Poetry

Notable publication venues include Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum, The Lumiere Review, Maudlin House, Welter Journal, and more.

2024

• Across the Margin – Blackout, Highway Elegy, and Mother/Hunter (December)
• The Prose Poem – Dear Father (October)
• Libre – River Goddess Origin (September) 
• Periwinkle Pelican – Settled/Unsettled (September)
• Roi Fainéant – Artemis, Backside Hymn, From the Mouths of Great Aunts, Wind is, On a Sparse Summer Tuesday, Time, and Forming (July)
• New English Review – Hopeless Romantic, End, Right Now, and Always Here (May)
• Tiny Moments VIII, Bronzebird Books – Pam (May)
• The Jarfly Magazine – Sitting with My Dad, Talking About Heaven (Spring 2024 Issue)
• Ligeia Magazine –  Head On  (March)

2023

• Prolific Pulse Press, Anthology of Poetry (December)
• midsummer magazine – Archive.Org (December)
• University of Alabama's Call Me Brackets – Deserted and My Mother and I Never Babies, We Are Always Orange Peels (December)
• Ink Sweat and Tears – Dead of Winter (December)
• Mister Magazine – Taking Care and Ceres' Farm Ritual (October)
• Daily Drunk Magazine, Next Week On...: A Reality TV Anthology – Face (After Catfish: The TV Show) (September)
• Stone Circle Review – Sonder Carries Through the Local English Classrooms (August)
• Common Ground Review 2023 Poetry Contest – "In Case I Ever End Up on a True Crime Podcast " (July)
• East Lake Library 2023 Poetry Contest – Abecedarian Poem for Ryan, Back When, Green (All pieces received an honorable mention.)
• The Amazine – After "Glitch" by Taylor Swift (June)
• Poet Heroic Podcast – Wedded (June) (Episode 39) (This piece originally appeared in Volume Two of Paddler Press)
• Gnashing Teeth Publishing – Unspooling (April)
• the tide rises, the tide falls – Amphitrite Reads Hamlet (March)
• The Storms – Ginger (February) (Issue 2, Print)
• The Hyacinth Reivew – Two Lovers Reaching (A Spousal Collaboration) (February) (Written with Ryan Lage)
• Wine Cellar Press –  Namesake of Tragedy (Now Defunct) (February)
• Daily Drunk Magazine, Twilight: The Zine – ...with Charlie Swan (January)

Between 2019-2022 Lage had 155 poems published. Currently, Lage is editing these pieces and compiling them into two collections. Updates will be posted when these works are published and available. Below, enjoy Lages selected favorites from this era.

2022

• Tiny Wren Lit – Self Portrait as a Tornado
• Leavings – I Wrote Down a Dream Based on a Poem I Had About You (November Monthly Feature)
• Boats Against the Current – An Ode to My First Internet Friend (December) (Issue 1, Print)
• Miniskirt Magazine – Mower of His Dreams and Tractor Cab (November) (Issue 17: MICRO)
• Moss Puppy Mag – Borderline (November) (Issue 3 "Blades" Digital and Print, Page 107)
• Spoon River Poetry Review – A Neon Bar Sign and a Disco Ball Fall in Love (October) Print
• Stanchion Zine – Bear of My (October) (Print, Issue 9)
• Pulp Poets Press – In the Garden with Pam and Living Dreams (October)
• Unstamatic – If a Bear (October) (In Celebration of Katmai National Park's Fat Bear Week)
• Soft Star Magazine – If I Threw a Party (October)
• Thimble Literary Magazine – Revival (July)
• Maudlin House – Moon Sirens Drink Taco Bell Cheese Sauce (July)
• University of California Stanislaus' Penumbra Magazine – My Grave, Your Pulse (June) (Page 21)
• Dreams and Nightmares Anthology, Edited by Aura Martin  – Art de Cirque (May)
• Inklings Literary Magazine – Lessons From Cedar, My Last Tennis Match, and Cyberspace (April) (Spring 2022 Issue, Digital and Print) 
• The Lickety Split – Untitled (February) (Selected by Chen Chen)
• Sazeracs Smoky Ink – I Write You a Letter and My Hands Feel Sick and The Haunted Hymns of a Past Lover (February) 
• Poetry Super Highway – Lovers and Always (February) 
• The Haiku Foundation – Haiku (February) (Ekphrastic Haiku)
• A Thin Slice of Anxiety – Shedding, A Girl I Knew (Some Version of My Past Self That Cannot be Revived, Her Portrait, and Painting of a Sunset (February) 

2021

• The Lumiere Review – We Crowned Lana Del Rey (Now Defunct) (December)
• Ekstasis Magazine – When They Come Home for Christmas (December)
• Haikuniverse – Haiku (November) (Nominated for the SFPA Dwarf Stars Awards by the 2022 Anthology Editors.)
• seashores – Haiku (November) (Volume 7, Print)
• University of California Chico's Watershed Review – A Teacher's View (October)
• Paddler Press – Wedded (October) (Volume 2, "Roots & Wings", Print)
• seashores – Haiku (April) (Volume 6, Print)
• Ice Lolly Review – Voices (April) (Issue 8, Page 12)
• Akitsu Quarterly – Haiku and Haiku (March) (Spring 20201 Issue, Print)
• Twin Pies Literary – Pie Shop (February) 
• Wales Haiku Journal – Haiku (February) 
• The Aurora Journal – Near the Heavens (January) – Honorable Mention received for this issue.

2020

• Flora Fiction Magazine – Winter Days (December) (Volume 1, Issue 4, Print)
• Nightingale & Sparrow – Sun Stained (November) (Also included in Woodland print issue)
• The Haiku Foundation –  Haiku (November) (Connecting with Others Edition)
• Fathom Magazine – Bruises (November)
• The Haiku Foundation –  Haiku (November) (Hello/Goodbye Edition)
• Telepoem Booth and Lyrica Iowa – The Farmer (October) (2020 Lyrical Iowa Issue, Print) – Special Award for First-time entrant from Lyrical Iowa
• The Haiku Foundation –  Haiku (September) (Here/There Edition)
• The Haiku Foundation –  Haiku (July) (The Way of the Cat Edition)
• Asylum Magazine – Amid Anxiety (June) (Volume 27, Number 2, Print)
• Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum – Crabapple Haiku (Photo by Ryan Lage) 

2019

• Ekstasis Magazine – New Life (October)