Here is a sample from my chapbook. Elegy for a Day Long shadows mark the march of light to dark, the end of one moment after another. The clang of the morning alarm is a memory, as is the trudge to … Read More about Evening Sun
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Aline Soules’ work has appeared in such publications as the Kenyon Review, Houston Literary Review, Poetry Midwest, and The Galway Review. Her books can be seen below or through the menu bar and her book reviews have been accepted by Tupelo Quarterly, Heavy Feather Review, and others. She earned an MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles in both poetry and fiction, and teaches creative writing for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
She has completed a novel set in World War II, The Arne House, for which she is seeking an agent. She is writing a second novel set in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and completing a poetry manuscript.
My recent publications
- “Night of Thick Clouds,” The Galway Review, August 5, 2022. https://thegalwayreview.com/2022/08/05/aline-soules-night-of-thick-clouds/
- I always loved writing and now I get to do it full-time. How lucky is that? I even got a publication out of it. See https://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/the-bookstore-by-aline-soules
- Extended Ekphrasis: A Review of Tension : Rupture, poems by Cutter Streeby, paintings by Michael Haight. Matter. April 22, 2022. https://mattermonthly.com/2022/04/22/extended-ekphrasis-a-review-of-tension-rupture-poems-by-cutter-streeby-paintings-by-michael-haight/
- “Polarities of Love”: a Review of The Pact, poems by Jennifer Militello, Feb 23, 2022. https://heavyfeathrreview.org/2022/02/23/the-pact
- “Fragile Horses,” Flash Fiction Magazine, January 30, 2022, https://flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2022/01/30/fragile-horses/
- “Last Dandelion.” 2nd place, Kelsay Books Metrical Poetry Contest, 2019. https://kelsaybooks.com/pages/2019-metrical-contest-results https://kelsaybooks.com/pages/kelsay-books-metrical-poetry-contest
- “Forever Dali,” The Ekphrastic Review, March 26, 2019. http://www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrastic-review/forever-dali-by-aline-soules; also selected for the journal’s “Throwback Thursdays: Ten Writings on Salvador Dali,” March 4, 2021.
My Books

Meditation on Woman
Here is a sample from my book. Comma A woman looks out the open window of her office and pauses. The sounds of her co-workers’ voices recede. The click of keyboards almost disappears. The telephone dulls to a … Read More about Meditation on Woman

The Size of the World
This work focuses on family and the unique and special relationships each of us has with that complexity. This dual collection, featuring Aline Soules (The Size of the World) and Nancy Ryan (The Shape of the … Read More about The Size of the World
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