Welcome to Shelli Rottschafer's Most Current Poetry
Forthcoming Poetry
Poem: If we are lucky: A Firefly Sestina Autumn 2025
Silver Birch Press: “Bugs & Insects” www.silverbirchpress.com
Poem: Arachnid Haikus Fall 2025
Wingless Dreamer: Autumn Anthology “Pumpkin, Spice & Paper Cuts: Poetry”
Poems: “El Nogal Trail at Sunrise” & “At Day’s Break: Sapphic Stanzas” Nov. 25, 2025
Notes of Light and Dark: Southwestern Aubades and Nocturnes. Sixth Edition.
Editors David Meischen and Scott Wiggerman. Dos Gatos Press, 2025.
Recently Published Poems
Poem: Wake Up to the Wild Within November 13 , 2025
Four Corners Anthology 2025 https://www.fourcornerswriters.com
Poetry Editor: Sarah Carr, Fiction Editor: Chuck Greaves, Nonfiction Editor: Gail Binkly
The Four Corners first anthology won the Anthology Category in the Colorado Book Award of the Humanities. Like the first, the second includes Poetry, Short Story, and Nonfiction written by folks living within and expressing their love for Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico.
Poems: “The News of the Day” and “Latitudes & Longitudes: An Outtakes Poem”
Morrow Point Magazine: “Hope and Uncertainty” October 12, 2025
Editors Tali Himmel Rothstein and Isabel Grey https://morrowpoint.org/poetry/
https://morrowpoint.org/2025/10/12/latitudes-longitudes/
Poems: “Dent de Lion” and “Mother Mullein, She Grows” September 19, 2025
Chamisa: A Journal of Literary Performance, and Visual Arts in New Mexico and the Greater Southwest. UNM Digital Repository: Vol. 4, 2025.
Poem: “Crow’s Nest and Raven’s Rest: A Golden Shovel” September 14, 2025
Bainbridge Island Press Poetics Anthology: CORVIDS: https://bainbridgeisland.press
$14.99