"Every time I speak, my voice rings out for all of us."
La Créole: A Journal of Creole History and Genealogy.
La Créole: A Journal of Creole History and Genealogy.
Poetry
"VIRGIN MARY" published in Wrong Directions by Typewronger Books, Edinburgh Scotland (2025)
"DOUBLE HEADSTONE CONTRAPUNTAL." Folklore Review, Oct. 2025, www.folklorereview.com/mico-series-skeletal
“WHAT IS THE SOUTH TO AN OUTSIDER.” Testament: A Rural Anthology, Backwoods Literary Press, forthcoming Fall 2025.
“Two Deaths / Deux Mortalités.” Book of Jobs Anthology, ONE ART, Sept. 2025, oneartpoetry.com/the-book-of-jobs/
"You Never Listen to Louisiana." Radical Catalyst Art & Literary Journal, forthcoming Fall 2025, radicalcatalystjournal.org/issue1_1.html
"PRE-GHOST JACQUELINE." Midway Journal, July 2025. https://midwayjournal.com/pre-ghost-jacqueline/midwayjournal.com/pre-ghost-jacqueline/
"THE FEU FOLLET." Midway Journal, July 2025. https://midwayjournal.com/the-feu-follet/
"TEACHING AT THE END." Porcupine Literary, June 2025. https://www.porcupineliterary.com/post/teaching-at-the-end
"REALLY THIS IS A POEM ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE." Moist Poetry Journal, June 2025. https://moistpoetryjournal.com/2025/06/11/really-this-is-a-poem-about-climate-change-by-emily-m-goldsmith/
"REACH FOR BANANA LEAVES." Pithead Chapel, forthcoming June 2025. https://pitheadchapel.com/two-poems-8/
"ALBERT J SCHRIBER, B. 1923." Pithead Chapel, forthcoming June 2025. https://pitheadchapel.com/two-poems-8/
"FAMILY POEM." Zaum Magazine, Apr. 2025. https://englishsonoma.wixsite.com/zaum29/family-poem
"The Archbishop Never Had Enough Holy Water." Zaum Magazine, Apr. 2025. https://englishsonoma.wixsite.com/zaum29/the-archbishop-never-had-enough-holy-wat
"VIRGIN MARY." Wrong Directions, Apr. 2025. Print.
"CHANSON DE LOUISIANE." Gnashing Teeth Publishing, Apr. 2025, gnashingteethpublishing.com/potd040425/
“NO GOD, NO MOON,” a video poem. Genrepunk Magazine, Mar. 2025, genrepunkmag.wordpress.com/2025/03/05/no-god-no-moon-emily-m-goldsmith/
“Every time I speak, my voice rings out for all of us.” La Créole Journal, Vol. 17, Nov. 2024, www.lacreole.org/journals/volume-17-nov-2024
“Longing Poem.” Eucalyptus Lit, Sept. 2024, www.eucalyptuslit.com/issue-five/emilymgoldsmith-longing-poem
“Three-Toed Sloth.” Bestiary Zine, Jan. 2024. Print.
"EVERY MOON I SEE IS MORE THAN I THOUGHT I WOULD." Hattiesburg Alternative, Spring 2024. dwgoldsmith3.wixsite.com/hattiesburg-alternat
“Give Me Silence,” Trash Wonderland, Issue 2, June 2023, https://www.trashwonderland.com/issue-2-dont-talk-to-me www.trashwonderland.com/issue-2-dont-talk-to-me
“All sides of the coin,” and “The Reckoning of Time,” Spell Jar Press, June 2023. Print.
“Pomona, Pomona, Persephone,” Fifth Wheel Press Anthology, Jan 2023. Print.
"THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE," Bullshit Mag, forthcoming Fall 2022. https://www.bullshitlit.com/bsantho
"The Pope said Alligator was a Fish," THE PENN REVIEW, May 2022. www.pennreview.org/the-pope-said-alligator-was-a-fish
"Wunderkammern," Warning Lines, May 2022. www.warninglines.com/vol04
"Sew Your Death into my Body," Hecate Mag, January 2022. Print.
