Poems that you can read for free,  without any hassle 

Note: I’ve retired from poetry. You can find out about the retirement, the reasons for the decision, and the means of my farewell in the linked essays.

Retirement

Reasons

A big farewell

 

Now, here are some poems. Not all the links still work, as a number of publications have gone under.

 

https://rhinopoetry.org/poems/from-crossing-bedford-avenue-colin-dodds?fbclid=IwAR2iSGgnHBOWFoZSDn5fUo1turvZAncpz8J2SkkKA3Jkim6a8nErDUvIYbw

https://allthesins.co.uk/issues-2/issue-8-meaning/spill-o-the-crepuscular-pillar-colin-dodds/?fbclid=IwAR09o7sQCIfvASdCGR5lQzlIG2gIBuv2H3qUWCQTCmI27i2oQRY7S1s113I

https://www.8thstreetpublishing.com/poems/2018/9/7/4-poems-by-colin-dodds?fbclid=IwAR2dN6E_3P3k2tLa4poNLJr4OtBmK71nMiGGZdDjAnyY60XTZ9-tUtA-Wog

https://www.breakwaterreview.com/cardiopolis

https://blognostics.net/blognostics-an-innovative-experience-in-literature-poetry-and-art/2018/06/12/bn-sneak-peek-spokes-of-an-uneven-wheel-visiting-woody-creek-tavern-by-colin-dodds/?fbclid=IwAR0uAT9hbqx0NFA9mymeYd8J8w1xWotKgEYg_J_pZssH1B3K6zrsya0sTm8

https://punchdrunkpress.com/2018/05/15/dinosaurs-of-central-park-west-by-colin-dodds/?fbclid=IwAR0A8cu7Q6qbtNnoFA7jsSG-2kRIyFbgLMM6w9IGsLIxRpGjbhKQ_iT7FWU

http://www.cladesong.com/dodds.boroughs.html?fbclid=IwAR0E4egdk8fchKOi9Znzc07z_T-xld7ft2gvEXwsHEK93zG5pENKJ0_xufM

http://www.woodcoin.net/fsbw.dodds.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2xokZqDSfnTv0oQq5vNcZiM1UPTdqVyI7lASHJgLg7zeVmtiCDevRPcCc

https://www.boulderweekly.com/entertainment/words/landscape-mid-consequence/?fbclid=IwAR3s-iHASCP4o7IBVY78xXYw2T5puws8namWhF6NcrAaEJ_gI3riarRtjHY

http://nthandareview.com/poetry-from-colin-dodds/?fbclid=IwAR0XsFUvyGhqybx8fIi1qFoaGPdaw16DScDh1648BbIkCRjx4llyd8FvFEk

http://www.cladesong.com/dodds.thelatetrain.html?fbclid=IwAR2OZyGmPKY07RpI3qwxpGD5o8zYIs9vICNxSE7kylrNz1TFyf1O4e59z2I

https://blognostics.net/blognostics-an-innovative-experience-in-literature-poetry-and-art/2018/06/04/bn-sneak-peek-spokes-of-an-uneven-wheel-by-colin-dodds/?fbclid=IwAR0hF1W0kcOZT2-VmHtIZhSBiDITR95_IOnd6IzGcJMTawRbKBHE9eUGym8

http://www.easystreetmag.com/two-poems-by-colin-dodds/

http://adelaidemagazine.org/p_colin_dodds.html

https://thebigwindowsreview.wordpress.com/2018/01/16/colin-dodds-a-fugitive/

https://visitantlit.com/2017/12/18/leasing-in-the-leviathan/

https://hobocampreview.blogspot.com/2018/01/colin-dodds.html

https://punchdrunkpress.com/2018/01/24/bargaining-position-by-colin-dodds/

http://www.woodcoin.net/cpem.dodds.pdf

http://tropmag.com/2018/where-we-sit/

http://www.gimmickpress.com/worthless-treasures/2018/1/1/laughlin-nevada-by-colin-dodds

https://anotherchicagomagazine.net/2017/10/30/at-exit-zero/

https://www.spidermirror.com/…/poetry-2-poems-by-colin-dodds

https://www.gravelmag.com/colin-dodds.html

http://herecomeseveryone.me/spill-os-prayer-by-colin-dodds/

http://forthmagazine.com/other/2017/09/booze-bed-two-poems-colin-dodds/

http://blognostics.net/blognostics-an-innovative-experience-in-literature-poetry-and-art/2017/08/01/angel-span-colin-dodds/

http://blognostics.net/blognostics-an-innovative-experience-in-literature-poetry-and-art/2017/07/09/leak-ramparts-colin-dodds/

http://heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/poetry-by-colin-dodds

http://spadinaliteraryreview.com/SR22-Ver-01.html

http://blognostics.net/blognostics-an-innovative-experience-in-literature-poetry-and-art/2017/07/20/budget-traveler-colin-dodds/

