Kimberly Gibson-Tran

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Thank you for the review!!

Absolutely. I feel I can take the rejections in stride now (mostly).

There are a few days left in 2025, but here are my end of year submission numbers. I was aggressive this year, which resulted in tons of rejections, but also gave me my highest number of accepted poems in a year—47!

Home Alone, Updated for the Age of Surveillance Kate McCallister realizes that her son Kevin didn’t make it with them to the airport on their way to Paris for the holidays. She frantically pulls ...

MOM: We just got to the airport, but we can catch a later flight. Motion sensors say you’re in my bedroom.

KEVIN: I’m hiding under your bed.

MOM: Your Oura ring shows your heart rate is elevated. Don’t worry—I just turned on the radiant heat in the floors.

Old and unusual 19th Century Christmas card. A large rough tuber with a human head wearing a tall hat walks on its roots holding a cane in its right arm and a heart-shaped object reading "A Merry Christmas to You."

Mate Cannabis

"The Oxen," by Thomas Hardy: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53215/...

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Recently read Allison Benis White’s _The Wendys_ and really really liked it!

Still of Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton and Jane Fonda from the film, 9 to 5. Text above reads: Get in losers, we’re going to ruin the workforce.

lol lost it at “peer review deez nuts”

My first time as a prize finalist! 🎉💕

I have another concrete poem out in Midway Journal! You can read “Holes” here: midwayjournal.com/holes/

Read my concrete poem just out in Porter House Review! porterhousereview.org/articles/the...

A milestone! 200 rejection letters so far this year! Celebrating does help! 🎉

NEW POEM #271: "The Idea of Lightning" by Kimberly Gibson-Tran (@kdawn999.bsky.social)

"A crack in the crypt, that jolt
against mortality, the way the iris
closes in. The air is a marriage
of mud and the fine fine dust
that spills in with the morning."

stonecirclereview.com/the-idea-of-...

#Poem

Five Poets Recite (Abel Saldaña, Diana Athena, Jason Palomino, Kimberly Gibson-Tran, John Grey) Podcast Episode · Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast · 09/29/2025 · 14m

My poem “Genesis 1” is featured on the latest episode of the Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast @viewlesswings.bsky.social Listen here! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

Feeling it’s about time for my 30th re-watch. #PrideandPrejudice #Godhasbeenverygoodtous

sex is cool but have you ever dated someone who always wants to spend exactly the same amount of time as you in a museum

Wohoo! A poem accepted today after a dry spell of many weeks and some 30 rejection letters!

My “Orbital Story” published by Opol opol.space/@kimberly-gi...

Many thanks to Ghudsavar Literary Magazine for giving a home to my poem “Today Smelled Like My Childhood.” www.ghudsavar.com/poem-pages/7... 🌾

It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!

My weird little poem now out in @memezine.bsky.social 💙

Visit www.holeintheheadreview.com for our Fall issue. Here’s a sample from Kimberly Gibson-Tran’s “Crossing I-75”.

Kimberly Gibson-Tran's (@kdawn999.bsky.social) writing appears in The Bombay Literary Magazine, Baltimore Review, Passages North, Porter House, Third Coast, and elsewhere.

The Fall 2025 issue is live at www.holeintheheadreview.com!

Here's a sampling from Shagufta Mulla's "I Am That I Am (Exodus 3:14)".

See my poem “Crossing I-75” in the Fall 2025 issue of @holeinthehead.bsky.social
I don’t usually write political poems, but man, these times. www.holeintheheadreview.com/post/kimberl...

Made it to 150 magazine rejections this year so far. Trying to keep my chin up, but I have been having a dry spell for many weeks.

I’ve got a new poem just out in Clayjar Review’s “Rooted” issue. Read my poem “Home, a History” here: clayjar.review/issues/roote...