"Pomona Pomona Persephone," Fifth Wheel Press, October 2021. fifthwheelpress.com/flux-backend/pomona-pomona-persephone-emily-m-goldsmith
"Re-enacting the Notebook Sex Scene for an Audience of Ghost(s)," Pile Press, October 2021.
“Queer Poem,” and “Clitoris Poem,” Giving Room Mag, Spring 2021.
“An Envie,” and “Post-Break Up with God,” Windows Facing Windows Review, March 2021.
http://www.wfwr.org/issue2/toc/
“I can’t tell you every secret,” Versification, Jan. 2021,
https://www.versificationzine.com/january-2020
“Valhalla” Vagabond City Lit, 14 Sep. 2020, https://vagabondcitylit.com/2020/09/14/valhalla-by-emily-m-goldsmith/vagabondcitylit.com/2020/09/14/valhalla-by-emily-m-goldsmith/
“Arkansas Roaming Wide” Fine Print Press, Issue 8, 21 Feb. 2020,
https://archive.org/details/fineprint8/page/n1/mode/2up
“The Waters: Lache Pas La Patate” Entropy Mag, 5 Feb. 2020, https://entropymag.org/the-
waters-lache-pas-la-patate/
“TO FRUITION,” “UNWANTED PATTERNS,” and “Untitled” Witch Craft Mag, Mar. 2019, Issue 5,
pp. 58-60. Print.
“I take my arm up over,” “you told your father about me,” and “mouth like a hug no chocolate”
YesPoetry, 10 Feb. 2017, https://www.yespoetry.com/news/emily-jean-mccollister
“To my Great-Aunt Evangeline / I am a traitor too,” and “To my Great-Aunt Evangeline / I never
stole your outerwear,” The Birds We Piled Loosely, Oct. 2016, Issue 9. Print.
“Untiled,” Delta: LSU’s Undergraduate Literary Journal, Apr. 2016, Issue 58. Print.
“WHAT IS THE SOUTH TO AN OUTSIDER.” Testament: A Rural Anthology, Backwoods Literary Press, forthcoming Fall 2025.
“Two Deaths / Deux Mortalités.” Book of Jobs Anthology, ONE ART, Sept. 2025, oneartpoetry.com/the-book-of-jobs/
"You Never Listen to Louisiana." Radical Catalyst Art & Literary Journal, forthcoming Fall 2025, radicalcatalystjournal.org/issue1_1.html
"PRE-GHOST JACQUELINE." Midway Journal, July 2025. https://midwayjournal.com/pre-ghost-jacqueline/midwayjournal.com/pre-ghost-jacqueline/
"THE FEU FOLLET." Midway Journal, July 2025. https://midwayjournal.com/the-feu-follet/
"TEACHING AT THE END." Porcupine Literary, June 2025. https://www.porcupineliterary.com/post/teaching-at-the-end
"REALLY THIS IS A POEM ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE." Moist Poetry Journal, June 2025. https://moistpoetryjournal.com/2025/06/11/really-this-is-a-poem-about-climate-change-by-emily-m-goldsmith/
"REACH FOR BANANA LEAVES." Pithead Chapel, forthcoming June 2025. https://pitheadchapel.com/two-poems-8/
"ALBERT J SCHRIBER, B. 1923." Pithead Chapel, forthcoming June 2025. https://pitheadchapel.com/two-poems-8/
"FAMILY POEM." Zaum Magazine, Apr. 2025. https://englishsonoma.wixsite.com/zaum29/family-poem
"The Archbishop Never Had Enough Holy Water." Zaum Magazine, Apr. 2025. https://englishsonoma.wixsite.com/zaum29/the-archbishop-never-had-enough-holy-wat
"VIRGIN MARY." Wrong Directions, Apr. 2025. Print.
