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Poems

“The Enemy Within,” “Life in the Tumpobscene Age,” “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” “The ICE Man Cometh,” “Civilization and Its Discontents” Militant Thistles/The Recussant (December 2025)

“La Te Da,” Eclipse (November 2025)

“The Spin on Things,” North Dakota Quarterly

“Of Books and Bombs,” Perceptions

“An Accident,” “A House in the Country,” “Suburban Rites,” “New England,” “Welcome to Scotland,” The Galway Review

“Playing the Numbers,” Harbour Lights (November)

“Poolside at the Hibiscus,” Harbour Lights (October)

“The Stickup,” “The Old Doctor,” Talking River Review

“Virginia,” Tipton Poetry Journal

“Suburban Rites,” Harbour Lights (September)

“A Farm in Ohio,” “The Easy Life,” penmen review

“Punk Rock,” “Horses and War,” Mid-Atlantic Review

“Gas Station Politics,” North Dakota Quarterly

“Chopsticks,” Harbour Lights (August)

“Jimmie and Sook,” “Green Haven,” “Big Jim,” “Drive-In Dreams,” “Curmudgeon’s Lament,” The Galway Review

“The Scenic Route,” The Pomona Valley Review

“I Am Not a Robot,” American Writers Review

“Best Seller,” “The Need for Trees,” North Dakota Quarterly

“Lot’s Wife,” Washington Writers’ House

“Jay and Eddie,” Pulsebeat

“Memoires of Magdalen,” “The Poet in New York,” “No Pain Like the Back,” In Parenthesis

“High Tea at Avebury,” “The Poet in New York,” The Need for Trees,” “I Am Not a Robot,” “Apartment Hunting in Lexington,” The Galway Review

“Dining Alone,” Harbour Lights

“Not My Country,” “The Connoisseur,” The Tipton Poetry Journal

“The Tattoo Artist,” The Big Windows Review

“The Invention of Immorality,” “On the Afterlife,” “Three Takes in Immorality,” The Umbrella Factory

“Remembering My Father,” Memoryhouse Magazine

“Jail, No Bail,” Arkansas Review

“Grace on Skates,” Slant (15 April 2025)

“In Those Days,” Harbour Lights

“Lit Crit,” The Font

“Sir Humphrey Gilbert Sets Sail,” Book of Matches

“The Poison Kitchen,” “Bad Ideas,” “A Republic,” “The Elephant in the Room,” “The Reign of Donald the Mad,” The Galway Review

“If Dogs Were Poets,” Pulsebeat

“A Thanksgiving Tale,” The Northern New England Review

“Irreconcilable Differences,” “Take a Walk,” Midwest Quarterly (2025)

“The Boy Next Door,” MockingHeart Review (February 2025)

“Bass Man,” “Cityscape,” In Parenthesis (1:2, Winter 2025): 18

“Big Man on Campus,” “Prime Time,” “The Hustler,” “A Trip to Montreal,” All the Men Came & Danced (Wyld Syde Press, 2025): 106-13

“Men’s Book Club,” “Walt and the Supremes,” “Prime Time,” “Who’s Crazy Now?,” “Bass Man” The Galway Review

Praise for William Heath

William Heath’s recent poetic offerings in The Galway Review are a delightful testament to his ability to merge wit, societal observation, and poignant commentary. Each poem brims with vivid imagery, sharp insights, and a touch of humour, creating a unique tapestry of human experience.

“Men’s Book Club” wryly critiques the often formulaic tendencies of popular male-centred fiction while offering a meta-commentary on the gendered lens of literature. Heath’s incisive voice highlights the absurdities of both literary snobbery and blockbuster tropes, blending humour with insight.
“Walt and the Supremes” is a clever reimagining of Walt Whitman as a member of a Motown group. The playful juxtaposition of Whitman’s expansive, self-reflective poetry with the glamour of The Supremes captures Heath’s talent for rethinking cultural icons. His humor and affection for both art forms shine through.
“Prime Time” is an understated gem, blending humour with subtle marital tension. The metaphor of Amazon Prime deliveries as a potential “affair” captures a modern dilemma with wit and an aching undercurrent of alienation.
“Who’s Crazy Now?” turns a sharp eye on technology’s ubiquity, contrasting the smartphone era with past notions of sanity. The poem’s reflection on solitude and human connection resonates deeply, especially in an age when the virtual often supplants the tangible.
“Bass Man” offers a richly detailed glimpse into a bass fisherman’s world, capturing the quiet dedication of this subculture. Heath’s vivid descriptions create a meditative portrait of patience and passion.

