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Prose Resume

Books:

· Goat-Footed Turtle: Prose Narratives, 1996, Stone Marrow Press, Guemes Island, Washington

Anthologies:

· Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Modern Critical Interpretations series, edited by Harold Bloom; essay, “Maya Angelou is Three Writers,” 1998, Chelsea House, Philadelphia

· The Writer's Journal: 40 Contemporary Writers and Their Journals, edited by Sheila Bender; essay, “A Journal Where the Mind Can Live,” Dell Publishing, New York

· The Heartland Today: Community, edited by Nancy Dunham and Larry Smith; essay, “The Poetician,” 1994, Bowling Green State University/Firelands Writing Center, Huron, Ohio

· Censored Books: Critical Viewpoints, edited by Lee Burress, Jack Kean, and Nicholas Karolides; essay, “Maya Angelou is Three Writers,” 1992, Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, New Jersey

Selected Essays and Reviews in Magazines:

· “Introduction,” 2000, James Bertolino: Greatest Hits—1965-2000, Pudding House Publications, Johnstown, Ohio

· “Some Notes on Poetry Collaboration.” 2004, Cranky: Literary/Arts Journal, Vol. 1, Seattle

· “The Dangers of Hype,” 1996, Business Pulse: The Journal of Skagit County Business, Mount Vernon, Washington

· “Opinium:: The Narcotic of the Information Age,” 1996, Demos, Vol. 1, Seattle

· “The Goat-Footed Turtle,” 1996, Sniper Logic, University of Colorado, Boulder

· “Notes on a Photograph of an Orangutan Mother Holding Her Child,” 1996, Camas, University of Montana, Bozeman

· “Virtual Scientists,” 1995, Fidalgo Magazine, Mount Vernon, Washington

· “Ezra: Notes for a Literary Memoir,” 1995, Duckabush Journal, Hansville, Washington

· “Afterword: A Close Call,” 1995, Quarterly Review of Literature, Princeton, New Jersey

· “The Mentor Problem,” 1992, Upstream: Literary Center Quarterly, Seattle Review of Mandala by Sam Hamill, 1992, Jeopardy, Western Washington University, Bellingham

· “Don't Call Him Goliath,” Review of Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, 1991, Guemes Island of Environmental Trust Newsletter, Guemes Island, Washington

· “Poetry and the American Small Press,” essay, 1991, Between the Lines, Edmonds Community College, Edmonds, Washington

· “What's the Big Idea,” essay, 1991, Mississippi Review, Vol. 19, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg

· “A Taste of Anarchy: Bumbershoot, 1991,” essay, Poetry Flash, Berkeley, California

· “Unity, Not Uniformity,” keynote essay, Noise: 1990 Vancouver Small Press Festival, Vancouver, Canada

· “Attaining the Inevitable,” a review of Special Deliveries by James Broughton, 1990, Literary Center Quarterly, Seattle

· “Ruminations After Reading McCord,” essay, 1990, Mid-American Review, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio

· “McGrath's Brilliant Brevity,” essay, on Thomas McGrath, 1987, Another Chicago Magazine, Chicago

· “The Seven-Base Ballgame,” essay, 1987, International Synergy Journal, Los Angeles

· “The New Species,” essay, 1980, Colorado State Review, Colorado State University, Fort Collins

Play:

· Frog Voices, play, 1988, Summer Theater, directed by Andy Friedlander, Skagit Valley College, Mount Vernon, Washington

Short Stories:

· “Deercat,” 2002, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism

· “St Irwin, The Martyr,” 1992, Caliban, No. 11, Ann Arbor, Michigan

· “Black Bridge,” 1987, Seattle Review, University of Washington, Seattle

· “Ten Fingers,” 1964, Carrots & Peas, Madison, Wisconsin

· “Praise the Hummingbird,” 1964, Carrots & Peas, Madison, Wisconsin

· “Fish Knife,” 1964, The New Idea, University of Wisconsin, Madison