Valerie Finn

BOOKS

Human Interest, collection of poems (Black Lawrence Press, 2017)

Freak Show, collection of poems (Black Lawrence Press, 2013)

JOURNAL PUBLICATION

Minyan: “Long Division” (June 2025)

The Nu Review: “Exit Plan,” “9mm,” “Soviet Lessons” (2025)

The Adroit Journal: “A Review of The Animal is Chemical by Hadara Bar-Nadav” (2024)

Love’s Executive Order: “First It Was Sad, Then It Got Bad” (2020)

Goliad Review: “We Need More Data” and “Amber Alert” (2018)

Love’s Executive Order: “Don’t Get Me Wrong, I Love a Good Wall” (2017)

Verse Daily: “Evil” (2017)

American Poetry Review: "Would You Like Some Cheese with That," "Money Is Everything," "Evil," “All Points Bulletin,” “Mama Money,” “What a Peach,” and “While You Were Out” (2015, 2016)

The Gettysburg Review: "Holy Manure" and "Rodeo Good Stuff"

Waxwing Magazine: “FB is My New BF,” “Not Tag But War,” “Pooer Lonely Irony” (2015)

ZYZZVA: “JC Loves the Gays” and “Tell Me Something” (2014)

Honest Pint No. 8 Broadside (edited by Matthew Dickman), Tavern Books Publishing: “There’s Always a Gunman”  (2013)

The Minnesota Review: “Step Right Up” (2012)

Ploughshares: “Two Weeks” (2012, received a Pushcart nomination)

Alaska Quarterly Review: “Jews for Jesus” and “Carnage” (2012)

Cimarron Review: “Ka-boom” and “Head” (2011)

Mid-American Review: “A New Car” and “Two-Headed Child” (2008)

The Asheville Poetry Review: “Sweet Onion” (2007)

Prairie Schooner: “Fun and Games” (2007)

HeartStone: “Lou Cataldie: Louisiana Coroner” (2007)

Third Coast: “Freak Show” (2007)

Folio: “Baruch Atah Adonai” (2006)

Soundings East: “Asking For It” (2006)

Beloit Poetry Journal: “Speak the Slavic” (2006)

River Styx: “Cottonboob” (2006)

Agenda [England]:  “Goodman’s Anthem” and “The Found Word” (2006)

Best New Poets of 2005  (edited by George Garrett): “Vagina and Cross-Cocks” (2006)

Poet Lore: “How We Came to Be" (2005)

Cimarron Review: “Mother Tongue” (2005)

The Greensboro Review: “Drive-In” (2004)

Hubbub: “Two Notes” (2003; Winner of the Kenneth O. Hanson Award)

Crazyhorse: “Now You See It Now You Don’t” (2002)

The Comstock Review: “Deadnettle and Its Rival, The Yellow Archangel” (1999)

The Lucid Stone: “An Elegy” (1999)