Congratulations, William Heath, for crafting these masterful pieces and for your well-deserved feature in The Galway Review. Your work continues to inspire and engage, offering readers both delight and reflection. Bravo!

Editor,

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“Gas Station Politics,” (excerpt) The Nelligan Review (11/4/24)

“At the Hop,” “Orderly Chaos,” Penmen Review (October 2024)

“The Vet,” Poetry Town (10/5/24), selected by George Bilgere

“Alone with America,” The Fourth River

“Preacher Knox,” “Jail, No Bail,” “Tales From Liberty,” The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature (15 September 2024)

“The Death of Lorca,” The Big Windows Review(20 September 2024)

Dunes,” and “On Leeches,” Another Chicago Magazine

“Elephants Have Long Noses,” “Web of Deceit,” “Good Vibrations,” “Death in the Dunes,” and “On Leeches,” Another Chicago Magazine

“A Soldier in the Great War” (six poems sequence), Blue Lake Review   

“The Critic,” The Passage Between

“Capitalism 101,” Marx 101,” “The New Man,” Militant Thistles

Alms for Oblivion (Kelsay Books 2024): 
“The Family Tree,” “Yardbird,” “Le Gran Frappe,” “Shut It Down,” “Preacher Knox,” “Jail, No Bail,” “A Diner in Tennessee,” “Boxcars,” “Sleep,” “White Noise,” “Las Vegas,” “We get lost,” “Sad Rally,” “How Democracy Fails,” “Al Suelo,” “Chico a Chica,” “A Street Named Serpents,” “La Cueva de la Pilea,” “Leaving Valin,” “A Croatian Story,” “On the Rhine,” “Barbados,” “Cuban Story,” “The Rats of New York,” “Snake in the Lake,” Nuku Hiva Bugs,” “Sunlight” “Elephants Have Long Noses,” “Good (and Bad) Vibrations,” “A Zebra’s Stripes,” “The Choice,” “On Leeches,” “Master’s Class,” “The Death of Lorca,” “Purple Birds,” “Count Dracula,” “Waiting for the End,” “Posthumous Poems,” “Jimmy Buffet,” “Nobody’s Home,” “On Memory and Forgetting,” “The Invention of Love,” “The Digital Age,” “Ode to Alzheimer’s”

“The Jones Man,” North of Oxford

“Killer Whales Attack Yachts Off Gibraltar,” “Irreconcilable Differences,” “Take a Walk,” “Trigger Warnings,” “Cleared for Takeoff,” Pennsylvania Literary Journal  

“The Myth of Flight,” “Artists: Then & Now,” “Fire,” “Bats,” “Losing It” In Parenthesis   

“Diogenes,” “Pythagoras,” Qwerty Magazine

“On Leeches,” “Death in the Dunes,” Door Is A Jar

“St. Sebastian,” Adelaide Magazine

“At the Hop,” “I Wanted to Ask You to Lunch,” “The Scan,” “Of Hoops and Hopes,” “St. Sebastian,” Adelaide Magazine

The Monastic Life,” “The Answer,” Alba

“Sarah’s House of Spirits,” “Blind Woman in the Rain,” “Mirrors,” “Weather Report,” “The New Wave,” In Parenthesis

“The Canfield Fair,” Belt Magazine

“At the Diner,” “Remembering the Fifties,” “At the Commune,” Misfit Magazine

“Circus Lore,” Hurricane Review

 “Forked Tongues,”Perceptions

“The Lonely Side of the Lectern,” The Font

“Descartes,” Stillwater Review

“The Starlings of Rome,” Pulsebeat

“Neighbors,” Schuylkill Valley Journal

“In Asturias,” “A Bar in Santa Cruz,”The Alembic

William Heath Mount Magazine

“The Curse of Rafinesque,” The Xavier Review

“In Asturias,” Last Leaves

“Web of Deceit,” “How Owls Kill,” In Parenthesis

“Placa Reial” (reprint), “Blue Water House,” “Mr. Beeghly’s Doubts,” “Bread,” “Thick Milkshakes,” “Sarah’s House of Spirits” (reprint), “Ghosts,” “On the Ultimate Primacy of Images,”The High Window (featured poet)

 “Alone with America,” The Midwest Quarterly

“Ode to Alzheimer’s,” “The Ancients,” “Graduation Day,”The Umbrella Factory Magazine

