Short Fiction

I wouldn’t be rash enough to make extravagant claims for my stories. All were written as personal experiments, essentially without larger ambitions, although all but one of them has found a place in one publication or another. The single unpublished story has received kind responses from many editors, but all have found it too long to publish—although one did write, “I wish this were 15 pages longer, which would make it a novella, and we sometimes publish those.” Hmmm. Rather than length, I prefer the definition of my old fiction mentor, Robert Harlow, who said that a novella is “time flowing through a conduit.” This in contrast to a short story, which “stops time so the story can happen,” and a novel, which is “about the times.” I’m not exactly sure what he meant, but I’m sure he was right.

Title	Publication		Download
Sisyphus Descending (formerly “In the House”)	Sou’wester
The Origamist	Southern Humanities Review
The Sleep of Reason (formerly “The Crystal Palace”)	Prism International
Unnecessary Risks	Unpublished
White Owl	The Muse
Ernie Miles	The Bloomsbury Review Fiction Supplement
Tides	Puerto Del Sol

Journalism

Feel free to view and or download any or all of the writings below. Most were written for money (a pittance), the rest to scratch a particular itch and for copies of the publication. Some are clearly out of date, but I’ve included them because they still express some of my abiding concerns.

Type of Article	Title	Publication		Download
Event Review	The Frog-Poet	The Muse
Event Review	Lying, Laughing, and Dancing Around on the Road	The Muse
Event Review	On Readings and Reading Alone	The Muse
Book Review	The Seafarer’s Gift: A Review of Thomas R. Smith’s The Dark Indigo Current	Bloomsbury Review
Book Review	The Balm of Language: A Review of Georg Trakl: A Profile	Bloomsbury Review
Book Review	Charting the Energy of the Earth: A Review of Reg Saner’s So This Is the Map	Bloomsbury Review
Book Review	Ideas and Passions: A Review of Woman Who Has Sprouted Wings, ed. by Mary Crow	Bloomsbury Review
Book Review	The Persistence of Influence: A Review of The Chimeras, Poems by Gérard de Nerval(translated by Peter Jay)	Bloomsbury Review
Book Review	Taking the Risk Out of Poetry: A Review of the Godine Chapbook Series IV ( Collections by Raymond Oliver, Charles O. Hartman, William Logan, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, and Ira Sadoff)	Bloomsbury Review
Book Review	What Mirrors Are For: A Review of William Zaranka’s A Mirror Driven Through Nature	Bloomsbury Review
Book Review	On J. V. Cunningham: A Review of The Poems of J. V. Cunningham	Bloomsbury Review
Book Review	The Seafarer’s Gift: On Thomas R. Smith’sThe Dark Indigo Current	Bloomsbury Review
Book Review	Traveling from Delight to Wisdom with Art Goodtimes: A Review of As If the World Really Mattered, by Art Goodtimes	Bloomsbury Review
Book Review	The Further Adventures of Bill Knott: A Review of Bill Knott’s Stigmata Errata Etcetera	Bloomsbury Review
Essay	Aspects of Time in Poetry	What Can You Say About Poems: Essays by Poets on Poetry(Juniper Press)
Essay	Fists and Flashing Eyes	The Muse
Essay	Poetic Justice	Tracks in the Snow: Essays by Colorado Poets (Mesilla Press)
Essay	I Have Seen the Future and It is Prose	The Muse
Essay	A Regular’s Notes	The Muse
Essay	Plains Light	Midwest Quarterly
Profile	Stephen Owen, Jazz Musician	The Muse
Profile	Elsbeth Liebowitz: A Life in Brief	Commissioned by Overboard Press
Profile	Generosity Without Borders	Commissioned by Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Bank for its “Second Sight” Newsletter