"CHANSON DE LOUISIANE." Gnashing Teeth Publishing, Apr. 2025, gnashingteethpublishing.com/potd040425/
“NO GOD, NO MOON,” a video poem. Genrepunk Magazine, Mar. 2025, genrepunkmag.wordpress.com/2025/03/05/no-god-no-moon-emily-m-goldsmith/
“Every time I speak, my voice rings out for all of us.” La Créole Journal, Vol. 17, Nov. 2024, www.lacreole.org/journals/volume-17-nov-2024
“Longing Poem.” Eucalyptus Lit, Sept. 2024, www.eucalyptuslit.com/issue-five/emilymgoldsmith-longing-poem
“Three-Toed Sloth.” Bestiary Zine, Jan. 2024. Print.
"EVERY MOON I SEE IS MORE THAN I THOUGHT I WOULD." Hattiesburg Alternative, Spring 2024. dwgoldsmith3.wixsite.com/hattiesburg-alternat
“Give Me Silence,” Trash Wonderland, Issue 2, June 2023, https://www.trashwonderland.com/issue-2-dont-talk-to-me www.trashwonderland.com/issue-2-dont-talk-to-me
“All sides of the coin,” and “The Reckoning of Time,” Spell Jar Press, June 2023. Print.
“Pomona, Pomona, Persephone,” Fifth Wheel Press Anthology, Jan 2023. Print.
"THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE," Bullshit Mag, forthcoming Fall 2022. https://www.bullshitlit.com/bsantho
"The Pope said Alligator was a Fish," THE PENN REVIEW, May 2022. www.pennreview.org/the-pope-said-alligator-was-a-fish
"Wunderkammern," Warning Lines, May 2022. www.warninglines.com/vol04
"Sew Your Death into my Body," Hecate Mag, January 2022. Print.
"Pomona Pomona Persephone," Fifth Wheel Press, October 2021. fifthwheelpress.com/flux-backend/pomona-pomona-persephone-emily-m-goldsmith
"Re-enacting the Notebook Sex Scene for an Audience of Ghost(s)," Pile Press, October 2021.
“Queer Poem,” and “Clitoris Poem,” Giving Room Mag, Spring 2021.
“An Envie,” and “Post-Break Up with God,” Windows Facing Windows Review, March 2021.
http://www.wfwr.org/issue2/toc/
“I can’t tell you every secret,” Versification, Jan. 2021,
https://www.versificationzine.com/january-2020
“Valhalla” Vagabond City Lit, 14 Sep. 2020, https://vagabondcitylit.com/2020/09/14/valhalla-by-emily-m-goldsmith/vagabondcitylit.com/2020/09/14/valhalla-by-emily-m-goldsmith/
“Arkansas Roaming Wide” Fine Print Press, Issue 8, 21 Feb. 2020,
https://archive.org/details/fineprint8/page/n1/mode/2up
“The Waters: Lache Pas La Patate” Entropy Mag, 5 Feb. 2020, https://entropymag.org/the-
waters-lache-pas-la-patate/
“TO FRUITION,” “UNWANTED PATTERNS,” and “Untitled” Witch Craft Mag, Mar. 2019, Issue 5,
pp. 58-60. Print.
“I take my arm up over,” “you told your father about me,” and “mouth like a hug no chocolate”
YesPoetry, 10 Feb. 2017, https://www.yespoetry.com/news/emily-jean-mccollister
“To my Great-Aunt Evangeline / I am a traitor too,” and “To my Great-Aunt Evangeline / I never
stole your outerwear,” The Birds We Piled Loosely, Oct. 2016, Issue 9. Print.
“Untiled,” Delta: LSU’s Undergraduate Literary Journal, Apr. 2016, Issue 58. Print.