“A Simple Story,” Poetry Superhighway Holocaust Remembrance Day Anthology

“The Fall,” Harbour Lights

“Don’t Touch the Water,” William & Mary Quarterly

“Diner,” “Remembering the Fifties,” “At the Commune,” Misfit Magazine

Inventing the Americas (Finishing Line Press, 2023): 
“The Death of Marco Polo,” “Construing the Globe,” “Isahmbel’s Permission,” “Outward Bound,” “The First Day,” “The First Voyage,” “Triumphal Return,” “The Second Voyage,” “The Third Voyage,” “The Final Voyage,” “Simonetta Vespucci,” “Amerigo Vespucci,” “A New World”

“The Vet” “Dad’s Last Days,” Pulsebeat Poetry Journal (2023)

“Key West Redux,” Rye Whiskey River

“John Wayne Stars as Sarge,” Sangam Literary Magazine (Spring 2023)

“Masters Class,” Last Stanza Poetry Journal (July 2023)

“Old Guy,” Poetry Super Highway (April 2023)

“The Banality of Evil,” Poetry Super Highway, 25th annual Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) issue (2023).

“On Poetry,” a six poem series: “A Manifesto,” “Poetry Nowadays,” “Just Beat It,” “The Poetry Reading,” “The Bard,” “Trying to Say,”  The Decadent Review

“Country Living,” “How the Weather Was,” “Voluptuous Water,” Sequestrum

“Orientation,” Slant: A Journal of Poetry

“Shaw in Russia,” Poetry Ireland

“The Future,” Loch Raven Review

 “A Dad’s Dilemma,” “Fez,” “Attack on Libya,” “Barbershop Talk,” “Black Lung,” The Pennsylvania Literary Journal  

“Fossil Time,” “Plaça Reial,” Apricity Magazine (both digital and print editions)

Going Places

Going Places (Kelsay Books 2023): 
“Plaza Dona Elvira,” “Calle Mármoles,” “Feria,” “Picking Olives in Andalusia,” “Palma del Rio,” “A Trip to Madrid,” “Jerez de los Cabelleros,” “Maria,” “Francesca’s Secret,” “The Referendum,” “Some Sayings,” “On Pets,” “Pickpockets,”  “The George, or Farewell to Merry Old England,” “On Hamlet,”  “Mind the Gap,” “The Berlin Wall,” “That Summer in Paris,” “An Outpost of Allah,” “In India,” “Gandhi and the Robber,” “Japanese Watercolor,” “Yucatán,” “Chichén Itzá,” “Guatemala,” “Vietnam,” “Walkabout,” 

“Tom Paine’s Bones,” Exit 13 Magazine

“Boccaccio’s Theft,” “Lydia,” The Alembic (Spring 2023)

“Night Nurse,” reprinted in A Plate of Pandemic (Spring 2023)

“The Dentist’s Chair,” Little Patuxent Review (Winter 2023)

“Yes and No,” The Midwest Quarterly

“Barrio de Santa Cruz,” Pulsebeat Poetry Journal

“A Trip to Flanders,” “Remembering the Great War, Quadrant

“Saffron Walden,” Plainsongs (Summer 2022)

“Odysseus Returns,” “Growing Tomatoes in Nigeria,” “Night Nurse,” LitBreak Magazine (November 2022)

“In the Pyrenees,” Change Seven

“Alms for Oblivion,” Indolent Books: A River Sings (October 2022)

“Aureli’s Funeral,” Pulsebeat Poetry 

“Islamabad,” “Bolivia,” Poem is a Jar

“Purple Birds,” Streetlight Magazine

“Cargo Cult,” Slippery Elm

“The Rules of the Game,” Baseball Bard

“The Perfect Shower,” “Taking Pictures,” The Wisconsin Review

Steel Valley Elegy (Kelsay Books, 2022): 
“Ballad of K. K. Granger,” “The Village Scene,” “Assassinating Nixon,” “Hoffa,” “Tay Old Guy,” “The Ron Reagan Story,” “The Christmas Carol War “The Love Songs of Frogs,” “The Courtship of Scorpions,” “The World at Low Tide,” “Four Seasons,” “Homer Comes Home,” “Concert Hall,” “Walls,” “On Suicide,” “Hiroshima”

William Heath Mount Magazine

“The Sacrament,” Change Seven

“The Dutch Masters,” Atlanta Review

“After Neruda,” Blue Lake Review

“Swatting Flies,” “Santo Domingo,” Illuminations

“Puerto de Santa Maria,” “The Death of Marco Polo,”Arlington Literary Journal

“The Death of the Novel,”Concho River Review (Spring 2022)

“Flyover Country,” “At the Diner,” “A Simple Story,”Cantos 2022

“The Goalie,” “Fascist Kitsch,”Tipton Poetry Journal, Issue 50 (Fall 2021)

“The Corner,” “Postmodern Poetry,” Mantis: A Journal of Poetry

“Augustine’s Erections I,” “Bansky’s Prank,” MacQueen’s Quinterly. 

