MARK JARMAN: C.V.
Educational Record
M.F.A.--Poetry, University of Iowa, Writers’ Workshop, l976
Major specialization: Creative Writing (poetry)
B.A.--University of California, Santa Cruz, l974 (Highest Honors in Literature)
Teaching Experience
2007- Centennial Professor of English
1992-07 Professor of English, Vanderbilt University
1986-92 Associate Professor of English, Vanderbilt University
1983-86 Assistant Professor of English, Vanderbilt University
1980-83 Assistant Professor of English, Murray State University
1979-80 Visiting Lecturer, Poetry Writing, University of California, Irvine
1976-78 Instructor of English, Indiana State University, Evansville
1974-76 Teaching/Writing Fellow, University of Iowa, Writers’ Workshop
Professional Honors and Awards
Books-Across-the-Sea Award, The English Speaking Union, 2006
Avalon Award for Creative Excellence, David Lipscomb University, 2003
Winner, Lenore Marshall/Nation Prize of the Academy of American Poets, 1998
Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award, 1997, for poetry
National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1992, for poetry
Lila Wallace/Reader’s Digest Grant, 1992, to write the libretto for Michael Alec Rose’s opera The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Poets’ Prize, 1991, for The Black Riviera
Fellow (Poetry), John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1991-92
Robert Frost Fellowship in poetry, The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, 1985
Crazyhorse prize for poetry published in the journal during the past year, 1985
National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1984, for poetry
Duncan Lawrie Prize, Sotheby’s International Poetry Competition, 1982
National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1977, for poetry
Academy of American Poets Prize, 1975, The University of Iowa
The Joseph Henry Jackson Award, 1974, from the San Francisco Foundation, for a manuscript of poetry
Courses Taught (Vanderbilt University)
English 116W: Introduction to Poetry
English 123: Beginning Poetry Workshop
English 206: Intermediate Poetry Workshop
English 207: Advanced Poetry Workshop
English 218: Words and Music (With Blair School of Music Composer Michael Alec Rose)
English 258: Contemporary British and American Poetry
English 272: 20th Century American Narrative Poetry
English 304: Graduate Poetry Workshop
English 307: Literature and the Craft of Writing
English 355: Graduate Seminar, The Poetry of Robert Frost
Academic Service(Vanderbilt University)
Director, Creative Writing, Department of English, 2005-08
Member, Administrative Committee, College of Arts & Science, 2000-2006
Member, Committee on Liberal Undergraduate Education (II), 1998-99
Member, Curriculum Committee, 1996-2000
Member, Expository Writing Committee, 1995-96, 1996-97
Member, Overseas Studies Committee, 1995-96
Member, Humanities in London Committee, 1995-96, 1996-99
Member, Summer School Committee, 1995-2000, Chairman, 1996-97
Director, Humanities in London, 1995
Director, Visiting Writers Program, 1983-86, 1990-91, 1992-
Director, Vanderbilt-in-England, 1989-90
Member, Writing Committee, 1987-89, 2001-2002
Director, Undergraduate Studies, Department of English, 1987-89
Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Department of English, 1983-89
Adviser, Freshman Orientation, June 1985
Freshman Adviser, 1984-85
Professional Service
Judge, Discovery/Nation Prize, 2007
Judge, Anhinga Prize, Anhinga Press, 2007
Reviewer, Trinity University Press, 2007
Outside Referee, University of Michigan, 2007
Outside Referee, Polytechnic University of New York, 2007
Judge, John Ciardi Poetry Prize, BkMk Press, 2006
Outside Referee, University of Indiana, 2006
Outside Referee, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, 2006
Outside Referee, Emerson College, 2005
Outside Referee, University of Houston, 2005
Judge, ½ K Prize for Short-Short/Prose Poems, The Indiana Review, 2005
Judge, Dogwood Poetry Contest, Fairfield University, 2005
Judge, Cellar Door Poetry Contest, University of NorthCarolina-Chapel Hill, 2005
Judge, Nicholas Roerich Prize, Story Line Press, 2003
Judge, Robert Penn Warren Poetry Contest, Cumberland Poetry Review, 2002
Outside referee, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2001
Advisory Board, Zoo Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2001-2005
Reference, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 2000-2006
Outside referee, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2000
Judge, Mississippi Institute for Arts & Letters Poetry Prize, 1999
Outside referee, University of California-Riverside, 1999
Reader, Columbia University Press, 1999
Judge, Cleveland State Poetry Center Award, 1998
Judge, Cecil Hemley memorial Award, Poetry Society of America, 1998
Outside referee, University of Florida, 1997
Outside referee, University of Missouri, 1996, 1997
Benefit Reader, Associated Writing Programs, 1996-
Reader, PMLA, 1995
