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Artist/Writer Bio Sketch I Creative Writing Vitae I Artist's Vitae I Bibliography

The bio sketch and vitas are provided in pdf format.


Books:
Carbon Copy
(New York: ADCO Enterprises, 1973). Artist's book.
Confirmation (New York: ADCO Enterprises, 1975). Artist's book.
spine (Borgå, Finland: minipress, 2000). With Nina Sederholm.
Like Father, Like Son (New York: Villa Florentine Press, 2006). With Earl Coleman. Forthcoming.

Correspondence:
"
A Golden Age of First Books of Poetry." Published as "First-Book Fracas" in Poets & Writers 29:1, January-February 2001.
[Author not identified. All postings here are anonymous. But it's me.] "Read 'em and Weep." Rejectioncollection.com 2000 and Rejectioncollection.com 2005.

Creative Nonfiction:
"Dream Stew: Fran Murphy's Photographs." Urban Desires Vol. 2, no. Ob3, January-March 1996.
"Dream Stew." the WIDOW of the ORCHID, November 1997.
"Hypothetical History of an Actual Photograph." Creative Nonfiction No. 5, 1996.

"Mud Pie: Photos by Nina Glaser." Urban Desires 1:4, May/June 1995.
"Mud Pie." Nimrod 40:2, Spring/Summer 1997.
"Once, In Madrid." Urban Desires 2:2, June/July 1996.
"Sea Changes: Riding the Staten Island Ferry." Creative Nonfiction No. 9, 1998.

Fiction:
"Abri/Shelter." In Ralph Gibson, Overtones: Diptychs and Proportions (Zurich: Edition Stemmle, 1998).
"Abri/Shelter." International Poetry Review 31:2, Fall 2005.
"Avram, no. 298773, on his 65th birthday." Nimrod 49:2, Spring/Summer 2006.

Hypertext:
"Algae Rune Yowl: Snug Hinge." A work-in-progress, in the Café Gallery.

Plays:

Poetry:
"Algae Rune Yowl: Snug Hinge."

"All Mine." Defined Providence 1996.*
"Arachnophobe." Pudding Magazine No. 31, 1996.*
"Aubade." Koja, No. 2, Summer 1998.
"Bella." Cross Currents 48:3, Fall 1998.*
"Bird of the Summer Solstice." Poesia 4:1, January 2006.
"Body Language." The Tucson Poet 2:4, Summer 1997.
"Body Language." Poem 94, November 2005.
"Bone Voyage." Poem 94, November 2005.
"Chameleon." Lynx 12:2, 1997.
"Chinese Duck Pop." Koja No. 2, Summer 1998.
"Chinese Duck Pop." COAHSI Arts & Letters 17:2, March-April 2006.
"Chomutov Snapshot, July 1996." Black Buzzard Review Vol. X (Tenth Anniversary Issue), Spring 1997.*
"Cold Shower (a note to my jailors)." The Cape Rock, Spring 2004.
"Cold Shower (a note to my jailors)." Desert Voices 4:1, December 2005.
"Concerning ice cream on Mom's side of the family." Steam Ticket: A Third Coast Review Vol. 3, 1997.*
"Dead Letter." Rosebud No. 10 (special "Cut & Paste" issue), Spring 1997.
"Dead Letter." Lynx 12:2, 1997.
"DeSoto Hotel, 1974." Koja No. 2, Summer 1998.*
"Downtown Local." Potato Eyes No. 14, Winter/Spring 1997.*
"Dream Poem 1: Prague 7/16/95." Cover 10:1, 1996.
"Dream Poem 3: New York 7/30/95." Cover 10:1, 1996.
"Dream Poem 4: New York 9/23/95." Stoneflower Vol. II, 1997.
"Dream Poem 4: New York 9/23/95." Peaky Hide No. 4/5, 1998.
"Dream Poem 5: New York 1/3/96." Peaky Hide No. 4/5, 1998.
"Family Album." Sanskrit Literary/Arts Magazine Vol. 28, 1997.*
"Floater." Parting Gifts 18:1, Summer 2005. Print and online editions.
"For Malcolm, February 1975." Glassworks 1:2, Winter 1976.*
"Free Sample." Short Fuse 89, Summer 2005.
"Frieze." Passager 41, Winter 2006.
"Glossolalia." Medicinal Purposes 1:5, Winter 1997.
"The Gravity of Ash." Lalitamba 1:2, Fall 2006.
"Holding the Fort." Parting Gifts 18:1, Summer 2005. Print and online editions.
"Hot Dog." Poetry Motel 1998.
"In the Widow's House." Neologisms 5, Spring 1998.*
"In the Widow's House." The Glass Cherry 5:2, Spring 1998.*
"'I think,' he said." Main Street Rag 3:2, Summer 1998.*
"Knowing Beans." Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine 9:2, Spring 2006.
"Language Poem." The Chaffin Journal, 2005.
"La Opera." Fuel No. 20, Fall 1997. Print and online editions.
"The Lovely Poems":

