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James Harms
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408 Grand StreetDepartment of English
Morgantown, WV 26501West Virginia University
(304) 685-0654Morgantown, WV 26506
(304) 293-9720
Education
M.F.A. Indiana University, Creative Writing, March 1988
B.A. University of Redlands, English, 1982
Academic Positions/Courses Taught (selected list)
West Virginia University, Professor of English and Creative Writing, 1994--present
Graduate Workshop in Poetry; Graduate Special Topics Course ("The New York School Poets"); Graduate Special Topics Course ("American Poetry since World War II"); Graduate Special Topics Course (“The Impact of Translation on Contemporary American Poetry”); Topics in Creative Writing ("Formal Poetry,” “The Occasional Poem”); Capstone Course in Creative Writing; and others.
East Stroudsburg University, Assistant Professor, 1991-1994
Poetry Writing; Seminar in Yeats; American Poetry; Modern American Literature; Literary Analysis and Interpretation; The Lyric; and others.
Denison University, Visiting Assistant Professor, 1989-1991
Poetry Writing, Creative Writing (two genres); 20th Century British & American Poetry; Studies in Contemporary Poetry; 19th Century American Literature; etc.
Administrative Positions
Chair, Department of English, West Virginia University, July 2012-2018
Director, MFA Program in Poetry, West Virginia University, 2000-2008
Director, Creative Writing Program, West Virginia University, 1995-2008
Program Director, New England College Low-Residency MFA in Poetry, 2008-2012
Administrative Service
West Virginia University
Chair of Department of English (2012-2018), Founding Director of MFA Program in Creative Writing and Undergraduate Program in Creative Writing (2000-2008), Founding Director of West Virginia Writers' Workshop (a Summer Writers' Conference enrolling more than 70 participants per year), Eberly College Budget and Efficiencies Task Force Member, Chair of Search Committee for Director of WVU Press, Search Committee Member for Eberly College Dean, Search Committee Member for Eberly College Associate Dean of Faculty, Search Committee Member for Eberly College Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies, Search Committee Member for Eberly College Chief Business Officer, Committee to Evaluate the Dean, Committee to Evaluate Associate Provost, Benedum Distinguished Scholar Selection Committee (Chair), and others.
Publications (books)
Rowing with Wings, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2017
Comet Scar, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2012
What to Borrow, What to Steal, Marick Press, 2011
After West, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2008
Freeways and Aqueducts, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2004
Quarters, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2001
East of Avalon (letterpress edition), Caddis Case Press, 2000
The Joy Addict, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1998; reprinted in CMUP’s Classic Contemporary Series, 2009
Modern Ocean, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1992
Publications (chapbooks)
Racheland, (chapbook), The Idaho Review, 2014
Animals in Distress & Pluto (limited edition chapbook of two stories), Wallflower Press,
2011
Double Nickels on the Dime (chapbook), The Idaho Review, 2011
L.A. Afterglow (chapbook), The Idaho Review, 1999
Publications (individual poems in journals)
“The Gods.” The Cortland Review, forthcoming.
“Every Night.” Catamaran, forthcoming.
“Auden in Winter.” The Northern Virginia Review31 (2017): 46-7.
“Accidental Bohemian.” The 2River View 21.3 (Spring 2017):
“From My Lips.” The 2River View 21.3 (Spring 2017):
“Accidental Happiness.” Valparaiso Poetry Review, XVIII, Number 1 (Fall/Winter 2016-
2017)
“Aubade (Lisa Lisa Lisa).” The Missouri Review, October 2016
“The Only Lie Worth Telling.” Southern Humanities Review 49.2 (Spring 2015): 42-3.
“A Good Day.” Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review 41 (Winter 2015): 63.
“We Fell into the Sky.” Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review41 (Winter 2015): 62.
“Umbrella.” Barrow Street (Winter 2014/15): 41-43.
“Lost Last Chance,”Idaho Review (2014): 93-94.
