-- PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS – PROSE
“Those
Desirable Things.” Event Magazine.
40.1 Forthcoming 2011.
“The Art of Cheer.” Fast Break to Line Break: Poets on the Art of Basketball. Ed. Todd Davis. Michigan State University Press, 2010. Forthcoming.
“Thirteen
Ways of Looking at the Weather.” Quavering
Between Song and Story: Essays for the 21st Century. Ed. Sheryl St. Germain. Autumn House Press, 2010.
“Chores.” Writing with a Thesis: College-Level Textbook. Heinle Languages, UK. Ed. Sarah E. Skwire, 2010.
“Some
Things About that Day.” The Fourth
Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction (5th Edition). New York: Longman, 2009:
177-178.
“Chores.” Real Essays
with Readings: Writing
Projects for College, Work, and Everyday Life (3rd Edition). Ed.Susan
Anker, New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2009.
“Perils of Travel.” Cadences:
Literary Journal, Cyprus College, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2009: 29-38.
“Refusing
Nostalgia.” Home/Land: The New Symposium Proceedings, Paros 2008.
International Writing Program, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. 2008.
“Some Things About that Day.” Brevity Magazine. 27 (Summer, 2008).
“Reconsidering an Agricultural Childhood.” North Dakota Living
Magazine. 53.9 2007: 20-22.
“Chores.” Orion July/August 2006: 49-51.
“Great Falls, 1976.” Mid-American
Review. 26.2 (2005): 164-175.
“The Land Husband.” Flyway: A Literary Review. 9.2 (2005): 60-71.
“Hochzeit.”
Creative Nonfiction 27 (2005): 36-37.
“The Perils of Travel.” Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature
and Fine Arts 17.2 (2005): 29-40.
“In the Clearing.” The Grist Mill: Food for the Mind 13 (2005):
30-32.
“Pilgrim Soul.” Crab Orchard Review 9.1 (2004): 145-157.
“Agricultural Mysticism:
Twenty-One Fragments on Desire” Mid-American Review 24.2 (2004): 36-50.
“How to Enjoy a Nice Life
in the Country.” SubTerrain: Strong Words from a Polite Nation 4.38 (2003): 31-34.
“Sustainable
Agriculture.” Writer’s Digest: The Year’s Best Writing Feb. 2004: 34-35, 38.
“The Political
Migrations of Wheat.” New Letters: Immigrants & Travelers Issue 70.1 (2003): 31-39.
“The Farmer’s
Daughter: A Revision.” Arts & Letters: Journal of Contemporary Culture 10 (2003): 100-107.
“Going
to California.” North Dakota Quarterly 69.4 (2002):118-122.
“Between Earth & Sky.” New
Letters 68.2 (2002): 35-51.
“Things Not Seen in the Rear View Mirror.” Camas: The Teller Issue
5.1 (2001): 18-21, 36-39.
“Chores.” Hayden’s Ferry Review 26 (2000): 74-77.
“The
Movie of the World.” North American Review 285.3-4 (2000): 64-70.
“Things Not Seen in a Rear View
Mirror.” New Letters 66.2 (2000): 173-182.
“Come to North Dakota!” South Dakota Review
38.2 (2000): 54-61.
“To Kill a Deer.” The Sun Magazine 287 (1999): 16-23. [reprint]
“The
Many Short Teeth of the Many Long Zippers.” Gargoyle 42 (1999): 248-249.
“On Lost & Crazy Sisters.”
New Letters 65.2 (1999): 7-20.
“The Horizontal Life.” Arts & Letters: Journal of Contemporary
Culture 1 (1999): 60-65.
“Waiting for Dean.” Witness 13.1 (1999): 148.
“Wearing
Dead Women’s Clothes.” Witness 13.1 (1999): 149. [reprint]
“The Day Montana Turned.”
Witness 13.1 (1999): 150.
“Playing for the Door.” North American Review 83.2 (1998): 26-27.
