Poetry
Below, you’ll find links to a selection of poems published in various literary journals.
“Dan Pinkerton (2)” and “Dan Pinkerton (6).” Nine Mile Magazine https://www.ninemile.org/fall-2025-section-2
“Car Ride to the Clinic.” Broadkill Review https://www.broadkillreview.com/post/car-ride-to-the-clinic-by-dan-pinkerton
“According to Emily Post,” “Big Box,” and “Chicken Dinner.” Umbrella Factory
https://umbrellafactorymagazine.com/3d-flip-book/issue-64-december-2023/
“Squid Saturation” and “Trying to Write a Decent Poem about Relationships.” Prose Poems
https://www.prosepoems.com/prose-poems-is-a-new-literary-magazine-home-to-prose-poems-flash-fiction-and-short-shorts-a-home-for-the-funny-the-profound-the-weird-and-everything-in-between/
“Mommy Issues.” Painted Bride Quarterly
https://pbqmag.org/dan-pinkerton-mommy-issues/
“Moon Facts.” New Ohio Review
https://newohioreview.org/2021/07/09/moon-facts/
“Interstate Rest Stop.” Harpur Palate
https://harpurpalate.binghamton.edu/dan-pinkerton-interstate-rest-stop/
“After the Parade.” 5×5
https://issuu.com/5x5literarymag/docs/5x5_issue__6
“Happy Birthday, Claude!” Timber
https://www.colorado.edu/timberjournal/2019/01/31/happy-birthday-claude-dan-pinkerton
“Corporate Banjo,” “The Costume,” and “Counting Calories.” Umbrella Factory
https://issuu.com/blog-site/docs/ufm32_final
“Little Schema.” Cimarron Review
https://cimarronreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/pinkertonforweb.pdf
“The Peloponnesian War.” Columbia Review
https://issuu.com/thecolumbiareview/docs/thecolumbiareview_spring2017
“The Speaking Bones.” Diagram
https://thediagram.com/18_1/pinkerton.html
“Trap Door out of the War.” Aquifer: Florida Review online
https://cah.ucf.edu/floridareview/article/trap-door-out-of-the-war/
“Terror’s Middle Name Is Laughter.” Permafrost
https://www.uaf.edu/permafrostmag/online-issues/issue-38.2/terrors-middle-name.php
“Confession” and “Teaching Hospital.” Diode
http://diodepoetry.com/v7n1/content/pinkerton_d.html
“Holiday, Post-Eclipse.” The Destroyer
https://www.thedestroyermag.com/archive/vol002.2_2013/text.php?author=dan
“My Encounter with the Sage.” Permafrost
https://www.uaf.edu/permafrostmag/online-issues/issue-35.2/my-encounter.php
“Kingdom of Long Sleep” RipRap
https://cla.csulb.edu/departments/english/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/CSULB_2013_RipRap_Volume_35.pdf
“Snack Alcove,” “Costume Party,” “Appetites,” “Fire Party,” “Miracle Monster,” “Needs,” and “Hunger.” Panhandler
https://panhandlermagazine.com/poetry/dan-pinkerton/
“Harbinger, Contrail.” Devil’s Lake
https://dept.english.wisc.edu/devilslake/issues/2012_fall/pinkerton.html
“Proposed Ordinance to Ban Automatons” and “Spoils to the House.” Superstition Review
https://superstitionreview.asu.edu/issue10/poetry/danielpinkerton
“You Can’t Have Days of Thunder Forever.” The Journal
https://thejournalmag.org/archives/1383
“Next Stop, Nitroglycerin.” Sixth Finch
https://sixthfinch.com/pinkerton3.html
“Bad Sushi,” “Operating on Trunkville,” and “Unpleasantness on Baja.” Softblow
https://www.softblow.org/danielpinkerton.html
“How the Other Half Files Its Teeth.” Boston Review
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/pinkerton-how-the-other-half-files-its-teeth/
“Alleged Aviation Disaster, Case File #30024.” Diagram
https://thediagram.com/10_4/pinkerton.html
“Organ Stampede.” Pank
https://pankmagazine.com/piece/daniel-pinkerton/
“The Machine Is Whispering Futility.” Euphony
https://euphonyjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/spring-09.pdf
“Why I Feel We Are Winning the War on Competency.” Sixth Finch
https://sixthfinch.com/pinkerton2.html
“Wolfish Gaps in the Education.” Sixth Finch
https://sixthfinch.com/pinkerton1.html
“Prayer/Sleep Intermezzo.” Diagram
https://thediagram.com/8_6/pinkerton.html
“The Fifties, Maybe.” Diagram
https://thediagram.com/8_1/pinkerton.html
“Thoughts at Sixteen Weeks.” Yalobusha Review
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1664&context=yr
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