Reader, poetry applications, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, 1994, 1995, 1996
Panelist, National Endowment for the Arts, Professional Development, 1994
Panelist, National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Grants, Poetry, 1993
Judge, The Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, First Book Award, Story Line Press, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1998
Judge, Freshman Short Story, Pommer Prize for Freshman Poetry, McKinney Prize for Short Fiction, Mahan Prize for Short Fiction and Mahan Prize for Poetry, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1985
Judge, Narrative Poetry Competition, The New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly, Spring 1985
Editing and Publishing
Advisory Board, Ausable Press, 2006-08
Advisory Editor, The Hudson Review, 2003-
Adivsory Board, Jeffers Studies, 1999-
Editor, Poet of the Month, PoetryNet, poetrynet.org/month, 1997-2007
Co-editor with Robert McDowell of The Reaper, a literary journal, issues 1-19, 1981-89
Co-publisher with Robert McDowell of Story Line Press, 1985-87
Advisory editor, Story Line Press, 1987-89
Editor, “A Symposium on Narrative Poetry,” The New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly, Fall 1985
Poetry editor, Intro 13, The Associated Writing Programs, Norfolk, VA, 1982
Poetry Readings, 1976-2008
NYU Stony Brook; Central College; Murray State University; University of California, Irvine; Indiana State University, Evansville; Carnegie-Mellon University; Cleveland State University; Ohio University; University of Florida, Gainesville; Ohio River Valley Writers’ Conference; Vanderbilt University; University of Missouri-Columbia; Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference; University of Arkansas, Little Rock; Boston University; University of Tennesee, Chattanooga; University of the South; University of Alabama; Augusta College; University of California, Santa Cruz; Writers’ Center of Indiana; University of Maryland; Foothill Community College; Morehead State University; Carleton College; Harlaxton College (UK); University of Leeds (UK); Polytechnic of Wales (UK); Southern Festival of Books; West Chester University; Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg; Nicholas Roerich Museum; Duke University; Sewanee Writers Conference; Stetson University; Western Kentucky University; Lewis & Clark College; University of Oregon; The RopeWalk Writers Retreat; The Catskills Poetry Workshop; Adelphi University; Indiana University Writers’ Conference; Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street YMHA; Brigham Young University; Sewanee Young Writers Conference; Georgia Poetry Circuit (Georgia State Univ., Univ. of Georgia, Georgia College, Mercer, Fort Valley State College, Columbus College); Belmont University, University of Missouri-Kansas City, New Letters on the Air, Kansas State University, Ashland University, Sewanee Young Writers Conference, Nashville Institute for the Arts, Portland State University, Clackamas Community College, Lewis & Clark College, University of Oregon, Seattle Pacific University, Sewanee Writers Conference (1992, 1998, 2007), University of Tennessee-Knoxville, University of Iowa, Robinson Jeffers Association Meeting (Keynote), Union University, David Lipscomb University, Hillsdale College, Emory University, University of Missouri-Kansas City, The Poets’ House (Kansas City), Missouri State Poetry Society (Southwest Baptist University), University of California at Riverside, Christian Theological Seminary (Indianapolis), Southern Oregon University, Vanderbilt University Spring 2001Faculty Assembly, Belmont University, Young Writers Symposium (Lausanne School, Memphis, TN), University of Georgia, University of Florida, University of Virginia, Bowling Green State University, University of the South, Ohio State University, Connectituct Poetry Circuit (Central Connecticut State University, Connecticut College, Manchester Community College, University of Connecticut, Southern Connecticut State University, Fairfield College, Trinity College, Wesleyan University), Warren Wilson College, Hope College, University of Louisville, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Adelphi University, University of Southern California, Hendrix College, Academy of American Poets Reading (AWP Conference, Austin, TX), Texas Tech University, Loyola University, Concordia College, Rollins College, Florida Literary Arts Coalition (Flagler College, Florida State University, Eckerd College, University of Tampa, Miami Dade College, Florida Gulf Coast University, Valencia Community College, University of Southern Florida), Purdue University, West Side Y in NYC
Writers’ Conferences, Teacher, Poetry Writing, 1982-2008
First Annual Kentucky Writers’ Conference, Northern Kentucky State University, November 1982; University of Florida Writers’ Conference, February 1983; Ohio River Valley Writers’ Conference, August 1983; Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, August 1986-88, 1990-91, 1994; Meacham Writers’ Conference, UT Chattanooga, Fall 1986, 1988, 1990, 1999, Spring 1992, 1995; Sandhills Writers’ Conference, Augusta, GA, May 1987; Writers’ Center of Indiana Literary Festival, October 1987; Foothills Writers’ Conference, Palo Alto, CA, May-June 1988; West Chester University Writers’ Conference/Clinic, July 1988; Sewanee Writers’ Conference, July 1991, 1993, 1996, 2002, 2008; The RopeWalk Writers Retreat, New Harmony, IN, May-June 1992; The Catskills Poetry Workshop, July 1992; Indiana University Writers’ Conference, June 1993; Exploring Form and Narrative, West Chester University, May- June 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2006; Emory Summer Writers’ Festival, 1999; Ashland Writers Conference, July-August 2000, Glen Workshop, Santa Fe, NM, August 2002, 2003; Winter Wheat Conference, Bowling Green, OH, November 2002, Warren Wilson Low-Residency MFA, January 2005, January 2006, January 2007
List of Publications
Poetry
Collections
Epistles, Sarabande Books, 2007
To the Green Man, Sarabande Books, 2004
Unholy Sonnets, Story Line Press, 2000
Questions for Ecclesiastes, Story Line Press, 1997; Second Printing, 1998
Iris (a book-length poem), Story Line Press, 1992
The Black Riviera, Wesleyan University Press, 1990; Second Printing, 1995
Far and Away, Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1985; Carnegie-Mellon Classic Contemporary, 1999
The Rote Walker, Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1981; Carnegie-Mellon Classic Contemporary, 1999
North Sea, Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1978; Second Printing, 1989
Tonight Is the Night of the Prom (chapbook), Three Rivers Press, 1974
Anthologies
Forthcoming
“Ground Swell,” He’e Nalu: Changing Images of Surfriding, ed. Patrick Moser, University of Hawaii Press
“Snoring,” Best American Poetry 2008, eds. David Lehman and Charles Wright
“Questions for Ecclesiastes,” “Transfiguration,” Much Madness, ed. Mark Bauer, M.D., Oxford University Press
2008
“For the Birds,” “To the Trees,” “Through the Waves,” “A Fall Evening in Berkeley, 1970,” “In the Clouds,” pp. 212-217, Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California, eds. Christopher Buckley and Gary Young, Greenhouse Review Pres/Alcatraz Editions
2007
“After Disappointment,” “Ground Swell,” “Coyotes,” pp. 238-245, Contemporary American Poetry in the U.S., eds. April Lindner and Dana Gioia, OGI Press (bilingual edition in Russian and English)
“Skin Cancer,” Earth Shattering: Eco-Poems, ed. Neil Astley, Bloodaxe Books
“Unholy Sonnet,” Conversation Pieces: Poems that Talk to Other Poems, eds. Kurt Brown and Harold Schechter, Everyman’s Library
"Unholy Sonnet," Rhyming Poems: A Contemporary Anthology, ed. William Baer, University of Evansville Press
2006
“Transfiguration,” American Religious Poems, ed. Harold Bloom, Library of America
“On the Street,” Joyful Noise: American Poems of Spirituality, ed. Robert Strong, Autumn House Press
“To a Brainy Child in Distress,” p. 179Hurricane Blues, eds. Philip Kolin and Susan Swartwout, Southeast Missouri State Press, November 2006
“Butterflies Under Persimmon,” “Summer,” “Prayer for Our Daughters,” pp. 182-185, Under the Rock Umbrella: Contemporary American Poets from 1951 to 1977, ed. William Walsh, Mercer University Press
“After Disappointment” and “Ground Swell” (in Spanish translation), pp. 158-163, Connecting Lines: New Poetry from the United States, eds. April Lindner and Hernan Zara Zavala, Sarabande Books
“Butterflies Under Persimmon,” pp. 85-87, Manthology: Poems of the Male Experience, eds. Craig Crist- Evans & Roger Weingarten, University of Iowa Press
“Song of Roland,” p. 114, Lasting: Poetic Visions of Aging, ed. Meg Files, Pima Press
2005
“Testimony of a Roasted Chicken,” p. 74, Francis and Clare in Poetry, An Anthology, eds. Janet McCann and David Craig, St. Anthony Messenger Press
“Butterflies Under Persimmon,” “Astragaloi,” “In the Tube,” “The Wind,” pp. 157-162, Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, ed. Sue Ellen Thompson, Autumn House Press
“Unholy Sonnet,” plus audiofile of reading, Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry, ed. Jay Parini, Wadsworth College Publishers
“Unholy Sonnets” (2 poems), Sonnets, ed. William Baer, University of Evansville Press
2004
“Liechtenstein,” “Unholy Sonnet,” “Questions for Ecclesiastes,” Story Hour: Contemporary Narratives by American Poets, ed. Sonny Williams, Story Line Press
“Ground Swell,” “Unholy Sonnets” (two poems), Twentieth Century American Poetry, ed. Dana Gioia, David Mason, Meg Schoerke, McGraw Hill
“Ground Swell,” “After Disappointment,” Contemporary American Poetry, ed. R. S. Gwynn, April Lindner, Longman
2003
“Unholy Sonnet,” Poetry Daily, 366 Poems from the Worlds Most Popular Poetry Website, ed. Diane Boller et al, Sourcebooks, Inc.
“Unholy Sonnet,” Poetry 180, ed. Billy Collins, Random House
“Epistle,” Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present, ed. David Lehman, Scribner
2002
“The Desire of Water,” The POETRY Anthology, 1912-2002, ed. Joseph Parisi, Ivan R. Dee
“The Supremes,” Poems of the American West, ed. Robert Mezey, Alfred A. Knopf
“Unholy Sonnets” (2 poems), Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America, editors,
Virgil Suarez & Ryan G. Van Cleave, University of Iowa Press
“After Disappointment,” Literature, a Pocket Anthology, R. S. Gwynn, editor, Penguin Academics, Longman, Inc.
2001
“Dialect,” “Goya’s Saint Peter Repentant,” “You Lucky People,” “Unholy Sonnet,” Poets of the New Century, Roger Weingarten and Richard Higgerson, editors, David R. Godine
“Unholy Sonnets” (three poems), The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, Phillis Levin, editor, Penguin Putnam Inc.
“Dialect,” “Questions for Ecclesiastes,” American Diaspora: Poetry of Exile, University of Iowa Press
“Ground Swell,” The Anthology of American Sports Poems, Noah Blaustein, editor, University of Iowa Press
“Outside,” Prairie Schooner: 75th Anniversary Anthology, Hilda Raz, editor,University of Nebraska Press
“Half-Sonnets,” The Ohio Review 30th Anniversary Issue, V. I. A-L
2000
“Unholy Sonnet,” Invisible Light: Poems about God, Diana Culbertson, editor, Columbia University Press, 2000
“Epistle,” The Best American Poetry 2000, Rita Dove, David Lehman, editors, Scribner Poetry, 2000
“Unholy Sonnet,” Flannery O’Connor: In Celebration of Genius, Sarah Gordon, editor, Hills Street Press, Athens, GA
“After Disappointment,” “Questions for Ecclesiastes,” “Unholy Sonnet #2,” “Stars,” The Made Thing: an Anthology of Contemporary Southern Poetry, Second Edition, Leon Stokesbury, editor, University of Arkansas Press
“Wave,” “Unholy Sonnet,” Buck and Wing: Southern Poetry at 2000, Shenandoah, V. 50,
N. 1, Spring 2000
1999
“Psalm: the New Day,” Acquainted with the Night: Insomnia Poems, Lisa Russ Spaar, editor Columbia University Press, 1999
“Unholy Sonnet,” Western Wind: Introduction to Poetry, 4th Edition, McGraw Hill, 1999
“Fox Night,” “The World,” “George Herbert,” The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, University Press of New England, 1999
“Ground Swell,” “The Black Riviera,” “Cavafy in Redondo,” “The Supremes,” The Geography of Home: California and the Poetry of Place, Hey Day Press, 1999
“Wave,” “Skin Cancer,” The Beach Book: a Literary Companion, Sarabande Press, 1999
1998
“The Word ‘Answer,’” The Best American Poetry 1998, Scribner, 1998
1997
“Unholy Sonnet,” Introduction to Poetry, X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia, editors, Addison Wesley Longman, 1997
1996
Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism, Mark Jarman and Davis Mason, editors,
Story Line Press, 1996
1995
“What Only Poetry Can Do,” What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets
the Art of Poetry, Gibbs-Smith, 1995
“Unholy Sonnet,” The Bedford Introduction to Literature, Fourth Edition, Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, 1995
“Ground Swell,” Writing Poems, HarperCollins, 1995
1994
“The Cure, an Anecdote,” Articulations: Poetry about Illness and the Body, University of Iowa Press, 1994
“Unholy Sonnets,” The Best American Poetry 1994, Scribners, 1994
“The Supremes,” Sweet Nothings: Rock and Roll in American Poetry Poetry, Indiana University Press, 1994
“Los Angeles,” “The Homing Instinct,” Walk on the Wild Side, American Urban Poetry from 1975 to the Present, Scribners, 1994
1993
“Questions for Ecclesiastes,” The Best American Poetry 1993, Scribners, 1993
“Lost in a Dream,” Best of the New England Review, University Press of New England, 1993
“Chimney Swifts,” “Wave,” Poems for a Small Planet, Contemporary American Nature Poetry, University Press of New England, 1993
“The Black Riviera,” “The Children,” “The Gift,” The Wesleyan Tradition, University Press of New England, 1993
“Questions for Ecclesiastes,” Pushcart XVIII, Best of the Small Presses, Pushcart Press, 1993
1992
“The Supremes,” “Cavafy in Redondo,” “The Mirror,” The Carnegie-Mellon Anthology of Poetry, Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1992
“Grid,” Pushcart XVII, Best of the Small Presses, Pushcart Press, 1992
1991
“The Black Riviera,” “Ground Swell,” “The Shrine and the Burning Wheel,” New American Poets of the 90's, David R. Godine, 1991
1989
“Cavafy in Redondo,” “The Face of the Wave,” “The Supremes,” The Southern California Anthology, Applezaba Press, 1989
1988
“Between Flights,” Pushcart XIII, Best of the Small Presses, Pushcart Press, 1988
“The Gift,” The Music of What Happens: Poems That Tell Stories, Orchard Books, 1988
1987
“Greensleeves,” “Lullaby for Amy,” “Writing for Nora,” Survey of American Poetry: Midcentury to 1980, Roth Publishing, Inc., 1987
1985
“Clues to Displaced Persons,” “In Hell,” “Le Touquet,” The Bread Loaf Anthology of Poetry, University Press of New England, 1985
“Poem for the Heartland,” Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry, Monitor Book Company, Inc., 1985
1984
“By-Blows,” “Cavafy in Redondo,” “The Supremes,” New American Poets of the 80's, Wampeter Press, 1984
1983
