About Me
Kenton K. Yee has placed poetry and fiction in Grain Magazine (forthcoming), Healing Muse (forthcoming), Spoon River Poetry Review (forthcoming), Puerto del Sol, Lunch Ticket's Amuse-Bouche (forthcoming), One [Jacar Press] (forthcoming), ASP Bulletin, Revolute (forthcoming), Terrain.org, Asimov's Science Fiction (forthcoming), The Ecopoetry Anthology: Volume II (forthcoming), The Lake (forthcoming), Rogue Agent (forthcoming), BoomerLitMag, TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics (forthcoming), I-70 Review (forthcoming), Landlocked (forthcoming), Poor Yorick (forthcoming), Panorama, Hawaii Pacific Review, McNeese Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, OxMag, North Dakota Quarterly (forthcoming), Gargoyle (forthcoming), Broadkill (forthcoming), 805 Lit + Art, Invisible City, Juniper, Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit, Poemeleon (forthcoming), The Quarter(ly) by Quarter Press, Nunum (forthcoming), Cutthroat (forthcoming), Moon City Review, Constellations, The Threepenny Review, Rattle, Stoneboat, Stanford's Mantis, Sugar House Review, Inscape, Quarter After Eight (forthcoming), Big City Lit, SLANT, Zoetica (forthcoming), (In Parentheses), Berkeley Poetry Review, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (forthcoming), Matter, LIGEIA Magazine, Summerset Review, Full Bleed, Parentheses, Red Ogre Review, Inlandia (forthcoming), Arboreal, Willows Wept Review, The Los Angeles Review, The Indianapolis Review, Pembroke Magazine, Plume Poetry, Tipton Poetry Journal, Analog Science Fiction & Fact, Lily Poetry Review, Passages North, The New Verse News, Heartwood Literary Magazine, Kelp Journal, South Dakota Review, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, The South Carolina Review (forthcoming), Valley Voices, Steam Ticket, Tomahawk Creek Review, The Bookends Review, Alba, Quibble Lit, Ignatian Literary Magazine, New World Writing Quarterly, San Antonio Review (forthcoming), The Rupture, Delta Poetry Review, Hollins Critic, the museum of americana: a literary review, Abstract Magazine TV, miniskirt magazine, Five South, PANK, Hobart, Necessary Fiction, Daily Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Gyroscope Review, The Metaworker Literary Magazine, The Elevation Review, Trampoline, Drabblecast, Shotgun Honey, Akashic Books, DOGZPLOT, A cappella Zoo, Cafe Irreal, Corium Magazine, Word Riot, elimae, Mud Luscious, Monkeybicycle, Every Day Fiction, Every Day Poets, Brain Harvest, Perihelion, Bartleby Snopes, Apollo's Lyre, Liquid Imaginations, and Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader, among others. Trained in theoretical physics, law, investing and economics, he writes from northern California.
