Bibliography

Books

  • North|Rock|Edge: Shetland 2017/2019, (Parlor Press/Free Verse Editions, 2022)
  • The Avalanche Path in Summer, Ahsahta Press, 2019.
  • Trafficke, Ahsahta Press, 2015. Mixed  form, poetry & nonfiction.
  • Gallowglass, Ahsahta Press, 2010.
  • Bone Pagoda, Ahsahta Press. 2007
  • A Smell of Burning Starts the Day, Wesleyan University Press, 1988.
  • The Hands in Exile, Random House/National Poetry Series, 1983.

Poems & Mixed-Form Works in 75+ journals, including:

  • “60° North | Tide-Scour,” Beneath a Warm Green Linden 10 (Dec 2020). Web.
  • “On Foot with Oppen | Muckle Roe,” “Kettla Ness | ‘Between Walking & Watching the Whole World Slips,’” & “Skaw Beach | A Turbidite,” Free Verse 31 (Fall 2020). Web.
  • “With Moore & Niedecker on the North Sea | Seeing,” “Hatteras | Like All Lines in the Sand, These,” Entropy: The Birds. (10 Sept 2020). Web.
  • “60° North | Carrying Howe Down to Meall Beach,” VOLT 25 (2020) 118-120. Print.
  • “60° North | Arriving, Stand Still,” “60° North | A Coast Severed,” “60° North | A Path through Palmer, Ramke, Kettla Ness, & Various Unsaid Sounds,” Denver Quarterly, 2020. Print.
  • “Eshaness | Is It Force or Failure.” Oversound, 2020. Print.
  • “To Speak of One Is to Speak of the Other.” Tupelo Quarterly, 2018. Web.
  • “In the 15th Chapter on Infinity, Try to Arrest One Detail.” Terrain.org: a journal of the built + natural environments, 2017. Web.
  • “After Paradise,” “For Eighty Miles the Wind Shapes,” “Beyond Temporary, Like Snow Flurry,” “The Stones of Tamburlaine’s Army.” Free Verse, 2017. Web.
  • “Avalanche Theory,” “In Country That Is Rough but Not Difficult, One Sees Where One Is and Where One Is Going at the Same Time.” Plumwood Mountain: An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics, 2017. Web.
  • From Suibhne on Eigg: A Dictionary of His Days and Nights: “Island,” “Sweeney,” “Salt,” “Hut,” “Arrow,” “Thorn.” Plumwood Mountain: An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics, 2017. Web.
  • “Another Haunting, the Pencil Line.” Copper Nickel, 2016. Print.
  • “Pockets of Detail, Unsurrounded,” “Small Volcano of a Mushroom Pushing Through Soil.” Clade Song, 2016. Web.
  • “A Walk Is Fact to the Walker and Fiction to Everyone Else.” Missouri Review on Line, 2016. Web.
  • “Route Sketched on a Map, as If Walking.” Plumwood Mountain: An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics, 2016, Web.
  • “The War Poets,” “My Tho,” “Imago.” Beloit Poetry Journal, 2015. Print.
  • “In Purpose at My Booke (sections 5 & 6).” Apartment Poetry 5, 2015. Web.
  • “In Purpose at My Booke (section 1).” Quiddity: An International Journal of Literature & Art, 2014. Print.
  • “Only Allowed One Step at a Time.” Beloit Poetry Journal, 2014. Print.
  • “Alive,” “Of Half the Views I Have Yet Said Nothing,” “Isolaria,” “Leg Muscle Finds a Mountain.” Free Verse, 2014. Web.
  • “Hairst (sections 1 & 2).” Seneca Review, “Beyond Category” special issue, 2014. Nominated by Seneca Review for a Pushcart in Nonfiction. Print.
  • “Rockfall on a Cliff Hidden by Trees,” “At a Rockslide Ending in Willow,” “The Mountains Flew over the Water as Birds,” “Tent Book.” Spacecraftproject, 2013). Web.
  • “Hairst (sections 4 & 5).” Evening Will Come, 2013. Mixed Form Issue. Web.
  • “Murray Wrote Mountaineering in Scotland,” “Unfinished Mountain Finished with Words,” “Geologue Picks Up a Pencil and Says to Us ‘See!’” Cerise Press, 2013. Web            
  • “That the Earth Is Not Only Supported by Their Strength but Fed by Their Ruin.” Beloit Poetry Journal, 2013. Print.
  • “Contest,” “I Found This Pencil in a Parking Lot,” “Come Back Each Summer to See How Far Your Favorite Rock Has Moved.” Colorado Review, 2011. Print