Book Reviews
"Review of Libre by Skye Jackson." CALYX Press, Oct. 2025, www.calyxpress.org/reviews/libre-by-skye-jackson/
“‘Everything shows its life': Resilient Queerness in Jason Purcell's Debut collection, Swollening.” Tinderbox, June 2023, https://tinderboxpoetry.com/everything-shows-its-life-resilient-queerness-in-jason-purcells-debut-collection-swollening
“‘Everything shows its life': Resilient Queerness in Jason Purcell's Debut collection, Swollening.” Tinderbox, June 2023, https://tinderboxpoetry.com/everything-shows-its-life-resilient-queerness-in-jason-purcells-debut-collection-swollening
Creative Non-Fiction
"Everyone Wants to Hate the South." iō Literary Journal, forthcoming Jan. 2026.
“Restoring the Balance” Variety Pack, 26 Dec. 2020
https://issuu.com/varietypackzine/docs/minipack12292020.docx
“Restoring the Balance” Variety Pack, 26 Dec. 2020
https://issuu.com/varietypackzine/docs/minipack12292020.docx
Collaborative Projects
What about the Teeth? Grief Enough to Turn Earth. 2024. Bandcamp, whatabouttheteeth.bandcamp.com/album/grief-enough-to-turn-earth
Small City Calling. “Manhattan.” Songs to Spin While Drowning, 15 Nov. 2019, Track 8.
Bandcamp,
https://smallcitycalling.bandcamp.com/track/manhattan-feat-emily-jean-mccollister-goldsmith
Hydra Plane. “Bad Witch.” II, 1 July. 2018, Track 11. Bandcamp,
https://hydraplane.bandcamp.com/track/bad-witch
Small City Calling. “Manhattan.” Songs to Spin While Drowning, 15 Nov. 2019, Track 8.
Bandcamp,
https://smallcitycalling.bandcamp.com/track/manhattan-feat-emily-jean-mccollister-goldsmith
Hydra Plane. “Bad Witch.” II, 1 July. 2018, Track 11. Bandcamp,
https://hydraplane.bandcamp.com/track/bad-witch
Interviews
Interview with Zaum Magazine forthcoming, Mar. 2025.
"Interview with Emily M. Goldsmith." Aura Martin. https://auramartin.weebly.com/interviews/emily-m-goldsmithauramartin.weebly.com/interviews/emily-m-goldsmith
“The Meme-ing of Poetry – with Dylan Krieger and Emily McCollister.” Hedge Clippings Podcast.
Episode 3. Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Hosted by Travis Williams. August, 2018.
https://archive.org/details/HedgeClippings003PairOfPoets
"Interview with Emily M. Goldsmith." Aura Martin. https://auramartin.weebly.com/interviews/emily-m-goldsmithauramartin.weebly.com/interviews/emily-m-goldsmith
“The Meme-ing of Poetry – with Dylan Krieger and Emily McCollister.” Hedge Clippings Podcast.
Episode 3. Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Hosted by Travis Williams. August, 2018.
https://archive.org/details/HedgeClippings003PairOfPoets
Awards and Honors
2023 Finalist for Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize Contest, Alligator is a Fish
2023 Finalist for DIAGRAM's Chapbook Prize Contest, Alligator is a Fish
The Ben Mounger Rawls Award Endowment for Outstanding Creative Writing Student, University
of Southern Mississippi, 2023.
Factory Hollow Press Scholarship, Virtual Juniper Institute with Dara Wier, 2021.
Pushcart Prize Nominee, Fine Print Press, 2020, "Arkansas Roaming Wide"
James Tate Poetry Scholarship Recipient, Juniper Summer Institute, 2016.
2023 Finalist for DIAGRAM's Chapbook Prize Contest, Alligator is a Fish
The Ben Mounger Rawls Award Endowment for Outstanding Creative Writing Student, University
of Southern Mississippi, 2023.
Factory Hollow Press Scholarship, Virtual Juniper Institute with Dara Wier, 2021.
Pushcart Prize Nominee, Fine Print Press, 2020, "Arkansas Roaming Wide"
James Tate Poetry Scholarship Recipient, Juniper Summer Institute, 2016.
"Sew Your Death into my Body," published Winter 2022 by Hecate Mag.