--- PERSONAL ESSAYS ---
"A Symposium on the Mysterious" contribution, Threepenny Review, Issue 175, Fall 2023
https://www.threepennyreview.com/on-the-mysterious-yee/
Party (The Rupture, Issue 116, December 2021)
https://www.therupturemag.com/rupture/party
--- POEMS AND ONE SENTENCE STORIES ---
(-- for stories and prose poems, scroll down to new section)
This is 9-1-1--What's Your Emergency (Healing Muse, Volume 24, October 2024, forthcoming)
THREE POEMS
-All Roads Lead to Wetmore
-Lightheaded
-The Outer Space in Me
(Terrain.org, January 25, 2024)
https://www.terrain.org/2024/poetry/kenton-k-yee/
Loopholes (BoomerLitMag, Volume 7, No. 3, 2023)
https://boomerlitmag.com/Kenton-k-yee-2/
TWO POEMS
-Ars Poetica With Red Petals
-Kale, Tomatoes, Eggplant
(I-70 Review, September 2024, forthcoming)
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer (Asimov's Science Fiction, forthcoming)
Neighborhood Watch (Grain Magazine, expected volume 51.3 or 51.4, 2024, forthcoming)
Astronomer's Prayer (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, forthcoming)
Waiting for Eurydice (Spoon River Poetry Review, Winter 2024, forthcoming)
Reflection Sonnet (Lunch Ticket's Amuse-Bouche, forthcoming)
TWO POEMS
- Wormholes
- Department of the Interior
(Mantis, 2024 issue, forthcoming)
Apiology (One [Jacar Press], forthcoming)
Doppelgänger (The Lake, January 2024)
http://www.thelakepoetry.co.uk/poetry/kenton-yee/
Mahjong Theater (Rogue Agent, Issue 105, December 2023)
http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/kyee
Two Paper Bags from San Francisco (Revolute, Volume 005, forthcoming)
THREE POEMS
- Snow-White Teeth in Dartmouth
- The Visitors
- Sestina With Teeth Expanding Like a Lie (Pushcart nomination)
(McNeese Review, Halloween "Boo"din issue, October 2023)
https://www.mcneese.edu/thereview/2023/10/20/snow-white-teeth-in-dartmouth-the-visitors-sestina-with-teeth-expanding-like-a-lie/
TWO POEMS
- Calling Home
- Sunflower Tea
(Passages North, Issue 46, Spring 2025, forthcoming)
Fleeting Alignments (Constellations: A Journal of Poetry and Fiction, Fall 2022, Volume 12, pp 104-105, print only)
http://www.constellations-lit.com/issues/issues/vol12.html
The Big One (Threepenny Review, Winter 2023, Issue 172, p. 13)
- to be anthologized in The Ecopoetry Anthology: Volume II (Trinity University Press), 2025, forthcoming
Haute Buttons (Rattle, August 2022 Ekphrastic Contest, Editor's Choice, September 2022)
https://www.rattle.com/haute-buttons-by-kenton-k-yee/
Writing My Dissertation at Brookhaven National Laboratory (Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, January 16, 2023)
http://matterpress.com/journal/2023/01/16/writing-my-dissertation-at-brookhaven-national-laboratory/
Self Portrait as Chopsticks (Hawaii Pacific Review, July 2023)
- Pushcart Nomination (Hawaii Pacific Review, 2023-24)
https://hawaiipacificreview.org/2023/07/31/self-portrait-as-chopsticks/
Snakes, Crocs, and Puffer Fish (Valparaiso Poetry Review, Volume XXV.1, Fall/Winter 2023-24)
https://www.valpo.edu/valparaiso-poetry-review/2023/12/14/kenton-k-yee-snakes-crocs-and-puffer-fish/
Semantic Hunger (OxMag, Fall 2023, Issue 51, pp 142-143)
https://sites.miamioh.edu/oxmag/semantic-hunger-by-kenton-yee/
Breaches (Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature, Issue 10 (Intimacy), November 30, 2023)
https://panoramajournal.org/issues/issue-10-intimacy/intimacy-breaches-kenton-k-yee/
Sleepworking (Strange Horizons, August 14, 2023)
http://strangehorizons.com/poetry/sleepworking/