“Ransom Captive,”Idaho Review (2014): 76-79.
“The Goodbye Train,” Idaho Review (2014): 83-84.
“Racheland,” Idaho Review (2014): 80-81.
“You Live in Bars,” Idaho Review (2014): 85-86.
“Agree,” Idaho Review (2014): 87.
“Apology Accepted,” Idaho Review (2014): 88-89.
“The Promise of Happiness,” Idaho Review (2014): 90-92.
“Sister Rain,” Idaho Review (2014): 82.
“When I Heard,” Idaho Review (2014): 95.
“Will You Be My Silver Star?” Idaho Review (2014): 96.
“The Clock.” Poetry Daily (February 7, 2013).
“The Lost Grove.” A Narrow Fellow 1.1 (April 2013): 55.
“Before Speech.” A Narrow Fellow 1.1 (April 2013): 56.
“1970.” A Narrow Fellow 1.1 (April 2013): 57.
“Third Hand.” A Narrow Fellow 1.1 (April 2013): 58.
“Orpheus Beach.” Ping Pong (2012): 90-100.
“The New Moon Economy.” Shenandoah 62.1 (Fall 2012)
Also appeared on Poetry Daily web site ( as the featured poem of the day (October 27, 2012).
“Other, America.” Fifth Wednesday 10 (Spring 2012): 192.
“This Poem is Called ‘The Devil’s Eye. . . .’ Fifth Wednesday10 (Spring 2012): 193.
“Our Father Returns from His Travels.” Hayden’s Ferry Review50 (Spring/Summer
2012): 178.
“1966.” Hayden’s Ferry Review 50 (Spring/Summer 2012): 126.
“Men of Aran.” Cerise Press 3.8 (Fall/Winter 2011-12):
“The Joke, Good Friday.” Connotation Press 3.3 (November 2011)
The Sadness of Sons.” Connotation Press 3.3 (November 2011)
“Shore to Shore, Marianne.” Connotation Press 3.3 (November 2011)
“We Made the Team.” Connotation Press 3.3 (November 2011)
“The Werewolves of Our Youth.” Connotation Press 3.3 (November 2011)
“Where’s Jeff.” Ecotone 11 (Spring 2011): 54-55.
“Where is My Tree House?” Ecotone 11 (Spring 2011): 53.
“Sandy Koufax.” Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature XXVII:2 (Spring/Summer 2011): 56-62.
“What Leonardo Knew.” Hamilton Stone Review 22 (Fall 2010):
“Understanding Opera.” Hamilton Stone Review 22 (Fall 2010):
“Thom Gunn.” Hamilton Stone Review 22 (Fall 2010):
“Wetback (1967).” Hamilton Stone Review 22 (Fall 2010):
“The Sunday Birds.” Hamilton Stone Review 22 (Fall 2010):
“Condition Blue.” The Louisville Review 68 (Fall 2010): 14.
“The Building.” The Louisville Review 68 (Fall 2010): 16.
“Anorak Pop.” Gargoyle 56 (2010): 79.
“Sonnet (with Extra Last Line) by Frank Gehry.” Prime Number 2
“Quiet Heart.” Prime Number 2
“Father’s Day: The Summer Solstice.” Prime Number 2
“The New Rainbow.” Prime Number 2
“Friday Rich/Saturday Poor.” Poetry International 15/16 (2010): 185.
“In Your Bright Ray.” Poetry International 15/16 (2010): 186.
“My Life in Art.” Poetry International 15/16 (2010): 187.
“Comet Scar.” West Branch 66 (Spring/Summer 2010): 98-100.
“2009.” West Branch 66 (Spring/Summer 2010): 97.
“The Shield (of Captain America).”Burnside Review6.1 (2010): 33-4.
