Publications and Awards
Photo by Alexis Rhone Fancher
Published by MacQueen’s Quinterly Issue 26: 1 January 2025
“After Reading Aitken’s A Zen Wave: Bashō’s Haiku and Zen”http://www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ26/Elman-After-Aitken.aspx
Published by MacQueen’s Quinterly Issue 26: 1 January 2025
“Avatars of the Blue Planet”
http://www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ26/Elman-Blue-Planet.aspx
Published by MacQueen’s QuinterlyIssue 25: 22 September 2024
“184 Steps”
http://www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ25/Elman-184-Steps.aspx
Published by MacQueen’s QuinterlyIssue 24: 30 August 2024
“Belong to Light”
“Snowy Egrets on Santa Monica Bay”
http://www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ24/Elman-Two-Poems.aspx
Published by MacQueen’s Quinterly Issue 23: 28 April 2024
“The Veil and the Song”
http://www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ23/Elman-Veil-Song.aspx
“Fortune Teller”
http://www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ23/Elman-Fortune-Teller.aspx
“Bojangles Love”
http://www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ23/Elman-Bojangles-Love.aspx
“Tagine (Or, The Art of Cooking)”
http://www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ23/Elman-Tagine.aspx
“Cul-de-sac”
http://www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ23/Elman-Cul-de-sac.aspx
Published by MacQueen’s Quinterly Issue 22: 4 Feb. 2024
“Because the World is Spinning”
http://www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ22/Elman-World-Spinning.aspx
“No Hay Palabras”
http://www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ22/Elman-Palabras.aspx
“Too Late”
http://www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ22/Elman-Too-Late.aspx
Published by Cultural Daily
Featured Poet: January 5, 2023
“The Prosciutto Ambulance”
“The Offering”
https://culturaldaily.com/marcus-elman-two-poems/
“Café Kindness”
2020 Joan Ramseyer Memorial Anthology
https://www.lulu.com/shop/brett-ramseyer/sunbeams-the-2020-joan-ramseyer-memorial-poetry-contest-anthology/paperback/product-m5zk6e.html?page=1&pageSize=4
Method and Mystery (a textbook) 2019
“THE BOULEVARDS OF LOS ANGELES”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUU5Kv1m_ZQ
“THE BOULEVARDS OF LOS ANGELES”
Honorable Mention, Beyond Baroque 2017 Poetry Prize, judged by Matthew Zapruder, announced 2018
https://www.beyondbaroque.org/Documents/PressReleasePoetryContest_BB-4.pdf
Featured Poet, Cultural Weekly (September 27, 2018)
“THE BOULEVARDS OF LOS ANGELES”
https://www.culturalweekly.com/marcus-elman-boulevards-los-angeles/
“Sleepspeak”
Published in JMPC 2018 Anthology
‘Too Late”
Jack Grapes Prize 2018, semi-finalist
“THE BOULEVARDS OF LOS ANGELES”
The Best of The Poetry Salon 2013 -- 2018
https://www.amazon.sg/Poetry-Salon-2013-2018-Claire-Acerno/dp/1794400249