Eight Ways of Looking at a Missing Person (The New Verse News, August 2, 2023)
https://newversenews.blogspot.com/2023/08/eight-ways-of-looking-at-missing-person.html
My God, It's Full of Astronomers (Moon City Review 2024, print only)
http://www.mooncityreview.com/?p=2536
Moon Pie Sonnet (Poor Yorick, forthcoming)
Lightning Theater (Invisible City, Issue 7, Fall 2023)
https://www.invisiblecitylit.com/poetry/lightning-theater/
TWO POEMS
- Fishy Memory
- Kingfishers
(Gargoyle, Issue #7, expected end of January 2024)
It's Accrual World (Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism & Translation, Issue 21, 2023, p 141, print only)
Diversity (Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts 28, volume 1, Fall 2023, print only)
Tangerine Sonnet (ASP Bulletin, Issue 8, February 2024)
https://theaspbulletin.com/tangerine-sonnet-kenton-k-yee/
If You Like Math 42% Or More, You’ll Hate This 93% (TAB: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics, 2024, forthcoming)
Parallels (Sugar House Review, Summer 2023, p 28)
Debits and Carrots (Broadkill, Winter 2024, forthcoming)
Ressurection Sonnet ["Ressurection" isn't a misspelling but a sensational spelling.] (The Quarter(ly) by Quarter Press, Volume 9 "In the Dark," Winter, 2024, p. 11)
Basho Attends Company Luncheon (Landlocked, 2024, forthcoming)
TWO POEMS
-The Octopus of Happiness
-The Speed of Joy
(Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry, forthcoming)
Duck Rabbit (Full Bleed, 2023, Issue #6, p 73)
https://www.full-bleed.org/poem-duck-rabbit
TWO POEMS
-The Craft of Art
-Code Mountain
(North Dakota Quarterly, forthcoming)
TWO POEMS
-Suspicion (p. 181)
-The Rear View Mirror (pp. 182-183)
(Quarter After Eight: A Journal of Innovative Literature & Art, 2024, Volume 30, pp. 181-183)
F_O_R__M_Y__F___T_H_E_R (Zoetica Press: Heathentide Orphans, 2023, page 23)
It's as if the Wall Were Transparent (Parentheses, 2023, Issue 15, p. 78)
Atmosphere and Lights (Berkeley Poetry Review, Fall 2022, "Made at Home" volume, page 16)
I Parrot Therefore I Am (Passages North, No. 45, 2024, p. 161)
Dandelion Seeds Swirling Over a Manhole (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July/August 2023, p 87)
Link will point to this poem only when July/August 2023 is the 'current issue':
https://www.analogsf.com/current-issue/poetry/
Cutting Ties and Other Delicacies (Valley Voices, Spring 2023, volume 23.1, p 86)
Pompeii Casts (The South Carolina Review, Volume 55.2, Spring 2023, p 43)
The Crab Shucker (the museum of americana, Issue 30, Summer 2023)
https://themuseumofamericana.net/the-crab-shucker-poetry-by-kenton-k-yee/
Abducted Goldfish (The New Verse News, Tuesday August 30, 2022)
https://newversenews.blogspot.com/2022/08/abducted-goldfish.html
Tonight's Kind of Sky (Lily Poetry Review, 2023, Issue 9, p 69)
Chickens & Eggs, (Stoneboat Literary Journal, Spring 2023, Issue 13.1)
https://www.stoneboatwi.com/issue-13-1/yee
Moving Ceremony (South Dakota Review, Volume 57, No. 4, p. 41, print only)
Lines and Consequences (South Dakota Review, Volume 57, No. 4, p. 40, print only)
Flashback (805 Lit + Art, Volume 9, Issue 3, November 2023)
https://www.805lit.org/9-3-poetry-kenton-k-yee
Moonlight Sonata With Orange Flames (Juniper, Summer 2023, Volume 7, Issue 1)
https://juniperpoetry.com/moonlight-sonata-with-orange-flames-by-kenton-k-yee/
Chicks and Balances (Arboreal Literary, Issue No. 3, August 2023)
https://arborealmag.com/issues/03-illusion/kenton-k-yee-poetry/
Ars Poetica With an Acronym (Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit, July 2023)
