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BIBLIOGRAPHY: TIMOTHY STEELE
For a fuller account of the materials listed below, please see Timothy Steele, A Bibliography 1957 - 2018, compiled by Jack W. C. Hagstrom and Joshua S. Odell. Santa Barbara: Joshua Odell Editions, 2018.
Collections of Poems
Uncertainties and Rest. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979.
Sapphics Against Anger and Other Poems. New York: Random House, 1986.
The Color Wheel. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
Sapphics and Uncertainties: Poems 1970-1986. Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 1995.
Toward the Winter Solstice. Athens, OH: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 2006.
Chapbooks and Limited Edition Poems
The Prudent Heart. Los Angeles: Symposium Press, 1983.
Nine Poems. Florence, KY: Robert L. Barth, 1984.
On Harmony. Omaha: Abattoir Editions, 1984.
Short Subjects. Florence, KY: Robert L. Barth, 1985.
Beatitudes. Child Okeford, Dorset: Words Press, 1988.
Starr Farm Beach. West Chester, PA: Aralia Press, 2005.
Scholarship and Literary Criticism
Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt Against Meter. Fayetteville:
University of Arkansas Press, 1990.
All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification.
Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1999.
Books Edited
The Music of His History: Poems for Charles Gullans on His Sixtieth Birthday.
Edited by Timothy Steele. Florence, KY: Robert L. Barth Press, 1989.
The Poems of J. V. Cunningham. Edited with an introduction and commentary by
Timothy Steele. Athens, OH: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 1997.
Articles, Introductions, or Afterwords in Magazines, Journals, Books, and Anthologies of Criticism
"The Structure of the Detective Story." Modern Fiction Studies 27 (Winter 1981-
82): 555-70.
"The Dissociation of Sensibility: Mannered Muses, Ancient and Modern." The
Southern Review 19 (Winter 1983): 57-72.
"Matter and Mystery: Neglected Works and Background Materials of Detective
Fiction." Modern Fiction Studies 29 (Autumn 1983): 435-50.
"Let Thy Words Be Few: Remembering J. V. Cunningham." Sequoia 29 (Spring
1985): 104-8.
"Tradition and Revolution: The Modern Movement and Free Verse." The
Southwest Review 70 (Summer 1985): 294-319.
"J. V. Cunningham: An Introduction and an Interview." The Iowa Review 15 (Fall
1985): 1-24.
"Janet Lewis and the Untranslatable Heart." Los Angeles Times: The Book Review (3
November 1985): 2.
"Writing in Meter." Crosscurrents 8 (Winter 1989): 101-4.
"Pattern and Substance in the Life and Work of Janet Lewis." Numbers 4 (Winter
1990): 79-90.
"On Meter." Hellas 1 (Fall 1990): 289-310.
"Excerpt," from Missing Measures. The Formalist 1 (Autumn 1990): 37-39.
"The Superior Art: Prose, Verse, and Modern Poetry." In Conversant Essays:
Contemporary Poets of Poetry, edited by James McCorkle (Detroit: Wayne
State University Press, 1990): 120-131.
"'Let Thy Words Be Few': Remembering J.V. Cunningham." Verse 7 (Winter
1990): 33-37. (This is an expanded version of the essay that initially
appeared in Sequoia.)
"The Forms of Poetry." Brandeis Review 12 (Summer 1992): 28-33.
Three Entries: "Edgar Bowers," "Thom Gunn," "Vers Libre." In The Oxford
Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry, edited by Ian Hamilton. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1994: 62-63, 201-3, 558-59.
"On Edgar Bowers." La Fontana, special issue (March 1994): 44-45.
"Staunch Meter, Great Song." In Meter in English: A Critical Engagement, edited
by David Baker. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, l996: 221-47.
"Boundless Wealth from a Finite Store: Meter and Grammar." Michigan Quarterly
Review 36 (Winter 1997): 161-80.
"Prosody, Elizabethan." In Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, edited by Paul F.
Gendler. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999: vol. 5, 176-79.
"'Across Spaces of the Footed Line': the Meter and Versification of Robert Frost." In
The Cambridge Companion to Robert Frost, edited by Robert Faggen.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001: 123-53.