[reprint]
“Failures of the Heart.” North Dakota Quarterly 65.1 (1998): 107-119.
"Mrs. Schumacher
Busts a Nut." Cimarron Review 120 (1997): 90-98.
"The Most Famous Person from North Dakota." New Letters
62.1 (1996): 59-76.
"To Kill a Deer." Flyway Literary Review 2.1 (1996): 80-98.
"Guitar Army." Ethos
42.4 (1996): 24-26.
"Santiago's Dead." The Crescent Review 14.1 (1996): 66-81.
“Naming the Beast."
River City 13.1 (1992): 18-31.
"The Moon." North Dakota Quarterly 58.1 (1990): 32-37.
"Through
the Beaded Curtain." New Letters 56.1 (1989): 113-123.
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POETRY
“Greyhound
Days.” The Ledge Poetry and Fiction Magazine 33 (2010).
“Cell.” The Ledge Poetry and Fiction Magazine 33
(2010).
“Somewhere in a House Where You are Not.” Don’t Leave Hungry: Southern
Poetry Review’s 50th Anniversary Anthology, 2009:
202-203.
“Somewhere,
In a House Where you are Not,” Southern Poetry Review. 46.2 (2009): 34-35.
“Chill Factor.”
RUNES, A Review of Poetry: Connection. Winter (2007): 56-57.
“Buoy” Rattle:
Poetry for the 21st Century. 13.2 (2007): 93.
“Lazerland
Outing with Boys” River Styx International 75 (2007): 79-80.
“Silos.” Red Weather
26 (2007): 10-11.
“Bookmobile.”
Oberon Poetry Review 5 (2007): 91.
“To the Woman Who Tore the Word “Husband” from the Oxford English Dictionary.” North American
Review 290.5 (2005): 41.
“On the Corner of Hunger & Thirst.” Many Mountains Moving: A Literary
Journal of Diverse Contemporary Voices 5.2 (2003): 6-7.
“Usual Magic.” Many Mountains Moving: A
Literary Journal of Diverse Contemporary Voices 5.2 (2003): 5.
“Drats.” Connecticut Review 24.2
(2002): 71-72.
“The Falling Man.” River City 22.1 (2002): 111-112.
“Beating up the
Brother.” Mississippi Review 30.1-2 (2002): 47-48.
“Bookmobile.” Red Weather 21 (2002):
66.
“Within Moments.” North American Review 286.2 (2001): 5.
“My Catholic Tongue.”
South Dakota Review 39.2 (2001): 191-192.
“This New Quiet.” South Dakota Review 39.2 (2001):
192.
“The Way of Fire.” South Dakota Review 39.2 (2001): 193.
“From Sweetness.”
Red Weather 20 (2001): 161-162.
“The Hardness of Math.” Red Weather 20 (2001): 163-164.
“Dylan’s
Lost Years.” The Spoon River Poetry Review 25.2 (2000): 67.
“How Bad News Comes.” Cumberland
Poetry Review 19.2 (2000): 24-25.
“Do Drop Inn.” Mississippi Review 28.1-2 (2000): 36-37.
“My
Husband, a City Boy, Decides to Buy a Truck.” South Dakota Review 38.2 (2000): 62-63.
“Fish While
You Can.” Red Weather 19 (2000): 26.
“Turning to Herself.” Southern Poetry Review 39.1
(1999): 60-61.
“On Lake Superior.” Threepenny Review 19.4 (1998): 34.
“More Like Hunger.”
Passages North 19.1 (1998): 17-18.
"Wearing Dead Women's Clothes." Kalliope 19.3 (1997): 6-7.
"My
Catholic Tongue.” Cumberland Poetry Review 17.1 (1997): 12-13.
“Hurricane.” Cumberland
Poetry Review 17.1 (1997): 14-15.
“Alchemy.” Cumberland Poetry Review 17.1 (1997): 16-17.
"The
Long Root." Kansas Quarterly/Arkansas Review 26:1-4 (1996): 387-392.
"Other Knowledge." Kalliope 18.2
(1996): 6-7.
"Airband.” Cumberland Poetry Review 16.1 (1996): 39-41.
"Envy of Origins." Cumberland
Poetry Review 16.1 (1996): 42-43.
"Big Guitar Sound." Half Tones to Jubilee 11 (1996): 5-6.
"Finding
the Words." Kalliope 17.2 (1995): 30-31.
"Gravity's First Lesson." Sow's Ear 6.2 (1995): 24.
“Within
Moments.” The Drummer July 1994: 8.
“Light Sweet Crude.” The Drummer July 1994: 8.
[reprint]
"I am Upstairs, Trying to be Quiet.” Cumberland Poetry Review 14.1 (1994): 81.
"Light
Sweet Crude.” Cumberland Poetry Review 14.1 (1994): 79-80.
"Missing Wife." Cumberland Poetry Review
14.1 (1994): 82-83.
"Somewhere in a House Where You are Not.” Southern Poetry Review 33.2 (1993): 5-6.
"Between
Wives.” Southern Poetry Review 33.2 (1993): 6-7.
"When the Names Still Fit the Faces.” Charlotte
Poetry Review 2.2 (1993): 24.
"Motorcade." Cumberland Poetry Review 12.2 (1992): 60-61.
"Acts of
Preservation." Zone 3 6.1 (1991): 18-19.
"Grandfather's Hands." Half Tones to Jubilee 6 (1991): 12.
"Everything's
a Verb.” Cumberland Poetry Review 11.1 (1991): 22-23.
"Speaking the Language.” Cumberland Poetry
Review 11.1 (1991): 20-21.
"The Weaver.” Cumberland Poetry Review 11.1 (1991): 24.
"Birthmark."
Poet Lore 85.3 (1990): 31-32.
"The Eye of the Needle.” Loonfeather 11.2 (1990): 17-18.
"Maggie."
Loonfeather 11.2 (1990): 18.
"History of a Portrait." Half Tones to Jubilee 5 (1990): 4-5.
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ONLINE PUBLICATION
“Hochzeit.” Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction 14 (2003).
www.creativenonfiction.org/brevity.html. Summer 2003.
"True Tribe," and "Shit & the Dream of It." A Regular
Dervish: Spoken Word CD.
Blue Moon Review. (http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/olp/bluemoon/index.html) Summer 1996.
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COMMISSIONED WORK
"Palimpsest." Commissioned Poem. ISU University Museums, Public Art Project.
Poem to accompany
Doug Shelton mural, Unlimited Possibilities, 1997.
"Making Something Out of Nothing: Alchemy and Blood Mysteries in
the Performance Art
of Carol Prusa." Spittle. Ed. Carol Prusa. Limited Edition Artist's Book, 1997.
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CREATIVE WORK IN BOOKS & ANTHOLOGIES
“Chores.” The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 1. Ed. Lee Gutkind. Norton: New York, 2007. [reprint]
“Things Not Seen in a Rear-View Mirror.” New American Essays.
Eds. Conger Beasley and Robert Stewart. New Letters 72.1 (2005): 233-254.
“Thirteen Ways of Looking
at the Weather.” Prairie Weather: Harvest Book Series. Ed. Steven
Semken. North Liberty, IA: Ice Cube Press,
2005: 45-54.
“Picchiavamo Nostro Fratello.” “Beating Up the Brother,” Trans. To Italian. Andrea
Sirotti and Giorgia Sensi. Men/Uomini: Ritratti Maschili Nella Poesia. 2004:
18-19. [reprint]
“Pilgrim
Soul.” The Double Dealer Redux. Published Anthology of Winning Selections from the
Faulkner Society, Words
& Music Conference Competition. New Orleans, LA. 2004. [reprint]
“This New Quiet.” Sudden Stories:
The Mammoth Book of Minuscule Fiction. Dubois, PA:
Mammoth Books, 2003: 51.
“Dylan’s Lost Years.”
