I’m thrilled that Abstract Visions of Light is the featured book in the new issue of ILA Magazine. Thank you to Annette Nasser for the honor. A review of the collection, along with its opening poem, “Transcending Definitions,” can be read here…
Author: 17numa
February Update
This is the final week to send submissions for the 2021 Western Voices edition of Setu Mag that I’m guest editing. Full guidelines are available here…
https://17numa.com/2021/01/14/setu-mag-submission-call-2021-western-voices-edition/
New episodes of Songs of Selah are linked here in the 17Numa Radio archive…
https://17numa.com/songs-of-selah/
I’m happy to have poems published so far this month in Eunoia Review, Impspired Magazine, GloMag, The Bond Street Review, and Dissident Voice. Those pieces can be found here…
Songs of Selah #133
Thank you to Rita Marie Recine for appearing as a guest on the latest episode of Songs of Selah. She joined the show to discuss her work and to speak about the path life has led her along as a poet. She also read selections from her collection, Open Book: Where the Road to Serendipity Ends.
Episode #133 can be listened to at the link below…
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/17numaradio/2021/02/09/songs-of-selah-with-scott-thomas-outlar
Thank you, as well, to everyone who supports the show by subscribing to the channel, spreading the word, and sharing episode links with your friends. Your support is always greatly appreciated!
Welcome to the Masquerade
Thank you to Steve Cawte for including three of my poems in issue 9 of Imspired Magazine published out of the UK.
“Warning Labels,” “Phase Shift,” and “Masquerade” can be read here…
https://impspired.com/2021/02/01/scott-thomas-outlar-3/
The Velvet Note
Reading poems from Of Sand and Sugar and Abstract Visions of Light at The Velvet Note’s Velvet Voices event in Alpharetta, Georgia…
Of Gasping and Grasping
I’m stoked that my poem “Of Gasping and Grasping” has been published out of Singapore by Eunoia Review. Thank you to Ian Chung for including my work at his site. The piece can be read here…
https://eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2021/02/03/of-gasping-and-grasping/
Songs of Selah #132
This week’s two-hour special of the program features an interview with poet, Elisabeth Horan. She joined the show to speak about and read selections from her new book, Just to the Right of the Stove.
Thank you for listening at the link below, subscribing to the 17Numa Radio channel, and helping to spread the word about Songs of Selah…
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/17numaradio/2021/02/02/songs-of-selah-with-scott-thomas-outlar
Hope Anthology
It was a pleasure reading through and being inspired by the submissions that were sent in for the Hope anthology of poetry from CultureCult Press. Huge thank you to Jay Chakravarti for spearheading the project and allowing me to serve as guest editor, and thank you to all the contributors whose work fills these pages. I hope you, the readers, enjoy their poetry as much as I have.
Pick up a copy now on Lulu at the link below…

A belief that there is some sense of order at the heart of the swirling chaos, that some regulator of fairness is on the job behind the scenes, that some scale of justness is weighing out an ultimately righteous verdict.
Shake & Shrug
What would my guardian angels say? What would Jesus Christ & Buddha & Brahman & Yahweh & Allah & Lao Tzu & Elohim & Isis & Artemis & Abraham & Horus & Bacchus & Mother Mary & Tetragrammaton & Matthew & Mark & John & Luke & Loki & Persephone & Sophia & Selene & Shiva & Apollo & Calliope & Aphrodite & Magdalena & Quetzalcoatl & Numa Pompilius & Marcus Aurelius & Hermes Trismegistus & Moses & Ozymandias & Nefertiti & Akhenaten & Cleopatra & Odin & Oberon & all the other high-and-mighty holy spirits have to say?
Honestly, I don’t know.
And I can live with that.
Links to all past episodes of Songs of Selah can be accessed here in the 17Numa Radio archive:
https://17numa.com/songs-of-selah/
Lothlorien Poetry Journal (Space Wave Version)
I’m stoked that three of my poems were published recently out of the UK by Lothlorien Poetry Journal. Big thank you to Strider Marcus Jones for including my work in his new venue.
“Masquerade,” “Of Frequencies Resplendent,” and “Apples & Owls at Midnight (Space Wave Version)” can be read at the link below…
https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2021/01/three-poems-by-scott-thomas-outlar.html


