Poetry
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“Elegy in F Major,” After Hours, Winter, 2023
“Circe’s Song,” Eternal Haunted Summer: Pagan Songs & Tales (Summer Solstice Issue, 2022)
"Oedipus and the Sphinx," Spillway 29 (Tebot Bach, 2021)
"The Elderly Poet Considers His Dotage,” Muse, Spring 2021
"My Cat's Real Name," Shooter Literary Magazine, Winter 2021
"Last Things," Months to Years, Winter 2021
"Aureole (9/11)," Never Forgotten: 100 Poets Remember 9/11 (The North Sea Poetry Scene Press, 2020)
"My Father's Victory Garden: 1945" and "Assisted Care, Arcadia, PA," Grand Little Things, Oct. 8, 2020
"The Academic Publisher Addresses the Books in His Sales Catalogue," Lighten Up Online: The Quarterly Light Verse Webzine, March 2020
"After Thirty Years of Marriage, One Adjusts," Off the Coast, Summer 2019; reprinted as "For My Wife Who Snores," in Loon Magic and Other Night Sounds (Outrider Press, 2019)
"Sparrows in Early Spring," Plainsongs, Summer 2019
"Summer Commute" on display at the "Weather the Weather: Artists and Poets Respond to the Weather" exhibit from Dec. 17, 2018 to March 1, 2019 at the Art Center at Highland Park (IL) City Hall; also on display at the Waterford Township (MI) Public Library "Poetry Leaves" exhibit from May 20 to June 3; also published in the subsequent anthology Poetry Leaves (Vol. 4).
"My Father's Peach Tree," Caesura (2018)
"My Parents’ Home, 1995,” Home (Outrider Press, 2016; Honorable Mention: Best Poem); reprinted in Better Than Starbucks, Nov. 2022.
“Poetic Fallacies,” Thought Notebook: A Literary and Visual Arts Journal, Issue 4, 2015
"Insomnia,” The Comstock Review, Fall/Winter, 2014
“Five Poems,” The Poetry Storehouse, 2015
"My Father’s Store, 1985,” Third Wednesday, Summer, 2014
“The Lament of an Ancient Shepherd of Laius,” The Mountain (Outrider Press, 2014); reprinted in Carmina Magazine, March 2022
"Mimosa," Slant, Summer, 2014
"Noah's Brontosauri," {Ex}tinguished & {Ex}tinct: An Anthology of Things That No Longer {Ex}ist (Twelve Winters Press, 2014)
"The Catch," After Hours, Winter, 2012. "The Catch" also shared championship honors in the Wilda Morris September 2013 challenge for best poem (http://wildamorris.blogspot.com/2013_09_01_archive.html).
“Connections,” After Hours, Winter, 2011
“Nightmare” and “All My Dead,” Rockhurst Review, Spring, 2010. "All My Dead” reprinted in The Very
Edge: Poems (Flying Ketchup Press, 2020) ) and Ghost Stories (SEZ Publishing, 2020)
“Unnatural Selections,” The Comstock Review, Spring/Summer 2005; reprinted in Carmina Magazine, March 2022
“Misericord, Musee de Cluny,” Rockhurst Review, Spring, 2003
"Why We Buy Paintings,” Medicinal Purposes, Year-End, 2002; reprinted in Shadow and Light: A Literary Anthology on
Memory (Monadnock Writers Group, 2011)
"School Pageant," “Performances,” and “The Aging Long Jumper Reflects on Gravity,” One Small Step
(Icarus Int., 2002); “Performances” reprinted in Music in the Air (Outrider Press, 2013)
“Insomnia” and “Insomnia with Cat,” Medicinal Purposes, Midyear, 2002
“How Is a Poem Lost?” Medicinal Purposes, Midyear, 2001
“Artisans,” Troubadour: Best of Rhyme at the Year 2001 (Towers & Rushing, Ltd, 2001); reprinted in Heirlock Magazine (I, 2, 2020)
“Looking Back” (Nominated for 2001 Pushcart Prize) and “Naples, Florida,” Troubadour: Best of Rhyme
at the Year 2000 (Towers & Rushing, Ltd, 2000); “Naples, Florida” reprinted in Deep Waters (Outrider Press, 2012) and in the online Better Than Starbucks (August 2021)
“Ménage à Trois (at Midnight),” Medicinal Purposes, Spring 1999
“James Bond Sinks the Secatur with a Limpet Mine,” Fresh Ground, No. 6, 1998
