Jaswinder Bolina
Poems

Poems

For rights, permissions, interview requests, or to solicit new work, send queries to jaswinder.bolina@gmail.com

Unlinked poems are available in print only. Some journals listed here are no longer active.

American Poets
December 2023

Iguana Variations in Winter

Poetry Northwest
December 2023

Second City Autumnal

The Hopkins Review
November 2023

The Living Daylights

The Poetry Review
from the Poetry Society, UK
September 2023

Desert Rose

Porlock
May 2023

At War with the Cynics

The New Yorker
November 2022

Ancestral Poem

Poetry Northwest
November 2022

A Story about the Antichrist

Allium
April 2022

The Breakup (or The Jesus Elegy)

The Apology Factory

Poetry Daily
April 2022

A Little Slice of Heaven

Gettysburg Review
December 2021

A Little Slice of Heaven

Self-Portrait in a Baby Monitor

Poetry Daily
July 2021

House Hunters International

The Fiddlehead
October 2020

Executive Platinum Elegy

Palace of Amenhotep

Freudian Elegy

Sporklet
September 2020

Modern Ark

Court Green
August 2020

Oak Park Elegy

Bob Dylan Elegy

Bird Elegy

Cincinnati Review
July 2020

Waiting My Turn

Academy of American Poets Poem-a-day
October 2019

Probable Poem for the Furious Infant

South of the South
January 2019

Pornograph, with Americana

Courting the Jihadi

(published in reprint)

Seneca Review
January 2019

Prepping the Exile

The Bar Poem

Favorite Poem Project
December 2018

Make Believe
performed by Dahlia Nayar

Electric Literature
November 2018

Billy Graham Elegy

Station

Pangyrus
November 2018

Pornograph, with Americana

Supremacy

Rubble Causeway, Rubble Clinic

(published in reprint)

The Miami Rail
April 2017

Supremacy

Interim
February 2017

In Memory of My Vices

Political Poem

The Rumpus
January 2017

Partisan Poem

Washington B.C.

Colorado Review
November 2016

Courting the Jihadi

Story in a White Diction

Copper Nickel
March 2016

Epistemic Love Poem

The Wedding Poem

The Volta: They Will Sew the Blue Sail
March 2016

New Adventures in Sci-Fi

Jai Alai
December 2015

Dome Over Miami

Deist Theater

The Guernica Annual
October 2014

Love Song of the Assimilated

Southeast Review
April 2014

Second Variation on a Theme by César Vallejo

Another Chicago Magazine
April 2014

Variation on a Theme by César Vallejo

Connotation Press: An Online Artifact
February 2014

Guernica

Guernica
November 2013

Love Song of the Assimilated

Pleiades
August 2013

The Tallest Building in America

Explosion-Proof
January 2013

Federal Scene

The Reluctant Senator to His Provincial Mistress

BOMBlog
October 2012

Caterpillar

Practicum

Whole Terrain
October 2012

Ostrich Review
July 2012

Dénouement

Anti-
June 2012

Municipal Vistas

Mandala Journal
April 2012

How to Order a Sandwich

We Were Blundering Around in the Darkness

Explosion-Proof
January 2012

Other Anthems

The Last National

The Offending Adam
November 2011

Aviary

Sunday, Sunday

Oops Canary

Ecotone
November 2011

Phantom Camera

In Another Version of the Afterlife 

Best American Poetry 2011
September 2011

Mine Is the First Rodeo, Mine Is the Last Accolade

Columbia Poetry Review
May 2011

If I Persisted for Seven Lifetimes, I’d Spend Six of Them with You

Body in a Phone Booth

Third Coast
May 2011

Portrait of the Minor Character

Jet Fuel Review
April 2011

All My Darlings

In My Bright Autocracy

Quarter After Eight
January 2011

Apologia Matilde

751 Magazine
January 2011

Zirconia

Portrait of the Memory

Cincinnati Review
Fall 2010

Stump Speech

The Missouri Review
August 2010

Portrait of the Self

Laurel Review
Spring 2010

My Face Instead of the Virgin Mary
Postcard

Barrow Street
Winter 2009

from The Anthology of Lost Causes

Black Warrior Review
November 2009

Mine Is the First Rodeo, Mine Is the Last Accolade

Cavalier
October 2009

Portrait of the Horse
Portrait of the Village
Schrödinger’s Cat Variation

Ploughshares
Spring 2009

Make Believe

American Poetry Review
November–December 2008

Elegy

One Day, Androids Will Have Pudgy Arms and Hug Us Like Mother, but Still I’d Reach for You, Dear Reader, Which Is Why I Have So Much Faith in Us as a People

Laurel Review
Winter 2008

Fort Chicago

Figurehead

Verse Daily
January 4, 2008

You’ll See a Sailboat

Colorado Review
Fall 2007

You’ll See a Sailboat

Quad City

XCP (Cross-Cultural Poetics)
Fall 2007

Novel

LUNA
Fall 2007

Here We Go Gonzo

The Cream City Review
Spring 2007

When My Father Dead, I Wish Spokane

Laurel Review
Fall 2006

Inspired by Actual Events

What Awaits the Thunder

Ploughshares
Winter 2003

Employing My Scythe

Unlinked poems are available in print only. Some journals listed here are no longer active.

For rights, permissions, interview requests, or to solicit new work, send queries to jaswinder.bolina@gmail.com