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POEMS


Selected Samples In Print
and on the Web


A Capella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry, edited by Ann Hostetler (U of Iowa Press, Nov. 2003)

Three poems on threecandles.

Four poems in the first issue of The New Pantagruel.

Prairie Poetry (2002 Peer Award)

3rd Muse (February 2002)

Avatar Review (Summer 2002)

Samples
from Lines from the Provinces:

"Beethoven's Romance in G" & "Prayer and Fugue for Two Hands" (Mennonite Life, December 2001)

"Wild Bird Feeder" (in 2River View, Winter 2000)

"Lines on Retirement, After Reading Lear" (in Teaching English in the Two-Year College, May 2000).

 

 

 

Samples
from A Liturgy for Stones:

"Veni, Sancte, Spiritus" and "Electric Glossolalia" (DreamSeeker Magazine, January 2002)

"A Map of the Kingdom" and "Lydia's Song" (Mennonite Life, December 2001)

"A Selfish Sonnet of Thanksgiving" (The Avatar Review, Summer 2002)

"Old Women in Eliot Poems" (3rd Muse, February 2002, and reprinted in Poems Niederngasse, June 2003)

"Gammal Fäbodpsalm" (Prairie Poetry, Peer Award for 2002)

"Looking at Roadside Bluestem Before Leaving Decatur" and "Tending Gardens" (2River View, Fall 2002)

"Poems Should Not Be" Red River Review. (August 2001)

"My Friend at Firestone Asks about Poems" (Teaching English in the Two-Year College, May 2003)

"Altar Piece" and "Like Trees Planted by Streams of Water," from A Liturgy for Stones, were featured on Verse Daily.

An essay and some excerpts from A Liturgy for Stones in the Winter 2004 Dreamseeker Magazine.