“August Night,” Medicinal Purposes, Winter, 1998
“In Hospital -- Winter 1989,” Medicinal Purposes, Spring 1996
"Flash Gordon Banished to the Clay Kingdom," Second Glance, Spring 1994
"Past," (trans. from the Italian of V. Cardarelli), California State Poetry Quarterly, XX, 3, 1993
"On Viewing the Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner,'" Outerbridge, No. 23, 1992
"Bus Pass," Slant, Summer 1992; reprinted in Streetwise, Feb. 1993
"Orpheus," The Formalist, II, No. 1, 1992
"Die Heimkehr # 1" (trans. from the German of H. Heine), The Formalist, I, No. 2, 1990
"Confessions of an Aggie Lit Prof" In Print, 1988
"Die Heimkehr #87" (trans. from the German of H. Heine), Amaryllis Review, Winter 1986
"Encounter with an Old Poet ," "To the Diamond Peddler, Steinberg," "The Most Dangerous Profession"Hyperion, III, No. 6, 1980
"My Father’s Store, 1985,” Third Wednesday, Summer, 2014
“The Lament of an Ancient Shepherd of Laius,” The Mountain (Outrider Press, 2014); reprinted in Carmina Magazine, March 2022
"Mimosa," Slant, Summer, 2014
"Noah's Brontosauri," {Ex}tinguished & {Ex}tinct: An Anthology of Things That No Longer {Ex}ist (Twelve Winters Press, 2014)
"The Catch," After Hours, Winter, 2012. "The Catch" also shared championship honors in the Wilda Morris September 2013 challenge for best poem (http://wildamorris.blogspot.com/2013_09_01_archive.html).
“Connections,” After Hours, Winter, 2011
“Nightmare” and “All My Dead,” Rockhurst Review, Spring, 2010. "All My Dead” reprinted in The Very
Edge: Poems (Flying Ketchup Press, 2020) ) and Ghost Stories (SEZ Publishing, 2020)
“Unnatural Selections,” The Comstock Review, Spring/Summer 2005; reprinted in Carmina Magazine, March 2022
“Misericord, Musee de Cluny,” Rockhurst Review, Spring, 2003
"Why We Buy Paintings,” Medicinal Purposes, Year-End, 2002; reprinted in Shadow and Light: A Literary Anthology on
Memory (Monadnock Writers Group, 2011)
"School Pageant," “Performances,” and “The Aging Long Jumper Reflects on Gravity,” One Small Step
(Icarus Int., 2002); “Performances” reprinted in Music in the Air (Outrider Press, 2013)
“Insomnia” and “Insomnia with Cat,” Medicinal Purposes, Midyear, 2002
“How Is a Poem Lost?” Medicinal Purposes, Midyear, 2001
“Artisans,” Troubadour: Best of Rhyme at the Year 2001 (Towers & Rushing, Ltd, 2001); reprinted in Heirlock Magazine (I, 2, 2020)
“Looking Back” (Nominated for 2001 Pushcart Prize) and “Naples, Florida,” Troubadour: Best of Rhyme
at the Year 2000 (Towers & Rushing, Ltd, 2000); “Naples, Florida” reprinted in Deep Waters (Outrider Press, 2012) and in the online Better Than Starbucks (August 2021)
“Ménage à Trois (at Midnight),” Medicinal Purposes, Spring 1999
“James Bond Sinks the Secatur with a Limpet Mine,” Fresh Ground, No. 6, 1998
“August Night,” Medicinal Purposes, Winter, 1998
“In Hospital -- Winter 1989,” Medicinal Purposes, Spring 1996
"Flash Gordon Banished to the Clay Kingdom," Second Glance, Spring 1994
"Past," (trans. from the Italian of V. Cardarelli), California State Poetry Quarterly, XX, 3, 1993
"On Viewing the Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner,'" Outerbridge, No. 23, 1992
"Bus Pass," Slant, Summer 1992; reprinted in Streetwise, Feb. 1993
"Orpheus," The Formalist, II, No. 1, 1992
"Die Heimkehr # 1" (trans. from the German of H. Heine), The Formalist, I, No. 2, 1990
"Confessions of an Aggie Lit Prof" In Print, 1988
"Die Heimkehr #87" (trans. from the German of H. Heine), Amaryllis Review, Winter 1986
"Encounter with an Old Poet ," "To the Diamond Peddler, Steinberg," "The Most Dangerous Profession"Hyperion, III, No. 6, 1980