Creative Books:

Remembering New London (Huntsville, Texas: Texas Review Press, 1981) (chapbook, winner of 1981 Texas Review Poetry Chapbook Prize);

Strata (Huntsville, Texas: Texas Review Press, 1993)

Edited Books:

William Stafford: In Poems and Essays (in progress)

Journal Articles:

"Pablo Neruda’s American Hymn." Essay-Review of Canto General by Pablo Neruda (Jack Schmitt, translator), Bloomsbury Review, 12:2 (March 1992);

"William Stafford, 1914-1993." Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review (Summer 1994)

Edited Articles:

"T. R. Hummer." Dictionary of Literary Biography: Contemporary American Poets Since WWII, 3rd Series, vol. 120, 1993;

"Robert Morgan." Dictionary of Literary Biography: Contemporary American Poets Since WWII, 3rd series, vol. 120, 1992;

"T. R. Hummer." Oxford Companion to 20th-Century Literature (London: Oxford University Press, 1992);

"Bruce Weigl." Dictionary of Literary Biography: Contemporary American Poets Since World War II, (3rd Series), vol 120, 1993;

Poems:

"The Process" and "Cletus and the Congregation." Sam Houston Literary Review 2:1 (Spring 1977);

"My Neighbor, the Tuba Player." Riversedge 1:2 (Summer 1977);

"Arkansas Tombstone Inscription." Sam Houston Literary Review 3:1 (Spring 1978); later reprinted in Rectangle (national Sigma Tau Delta magazine), Spring 1979;

"A Dead Cow Found in Woods." Images of the High Plains (Canyon, Texas: Staked Plains Press);

"Beech Nut at Dusk" and "To a Blonde Girl in a Green Ribbon." RE:AL 5:2 (Spring 1979);

"Mrs. O'Leary." Sulphur River 1:2 (Spring 1979);

"Mowing," "To an Arkansas Produce Stand Owner" and "White Stones." English in Texas (Fall 1978);

"Remembering New London," "Caliche" and "Uncle Fenster's Grave." Texas Anthology (Huntsville, Texas: Texas Review Press, 1979); "Remembering New London" reprinted in The Art and Craft of Poetry, Michael J. Bugeja, ed. (Writer's Digest Books, 1993);

"Dim Elegy." RiverSedge 5:1 (Spring 1981);

"One Christmas," "Losing It," "Beech Nut at Dusk," "Dim Elegy," "Remembering New London," "Uncle Fenster's Grave," "Looking Back," "Arkansas Tombstone Inscription," "Caliche," "A Dead Cow Found in Woods," "White Stones," "Sumping the Cellar," "A Whippoorwill Caught in Town" and "The Process." Published as Remembering New London chapbook supplement of Texas Review 2:1 (Spring 1981);

"The Track." Wind (Summer 1982);

"Sisyphus Descends." New Mexico Humanities Review (Spring 1982);

"Stars Rise Over the Texas State Prison." RE:AL 8:2 (Spring 1982);

"Go" and "The Man in the Caboose." Old Hickory Review (Spring 1982);

"Otherness. The Corral." Texas Review 3:2 (Fall 1982);

"Solstice, No Lights." New Jersey Poetry Journal vol. 3 (1984);

"Summer Night, Changing A Tire." Slackwater Review (Spring 1984);

"The Onset." Texas Review 5:1 (Spring 1984);

"Turning." Old Hickory Review (Spring 1984);

"Nothing in This Place," "Crows: Night in New Hampshire Woods," and "The Sound at the Edge of Sleep." Poem No. 52 (Spring 1985);

"Last Night You Talked in Your Sleep" and "Wedding Dolls." Blue Unicorn (Spring 1985);

"The Oilman's Song." RE:AL 11:2 (Spring 1985);

"Again: A Kinser Dream." Cimarron Review, (Spring 1985);

"Missing Chapters." New Jersey Poetry Journal vol. 4 (Spring 1985);

"Whippoorwill, Remembered." Texas Review 7:1 (Spring/Summer 1986);

"Best Friend, Killed on a Rig." Hawaii Review No. 18 (Fall 1985);

"Seed." Cimarron Review No. 71 (Spring 1985);

"Not Ready Yet" and "Pea Picking." Small Pond (Fall 1985);

"Wasps in the Schoolhouse Eaves" and "Late August Star Fall." Cross Timbers Review 3:1 (May 1986); a revised version of "Wasps in the Schoolhouse Eaves" appears in Greensboro Review No. 39 (Winter 1985-86);

"Elegy: Climbing the Fire Tower" and "The Cellar." Texas Review 8:1&2 (Spring/Summer 1987);

"The Drill" and "Resignation." Kansas Quarterly 20: 1&2 (Winter/Spring 1988) ("Resignation" awarded 1988 Kansas Quarterly/ Kansas Arts Commission awards Honorable Mention);

"Infestation." Wind (Fall 1989);

"Goodwill." DeKalb Literary Arts Journal (Spring 1987);

"The Diseases of Childhood." Cross Timbers Review (May 1987);

"Flu Epidemic." RE:AL 14:1 (Spring 1988);

"Making My Peace" and "Summer Run in the Country." Cimarron Review No. 84 (July 1988); "Making My Peace" reprinted in The Art and Craft of Poetry, Michael Bugeja, ed. (Writer's Digest Books, 1993);

"Sleeping on a Pallet" and "Revelations, First Time." Texas Review 9:1&2 (Spring/Summer 1989);

"Revelations, First Time" reprinted in I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You, Naomi Nye and

Paul Janezcko, eds. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996);

"Snow in East Texas." Concho River Review 2:1 (Spring 1988);

"Gold." Hawaii Review, 12:2 (Fall 1988);

"An Oilfield in West Texas," "Family History," and "Wild Oats." Texas Review, 10: 1 & 2 (Spring/Summer 1990);

"The Cold War." Concho River Review, 3:2 (Fall 1989);

"The Dead Miners." Poet Lore, 84:2 (Summer 1989);

"The Standard Oil Company" (translation of "La Standard Oil Co." by Pablo Neruda). Crab Creek Review, 6:3 (Spring 1990);

"The Loved One." Old Hickory Review 23:1 (Fall/Winter 1990);

"Death Rattle." Poet Lore 86:3 (Fall 1991);

"Stroke." RiverSedge 5:2 (Spring 1991);

"Dirt Daubers" and "Original Sin." Hawaii Review 15:1 (Winter 1990);

"Strata." Hawaii Review 15:3 (Fall 1991);

"Bus Ride." anthologized in New Texas '91: Poetry and Fiction (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1991);

"Chainsaw." Wilderness, 54 (Summer 1991); reprinted in Wildsong: Poems from Wilderness Magazine (John Daniel, ed., University of South Carolina Press, forthcoming)

"Climbing the Caprock." Palo Alto Review (Fall, 1992);

"Smoke" and "Sooner or Later." Cimarron Review 101 (October 1992);

"1528 Vernon." Old Hickory Review, 25:1 (Spring 1993)

"Kite" and "Pollen." Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review No. 2 (Spring 1993);

"Enlistment." Grasslands Review No. 9 (Summer 1993);

"Owl." College English (April 1994);

"Seafood" and "Contrary." Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review (Winter 1993);

"Small Lines." RE: Artes Liberales 29:2 (Winter 1993-94);

"Sulphur River." Borderlands: Texas Poetry Journal, No. 5 (Fall 1994);

"Arrivals," "A Door Ajar," and "Eclipse." Texas Review 16: 1-4 (Combined Issue, 1995);

"Arrivals" reprinted in Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry (1996);

"A Piece of Watermelon," "Practice," and First Grade." Texas Observer 89:23 (19 December 1997;

"Gossip." Texas Review 19: 1&2 (Spring Summer 1998);

"First Night on the Buffalo," and "Security." Anthology Online (forthcoming);

"Crossing the Country on Amtrak." Wolf Head Quarterly (Winter 1998);

"Milk" and "Cousin Jo." Concho River Review (forthcoming);

"Triple A." Rio Grande Review (forthcoming);

"My Grandmother Visits." Poem (forthcoming);

"The Family Creche." Evansville Review (forthcoming);

"Making Flower Pots." Baltimore Review (forthcoming);

"Coming Home Late" and "Fishing on Lake Rayburn." RE:AL (forthcoming);

"Dealey Plaza." Hawaii Pacific Review, vol. 13 (1999);

"Gravestones Without Names." Dark Horse Literary Review (forthcoming);

Interviews:

"A Conversation with Galway Kinnell." New Orleans Review, May 1980;

"A Conversation with William Stafford." Cimarron Review, No. 72 (July 1985), (interviewers included T. R. Hummer, Michael Bugeja, Philip Paradis, and Roger Jones);

Contributing Writer:

Contributor to Poetry column by Michael Bugeja, Writer's Digest, (April 1993);

Contributor to The Art and Craft of Poetry, Michael Bugeja, ed. (Writer's Digest Books, 1994);

Contributor to Poet's Guide, Michael Bugeja, ed. (New York: Story Line Press, 1996).