“A Wooden Horse.” Tygerburning 1 (2010): 93-4
“Keep My Word.” Valparaiso Poetry Review XI.2 (Spring/Summer 2010)
“Malibu ’69.” Scythe 1
“My Friend, On Fire.” Scythe 1
“My Mother’s Face.” Scythe 1
“1959.” New Ohio Review 6 (Fall 2009): 37.
“Providence.” Connotation Press 1 (September 2009).
“I Thought You Were a Spy.” Connotation Press 1 2009).
“Making Up for Lost Time.” Connotation Press 1 2009).
“Morning to Night to Morning.” Connotation Press 1 2009).
“Days.” Kestrel 20 (Tenth Anniversary Edition 2009): 90.
“Or Two Cans Tied Together With String.” Cerise Press 1.1 (Summer 2009)
“Black Mule.” Drunken Boat 10
“You the Overheard.” Drunken Boat 10
“It’s OK if He’s a Girl.” The Laurel Review 43.1 (Winter 2009): 113.
“The Clock.” Gulf Coast 21.3 (Winter/Spring 2009): 76.
“Another.” Cave Wall 3 (Winter/Spring 2008): 46.
“Phoebe at 8.” Cave Wall 3 (Winter/Spring 2008): 47.
“Flags.” Cave Wall 3 (Winter/Spring 2008): 42.
“Though Not about Him or for Him, a Poem Called Bill Murray.” Cave Wall 3 (Winter/Spring 2008): 44.
“Bachelor Kisses.” Barrelhouse 5: 152.
“Boundary Rider.” Crazyhorse 71 (Spring 2007): 102-3.
“Lynda (Singing Chet Baker, 1988). Crazyhorse 71 (Spring 2007): 106-7.
“Lost and Through.” Crazyhorse 71 (Spring 2007): 104.
“Begin in Gladness.” Smartish Pace 14 (Spring 2007): 1.
“Phoebe.” The Cincinnati Review 4.1 (Summer 2007): 57.
“Bar Talk.” Pebble Lake Review
“The Day My Eyes Came Back.” Pebble Lake Review
“After Surrender.” Quarterly West 63 (Fall/Winter 2007): 89.
“Lamp by Lamp.” Quarterly West 63 (Fall/Winter 2007): 92.
“Sounds, West Virginia.” Quarterly West 63 (Fall/Winter 2007): 93.
“School Figures.” Quarterly West 63 (Fall/Winter 2007): 91.
“Isn’t That Enough.” Poetry International 11 (2007) 82.
“Cary Grant.” The Gettysburg Review 19:3 (Autumn 2006): 409.
“On Beauty and West Virginia at the Blue Moose Café.” The Gettysburg Review 19:3 (Autumn 2006): 410-11. Also appeared on the Poetry Daily web site ( as the featured poem of the day (September 5, 2006).
“When I First Met Your Mother.” The Gettysburg Review 19:3 (Autumn 2006): 412-13.
“We Started Home, My Son and I.” West Branch 58 (Spring/Summer 2006): 41-2.
“March 17th.” West Branch 58 (Spring/Summer 2006): 39-40.
“Pastoral by Frank Gehry.” The North American Review 291.1 (Jan./Feb.): 30.
“Knowing You Were Loved.” Bat City Review 2 (2006): 115.
“We Never Named Her Helen.” Georgetown Review (2006):
“Playground Rules.” 32 Poems (Spring 2006): 24.
“Song of Sand, Song of Sea, Song of Leaving, Song of Leaves.” Poetry Southeast(Summer 2006):
“Late Afternoon: Koethe and Radiohead.” Wild River Review 1.2 (2006):
“Our Fathers.” ABZ 1 (2006): 17. Also appeared on Poetry Daily web site
( as the featured poem of the day (August 28, 2009).
“She Said.” ABZ 1 (2006): 18.
“One Long Sentence and a Few Short Ones . . .” McSweeney’s:
“7 Things I Lost When I Threw the Cigar Box in the River.” 1913 2 (2005): 82-88.
“Murmur R.E.M.” The Oxford American 50 (Summer 2005): 75.
