Kimberly Gibson-Tran

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...

@whaleroadreview.bsky.social Do you get a lot of poems about whales in submissions? If so, does this bother you? Asking for a friend 😅🐳

Enjoyed your poems in this Rattlecast episode. The moose in a hoodie was referenced by others later on the promptlines open mic that followed.

Just found out @aquietroot.bsky.social featured my poem in May! 💕

aquietroot.com/2025/05/26/p...

Just read Keetje Kuipers’ collection with my poetry book club. My GR book review:

🩷 @rattlepoetry.bsky.social

My poems “Night-fires” and “Cinderella’s Hands” were just published by Arcturus Magazine. The former is about a dream set in my childhood home in Chiang Klang, Thailand. The latter is in memory of my Nana. Read them here: arcturusmag.com/2025/07/15/t...

Thrilled to see my 2nd ever published villanelle in this year’s spring issue of Reed Magazine. Also, this is, hands down, the most beautifully designed and printed lit mag 😍 @reedmagazine.bsky.social

Compelling, devastating first-hand account of a family swept up in the July 4th TX flood.

“Superman is too woke!”

Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:

Thank you @baltimorereview.bsky.social for the shoutout on IG ❤️ This poem about my 5-year wedding anniversary is also about our marriage counselors’ divorce. 💔 Read or listen here: baltimorereview.org/spring_2025/...

Excited to see my weird little poem in the #brainrot anthology from @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social
Here it is: fifthwheelpress.com/anth7backend...

This is what peek/peak/pique performance looks like.

10 Memoirs by Women That Grapple with Political Upheavals Around the World - Electric Literature These books bearing witness to authoritarianism, war, and occupation offer an invaluable lens for our current moment

“For these women, the personal and political are intertwined.”

vane = 💨

vein = 🩸

vain = 🪞

Maybe This Will Be the Year I Finally Get Around to Continuing Not to Read Ulysses As we enter the new year, it’s important to set goals, maybe tackle that big project you’ve been putting off. For me, it’s getting back to not read...

"One time, after I started not reading Ulysses, I got distracted by not reading The Goldfinch, which had been sitting on my bedside table for months and as far as I was concerned could continue to do so. I mean, it’s not going to not read itself."

"I learned this method from my father // who ate all fruit with a knife and bowl / and a precision that seemed almost vulgar"

Gahl Liberzon, from Issue #4! www.publicschoolpoetry.com/gahl-liberzon

Submissions due 6/15
publicschoolpoetry.submittable.com/submit

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"i believe poetry happens to a poet long before they ever write it."

— Enzo Silon Surin

See my newly published poem “Toward” in issue 12 of @rowayat.bsky.social
It’s a true story about my heroic mom and what happened after a church ski trip: rowayat.org/toward/

'SWIMS' upside down is still 'SWIMS.'

Ahhh already hit that 100 rejections mark in 2025. Feels good. Gunning for 200 by December 🥰💀❤️

So wonderful to see my poem on page 15 of the beautiful t’ART magazine—shipped to me all the way from the UK! The theme of this issue was “break/mend.”

The zine Pandan Weekly—which circulates poems & stories from those connected to Southeast Asia—kindly republished my #nonfiction essay “Survival Instinct.” If you’d like to read or listen to my essay about sisterhood, missionaries, & Star Trek, you can here: pandanweekly.substack.com/p/survival-i...

Thank you! This comes from meditating on a direct experience & slightly embarrasses my husband lol. Oddly enough, it came out nearly whole & I edited very little. I like that human feelings/perceptions don’t hold up under logical scrutiny, but they can say something about us. & science is weird too

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Issue 7 ISSN: 3064-9994

Issue 7 of Elysium Review is live! We focus on poetryof Pleasure, Delight, Wonder, ​and Joy!

www.elysiumreview.com/issue-7.html

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