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Red Rock Review
Red Rock Review

Published in Issue 51.2.

Hot Honey

Cloudbank
Cloudbank

On the Other Side of the Door

3rd Wednesday
3rd Wednesday

Poetry Contest, Honorable Mention, Spring 2024.

Craft Talk

Silver Birch Press
Silver Birch Press

Toss Well to Coat Evenly

Part of their “Spices and Seasonings” Series

2021 Hal Prize
2021 Hal Prize

prize winner announcement

honorable mention
haircut

Half Mystic
Half Mystic

seasons (department of rising)

Sweet: A Literary Confection
Sweet: A Literary Confection

Published in Issue 14.2.

young :: ber :: ry

Quartet
Quartet

Published in Fall 2021.

Drive-Thru

Moss Piglet
Moss Piglet

Two poems

Deliberately Walking
Chaps

Portage Magazine
Portage Magazine

Published 2021.

Season of Sun-Bleached Mandible

Zig : Zag
Zig : Zag

Published Spring 2021

Link to poem

Two Poems
Two Poems

Published in Issue 4.1.

Haggis

Winkles & Whelks

Owl
Owl

Runner-up Princemere Poetry Prize 2020.

Link to Poem

I Carry My Vessel from Water to Water
I Carry My Vessel from Water to Water

Published August 2020

Link to poem

Slow Boil
Slow Boil

Published in Fall 2020 Issue

Link to poem

Black Friday
Black Friday

Published in Into the Void

Link to poem

Gender Bias, The Oak Trees Have Seen Everything
Gender Bias, The Oak Trees Have Seen Everything

Published in The Write Launch

Link to poems

Tickle Back
Tickle Back

Published in Up North Lit

Link to poem

Where There's Smoke
Where There's Smoke

Published in Adanna Literary Review

Link to poem here

Print journal available for purchase here

Goulash
Goulash

Published in Barstow & Grand

Link to poem

Link to issue

Bra Burning
Bra Burning

Published in Conclave Journal

Link to poem here

Print journal available for purchase here

eBook journal available for purchase here

Bath Night
Bath Night

Published in Stirring.

Link to poem here.

Erasures
Erasures

Two of my erasures are out in the world with Two Hawks Quarterly. You reach a certain age, and you can start erasing yourself. Poetry in that.

”Writing Try Harder”
”Young Version of the Day’s Fluster”

Read poems here: https://twohawksquarterly.com/genre_x/2019/05/25/erasures-by-tori-grant-welhouse/

Spectral Lines
Spectral Lines

“Never Doubt” and “Hunger of the Mind” published in Spectral Lines, a collection by Alternating Current.

Link to “Hunger of the Mind” here.

Link to “Never Doubt” here.

Anthology available for purchase here.

50-50 Anthology by Quill's Edge Press
50-50 Anthology by Quill's Edge Press

Three poems from STASHED: A Primer in Lunch Poems.

Solitude, Sex & Intuition click here

The Shortest Distance
The Shortest Distance

Shared at the event.

Link to poem here.

Printable PDF here.

Melissopalynology
Melissopalynology

Published in WISCONSIN POETS’ CALENDAR 2019

Link to poem here.

Scottish Husband
Scottish Husband

Published by Mayday Magazine

Link to poem here.

Sunsets are an Occasion
Sunsets are an Occasion

Published in the WISCONSIN POETS' CALENDAR 2018.

Link to poem here.
 

Three Poems
Three Poems

A Luminous Kind of Pink link

Side-by-Side link

Wild Asparagus link

Poet Advocate

Tori is a regional VP with the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets (wfop.org) and coordinates poetry readings and other poetry events in the Green Bay/Northeast region. Learn more about events and area poets at the region's website www.houseofthetomato.com.

Arts education

Tori received her Bachelor's of Arts Degree in English with a Professional Emphasis from Carroll University, the "Pioneer College" of Wisconsin. She went on to receive her Master's of Fine Arts Degree from Antioch University's International Studies Program, studying in London, England, with poets, playwrights, novelists, essayists and Cambridge academics.

“In this lovely-ghastly world... we are all of us half-creating and half-discovering.”
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