brendan bense

“Distance” - Big Table Press (2024)

“Sometimes the World Stands Perfectly Still” - Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose (2024)

“Omen” - Whale Road Review (2023)

Nominated for Best of the Net

Nominated for Best Spiritual Literature (Orison Books)

“How Can You Trust Us?” - Okay Donkey (2023)

“Nesting” - Sepia (2023)

“Haloween” - Variant Literature (2023)

“Grief” - Rust + Moth (2022)

“Four Steps to Disappearing”, “Two Questions, One of Which You Answered” - Novus Literary Arts Journal (2021)

“How to Fall Safely” - West Trade Review (2020)

“The Song of Our Janitor” - Press53 (2020)

“In the Hospital Room” - The Bookends Review (2020)

“After Tragedy” - Sheila-Na-Gig (2019)

“Losing Memory” (archived) - Columbia Journal (2018)

“Savannah”, “I Too Know”, “What the House Sings” - Dragonpoet Review (Print) (2018)

“Before” - Snapdragon Journal (Print) (2018)

“Growing Old” - Crab Orchard Review (2017)