“An Accordion in Autumn.” Alligator Juniper (2005): 148.
“Blue Sleep.” Alligator Juniper(2005): 149.
“Call him you, or who you were. . . .” Alligator Juniper (2005): 150.
“Remembrancer.” Alligator Juniper (2005): 147.
“Breakfast in West Virginia.” Rivendell 4, (Spring 2007): 60.
“When Dean Left West Virginia.” Rivendell 4 (Spring 2007): 61.
“Mountaintop Removal . . .” Rivendell 4 (Spring 2007): 59.
“For Ashes, for Letting Go. Sycamore Review 17.2 (Summer/Fall 2005): 14 (also featured on Sycamore Review web version:
“Pisgah Church Cemetery.” Shenandoah 55.1 (Spring/Summer 2005): 42-3.
“Love Poem by Frank Gehry.” Hunger Mountain 6 (Spring 2005): 148.
“Elegy by Frank Gehry.” Hunger Mountain 6 (Spring 2005): 146-7.
“If I could breakdown anywhere . . .” Hunger Mountain 6 (Spring 2005): 149-51.
“Spring in Lincoln Park, 1910.” Crazyhorse 67 (Spring 2005): 109.
“As If.” Nightsun 23 (Fall 2004): 71.
“The Difficult Science of Separation.” Smartish Pace 10 (Spring 2004): 109.
“Like Mercury, the Monongahela.” Ploughshares 30.1 (Spring 2004): 70-1.
“A Friday at the End of August.” Tar River Poetry 43.1 (Fall 2003): 34-5.
“Landscape as the Latest Diet (Southern California).” Tar River Poetry 43.1 (Fall 2003): 34.
“The Astronaut.” Sycamore Review 15 (Winter/Spring 2003): 179.
“Comedy: Morgantown, West Virginia.” Sycamore Review 15 (Winter/Spring 2003): 180-1
“Farmers Market, Los Angeles.” Sycamore Review 15 (Winter/Spring 2003): 177-9.
“Held Down.” Hotel Amerika 1.2 (Spring 2003): 122-3.
"My Dream of Bob Marley." Verse 19.3 (2003): 126-8 (also appeared in Jacket 19).
“The Anodyne Yes.” Controlled Burn IX (Winter 2003): 56-7.
“Solstice.” Controlled Burn IX (Winter 2003): 58.
"Loose Pictures." Canary River Review 1 (Autumn 2002): 71.
"Nothing New But Everything." Canary River Review 1 (Autumn 2002): 72.
"If Afternoon." Cimarron Review 141 (Fall 2002): 7-8.
"It's a Wonderful Lie." Cimarron Review (Fall 2002): 9-11.
"Photo of My Stepfather in an Altadena Evening." Poetry International (2002): 56-7.
"California Stars in West Virginia (for Walt)." Poetry International VI (2002): 58-9.
"Phoebe at Daybreak." Smartish Pace 6 (2002): 13.
"Union Station, Los Angeles (the Reagan Years)." TriQuarterly 112(fall/winter 2002): 148-9.
"High Life." TriQuarterly 112 (fall/winter 2002): 117.
"So Long, Sunset Boulevard." The Blue Moon Review (online now--2002).
"February." The Blue Moon Review (online now--2002).
"Harriet Doerr." West Branch 49.2 (Fall 2001): 10-11.
"By Heart." West Branch 49.2 (Fall 2001): 12-13.
"Western Sky." West Branch 49.2 (Fall 2001): 8-9.
"Loves Leaves More than Flowers." Natural Bridge 5 (Spring 2001): 121.
"Midwinter Visitant." Luna 4 (Spring 2001): 174-5.
"Now." Luna 4 (Spring 2001): 170-1. Also appeared on the Poetry Daily web site ( as the featured poem of the day (July 9, 2001).
"Want." Luna 4 (Spring 2001): 173.