“Elegy for Redondo Beach,” Three Rivers Ten Years, Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1983
“First Fish,” Sotheby’s International Poetry Competition 1982, Arvon Foundation, 1983
1978
“The Desire of Water,” The POETRY Anthology, Houghton Mifflin, Co., 1978
Periodicals
Forthcoming
“Aid to Memory,” “Castlerigg,” “The Children’s Table,” “Encounter,” “Wedding Villanelle,” The Hudson Review
“Fates at Baptist Hospital,” “Haiku,” Ploughshares
“Acts of the Apostles,” Anglican Theological Review
“Joy Clark,” Iron Horse Literary Review
“Into the Woods,” Measure
“Short Measure,” First Things
2008
“Ownership,” Subtropics, Spring 2008
"Drinking Stars," First Things, p. 18, May 2008, Number 183
2007
"A Fall Evening in Berkeley, 1970," "Aware of Angels," "Chicken Hawks," "Farewell," New Letters, V. 73, N. 2
“Snoring,” “Mothering Sunday,” “The Next Chapter of Your Lives,” American Poetry Review, p. 37, Jul/Aug 2007. V. 36, N. 4
“At Terezín,” “Hymn,” “Reminder,” Image
“L. A. Gothic,” Margie
“R. S. Thomas,” The New Republic, May 7, 2007, N. 4,812
“Cliffhanger,” Unsplendid, 1.1, May, www.unsplendid.com
“Time Machine,” The New Criterion, October 2007, Volume 26, Number 2
“Flattery,” Hunger Mountain, Fall 2007, Issue # 11
“Surf Music,” “Olympiad,” Measure, Volume II, 2007
2006
"Accidental Resurrection," "Spirit of the Stairway," pp. 273-274, Pequod, Fall 2006, N's. 48, 49, & 50
"Strange Tales of the Kingdom of Fife," p. 78, The Atlantic Monthly, October 2006, V. 298, N. 3
“The Northern Lights,” “Almost,” pp. 32-33, Rattle, V. 12, N. 1, Summer, 2006
“The Prayer Chain,” “Yggdrasil,” “Catch and Release,” pp. 67-70, Five Points, Tenth Anniverary Issue, V. 10, Ns. 1 & 2
“A Personal Savior,” “Mother’s Friend,” pp. 438-441, The Southern Review, V. 42:2, Spring 2006
“St. Eustace,” “Kairos,” “Bristle Burn,” “Friends and Wolves,” pp. 74-77, Measure, V. I, 2006
“We Are All Praying for Our Father,” “The Comet,” pp. 137-139, Third Coast, Spring 2006
2005
“In the Rose Garden,” Slate, online, December 27, 2005
“Monday,” “Mr. Jackson,” “Auden,” The Georgia Review, pp. 606-613, V. LIX, N. 3, Fall 2005
“About the Hibiscus,” “Man Listening to Owls,” “Prayer to the Rhododendron,” pp. 19-21, Maize, Issue 4, September 2005
“Easy Sermon,” Poetry, July/August 2005
“Realism,” First Things, May 2005, Number 153
“Bat,” The Atlantic Monthly, May, V. 295, N. 4
2004
"Mother's Angel, Mars Hill Review, Issue 24, 2004
"Findings of the WMAP Satellite," Hotel Amerika, Fall 2004, V.3, N.1
"Our Place," Hunger Mountain Review, Fall 2004, Issue #5
"The Secret Ocean," "Kuan Yin," Sewanee Review, V. CXII, N. 2, Spring 2004
"Family Fugue," "Without Benefit of Our Current Understanding," Terminus, Issues 4 & 5, 2004
"All Things That," "Betsy Moore," Melic Review, online
"Your Niehgobr as Yourself, " Cumberland Poetry Review, Spring 2004, V. XXIII, N. 2
"C. S. Lewis," "Wenlock Carston," Image, Spring/Summer 2004, Number 42
"Visitors," Five Points, V. 8, N. 2
"Interesting Times," Poetry, May 2004, V. 184, N. 2
"Soul Surfing," "One of the Stones," "The Fact," Hotel Amerika, Spring 2004, V. 2, N. 2
"Summer," "Testimony of a Roasted Chicken," Washington Square, Winter 2004, Issue 13
2003
“Mary Smart,” Shenandoah, Winter 2003, V.53, N. 4
“Three Thousand,” American Poetry Review, September/October 2003, V.32/N.5
“The Excitement,” “Enlightenment Ghazal,” “The Football Dream,” The Hudson Review, Spring 2003, V. LVI, N. 1
“In Church with Hart Crane,” Indiana Review, Summer 2003, V. 25, N. 1
“A Pair of Tanagers,” Kenyon Review, Spring 2003, V.XXV, N.2
“Coyotes,” The Atlantic Monthly, May 2003, V.291, N.4
“As Close as Breathing,” Slate, March 18, 2003
“In the Clouds,” American Poetry Review, January/February 2003, V.32/No.1
“For a Classmate on his Way to Jail,” “Venusta Spiders,” River Styx, 63/64
2002
“Indian Summer’s End,” Iambs & Trochees: a Journal of Metrical Poetry, Fall/Winter 2002, Journal I, Issue 2
“The Wind,” Georgia Review, Fall 2002, V. LVI, N. 3
“For the Birds,” Five Points, October 2002, V. 6, N. 3
“At the Broadway Exit,” 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, October 2002, Issue 2
“Birthday Wish,” “Unholy Sonnet,” Slantreview.com, No. 3, August 2002
“Song of Roland,” “On Learning of a Child’s Memory,” “The Heavenly Ladder of John Klimax,” The Hudson Review, V. LV, N. 2, Summer 2002
“Canzone,” Blackbird, online, V. 1, N. 1, April 2002
“Cowboy,” Spirituality & Health, V. 5, N. 1, Spring 2002
“To the Trees,” Michigan Quarterly Review, V. XLI, N. 1, Winter 2002
“Through the Waves,” The Yale Review, V. 90, N. 1, January 2002
“Adagio for Strings,” Quarterly West, #53, Fall/Winter 2001-2002
2001
“Unholy Sonnet,” Image, Fall 2001, N. 32
“Lord Chemistry,” America, V. 185, N. 21, December 24, 2001
“On the Street,” The Denver Quarterly, V. 36, N.1/2, Spring/Summer 2001
“Elegy,” New Virginia Review, V. 11, 2001
“Litany,” Cimarron Review, Issue 136, Summer 2001
“The Couple,” “Music for Awhile,” Smartish Pace, Issue Five, October 2001
“Epistles” (two poems), Image, Winter 2000-01, Number 29
