Published Poems 2001

poem: [five poems from Fact series]

poem one first line: “This poem is easy to understand”

poem two first line: “This poem is the / only poem that I”

poem three first line: “The poem thinks it / might like to be”

poem four entire poem: “The poem is exactly this long”

poem five first line: “This poem is starting out / just before I am to lie down”

written: TBD

publication: Fish Drum, v. 16, 2001

PO Box 966 

Murray Hill Station

New York NY 10156

fishdrum.com

editor: Suzi Winson

some other contributors: Michael Rothenberg, Ellen Zweig, Simon Perchik, Joanna Sondheim

poem one: “Certainty: found in the UC Berkeley library database”

first line: “On certain abnormal conditions of the septum pellucidum”

written: TBD

poem two: “We Will Never Surrender: found in the UC Berkeley library database”

first line: “We will be heard”

publication: Chase Park, vol. 1 no. 2, 2001

20 Mule Press

PO Box 9136

Oakland CA 94613

editors: David Harrison Horton

some other contributors: John M. Bennett, Stephanie Young, Spencer Selby, Ryan G. Van Cleave

poem: “Living”

first line: “The fire was burning last night while I was reading about the dead.”

written: TBD

publication: Manzanita Quarterly, Winter 2000-01

PO Box 1234

Ashland OR 97520

Hhhertel@aol.com

editor: Mariah Hegarty

some other contributors: Kit Kennedy, Melanie Green, Marcy Greene, Amy Schutzer

poem: “Ways Out of the Great Maze of the Celestial Mouth (after Jack Martin)”

first line: “It is immaterial as the wind entered into evidence.”

written: TBD

publication: Gumball Poetry, Winter 2001

link to Winter 2001 issue

online [defunct, much remains in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine]

poems were also physically distributed via gumball machines

editor: Laura Moulton

some other contributors: Jeff Meyers, Mary Fisher, Yvonne Hardenbrook, Jeffrey Winke

poem one: “Out of the Wound of the Heart”

first line: “Out of the motherfucking brown wound of the heart”

written: TBD

poem two: “Miloshbery”

first line: “Say to something, ‘Have at it!’ Then gather up your things and flee the room.”

written: TBD

poem three: “The Breathing Device”

first line: “Under the sea the mechanical lung and a bathing cutie”

written: TBD

publication: Loop, v. 1 iss. 2, Winter 2001

Press 62

2224 Dwight Way Ste A

Berkeley CA 94704

press62.org

loop@press62.org

editor: Yuo-Fong Benedicte  Chang

some other contributors: Johanna Mangahas, Julia Vinograd, Larisa Hale, Kenneth Masaki Tanemura

poem: “Didn’t Hear a Thing”

first line: “Stop listening. You’ve done that.”

[includes reading in Real Audio, a format I no longer seem to be able to access]

written: TBD

publication: The Cortland Review, issue 15, Feb 2001

link to issue 15

online

editor: Ginger Murchison; poetry editors: Amy MacLennan, Anna Catone, Jennifer Wallace, Christian Gullett [2015 masthead]

some other contributors: Coleman Barks, Ernie Hilbert, Judy Loest, Karen White

poem: “Stones”

first line: “the tongue that held my name”

written: TBD

publication: Comet, vol.2 no.1, Spring 2001

editors: Kathleen Munnelly & Maw Shein Win

some other contributors: Justin Chin, Jonathan Hayes, Aviva Rosenthal, Daphne Gottlieb

poem: “Boundary (for Gary Blankenship)”

first line: “I sliced my thumb”

written: 2001

publication: Writers Hood, March 2001 

Writers Hood archived

online [defunct, traces remain in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine]

editor: Jeff Mason; poetry editor: Gary Blankenship

some other contributors: Taylor Graham, Duane Locke, Bobbie Gogain, Thelma Mariano

poem: “What I Must Do Today:”

first line: “Wait for you.”

written: TBD

publication: Shampoo, issue 5, April 2001

shampoopoetry.com

link to issue 5

online [offline as I write, but may be back; link takes you to the Internet Archive]

editors: Del Ray Cross

some other contributors: Dale Jensen, Jim Behrle, Sam Witt, Angela Ball

poem: “Poems from Our March: after Mang Ke’s ‘Poems in October’”

first line: “Crops / The picture of three men cut down to two.”

written: TBD

publication: Fourteen Hills, vol. 7 no. 2, Spring/Summer 2001

Creative Writing Dept

San Francisco State University

1600 Holloway Ave

San Francisco CA 94132

hills@sfsu.edu

editor: Noel Kalenian; poetry editor: Dan Mummert

some other contributors: Joshua Corey, Lucille Lang Day, Maureen Hurley, Kathleen Ossip

poem one: “nomarch” 

first line: “oleanders kinda uncle someone man”

written: TBD

poem two: “rallentando”

first line: “yes cindery undo chivalry kiss”

written: TBD

publication: gestalten, issue 5, July 2001

PO Box 6305

Santa Barbara CA 93160

brokenboulder.com

editors: Paul Silvia & Adam Powell

some other contributors: Guy R. Beining, Jonathan Hayes, Spencer Selby, Andrew Topel 

poem one: “Back”

first line: “The house sits on a little hill in the middle”

written: TBD

poem two: “Small House”

first line: “in the small house”

publication: 3rd Muse: poetry journal, issue 3, Oct 2001

PO Box 476

Carnegie 3163

Melbourne VIC

Australia

[first appeared on the 3rd Muse website]

editor: Mark Melton

some other contributors: Lola Haskins, Josh Garden, JB Mulligan, Thomas Wooten

[This post will be continuously updated until I have organized my archives and the list is complete. I will be creating a separate blog post for each year. Contact information for publications is for historical purposes only.]

