publications
Recent work
"Only a Fin Remains When I Return for Teeth" and "Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia," Sho Poetry Journal, forthcoming.
"If I Could Give My Mother One of These Hills" and "During the Worst Summer of My Life, A Blue-Tailed Skink Made My Front Porch Its Home," Colorado Review, forthcoming
“The Candy Man,” Poetry Northwest
“Ah, Love!" and "You, Temporary Balm to My Endless Suffering," Superstition Review
“Bondage Device: Meat Hoist," Ninth Letter
“Movement," Four Way Review
“Tiny House Nation," Booth
“Let's Please Live a Long Time,” Redivider
“I Promise I’m More Bewildered Than the Bats,” Spillway
“Texas-Louisiana Border Dive Bar" (Three Poems), West Branch
“Texas-Louisiana Border Dive Bar," Palette Poetry
“The Zombie Apocalypse," The Indianapolis Review
“For the Love I’ll Try to Keep," The Boiler
“Panic Attack on the Atchafalaya Basin,” The Hunger
“Could I Subpoena You Like Beetlejuice, Emily?” and “Susan Poses as Barbara Walters to Interview Emily,” Puerto Del Sol
“Every Sound on Earth Miraculously Comes from It,” River Styx
“Ode to Cigarettes,” Hobart
“Ode to the Tropical Storm I Slept Through” and “I Grant Myself One Night Free from Worry,” The Normal School
“Another Succulent Tattoo at Some Two-Star Parlor in Montrose” and “When I’m Seven,”Gulf Coast
“Grafting” and “Sue Writes Emily About Her New Bed,” Yemassee
“A Tinder Guy Opened the Conversation With, Can I Have You?,” the minnesota review
“Please, Someone, Tell Me About a Knife Fight,” Juked
“At the Iron Bear,” Crab Creek Review
“I Should Have Loved Bigfoot Instead,” Underblong
“Oh, the Places We’ll Go,” Hotel Amerika
“Tips for Your Quarter-Life Crisis,” North American Review
Brett
Hanley
Books
Small Fabric, forthcoming: July 2026
Defeat the Rest, 2020 (chapbook)
American Poetry Journal
about
Brett Hanley holds an MFA from McNeese State University and a PhD from Florida State University. Brett's debut poetry collection, Small Fabric, is forthcoming from JackLeg Press in 2026. She has worked as Poetry Editor at both Southeast Review and The McNeese Review. Their poems are forthcoming or have recently been published in West Branch, Gulf Coast, Ninth Letter, The Journal, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. She was a semi-finalist for the 2022 92Y Discovery Contest and was a 2021 Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Foundation Scholar. Brett currently teaches English at Mississippi State University.
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