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 The single unpublished story has received kind responses from many editors, but all have found it too long to publish—although one did write, “I wish this were 15 pages longer, which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.
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Sisyphus Descending (formerly “In the House”) |
Sou’wester |
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The Origamist |
Southern Humanities Review |
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The Sleep of Reason (formerly “The Crystal Palace”) |
Prism International |
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Unnecessary Risks | Unpublished | ||
White Owl |
The Muse |
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Ernie Miles |
The Bloomsbury Review Fiction Supplement |
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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 Some are clearly out of date, but I’ve included them because they still express some of my abiding concerns.
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Event Review | The Frog-Poet |
The Muse |
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Event Review | Lying, Laughing, and Dancing Around on the Road |
The Muse |
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Event Review | On Readings and Reading Alone |
The Muse |
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Book Review | The Seafarer’s Gift: A Review of Thomas R. Smith’s The Dark Indigo Current |
Bloomsbury Review |
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Book Review | The Balm of Language: A Review of Georg Trakl: A Profile |
Bloomsbury Review |
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Book Review | Charting the Energy of the Earth: A Review of Reg Saner’s So This Is the Map |
Bloomsbury Review |
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Book Review | Ideas and Passions: A Review of Woman Who Has Sprouted Wings, ed. by Mary Crow |
Bloomsbury Review |
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Book Review | The Persistence of Influence: A Review of The Chimeras, Poems by Gérard de Nerval(translated by Peter Jay) |
Bloomsbury Review |
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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 |
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Book Review | What Mirrors Are For: A Review of William Zaranka’s A Mirror Driven Through Nature |
Bloomsbury Review |
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Book Review | On J. V. Cunningham: A Review of The Poems of J. V. Cunningham |
Bloomsbury Review |
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Book Review | The Seafarer’s Gift: On Thomas R. Smith’sThe Dark Indigo Current |
Bloomsbury Review |
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Book Review | Traveling from Delight to Wisdom with Art Goodtimes: A Review of As If the World Really Mattered, by Art Goodtimes |
Bloomsbury Review |
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Book Review | The Further Adventures of Bill Knott: A Review of Bill Knott’s Stigmata Errata Etcetera |
Bloomsbury Review |
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Essay | Aspects of Time in Poetry |
What Can You Say About Poems: Essays by Poets on Poetry(Juniper Press) |
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Essay | Fists and Flashing Eyes |
The Muse |
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Essay | Poetic Justice |
Tracks in the Snow: Essays by Colorado Poets (Mesilla Press) |
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Essay | I Have Seen the Future and It is Prose |
The Muse |
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Essay | A Regular’s Notes |
The Muse |
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Essay | Plains Light |
Midwest Quarterly |
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Profile | Stephen Owen, Jazz Musician |
The Muse |
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Profile | Elsbeth Liebowitz: A Life in Brief |
Commissioned by Overboard Press |
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Profile | Generosity Without Borders |
Commissioned by Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Bank for its “Second Sight” Newsletter |