Dale Wisely has poems and short fiction published in America, Birmingham Poetry Review, National Catholic Reporter, Steel Toe Review, Oak Bend Review, Main Street Rag, blink|ink, Three Line Poetry, Boston Literary Review, Star*Line, and elsewhere. Poems and stories appear online at The Poetry Storehouse, Fried Chicken & Coffee, UnFold, egg, Otoliths, Uut Poetry, Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, The Montucky Review, Verbatim Poetry Review, Contemporary American Voices, Orion headless, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, Drunk Monkeys, Truck, Nanoism, Praxis Magazine, Sleet, The Lake, New Verse News, and elsewhere. He is the author of three print chapbooks, 6 Disorders of Sleep (2012, Flutter Press) and Visitation (2003, Mercy Seat Press). His new chapbook, Seven Stars, is out on April 20th and benefits The Crisis Center (Birmingham, AL) POETRY WTF?! Chapbook #2 (2017, Sampson Low, UK) features poems by Howie Good and illustrations by Dale. A poem in that series was nominated for inclusion in the 2008 Best of the Net anthology. His poem “Heroin” was nominated for a 2019 Pushcart Prize. His poem “Wave” was published in Pathways: Literature for Readers and Writers (Perfection Learning Press), a 2008 high school textbook. A second poem, “The Work of Brothers,” was included in a social studies textbook, Individual Rights: The Blessings of Liberty by the same publisher. Dale is the founder, general editor and designer of the on-line literary journal, Right Hand Pointing. With Howie Good, he co-founded and co-edits White Knuckle Press, a web outlet for prose poetry chapbooks, and Unbroken and Unlost journals. He founded and co-edits One Sentence Poems.
Editing/Publishing
Founder/General Editor. Online journal of poetry, fiction and art, on the web since 2004. Editors: Laura M Kaminsksi (Managing/Poetry), José Angel Araguz (Poetry). F. John Sharp. Copy editing by F J (“Hawkeye”) Bergmann. Going strong at www.righthandpointing.com.
A publisher of digital chapbooks of prose poems. Co-founded and co-edited with Howie Good. www.whiteknucklepress.com
Co-edited with Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco and Tony Press, and formerly with Robert Scotellaro. www.onesentencepoems.com.
Prose poetry quarterly. Co-edited since 2018 by Howie Good and me.
Found poetry. Co-edited since 2018 by Howie Good and me.
Selected published poems & stories
New Verse News, “Corona” (2020) Online.
Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, “Heroin” (2019) Nominated for Pushcart Prize. Online.
Antiphon, “Hadron.” online text and reading by the author with Katherine DiBella Seluja (2019)
“This is nothing.” Video poem (2018) online
“Stopping is Prohibited” video poem
The Lake, “Coltrane in Nagasaki” (2018) online
Praxis Magazine: “Tracking Eloise” (2017) online
Dead Mule School of Southern Literature,
“Dead Bulls” (short story) (2017) online.
POETRY WTF?! Chapbook #2. Poems by Howie Good, illustrations by Dale Wisely (2017) (buy)
Poetry WTF?!
“Commands” (Remix of exorcism prayer and terms from Apollo moon program.) 2016, online)
The New Verse News
“Schoolyard Retort with 14 Letters” (2016, online)
Drunk Monkeys
“The Many Ways to Say ‘Sorry’ in Japanese” (2016, online, full issue here)
Verbatim Poetry Review
“Dear Shirley” (w/ Manfred Gabriel, 2016, online)
Fried Chicken and Coffee
“A Wave of the Burger” (2015, online)
“Harry Crews’ Unfinished Novel” (2015, online)
Poetry Storehouse
“She’s Not There” (audio by author & Nic Sebastian)
Reprints:
Fashion and Affliction (audio by author)
The Society for the Prevention of Something (audio by author & Nic Sebastian)
Balance (audio by author)
2036 (audio by author)
Star*Line
“Quieter” (2014, print and online, p.27)
1947 Journal
“Houston, I Swear I Don’t Have a Gun” (2014, online)
“Finding Australia” (2017, online
Uut Poetry
“Come Back” (2014, online)
“Flagstaff” (2015, online)
“Emergency Treatment of Stubborn Stains” (2015, online)
“Damage” (2015, online)
“Dreaming of a Butcher: Found Poem” (2015, online)
“To Be Held at Least a Little More” (2015, online)
“Rusty McElwain on the Moon” (2014, online)
“9 Recent Technological Advances” (2014, online)
“11 Neurofunk Bands Named after New Diseases (2014, online
“Bootleg Waves Credible” (2014, online)
“Seppuko Collage” (collaboration with Howie Good), (2014, online)
“6 wild facts about lady gaga and despair” (2014, online)“come back” (2014, online
“My Fellow Detainees, Their Medications, and Things I Know About Them” (2014, online)
“White Rabbit Highway/Hitchhiking through the Apocalypse” (with Howie Good) (2016, online)
“10 Questions You Might Have about the Interstate Mullet Toss” (2016, online)
“Confiding in the Blind” (with Howie Good) (2015, online)
Truck
“The Language of Winter and Love” (2016, online)
Sleet Magazine
“Fashion and Affliction” (2014, online)
Right Hand Pointing 10th Anniversary Issue
“The Herd” (2014, online)
The Montucky Review
“4 Car Wrecks” (2014, online)
“Soil, Sand, Dust” (2015, online)
“Things Omitted From Masses for the Dead” (2014, online)