  • "The Lovely Poems 1-6." Urban Desires 1:6, September/October 1995. (With photographs of mine.)
  • "Lovely pulls her pants down in the car." the Body Inside, Spring 1998.
  • "Lovely when I take her in her sleep." Paramour 3:3, Spring/Summer 1996.
  • "Lovely when I take her in her sleep." Short Fuse 89, Summer 2005.
  • "Just one week past our parting." Pegasus 21:1, Spring 2006.

"Microscope." Rosebud No. 10 (special "Cut & Paste" issue), Spring 1997.
"Nothing Much." the Body Inside, Spring 1998.
"Open Mike." Poesia 4:1, January 2006.
"Out of Here." Lalitamba 1:2, Fall 2006.
"Panhandle." The 13th Warrior Review 5:9, March 2006.
"Penguin Highway." Icon, 40th Anniversary Edition, Spring 2006.
"Polaroid." Potpourri 10:1, Spring 1998.
"Pushing Ink." Main Street Rag 3:2, Summer 1998.*
"Rope Trick." Koja 2, Summer 1998.
"Salvage Rights." California Quarterly 24:2, Summer 1998.
"Samaritan." California Quarterly, 31:1, summer 2005.
"School of Crafts." Iodine Poetry Journal 6:2, Fall/Winter 2005/2006.
"Short Leash." Prairie Winds, 2006.
"Shy Bricks." Small Pond 35:1, Winter 1998.*
"Shy Bricks." Alone Together 9:4, July/August 2005.*
"Someone Extraordinary Speaking." BlackWater Review Fall 1996.*
spine:

  • "Potsherds." Avec 1:2, Summer 2006.

"Stay Hungry." Pralaton No. 17, Autumn 2006.
"Taking the Field." Pudding Magazine No. 31, 1996.*
"Taking the Field." Fan: A Baseball Magazine No. 28, Spring 1998.*
"Taking the Field." Hidden Oak Poetry Journal, Spring/Summer 2006.*
"Tasty Fries." Switched-on Gutenberg: A Global Poetry Journal 4:2, January 2000.
"Things to Remember about Shafting." Fluent Ascension 3:1, March 2006.
"Things to Remember about Shafting." Avec 1:2, Summer 2006.
"The Tossed Dwarf Speaks." Alacrán No. 10 ("Taboos" issue), November 1996.*
"The Tossed Dwarf Speaks." Hidden Oak Poetry Journal, Spring/Summer 2006.*
"Ukiah Afternoon." The Higginsville Reader 7:4, Fall 1997.*
"Ukiah Afternoon." Hidden Oak Poetry Journal, Spring/Summer 2006.*
( * Asterisked poems also appeared briefly online in a section of C: the Speed of Light, elsewhere in The Nearby Café, at intervals between 1995 and 2002.)

Texts about Creative Writing:
Author interview: "Hypothetical History of an Actual Photograph." Creative Nonfiction No. 5, 1996.
Author interview: "Sea Changes: Riding the Staten Island Ferry." Creative Nonfiction No. 9, 1998.

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