Poems Online

AIOTB (AsItOughtTo Be) has published:

A Song for Noise, A Song for Harvest Spiders, The Old Ways, A Horse Named Can Ball the Flowers, On Hubbard Street and 1968, 1969, The Fifty Year Anniversaries are Almost Over. All of these poems appear in my chapbook “The Beer Line”. “Who Wrote the Book of Love?” and “A Song for Biofilms” are included in my chapbook “All the Secrets Around Me”. Microscopy, A Song for Centipedes and “Serving Orders at Brother’s Foods” are uncollected.

Stickman Review has published Respect, Solidarity and Someone to Watch Over Me. These poems are published in “In the Field, Autobiorgrapy of an Inspector. In 2019 they published Understanding Risk Factors So You Can Control Them, which appears in “All the Secrets Around Me”.

The Raven’s Perch has published The Dragonfly’s Song, Enough, On Picnic Day, Holiday, As July Winds Down…, What Came First and I Have a Shadow, One of Many.

A Song for Coincidence appeared in Tiny Seed Literary Journal. Bird, tired bird was published by Zingara Poetry. Both poems are in “The Beer Line”.

The Coil published Olive Hill,  and Chest Journal published Jester in their “Pectoriloquy” section. which are in “In the Field”. The Solitary Plover published Mid-May.

Bramble published A Song for My Slippers (which appears in “All the Secrets Around Me”).

Poems in Print

For several years, Of Rust and Glass issued print magazines. They published “The Green Swan” (which appears in “The Beer Line”) and “Anthropomorphism” (uncollected) in the 2022 “Spring” issue; and “Traveling” in the 2024 “Awakenings” issue. “Traveling” is published in “All the Secrets Around Me”.

A poem from “In the Field” – “The Fifth of March on Highway 82” – was translated into Chinese and appears in the September 2019 issue of the bilingual journal Poetry Hall. Their December issue included “Where, when…” which later appeared as “The Arrow of Time” in “The Beer Line”.

Between 2000 and 2012, poems published in my 2018 book “In the Field, Autobiography of an Inspector” first appeared in print in Kudzu Review, Blue Fifth Review, Wisconsin People and Ideas, Wisconsin Academy Review, Isotope, Verse Wisconsin, New Delta Review and Mud Season Review. A poem also appeared in an anthology “In My Neighborhood, Celebrating Wisconsin Cities”.