SUN Magazine Poems

  • MONTEREY POETRY REVIEW Summer 2018

    The editors of the MONTEREY POETRY REVIEW just published a "Reprint" edition, which included four poems of mine which previously won awards and/or were previously published. They include: Enlightenment is a Bitch How Therapists Dance Accordions & Shotguns The Jeweled Net of Indra You can read them again HERE: http://montereypoetryreview.weebly.com/summer2018poems/dane-cervine  

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  • New Poem in The SUN Magazine, February 2014

     Look for a new poem of mine entitled My Father's Lesson in the February 2014 edition of The SUN Magazine….along with a poem by the great Santa Cruz poet, Ellen Bass. Here's a link to the on-line edition, which includes Ellen's poem: The SUN Magazine – Feb 2014     My Father's Lesson   I

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  • WILD WEEDS Appears in The SUN Magazine

    The November 2012 edition of The SUN Magazine includes the following poem. It is my sixth poem in The SUN…you can look at my author's page there for a full listing, and this poem on The SUN website: Wild Weeds   Wild Weeds                 We were sweeping his father’s driveway, contemplating whether kissing a guy would

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  • HOW THERAPISTS DANCE in The SUN Magazine, February 2011

    My favorite magazine of writing, The SUN, just published another poem of mine called How Therapists Dance in their February 2011 edition. It's a great edition focusing on social justice issues. This poem hints at learning to dance with culture, privilege, isolation, and belonging. Check out the full listing of my SUN Magazine contributions at:

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  • “Enlightenment Is A Bitch” appears in March 2010 of The SUN

    You can go on-line to The SUN magazine's March 2010 edition to view my new poem Enlightenment Is A Bitch, which seemed to hit a chord with alot of folks….have received alot of email about it and seen it pop up on a couple other blogs and sites. Here's the link: http://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/411/enlightenment_is_a_bitch And here's a

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  • Love At The Gun Runner, new prose piece in The SUN Magazine

    My third piece in Sy Safransky's The SUN Magazine came out in the June 2008 edition, a short prose piece entitled LOVE AT THE GUN RUNNER. Here's a link to my author page on The SUN website, which includes the editions in which my previous two poems appeared: Engine, and, The Jeweled Net of Indra:

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  • ENGINE appears in THE SUN Magazine

    My poem ENGINE appeared in the November 2005 edition of Sy Safransky's THE SUN: www.thesunmagazine.org/november2005.html Here's the text of the poem: Engine   The Los Gatos parking lot is filled with Lexus, PT Cruisers, & Hummers. Housewives angular & tan stream by, eyelids creamed & lined, optimistic breasts nonchalantly pointing straight ahead, past the men

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  • The SUN Magazine Poems On-line

    Dane Cervine is a regular contributor to The SUN Magazine, the popular national magazine for writers. You can view several of the selections at: Dane Cervine SUN Magazine Poems  

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  • Winner of the 2005 National Writers Union (Local 7) Contest chosen by ADRIENNE RICH

        Dane's winning poem chosen by Adrienne Rich:    The Jeweled Net of Indra   Driving down the freeway, remembering Hindu mythology— Indra’s net, each intersecting weave holding a jewel reflecting every other facet of every other jewel, infinitely. Suddenly, I see the hands that paint the white lines, that lay the black asphalt,

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