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Co-authored with Bente Heian, this is a textbook on the global English speaking community. Topics include cultural identity, challenges of the multicultural society, global media, and many forms of literature analysis from travel writing to the graphic novel.
Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 2007
My essay, “Urdu, A Love Song” is reprinted in this textbook, alongside some notable voices on culture, from Amy Tan to Malcom X. Each text has a study guide and writing exercises. It is intriguing to see here the take of these professors on the themes in my essay.
Crossing Cultures: Readings for Composition, 7th ed.
Wadsworth Cengage, 2008
Marion Street Press 2008
My essay charts the process of writing “Lottery” an award-winning poem which was first published in Prairie Schooner. This book’s concept is unique, having authors write about their own revisions. Included, for example, is my initial hand scrawled journal entry that led to the writing of the poem.
Bluechrome, 2006
The poem “Cabrini Green...” found its rightful home in this anthology, which raised money for medical aid to North East Afghanistan through the Glasgow-based charity, Spirit Aid.
Fresh Water: Women writing on the Great Lakes
Michigan State University Press, 2006
This anthology won the 2007 Michigan Notable Book Award. It contains my “A Mother Reaches Satori on the 10th Anniversary of Her Son’s Drowning in Lake Michigan”. I believe it must be my longest title. You can read it here among my prose, but it is a prose poem and in the anthology is listed as poetry.
Highly acclaimed anthology of first generation American women writing about cultural identity. Contains my essay “Urdu, A Love Song” which also won the 2005 Souther Women Writer’s Association creative non-fiction award
Seal Press, 2005
Bayeux Arts, 2005
I was solicited to write for this anthology soon after the tsunami hit Thailand in 2004. Although I was initially sceptical that the effort might become a massive sentimental indulgence in pity, this book is in fact one of the best anthologies of poetry I have ever come across. I read it cover to cover in one sitting, a rare occurrence! The editors donate proceeds to the tsunami relief fund. My poem “Ocean Satori” is included.
Bottom Dog Press, 2005
This is a broad range of family related poems by a broad range of poets from Emily Dickinson and Antler to Ted Kooser and Li-Young Lee. It includes my poems “Heirloom” and “Returning Home Late”.
Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge
Grayson Books, 2003
This anthology of marriage poems covers a wide range of themes. It is a fine book, in true Grayson style. Included here are my poems “Domestic Love” and “That Spring We Talked of Another Child”.
Mercy of Tides: Poems for a Beach House
Salt Marsh Pottery Press, 2003
If you have a beach house, dream of having one, or just enjoy a seaside holiday of the mind this charming collection belongs on your shelf. It may be out of print, so try Alibris or eBay. It includes my poem, “The Face of Ocean” adapted from my book length manuscript, Ocean, A Spiritual Journey.
Chicago Review Press, 2003
At one point or another, most writers contemplate joining or forming a writing group and can benefit from the array of advice in this anthology. My essay, “Six Voices” is a tribute to the poets group that I was part of Madison, Wisconsin.
A Christmas Collection
July Literary Press, 2001
This very early poem is dear to me. When I read it at Borders the audience wept. I learned then that to read a poem in public without crying is something all poets must learn. It is the poem that counts, not your feelings about it. You are just a vehicle, so don’t stand in the way with your emotions when a poem is trying to communicate with its audience. Do your job, be the vehicle, which is all the poet ever really is.
Red Rock’s books are of the one-word-title sort: Sloth, Gluttony, Lust, Greed, Fortitude. Charity is a prose anthology, but a few poems are in it, including mine. It recounts a true event from the time we were living in Hawaii under what might be called alternative financial conditions and did not have health insurance.
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“Heaven”
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“Bears”
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This anthology is about parents, being a parent, having a parent, wanting to be a parent, no longer being a parent... Once again, Ginny Lowe Connors does a great job editing a fine book. My poems “Heirloom” and “Letter to a Young Child” are here.
Yes, bear poems! It seems everyone has written a bear poem, and this book includes the entire range from the whimsical E.E. Milne to eco-enviro-poet Gary Snyder. CB Follett divides this book according to indigenous peoples’ myths about bears. A forest scientist said, “This book feels like a bear.”
Half the print run of this anthology was donated to a range of family shelter charities, in editor Jennifer Bosveld’s spirit of ‘it takes a global village to raise a child’.
Charity
Red Rock Press, 2001
Grayson Books, 2000
Arctos Press, 2000
The Pocket Poetry Parenting Guide
Puddinghouse Press, 1999
Pål H. Christensen, 2001
Translation done at slave labor wages. Never again! But it was a learning experience. Given that I was pretty fresh off the boat when I did this, and it was the week before Christmas, and I had just been put on sick leave from my job, it turned out okay.
This book is a fictitious rendering of the life of one of the Aha band members, and the translated excerpt is on the Aha fan website.
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