Some Poetry to Read Online (in Alphabetical Order by Review)
2River View: "The Pictures are on a Tilt" and "To Matthew"
all roads will lead you home: "Windfall" and "Root Binding"
Amarillo Bay: "On the First Rain after the Drought"
Apogee: "Phlebotomy"
Arcturus: "The Onion as a Vessel of Memory"
Atticus Review: "Trace Elements"
Beloit Poetry Journal: "Bail"
Blue Bonnet Review: "The Day I Bought a Gun"
Blue Fifth Review: "Hook Echo"
Cider Press Review: "Emergency Supplies"
Cider Press Review: "Evergreen"
Cider Press Review: "Incubate"
Common Good Books (Garrison Keillor): "Bounding Flight"
Connotation Press: "Papa's Armistice" and "Amaranthine Hour"
drafthorse: "Calling In" and "Night Elevator"
Foundry: "Limit"
Heron Tree: "Fall Astronomy"
Hospital Drive: "For Days Now"
Juxtaprose Literary Magazine: "Adjacency"
Mobius: "What the Cats Notice about the Couple"
Prime Number Magazine: "Bear Country," "Horse Dealer," and "Arachnology"
Qu: "Accelerate"
Rattle: "Shriven"
Rattle: "Tornado Alley"
Rattle (Poets Respond): "Anything Worth Saving"
Rattle (Poets Respond): "The Descent of the Germanwings"
Rattle (Poets Respond): "The Moon of a Moon is a Moonmoon"
Rattle (Poets Respond): "Sparrows"
Red River Review: "Buttermilk"
Rust + Moth: "The Capacity for Malignancy is Ancient"
Rust + Moth: "Pathologies"
THRUSH Poetry Journal: "Topography"
THRUSH Poetry Journal: "When Only Sage is Left"
Tupelo Quarterly: "The Killing Frost"
Valparaiso Poetry Review: "Bridling"
Valparaiso Poetry Review: "Outflow"
whimperbang: "They Gather Their Belongings" and "Physics of the Curve"
Reviews and Interviews
Lone Star Literary Life Review of The Traveler's Guide to Bomb City
Speaking of Marvels Interview: Amaranthine Hour
Amarillo Globe-News Interview
Audio and Video
Listen to Chera's High Plains Public Radio interview here.
Watch Chera's Panhandle PBS feature here. The link will go to Facebook, but you do not need a Facebook account to watch the video. You can also stream the full episode through PBS here.
Visual poems and selections from readings are available on YouTube. Play the below video to hear Chera read her poem "What I Taught Them" from her book The Traveler's Guide to Bomb City at the 2017 Scissortail Creative Writing Festival.
2River View: "The Pictures are on a Tilt" and "To Matthew"
all roads will lead you home: "Windfall" and "Root Binding"
Amarillo Bay: "On the First Rain after the Drought"
Apogee: "Phlebotomy"
Arcturus: "The Onion as a Vessel of Memory"
Atticus Review: "Trace Elements"
Beloit Poetry Journal: "Bail"
Blue Bonnet Review: "The Day I Bought a Gun"
Blue Fifth Review: "Hook Echo"
Cider Press Review: "Emergency Supplies"
Cider Press Review: "Evergreen"
Cider Press Review: "Incubate"
Common Good Books (Garrison Keillor): "Bounding Flight"
Connotation Press: "Papa's Armistice" and "Amaranthine Hour"
drafthorse: "Calling In" and "Night Elevator"
Foundry: "Limit"
Heron Tree: "Fall Astronomy"
Hospital Drive: "For Days Now"
Juxtaprose Literary Magazine: "Adjacency"
Mobius: "What the Cats Notice about the Couple"
Prime Number Magazine: "Bear Country," "Horse Dealer," and "Arachnology"
Qu: "Accelerate"
Rattle: "Shriven"
Rattle: "Tornado Alley"
Rattle (Poets Respond): "Anything Worth Saving"
Rattle (Poets Respond): "The Descent of the Germanwings"
Rattle (Poets Respond): "The Moon of a Moon is a Moonmoon"
Rattle (Poets Respond): "Sparrows"
Red River Review: "Buttermilk"
Rust + Moth: "The Capacity for Malignancy is Ancient"
Rust + Moth: "Pathologies"
THRUSH Poetry Journal: "Topography"
THRUSH Poetry Journal: "When Only Sage is Left"
Tupelo Quarterly: "The Killing Frost"
Valparaiso Poetry Review: "Bridling"
Valparaiso Poetry Review: "Outflow"
whimperbang: "They Gather Their Belongings" and "Physics of the Curve"
Reviews and Interviews
Lone Star Literary Life Review of The Traveler's Guide to Bomb City
Speaking of Marvels Interview: Amaranthine Hour
Amarillo Globe-News Interview
Audio and Video
Listen to Chera's High Plains Public Radio interview here.
Watch Chera's Panhandle PBS feature here. The link will go to Facebook, but you do not need a Facebook account to watch the video. You can also stream the full episode through PBS here.
Visual poems and selections from readings are available on YouTube. Play the below video to hear Chera read her poem "What I Taught Them" from her book The Traveler's Guide to Bomb City at the 2017 Scissortail Creative Writing Festival.