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Books:

  • More than One Life, trans. of M. Holubova, Northwestern University Press, 2000
  • Crystals of the Unforeseen, Plainview Press, 1999
  • The Poetry of Anna Akhmatova, trans., W.W. Norton, 1983 (Russian)
  • The Poetry of Wickedness, poetry, Ithaca House, 1982
  • Elegies, trans. of Jiri Orten's poems, CVU Press, 1981 (Czech)
  • The Plague Column, trans. of J. Seifert, CVU Press, 1981 (Czech)
  • Human Trappings, poetry, Abattoir Editions, l980

Fiction:

  • "Lesson in Black and White," Ball State Forum, 1981 winter
  • "Front Towards Enemy," Michigan Quarterly Review, 1981 winter
  • "Falling Off the Scaffold," Michigan Quarterly Review. 1978 reprinted in Best American Short Stories of 1979, ed. Joyce Carol Oates
  • "The Second Page," Catholic Digest, 1968 `

Articles:

  • "On Jaroslav Seifert," essay, Concerning Poetry, International Issue, vol. 17 no. 2, 1984
  • "A.R. Ammons," Encyclopedia of World Literature in the Twentieth Century, volume one, A-D, 1981
  • "The Inside is Outside; A Review of Six First Books of Poetry," Michigan QuarterlyReview, 1978 fall
  • "Benjamin Britten's War Requiem," Generation, 1964

Plays:

  • "Thin Walls," was performed at the Craft Theatre and the Attic Theatre in Ann Arbor, l987
  • "Nocturnal Emissions," was performed at the Performance Network in Ann Arbor,
  • "The Characters are Anyone, The Place Anywhere," was performed at The Performance Network in Ann Arbor, 1986
  • "Two Square Meals," was performed at the Performance Network in Ann Arbor, 1985 , and at the Trueblood Theatre at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
  • "This Side Up," was performed at the Performance Network in Ann Arbor and at the Craft Theatre, Ann Arbor, as a special performance to benefit St. Joseph's Hospital Cancer Fund, 1985
  • "Halfway Measures ," was performed script-in-hand at the Performance Network in Ann Arbor, 1985
  • "A Stone's Throw," was read at the Attic Theatre in Detroit, 1982
  • "The Atomic Weight of Potassium" was read at the Performance Network and the Performance Network, 1983
  • "The Atomic Weight of Potassium" was performed at the Performance Network, 1983
  • "Acting Out" was performed script-in-hand at the Performance Network in Ann Arbor, 1983
  • "Straws in the Wind" was read and performed at the Performance Network in Ann Arbor, 1983
  • "Genie in a Klein Bottle" was performed script-in-hand at the Performance Network in Ann Arbor, 1984

Awards:

  • "Selected Orten Translations" won first prize in the International Poetry Review
  • Translation Competition--judge, William Meredith-1980 spring
  • Major and Minor Hopwood Awards in every category: poetry, fiction, drama, essay
  • Academy of American Poets prize
  • One of Orten translations featured in Ed Hirsch’s book, How To Read A Poem

Reviews:

  • "Falling Off the Scaffold" was reviewed as part of Best American Short Stories, in the Georgia Review, 1981 as one of the two best stories
  • The Poetry of Wickedness was reviewed in Choice and Small Press Book Club Selection
  • The Poetry of Anna Akhmatova was reviewed in the New York Review of Books and TLS
  • Human Trappings was reviewed in Michigan Quarterly Review, winter 1982
  • "The Atomic Weight of Potassium" was reviewed by The Michigan Daily,
  • "The Warmest Thing in The Room" was reviewed in the Ann Arbor News,
  • "Pandora's Box" was reviewed in The Michigan Daily and The Ann Arbor News, 1985

Readings:

  • Participated in a reading featuring Michigan's best-known poets at the Rackham Graduate School of the University of Michigan, Nov. 1985
  • Many solo readings at the University of Michigan, Saginaw Valley State College, Guild House in Ann Arbor; readings with Joseph Brodsky, Phillip Levine, Larry Goldstein, George Garrett, E.H. Creeth
  • Read at UPAV benefit at Marcus Center, October, 2001
  • Read at Third Ward Café (Milwaukee), Elliott Bay Bookstore (Seattle) and Schwarz’s Bookstore (Shorewood), 2001-2002

Television and Radio Appearances:

  • Two television appearances--a taped reading for Public Access and an interview at Saginaw Valley
  • Many radio readings and interviews, mostly on WUOM and WCBN
  • Reading Scott Greer’s poetry and original poetry on MATA, Spring, 2002

Individual Poetry Publications (including both original poems and translations)