“Questions,” Beyond Words Literary Magazine

“Rimbaud in Abyssinia” “Crime Scene,” Cathexis Northwest (November 2021)

 “Key West,” Change Seven (January 2022)

 “Jury Duty,”Concho River Review (Fall 2021)

“Easter Island,”The Orchards Poetry Journal (December 2021)

 “The Cold War in Poland, Ohio,” Streetlight Magazine

“Prospecting,” North Dakota Quarterly

“Chicago 1968,” “Bringing the War Home,” “Woodstock,” “Tripping,” Pennsylvania Literary Journal

 “Bread Loaf, 1982: Two Views,” Mudlark (November 2021)

 “Queen Nefertari’s Tomb,” Sunlight Press

“The Banality of Evil,” American Journal of Poetry (January 2022)

 “Winslow Homer’s Fog Warning,” The Orchards Poetry Journal (June 2021): 36-37

 “At the Commune,” “On Suicide,” “Honky-Tonk,”Umbrella Factory Magazine (Issue 49 June 2021)

“Louis’ Basque Corner,” “G. I. Joe in Naples,” MacQueen’s Quinterly

“A Life More Abundant,” The Bluestone Review (May 2021)

“The Shack,” The Sandy River Review

“Dock of the Bay,” Free State Review, issue 15 (2021)

“Canto for a Mermaid,” Mermaids Monthly (August 2021)

 “Entropy,” Northern Virginia Review

“Southern Belle,” The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature

“Afghanistan,” Schuylkill Valley Journal

 “Last Visit to Barcelona,” Concho River Review (Spring 2021)

“William Andrei Amalrik Survive Until 1984?”  “A Brief Tour of Italy” In Parentheses (February 2021)

“On the Nile,” Clackamas Literary Review, vol 25 (2021)

“The Delta,” “The Town,” “The Mansion,” “A Lynching in Mississippi,” Deep South Magazine

“The Love Songs of Frogs,” “Concert Hall,” “Cuban Story,” Avatar Review

“How It’s Done,” Evening Street Review (Spring 2022); 33

“The Wind,” “The Tornado,” Appalachian Journal

 “In Quest of Yeti,” Eye to the Telescope, Issue 39 (January 2021): 5

“In Which the Poet Paints His Portrait,” “In Which the Poet Renounces Loathly Witchcraft,” Miller’s Pond Poetry Magazine (January 2021)

“Kentucky Cop,” Glimpse (Fall 2021)

“Incidents on the Ivory Coast,” Glimpse (Spring 2021)

“Maro,” “Balcony of Europe,” “Topless Beach,” “The Little Barber at War,” “Last Visit to Barcelona,”  Mediterranean Poetry (December 2020)

“Trump Reads Wittgenstein, Changes Tune,” Poetry Superhighway (December 2020)

“The Wailing Wall,” Illuminations (June 2021)   

“Americana,” Quadrant (2021)

“Swift Creek,” Umbrella Factory Magazine (December 2020)

Gary Marks and the gang

“The Nightingale’s Song,” Welter (2021)

“A Life More Abundant,” “The Hough Riots,” “Active Shooter,” North Dakota Quarterly

“Campus Wisdom,” Concho River Review, 34: 2 (Winter 2020): 104

“Gator,” The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature (June 2021)

“A Night at the Samarkand Starless Hotel,” Exit 13 #26 (Spring 2021)

“Guru Maharaj Ji,” American Journal of Poetry (July 2020)

“Intimations,” “Before the Revolution,” Quadrant (2021)

“How to Capture an Anaconda,” Innisfree 31 (Fall 2020)

“A Lady Without Mercy,” The Evansville Review, Vol. XXX (2020): 38-39
Honorable Mention for the Willis Barnstone Award in Translation

“Raking Leaves,” Poetry Leaves Volume IV, (Independent Press, 2020)

“Urban Renewal in Detroit,” What Rough Beast, (8 January 2020)

