Poetry, Fiction, Personal Essays

Books and Chapbooks

The Reason/Unreason Project.Poetry collection, winner of the Expedition Award (Lewis-Clark Press, 2007).

On Retirement: 75 Poems, anthology edited with Robin Chapman. (University of Iowa Press, 2007).

Black Eye: Escaping a Marriage, Writing a Life. (Terrace Books/University of Wisconsin Press, 2004).

Sand Island Succession: Poems of the Apostles (Parallel Press, 2002).

Poetry for the Parks , chapbook published under a grant awarded by the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission (Madison, WI; July 2000).

Anthologized Work:

“9AM, Room 214, Holiday Inn Express” (poem) in White Ink (Demeter Press, Canada, forthcoming)

“Yom Kippur Fast in Taos” and “Contemplating Quantum Mechanics One Morning at the Rio Grande Gorge” (poems) in What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest (University of Texas Press, 2007).

“Memories Are Made of This” (poem) in Poetry Calendar 2007 (Alhambra Publishing, Belgium).

“Now I’m Retired” (poem) in On Retirement: 75 Poems (University of Iowa Press, 2007).

“Unpleasant Truth” (memoir) in Jewish Women’s Literary Annual, Volume 7, 2006.

"In the Apostle Islands" (prose poem) in Big Water: Women Write from the Freshwater Heart of North America (Michigan State University Press, 2006).

“At the Writers’ Retreat in Scotland” (poem) in Encore: More of Parallel Press Poets (Parallel Press, 2006).

“Voyage” (poem) in Poetic Voices Without Borders (Gival Press, 2005).

"Protest at Los Alamos, August 2000" in Red, White, & Blues: Poetic Vistas on the Promise of America (University of Iowa Press, 2004).

"The Downhill Stretch: An Elegy," (personal essay) in Bicycle Love (Breakaway Books, 2004).

"Courting Game" in O Taste and See: Food Poems (Huron, Ohio: Bottom Dog Press,2003).

“More Than Butterflies” in The Poet’s Voice 2002 (forthcoming).

"Mist on Lake Wingra" and "What the Poet-in-Residence Brings to the Beach" (poems) in Lake Wingra Morning (Woodrow Hall Editions, 2003).

"Island Eyes" in Mercy of Tides: Poems for a Beach House (Salt Marsh Pottery Press, 2003).

"Memory Lapse" in A Chorus for Peace: A Global Anthology of Poetry by Women (University of Iowa Press, 2002).

"Scheduling War" in Poetry for Peace  (SandStar Publications, 2002)

"How To Stay Alive" in The Cancer Poetry Project Book (Fairview Press, 2001).

"Urban Cool and the City Wild: Three Vignettes" (personal essay) in In My Neighborhood: A Celebration of Wisconsin's Cities (Prairie Oak Press, 2000).

"Escaping the Gilded Cage" (personal essay) in Miriam K. Harris (ed.), Rape, Incest, Battery: Women Writing Out the Pain (Texas Christian University Press, 2000).

"Natural Buoyancy" (poem), in Essential Love, an anthology (West Hartford, CT: Poetworks, 2000).

"Red Army in the Don Basin" (poem) in Wisconsin Poets at the Elvehjem Museum of Art (Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1995).

"Home Visit" (short story), in Earl R. Snodgrass (ed.), East-West Encounters (Okemos, MI: Japanophile Press, 1991).

Multi-media Projects :

“Searching for Pine Hollow” (video poem), collaboration with producer JoAnn Garrett, Wisconsin Public Television, April 2005.

“When Things Break, Read It as Opportunity,” “Near Island Mine Camp, Isle Royale,” and “On the Bike Path, Riding Home” included in the Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf program, as hanging tags on Red Bike free "rentals" and Community Car vehicles in Madison WI, 2004.

"The kitten sleeps in a puddle of sun..." (poem) included in Epidemic Peace Imagery, a travelling art show, 2003-4.

“What Was in Those Stars,” “A Poem Not About Death,” and “Sonnet for the Young Man I Met at Mademoiselle Social, 1966" featured in Visualize This: Poets and Visual Art in Performance, with the artists of ArtBite, Wisconsin Book Festival, Madison, October 23, 2003.

“Beginning,” a suite of poems, set by composer David Rentz and premiered by the Madison (WI) Children’s Choir, May 4, 2003.

"Apostle Islands History" (poem) featured in the National Park Service interpretive video "On the Edge of Gichigami: Stories of the Apostle Islands, 2003.

"Visual This: Poets and Visual Art in Performance," with the artists of ArtBite, Wisconsin Book Festival, Madison, October 23, 2003.

"Signs and Testimonials " (poem) included in exhibition paying tribute to calligraphy at Reed College, Portland, Oregon, 2003.