https://www.meowmeowpowpowlit.com/recent/ars-poetica-with-an-acronym-by-kenton-k-yee
Invisible Cities (Big City Lit, Summer 2023)
https://nycbigcitylit.com/summer-2023/invisible-cities/
FOUR POEMS
- Sea Spiders
- Young Bombardiers
- The Escaped Balloon
- Ode to Dying Alone
(In Parentheses, June 2023)
https://inparentheses.art/2023/06/23/sea-spiders-and-works-by-k-k-yee/
City Bees, Heartwood Literary Magazine (Issue 16, Fall 2023)
http://www.heartwoodlitmag.com/issue-16-poetry
THREE POEMS
- In Ghostlier Demarcations, Keener Sounds
- Lobster Tales
- Selling Yourself
(Tomahawk Creek Review, Issue 1, Summer 2023)
https://thetomahawkcreekreview.org/issue-1_poetry_yee-kenton-k-_in-ghostlier-demarcations-keener-sounds-lobster-tales-selling-yourself/
TWO POEMS
-Spring Terror
-Surface Currents
(Kelp Journal - The Wave, August 24, 2023)
https://www.kelpjournal.com/post/poetry-two-poems-by-kenton-yee
One Piglet's Dream (Inscape Journal, Winter 2023, Issue 43.1, p 54)
https://inscape.byu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Winter-2023-PDF-Issue.pdf
When I Pitied Humans (SLANT: A Journal of Poetry, Volume 37.1, Spring 2023)
https://slantpoetryjournal.wordpress.com/kenton-k-yee/
Postmodern Terror (Steam Ticket, Spring 2023, Volume 26, p. 10)
The Felt Universe: A Sestina (Red Ogre Review, April 2023)
https://ogre.red/issues/2023-04/2023-04-yee-kenton/
Anise (Ignatian Literary Magazine, Fall 2022;
reprinted in Flight: Ignatian Literary Magazine "best of Fall 2022- Spring 2023" Compendium, 2023, p 10)
https://ignatianlitmag.com/2022/12/05/anise/
SIX POEMS:
- Murmuration or Boondoggle
- Starfish
- My Private Moon
- The Mathematician's Pen
- Obsession / Destiny
- Autobiography
(New World Writing Quarterly, October 13, 2022)
https://newworldwriting.net/kenton-k-yee-six-poems/
Cache and Release (Hollins Critic, Volume 59, No. 4, October 2022, print only)
Young Lovers or Duck Eggs (miniskirt magazine, Issue 14, July 2022)
https://miniskirtmagazine.com/issue-14/young-lovers-or-duck-eggs-poetry-kenton-k-yee/
Mississippi Lights (Delta Poetry Review, June 2022)
https://deltapoetryreview.com/2022-june-Yee.html
Dauphin Island (Delta Poetry Review, June 2022)
https://deltapoetryreview.com/2022-june-Yee.html
Gumbo (Delta Poetry Review, June 2022)
https://deltapoetryreview.com/2022-june-Yee.html
Blind Spots (Pembroke Magazine, Issue 54, 2022, print only)
Triple Dribble (Quibble Lit, January 2023, Issue 8)
https://www.quibblelit.com/triple-dribble-by-kenton-k-yee
TWO POEMS
-Purgatory Looking In
-The Birth of Joy
(Inlandia, scheduled for Fall 2023, forthcoming)
TWO POEMS:
-New Retiree's Love Song
-Why Season Tickets
(Willows Wept Review, Spring 2023, Issue 28, pp 42-43)
https://www.magcloud.com/webviewer/2445001?__r=150177&s=w
Snow Condominium (The Bookends Review, March 31, 2023)
http://thebookendsreview.com/2023/03/31/snow-condominium/
Palimpsest (The Bookends Review, April 10, 2023)
http://thebookendsreview.com/2023/04/10/palimpsest/
TWO POEMS:
-School of Rhyme
-Möbius Meop
(Alba, Winter 2023, Issue 39)
http://www.ravennapress.com/alba/issue_39/yee.html
THREE POEMS (San Antonio Review, March 2023):
- Let Be Be the Irony of Seem
https://doi.org/10.21428/9b43cd98.34227935
- Cheers
https://doi.org/10.21428/9b43cd98.800b0e72
- Prenuptial Prayer
https://doi.org/10.21428/9b43cd98.e82336f4
The Bird Beneath My Feet (The Weekly, Five South, June/July 2022)
https://www.fivesouth.net/post/the-bird-beneath-my-feet-by-kenton-k-yee
I'd Break the Pane (The Weekly, Five South, June/July 2022)