"Pacific Standard Time." Pleiades 21.1 (Winter 2001): 74-5.
"Bluegrass." Crab Orchard Review 5.2 (Spring/Summer 2000): 109-10.
"Phonebooth." Pleiades 20.2 (Summer 2000): 140-1.
"Aubade in Morgantown." Aintietam Review 2000: 57.
"Instead of Nothing." Tamaqua 7.1 (2000): 67-70.
"Dance." Tamaqua 7.1 (2000): 65-6.
"Choose." Denver Quarterly 34.4 (Winter 2000): 35.
L.A. Afterglow, a chapbook of the following poems, appeared in The Idaho Review 2 (1999): 135-169. "The Invention of Los Angeles," "Santa Monica Pier," "The Ruined Air," "The Day I Was Conceived," "The Dodgers, 1958," "Highway 99," "Airlight," "Nightswimming," "Border Radio," "East of Los Angeles, 1992," "Surf City," "Afterthought: The Bends."
"The Sanity of My Vessel." The Gettysburg Review 12.1 (Spring 1999): 127-8..
"Reunion of Extra Shadows." The Gettysburg Review 12.1 (Spring 1999): 129-30. Also appeared on the Poetry Daily web site ( as the featured poem of the day (March 3, 2004).
"Sleek for the Long Flight." Poetry CLXXIII (January 1999): 231.
"Divorce." The Journal 22.2 (Autumn 1998): 97-8.
"Fable." Crazyhorse 54 (Spring 1998): 50-51.
"When the Circus Comes." Crazyhorse 54 (Spring 1998): 52-55.
"Fountain." American Literary Review 8.2 (Fall 1997): 86.
"Twilight at the Edge of the Empire." American Literary Review 8.2 (Fall 1997): 87
"Winter Memory of Summer Trespass." Chelsea 63 (Fall 1997): 54-5.
"Bruise." Kestrel 10 (Fall 1997): 40.
"Votive." Kestrel, 10 (Fall 1997): 41.
"Faith." Kestrel, 10 (Fall 1997): 39.
"Laundromat." Kestrel, 10 (Fall 1997): 38.
"Photo." Kestrel, 10 (Fall 1997): 36.
"East of Avalon." Kestrel, 10 (Fall 1997): 33.
"Los Angeles, the Angels." Poetry Northwest XXXVIII.3 (Autumn 1997): 13.
"Copernicus." Poetry International 1 (Spring 1997): 64-65.
"Never Mind." Poetry International 1 (Spring 1997): 63.
"Now that Stephen's Back." Thin Air 3 (1996): 18-19.
"Helicopter." Poetry Northwest XXXVII.3 (Autumn 1996): 36-37.
"Sick of Food." Poet Lore 91.3 (Fall 1996): 41-42.
"Legacy." The Kenyon Review XVIII.3 (Summer/Fall 1996): 138-139.
"Soon." The Kenyon Review XVIII.3 (Summer/Fall 1996): 139-140.
"After Yes." The Gettysburg Review 9.3 (Summer 1996): 438.
"The Friend Who Never Married." The Gettysburg Review 9.3 (Summer 1996): 439-40.
"Range Life." Colorado Review XXIII.1 (Spring 1996): 59-60.
"Lucy." Crazyhorse 50 (Spring 1996): 101-103 .
"Autobiography as Slide Show." Another Chicago Magazine 31: 58-9.
“Copper Wire." The Missouri Review 18.2 (Fall 1995): 196.
"Decadence: Newport Beach, California." The Missouri Review 18.2 (Fall 1995): 192.
"Elegy as Evening, as Exodus." The Missouri Review 18.2 (Fall 1995): 191.
"In Any Country." The Missouri Review 18.2 (Fall 1995): 194.
"Mother to Daughter." The Missouri Review 18.2 (Fall 1995): 195.
"20th Century Boy." The Missouri Review 18.2 (Fall 1995): 198.