Journal Publications :

"Immune Response" (poem) Poetry East (forthcoming)

"More Than Butterflies" (poem) in Soundings East (forthcoming)

"On the Path to Bonnyrigg" (poem) in VOX (forthcoming)

"The Son" (poem) in Jabberwock Review (forthcoming)

"A Realist Confronts Sprin Shaggy manes (Coprinus comatus)" (poem) in Texas Review (forthcoming)

"Bike Poem" (poem) in Women's Studies Quarterly (forthcoming)

"Language" (poem) in Poetry Motel (forthcoming)

"What Was in Those Stars" (poem) A Cup of Poems and a Side of Prose (forthcoming)

"Setting Out By Bike to Write a Sonnet on Demand " (poem) in Wisconsin Trails, April 2007

"Wednesday Night in the Brighm County Park Shelter " and "St. Mary of the Oaks (poems) in the Heartland Review, January 2007

"Oscar Night at Grace Episcopal " (poem) in California Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 3 2006

"Tetris" (poem) in Southeren Humanities Review, Summer 2006

"Any Old Road, TRown of Liberty Grove," (poem) in Wisconsin Poet's Calendar, 2007

"That Day in Horicon Marsh" and "Porcupines" (poems) in Northeast, Series VIII, Number 4, 2006

"Dinner at Fred's Place" (poem) in Slant, Summer 2006

"How Wet the World Gets When It Rains" (poem) in Ellipsis, Vol. 42, Spring 2006

"Yahrzeit" (poem) in The Southeast Review, Vol. 24, No. 1-2 Winter 2005-2006

"The Physicist's Daughter" (poem) in Souwester, Fall 2005

"Some Poems Want to be Stories" (poem) Salt River Review, Fall 2005 (online)

"Standard Deviations" (poem) in Margie: The American Journal of Poetry, Fall 2005

"Fall Surplus " (poem) 2006 Wisconsin Poet's Calendar.

"Witch-pricking" (poem) 5 AM, Issue #22 2005

"Watching the Soba Cook " (poem) Hubbub, Volume XXI 2005

"Lyric" (poem) Blueline, Vol. XXVI, 2005

"Yom Kipper Fast in Taos, " (poem) Wisconsin Acaemy Review, #28, Summer 2005

"The War at Home" (prose poem), Poetry East Spring, 2005

"For My Son: When the Chickory Blooms in June" (poem) The Fourth River, Vol. 1, 2005 2005

"Survivor," and "Last Night at the Scottish Retreat" (poems) The Ledge #28, Spring-Summer 2005

"Silverfish" (poem) in Willow Review, Volume XXVIII, Spring 2005

"The Astronomers" (poem) Blue Unicorn, Volume XXVIII, Number 2, February 2005

"Nine Months Later," "Two Weeks Shy of the Equinox," and " Grief" (poems) Prairie Winds, 2005

"At the Writers' Retreat in Scotland," "Sense of Place," "For Peter, the Youngest Hand-Cutter at the Edinburgh Crystal Factory," and "National Monument, Calton Hill," Chapman 105 (Scotland), 2004.

"Au clair de lune at 53" (poem) in The Bear Deluxe, #21, Vol. 50, #4, Fall 2004

"Electives: 1958" (poem) in The M-America Poetry Review, Winter 2004-2005)

"The Archaeology Lab" (poem) Wisconsin Academy Review, Vol. 50, #4, Fall 2004

"August," 2005 Wisconsin poet's Calendar.

"Trash Nights," "Cairns," and "Note to Steve" (poems) The Connecticut Poetry Review, Vol. 23, #1, 2004.

"What It Takes To Restore The Tall-Grass Prairie" (poem) The South Carolina Review, Vol. 36, #2, Spring 2004.

"Jed Takes Up Skydiving" and "Quicksilver" (poems) Cider Press Review, Vol. 4/5, 2004.

"My Father is Dying" (poem) Rosebud, Issue 29 (Spring 2004).

"Cosmic Symphony" (poem) Birmingham Poetry Review (Winter/Spring 2004).

"Coping With Predestination" (poem) Iconoclast, Issue 84, 2004.

"Walking Iron Park" (poem) Pebble Lake Review, Spring 2004.

"Caretaker" (poem) The Chaffin Journal 2003

"The Undertow" (poem) Cup of Poems and a Side of Prose No. 6, Fall 2003

"Elegy for an Ex-Mother-in-Law" (poem) Poetry Midwest Issue 8, Fall 2003

"First Storm" (personal essay) Madison: Friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries Fall 2003

"Learning Botany" (poem) The North American Review September-October 2003

"The Tape Editor's Dream" (poem), Puerto del Sol , Summer 2003.

"1240 Sherman Avenue" (poem), Prairie Schooner , Vol. 77, No. 1, Spring 2003

"Rescue Mission," (poem), Ascent , Winter 2003.

"The Forties Look" (poem), Calyx, Vol. 21, No. 1, Winter 2003

"The Pattern Recurs on My Windowsill" (poem), The Midwest Quarterly , Vol XLIV, No. 2, Winter 2003.

"Vision" and "A Valentine" (poems) Paintbrush , Vol. XXIX, 2002/2003

"Reconstructionist Study Group" (poem), Lilith , Fall 2002.

