Links to my favorites:
Everything so far:
“Citrus Season” | Uppagus | August 2025
“October” | We/Ourselves anthology | Smith & Kraus | April 2025
"The Missionaries” | Gay & Lesbian Review | April 2025
“January 2025” | New Words Press | March 2025
“Soon” | The Bitchin’ Kitsch | July 2024
“Cicadas” | boats against the current | August 2023
“everything we need” | underscore_magazine | May 2023
“Tennessee Law SB3| underscore_magazine | May 2023
“For [Redacted]” | Bender | May 2023
“See You Next Time” | Adelaide | April 2023
“Gay Transgender Sex Opera” | Pink Disco Magazine | March 2023
“Every Job, a Different Gender” | Healthy Rich | April 2023
“Fat Camp” | Insider | 2023
Poems for Employees:
In his debut chapbook, Poems for Employees, Morris McLennan explores alienation under capitalism, free will, and yearning. After a sad year of office work, McLennan felt compelled to articulate labor in all of its complexity, as both delicate and violent. There is nothing more poetic than the office. And the office is the center of the universe — of all friends and lovers and moments of introspection.
With mundane, sarcastic, and straightforward voice, McLennan outlines the emotional absurdism of being a worker. Through character-focused verse and prose poems, Poems for Employees paints the story of suffering through a job while falling in love with life.
Available for purchase here.