Felicia Mitchell - Poems, Etc.

SELECTED ONLINE POEMS

"A Love Poem for My Son at Wilburn Ridge," Pendora, April 2020
"Inspiring Woman Katherine Johnson" [with recording], SoFloPoJo, Feb. 2020
Pileated Woodpecker [with recording], Clade Song 9, 2019
"Jelly." The Remembered Arts, November 2018
"Frosted Apricot." Bethlehem Writers Roundtable #54, Autumn 2018
"A Poem for Lost Ancestors." Amsterdam Quarterly #23, 2018
"Lesson, Big Laurel Creek." Rewilding. About Place Journal 5.1, 2018
"The Things that Make Us Stronger Make Us Cry." Slamchops Poetry #3, 2017
"Bourée with Goldfinch" & "Evening Reverie." Young Ravens Literary Review #6, 2017
"Wild Grapes Near Saltville" & "Tree Chemo." Whirlwind #8, 2016
"Moule de Moldelage Souple" & Schoenhut's Toy Piano." Local Nomad, Winter 2016
"Hawk Crossing Main Street, Abingdon." Voices of the Human Spirit. About Place Journal, 2014
Excerpt from Felicia Mitchell's Debut Collection Waltzing with Horses, Arcology, We Wanted to be Writers, 13 October 2014
"Gallery Review." Halfway Down the Stairs, 2014
"For Eliza, Who Sits With Death." Hospital Drive: The Literature and Humanities Journal of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, 2013
“Bamboo Loops.” Elohi Gaduji Journal, Fall 2013
“Rorschach Block,” “False Morels, & “Bear Calls.” Sugar Mule Literary Magazine No. 41 (2012): 305-307. Special Issue on Women Writing Nature
“Waiting with Crows,” “Wake Robin,” “Love Poem Without a Body,” & “Fairy Stones.” Dead Mule School of Southern Literature (April 2012)
“It’s Still Alive.” Barely South Review (Old Dominion University); September 2011
“Knitting in the Chemo Room.” Coping Magazine (September/October 2011)
“A Day Without a Poem.” River Poets Journal (Lilly Press). Issue 2. 2010: 16.
"The Other Night at Grace Healthcare & Rehabilitation." Southern Women's Review 2.2 (January 2010): 17.
"Elijah Kelly, Circa 1921,” “Almost a Hundred Years Ago,” “A Pansy for My Thoughts,” and “Thanksgiving.” Dead Mule School of Southern Literature (April 2010)
“My Turn Out of the Box.” Referential Magazine (2010)
"Pangaea,” “The Moral of the Story,” & “Victim.” The Medulla Review Issue 2 (2010)
“Scientific Method” & “A Certain Slant of Light.” Wild Goose Poetry Review 4.3 (2009): 9-10
"Oconee River, Athens." Blogging Along Tobacco Road, Curtis Dunlap, 2010
“Fate,” “Contact Erased,” “Role Play with Bear,” and “Paris.” Hospital Drive: A Journal of Word and Image (University of Virginia School of Medicine) Issue 3 (2008) (archive coming)
“Album.” Blood Orange 3.2 (July 2008)
“Zen and the Art of My Brother.” Blue Fifth Review Broadside # 1 (2008)
"There is No Map” [20 Poem Chapbook].” Dead Mule School of Southern Literature (April 2008)
“In My Dreams.” A! Magazine for the Arts 15.3 (April 2008)
"Minerva at 48" & "Cerberus Revisited." Fickle Muses (September 2, 2007)
“Poem with a Camel in It,” “Fun With Dick and Jane,” “Ducks.” Dead Mule School of Southern Literature (Summer 2007)
“How to Walk Down a Country Road.” R-KV-R-Y. A Quarterly Literary Journal. Fall 2004
“Dirge,” “Near Penland,” and “Bat Moral.” Terrain. A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments. No. 14 (Winter/Spring 2004)
“Joy.” Waterways. Poetry in the Mainstream 24.12 (December 2003)
"Fruit and Flowers," "Star and Crescent," "Bird in Flight." Weber . The Contemporary West 19.1 (2001)
“Household Magic.” Switched -on Gutenberg 4.2 (2000)

COPIES OF SOME OLD PRINT PUBLICATIONS

"CREATIVE NONFICTION"

"The Only Thing." Swink Magazine, 2011
"Felicia's Fignolias." The Gilded Fork, 2008
"My Mother's Creatures, Great and Small." Today's Caregiver
Selected Columns Reprinted from Washington County News (Virginia)

WRITING ABOUT CANCER
Archived "Voices" contributions may be found at CURE, a publication for cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers. You will find other great advice from various survivors with a range of cancer experiences as well. Here are links to samples, writing from the heart that I have shared to help give back to the cancer community that has helped me to survive: