journals & zines
links
Seastories is much more than a poetry zine. I thought I’d be able to put some of my Ocean poems here, but the editors prefered the more concrete picture of the ocean found in this poem. Every time I look at this poem I end up changing it around a bit, so the version you get here may not be the one reprinted in the zine or originally published in Runes.
“Kealakekua, Hawaii”
Other Voices lnternational features an array of poets and is listed in Unesco’s directory of poetry journals. “Arrowhead” first appeared in Fine Madness, “Burial” in Fish Stories and Poets Canvas, and “Letter to a Young Child” was runner up in the Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize and was published in Passages North.
“Tell Me About One”
“Disguises”
“The Arrowhead”
“Burial“
When I was asked by editor Morten Wintervold to write something for Kuiper’s issue on “trends,” I thought immediately of Jim Frey’s recent admission on national TV, to an indignant Oprah, that his memoir was a fake. As I investigated the trend in falsifying memoirs, I found that it was indeed not a new phenomenon, although the line between fact and fiction has never been more blurred.
“We Believe in Freedom of Expression, You Know”
New Verse News, 2006
This online anthology posts poems dealing with current events, a great way to read the daily headlines. My poem comments on the controversy caused by the cartoon caricatures of Mohammed in the Danish press, when Scandinavians were outraged at how dogmatic and closed minded the Muslims were being about their religious figurehead who, after all, was not Jesus.
Faces magazine did a feature on Norway soon after I moved here. An article about my school life for my first grade daughter and some of my photographs are included in the issue. The EBSCO has categorized it under “ecology” referring to climate impact on children. Interesting!
”North Norway Finds its Place in a Child’s Heart”
Faces, vol. 20 no.7, 2004
I translated Spor av himmel, a book of poems by Terje Johanssen from Norwegian to English. Terje and I corresponded over several years while I lived in the U.S., and finally got to meet in Norway. The last time I saw him was when Con Brio performed an original score of his poems set to jazz by Tore Johansen . What Terje said to me when we parted was pure North Norwegian ethos: Rasma, hvis du ska skriv må du kast mannen i havet og send barna på landet. (If you want to write, throw your husband in the sea and send your kids to the country.)
Terje died soon after, in his sixties. Nimrod and The MacGuffin have published some of my renderings of his poems.
Umbrella, 2008
“In Kristiansand II”
“The Persistence of Memory”
“Missing You More Strongly”
“Norway is in the Bones of the Vassdal Cousins”
Ice Floe, 2001-2005
”Nothing Lasts Forever”
River Oak Review, www.riveroakreview.org, 2001
excerpts from “Traces of Heaven” by Terje Johansen, 2003
Ice Floe, Poetry of the Far North had about a six year run publishing poetry from the arctic, from Alaska to Iceland and Siberia. Poems appeared in their original language and English translation. It was a fine journal that left a hole in the literary world.
“Necklaces”
“Burial”
The Poet’s Canvas, 2000
“When My Last Student Said Goodbye”
Wisconsin State Reading Association Journal, Vol. 43, 2000
“Pilau”
Earth’s Daughters, 1999
“What the End is For”
Fourth Genre, Vol. 1, No.1, 1999
“The Last Photograph of My Father”
Fish Stories Collective IV, 1998
“Meaning”
The Lullwater Review, Vol. IX, No. 1, 1998
The Wallace Stevens Journal, Vol. 22, No. 2, 1998
“Friends and Apparitions”
Earth’s Daughters, http://earthsdaughters.org, 1998
“Necklaces”
Steam Ticket, http://www.steamticket.org/ 1996
“Us”
Earth’s Daughters, http://earthsdaughters.org, 1996
“To Silje”
Wisconsin Academy Review, 1991
“Land Diver”
Kalliope, XXII, no. 3, 2000
“Never Enough Time to Write”
Bylines, 2007
“A Letter on Your Leaving”
Free Lunch, 1996
“Bears”
Mothering, 1992
“A Routine Surgery, but For Me”
Mediphors, 1998
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