https://theopiatemagazine.com/2017/06/26/revisiting-the-bar-by-colin-dodds/

http://blognostics.net/blognostics-an-innovative-experience-in-literature-poetry-and-art/2017/06/18/oh-happy-captive-colin-dodds/

http://blognostics.net/blognostics-an-innovative-experience-in-literature-poetry-and-art/2017/06/28/inside-joke-colin-dodds/

http://whimperbang.com/issue-14/colin-dodds/

http://twohawksquarterly.com/2017/05/30/creatures-sleep-colin-dodds/

https://theliterarynest.com/issues/vol-2-issue-4/poetry/colin-dodds/

http://mondaynightlit.com/?page_id=948

http://exterminatingangel.com/eap-the-magazine/potsherds-and-roadside-deer/

https://sicklitmagazine.com/2017/02/20/poetry-collection-by-colin-dodds/

http://five2onemagazine.com/micropoetry-by-colin-dodds-thesideshow/

http://authormark.com/artman2/publish/Innisfree24COLIN_DODDS2.shtml

https://thelightekphrastic.com/february-2017-issue-29/franklin-dodds-february-2017/

http://www.eastlit.com/eastlit-december-2016/eastlit-content-december-2016/deathless-gremlins-poems/

https://visitantlit.com/2016/11/10/in-the-infraction/

https://drylandlit.org/2016/07/12/the-place/

https://drylandlit.org/2016/07/26/millennia-of-buffoons/

https://drylandlit.org/2016/07/28/parnassus-after-the-muses-lost-the-lease/

http://www.indianavoicejournal.com/2016/11/four-poems-by-colin-dodds-rogues.html

https://heavyfeatherreview.com/2016/11/10/poetry-the-again-of-it-by-colin-dodds/

https://wildgoosepoetryreview.wordpress.com/fall-2016/colin-dodds-new-music/

https://wildgoosepoetryreview.wordpress.com/fall-2016/colin-dodds-you-eff-oh/

https://wildgoosepoetryreview.wordpress.com/fall-2016/colin-dodds-a-declaration-of-war-on-a-lottery-ticket/

http://www.fishfoodmagazine.com/poetry/2016/12/4/relax-responsibility

http://madrasmag.in/article/three-poems/

http://thefuriousgazelle.com/2016/12/06/poetry-by-colin-dodds/

http://www.whlreview.com/no-11.4/poetry/ColinDodds.pdf

http://www.cakeandgrapes.com/spill-o-trilogy.html

http://www.local-nomad.net/article/colin-dodds/

http://www.theblackstonereview.com/articles/eternity-and-who-blame

http://www.literaryorphans.org/playdb/cannibal-counter-colin-dodds/

https://theawl.com/colin-dodds-winner-bars-7a99ad9f5577#.3t9bq9ffp

http://nonbinaryreview.com/tip-of-his-tongue/

https://fourthandsycamore.com/2016/06/22/minotaurs-and-carpool-mothers-poetry-by-colin-dodds/

http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/the-unreal/poem-grand-ole-spill-o

http://blacksunlit.com/2016/01/two-poems-by-colin-dodds/

http://talkingbook.pub/trials-spill-o/

http://triggerfishcriticalreview.com/the-word-in-the-third-millennium-colin-dodds/

http://triggerfishcriticalreview.com/olympus-on-the-coast-in-the-third-millennium-colin-dodds/

http://triggerfishcriticalreview.com/hades-in-the-third-millennium-colin-dodds/

http://thecresset.org/2015/Advent/PoemDodds_A15.html

http://twinenterprises.com/the_fear_of_monkeys/issue_twentythree/spill-o_charms_a_lady_cop.htm

https://glintjournal.wordpress.com/issue-6-fall-2015/poetry-glint-6/colin-dodds-glint-6/

http://www.lowestoftchronicle.com/issues/issue24/colindodds.html

http://www.carcinogenicpoetry.com/search/label/Colin%20Dodds

http://www.jennymag.org/spring-15-issue/spill-os-small-night-out

http://www.jennymag.org/spring-15-issue/spill-os-date-with-the-ghosts

http://thelochravenreview.net/colin-dodds/

http://zombielogicreview.blogspot.com/2015/08/five-poems-by-colin-dodds.html

http://chicagoliterati.com/2015/08/07/the-spilliad-and-other-poems-by-colin-dodds/