"First Elegy." Crazyhorse 46 (Spring 95): 86-90.
"My Own Little Piece of Hollywood." Quarterly West 40 (Spring/Summer 1995): 78-9.
"Reel around the Shadow." Chicago Review 40.2&3 (1994): 134-5.
"Almost Always." The Journal 18.1 (Spring/Summer 1994): 52-3.
"Theoretical Life." Hayden's Ferry Review 14 (Spring/Summer 1994): 55.
"Los Angeles." Illinois Review 1.2 (Spring 1994): 29-30.
"Tribe and Country." Indiana Review 17.1 (Spring 1994): 160.
"Wherever You Hang Your Head." New England Review 16.2 (Spring 1994): 30.
"Mariner without a Moon." New England Review 16.2 (Spring 1994): 31-2.
"From Ocean Park to Healdsburg." Poetry CLXIV.2 (May 1994): 93-4.
"Mrs. Worthington." Poetry CLXIV.2 (April 1994): 23.
"Field Trip to My First Time." Poetry Northwest XXXIV.3 (Autumn 1993): 44-5.
"The Other World." College English 55.3. (March 1993): 323.
"Epithalamium." The Antioch Review 50.4 (Fall 1992): 730.
"Sky." The Antioch Review 50.4 (Fall 1992): 729.
"The Joy Addict." Poetry East 33 (Spring 1992): 54-55.
"Tomorrow, We'll Dance in America." Denver Quarterly 26.4 (Spring 1992): 28-9.
"Fin de Siecle." The American Voice 26 (Spring 1992): 40.
"The Tables on the Plaza." The American Voice 26 (Spring 1992): 41-43.
"Close Your Eyes and Go to Heaven." The Southern Poetry Review XXXII.1 (Spring 1992): 36-7.
"At the Rally to Protest." Passages North 12.2 (Winter 1991): 4.
"If All of Us Worry." Passages North 12.2 (Winter 1991): 27.
"Days Before Grace." The Journal 15.1 (Summer 1991): 60.
"Isabelle's Sister." Three Rivers Poetry Journal 37/38: 34-5.
"So Long Lonely Afternoon." Three Rivers Poetry Journal 37/38: 32-3.
"Explaining the Evening News to Corbyn." The Kenyon Review XIII.1 (Winter 991): 49-50.
"'When I Wish upon a Star that Turns into a Plane.'" The Kenyon Review XIII.1 Winter 1991): 51-52.
"Serious Affection." The Kenyon Review XIII.1 (Winter 1991): 52-53.
"Fear of Angels." Orange Coast Review 1.1: 22.
"Peter Case." Orange Coast Review 1.1: 68-9.
"Safer Shadow." The Missouri Review XIII.2 (1990): 74.
"Fond Promise." The Journal (Summer 1990): 35.
"Y-Turn." The Journal 14.1 (Summer 1990): 36-7.
"The Hole in the Moon." The American Poetry Review 19.2 (March/April 1990): 42.
"Somewhere Someone is Saying Good-bye." Carolina Quarterly 42.3 (Spring 1990): 37-8.
"The Sequel." Crazyhorse 36 (Spring 1989): 17-18.
"My Androgynous Years." Crazyhorse 36 (Spring 1989): 19-20.
"Versions of Transport." Indiana Review 13.1 (Winter 1989): 68-69.
"Inherit the Earth." Indiana Review 13.1 (Winter 1989): 70.
"Fragile Bridges." Indiana Review 13.1 (Winter 1989): 71-2.
"Grace to Be Born and Live." Ironwood 16.1/2 (Spring/Fall 1988): 114-15.
"Poem." Ironwood 16.1/2 (Spring/Fall 1988): 116-17.
"Salzburg Cathedral." The Jacaranda Review III.2 (Fall/Winter 1988): 95-6.
"See How We Are." Ploughshares 15.1: 48-9.
