Mark Hendrickson is a gay poet and former psychiatric nurse living in the Des Moines area. A 2024 Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, his work appears in McNeese Review, Vestal Review, The Ekphrastic Review, and others.
Selected work
A Paler Shade of Beige
Bipolar Poetry, 2026
While Tapping My Foot
The New Verse News, 2025
The Beginning/The End
SWING, 2025
Summer Rain
The Ekphrastic Review, 2025
Small Town Boy
Short Reads, 2025
The Daughters of Atlas
The Ekphrastic Review, 2025
ENOUGH WITH THE VISTAS ALREADY
The New Verse News, 2025
Haiku/Senryu
Various, 2025
Used Balloons
Five Minutes Lit, 2024
Three Micros
Variant Lit, 2023
Vanity Press
Five Minutes Lit, 2024
Courtship
Short Reads, 2024
Long-Term Unemployment
Vestal Review, 2025
Summer Samaritan
The Bookends Review, 2025
4 Haiku
The Marbled Sigh, 2025
Swamp Thing
The New Verse News, 2025
The Nearest Thing to a Straight Path
Unlost: Found Poetry & Art, 2025
Picture the Universe
Unlost: Found Poetry & Art, 2025
Never, Never, the Ouija Board
Boudin, 2024
What Icarus Tells the Bartender After Only Two Old-Fashioneds
Spellbinder Mag, 2024
The Talk
Coin-Operated Press Zines, 2024
Adoption/Eviction
Passionfruit Review, 2024
Washed Away
Five Minutes Lit, 2023
Pinball Wizard
SWING, 2023
ECO-LINGUISTICS
Doubleback Review, 2023
it comes in waves
Honeyguide Literary Magazine, 2023