"John Keats's Poems of 1817." The World from Here: Treasures of the Great
Libraries of Los Angeles. Los Angeles: The Grunwald Center for the Graphic
Arts and the Hammer Museum, 2001: 419.
"'The Bravest Sort of Verses': The Heroic Couplet." An Exaltation of Forms, edited by
Annie Finch and Kathrine Varnes. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,
2002: 107-15.
Afterword to Helen Pinkerton's Taken in Faith. Athens, OH: Swallow Press/Ohio
University Press, 2002: 119-29.
"Prosody for 21st-Century Poets." Website of The Academy of American Poets,
2006. (http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19294)
"Verse Satire in the Twentieth Century." In A Companion to Satire Ancient and
Modern, edited by Ruben Quintero. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007: 434-59.
Introduction to Peter Stanlis's Robert Frost: The Poet as Philosopher. Wilmington,
Delaware: ISI Books, 2007: i-x.
"Judge's Note for The 2008 Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award." In Measure, volume
4, issue 1 (2009): 71-72.
Introduction to Able Muse Anthology, edited by Alex Pepple. San Jose: Able
Muse Press, 2011: xiii-iv.
Two short essays for "The Symposium on Form." In Think Journal 3 (Spring 2011):
13-15; 33-35.
"Scansion," "Verse and Prose." Entries for The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and
Poetics, 4th Edition, Roland Greene, Editor in Chief, Stephen Cushman,
General Editor. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012: 1259-63; 1507-
Two Entries: "Edgar Bowers," "Thom Gunn." In The Oxford Companion to Modern
Poetry, 2nd ed., edited by Ian Hamilton and Jeremy Noel-Tod. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2013: 64-65, 232-34. (These entries revise the
earlier ones on EB and TG written for The Oxford Companion to
Twentieth-Century Poetry, which was published in 1994. Though the
current volume carries a different title, the publisher lists the book as a 2nd
edition of the original volume.)
Afterword to Frank Osen's Virtue, Big as Sin. San Jose: Able Muse Press, 2013): 63-
Essay: "'No Shepherd of a Child's Surmises': J. V. Cunningham as a Montana Poet."
In These Living Songs: Reading Montana Poetry, edited by Lisa Simon and
Brady Harrison. Missoula, University of Montana Press, 2014: 153-66.
Essay: "Two Version of Orpheus: Edgar Bowers and Thom Gunn. The Yale Review 103:3 (July
2017): 71-103.
https://yalereview.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Steele%2CTimothy_TwoVersionsofOrpheus_jul2017.pdf
Essay: "Reading, Writing, and Bibliography." In Timothy Steele, A Bibliography
1957 – 2018, compiled by Jack W. C. Hagstrom and Joshua S. Odell. Santa
Barbara: Joshua Odell Editions, 2018: xi-xxx.
Essay: "The Poetry Of Helen Pinkerton." Literary Matters 11 (Spring 2018):
http://www.literarymatters.org/11-1-the-poetry-of-helen-pinkerton/
Essay: "Another Look at Thom Gunn." The Threepenny Review 160 (Winter 2020):
"Keeping the Angels in Line": of Mary Baron, Letters for the New England Dead.
Counter/Measures 3 (1974): 191-93.
"Sunbelly": of Kenneth Fields, Sunbelly. The Southern Review 11 (Spring 1975): 482-
"Recent Verse of W.S. Merwin": of W.S. Merwin, The Compass Flower and Feathers
from the Hill. The Southern Review 16 (Spring 1980): 483-91.
"Curving to Foreign Harbors": of Turner Cassity, The Defense of the Sugar Islands.
The Southern Review 17 (Winter 1981): 205-13.
"Conversations with Novelists": of Christopher Bigsby and Heide Ziegler, The
Radical Imagination and the Liberal Tradition: Interviews with English and
American Novelists and Dianna Cooper-Clark, Designs of Darkness:
Interviews with Detective Novelists. Modern Fiction Studies 30 (Summer,
1984): 423-25.
Of The Oxford Book of Children's Verse in America, edited by Donald Hall. Los
Angeles Times: The Book Review (29 March 1985): 3, 6.
Of Stevie Smith: A Selection, edited by Hermione Lee. Los Angeles Times: The
Book Review (26 May 1985): 7.
