Anthologies
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FIST, PALM, HAND appears in New Anthology
A poem about my mother’s first stroke appears in the new anthology entitled When Last On The Mountain: The View from Writers over Fifty, a beautiful collection of poetry and prose…worth buying. You can read the poem here: Fist, Palm, Hand Your hand opens and closes and open and closes. If it were always a fist
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Big Land, Big Sky, Big Hair: Best of the Texas Poetry Calendar
Dos Gatos Press published a new anthology: Big Land, Big Sky, Big Hair: Best of the Texas Poetry Calendar. It includes a poem of mine entitled Vanishing Over The Horizon: Vanishing Over The Horizon I believe in Texas as a state of mind the wide deserts room for elbows
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COME TOGETHER, IMAGINE PEACE: New Anthology from Bottom Dog Press
I am proud and thankful to be included in a new anthology from Bottom Dog Press entitled COME TOGETHER, IMAGINCE PEACE. The poem is called Savoring The World, and is included side by side with poems from Ellen Bass, Robert Bly, Jane Hirshfield, and many others. You can order the book for $18 from Bottom
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Poem in Out of Line 2007 — Writings on Peace & Justice
A new poem appears in the 2007 anthology OUT OF LINE: My Daughter Reads The Morning Paper She opens the world as a present unwrapped slowly, unsure if it might be her heart’s desire or a sensible pair of socks to replace the one with holes. Unraveling the morning paper, she comes to expect the
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Working Hard For The Money, POETRY ANTHOLOGY
Two of my early poems were included in the anthology Working Hard For The Money: America’s Working Poor in Stories, Poems, and Photos from Bottom Dog Press. They are Radar, and Lions After Slumber. Radar There was a man unraveling down the sidewalk along the backside of the Capitol’s Rotunda a man vexed all
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Sacred Fire Anthology
My poem This Burning is included in the anthology Sacred Fire. The poem was inspired by the true life story of a father I met at a mental health conference in San Diego, and my subsequent drive home through a night-blaze in the hills north of Los Angeles: This Burning In the dark ahead, it
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Anthology List – & Monterey Bay Poets 2004
Here are some of the recent anthologies my poems have been privileged to appear in — scroll through the listings in ANTHOLOGIES for more detail in chronological order, with poem samples and publisher information. Most books can be ordered too through your local bookstore and Amazon: The Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets 2004 is a great collection of