Poetry Vita
Selected Poetry Publications of Tantra Bensko
“Abandoned House” North of Wakulla: an Anhinga Anthology 2002
(my poem is the one used to represent the anthology-
“An Envious Mood with Wild Ponies” Pheonix 7:I (1988): 43
“Are You Beyond Time and Music to Me?” Evergreen Review 116 2005
“Art for Dangerous Times” Babel Magazine 100 commemorative issue April 2003
“At the Zoo” Chattahoochie Review 6.4 (1987): 64.
“Bleed” Rattlesnake Review-, 20, winter 2008-9, page 65
“Bracque’s Diary of the Atalier Cut Outs” Cincinnati Poetry Review 13 (1985): 16
“Bronwen, Painter of Miccasukee Street” Memphis State Review 17.1
“Cochise Stronghold Priests” Lit Chaos vol 3 issue 26 oct. 2007
“Do You Do Me” Logascene vol. 6 2002
“!Drum!” Unlikely Stories Oct. 2008
“Drum Naked” Other Voices Unesco vol. 34 2008
“Egon Schiele in Prison” Mannequin Envy 2004
“Elise Imagines Herself Behind Flowers” Sun Dog 5.2 (1984): 2.3
“Fearing for my Son, King of the Ducks, at Lake Ella Appalachia Quarterly 22 (1985): 28
“Flung Blindness” Lit Chaos vol 3, issue 20
“Frances at Virginia Beach” Carolina Quarterly 37.2 (1984): 54 It won the Academy of American poets award
“Fury” upcoming Vial
“Green” Unlikely Stories July 4 2007
“Going Away” Florida Review 12.1 (1984): 13
“Honeymoon with Kitchenette” Louisville Review 15 (1983): 56
“I’d Say So” Lit Chaos vol 3, issue 2006
“Induction.” Southern Poetry Review 26.2 (1985): 21
“Joined at the Neck” Evergreen Review 116 2007
“Licking Secrets Clean” Mannequin Envy 2004
“Madison Courthouse” Lit Chaos Vol. 3 issue 26 Oct 2007
“Meditation on the Breath” Rose and Thorn Winter 2006 nominated for the Pushcart Prize
“Modeling for Advanced Drawing” Mad Hatters Review issue 2 2005
“Modeling for Beginning Drawing” Net Author E2K Aug. (2003)
Nightly” upcoming Vial
“”Non Containers” Other Voices Unesco Volume 34
“One” Lit Chaos Vol. 3 issue 26 Oct 2007
“Red and Blue Lines for the Painter Otto Dix” Colorado State Review 11.1 (1983): 8.
“Seeing the Dark” Colorado Review fall, winter (1988): 60
“See Through” Evergreen Review 116 2007
“Snow Sculpture” Mannequin Envy Summer 2006 Poems there were the Feature
“Snow Turned to Fire” Lit Chaos Vol. 3 issue 26 Oct.
“Strobe” Magaera 13 (2003)
“The Bird Aquarium” The Iowa Journal of Literary Studies 9
(1988): 102 Won their prize
“The Blind Voyeur” Soma Literary Review 2007
“The Husband Comes Home from Work” Hawaii Review 18 (1985): 32
“The Lateness of the Night Lies Dreaming” Colorado Review 18 (1987):
31 and Mannequin Envy summer 2006
“The Method” Louisville Review 15 (1983): 56
The Missing Street Artists of New Orleans” Piedmont Literary Review 8.3 (1983): 8
“The Old Artist Thinks of Lemons” Lucky Star 1.5 (1984): 20
“ The Maya Eaters” Other Voices Unesco Volume 34 2008
“The Revelry of Answers” Evergreen Review 116 2005
“The Weight of Flight” Cosmopsis Quarterly, fall 2007, page 50
“Underthings” Evergreen Review 116 2005
“Ungentle with a Gentle Boy” Thundersandwich 17 (2003)
“Where is that other Language?” Lit Chaos vol 3, issue 20 2006
“Where When the Tidal Hunger Hooked Me Home” Other Voices Unesco Volume 34 2008
“Wildlife Rescue in the Fog” haven’t found in records yet 2008
Wolven” Dark Romance 2005
“Yes, Sir” Other Voices Unesco Volume 34 2008, invited by the UN
“You” Lit Chaos vol 3, issue 2006
Early publications were under the name Rosemary Collins.
I have more, such as Abraxis, California Quarterly, etc. .