"Breakfast on the Patio." The Southern Poetry Review XXVIII.2 (Fall 1988): 10-11.
"Penance." Poetry CLII.3 (June 1988): 146-7.
"Everywhere at Once." The Missouri Review XI.2 (1988): 104-5.
"Between Lives We Write the History." Denver Quarterly 22.4 (Spring 1988): 57.
"Homecoming." Poetry East 23/24 (Fall 1987): 123-4.
"Stories." Poetry East 23/24 (Fall 1987): 125-6.
"Gravity Hill." MSS V.3 (1987): 192-3.
"On the Anniversary of Rain." The Louisville Review (Winter 1987)
"Mexican Christmas." Poetry CXLIX.3 (December 1986): 156-7.
Publications (individual poems in anthologies, textbooks, etc.)
“Kennedy Wins West Virginia!” Eyes Burning at the Edge of the Woods: Fiction and Poetry
from West Virginia. Laura Long & Dough Van Gundy, eds. West Virginia University Press, 2017.
“A Wooden Horse.” Poet Showcase. Alice B. Fogel & Sidney Hall Jr.. eds. Brookline,
NH: Hobblebush Books, 2015:
“One Long Sentence and a Few Short Ones; or, 39 Lines by Frank Gehry.” The Incredible
Sestina Anthology. Daniel Nester, ed. Austin: Write Bloody Publishing, 2013: 127-8.
“Men of Aran: A Sentence.” Alhambra Poetry Calendar 2013. Shafiq Naz, ed. Bertem,
Belgium: Alhambra Publishing, 2013.
“My Name is Rabbit.” Alhambra Poetry Calendar 2013 for Young Readers. Shafiq Naz, ed.
Bertem, Belgium: Alhambra Publishing, 2013.
“So Long, Sunset Boulevard” and “You Again?” The Sentence as a Poetic Form. Gary
Young and Christopher Buckley, eds. Spokane: Lynx House Press, 2012: 19 & 90.
“Making Up for Lost Time.” Collecting Life: Poets on Objects Known and Imagined. A. Watson, ed. Denver: 3: A Taos Press, 2011: 45.
“Ghost.” Aspects of Robinson: Homage to Weldon Kees. Christopher Buckley & Christopher Howell, eds. Omaha: Backwaters Press, 2011: 193.
“Lamp by Lamp.” Alhambra Poetry Calendar 2011. Shafiq Naz, ed. Bertem, Belgium: Alhambra Publishing, 2011.
“Harvest News” and “Union Station, Los Angeles (The Reagan Years).” The Rose
Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice.Eds. Gary McDowell and F. Daniel Rzicznek. Boston: Rose Metal Press, 2010.
“Phoebe at 8.” Alhambra Poetry Calendar 2010. Shafiq Naz, ed. Bertem, Belgium: Alhambra Publishing, 2010.
“Bar Talk.” Alhambra Poetry Calendar 2009. Shafiq Naz, ed. Bertem, Belgium: Alhambra Publishing, 2009.
“Union Station, Los Angeles,” “Gridlock,” ”Song of Sand, Song of Sea . . .” Bear Flag
Republic. Christopher Buckley & Gary Young, eds. San Francisco: Alcatraz Editions, 2008: 187-190.
“Midwinter Visitant.” A Cadence of Hooves.Suzan Jantz, ed. Igo, CA: Yarroway
Mountain Press , 2008: 267-8.
“We Started Home, My Son and I.” The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses XXXII. Bill Henderson, ed. Wainscott: Pushcart Press, 2007: 234-5.
“Breakfast in West Virginia.” Coal: A Poetry Anthology. Chris Green and Edwina Pendarvis, eds. Ashland: Blair Mountain Press, 2006.
“Pisgah Church Cemetery,” ”Harrier Doerr.” ”Twilight at the Edge of the Empire.” Under the Rock Umbrella: Contemporary American Poets from 1951-1977. William Walsh, ed. Mercer University Press, 2006.