Bibliography
Publications
- The Storm and Other Poems (Atheneum, 1969; reissued in Carnegie Mellon’s Classic
Contemporary series in 2005) - White Boots: New and Selected Poems of the West (will appear in March, 2006)
- The Unbroken Diamond: Nightletter to the Mujahedeen (in Swedish, Arcturus Press,
1986; in English thedrunkenboat.com (2004) - Trace Elements from a Recurring Kingdom (Notable Book, 1994)
- Faultdancing (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1986)
- Invisible Guests (Confluence, 1981)
- In the World’s Common Grasses (Moving Parts, 1981)
- Reasons for Going It on Foot (Atheneum, 1981
- Fireclock (4 Zoas, 1981)
- Coot and Other Characters (Confluence, 1977)
- Striking the Dark Air for Music (Atheneum, 1973)
Periodicals / Antologies
His poems, stories, and reviews have appeared in hundreds of litmags including The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Nation, Harper’s Commonweal, APR, Poetry, Parabola, Ploughshares, Georgia Review, Guttenberg Unplugged.com, thedrunkenboat.com and in numerous anthologies including Comeback Wolves (2005), Rough Places Plain: Poems of the Mountains (2005), Homage to Vallejo (2005), Family Matters (2005), Noble as They Come: A Poetry of Horses (2005), Where We Live: The Northwest (2005), The New Yorker Book of Poetry, The Generation of 2000: Contemporary American Poets, The Morrow Book of Younger American Poets, The Lexington Guide to Literature, Strong Measures: 20th Century Poets in Traditional Forms, Crossing the River: New Poets of the American West, and Poets of the Southwest.
Readings
Translated into nearly 20 languages, his poems have been broadcast over Voice of America and Liberation Radio; he’s been invited to read throughout the U.S. (M.I.T., N.Y.U., Columbia University, Guggenheim Museum, L.B.J. Library, Harvard Law School, Juilliard (2), Vassar); in England; in Sweden at Lund University, Malmo Poetry Festival, and the Gotenberg Book Fair; in Italy at University of Pisa and the American School in Rome; in Macedonia at the Struga Poetry Festival, and so on.
Awards and Honors
Among them: three Pushcart Awards, the Columbia Magazine “Stanley Kunitz Prize,” the Southern Poetry Review “Guy Owen Prize”, a Borestone Award; he’s been nominated for “a Pulitzer and the likes so often I’m pretty sure I’ve developed antibodies against them all.” WPR has been US/UK Exchange Artist (London & Cornwall), fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Stanford University’s Stegner Writing Grant, and the National Endowment for the Arts writing grant.