"With Reference to the Horned Moses On View in Rosslyn Chapel" (poem), Nimrod Fall/Winter 2002.

"Jewish New Year in Scotland, September 2001" (poem), Nimrod , Fall/Winter 2002.

"The Practice of Patience" (poem), The Underwood Review , Vol. 3, No. 1, Fall/Winter 2001.

"Reason and Relativity," "Nate, in Philadelphia, Hovers at the Edge of Chaos," "Complexity Theory 101: Story Problem," (poems and prose poem), Nimrod , Vol. 45, No. 1, Fall/Winter 2001.

"Spring Break" (poem), 5 AM , Issue #14, Spring 2001.

"Late Winter Storm" (poem), The Journal of the American Medical Association , February 28, 2001.

"On the Bike Path, Riding Home" (poem), The Journal of the American Medical Association , February 21, 2001.

"Recovery" (poem), The Journal of the American Medical Association , January 3, 2001.

"Black History Month" (personal essay), Witness , Volume XIV, Number 2, 2000.

"The Rails, Removed" (poem), Poetry , September, 2000.

"Now I'm Retired I Have Time" (poem), The Chariton Review, Fall 2000.

"How She Remembers Love: Etude With Ten Assigned Words" (poem), Quarterly West , Spring/Summer 2000.

"English as a Second Language" (poem), Rhino 2000 , 2000.

"Seven Questions on the Nature of Kindness," "My Kneecaps Are Sweating at 4 AM" (poems), Prairie Schooner , Winter 1999.

"Thesis Riff" and " Is This A Cartoon Or What?" (poems), Exquisite Corpse , Cybercorpse #2, November-December 1999.

"Waiting for Moon-Rise" (poem), The Christian Science Monitor , August 23, 1999.

"48"and "First Day" (poems), Feminist Studies , Spring 1999.

"Rawah Wilderness" (poem), Passager , issue 28, 1998.

"Olympic Poetry" (poem), Byline , April 1998. "Mount St. Helen's Return" (poem), Nimrod , Spring/Summer 1997.

"Pas de Deux" (poem), Kalliope , Volume XIX, no. 3, 1997.

"Braking for Dinosaurs" (poem), Wisconsin Academy Review , Spring 1997.

"Memory Lapse" (poem), The Kenyon Review , Winter 1997.

"Legacy," "When Life Interferes With Art," and "How To Stay Alive" (poems), Prairie Schooner , Winter 1995.

"Near Island Mine Camp, Isle Royale" (poem), The Christian Science Monitor , August 14, 1995.

"On Reading Descartes' Error " (poem), Poetry , June, 1995.

"Door County Swim" and "Mist on Lake Wingra" (poems), Wisconsin Academy Review , Fall 1994.

"Ten Years Post-Diagnosis" (poem), Mediphors , Spring 1994.

"Digging Out," "Natural Buoyancy," "Chanukah" (poems), Prairie Schooner , Spring 1993.

"October Elegy" (poem), Proceedings of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, April 1993.

"FOR SALE: Formerly Heileman's Grocery" (poem), Wisconsin Academy Review, Winter 1992-93.

"To Peg in Osaka: Electronic Mail" (poem), Pig Iron , Spring 1991.

"Refraction Index" (poem), Isthmus , February 8, 1991.

Journalism (major pieces)

"Daily Harvest: At Work With Jane Hamilton" (profile), Poets & Writers , May/June 1998.

"Sand Island Sojourn" (essay), Poets & Writers, March/April 1999

"From My Side of the Mike" (essay), Poets & Writers , November/December 1997.

"The Silver Nitrate Challenge" Mothering , Spring 1981.

"Cable TV: Stringing Us Along" (essay), in Armand Mattelart and Seth

Siegelaub (eds.), Communication and Class Struggle , vol. 1 (New York:

International General), 1979.

"Radio Today: After thirty years of hearing and making community radio, In These Times , September 12-18, 1979.

"A new breed of farm women fighting to survive," In These Times , December 21-27, 1977.

"This Land is Whose Land?" Juris Doctor , September 1977.

"Women in Law meeting upsets Wisconsin bar," In These Times , April 13-19,1977.

"Grapes of Wrath: 1977," New Times , April 1, 1977.

"Cocky Soglin comes in second in Madison race," In These Times , Feb. 23-Mar. 1, 1977.

"Farmers organize for survival," In These Times, December 20-26, 1976.

"New start for rural America?" In These Times , November 29-December 5, 1976.

"Jungle Law: Stealing the Double Helix," Science for the People, Sept.-October 1976.

"The Land is No Escape," Communities, December 1974.

"Renewal at Boston's Quincy Market leaves tenants hanging," The Christian ScienceMonitor, August 18, 1971.

"Smoke screen cloaks cable-TV czars," The Christian Science Monitor, August 7, 1971.

"Cable-TV firms' top 10: A third of U.S. market staked out," The Christian Science Monitor, August 7, 1971.

Additional short pieces in The Christian Science Monitor, Mademoiselle, New Times , and In These Times , 1966-1979.