  • "Five Poems" Aspen Leaves, Spring 1973
  • "To You Again," Michigan Quarterly Review, Fall 1973
  • "To Yevtushenko, Name Enough," New Orleans Review, Spring 1974
  • "The Death of Allen Ginsberg," Aspen Anthology, Winter 1976
  • "Salmon," New Orleans Review, Spring 1976
  • "Before This Was a Jungle," National College Poetry Review, Spring 1979; reprinted in Pegasus, Fall 1979
  • "The Plane and the Watcher," Iowa Review, Fall 1979
  • "Bank of America," Andover Review, Fall 1979.
  • "A Little Girl's Drawing," Michigan Quarterly Review, Fall 1979
  • "Four Poems," The Great Writers, University of Michigan, Summer 1979
  • "The Blackbird Looks Back," and "Cow, Drowning in Mud," Bits, 1980
  • "The Dream." Poetry Now, 1980
  • "Inheritance," Dakotah Territory, 1980
  • "Motel Aubade," Concerning Poetry,1980
  • "Retail Outlets" and "Orpheus," Descant, 1980
  • "Genealogical Allegory," Poet Lore, Spring 1980
  • "Three Poems" Descant, Spring Summer 1980
  • "Initiation," Southern Humanities Review, Summer 1980
  • "Elegy #3" by Jiri Orten, TLS, International Poetry Review, Spring 1980
  • "The Thaso Kouros," Southern Humanities Review, Fall 1980
  • "A Statue of the Sacred Heart," Wind, 1980
  • "Oedipus and the Sphinx," Michigan Quarterly Review, summer 1980
  • "Orton's Elegy No.7," tr., Denver Quarterly, Spring 1980
  • "Crossing the Bridge," Kansas Quarterly, Fall 1980
  • "Force of One," Hollins Critic, October 1980
  • "The Affair is Over" and "You're Odysseus (But I'm the Hottentots)," Ball State University Forum. 1980
  • "In the Study, Just Before Lunch", "The Artwork on the Backs of Gargoyles and "Good Friday, Going Hungry," Poet Lore, Winter 1980
  • "Brilliant Alliance," Literary Review, 1980
  • "The Dish Ran Away With the Spoon," Descant, Fall 1980
  • "When I was Crazy," and "Halfway Between Drownings," Descant, Winter
  • "Mirror Woman," Northeast Review, Winter 1981
  • "The Baby and After" and "Ezra," Green River Review, 1981
  • "A Life," Southwest Review, 1981, Poet Lore, Winter 1981
  • "Numbs," Hollins Critic, December1981
  • "The Dark Facts," "A Day of the Pavement," "Emily Dickenson Meets Ogden Nash," and "Bedtime," The Portland Review, Winter 1981
  • "Stone Boat," Hollins Critic, December 1981
  • "Rousseau: A Mirror Sonnet" and "An Old Snapshot," Green River Review,
  • "Another Life," Poet Lore, 1981
  • "Floating Women ," and "Duel," Wind, 1982
  • "Guess Who," "Rhapsody on Terry," "Shadow Children," and "On His Deathbed,"
  • Webster Review, Spring 1982
  • "Pigs on Pilgramage," Focus/Midwest, 1982
  • "Lady Psychologist, Leaving Home," Aspen Leaves Anthology, 1982
  • "Escape from the Locker Room," Poetry Now, 1982
  • "Colors Like Spokane," Southern Humanities Review, Spring 1982
  • "Riverbeds in Times of Drought," Literary Review, Spring 1982
  • "Sick and Tired of Marriage," "Fox Vita," "Days of the Week," and "Relatives," Green River Review, 1982
  • "Stone Wine," Poet Lore, 1982
  • "Armored Girl," Focus/Midwest, 1982
  • "Amelia and John," Hiram Poetry Review, Fall/Winter 1982
  • "Shadow Children," Webster Review, 1982
  • Jiri Orton's Elegies, tr. Cross Currents, 1982
  • "Stepfather," and "Surfacing," Chiaroscuro, 1983
  • "Opium Fields in Time of War," Poet Lore, 1983
  • "An Old Bachelor," Kansas Quarterly Review, January 1983
  • "The Empty House" and "Sea of Children, Prairie Schooner 1983
  • "In Memory of Roethke" and "Ezra," Green River Review, 1983
  • Two Poems by Nezval, Cross Currents, 1983
  • "Me and Me," Northeast Review, 1983/1984
  • "Deathbed/Childbed," Hollins Critic, April 1983
  • "Ending End," Hollins Critic, December 1983
  • "Cold Venus at the Typewriter," Poet Lore, 1983
  • Seifert's "The Plague Monoument," tr. Cross Currents, 1983
  • Three Poems by Jarostav Seifert, tr. Concerning Poetry, 1984
  • "To the King from the Candle," The Blackbird Looks Back," "Mad Poem," and "In the Dance Studio," Paunch, January 1984
  • "The Blank Baby," Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 1984
  • "The Poet Falls in Love," Poultry, 1984
  • Rilke tr., Cross Currents, 1984
  • "Gingerbread Men," Blue Ox Review, 1985
  • "She Longs For Her White Lover," Hollins Critic, December 1985
  • "Milking the Cow of Your Dreams" and "Dream Corder," New Collage, Spring 1985
  • "Another Life," New Collage, Summer 1986
  • "Molto Vivace," Confrontation, Spring/Summer 1986
  • "Unwrapped Gifts," Footwork, 1986
  • "Pigs On Pilgrimage," Midwest Review
  • "The Widower Grows Lustful," Mid-American Review, 1986
  • "The Plague Monument," and "Ivanescence," Seifert tr. Cross Currents,
  • Brodsky's "Lithuanian Nocturne," tr., Cross Currents, 1986
  • "The Pope in South America," "Our Resident Executioner," Bernini's St. Theresa," and "Father/Daughter," Gryphon, 1986 Collection of Poems by Uwe Kolbe, tr. with B. Walker, Cross Currents,
  • "Wherever You Go There You Are," Cross Currents, 1987

Anthologies and Chapbooks:

  • Wind Eyes, Plainview Press, 1997
  • Wild Turkeys, poetry slam chapbook, 1998
  • Online: many sites, including Motley Focus; Afternoon; sendecki.com; poetrylist@aol.com- first featured poet
  • “September” won an award at poetry.com- 2002

Columns:

  • “We Make the Way By Going,” poetry column published on poetrylist@aol.com

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