“The Women of Tehran,” Tipton Poetry Journal #43 (Winter 2020): 27

“Our Black Sheep,” Patterson Literary Review, Issue 48, (2020): 14

Leaving Seville (Presa Press 2019), a chapbook:
“Our Lady of Flamenco,” “Three Kings in Seville,” “Barrio Santa Cruz,” “Tear Gas,” “The Uncouth Coup,” “”Six Bulls,” “A Few Crucifixions, Some Processions,” “At the Sauna,” “Puerto de Santa Maria,” “Paseos,” “La Cueva de Pileta,” “La Cueva de Menga,” “Statues,” “Artists: Then & Now,” “Roser Plays the Field,” “Roser,” “The Gift,” “Leaving Seville”

Night Moves in Ohio (Finishing Line Press 2019), a chapbook:
“Steel Valley Elegy,” “My Father Put the Shot,” “Skipping Stones,” “High Jumper,” “The Saywell Side,” “A Hit in Shaker Heights,”  “I Beat Dolph,” “The Green Man,” “The Girls from Campbell,” “An Inside Job,” “Mom’s Final Days,” “Milking Time,” “Guts and Glory,” “The Raft,” “Recess on the Poland Playground,” “Kissing Games in Ohio,” “Knife Fights,” “Typing Class,” “The Six-Shooter Survived the West,” 
“Soc Hop,” “The Long-Distance Seer”

“Pledge Night,” Running With Water (V Press LC, 2019):  56-57

with Frank Bergon

“Skeleton in the Woods,” Awake in the World, Volume 2 (Riverfeet Press, 2019)

“The Cottonmouth in the Outhouse,” (three poems), Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts 23:1 (Spring 2018): 71-74

“The Shining Path,” In Cabin Fever: Poets at Joaquin Miller’s Cabin, 1984-2001 (The Word Works, 2003), p. 130

“Topless Beach,” “At the Sauna,” Imported Breads: Literature of Cultural Exchange (Mammoth Books, 2003), ed. Philip Sterling, 100-102

“The Forgotten American” and “How I Left the War and Up Basketball” Poetry for  Peace (Icarus Press, 2002)

“The Forgotten American” Weavings 2000:  The Maryland Millennial Anthology Michael S. Glaser, ed.   

“At Dusk the Deer,” Margaret: Remembering A Life That Was Poetry edited by Martha Knoblock, et. al., (Icarus Books, 1998), pp.  40-41

“Travel,” The Cortland Review, (Summer 1998)

“Travel,” Lighted Corners, (Spring 1996), 43

The Walking Man (Icarus Books 1994):
“Mare Manor,” “Canto for a Mermaid,” “The End of the Road,” “My Old Man,” “Sage Advice,” “Jethro,” “Love Songs for Lydia,” “Poetry Lesson”

“Quest Song,” Lighted Corners (Spring 1994), 40

“Let Me Say a Secret,” “Two Women,” Lighted Corners (Spring 1993), 37, 69

“The Shining Path,” “Topless Beach,” “Hat Party,” “The Old Doctor,” “The Geography of Grief,” Bells: Barcelona English Language and Literature Series, ed. Jacqueline Hurtley (Universitat de Barcelona 1990), 73-76

“The Shining Path,” Baltimore Poets Celebrating Peace, ed. Margaret Diorio (Baltimore, Maryland: Icarus Books, 1990), 11

“The Boy Who Would Be Perfect,” Free State: A Harvest of Maryland Poets, ed. Gabriele Glang, (College Park, Maryland: SCOP Publications, Inc., 1989), 33-34

“The Boy Who Would Be Perfect,” “Ab la dolchor del temps novel,” Lighted Corners (Spring 1989), 8-9, 46

“Open Heart Surgery,” Lighted Corners (Spring 1988), 52

“At the Sauna,” The Cooke Book: A Seasoning of Poets, ed. Michael S. Glaser (College Park, Maryland: SCOP Publications, Inc., 1987), 42

“Talking Story,” “Dylan,” “Love Trance,” Lighted Corners (Spring 1987), 7, 68, 70

“My Grandfather Ploughed,” “Hat Party,” “Tennis at Twilight,” Lighted Corners (Spring 1986)

“Bloody Pond,” “Teresa Loves James Wright,” “The Devil Rides Outside,” Lighted Corners (Spring 1985), 23, 43, 49

“The Forgotten American,” “Moon Child, I Buy,” Lighted Corners (Spring 1884), 6-7, 44

“The End of the Road,” “My Old Man,” “The Day of the Dead,” (Spring 1983), 12, 21, 24

