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Thanks to everyone who read and commented on the original post. The following updates have been made to the format:

• Order of entries changed to descending order – latest publication first.
• Full links provided for each publication. (“Short” links, which seem to be preferred by some platforms, do not always work.)
• Updates to the list are indicated by the “As of” date, below.

This new section of the blog is an ongoing list of my published writing under my byline, Jackie Oldham.

As of August 17, 2025:

Poems

Running Total: 20 Poems

“Strange Invaders: The Chinese Spotted Lanternfly” [August 17, 2025, Strange Invaders: The Chinese Spotted Lanternfly by Jackie Oldham (BUGS & INSECTS Series) | Silver Birch Press]

“Now, What?” [July 28, 2025, https://oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-jackie-oldham-6/]

“Unfinished Business: Some Things Just Don’t Add Up” [January 1, 2025, Jackie Oldham Verse-Virtual January 2025

“To Save This Broken House” [December 9, 2024, https://spillwords.com/to-save-this-broken-house/]

“The Circle of Life, Or How I Became My Mother’s Moth-er” [April 25, 2024, The Circle of Life, Or How I Became My Mother’s Moth-er by Jackie Oldham (ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER Series) | Silver Birch Press (wordpress.com)]

“By Choice, I Live Alone” [April 13, 2024, By Choice, I Live Alone, poetry by Jackie Oldham at Spillwords.com]

“As the Last Blue Moon Was Setting” [January 3, 2024, https://oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-jackie-oldham-4/]

* “Piano Players” [December 5, 2023, in WOC This Way for Poetry, Issue #2]

* “The Repast” [December 5, 2023, in WOC This Way for Poetry, Issue #2] (* = available as a downloadable .pdf file, at https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:668c9290-0c31-47f8-943e-de5cb2d121d2]

“Chaos – 2022” [http://www.minyanmag.com/jackieoldham.html]

“All These Things Are Broken” [August 17, 2022, https://spillwords.com/all-these-things-are-broken/]

“Ode to Lucille Clifton” [June 28, 2022, A Lovely Place, A Fighting Place, A Charmer: The Baltimore Anthology, Gary M. Almeter & Rafael Alvarez, Editors, Belt Publishing, Cleveland, OH]

“Our Bodies, Our Rights” [June 27, 2022, https://oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-jackie-oldham-3/]

“Of Their Own Time Immemorial” [February 12, 2022, https://spillwords.com/of-their-own-time-immemorial/]

“Our Latest Fashion Accessories…” [December 31, 2021, https://www.rigorous-mag.com/v5i4/jackie-oldham.html]

“Brood X Symphony (The 17-Year Cicadas)” [July 12, 2021, https://globalpoemic.wordpress.com/2021/07/12/brood-x-symphony-the-17-year-cicadas/]

“The Forgotten Mask” [February 24, 2021, https://globalpoemic.wordpress.com/2021/02/24/the-forgotten-mask/]

“I Don’t Want to Play The “Capitol” Edition of Clue™” [January 25, 2021, Poem by Jackie Oldham – oddball magazine-2]

“Just Another Covid Saturday” [October 9, 2020, https://globalpoemic.wordpress.com/2020/10/10/just-another-covid-19-saturday/]

“Golem Emet” [September 24, 2020, Poem by Jackie Oldham – oddball magazine]

Short Stories

“Age-isms” [Fall 2019 online issue, “Age-isms” by Jackie Oldham (midnightandindigo.com)]

Newspaper Editorials

“Changing Baltimore’s negative narrative” [Letter to the Editor, 2018,
Changing Baltimore’s negative narrative – Baltimore Sun]

“Road Safety is not an us and them proposition” [OP-ED, July 15, 2017, Road safety is not an us and them proposition – Baltimore Sun]

“Kent State: A Perspective [OP-ED, February 17, 1981; Posted below (Digital version not available)]

Album and Concert Reviews – The BJA Newsletter (Baltimore Jazz Alliance)

Summer 2025, p. 7: ABOUT TOWN, “Lafayette Gilchrist and the New Volcanoes, Featuring Rapper Eze Jackson, Light Up Baltimore at Beth Am Synagogue

Fall 2024, p. 1: “Next of Kin: Mark Osteen and CSJQ Celebrate Familial and Cultural Roots

Spring 2024, p. 8: “Movin’ and Groovin’ The Lamkin Way”

Winter 2024, p. 8: “Greg Hatza and Enayet Hossain: Hands Entwined”

Summer 2023, p. 1: “Ravita’s ORIANA Evokes Sights and Sounds of Daybreak in the City”

Winter 2023, *p. 4: “In The Valley: Todd Marcus Jazz Orchestra; *p. 5: “Brandon Woody’s Upendo Gives a Stirring Concert