Of Skeptical Engagements, by Frederick Crews. California Magazine 12 (January
"Homage to the Word": On Robert B. Shaw's What Remains to Be Said:
New and Selected Poems, Los Angeles Review of Books, June 25, 2022. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/homage-to-the-word-on-robert-b-shaws-what-remains-to-be-said-new-and-selected-poems/
Two Poems: "Wait," "Homecoming in Late March." Poetry 119 (March 1972): 329.
Three Poems: "Coda in Wind," "October Dusk," "September Noon." The Southern
Review, 8 (Winter 1972): 170-72.
Two Poems: "Reading Habits," "Cowboy." Modern Occasions 11 (Winter 1972):
Two Poems "At the Summit," "This Is." The Chowder Review (Winter 1973): 27.
Four Poems: "Night Transit," "For Ying Lew," "Epitaph," "For One Who Worked
Polk Street." Counter/Measures 2 (1973): 79-80.
Poem: "Family Reunion." The Southern Humanities Review 8 (Summer 1974): 335.
Poem: "A Couple, A Domestic Interior." Southern Poetry Review 14 (Fall 1974): 45.
Three Poems: "Strictly Romantic: Coastal Town in Maine," "For My Mother," "This
Time Around." The Greensboro Review 19 (Winter 1974-75): 101-3.
Two Poems: "One Morning," "Profils Perdus." The Southern Review 11 (Spring
Four Poems: "With a Copy of Ronald Firbank," "Even Then," "Mornings in a New
Apartment," "Don Juan: A Winter Convalescence," The Greensboro Review
19 (Winter 1975-76): 20-22.
Poem: "Summer Fairytale." The Chowder Review 6 (1976): 6.
Poem: "Jogging in the Presidio." Sequoia (1976): 74.
Poem: "Stargazing at Barton." The Southern Poetry Review 16 (Spring 1976): 47.
Four Poems: "Last Night as You Slept," "Learning to Skate," "Rural Colloquy with a
Painter," "Baker Beach at Sunset." The Greensboro Review 22 (Spring l977):
Three Poems: "Three Notes Toward Definitions: I: Of Culture, II: Of Faith, III: Of
Friendship." Poetry 130 (July l977): 218-20.
Five Poems: "Sunday Afternoon," "Evening, after the Auction," "The Messenger,"
"History of a Friendship in Mattapoisett," "Poet at the Christmas Tree." The
Southern Review 13 (Autumn 1977): 774-78.
Four Poems: "This Is," "Profils Perdus," "For my Mother," "With a Copy of Ronald
Firbank." Sequoia 22 (Autumn 1977): 5-8.
Five Poems: "Jogging in the Presidio," "Two for the Road," "With a Copy of Ronald
Firbank, "Family Reunion," "A Couple, A Domestic Interior." PN Review 5
(1977): 26.
Two Poems: "Names," "Apology." The Gramercy Review 3 (Spring 1979): 46-47.
Four Poems: "Murder Mystery," "In the King's Rooms," "Border Tramp," "From the
Point." The Southern Review 15 (Fall 1979): 1003-6.
Three Poems: "The Sheets," "The Shortcut," "Coming Now." Canto 3 (May 1980):
Two Poems: "Sunday Supplement," "Cory in April." The Gramercy Review 4
(Spring 1980): 3-6.
Four Poems: "Last Words on the Subject," "Toward Calgary," "Estrangements," "Old
Letters." Occident (Winter 1981): 43-44.
Poem: "Near Olympic." The Threepenny Review 6 (Summer 1981): 12.
Two Poems: "Summer," "1816." Chicago Review 33 (Summer 1981): 58-59.
Poem: "Sapphics Against Anger." The Threepenny Review 11 (Fall 1982): 3.
Poem: "On the Eve of a Birthday." Poetry 141 (November 1982): 69-70.
Two Poems: "From a Rooftop," "Timothy." The Paris Review 88 (Summer 1983):
Two Poems: "The Chorus," "Chanson Philosophique." Poetry 142 (August 1983):
Two Poems: "The Treatise on Harmony," "Mockingbird." The Greensboro Review
34 (Summer 1983): 82-83.
Two Poems: "Angel," "The Library." Poetry 143 (December 1983): 127-29.
Three Poems: "The Skull at the Crossroads," "Guessing Game," "Social Reform,"
Triquarterly 58 (Winter 1984): 133-34.
