Colorado Poets Center

Bibliography

Books Authored or Edited

  • Sentences (Pudding House Publications, 2003), a chapbook of poems
  • Greatest Hits: 1970-2000 (Pudding House Publications, 2003), Number 171 in the Greatest Hits Series.
  • The Rain At Midnight (Sherman Asher Publishing, 2000), a full-length collection of poems; Colorado Book Award finalist in 2001.
  • The Heart Inside The Heart (Wayland Press, 1999), a chapbook of poems.
  • Bed of Coals (University of Colorado Press, 1995), a full-length collection of poems. Winner of the 1994 Colorado Poetry Award, selected by Wanda Coleman; Colorado Book Award finalist in 1995.
  • House of Mirrors (James Andrews & Co., Inc., 1992), a full-length collection of poems.
  • Sweet Nothing Noise (Wayland Press, 1991), a chapbook of poems.
  • Wandering Music (Juniper Press, 1991), a chapbook of poems.
  • Co-Editor, A Song for Occupations: Poems About the American Way of Work (Wayland Press, 1991), an anthology.
  • The Undersides of Leaves (Wayland Press, 1985), a full-length collection of poems.
  • Thirst (Juniper Press, 1984), a chapbook of poems.
  • Shadow-Light (Judy Anderson, 1982), a chapbook of poems selected by Arizona poet Richard Shelton as the 1982 Colorado Governor’s Award volume.
  • Weathers, Vistas, Houses, Dust (Juniper Press, 1980), a chapbook of poems.

Writings Published in Anthologies and Other Booklength Publications

  • “Artichoke” in The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets, Ted Kooser ed. ( University of Nebraska Press, 2005).
  • “Self-Assessment” in The Tar River Poetry 20th Anniversary Anthology (1998).
  • “Pneumonia” and “Internal Combustion” in the anthology The XY Files: Poems on the Male Experience, ed. Nancy Fay (Sherman Asher Publishing, 1997).
  • “The One-Armed Boy” in the anthology Pierced by a Ray of Sun: Poems About the Times We Feel Alone, ed. Ruth Gordon (Harper-Collins, 1995).
  • “A Box of Snapshots Unearthed in the Basement” in the anthology American Dream (Pig Iron Press, 1995).
  • “Joni Mitchell” in the anthology Sweet Nothings: An Anthology of Rock and Roll in American Poetry, ed. Jim Elledge (Indiana University Press, 1994).
  • “Driving Home,” “Elegy for Michael, a Friend, Killed in His Car,” and “Internal Combustion” in the anthology Drive, They Said (Milkweed Editions, 1994).
  • “Walking Off a Night of Drinking in Early Spring” in Luna: Myth and Mystery (Johnson Books, 1991), edited by Kathleen Cain.
  • “Grace” and “Crossing the River” in the anthology The Decade Dance (Sandhills Press, 1991).
  • “Catacombs” in the anthology Movieworks (Little Theatre Press, 1990).
  • “Poetic Justice,” an essay, and three poems, “Vander Meer’s Duplicity,” “Vander Meer Larger Than Life,” and “Vander Meer at Bottom” in Tracks in the Snow: Essays by Colorado Poets (Mesilla Press, 1989).
  • “Thunderhead” and “Walking Off a Night of Drinking in Early Spring” in Crossing the River: Poets of the Western United States (The Permanent Press, 1987).
  • “Internal Combustion” and “From the Family Album” in Wingbone: Poetry From Colorado (Sudden Jungle Press, 1986).
  • “St. Patrick’s Day Blues” and “Wandering Music” in City Kite on a Wire: An Anthology of Denver Poets (Mesilla Press, 1986).
  • “The One-Armed Boy” in TheAnthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry, 1985 (Monitor Books, 1986).
  • “This Year” in American Classic (SCOP Publications, 1985) and in The Ohio Review Ten-Year Retrospective Anthology (1983).
  • “The Plaza,” a translation of “La Plaza” by Vicente Aleixandre, in TheAnthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry, 1983 (Monitor Books, 1984).
  • “Aren’t You Kind of Old for This?,” a parody of Raymond Carver, in The Brand-X Anthology of Fiction (Applewood Books, 1983).
  • “Aspects of Time in Poetry,” an essay, in What Can You Say About Poems: Essays by Poets on Poetry (Juniper Press, 1982).
  • “This Year” in The Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry, 1980 (Monitor Books, 1981).
  • “Dawn at the Rainbow Hill Ranch” and “Artichoke” in The Windflower Home Almanac of Poetry (Windflower Press, 1979)

Poetry

Ab Intra, Abraxas, The Agni Review, American Poetry Review, American Writing, Ann Arbor Review, Ark River Review, Aspen Anthology, The Bastard Review, The Bitter Oleander, Blackberry, Bloomsbury Review, Brix Magazine, Calliope, Catalyst, Cave (New Zealand), Chariton Review, The Chowder Review, Colorado Review, Communiqué, Concerning Poetry, Crosscurrents, Denver Quarterly, Devil’s Millhopper, Eclipse, Edge (New Zealand), Eleventh Muse, Fiddlehead (Canada), Grasshopper, Greenfield Review, Gulfstream, The Hague Review, High Plains Literary Review, Hubbub, The Hudson Review, Hurãkan, Images, Io, Karaki (Canada), Kansas Quarterly, Lamp in the Spine, The Little Review, Louisville Review, Luna, Mad Blood, Manzanita Quarterly, Midwest Quarterly, Mississippi Review, The Nation, Nebraska Review, New: American and Canadian Poetry, New Mexico Humanities Review, New Salt Creek Reader, Northeast, Ohio Review, Oregon Times Magazine, Petroglyph Magazine, Poet and Critic, Poetry (Chicago), Poetry Australia, Poetry Motel, Poetry Now, Poetry on the Buses (sponsored by The Massachusetts Review), Prairie Schooner, Prism International (Canada), Puerto Del Sol, Raccoon, Rapport, Red Booth Review, Rhino ’98, Riverstone, Road Apple Review, Rocky Mountain Review, Salt, Seems, Sight Unseen, South Coast Poetry Journal, South Dakota Review, Sou’wester, Spree, Tar River Poetry, Tendril, Three Colorado Poets (Abishag Press), Visions-International, Voices International, West Branch, Wisconsin Review, Writers Forum, Yes Magazine, Zone 3.

Short Fiction

Bloomsbury Review Fiction Supplement (1985), The Muse, Prism International, Puerto Del Sol, Southern Humanities Review, and Sou'wester.