WeatherManSam

...adventures of a woodland wanderer...

Sam Calhoun • Poet • Geoscientist • Nature Photographer

| Publications |

2026

  • "meteor shower", 2026 Sakura Haiku Challenge Anthology, May 2026
  • "Blood Moon", "Semaphore", & "The News", Lothlorien Poetry Journal, May 2026
  • "Divorce" & "Musical Graffiti", Stoat Poetry, April 2026
  • "Mid-Winter" & "Snow Moon", The Woodside Review, April 2026
  • "Hearing Loss", Ember, April 2026
  • "Journey", The Purple Stallion, April 2026
  • "Nostalgia", Lights And Shadows, April 2026
  • "How The Heart Beats", Grey Thoughts, March 2026
  • "Passage", "Imbolc", & "Grace", Otherwise Engaged, January 2026

2025

  • "Debris", The Alien Buddha's Best of 2025 Anthology, December 2025
  • "A Christmas snowstorm", "warm by the fireplace", & "Christmas shopping late", SNOWFALL AND STARLIGHT: A Christmas Haiku Anthology, December 2025
  • "fall asters" & "step into a morning", Pan Haiku Review, Autumn/Winter 2025
  • "wild muscadines", Under the Basho, November 2025
  • "empty feeders", Frogpond, November 2025
  • "star freckled child", smols, October 2025
  • "Do the dead feel rain?", Tap Into Poetry, October 2025
  • "Gift", "Water", "Asemic", "Ursa Major", & "Fishing", from "First Things" chapbook, Eulogy Press, September 2025
  • "an abandoned rail line", bottle rockets, August 2025
  • The Moka Pot Limericks (Collection of 25), Moka Pot Exhibition, Lowe Mill ARTS & Entertainment, Huntsville, AL
  • "Blackberry Winter", Volume 14, Paddler Press, July 2025 Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
  • "Charity" & "Charcoal", The Zinnia Journal, June 2025
  • "Sifting", Dishsoap Quarterly, June 2025 Nominated for Best of the Net Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
  • "Braided Together", WLRH "Between Light And Darkness" Anthology, June 2025 Aired on The Sundial Writers Corner, WLRH 89.3 FM
  • "cross stitch sky" & "cardinals check", 2025 Sakura Haiku Challenge Anthology, June 2025
  • "Winter Solstice 2024", Stafford Challenge 2024-2025 Anthology, Wild Poet Press, May 2025
  • "dark trees", tsuri-dōrō, May/June 2025
  • "Putting It All Together", Micromance Magazine, May 2025 Nominated for Best of the Net
  • "Winter Solstice 2024", Wild Poet Press, May 2025 Stafford Challenge Anthology
  • "prints in snow", "moon halo", "morning scribble", "eyelashes against skin", "hand puppets", Literary Revelations, April 2025 Tranquility: An Anthology of Haiku
  • "Patience", Westward Quarterly, April 2025
  • "Equinox 2024", "Insomnia Weather", Eunoia Review, March 2025
  • "Once", "Late, Walking", "Acceptance", "Parting Ways", "Amaryllis Blooming", "Getting The Call", Origami Poems Project, March 2025 from 'Songs For Butterflies', chapbook
  • "Mandalas", "Communion", Little River Canyon National Preserve, March 2025 'Whispers of a Poet-Tree' Exhibit
  • "Echoes", Poetry Catalog, March 2025
  • "no red sky", Hurricane Helen Relief Anthology, February 2025
  • "Vernalization", Subliminal Surgery, January 2025
  • "Sorting Postcards After the Divorce", "Killing the mice", "be honest", "Veneration", "A good little rain", Alien Buddha Press, January 2025
  • "You Were", "Oscillopsia", "Accrescent", "Libration", "Whooping Cranes", Alien Buddha Press, January 2025 from 'Perturbations', chapbook

2024

  • "earth burned all night...", "drizzle-catch the viburnum...", Helio Sparrow Poetry Journal, December 2024
  • "Election Day", "The Day After", Oddball Magazine, December 2024
  • "blind prominence the a/c...", dadakuku, December 2024
  • “Quiet evening, a wake low”, “one wild life I hid”, “slip down the window”, “hum of rain”, "I hide like eclipses”, “A night of rain”, Medusa's Kitchen, December 2024
  • "Off the Highway", "Evening, here", "Satori", Wishbone Words Literary, November 2024
  • "cars idling", "time change", Failed Haiku, November 2024
  • "last leaf of the maple", Cold Moon Journal, October 2024
  • "The Hawk", "Shinrin yoku", "Lulu", Joyfully Wondrous, October 2024
  • "rocks trapped in a stream", "Morning comes cloudy", Five Fleas Itchy Poetry, September 2024
  • "Spectators", "Exiting the theater", "Letters home", Origami Poems Project, September 2024 from 'Ephemera', chapbook
  • "touching moss", Friends of Locust Fork River, September 2024
  • "a lantern flicks on", Haikuniverse, June 2024
  • "Echo Chamber", WriteNow, June 2024
  • "night of rain", Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, June 2024
  • "Allocation", "Summer Rain", *Previously published in "The Hemlock Poems", 2023
  • "Camping, Buck's Pocket", WLRH Sundial Writer's Corner, June 2024
  • "what of broken light", "old church windows creak", Petals of Haiku Anthology, May 2024
  • "Late, light clicking", "Start the fire", Litmora, May 2024
  • "tall grasses like choirs", FreshOut, April 2024
  • "Debris", Passionfruit Review, April 2024
  • "red cirrus blankets", FreshOut, March 2024
  • "Set a watch", "Catch basin", The Wise Owl, March 2024
  • "Drought", Sophon Lit, February 2024
  • "Subdivisions", "After First Frost", Roi Faineant Literary Press, January 2024
  • "Notes on the Ides (2023)", Persimmon Lit, January 2024
  • "Notes After Linda Pastan's Passing", Corvus Review, January 2024
  • "dead coreopsis", FreshOut, January 2024

2023

  • "let me buy a pdf", Partially Shy, December 2023
  • "At Your Grave", Full Mood Magazine, December 2023
  • "Abandoned, late", "After Sunset", "Virga", Origami Poems Project, December 2023 from 'Apogee', chapbook
  • "frost flowers", Five Fleas Itchy Poetry, November 2023
  • "my tea glass is dry", FreshOut, November 2023
  • "Mycorrhiza", "Native Light", "Summer Rain", Present Tense Media, October 2023 from 'The Hemlock Poems'
  • "Wishing (for the ones no longer here)", The Field Guide Mag, September 2023
  • "Remind Yourself This is Just Practice", Litmora, August 2023
  • "Watching the News", Do Geese See God, August 2023
  • "Earthshine", Cosmic Daffofils Journal, August 2023
  • "We knew what would come", Dollar Store Magazine, July 2023
  • "Let it be so quiet", Pink Hearts Mag, June 2023
  • "Meniere's", "Apogee", "Grief", "Ephemera", "Insomnia", Stark Nights Lit, May 2023

2022

  • "Solstice Morning", Poetry As Promised Literary, December 2022
  • "Solstice 2021", The Literary Canteen, Autumn 2022
  • "The Secret Field", Livina Press, October 2022
  • "Talismans", "The Call", Heart Balm Literary, September 2022
  • "Days Like This", Trash to Treasure Lit, September 2022
  • "Morning Glories", Poetry As Promised Literary, August 2022
  • "What Has Bedded in the Grass?", Palest Blue Magazine, August 2022
  • "Transitions", Erato Magazine, July 2022
  • "Finding the Graves", The Minison Project, June 2022
  • "Land for sale", Boats Against the Current, June 2022