https://www.fivesouth.net/post/i-d-break-the-pane-by-kenton-k-yee
Family History (The Weekly, Five South, June/July 2022)
https://www.fivesouth.net/post/family-history-by-kenton-k-yee
Modern Breakup (The Weekly, Five South, June/July 2022)
https://www.fivesouth.net/post/modern-breakup-by-kenton-k-yee
New Room (The Elevation Review, special National Poetry Month issue, April 2022)
https://www.theelevationreview.com/kenton-yee
Second Sevens (Gyroscope Review, Issue 22-2: Spring 22, p 9 [first poem])
https://www.gyroscopereview.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Spring-2022-Web-Copy-min.pdf
Auguries of Avalanche (The Indianapolis Review, Issue 19: Winter 22)
https://theindianapolisreview.com/auguries-of-avalanche/
Metaphor of A Muse (The Summerset Review, Winter 22;
republished in Gyroscope Review, May 14, 2023)
http://www.summersetreview.org/22winter/yee01.html
https://www.gyroscopereview.com/2023/05/origin-stories-kenton-k-yee/
The Art of Cake (The Summerset Review, Winter 22)
http://www.summersetreview.org/22winter/yee02.html
Venus Flytrap (LIGEIA Magazine, Summer 21)
https://www.ligeiamagazine.com/summer-2021/venus-flytrap-kenton-k-yee/
The Monday Following Your Execution (Tipton Poetry Journal, Issue 49, Summer 2021, p 24)
https://issuu.com/tiptonpoetryjournal/docs/tpj49
Corporate Life (Matter Monthly, Issue 30, September 2021)
https://mattermonthly.com/2021/08/30/corporate-life/
Plastic Rose (Matter, September 2021)
https://mattermonthly.com/2021/08/30/plastic-rose/
For Your Eighteenth Birthday (Plume Poetry, July 2021)
https://plumepoetry.com/for-your-eighteenth-birthday/
Self-Driven Taxi (Strange Horizons, October 2017)
http://strangehorizons.com/poetry/self-driven-taxi/
Read by Ciro Faienza (Strange Horizons podcast)
http://strangehorizons.com/podcasts/podcast-october-poetry-4/
Mole With a Motto (Trampoline, Issue 8.6A)
https://www.trampolinepoetry.com/
The Many Words Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (Every Day Poets)
https://poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2013/03/many-worlds-in-pantoum.html
As You Urinate (Partners in Rhyme: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry)
https://www.amazon.com/Partners-Rhyme-Anthology-Contemporary-Poetry-ebook/dp/B01LS1CH28
If a Black Hole Could (Every Day Poets)
http://www.everydaypoets.com/if-a-black-hole-could-by-kenton-k-yee/
Hole-19b (elimae)
http://elimae.com/2012/11/Hole.html
Newtonian Gravitation (Every Day Poets)
http://www.everydaypoets.com/newtonian-gravitation-by-kenton-k-yee/
One Convenience Store Clerk’s Contribution to Cable TV Ratings (Monkeybicycle)
http://monkeybicycle.net/one-sentence-stories-12-03-13/
Losing his Voice (Word Riot, April 2011)
http://www.wordriot.org/archives/2711
Inside a Restaurant Aquarium (Monkeybicycle)
http://monkeybicycle.net/one-sentence-stories-july-5-2011/
Prehensile Tongue (Short, Fast, and Deadly)
http://www.shortfastanddeadly.com/2011/05/prehensile-tongue.html
--- STORIES & PROSE POEMS ---
Two Rosé Lunch Hour (Passages North, No. 45, 2024, p. 162)
Algo Rhythms (Puerto del Sol, Issue 58.2, Winter 2023, pp 62-64)
-- (reprint, NUNUM anthology, forthcoming)
My Parallel Worlds (The Rupture, Issue 116, December 2021)
https://www.therupturemag.com/rupture/my-parallel-worlds
Streaming Meemie (Shotgun Honey, June 2020)
https://www.shotgunhoney.com/fiction/streaming-meemie-by-kenton-k-yee
So Many Holes in This Our Universe (Necessary Fiction, June 2020)
http://necessaryfiction.com/stories/KentonKYeeSoManyHolesinThisOurUniverse
The Prenup Murders (Akashic Books: Mondays are Murder series)