“Canticle,” The Atlantic Monthly, April 2001, V. 287, N. 4
“Epistles” (six poems), The American Poetry Review, Mar/Apr 2001, V.30/N. 2
“Unholy Sonnet,” “Epilogue,” Solo, Number 4
“Old Acquaintance,” The Threepenny Review, Winter 2001, V. XXI, N. 4
2000
“At the Next Table,” “Decision,” “Prayer to End a Dry Spell,” “Ruby Throated Moses,” “Short Drill,” “Victims,” “Wailers,” AbleMuse.com, V. 5
“Epistle” (2 poems), Over the River and Through the Woods, Five Points Fall 2000,
V. 5, N. 1
“Ouroboros,” “Epistle,” Atlanta Review, Fall/Winter 2000, V. VII, N. 1
“Astragaloi,” The New Republic, August 28 & September 4, 2000, Issues 4467 & 4468
“Butterflies Under Persimmon,” Poetry, February 2000, V. CLXXV, N. 4
“Epistle,” Seneca Review, Spring 2000, V. XXX, N. 1 (30th Anniversary Issue)
“Segment on NPR,” Slate Magazine (online), March 28, 2000
1999
“Unholy Sonnet,” “Grave Alignments,” “Arf and Barf,” AbleMuse.com, Fall/Winter 1999
“Sightings,” Southwest Review, Fall 1999, V. 84, N. 4
“Epistles” (three poems), Meridian, Fall 1999, N.4
“Unholy Sonnets” (two poems), The Kenyon Review, V.XXI, N.3/4, p. 169
“Unholy Sonnets” (two poems), Tar River Poetry, Spring 1999, V. 38, N. 2
“Unholy Sonnets” (two poems), Bellingham Review, Spring 1999, V. XXII, N. 1
“Unholy Sonnets” (two poems), Third Coast, Spring 1999
“In the Tube,” The Atlantic Monthly, May 1999
“Unholy Sonnets” (four poems), The Sewanee Review, Winter 1999, V. CVII, N. 1
“Cul de Sac Idyll,” ForPoetry, March-April, 1999, www.forpoetry.com
“Since Then,” “Debbie’s Neighborhood,” Web del Sol: Editor’s Picks, Fall 1999, www.webdelsol.com
1998
“Hard Clouds,” Sundog: The Southeast Review, V. 19, N. 1, 1998
“Epistles” (three poems), Barrow Street, Fall 1998, Vol 1, No. 1
“Epistle,” Five Points, Fall 1998, V. III, N. 1
“Unholy Sonnets,” Cortland Review, August 1998, online: www.cortlandreview.com
“Loop,” Image, Summer 1998, N. 20
“Epistles” (three poems), American Poetry Review, July/August 1998, Vol. 27/No.4
“Unholy Sonnet,” Two Rivers Review, Spring 1998, V. 1, N. 1
“You Lucky People,” The Journal, Spring 1998, V. 22, N. 1
“George Herbert,” Salt Hill Journal, Issue #5, June, 1998
“Unholy Sonnets” (two poems), The Gettysburg Review, Autumn 1998, Vol. 11, N. 3
“Cycle,” “Epistle I,” “Epistle II,”The Hudson Review, Spring 1998, V. LI, N. 1
1997
“Unholy Sonnet,” Oxford American, N.19
“The Word ‘Answer,’” The Connecticut Review, Spring 1997, V. XVIV, N. 1
“Unholy Sonnet,” “Surf Fever,” “Goya’s St. Peter Repentant,” Crab Orchard Review, Fall/Winter 1997, V. 3, N. 1
“Dialect,” Doubletake, Winter 1997, V. 3, N. 1
“Psalm,” The Atlantic Monthly, June 1997, V. 279, N. 6
“Unholy Sonnets” (two poems), New Letters, 1997, V. 63, N. 2
“Unholy Sonnets” (two poems), Shenandoah, Summer 1997, V. 47, N. 2
1996
“Unholy Sonnets” (three poems), Denver Quarterly, Fall 1996, V. 31, N. 2
“Unholy Sonnet,” “Nashville Moon,” The Formalist, 1996, V. 7, N. 2
“Unholy Sonnet,” Flannery O’Connor Bulletin, 1995-96, V. 24
“Unholy Sonnets” (three poems), Prairie Schooner, Winter 1996, V. 70, N. 4
“Unholy Sonnet,” “Psalm: The New Day,” Quarterly West, Autumn-Winter 1996-97, N. 43
“The World,” The Yale Review, October 1996, V. 84, N. 4
“Prayer for Our Daughters,” The New Criterion, May 1996, V. 14, N. 9
“The Reckless Father,” “Fox Night,” “Epistle,” Crazy Horse, Spring, 1996, N. 50
1995
“Unholy Sonnets” (two poems), The Southern Review, Autumn 1995, V. 31, N. 4
“Unholy Sonnet,” “Psalm: God of the Syllable,” “Rimini,” Atlanta Review, Fall 1995, V.II, No. 1
“Saroyanesque,” Southern Indiana Review, Spring 1995
“Unholy Sonnets” (three poems), “Psalm,” Image, Number 9, 1995
“The Worry Bird,” The Threepenny Review, Summer 1995, N. 62
1994
“In Front of the Children,” The New Yorker, November 21, 1994
“How My Sister, My Mother, and I Still Travel Down Balwearie Road,” The Illinois Review, Fall 1994, V.2, N.1
“Unholy Sonnets” (nine poems), The Hudson Review, Autumn 1994, V. XLVII, N.3
“Unholy Sonnets” (four poems), The American Poetry Review, September/October,
V. 23, N. 5
“Second Day,” Southern Humanities Review, Summer 1994, V. XXVIII, N. 3
“Unholy Sonnets” (three poems), The American Poetry Review, May/June 1994, V.23, N.3
“Unholy Sonnets” (two poems), Black Warrior Review, Spring/Summer 1994, V.20, N.2
“Locked Out,” Urbanus Raizirr, Spring/Summer 1994, N.5
“In via est cisterna,” The Hudson Review, Winter 1994, V.XLVI, N.4
“Psalm,” “Unholy Sonnet,” Ploughshares, Winter 1993-94, V.19, N.4
1993
“Forgotten Infancy, Kentucky,” “Remembered Weather,” “Good Voices,” New England Review, Fall 1993, V.15, N.IV
“Transfiguration,” Sewanee Theological Review, Pentecost 1993, V.36:3
“Drought Rain,” Southwest Review, Spring 1993, V.78, N.2
“Unholy Sonnets” (four poems), The New Criterion, April 1993, V.II, N.8
1992
“Questions for Ecclesiastes,” New England Review, Fall 1992, V.14, N.4
“Proverbs,” Boulevard, Fall 1992, V.7, Ns.2 & 3
“Creator,” “Inside/Outside,” Prairie Schooner, Summer 1992, V.66, N.2
“A.M. Fog,” The New Yorker, March 9, 1992
