Poetry

Selected Poetry

Pancho Villa Takes Torreon, 16 Glint (winter, 2025) https://glintjournal.wordpress.com/glint-16-susan-ayres-hybrid/ (visual poetry).

The Artist, Sweeping (Prism Review 2025)

The Ecstasy of St. Teresa (Prism Review 2025)

Behind the Scenes with Susan Ayres (Prism Review 2025) (interview)

Map of Matrimony, Worlds Apart (deLuge Journal 2025) (visual poetry) https://www.delugejournal.com/uploads/3/4/8/8/34888906/deluge_2025.1.sm.pdf

The Gulf of America, Neé Mexico, (The New Verse News, Jan. 31, 2025) https://newversenews.blogspot.com/2025/01/

Dear Husband, Banquet of Victors (Broadkill Review, Winter/Spring 2025) https://www.broadkillreview.com/post/two-poems-by-susan-ayres

Obit (Wife #14), Jasmine, Spikenard, Red Rose, Rue (Rat’s Ass Review, Fall-Winter 2024) https://ratsassreview.net/?page_id=4369#Ayres2

Marigolds (Lily Poetry Review 2024)

San Ysabel Massacre (Writing in a Woman’s Voice, 9/14/23) https://writinginawomansvoice2.blogspot.com/search?q=Ayres

My Beast (Writing in a Woman’s Voice, 9/15/23) https://writinginawomansvoice2.blogspot.com/search?q=Ayres

The Revolt in Chihuahua, 1910 (I-70 Review, 2024)

Pimiento Cheese (Yellow Arrow Journal) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ciOnwPnCn4 (link to reading)

What Can’t Be Taken Back (Up the Staircase Quarterly, 2024) https://www.upthestaircase.org/susan-ayres.html

The Capuchin Bridge (Main Street Rag)

2021

Trouvelot’s Crater (Willows Wept Review) https://www.magcloud.com/webviewer/2071575?__r=150177&s=w

Birth Order (Sheila-Na-Gig) https://sheilanagigblog.com/volume-6-1-fall-2021-the-poets/susan-ayres/

Painting of the Red Bridge (Rat’s Ass Review) http://ratsassreview.net/?page_id=3927#Ayres2

2020

Midwinter Eclipse (Valparaiso Poetry Review) https://www.valpo.edu/valparaiso-poetry-review/2020/05/18/susan-ayres-midwinter-eclipse/

On the Talala Trail, Rain in the Green Mountains, Taqueria Molina (Eunoia Review) https://eunoiareview.wordpress.com/tag/susan-ayres/ 

Anniversary Blues (Northampton Poetry Review) https://www.northamptonpoetryreview.org/issue-5-music-2020

Longeing, (Literary Mama) https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2020/07/6-longeing

Foreign Cities, 1; Foreign Cities, 2; Foreign Cities, 3; Foreign Cities, 4; Town Beach Split; The Gray Lady, (Broadkill Review) https://www.broadkillreview.com/post/six-poems-by-susan-ayres

First Psychosis, Then the Aneurysms (Muddy River Poetry Review) https://muddyriverpoetryreview.webs.com/Susan%20Ayres.pdf

Sacred Breasts (Rogue Agent) http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/issue61

Unforeseeable (Willawaw Journal) http://willawawjournal.com/category/journal/spring-2020-issue-9/

Wailing, Rat’s Ass Review (Summer)  http://ratsassreview.net/?page_id=3397

The Classical Debt, Adelaide Literary Magazine

https://adelaidemagazine.org/p_susan_ayres33.html

2019

The Blessed Second, Glass:  A Journal of Poetry, Poets Resist, Dec. 3, 2019, http://www.glass-poetry.com/poets-resist/archives.html

2018

The Girls on a Bridge, Symbiotic, Water, Watershed Review   https://www.csuchico.edu/watershed/2018-fall/poetry/ayres-susan.shtml

2017

Migration, Panther City Review

Reading The Book of Joy, Panther City Review

Primaries, Mom Egg Review

The Journey, Barely South Review https://barelysouthreview.com/the-journey/

Charcoal drawing by Steve Edwards