Poetry and Stories

Poetry, Short Stories and other Prose

As a poet, Stephen has had poems published by Panoply Literary Zine, Menteur Magazine, Written Tales’ Renewal, Boundless (Anthology of the Rio Grande International Poetry Festival), Z Publishing House, Global Poemic, and Aquinas College’s Sampler. His published poems include Vanilla Clouds, Autumnal Leaves, Don’t Speak My Name When I am Gone, Weathered Leather, I am in Taiwan, and There are Two Kinds of People in This World.

His short stories have been published by Harvard Children’s Stories, Bengalaru Review, and Celestal Review. These stories include Two Kites, Endra’s Mask, and Sea and Sky, I Will Be.

Below, you can learn about Stephen’s published works. Some of these you can read online, and some others are available for purchase in anthologies.

My short story Two Kites is published by Harvard College Children’s stories. You can read it (page 58) and others by clicking the picture above.

My poems Don’t Speak my Name When I Am Gone, Lonelier than the First Day of School, and My Chest Was Like the Coconut, and Gravity and the Heart are the 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 editions of Boundless, the Anthology of Poetry from the Rio Grande International Poetry Festival. You can order these anthologies by clicking the picture above.

My poem One to None is published in the June 2021 edition of Litterateur RW.

My poem Was I Born Hollow is published by Panoply Literary Zine.

The Menteur published my poem Vanilla Skies. The Menteur is the “literary and arts magazine produced by the Paris School of Arts and Culture, part of the University of Kent.”

My short story Endra’s Mask was published by Bengaluru Review.

My short story Sea and Sky, I Will Be was published by Celestal Review.

Click above to read my poem I am in Taiwan and other poems for free.

Included in Written Tales’ Renewal is my poem Autumnal Leaves.

You can find my poem Vanilla Clouds in Michigan’s Best Emerging Poets, 2019, An Anthology!