Sudden Stories: The Mammoth Book of Minuscule Fiction. Dubois, PA:
Mammoth Books, 2003: 52.
“Getting
Ready.” READ Magazine, Fall, 2002.
“Getting Ready.” In Your Face: Poems About Real Life.
Scholastic Books, NY. 2002.
“Things Not Seen in a Rear View Mirror.” Pushcart Prize Anthology XXVI:
Best of the
Small Presses. NY: Pushcart Press, 2001. 497-504.
“Getting Ready.” Who Am I? Anthology
for Young Learners. Des Moines, IA: Perfection
Learning, 2002.
“To Kill a Deer.” Dutiful Daughters:
Reflecting on Our Parents as They Grow Old. Ed.
Jean Gould. Seattle: Seal Press, 1999. 17-38.
“Older Sister.”
Talking of Hands: New Rivers 30th Anniversary Anthology. Ed. C.W.
Truesdale, Mark Vinz, and Robert Alexander. Minneapolis,
MN: New Rivers Press, 204-205.
“How Bad News Comes.” Talking of Hands: New Rivers 30th Anniversary Anthology.
Ed.
C.W. Truesdale, Mark Vinz, and Robert Alexander. Minneapolis, MN: New Rivers
Press, 1998. 206-207.
“Getting
Ready.” Welcome to Your Life: Writings for the Heart of Young America. Ed.
Julie Landsman and David Haynes.
Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1998: 63.
"The Places Where We Live." What Matters: Selections from 30 Years of
Literary
Magazines at Moorhead State. Ed. Mark Vinz. Moorhead, MN: Moorhead State
University, 1997: 144-145.
“Wormwood.”
Voices of the Landscape: Contemporary Iowa Poets. Farragut & Parkersburg:
Loess Hills Press, 1996. 89-90.
“Getting
Ready.” The Party Train: A Collection of North American Prose Poetry. Ed.
Robert Alexander, Mark Vinz, and
C.W. Truesdale. Minneapolis, MN: New Rivers
Press, 1995. 219.
“My Father Tells This Story about His Brother
Frank and the Wick (Every Time I Ask for
Money).” The Party Train: A Collection of North American Prose Poetry.
Ed.
Robert Alexander, Mark Vinz, and C.W. Truesdale. Minneapolis, MN: New Rivers
Press, 1995. 219-220.
“Small
Town Café.” The Party Train: A Collection of North American Prose Poetry. Ed.
Robert Alexander, Mark Vinz,
and C.W. Truesdale. Minneapolis, MN: New Rivers
Press, 1995. 220.
"The Blizzard Rope.” Prairie Volcanoes:
An Anthology of North Dakota Writing. Ed.
Martha Meek and Jay Meek. Grand Forks, ND: St. Ives Press/Dakotah Territory
Press,
1995. 161.
"Bronze These Shoes.” Prairie Volcanoes: An Anthology of North Dakota Writing. Ed.
Martha
Meek and Jay Meek. Grand Forks, ND: St. Ives Press/Dakotah Territory
Press, 1995. 159-160.
"My Father Tells This
Story about His Brother Frank and the Wick (Every Time I Ask Him
for Money)." Prairie Volcanoes: An Anthology of North
Dakota Writing. Ed.
Martha Meek and Jay Meek. Grand Forks, ND: St. Ives Press/Dakotah Territory
Press, 1995. 162.
"The
Horizontal Life." 1992 Roberts Writing Awards Anthology. Pittsburg, KS: H.G.
Roberts Foundation, Inc., 1993. 40-43.
"Nun
Stuff." Clearing Space Anthology. Fargo: North Dakota Council of the Arts, 1993. 10-24.
Five poems: “Mother
Tongue,” “History of a Portrait,” “I am Upstairs Trying to be Quiet,”
“Baby Fever,”
and “Letter North.” A Circle of Four: a Chapbook of Four Women
Poets. Moorhead, MN: Dakota Territory
Press, 1989. 2-12.