On the Ward by Don Gordon. Sam Houston Literary Review, 3: 1 (Spring 1978);

One Thing Leads to Another by Walter McDonald. Texas Review, 1: 1 (Spring 1980);

Aerial View of Louisiana by Cleopatra Mathis. Iowa Review, (Spring 1982);

"Seeing the Universe Freshly." Rev. of The Real Work: Talks and Interviews, 1964-1979 by Gary Snyder (Scott MacLean, ed.). Southwest Review, Spring 1982; portion reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol 32;

Sure Signs by Ted Kooser. Southern Humanities Review, Summer 1982;

Mortal Acts Mortal Words by Galway Kinnell. Texas Review 2:2 (Fall, 1981);

Hundreds of Fireflies by Brad Leithauser. New Mexico Humanities Review, January 1983;

Seasonal Changes by Daniel Halpern. Tar River Poetry, Summer 1984;

The Passion of the Right-Angled Man by T. R. Hummer. Texas Review, 6:1 (Spring 1985);

Axe Handles by Gary Snyder. Texas Review, 5:2 (Fall/Winter 1984);

Witching on Hardscrabble by Walter McDonald, The Drive-In by R. S. Gwynn, and The Blue Stone and Other Poems by Neva Harrington. Review of Texas Books, Spring/Summer 1986;

The Roundhouse Voices by Dave Smith. Southern Poetry Review, 26:1 (Spring 1986);

Sweet Will by Philip Levine. Prairie Schooner (Spring/Summer 1987); reprinted in On the Poetry of Philip Levine: Stranger to Nothing, Christopher Buckley, ed., Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1991;

Yellow Glove by Naomi Shihab Nye. Concho River Review, 1:2 (Fall 1987);

The Flying Change by Henry Taylor. Texas Review 8: 3&4 (Fall/Winter 1987);

Lower-Class Heresy by T. R. Hummer. Poet Lore, Fall 1989;

Quartet: Four Texas Poets in Concert by R. S. Gwynn, Naomi Shihab Nye, Jan Epton Seale, and William Virgil Davis. Texas Review 12: 1 & 2 (Spring/Summer 1991);

Winter Gardens by Reed Harp. Texas Books in Review, 10:3 (Fall 1990);

The Ghostly Hitchhiker by Robert Fink. New Mexico Humanities Review, No. 33 (1990);

This Same Sky ed. by Naomi Shihab Nye, Southwestern American Literature, 1:1 (Spring 1993);

Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, No. 1 (Fall 1992), Southwestern American Literature, 1:1 (Spring 1993);

Willow Springs, No. 32 (Summer 1993), in Literary Magazine Review, 12:4 (Summer 1994);

Platonic Love and After Oz by Michael Bugeja, Prairie Schooner, (Fall Winter 1994);

Waiting for Nightfall by Joseph Colin Murphey, in Texas Books in Review XVI: 3 &4 (Fall / Winter 1996);

Sparrow: New and Selected Poems by Reginald Gibbons, in Texas Books in Review

New Expansive Poetry ed. by R. S. Gwynn. Texas Books in Review (forthcoming);

Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose, in Texas Books in Review (forthcoming);

Outstanding Student in English Award, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX 1978;

First place, Texas Intercollegiate Press Association Poetry contest 1978;

Participant, Frost Place / New England Review Poetry Workshop, Franconia, NH 1980;

Texas Review Poetry Chapbook Prize 1980;

Recipient, French Scholarship from Department of Global Studies / International Programs, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 1981;

2nd Place, Academy of American Poets Prize, OSU, Stillwater, OK 1982;

First Place, Academy of American Poets Prize, OSU, Stillwater, OK, 1984;

Honorable Mention, Kansas Quarterly / Kansas Arts Commission Poetry contest, 1988;

Nominated for Pushcart Prize, 1993, 1996;

Winner of Southwestern Division in Texas Review Southern / Southwestern Breakthrough poetry manuscript competition 1993;

"Hitchcock's Crime and Punishment: Rope." Alfred Hitchcock Conference, Pace University, New York City, June 1986;

"On Metaphor." Texas Joint Council of Teachers of English conference, Lufkin, Texas, October 1986;

"Interpenetration as a Metaphor for Selfhood in Axe Handles by Gary Snyder." Colloquium of 20th-Century Literature: Man and the Environment, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, October 13-17, 1989;

Poetry Readings:

Sam Houston State University; Texas Arts Council (Huntsville, TX 1980);

Oklahoma State University, 1983;

Lamar University, 1986;

Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers (SMU Dallas, TX) 1986;

Northwest Louisiana State University, 1987;

Concho River Literary Festival, 1989;

Texas Assn. Creative Writing Teachers (Edinburgh, Pan Am University) 1992;

SOS Reading(s) for the Homeless, SWTSU, 1992-96;

Council of College Teachers of English Conference, San Angelo TX, 1993;

"Art for Flowers" benefit reading, SWT, 1996;

I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You publication reading, Austin, TX, October 1996;