dalewisely - Dale Wisely

Dale Wisely has poems and short fiction in of forthcoming in America, Amaryllis, Birmingham Poetry Review, National Catholic Reporter, Main Street Rag, Birmingham Arts Journal, Blue Collar Review, and elsewhere. Poems and stories appear or are coming online at Foliate Oak, Poet’s Canvas, Salt River Review, The Hiss Quarterly, Radiant Turnstile, Thunder Sandwich, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Ghoti, Susurrus, and elsewhere. He is the author of a print chapbook, Visitation. Seven Stars, a narrative in 13 poems, is available online at the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature website. His poem "Wave" was published in Pathways: Literature for Readers and Writers, a 2008 high school textbook. Dale is the editor of the on-line literary journal, Right Hand Pointing.

On "Seven Stars"

Dale Wisely's cycle of poems, “Seven Stars,” is a stunning achievement. I read it the first time with mounting admiration, not just for its artful language, but also for the grace -- in every sense of that word -- of its narrative arc. The poems take us deep into painful subjects, from nightmarish childhood visions of hell to adult memories of a gory suicide, and yet always retain their humor and their humanity. Dale accomplishes exactly what every writer should hope to accomplish one day; he tells a story worth telling and tells it with poetic economy as well as maximum moral power.

--Howard Good

....be sure to not miss Dale Wisely's poems because his poems just kill me.

--Jilly Dybka (poetryhut.com)

Selected Literary Publications

America: The National Catholic Weekly (In print and archived on their website)