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Arbutus: online literary journal, 2003

This site includes two reviews of Pocket Animal as well as seven poems from the book.

"Wingbone"

"Ogre"

"Pocket Animal"

"Plum"

"Impediment"

"Grammar"

"Second Coming"

 

Crab Creek Review, Vol. 11, Summer/Autumn 1997

This issue of the magazine can be ordered from the website via a link on this page.

                        "Grammar"

                        “Pucker”

 

The Drunken Boat, Fall 2001

This site contains a photo of Bertolino.

                        "Distracted"

                        "Fouled"

                        "Life Path Rest Stops"

                        "Mud Wrestling the Angels"

                                                                     

In Context: a quarterly issue of humane sustainable culture

This site has a short, out-of-date biography about Bertolino. Three poems are included. These three poems are included in this “Earth & Spirit” special issue, Winter 1990. The publication is 34 pages and can be purchased through a link on this site.

                        "Letter From the Island"

                        "Credo"

                        "Indra's Falls"

 

Literary Salt, Issue 3, 2003

            "Soft Belly, Open Heart"

 

Making Space for Our Living, 1975

This site is an on-line version of this out-of-print volume.

 

Mudlark Flash No. 7, 2000

This site has a short biography of Bertolino and two poems.

                        "Assault Charisma"

                        "Returning to the Valley"

 

The Net Poetry and Arts Competition

Along with a short biography, the site has six of Bertolino's poems.

                        "The Toast"

                        "Blueprint"

                        "Wisdom"

                        "Distracted"

                        "Life Path Rest Stops"

                        "Mud Wrestling the Angels"

 

Night Stanzas: erotic poetry, 1999

This site includes a short biography and links to buy some of his poems from amazon.com.

                         “Vegetables of Love”

 

Ploughshares: the literary journal at Emerson College, Spring 1997

                        "Touch the Blues"          

 

Poetrymagazine.com, 2003

This site includes a short biography and a picture. “Stew” is from the Bellingham Review, Fall 2002. The rest of the poems are from Pocket Animals, 2002.         

                        "The Gift"

                        "Weather"

                        "Stew"-not in group

                        "Hieroglyphs"

                        "Polliwog"

                        "Changeling"

 

Precinct Kali & the Gertrude Spicer Story, 1982

This is an on-line version of this out-of-print volume.

 

The Quarterly Review of Literature

These two books by Bertolino are in this award series affiliated with Princeton University.

                        First Credo—”Home in Ohio"

                        Snail River—"Snail Buddha"

 

The Salt River Review, Vol. 2, num 2, Spring 1999

            "Flares"

            "The Liquid"

 

Short Stuff Journal, 2002, 2003

This site includes a short biography and a poem.

                        "Shot Takes, Out-takes and Sweet Cakes"

This site is a group of short poems and a short biography.

                         “Alternating Current”

                         “Her Proposal”

                         “Garden Muse”

                         “Moments”

                         “The Mariner”

                         “Freedom”

                         “Spiders”

                         “Weeping”

                         “Shuddery”

 

Stirring

This is a poem created in collaboration with Anita Boyle. There is also some information about Bertolino and a photo.

                        "The Porch"

 

Switched-on Gutenberg

Both these poems include the same snippet of a biography on Bertolino.

                        "The Instructions"

                        "My Cathedral"

 

Notre Dame Review

This site is literally the introduction from the book Greatest Hits: 1965-2000. Also included is a short biography.