Selected Anthologies & Republication

  • “Imago.” Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual. York, UK: Aesthetica Magazine, 2019. Print.
  • “Stork.” Chad Walsh Prize Anthology Chapbook. Beloit Poetry Journal, 2016. Print.
  • “Ice or Salt (excerpt).” there were our own / there were the others. Web vehicle for World War I Centenary commemorative walks & installations at 24 National Trust properties throughout England, summer 2014. Also in 24 hand-bound books exhibited at the venues.
  • “That Most Heart-Exciting of Earthly Things.” Sweeney’s Bothy / Bothan Shuibhne. 2013. Web.
  • “Murray Wrote Mountaineering in Scotland.” Còmhlan Bheanntan / A Company of Mountains: 14 views of the Isle of Skye: Elgol, 2013. Web.
  • “American Ghazals.” Split This Rock. Beloit Poetry Journal Chapbook, 2008. Print.
  • “Gaby at the UN Observation Post.” Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust. 2nd Edition. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2010. Print.
  • “American Ghazals,” Foreign Policy in Focus, 2008. Web.               
  • “The Sentence,” “Moon, Colorado, Snow,” “One, Two.” Under the Rock Umbrella: Contemporary American Poets from 1951-1976. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2006. Print.
  • “At a P.C. Sergeant’s House.” Access Literature – An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry and Drama. New York: Thompson, 2006. Print.
  • “Copulation.” A Fine Excess: 50 Years of the Beloit Poetry Journal. Beloit Poetry Journal, 2000. Print.
  • “At a P.C. Sergeant's House.” The Pushcart Prize XII: Best of the Small Presses. The Pushcart Press, 1987. Print.
  • “At a Cock Fight,” “The Bus from Sagada: Passing a Sacred Mountain,” “From Now On.” Crossing the River: Poets of the Western US. Sag Harbor: The Permanent Press, 1987. Print.
  • “The Hours,” “Irrigation,” “In an Arab Town,” “Identity Card.” The Morrow Anthology of Younger American Poets. New York: William Morrow, 1985. Print.
  • “A Few Words on My Own Behalf,” “Castrating the Calves,” “To the Young Man.” Wingbone: Poets from Colorado. Pamela Haines & Janice Hays, eds. Colorado Springs: Sudden Jungle Press, 1986. Print.

Selected Essays & Conversations

  • “Susan Tichy on Jane Augustine’s Traverse: Collected Poems 1969-2019,” Poetry Daily, 20 Dec 2021.
  • “Susan Tichy on Thomas A. Clark’s The Threadbare Coat: Selected Poems,” Poetry Daily, 9 Aug 2021. Web.
  • “Susan Tichy on ‘In Country That Is Rough, but Not Difficult, One Sees Where One Is & Where One Is Going at the Same Time,” Poetry Daily, 7 Sept 2020. Web.
  • “Susan Tichy on Telling the Story that Cannot Be Told Yet Must Be Told—M. Nourbese Philip’s Zong!,” Poetry Daily, 8 Sept 2019. Web.
  • “Susan Tichy on Gary Snyder’s ‘Logging,;” Poetry Daily, 1 July 2019. Web.
  • Tracy Zeman: “A Conversation with Susan Tichy.” Quiddity: An International Journal of Literature & Art, 2014. Print,
  • Alec Finlay: “Sweeney Sierra: a conversation with Susan Tichy.” Sweeney’s Bothy / Bothan Shuibhne., 2013. Web.
  • “Equal Meadows,” (on poetic influence). Evening Will Come, 1 July 2013. (Mixed Form Issue). Web.
  • “That the Earth Is Not Only Supported by Their Strength but Fed by Their Ruin.” Beloit Poetry Journal: Poet’s Forum, 2013. (Long Poem feature)
  • Brian Brodeur: “Susan Tichy.” How a Poem Happens, 2011. On writing “Nui Sam.” Web.
  • Greta Aart: “Political Awareness, Social Consciousness and Memory in Susan Tichy’s Poetry.” Cerise Press. 2010. Web.
  • Rob McLennan: “12 or 20 Questions: with Susan Tichy.” Rob McLennan’s Blog, 2010. Web,.
  • “On the Mountain” (poetics essay). Beloit Poetry Journal: Poet’s Forum, 2010. Web,
  • “The Walk You Take & the Walk You Make: An Interview with Alec Finlay.” Practice: New Writing + Art, 2007. Print.
  • “Forms of Temptation.” Tracks in the Snow: Essays by Colorado Poets. Denver: Mesilla Press, 1989. Print,
  • “Reflections in the Wake of Turmoil.” Essay/review of Revolution in the Philippines: The Unites States in a Hall of Cracked Mirrors by Fred Poole & Max Vanzi, & Two ‘Terrorists’ Meet by Steve Psinakis. Bloomsbury Review, 1986. Print. Nominated by Bloomsbury Review for Pushcart in Nonfiction.

Exhibitions: Artist Books & Visual Poems

  • Two broadsides on Gary Snyder’s Myths & Texts. What Sparks Poetry? Fenwick Gallery, GMU, 2019.
  • “Another Haunting, the Pencil Line,” with Helen Frederick. Call & Response VIII, Fenwick Gallery, 2016.
  • Tea Moons I-VI, & tea paper. Inner Librare, Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA, 2013.
  • Those Driven Mad by War I, II, III. Collaboration with artist Helen Frederick, three invited artist books for Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, shown in two international traveling exhibits. 2013-2016.
  • Mapping Afghanistan. Artist book, mesostic poem on artist-made paper, created in a Peace Paper Project workshop with Brandon Moore-McNew. Call & Response III: Afterimages. 123 Gallery, Fairfax VA, 2012.
  • “Some Things, Sea Foam for Instance.” Mesostic poem on artist-made paper. Call & Response II: Envisioning Otherness, 123 Gallery, Fairfax VA, 2010. See the text here, imbedded in Alec Finlay & Ken Cockburn’s year-long, book-length poem-journey through Scotland, The Road North.
  • Tea Moons I-VI, & Tea Moon Journal, Material Word, 123 Gallery, Fairfax VA, 2009.

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