Over 60 publications
Fiction Vita
Selected Fiction Publications Vita
Tantra Bensko
Upcoming:
“The Quantum Fool,” Quantum Fiction Anthology by Vera Ulea and Crossing Chaos Press, print
“Notes from the Nipple Saint,” Surreal South Anthology, touted as the editor’s favorite short story in the anthology, print
"Arched Doorways and Red Wine,” The Journal of Experimental Fiction, Freak issue -35, page 85, 2009, print
“A Roadfull of Ducks,” The Fabulist, May, 2009
http://the-fabulist.org/yarns/2009/05/a-roadful-of-ducks/
“Garlic,” Soma Literary Review, 2009 http://www.somalit.com/Garlic.html
“Those Almost Sliced in Two,” Fiction International, issue 41, page 85, 2009, print
“Daring with Monks,” Bewildering Stories, issue 323, 2009.
http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue323/daring_monks1.html
“Hairilyzation,” Poor Mojo’s Almamac, issue 427, 2008
http://www.poormojo.org/cgi-bin/gennie.pl/cgi-bin/gennie.pl?Fiction+427+bi
“Shake Up,” Sein Und Werden, Winter, 2008, Philias and Fetishes, issue, unpaginated, print
Also chosen for their First Quarterly Review (editor’s choices) http://www.bewilderingstories.com/anthologies/319-330/319-330_antho3.html
“The Illuminated Dream,” The Alchemy Review, volume 1, page 81, 2008, print
"The Quantum Fool", Cezanne's Carrot, Winter Solstice Issue, Dec. 21, 2008, won the Journies Competition
"The Terrace Steps,” Cezanne’s Carrot, Winter Solstice Issue, Dec. 21, 2008
“Stop Before it’s too Late,” The Fabulist, November 23, 2008
http://the-fabulist.org/yarns/2008/11/stop-before-it%e2%80%99s-too-late/
“Tales of the Natural,” The Fabulist, November 23, 2008
http://the-fabulist.org/yarns/2008/11/tales-of-the-natural/
“Rose Garden,” Rose and Thorn, Spring, 2008
http://www.theroseandthornezine.com/Spring08/Garden.html
“The Prize,” Unlikely Stories, January, 2008
http://www.unlikelystories.org/benskostories0108.shtml
“The Accidental Voyeur,” Mad Hatters Review, issue 8, 2008
http://www.madhattersreview.com/issue8/columns.shtml#bensko
“Photoluminassence,” Poor Mojo’s Almanac, issue 398, 2008
http://www.poormojo.org/cgi-bin/gennie.pl?Fiction+398+bi
“The Boy Who’s a Floating Flower,” Cezanne’s Carrot, volume 2, issue 3, Summer Solstice 2007
http://www.cezannescarrot.org/vol2iss3/boywhosfloatingflower.html
won their Editor’s Pick Prize
“Our Travels on Fire,” Bewildering Stories, issue 278, 2007
http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue278/travels_fire.html
“The Tradition of Sesame Oil,” Literary Chaos, issue 22, May 2007
http://www.litchaos.com/2006/vol2/issue22/index.htm, accompanied by an interview
“Just to Explain the Sasquatch Sitter,” Southern Hum, 2007
http://www.southernhum.com/tantra-bensko/
“Notes from the Nipple Saint,” Southern Hum, 2007
http://www.southernhum.com/tantra-bensko-2/
These two stories were a Feature in Southern Hum
“Instructions to Take Note of Before the Ink Runs Out,” Emerging Visions, Electric Dreams, issue 6, February 2007
http://emergingvisions.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html
“Sleeping With the Clan of Saints,” Unlikely Stories, July 4, 2006
http://www.unlikelystories.org/bensko0406.shtml
“Serpentia Iambica,” Global Inner Visions, April, 2006
http://www.give-zine.com/Archives/April06_serpentiaiambica.shtml
“So, I Guess You’re Alright for Someplace to Sleep, Tonight, Then, Eh, Love?,” Global Inner Visions
http://www.give-zine.com/Archives/April06_soiguess.shtml
“The Inhabitants of Mercy,” Retort Magazine, March, 2006, Novella
http://www.retort.brentley.com/RETORT/06/id_03.06_Tantra_bensko.htm
“The Quantum Fool,” The Angler, 2006
http://angler.donavanhall.net/003/?n=5
“The Sound of Colors Calls My Name Taweetly Woo,” Sein Und Werden, issue 12
http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/twelve/page33.html
“Rollicking Raggedy, Global Inner Visions, April, 2006
http://www.give-zine.com/Archives/April06_rollickingraggedy.shtml
These three stories plus an interview and article were the Feature of the issue.
“Going Out of Context with the New Paradigm,” Newtopia Magazine, 2006
“Chimpanzee Beat,” Ten Thousand Monkeys, issue 83, March, 2006
http://www.tenthousandmonkeys.com/083/083tb.htm
“Just to Explain the Sasquatch Sitter,” Ten Thousand Monkeys, issue 81, November, 2005
http://www.tenthousandmonkeys.com/081/081tb.htm
"Overreal," Babel Magazine, 2006
"The Vigil Virgin," Babel Magazine, 2006
"Shapeshitting,” Babel Magazine, 2006
"What Do You Do When Nothing is There?," Babel Magazine, 2006 (offline now, not sure of dates)
39 publications listed