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Thank you to the editors and publishers who selected my poems.  

Recent Publications

Books

Let Other Hounds, a debut collection

Newburg, OR: Fernwood, forthcoming 2026. 

These poems break silence about sexual abuse at church more than fifty years since encounters with a serial pedophile. Selected for the 2024 Idaho Prize for Poetry long list by judge Holbert Jackson, the collection  considers how to live with the aftermath of sexual assault of a child and how to employ silence as a rejuvenating force. 

www.fernwoodpress.com

The Edited Tongue: A Family's Year with ALS

Los Angeles: Bottlcap Press, Feb. 12, 2025. 

This chapbook is a medical memoir in verse, arcing from the moment of diagnosis to caregiver stress to loss of voice as a way of understanding the brutal diagnosis of Lou Gehrig's, a neurogenetic disorder that is described as "always fatal." Available at: www.bottlcap.press/products/edited


Poems

Please seek these poems in the beautiful journals and online publications which have selected them.

Caladrius's Bed

Persephone Literary Magazine. January 2025: p. 10.

https://www.persephoneliterary.com/january-2025

Haboob

Behind the Rain, OkieBookcast

January 15, 2025

https://www.instagram.com/p/DE2dvOxR7Je/

The Edited Tongue: A Collage of the ALS Study Card

The Calendula Review: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. Inhale/Exhale Issue, Fall 2024, p. 28

https://www.thecalendulareview.com/issue-3-inhale-exhale

Shakespeare's Father Gets ALS

The Calendula Review: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. Inhale/Exhale Issue, Fall 2024, p. 29

https://www.thecalendulareview.com/issue-3-inhale-exhale

Calling My Brother to the Death-Night Watch

The Calendula Review: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. Inhale/Exhale Issue, Fall 2024, p. 30

https://www.thecalendulareview.com/issue-3-inhale-exhale

Lou Gehrig's Prayer

Medmic, Winter Contest Winner

Nov. 8, 2024

https://medmic.com/lou-gehrigs-prayer-2/

Variations on Winter in Oklahoma

Five poems and photographs selected for the 2024 Bill Holm Witness Prize for poems about place by Writer's Rising Up. 

https://weyoumewrite.blogspot.com/2024/12/2024-winter-in-variations-bill-holm.html

It's All Good

Pennine Platform, Issue 96, 2024. p. 33.

https://wwww.pennineplatform.com

Cavalier, Upon Being Shot

The Rising Phoenix Review

https://therisingphoenixreview.wordpress.com/2024/09/11/cavalier-upon-being-shot-by-scott-lamascus/

Marvel at Him

Active Muse

http://www.activemuse.org/2024_Collections/varsha/poems/Scott_LaMascus.html

What Atonement Do I Seek?

Active Muse

http://www.activemuse.org/2024_Collections/varsha/poems/Scott_LaMascus.html

March of the Poster Boys

New Verse News

https://newversenews.blogspot.com/search?q=Scott+lamascus

Greetings, From Summer

Hoot Review, Issue 160, December, 2024

https://www.hootreview.com/2024/12/31/hoot-postcard-160-december-2024/

Lent In The Cross Timbers

Teleios: A Journal to Promote Holistic Christian Spiritualilty

Summer 2023, Vol. 3, No. 2

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/67408ebf2616d44e56f239e9/t/675c0da91cb4a052ce0ae14c/1734086059640/Teleios+Journal+Volume+3+Issue+2.pdf

Mending Fences, or Lines on Watching the Evacuation of Kabul Airport, 2021

Red Door Magazine

Vol.32

https://reddoormagazine.com/product/red-door-magazine-32-presale/

Walking Peachtree with Georgina Klege

Epiphany

https://epiphanyzine.com/features/walking-peachtree-lamascus

Hounds in the Attic

The Altadena Review

In Synergy with Jane Szabo's "Don't Forget"

https://altadenapoetryreview.com/hounds-in-the-attic-by-scott-lamascus/

Tom's La Finca, Key West

Half and One

From "Four Postcards From Florida" 

March 29, 2023

https://halfandone.com/four-postcards-from-florida/

Migration Dread, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, 1978

Bracken

Issue X

https://www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-x/migration-dread-kingfisher-county-oklahoma-1978-by-scott-lamascus

Quicksand Again!

Red Ogre Review,

Issue 2022, No. 12

https://ogre.red/issues/2022-12/2022-12-lamascus-scott/

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