Three Poems: "Love Poem," "Snapshots for Posterity," "Jacaranda." Sequoia 28
(Winter 1984): 1-3.
Three Poems: "Matthew 5.l5," "An L.A. Impromptu," "Sage Counsel." Nebo 2
(Spring 1984): 24.
Poem: "The Wartburg." The Threepenny Review 18 (Summer 1984): 12.
Poem: "Life Portrait." The Threepenny Review 19 (Fall 1984): 17.
Two Poems: "Eros," "Ethics." Poetry 145 (February 1985): 262-63.
Poem: "UCSB Pastoral." Daily Nexus 16 (May 23, 1986): 7A.
Poem: "Beatitudes, While Setting out the Trash." The Yale Review 75 (Spring
1986): 372.
Three Poems: "Joseph," "Education in Music," "Eros." Numbers (Autumn 1986):
Two Poems: "Joseph," "Education in Music." Sequoia 31 (Centennial Issue 1987):
Poem: "Portrait of a Woman in a Museum." Zyzzyva 3 (Spring 1987): 129.
Four Poems: "Aurora," "Youth," "Dependent Nature," "Pacific Rim." The New
Criterion 6 (October 1987): 45-48.
Poem: "Scrapbook for my Sister." The Jacaranda Review 3 (Fall/Winter 1988): 118.
Two Poems: "Decisions, Decisions," "Practice." Crosscurrents 8 (Winter 1989): 15-
Two Poems: "On Wheeler Mountain," "Cosmos." The Greensboro Review 46
(Summer 1989): 135-36.
Poem: "For Thom Gunn, Thinking of Him in Vermont." PN Review 16 (Autumn
1989): 44.
Poem: "Advice to a Student." The Formalist 1 (Winter 1990): 27.
Poem: "Once." The Spectator (3 February 1990): 31.
Poem: "On his Cooking." Lullwater Review 1 (Spring 1990): 14.
Three Poems: "Jerusalem Delivered," "Once," "Joseph and His Brothers." The
Epigrammatist 1 (April 1990): 22-23.
Two Poems: "A Shore," "Georgics." Zyzzyva 7 (Spring 1991): 69, 71.
Poem: "In Passing." Southwest Review 77. (Winter 1992): 56.
Poem: "One Binary Star Talking to Another." The Epigrammatist (April 1992): 22.
Poem: "Anecdote of the Sugar Bowl." The New Criterion 11 (November 1992): 40.
Two Poems: "Luck," "Just as Well." Hellas 3 (Fall 1992): 50-52.
Three Poems: "Beethoven's Ninth at the Hollywood Bowl," "Ars Poetica,"
"Curriculum Vitae." The Classical Outlook, 70 (Fall 1992): 20.
Two Poems: "December in Los Angeles," "Hortulus." Poetry, 161 (December 1992):
Poem: "California Sea Lion." The Threepenny Review, 52 (Winter 1993): 11.
Poem: "Takeoff." The New Republic, 4090 (June 7, 1993): 40.
Poem: "Her Memory of the Picnic." Shenandoah, 43 (Fall 1993): 94-95.
Poem: "History of Morals, or The Old Curiosity Shop." The Epigrammatist (April
Poem: "The Telemarketers' Hour." The Chronicle of Philanthropy, 7 (December 13,
Two Poems: "Luck," "Anecdote of the Sugar Bowl." Poetry Durham 35 (Summer
Poem: "Millennial Visions." The Epigrammatist (December 1995): 4.
Poem: "For Wesley Trimpi." Hellas 7 (Fall/Winter 1996): 13.
Two Poems: "For Victoria, Traveling in Europe," "Charley." Pivot 45 (1997): 24.
Poem: "Going," Poetry 171 (October-November 1997): 81-82.
Poem: "For Joe Kennedy." Paintbrush 25 (Autumn 1998): 135.
Poem: "Toward the Winter Solstice." Poetry 177 (December 2000): 204-05.
Two Poems: "Starr Farm Beach," "Snow." The New Criterion 19 (January 2001): 37-
Poem: "Faustina." Poetry 177 (March 2001): 370.
Poem: "Champlain Evening." Smartish Pace 4 (Spring/Summer 2001): 40.
