Abbie Kiefer

Forthcoming

• "A Brief History of Agriculture in Aroostook County," Ploughshares

• "A Brief History of Employment," RHINO

• "A Brief History of the Sisters of Mercy in Portland, Maine," Southern Indiana Review

• "Eye Exam Nearing Mid-Life," Poetry Northwest

• "He Asks Why They Didn’t Just Use Fire Extinguishers at Mount St. Helens," Boulevard

• "Paring Knife with Ripe Fruit," Shenandoah

2023

• "A Brief History of Yankee Thrift, Yankee Ingenuity, and Yankee Work Ethic," Sixth Finch

• "On Jeopardy!, You Can Only Ask Questions," The Ilanot Review

2022

• "In Praise of Minor," Tinderbox Poetry Journal (finalist for the Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize)

• "Trading in at Ray Diamond Ford" and "What I Know," Ninth Letter

• "They’re Building a Rocket That Will Fly Itself," The Boiler

• "Karate Class" and "We vote to build a new school and I cry," Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts

• "A History of Work," Cave Wall

• "While He Works, the Electrician Chats," The Maine Review

• "My Dentist Detects Occlusal Loss," Frontier Poetry

2021

• "On Antiques Roadshow, a Quilt Might Bring $600 at Auction," Split Lip

• "On Anne of Green Gables, Matthew Collapses in the Pasture," Ruminate

• "The Love Ridge Loop," Nashville Review (selected by Kwame Dawes for American Life in Poetry)

• "Revitalization Project: Levine's Clothing," One (Jacar Press)

• "My Friend Tells Me About the Last Day at the Bass Shoe Factory" and "When the Flood Came," Arts & Letters (nominated for Best New Poets)

• "E.A. Robinson Leaves by Rail," The Common

• "Things We Can't Remember," Poet Lore

2020

• "The handyman I hire is new to this," Passages North (nominated for Best of the Net)

• "On The Joy of Painting, at 2 a.m., Bob Ross Promises Anyone Can Do This," Crab Creek Review 

• "International Paper Makes an Announcement," Mud Season Review

• "Groundhog," Cider Press Review

• "On Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, Fred Rogers Explains Thunder," Spoon River Poetry Review

• "Tending," Glass: A Journal of Poetry

• "When My Mom has been Dead Eight Months, They Tear Down Lucky Lanes," Carve

• "When My Mom Has Been Dead Two Years, the Lot for the Torn-Down Bowling Alley Still Stands Empty," Blue Earth Review 

• "Good Night from the Nursing Home," The Knicknackery

• "Dodge" The Cincinnati Review, miCRo series (longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50)

• "I Don’t Like Baseball, Just the Red Sox," Hobart

• "Revitalization Project: Mercy Hospital Nurses' Dormitory," The Cortland Review 

• "On The Wonder Years, Wayne Punches Kevin Again" and "Revitalization Project: 6.5 Miles of Track, Abandoned by Maine Central Railroad," the museum of americana 

• "Walking Maple Hill," Up the Staircase Quarterly 

• "On Grey's Anatomy, a Woman Dies of Cancer," Bodega 

• "August," Booth

2019

• "Revitalization Project," The Sow's Ear Poetry Review

• "Resolutions," Whale Road Review

• "Getting Groceries" and "Revitalization Project: St. Mary's," december

• "The Possibility of Loss," Naugatuck River Review

• "Women's Work," Oyster River Pages

• "Our Neighbors on February 7, with a High of 58°" and "Smoke Break," Sweet Tree Review 

• "Advice," The Penn Review

• "Small Funerals," The Comstock Review