Publications:

“Wheeled into the OR, She Remembers the Pond”—Rust & Moth (forthcoming—Autumn 2025)

“Free Solo”—Naugatuck River Review (forthcoming—Summer/Fall 2025)

“Sonnet for an Argument on Perpetual Replay”—The MacGuffin (forthcoming—Volume 41.1)

“When the Therapist Asks Me How I’m Feeling, I Say”—Red Rock Review (forthcoming—Fall 2025)

“After the Harvest”—Whale Road Review, Fall 2025 (forthcoming)

“Night Shift”—Orange Blossom Review (Issue 14, Summer 2025): https://orangeblossomreview.org/journal/night-shift/

“Bandmate”—Lips Poetry Magazine (the Laura Boss Poetry Foundation’s annual poetry journal), Vol. 61-62, 2025

“I Should Write a Poem About Mrs. C. From Happy Days”—Hawai`i Pacific Review, April 3, 2025: https://hawaiipacificreview.org/2025/04/03/i-should-write-a-poem-about-mrs-c-from-happy-days/

“At Montaña de Oro, I Grasp the Hunger”—SLANT: A Journal of Poetry, Fall 2024, Vol. 38.2: https://slantpoetryjournal.wordpress.com/jennifer-randall-hotz/

“At the Concert, I Am Sorely Tempted”—Rat’s Ass Review, Fall-Winter 2024 Issue: https://ratsassreview.net/?page_id=4369#Hotz2

“Abecedarian on Moving”—Gyroscope Review, Fall 2024, pg. 46: https://www.gyroscopereview.com/2024/10/fall-2024-crone-power-issue/

“Why She Hates Facebook”— The Ekphrastic Review, June 11, 2024:  https://www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrastic-review/why-she-hates-facebook-by-jennifer-randall-hotz

“Deployment” and “Pink Slip”—Hole in the Head Review, Vol. 5, Issue 1, February 2, 2024: https://www.holeintheheadreview.com/post/jennifer-randall-hotz

 “In the midst of Hanami, I give you”—Virginia Writers Club 2023 Golden Nib Journal (Virginia Writers Club 2023 Golden Nib Award—1st place in Poetry)

“Musical Notes: Motherhood”—Literary Mama, December 2023: https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2023/12/musical-notes-motherhood

“This Night, My Dear”—Blended Voices:  Blending The Voices of Virginia Poets, an anthology edited by Kathleen P. Decker, MD, and Sofia M. Starnes, October, 2023

“Sword Swallower”—Connecticut River Review, 2023; reprinted on Gyroscope Review’s website in honor of National Poetry Month, April 30, 2025: https://www.gyroscopereview.com/2025/04/poem-renaissance-jennifer-randall-hotz/

“That Spring, Dear Daughter”—Naugatuck River Review, Issue 30, Summer/Fall 2023

“O The Leaving”—Burningword Literary Journal, Issue 106, April 2023: https://www.burningword.com/2023/04/o-the-leaving/ (nominated for a 2024 Pushcart Prize)