“The Hustler,” “Evans Lake,” “The Death of the Automobile,” Lighted Corners, (Spring 1982)

“At Dusk the Deer,” Ulster County Artist (1979)

“After Paying a $396 Datsun Repair Bill,” Urthkin, (March 1978), 38

“Haystack Calhoun,” The Ardis Anthology of New American Poetry, eds. David Rigsbee and Elleandea Proffer, (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Ardis, 1977), 255, photo, 34

“Cold Feet in Columbus,” Traveling America: With Today’s Poets, ed. David Kherdian (New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1977), 24

“Cold Feet in Columbus,” Hudson River Anthology, (Spring 1977), 22

“The Mad Translator Talking,” “Kick Off, Catullus #11,” “#7,” “#10,” “#75,” “#93,” “#48,” “#52,” “#95,” “#22,” The Painted Bride Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Winter 1976), 62-69

“Urban Renewal,” “Upstairs, A Woman,” “Teresa’s,” Kentucky Renaissance: An Anthology of Contemporary Writing, ed. Jonathan Greene, (gnommon 1976), 46, 47, 48

“How to Write a Surrealistic Poem,” Occurrence, Issue 6 (1976), 55

“We Leaned Into A Kiss,” Twigs, Vol. XII, No. 2 (Spring 1976), 56

“Learning from Indians,” “Kick Off, Catullus #12,” Hudson River Anthology, Vol. 5 (Spring 1976), 12-13, 14

“The Discovery of Kentucky,” “Bobby,” “Amy,” Wind: Special Kentucky Bicentennial Issue, 1974-76, pp., 17-18

“Upstairs, A Woman,” “Sad on Solomons Island,” Wind, Vol. 6, No. 20 (1976), 16-17

“Urban Renewal,” Bitterroot, Vol. XV, No. 55 (Spring 1976), 37

Roser & Bill in the desert

“Nightwatch,” approaches, Vol. II, Issue 1 (Winter 1975)

“The Lost Ball,” “The Thrash,” “In Which The Poet,” The Mid-Atlantic Review, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Fall 1975), 3, 4-5, 6-7

“Love Song,” bits 2, (July 1975)

“Moon Child, I Buy,” “Love Trance,” “In Which the Poet Leaves the War and Takes Up Basketball,” “Weird Poets,” The Transylvanian, Vol. 82, No. 1 (Spring 1974)

“Cat Smooth,” “A Delicate Balance,” “The Crows,” “Teresa Loves James Wright,” The Transylvanian, Vol. 81, No. 2 (Fall-Winter 1973)

“Jethro,” Pegasus: Special KSPS Prize Poems Issue (1973), 12

“Lament for Lake Erie,” The Transylvanian, Vol. 81, No. 1 (Spring 1973)

“A Vision of Helen,” Poetry Now (Summer 1972

“Haing The Discusses the Race Question,” “The Discovery of Kentucky,” The Transylvanian, (Spring 1972), 19, 23

“Two Position Papers,” “The Last Challenge,” The Transylvanian, (Winter-Spring 1972), 20, 23

Winner Best Children’s Poem, Kentucky State Poetry Society

“Carolyn Seymour Surveys Her World,” Pegasus, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Winter 1972), 16  

“Anxious Astronaught,” handsel, (Winter 1971), 33

“After the Operation,” “Jethro,” The Transylvanian, (Winter 1971), 21, 23

“The Six-Shooter Survived The West,” “The Death of My Grandfather,” handsel (1971), 61-62, 63

“Carolyn Seymour Surveys Her World,” “The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Seer,” The Transylvanian, (Spring 1971), 5, 20

“Slow Poke,” Pebble 5, (Winter 1970-71)

“The Devil Rides Outside,” The Transylvanian, (Winter 1970), 26-29

“Haystacks Calhoun,” “Hemingwayesque,” The Transylvanian, (Fall 1970), 16, 2

“The Entrails of Power,” tangent, (Spring 1970), 20

“Black Lung,” “The Clouds,” The Rambler, (April 1970), 3, 4

“New England,” Green River Review, Vol. II, No. 2 (Spring 1970), 47

New Orleans 1840,” “Memories of Murkherjee,” The Transylvanian, (Spring 1970), 18, 24- 25

“You Numbskull,” College English, Vol. 31, No. 4 (January 1970), 399

“Modern Poetry,” “The Death of My Grandfather,” The Transylvanian, (Fall 1969), 5, 9

Bill at Transylvania

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