Poem: "The Sweet Peas." Southwest Review 86 (Fall 2001): 510-11.
Poem: "Didelphis Virginiana." Bayou 38 (Winter 2002): 66-67.
Poem: "In the Memphis Airport." ZYZZYVA 18 (Spring 2002): 177.
Poem: "The Middle Years." Poetry 181 (October-November 2002): 82-83.
Poem: "Gym Evenings." Iambs and Trochees 1 (November 2002): 12-13.
Three Poems: "Sepulveda Basin Mallards," "Jardin des Tuileries," "Freudian
Analysis." The New Compass: A Critical Review 2 (December 2003): no pp.
numbers.
Poem: "Siglo de Oro." The Threepenny Review 97 (Spring 2004): 11.
Poem: "Joanna, Wading." The Philadelphia Inquirer. (June 8, 2004): A19.
Two Poems: "Henry and Elvis," "In a Eucalyptus Grove." The Kenyon Review 27
(Winter 2005): 113-14
Three Poems: "Daybreak, Benedict Canyon," "The Swing," "Ethel Taylor." The New
Criterion 23 (April 2005): 25-30.
Three Poems: "Black Phoebe," "Hercules and the Poet," "A Short History of Post-
Structuralism." Cadenza 14 (Fall 2005): 36; 44; 75.
Poem: "The Faithful Widower." The Philadelphia Inquirer (January 4, 2006): A11.
Poem: "A Muse." The Threepenny Review 105 (Spring 2006): 12.
Two Poems: "April 27, 1937," "Herb Garden." Measure 1 (Spring 2006): 69-71.
Poem: "Love Letter." The New York Sun 123:150 (November 14, 2007): 16.
Two Poems: "Opening the Camp," "Flying Colors." The Hopkins Review 1 (Spring
Translation and Poem: "Demain, dès l'aube . . ." (Victor Hugo), "Anima." The
Raintown Review 7 (May 2008): 109-11. ("Anima" is reprinted from Toward
the Winter Solstice.)
Poem: "Caesar for a Day." First Things 193 (May 2009): 28.
Poem: "For Kashmir." First Things 194 (June/July 2009): 20.
Poem: "In Montmartre Cemetery." Able Muse (Winter 2009).
Poem: "At a Swimming Pool." Clearing the Sill of the World: Program of the 28th
Annual Key West Literary Seminar (January 7 – 14, 2010): 38.
Two Poems: "Arrangement for One Voice," "Pastoral at Rock Point." Sewanee
Review 118 (Spring 2010): 197-98.
Poem: "Sentimental Education," The Hopkins Review 4 (Summer 2011): 399.
Poem: "Close Encounter," American Arts Quarterly 29 (Summer 2012): 64.
Poem: "The Stocking Feeder." First Things 228 (December 2012): 50.
Poem: "A Visitor." Alabama Literary Review, 21 (2012 [ALR is published annually]):
Poem: "Astronomical Aubade." First Things 229 (January 2013): 44.
Poem: "Haydn in Los Angeles." Classical KUSC Arts Alive Blog (posted 2 May
Poem: "L. A. Story." The Evansville Review 23 (2013 [TER is published annually]):
Poem: "Now and Then." Light Poetry Magazine (Winter/Spring 2014).
Poem: "Descent of Man." The Smithsonian 45 (January 2015): 55.
Three Poems: "Changing of the Guard," "Café du Soir, " Squirrel Among Gum
Trees." The Yale Review 103 (July 2015): 18-21.
Poem: "Song at Seventy." Literary Matters 10 (Winter 2018).
http://www.literarymatters.org/10-2-song-at-seventy/
Poem: "Brief Encounter." Measure 13 (2018): 4.
Poem: "The Mountain Lion of Central Park." Able Muse 27 (Winter 2019): 64-65.
Poem: "A Landmark." Pratik 17, no. 2-3 (2021): 265.
Poem: "Woody." Rosebud 69 (Winter 2022): 68.
Poems and Essays in Anthologies, Textbooks, and Festschriften
Poem: "Epitaph." In Introduction to Literature,
2nd. edition, edited by X. J.
Kennedy. Boston: Little Brown, 1976: 65.
Poem: "Wait." In The Poetry Anthology: 1912-1977, edited by Daryl Hine and
Joseph Parisi. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978: 454.
