Hillary’s Classmate was published in the May/June 2021 issue of The Writers and Readers’ Magazine. Go to thewritersandreadersmagazine.com/ for details.
You can also order an issue through Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B096LWK95D/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_imm_MMTF450QQ89X4B9WS81K
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April 17th, 2021:
National Poetry Month Promopalooza – L. Shapley Bassen
April, 2021
The Writing Disorder will publish “Annual Rites” in summer 2021 issue. http://writingdisorder.com/
March, 2021
New Kansas journal; Choeofpleirn Press published How It Began, in premier journal, Coneflower Cafe. https://www.choeofpleirnpress.com/home
Print copy at https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1073421
Also at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08YQMCHMY/?coliid=I1PX7OVEDJ9GB2&colid=1JOIZVEEOIEYD&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
New poetry published since last June
March, 2021
A Host of Vermillion Poppies from SCENE & SAID by Whispering Prairie Press in Kansas for issue 16 of Kansas City Voices. http://www.wppress.org/kcv16-digital-available/
February, 2021
Grisaille, 2020 – Physicists at the Beach – Past Life Experience — Salix Babylonica
October, 2020
After the Race ‘Best of Kindness’ anthology – Origami Poems Project
https://www.origamipoems.com/random-acts-of-poetry/origami-contest#after-the-race-l-shapley-bassen
Print copy: https://www.amazon.com/Best-Kindness-Origami-Poems-Project/dp/B08L9PNGVS
POETRY
June, 2020
“A Host of Vermillion Poppies” from SCENE & SAID by Whispering Prairie Press in Kansas for their next issue 16
“Brain Coral” and “Freckles 55th edition of Welter http://blogs.ubalt.edu/welter/contributors/ Print issue
May, 2020
“Entanglement” and “Ram Dass Is Ready to Die” https://oyedrum.com/were-tied-up-in-knots/
April, 2020 https://issuu.com/themuse_magazine/docs/supplementary_magazine_april_2020 “COVID-19”is the first one in this special issue, page 9
“Physicists at the Beach” https://www.amazon.com/Gyroscope-Review-Spring-poetry-around-ebook/dp/B08692TM4F/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2EA2121KNBYKI&dchild=1&keywords=gyroscope+review&qid=1594656947&sprefix=Gyroscope+Review%2Caps%2C139&sr=8-2
February, 2020
“Higg’s Moment” accepted by The Journal of Undiscovered Poets
November, 2019
“Gertrude’s Letter to Hamlet” is read/audio starting at 23:00 at https://www.patreon.com/posts/story-of-howl-31051538?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=postshare
FICTION
September, 2020
“The Night Before the Snow Day” will appear in Lunch Ticket Amuse-Bouche. https://lunchticket.org/
June, 2020
“The Rains Down in Africa” https://persimmontree.org/summer-2020/the-rains-down-in-africa/
May, 2020
“A World of Mirrors” [Chi Wing, short]. https://oyedrum.com/?s=Bassen
April, 2020
“St. Anthony, St. Jude, and Deborah Walk into a Bar…” was a contest runner up & appeared at https://jerryjazzmusician.com/2020/04/st-anthony-st-jude-deborah-walk-into-a-bar-a-short-story-by-l-shapley-bassen/
“The Dead Are Always With Us” https://www.unlikelystories.org/content/the-dead-are-always-with-us
March, 2020
“Roger Williams Is an Anthem” in Fiction Friday at
https://manquemagazine.com/2020/03/27/fiction-friday-roger-williams-is-an-anthem/
I have a new story in the February 2020 issue of thewritersandreadersmagazine.com:
Cabochons, starts on page 94, right hand side .. continues through 98 — last story in the magazine!
You can read the story at:
thewritersmagazine.readmag.online/read/28669/full?page=94
Print is available, payment in pounds.
Denatural Selection from Woven Tale Press, as promised, is online and available for order.
Here is link to the online version – starts at page 43: online.flipbuilder.com/eovs/elkg/
And here’s the print: www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/1734033?__r=590004
My first poetry collection titled WHAT SUITS A NUDIST is published!
Here is a description from the Clare Songbirds Publishing House:
“To read Lois Bassen’s poetry is to be led by a priestess into a place that is part laboratory, part seraglio, part garden, part observatory and part weapons forge. This learned lady with the nicely turned ankle will show you her intricate and ingenious machines, that contain a bronze and amethyst bird that will sing on the hour. Mistress of metamorphosis, blue-stocking, dangerous mother and wry comedian, she’ll carry you off if you’re not careful.”
~Frederick Turner, Founders Professor, School of Arts & Humanities, UT Dallas
You can order the book by following this link:
www.claresongbirdspub.com/featured-authors/l-shapley-bassen/
9/15/19 “Finding Factors of Very Large Prime Numbers” accepted by thricefiction.com and will in late December or early January in 2020.
9/9/19 “Resistance to Decoherence” was accepted by Berlin’s www.thewildword.com
8/30/19 Woven Tale Press accepted “Denatural Selection”. This is especially nice because the fiction editor was a creator of the Ploughshares magazine.
3 pieces of poetry news beyond the book/collection:
9/19/19 “Poet’s Tachycardia” will appear in the British 12/15/2019 Issue 40 of The Blue Nib https://thebluenib.com/
9/13/19 “Ebbtide” was accepted by Gyroscope Review http://gyroscopereview.com
Press nominated “Where the Well Was – 2017” for the 2019 Best of Net http://bit.ly/2k9PElm
The issue is available through Amazon
On Monday morning, I learned that 5 new poems appeared in The Blue Nib magazine for their new Issue 35: “Unhappy Alice”, “Winter”, “Ketchup’s Find”, “The Persephone False Dichotomy”, and “Chocolate”. What do you think?
Winter
Now once again the trees are stripped
of autumn’s leaves and all the other
autumns’ before forgotten as well.
In winter, spring is beyond imagination
and summer beyond hope. But not only
solstice assures the return of the sun
…
Read the rest of the poem at: The Blue Nib.
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Here’s my follow-up conversation with ACN Books about Summer of the Long Knives, including the interview questions and a link to “That Is The Question”, the coda-chapter for New Marwa. This Indie Beginning podcast episode lasts 12 minutes.
If you could go back in time and rewrite a historical moment, what moment would you choose? LS Bassen wanted to revisit WWII and more specifically, the death of Adolf Hitler in her tale Summer of the Long Knives. In this episode, Marie and Benjamin discuss reviews left for the story as well as their thoughts on the topic of Alternative History.
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ACN Books interviews LS Bassen
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That Is The Question
So here I am writing about the remarkable online site, ACN Books, that accepted Summer of the Long Knives for a pretty long reading. An Indie Beginning podcast of 37 minutes!
ACN Books features the indie novel Summer of the Long Knives by LS Bassen as read by Benjamin Franke. After an attack by a band of roving Nazi Brownshirts, Lisel Ganz, an artist’s model in Berlin, suffers an injury that gives her the ability to catch glimpses of the future. It is already too late for many, but Lisel now can see that an even greater evil lies ahead. Taking refuge in the home of artist Albert Entrater, Lisel meets Konrad, a Catholic priest involved in a plot to assassinate Hitler. Amid great betrayal, loss, and danger, Lisel must act while there is still time. A novel of what literary critic George Steiner has called alternity, Summer of the Long Knives explores the hopes and horrors that emerge from history’s darkest moments.
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ACN Books presents “Summer of the Long Knives”
L. Shapley Bassen 