http://www.juked.com/2015/04/colin-dodds-spill-o.asp

http://raysroadreview.com/poetry-by-colin-dodds/

http://inlandiajournal.org/2015/04/01/colin-dodds/

http://avatarreview.net/AV17/category/poetry/colin-dodds/

http://pbq.drexel.edu/colin-dodds-the-labyrinth-in-the-third-millennium/

http://www.radiuslit.org/2014/07/25/poem-by-colin-dodds-2/

http://issue8.thequotablelit.com/poetry/small-and-thirty-in-reno

http://www.talbot-heindl.com/jesus_on_cable_tv.html

http://obsessionlitmag.com/06_Spill-O%20Golden%20Hall.html

http://www.borderlinepoetry.info/image/34600802003

http://eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/god-is-a-smell-in-the-subway/

http://towerjournal.com/spring_2014/dodds.php

http://eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/the-daily-lives-of-the-prophets/

http://poemblog.voxpoetica.com/2013/02/14/love-poem-from-sfo.aspx?ref=rss

http://www.defenestrationmag.net/2012/12/a-shared-monastery-by-colin-dodds/

http://www.wordriot.org/archives/4819

http://www.potluckmag.com/three-poems-by-colin-dodds/

http://poemblog.voxpoetica.com/2013/01/10/los-angeles-during-the-fires.aspx

http://dailydoseoflit.com/2013/01/22/poem-colin-dodds-2/

http://roseredreview.org/2012-winter-colin-dodds/

http://nowplaying.citizensfordecentliterature.com/2012/12/dodds-3/

http://remarkabledoorways.com/2014/11/halloween-on-a-tuesday/

http://remarkabledoorways.com/2014/11/days-of-the-magic-joke/

http://dmdujour.wordpress.com/2012/12/03/colin-dodds-spillos-pissed-and-whistling-epistles-from-the-near-future-part-1/

http://dmdujour.wordpress.com/2012/12/11/colin-dodds-spillos-pissed-and-whistling-epistles-from-the-near-future-part-2/

http://dmdujour.wordpress.com/2012/12/18/colin-dodds-spillos-pissed-and-whistling-epistles-from-the-near-future-part-3/

https://sites.google.com/site/59rhpissue/colin-dodds

http://turksheadreview.tumblr.com/post/38148546468/god-dresses-differently-here

http://authormark.com/artman2/publish/INNISFREE_16COLIN_DODDS.shtml

http://www.otisnebula.com/otisnebula/ON7_Colin_Dodds.html

http://www.jackmagazine.com/issue6/poetcdodds.html

http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/features/poems/5-poems-by-colin-dodds.html

http://burningword.com/2013/04/colin-dodds/

http://www.kenningjournal.com/?s=dodds&submit=Search

http://milksugarliterature.com/colindodds_anindigestiblekernel.html

http://milksugarliterature.com/colindodds_asmallspiritualsuicide.html

http://milksugarliterature.com/colindodds_anoteongod.html

http://www.lightedplace.com/the-never-resolved.html

http://visitstsomewhere.blogspot.com/2013/01/montauk.html

http://themissingslate.com/2013/05/19/spill-o/

http://www.levelerpoetry.com/betraying-spill-o/

http://milksugarliterature.com/colindodds.html

http://www.thewritemag.com/poetry/be-alright/

http://www.drunkmonkeys.onimpression.com/ladies-night/

http://negativesuck.moonfruit.com/#/dodds/4577084425

http://negativesuck.moonfruit.com/#/dodds-2/4577084700

http://www.thesquawkback.com/2013/11/dialoguefromthatblessedyearandanother.html

http://almost5q.tumblr.com/tagged/colin-dodds

http://indigestmag.com/blog/?p=18509#.UnWBAHBzJ_A

http://mag.chamberfour.com/issue4/dodds.html

http://www.versewisconsin.org/Issue112/poems/dodds.html

http://cricketonlinereview.com/vol9no2/11-colin-dodds-spill-os-careful-days.php

http://cricketonlinereview.com/vol9no2/12-colin-dodds-spill-os-happy-hour-and-beyond.php

http://cricketonlinereview.com/vol9no2/13-colin-dodds-spill-os-palace-of-eternity.php

http://scholarsandrogues.com/2013/07/28/sr-poetry-two-poems-by-colin-dodds/

http://antiquechildren.com/satirical_blunders_pdf/Colin_Dodds.pdf

http://ithacalit.com/colin-dodds.html

http://www.softblow.org/colindodds.html

http://themuse.webs.com/dec%202013/Colin%20Dodds.htm

http://www.menacinghedge.com/winter2014/entry-dodds.php

http://www.snreview.org/0313Dodds.html

http://verdadmagazine.org/vol15/poetry/dodds.html

http://www.subtletea.com/colin-dodds/

http://toegoodpoetry.com/2014/01/colin-dodds/

http://themuse.webs.com/dec%202013/Colin%20Dodds.htm

http://poetrypacific.blogspot.com/2014/02/2-poems-by-colin-dodds.html

http://deadsnakes.blogspot.com/2014/03/colin-dodds-poem.html

http://www.leaves-of-ink.com/2014/02/fortunes-unkempt-temple.html

http://www.tiragemonthly.com/the-tartarus-local.html

http://www.tiragemonthly.com/year-of-love-and-hunger.html

http://www.undergroundbooks.org/2/post/2014/03/the-spill-o-cycle-colin-dodds.html