“The Instant,” “California Pastoral,” Poetry Northwest, Spring 1992, V.XXXIII, N.1
“A Song of Songs,” The American Voice, Spring 1992, N.26
1991
“Upwelling,” “Pampocalia,” “Chimney Swifts,” “Patience,” “The Stratford-upon-Avon Butterfly Farm and Jungle Safari,” Crazyhorse, Winter 1991, N.41
“Last Suppers,” Shenandoah, Winter 1991, V.41, N.4
“What Only Poetry Can Do,” South Florida Poetry Review, Fall 1991, V.9, N.1
“Iris” (Part I), The Hudson Review, Summer 1991, V.XLVIV, N.2
“Cloud Sketch,” “Northern Insomnia,” New England Review, Spring/Summer 1991, V.13, Ns.3 & 4
“Grid,” “A Line of Eucalyptus,” “A Voice Tries Whispering,” Poetry Northwest, Spring 1991, V.XXXII, N.1
“Wish,” Kentucky Poetry Review, Spring 1991, V.27, N.1
“Saroyanesque,” PN Review (England), March/April 1991, N.78, V.17, N.4
“To the Green Man,” Ploughshares, Winter 1990-91, V.16, N.4
1990
“Skin Cancer,” The New Yorker, September 24, 1990
“The NO Collage,” The Tampa Review, 1990, N.3
“Gliders,” Shenandoah, Spring 1990
“Fox Days,” First Things, May 1990, N.3
“Strange Tales of the Kingdom of Fife,” “Second Day,” “A Voice Tries Whispering,” “Grid,” “Music for Awhile,” Poetry and Audience (England), April 1990, V.32, N.1
1989
“Suite,” Crazyhorse, Winter 1989, N.37
“A One-Ring Circus,” “The Elephant Graveyard,” Crosscurrents, 1989, V.8, N.2
“Dressing My Daughters,” “The Double Bow,” The Hudson Review Summer 1989, V.XLII, N.2
“Sea Fig”, Prairie Schooner, Spring 1989, V. 63, N. 1
“Wave,” New England Review/Bread Loaf Quarterly, Spring l989, V.XI, N.3
“Waves,” “An Ivory Gate and a Gate of Horn,” “To Zoë, Beginning Winter,” Poetry Northwest, Spring 1989, V.XXX, N.1
1988
“Ground Swell,” Indiana Review, Winter 1988, V.12, N.1
“The Cuckoo,” “The Man We Knew,” Tar River Poetry, Tenth Anniversary Issue, Fall 1988
“Hawk,” “Patriarch,” Sewanee Review, Fall 1988, V.XCVI, N.4
“Shyness of the Muse in an Almond Orchard,” Poetry, July 1988
“The Death of God,” “The Tuba Lesson,” Ploughshares, 1988, V.14, N.4
“The Shrine and the Burning Wheel,” The Missouri Review, 1988, V.XI, N.2
“Story Hour,” Partisan Review, Spring 1988, V.IV, N.2
“Days of’74,” Poetry, February 1988
1987
“Testimony and Postscript,” Pequod, 1987, Ns. 23 & 24
“Resurrection,” “The Children,” “Between Flights,” Poetry Northwest, Summer 1987, V.XXVIII, N.2
“Awakened by Sea Lions,” Ohio Review, Summer 1987, N.39
“The Next War,” “Uncle Tenor,” Prairie Schooner, Spring 1987, V.61, N.1
“The Home,” The Hudson Review, Spring 1987, V.XL, N.1
1986
“The Cure, an Anecdote,” New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly, Autumn 1986, V.IX, N.1
“A Drawer of Scarves,” “The Pendulum’s Weight,” “Madrigal,” Crazyhorse, Fall 1986, N.3l
“At the Zane Grey Pueblo Hotel,” Quarterly West, 10th Anniversary Issue, 1986
“The Mystic,” The Missouri Review, 1986, V.IX, N.3
“The Black Riviera,” The New Yorker, May 19, 1986
“As Good as Dead,” Denver Quarterly, Spring 1986
“Gossamer,” Quarterly West, Fall/Winter 1985-86, N.21
1985
“An Occasion in Summer,” Tar River Poetry, Fall 1985, V.25, N.1
“Human Geography,” The Missouri Review, Fall 1985, V.VIII, N.3
“Liechtenstein,” The Missouri Review, Spring 1985, V.VIII, N.2
“Good Friday,” “Sand,” “The Unicycle,” “Miss Urquhart’s Tiara,” Crazyhorse, Spring 1985, N.23
“The Halloween Slide,” Ironwood, May 1985, N.25
1984
“Insomnia,” “Outlaw,” Cumberland Poetry Review, Fall 1984, V.IV, N.1
“Lost in a Dream,” New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly, Autumn 1984, V.VIII, N.1
“If I Am Like Anything,” “The Seawall,” Antioch Review, Summer 1984, V.42, N.3
“A Delicate Story,” “The Homing Instinct,” “Versions of Grandmother,” Hubbub, 1984, V.1, N.2
“Ideal Conditions,” “Poem in June,” The Hudson Review, Spring 1984, V.XXXVII, N.1
“To the Reader,” The New Yorker, March 12, 1984
“West Kentucky Spring,” Plainsong, Spring 1984, V.5, N.1
“All Day,” “Last Easter,” Tar River Poetry Review, 1984, V.22, N.1
“Poem for the Heartland,” Three Penny Review, Spring 1984, N.17
1983
“Mr. Numb,” Kayak, Summer 1983, N.62
“Classmates,” “The Face of the Wave,” Chowder Review, Spring/Summer 1983, Ns.18 & 19
“Ballad of Larry and Club,” Kayak, Spring 1983, N.61
“Cavafy in Redondo,” The New Yorker, May 2, 1983
1982
“Long Stemmed Roses,” Yarrow, Fall 1982, V.2, N.2
“Half Sonnets,” The Ohio Review, Summer 1982, N.28
“By-blows,” The New Yorker, August 20, 1982
“Far and Away,” The New Yorker, July 5, 1982
“When the Time Comes,” Poetry Now, July 1982, Issue 34, V.VI, N.4
“The Medium,” The Missouri Review, Summer 1982, V.V, N.3
“While You Are Gone I Look for Constellations,” “Widow’s Fire,” The Cumberland Poetry Review, Spring 1982, N.2
1981
“The Black Globe in the Captain’s Quarters,” “Claire,” “Two Rivers,” “1912,” Cumberland Poetry Review, December 1981, N.1
“Caprices,” “Dark Ages,” “The Mirror,” The Sonora Review, Fall 1981, N.2
“A Mackerel Sky,” “The Rote Walker,” Pequod, 1982, N.12
“The Supremes,” The New Yorker, August 10, 1981
“What Child Is This?,” Field, Spring 1981, N.24
1980
“Bees at the Tide Line,” Water Table, FCall 1980, N.1