http://www.akashicbooks.com/the-prenup-murders-by-kenton-k-yee/
Awakening (Daily Science Fiction)
http://dailysciencefiction.com/science-fiction/virtual-reality/kenton-k-yee/awakening_SF
Shooting Stars (A cappella Zoo, Issue 11, Fall 2013;
reprinted in Palms166, a Stanford alumni anthology, 2017)
http://www.acappellazoo.com/order
Marriage for Moonlighters (Monkeybicycle, February 2013)
http://monkeybicycle.net/marriage-for-moonlighters/
Goldilocks and the Three Point Five Bears (Corium Magazine, February 2014)
http://www.coriummagazine.com/?page_id=3843
Your Gedanken Collection (Hobart)
http://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/your-gedanken-collection
The Oldest Game in Town (The Cafe Irreal, 2013)
http://cafeirreal.alicewhittenburg.com/kenton_yee.htm
Indistinguishable (Quantum Shorts)
https://shorts.quantumlah.org/entry/indistinguishable
(anthologized in Quantum Shorts: Collected Flash Fiction Inspired by Quantum Physics)
https://shorts.quantumlah.org/the-book
published by the Centre for Quantum Technologies in collaboration with Scientific American and Nature;
reprinted in The Metaworker Literary Magazine, March 14, 2022)
https://www.themetaworker.com/2022/03/14/indistinguishable-by-kenton-k-yee/
Cosmological Expansion (DOGZPLOT, February 2015)
http://dogzplot.blogspot.com/2015/02/cosmological-expansion-kenton-k-yee.html
Aurora's Sky (Every Day Fiction)
http://www.everydayfiction.com/auroras-sky-by-kenton-k-yee/
Losing His Voice (Word Riot)
http://www.wordriot.org/archives/2711
Bot Gone, Ramifications (Perihelion)
(It's the second story on this "shorter stories" page).
www.perihelionsf.com/1403/anomalies.htm
Author interview at PANK Magazine
http://www.pankmagazine.com/pankblog/young-bright-things/ask-the-author-kenton-k-yee/
Try My Shank (PANK, 7/5/2012;
https://pankmagazine.com/piece/try-my-shank/
performed by Matt Weller in Drabblecast 280 podcast)
http://www.drabblecast.org/tag/author-kenton-k-yee/
The Roach Under Her Bed
(The Los Angeles Review, volume 11, Spring 2012, pp 177-178)
Irreversible Dad (Brain Harvest, August 2011)
Anthologized in Uncle John's Bathroom Reader presents Flush Fiction: 88 Short-Short Stories You Can Read in a Single Sitting (Apr 2012, Bathroom Readers' Institute)
https://www.facebook.com/UncleJohnsBathroomReader/posts/352999014783308
Allure (Word Riot, January 2015)
http://www.wordriot.org/archives/7704
Wholly Matrimony (with animation, Liquid Imaginations)
http://liquid-imagination.com/site/?page_id=263
Teenage Housefly (Word Riot, March 2011)
http://www.wordriot.org/archives/2588
Daddy, Wake Up (Bartleby Snopes)
http://www.bartlebysnopes.com/daddywakeup.htm
Thanks for commenting on "Not Enough Sin to Go Around," Kenton. re: "redacted." The speaker is thinking that sometimes a shaky present makes one want to reimagine the past.
kenton, thanks for reading and commenting on my piaon piece--
cheers,
gary
Appreciate the comment on "Shell of My Future Self," Kenton. Look forward to reading more of your work!
thanks for commenting on "in the nude", fellow ex-physicist!
Thanks, Kenton, for the comments on the oppressionist and how we made gravity about us!
Kenton thank you for reading my story Wreath and your lovely comment! Cheers! susan
And thank you for your kind comment on There's Going to be a Story at the End. You must be really busy between your demanding writing program and Fictionaut.
Kenton, thank you for your insightful comment on The Sneeze. I responded at the story site. I also enjoyed your story about poor Irreversible Dad.