Poem: "Night Transit." In Selections: University & College Poetry Prizes 1973-78,
edited by Stanley Kunitz. New York: Academy of American Poets, 1980: 75.
Poem: "Epitaph." In Tygers of Wrath: Poems of Hate, Anger, and Invective, edited
by X. J. Kennedy. Athens, GA: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1981: 140.
Poem: "Sapphics Against Anger." In The Pushcart Prize, VIII: Best of the Small
Presses, edited by Bill Henderson. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1983:
Poem: "Life Portrait." In Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American
Poetry, edited by Alan F. Pater. Beverly Hills: Monitor Book Company, 1985:
Essay: "Charles Gullans." In Contemporary Poets, 4th edition, edited by James
Vinson and D. L. Kirkpatrick. London: St. Martins, 1985: 331-33.
Poem: "Epitaph." In The Norton Book of Light Verse, edited by Russell Baker. New
York: Norton, 1986: 423.
Poem: "Sapphics Against Anger." In Strong Measures: Recent American Poems in
Traditional Forms, edited by Philip Dacey and David Jauss. New York:
Harper & Row, 1986: 349-50.
Two Poems: "Epitaph," "Timothy." In An Introduction to Poetry, 6th edition, edited
by X. J. Kennedy. Boston: Little Brown, 1986, pp. 65, 363.
Three Poems: "A Devotional Sonnet," "One Morning," "Rural Colloquy with a
Painter." In Contemporary Religious Poetry, edited by Paul Ramsey.
Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1987: 118-119, 190.
Translation: "Prayer" (Pater Benigne, Summa Semper Lenitas). In Samuel Johnson:
Latin Poems Translated by Various Hands, edited by R. L. Barth. Florence,
KY: Robert L. Barth Press, 1987: 3.
Poem: "Scrapbook for my Sister." Celebrations at Sixty for Turner Cassity, edited
by R. L. Barth. Florence, KY: Robert L. Barth Press, 1987: 20.
Two Poems: "The Sheets," "Aurora." In The Direction of Poetry, edited by Robert
Richman. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1988: 123-25.
Poem: "Beatitudes, While Setting out the Trash." In Anthology of Magazine Verse
& Yearbook of American Poetry: 1987-1989, edited by Alan F. Pater.
Beverly Hills: Monitor Book Company, 1986-1988: 150.
Essay: "Tradition and Revolution: The Modern Movement and Free Verse." In
Expansive Poetry, edited by Frederick Feirstein. Santa Cruz: Story Line
Press, 1989: 124-57.
Poem: "For Charles, on his Sixtieth Birthday" In The Music of his History: Poems
for Charles Gullans on his Sixtieth Birthday, edited by Timothy Steele.
Florence, KY: Robert L. Barth Press, 1989: 16.
Three Poems: "Youth," "Dependent Nature," "Decisions, Decisions." In A Few
Friends: Poems for Thom Gunn's 60th Birthday, edited by Douglas
Chambers. Walkerton, ONT: Stonyground Press, 1989: 44-47.
Four Poems: "Jacaranda," "Timothy," "From a Rooftop," "Sapphics Against Anger."
In Nine Years After: A Retrospective Anthology of the Robert L. Barth Press,
edited by Robert L. Barth. Florence, KY: Robert L. Barth Press, 1989: 60-63.
Two Poems: "Aurora," "Pacific Rim." In The Uncommon Touch: Fiction and Poetry
form the Stanford Writing Workshop, edited by John L'Heureux. Stanford:
Stanford Alumni Association, 1989: 417-18.
Poem: "Homage to a Carnegie Library." In A Garland for Harry Duncan, edited by
W. Thomas Taylor. Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1989: 86-87.
Two Poems: "Epitaph," "Waiting for the Storm." In An Introduction to Poetry, 7th
edition, edited by X. J. Kennedy. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman, 1990: 69,
Poem: "Cosmos." In A Garland for John Finlay, edited by David Middleton.
Thibodaux, LA: Blue Heron Press 1990: 18.
Poem: "Fountain in the City." In Order in Variety: Essays and Poems in Honor of
Donald E. Stanford, edited by Rebecca Crump. Newark, DE: University of
Delaware Press, 1991: 182.