“The Spell,” “Two Worlds,” Crazyhorse, 1980, N.20
“Down and Up Again,” Durak, July 1980, N.4
“Ascension of the Red Madonna,” “House of Gold,” Field, Spring 1980, N.22
“Labors of the Months,” Kayak, May 1980, N.53
“Lower Rooms,” “To Answer Your Question,” “When You Give It God’s Name,” Poetry Northwest, Winter 1979-80, V.XX, N.4
“Address to the Devil,” “Cross,” “Greensleeves,” “Does the Whale Diminish?,” “To Make Flesh,” Chowder Review, Fall/Winter 1980, N.15
1979
“Either It Will Rain Or It Will Not Rain,” “Neighbors,” Durak, November 1979, N.3
“A Ghost Story,” The American Poetry Review, September/October 1979, V.8, N.5
“Crèche,” Crazyhorse, Fall 1979, N.19
“Lightning,” Yakima, 1979, N.3
“Glossolalia,” “The New Life,” “The Ritual,” Crazyhorse, Spring 1979, N.18
1978
“Father, Son, and Ghost,” Antaeus, Summer/Autumn 1978, Ns.30 & 31
“History,” Alembic, 1978, N.2
“The Crossing,” “For a Saxophonist,” “From a Picture Book,” “What the Scriptures Tell Us,” Alembic, 1978, N.1
“We Dare Not Go A-Hunting,” Chowder Review, 1978, Ns.10-11
“Kicking the Candles Out,” The Nation, April 29, 1978
“Lullaby for Amy,” Kayak, February 1978, N.47
“Pet Marjorie,” Poetry Now, 1978, Issue 23, V.IV, N.5
“Writing for Nora,” Poetry Northwest, Winter 1977-78
1977
“Los Angeles,” Black Warrior Review, Fall 1977
“My Parents Have Come Home Laughing,” “Required Mysteries,” Field, Fall 1977, N.17
“Planting,” Iowa Review, Summer 1977, N.8/3
“Variation on Three Lines by Zbigniew Herbert,” Clifton, Spring/Summer 1977
“Goodbye to a Poltergeist,” Poetry, June 1977
“Three Gods Share Their Pastimes,” Poetry Northwest, Winter 1976-77
1976
“Foreigners,” The North American Review, Winter 1976
“In Sickness and Health,” Kayak, October 1976, N.43
“Premonition,” Iowa Review, Fall 1976, N.7/4
“False Subjects,” “Dead Reckoning,” Field, Fall 1976, N.15
“At Sea,” Field, Spring 1976, N.14
1975
“Overhead,” Poetry Northwest, Autumn 1975
“The Same Clay,” “To the Point,” Poetry, November 1975
“Powers That Be in This Neighborhood,” American Review, 1975, N.22
1974
“Advice to the VooDoo Dolls,” “In the Back Room,” “Wesley Comes Forth,” Kayak, October 1974, N.36
“The Death of Football,” The Ohio Review, Fall 1974
“Night Traffic,” Cafeteria, 1974, N.2
“A Séance,” Mosaic, 1974, N.4
“Waking Through a Long Morning,” Mosaic, 1974, N.3
“The Dogs and the Sea,” New: Canadian and American Poetry, 1974, N.24
“From Another Planet,” “Though We No Longer Possess It,” Poetry, May 1974
“Each Time You Look,” “The Reaches,” Poetry Northwest, Winter 1973-74
1973
“Elegy for Redondo Beach,” “The Phone Booths,” Three Rivers Poetry Journal, 1973, N.2
“Hell Week,” Quarry, 1973, N.3
“This Way,” Poetry, May 1973
“The Desire of Water,” Poetry, March 1973
“The Dead Must Fall Silent When One Sits Down to a Meal,” “The Expedient Disposal of Minor Characters,” “Power “Trip,” “Tonight Is the Night of the Prom,” Antaeus,
Spring 1973, N.9
“Making Out with the Ghosts of Old Girl Friends,” Kayak, December 1973, N.30
1972
“Elegy for John Berryman,” “Salamander,” Quarry, 1972, N.2
1971
“Looking for Conversation Pieces,” Quarry, 1971, N.1
Prose
Collections
Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry, University of Michigan Press, Poets on Poetry Series, 2002
The Secret of Poetry, Story Line Press, 2001
The Reaper Essays, with Robert McDowell, Story Line Press, 1996
Articles and Essays
“Here Was Childhood,” memoir, Arts & Letters: Journal of Contemporary Culture, pp. 120-134, Issue Nineteen, Spring 2008
“To Make the Final Unity: Metaphor’s Matter and Spirit,” The Southern Review, pp. 301-318, The Southern Review, V. 43:2, Spring 2007
“Your Anonymous Correspondent: Ezra Pound and The Hudson Review,” The Hudson Review, pp. 359-375, V. LIX, N. 3, Autumn 2006
“The Story of a Feeling, Poetry’s Passionate Repetition,” The Writer’s Chronicle, pp. 58-66, October/November 2006, V. 39,
N. 2
“Letter from Prague,” The Hudson Review, pp. 534-540, V. LVIII, N. 4
“The Stream: Extended Metaphor in the Poetry of Mona Van Duyn,” The Writer’s Chronicle, pp. 13-21, V. 38, N. 3, December 2005
“Letter from Sofia,” The Hudson Review, V. LVII, N. 2, Spring 2004
“Happiness: The Aesthetics of Donald Justice,” Blackbird, online, November 2002, V.1, N.2
“9/11/01: a Journal Entry,” September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond, ed. William Heyen, Etruscan Press, 2002, pp. 211-214
“His Alexandria,” “...what these Ithakas mean.”: Readings in Cavafy, ed. Artemis Leontis et al, Hellenic Literary and Historial Archive, 2002, p. 129
“Slip, Shift, and Speed Up: The Influence of Robinson Jeffers’ Narrative Syntax,” Jeffers Studies, V. 3, N. 4, Fall 1999, pp. 10-23
“In Memory of Orpheus: Three Elegies by Donald Justice,” Eclectic Literary Forum, Summer 1998, V. 8, N. 2
“Aspects of Robinson,” AWP Chronicle, December 1997, V. 30, N. 3
“‘The Retrieval System,’”, On the Poetry of Maxine Kumin, ed. Emily Grosholz, University Press of New England, 1997, pp. 92-97
“‘More Disguises’: The Poetry of Laurence Lerner,” The Cumberland Poetry Review,