6 Disorders of Sleep, a new chapbook of my poems, from Flutter Press. 2012.
RHP Found Poetry Issue
“Dearest John” (2013, online)
UNFOLD magazine
“Flight” (2013, online
Mobius Magazine
“A Frontier of Ethiopian Transhumanism” (2013, online)
Orion headless (orionheadless.com)
“The Society for the Prevention of Something” (2012, offline, but here.)
egg
“The Only Poem I’ve Written in April” (2013, online)
“Fresh Air and Ritual“ (2012, online) ”
“Balance” (2012, online)
UnFold
“Ink” (2012, online)
“2036” (2012, online)
Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
“The Woods Unbounded“ (2012)
Three Line Poetry, Issue 9 (2012)”
“Untitled poem” (online & print)
Deadly Chaps (In “Good, Sharp, & Wisely”, a special issue of Short, Fast, & Deadly.)
“Metaphor” (2012, online)
“Television” (1-III, 2012) online)
Murder Your Darlings
Untitled prose piece about grief (December 2011, online)
Otoliths
“A Book of Saturdays,” (November 2011, online.)
Feathertale
“The Hippest Record Store in the World” (September 2011, online)
“Sha Na Na at Woodstock” (2016, online)
Steel Toe Review
“Tore Up” (Issue 6, 2011, online and in their 1st print anthology)
blink|ink
“Treatment” (Issue 7, 2011, print only)
Short Fast & Deadly *
“Carbon” (Issue 78, 2011)
Three-Line Poetry
Untitled (Issue 1, 2011)
Untitled (Issue 2, 2011)
Untitled (Issue 9, 2012)
Boston Literary Magazine
“No houses” (2011, print & online)
“What we are waiting for“ (2012, online)
The Literary Burlesque (November 2010)
“Number me”
“Ionic Breeze”
Contemporary American Voices (May, 2010)
“6 Disorders of Sleep”
Red Fez
“6 Signs of the End Times” (2009)
(Nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology by Red Fez)
Guerrilla Poetics Project
“hypnic jerk” (broadside, 1000 copies, 2010)
Nanoism
“Break it Down” (2009)
The Orange Room Review
“The High School Counselor at Target” (2009)
Nanoism.net
A very, very short story (2009)
Dead Mule School of Southern Literature*
“The Woods Unbounded“ (2012)
” Estrus“(2009)
Seven Stars, a narrative in 13 poems (2007, web chapbook, also presented here in a different format.) Here are a couple of comments on it.
Oak Bend Review
“The Beastie Boys” (web and print 2009)
Birmingham Arts Journal
“A Poem in Three Parts About Johnny Cash” (2005, print, pdf on the web)
“A Dream About Losing Things” (2005, print only)
Radiant Turnstile
“6 Studies in Radiology” (2008)
“6 Possible Sources of The Hum” (2009)
“Car Wreck” (2007, print & web)
“Expedition“ (2007, print & web)
Susurrus
” Kentucky Fried Chicken and the Souls of the Faithful Departed” (fiction) (2007, web)*
Podcast of above piece.
Ghoti
“6 Entries on Calyx” (2008, web)
“Buffalo” (2008, web)
Foliate Oak
“6 Possible Sources of The Hum” (2008)
The Hiss Quarterly
“Animal Control” (2007, web)
“Sound Art” (2007, web, but link down at present)
Thunder Sandwich
“Aphids & Catholicism” (2005, web)
“Onlooker’s Delay” (2005, web)
Salt River Review
“Girl From Anthropology” (fiction) (2004)
Blue Collar Review”
“Sleeping Crane at Sparrow Point” (2003, print)
“Mr. Davis Overhears” (2004,print)
National Catholic Reporter (print and archived on their website)
“A Good Hour” (2003)
“5:45 a.m.” (2001)
“This Place” (2001)
“The Work of Brothers” (2002)
“Visitation” (2003)”
“Spleen” (2002)
“Visitating My Brother” (2003)
Poet’s Canvas
” Blind Lemon Elephant”(2002, web)
“The Poem Codes” (2002, web)
Amaryllis
“Aunt Florine (2001, print)
“Ashok in Atlanta” (2001, print)
Main Street Rag
“What People Are Talking About (2002)
America: The National Catholic Weekly (In print and archived on their website)
“ Akeldema” (2000)
Birmingham Poetry Review
“Death and Dying at Chick-Fil-A” (1997, print only)
Visitation (chapbook, Mercy Seat Press, 2 printings of 100 copies, 2003)