Poem: "At Will Rogers Beach." In Western Wind, 3rd edition, edited by John
Frederick Nims. New York: McGraw Hill, 1992: 575-76.
Poem: "A Shore." In A New Geography of Poets, compiled and edited by Edward
Field, Gerald Locklin, and Charles Stetler. Fayetteville: University of
Arkansas Press, 1992: 287-88.
Poem: "Sapphics against Anger." In Poetry: A HarperCollins Pocket Anthology,
edited by R.S. Gwynn. New York: HarperCollins, 1993: 314.
Poem: "Waiting for the Storm." In The Compact Bedford Introduction to
Literature, 3rd. edition, edited by Michael Meyer. New York: St. Martin's
Press, 1994: 539.
Two Poems: "Epitaph," "Summer." In An Introduction to Poetry, 8th edition,
edited by X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. New York: HarperCollins, 1994: 74,
Poem: "Wait." In Articulations: The Body and Illness in Poetry, edited by John
Mukand. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1994: 285.
Poem: "Eros." In Formal Introductions, edited by Dana Gioia. West Chester, PA:
Aralia Press, 1994: 38.
Two Poems: "Near Olympic," "An Aubade." In Grand Passion: The Poets of Los
Angeles and Beyond, edited by Suzanne Lummis and Charles Webb. Los
Angeles: Red Wind Books, 1995: 196-99.
Poem: "Sapphics against Anger." In The Poetry Dictionary, edited by John Drury.
Cincinnati: Story Press, 1995: 243-44.
Poem: "Havens." In Havens: An Intimate Collection of Exclusive Photographs of
Celebrities and their Favorite Rooms, Michael McCreary, with an
introduction by Whoopi Goldberg [a charity book whose proceeds benefit
the Pediatrics AIDS division at the City of Hope and L.A. Shanti]. Los
Angeles: General Publishing Group, 1995: 13.
Two Poems: "Epitaph," "Jogging in the Presidio." In Writing Poems, 4th edition,
edited by Michelle Boisseau and Robert Wallace. New York: HarperCollins,
1996: 79, 86.
Seven Poems: "The Wartburg: 1521-22," "In the King's Rooms," "Timothy," "An
Aubade," "Eros," "The Library," and "Joseph." In Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of
the New Formalism, edited by Mark Jarman and David Mason. Brownsville,
OR: Story Line Press, 1996: 210-20.
Poem: "Eros." In Sixty Years of American Poetry: Celebrating the Anniversary of
the Academy of American Poets, edited by Bruno Navasky. New York:
Harry N. Abrams, 1996: 336.
Poem: "Waiting for the Storm." In The Compact Bedford Introduction to
Literature, 4th edition, edited by Michael Meyer. Boston: Bedford Books,
1997: 581.
Poem: "An Aubade." In Passionate Hearts, edited by Wendy Maltz. Novato, CA:
New World Library, 1997: 70-71.
Two Poems: "An Aubade," "Waiting for the Storm," Poetry: An Introduction, 2nd
edition, edited by Michael Meyer. Boston: Bedford Books, 1998: 92, 189.
Poem: "Once." In The Funny Side: 101 Humourous Poems, edited by Wendy
Cope, London, Faber and Faber, 1998: 40.
Poem: "Waiting for the Storm." In Knock at a Star: A Child's Introduction to
Poetry, revised edition, edited by X. J. Kennedy and Dorothy Kennedy,
Boston: Little, Brown, 1999: 67.
Poem: "For My Mother." In The Yellow Shoe Poets, edited by George Garrett.
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1999: 177.
Essay: "Tradition and Revolution: the Modern Movement and Free Verse." New
Expansive Poetry, edited by R. S. Gwynn. Ashland, OR: Story Line Press
1999: 28-51.
Essay: "Boundless Wealth from a Finite Store: Meter and Grammar." After New
Formalism: Poets on Form, Narrative, and Tradition, edited by Annie Finch.
Ashland, OR: Story Line Press 1999: 89-106.
Poem: "An Aubade." In Western Wind, 4th edition, edited by John Frederick Nims
and David Mason. New York: McGraw Hill, 2000: 547.
Poem: "Waiting for the Storm." In The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of
Forms, edited by Mark Strand and Eavan Boland, New York: Norton, 2000:
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