Tomb,”The Anglican Theological Review 75/1 (1993): 116-17

“Ash Wednesday,” The Anglican Theological Review 74/1 (1992): 68-69; reprinted in Beyond Lament. Poets of the World Bearing Witness to the Holocaust, ed. Marguerite Striar (Northwestern University, 1998): 336-339; and in Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust, ed. Charles Fishman (Time Being Books, 2007): 338-339.

CREATIVE NONFICTION

“BOSS,” Limestone: Prose, Poetry, Art (Winter 2015): http://limestone.as.uky.edu/content/boss-0

MISCELLANEOUS

“Karl Plank on ‘The Work of Language’ and Poetry” (https://www.davidson.edu/news/160314-professor-karl-plank-on-poetry)

“The Poem Hunter,” The Hanoverian (Winter 2014): 22-24 (https://issuu.com/hanover/docs/hanoverian_winter_2014_issuu2)