http://www.bombshellbohemia.com/2008/09/for-boys.html

http://www.bombshellbohemia.com/2008/09/in-ruin.html

http://penmenreview.com/banish-and-abandon-the-algebra-of-blame/

http://twinenterprises.com/the_fear_of_monkeys/issue_eighteen/carved_into_the_bar.htm

http://mandala.uga.edu/X/poet-SpilloTakes-x.php

http://mandala.uga.edu/X/poet-SpilloTexas-x.php

http://mandala.uga.edu/X/poet-SpilloCoast-x.php

http://mandala.uga.edu/X/poet-SpilloRec-x.php  

http://mandala.uga.edu/X/poet-SpilloLove-x.php

http://www.radiuslit.org/2014/05/26/poem-by-colin-dodds/

http://www.medcelt.org/feile-festa/v008/poetry/dodds.html

http://hellohorror.com/ColinDodds_AKidnappersTraining.htm

http://anomalouspress.org/12/17.dodds.spilloeludes.php

http://anomalouspress.org/12/18.dodds.audience.php

http://anomalouspress.org/12/19.dodds.spilloundercover.php

http://stickmanreview.com/V13N1/V13N1contents/dodds.html

http://bluepepper.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/new-poetry-by-colin-dodds.html

http://www.leafpress.ca/Mondays_Poems_2014/Colin-Dodds/Redeeming-Characteristics.htm

https://wildquarterly.squarespace.com/new-blog/2014/7/25/had-to-run 

http://thecoachellareview.com/wordpress/?page_id=648

https://formerpeople.wordpress.com/2014/11/01/five-poems-3/

http://oddballmagazine.com/2014/09/16/poem-by-colin-dodds/

http://www.potluckmag.com/three-poems-by-colin-dodds/

http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/the-unreal/poem-spill-os-dubious-advice\

http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/the-unreal/poem-spill-os-vision-of-empire

http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/the-unreal/poem-look-up-spill-o

http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/the-unreal/poem-spill-o-started-out

http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/the-unreal/poem-spill-os-easychair-in-the-lotus

http://www.commonlinejournal.com/2014/10/no-handles-no-tabs-by-colin-dodds.html

http://melbrakepress.blogspot.com/2014/10/collin-dodds-poetry.html

http://www.decompmagazine.com/redeemingcharacteristics.htm

http://www.imitationfruit.com/Issue_13/daisy/daisy.html

http://www.thestraddler.com/201513/piece5.php#poetry1

http://www.towerjournal.com/fall_2014/dodds.php

http://mirrordancefantasy.blogspot.com/2014/12/janus-daycare.html

http://coereview.org/2014/12/10/indio-california-colin-dodds/

http://bijoupoetryreview.blogspot.com/2014/12/spill-os-recent-grace.html

http://www.indianavoicejournal.com/2015/01/poetry-by-colin-dodds.html

http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/the-unreal/poem-spill-os-empty-bed

http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/the-unreal/poem-spill-o-out-on-the-town

http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/the-unreal/poem-spill-o-fantasizes-an-apocalypse-avoided

http://www.lostcoastreview.com/four-poems-by-colin-dodds/

http://www.connotationpress.com/poetry/2495-colin-dodds-poetry

http://www.yourimpossiblevoice.com/project/colin-dodds/

http://blognostics.net/blognostics-an-innovative-experience-in-literature-poetry-and-art/2015/02/04/law-bar-colin-dodds/

http://triggerfishcriticalreview.com/a-shapeless-self-trapped-again-colin-dodds/

http://triggerfishcriticalreview.com/kindness-in-the-world-of-chickens-colin-dodds/

http://blognostics.net/blognostics-an-innovative-experience-in-literature-poetry-and-art/2015/03/08/the-killer-taunts-by-colin-dodds/

http://bohemianpupil.com/2015/02/12/two-poems-a-final-round-slouching-on-a-siamese-pipe/

http://munyori.org/poetry/new-poems-by-colin-dodds/

http://blognostics.net/blognostics-an-innovative-experience-in-literature-poetry-and-art/2015/02/13/sedona-arizona-colin-dodds/

http://blognostics.net/blognostics-an-innovative-experience-in-literature-poetry-and-art/2015/02/04/law-bar-colin-dodds/

http://triggerfishcriticalreview.com/a-final-round-colin-dodds/

http://sunflowercollective.blogspot.com/2015/09/spill-os-easter-fever.html

http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/golden-walkman-magazine/e/39578307?autoplay=true

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