Published Poems 2000

poem: “Poem I Have Long Wanted to Write”

first line: “I am watching two men kiss”

written: TBD

publication: Prairie Schooner, v. 74 no. 2, Summer 2000

201 Andrews Hall

University of Nebraska

Lincoln, NE 68588

editor: Hilda Raz

some other contributors: D. A. Powell, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Pattiann Rogers, Rick Barot

poem one: “The Chill Palace”

first line: “I want to take Sedna’s hand,”

written: TBD

poem two: “And And Again”

first line: “I dreamed about a shoe.”

written: TBD

poem three: “Praise”

first line: “Praise and euphoria same the beat”

written: TBD

poem four: “Where: a cento”

first line: “Where the blue begins”

written: TBD

poem five: “Dial Tone’s Sweet Hum”

first line: “In Heaven the telephone is ringing,”

written: TBD

poem six: “The Hours Began to Climb Across the Sky”

first line: “The hours began to climb”

written: TBD

[Also an interview]

publication: Hogtown Creek Review, Fall 2000

Hogtown Press

2601 SW 8th Dr

Gainesville FL 32601

hogtown@bigfoot.com

editors: Michael Martin & Elisa Maranzana

some other contributors: Dave Benson, Simon Perchik, Justin Chin, Jack Martin


[This post will be continuously updated until I have organized my archives and the list is complete. I will be creating a separate blog post for each year. Contact information for publications is for historical purposes only.]

Published Poems 1999

poem: [short poem]

first line: “I look to make sure / but the telephone is not ringing”

written: TBD

publication: Lilliput Review, issue 101, Jan 1999

282 Main St

Pittsburgh PA 15201

editor: Don Wentworth

some other contributors: Janell Moon, Leonard Cirino, Gerald Locklin, Lonnie Hall Dupont

poem: [a poem from Fact series]

first line: “I don’t want to be / a poet, says the”

written: TBD

publication: Simple Vows, issue 2, Feb 1999

PO Box 681597

San Antonio TX 78268

editors: Kemp Gregory & Charles Fuhrken

some other contributors: Albert Huffstickler, Robert Cooperman, Alan Catlin, Gerald Locklin

poem: “City with Flame”

first line: “What is today? A solid ounce at”

written: TBD

publication: Phoebe: a journal of literary arts, v.28 no.1, Spring 1999

MSN 2D6

George Mason University

4400 University Dr

Fairfax, VA 22030

http://www.gmu.edu/pubs/phoebe

phoebe@gmu.edu

editor: Mehera Dennison

some other contributors: William Pettit, Susan Tichy, Brendan Galvin, Ray DiPalma

[This post will be continuously updated until I have organized my archives and the list is complete. I will be creating a separate blog post for each year. Contact information for publications is for historical purposes only.]

Published Poems 1998

poem: “The City in the Cup”

first line: “There is no life, the sign proclaims, imagining a short”

written: TBD

publication: Columbia Poetry Review

Columbia College

English Dept

600 South Michigan Ave

Chicago IL 60605

editors: Greg Purcell & Michael A. Staples

some other contributors: Tom Clark, Stephen Ratcliffe, Ron Padgett, W. B. Keckler

link to online issue

poem: “Voice”

first line: “The telephone is ringing in a locked house”

written: TBD

publication: ART/LIFE, v.18 no.9, issue 196, 1998

PO Box 23020

Ventura CA 93002

editor: Joe Cardella; poetry editor: Phil Taggart

some other contributors: Taylor Graham, Rick Lupert, Phil Taggart, Martie Negri

poem: “Hands”

first line: “The house wants to be for mercy but”

written: TBD

publication: ART/LIFE, v.18 no.6, issue 193, 1998

PO Box 23020

Ventura CA 93002

editor: Joe Cardella; poetry editor: Phil Taggart

some other contributors: Troy Overman, Doris C. Vernon, Adrian Dickworthy, Julie Herbst

poems: [eight from the Fact series]

poem one first line: “The poem can’t sleep”

poem two first line: “This poem is the / only poem that I”

poem three first line: “Don’t read me, / says the poem”

poem four first line: “The poem does not sing / all the time but”

poem five first line: “This poem would have you / hold it as long as you”

poem six first line: “Waves slide in, foam-hemmed,”

poem seven first line: “This poem will not / evaluate your life,”

poem eight first line: “You’ve found me! cries / the poem, happily. All that” 

written: TBD

publication: convolvulus, no. 25

Radiolarian Press

118 Meadowcroft Dr

San Anselmo CA 94960

editor: Greg Darms

some other contributors: David Alpaugh, Richard Kostelanetz, Karen Stromberg, Grace Grafton

poem: [one from Fact series]

first line: “Hello, poem. I’m”

written: TBD

publication: Fish Dance: a poetry calendar & newsletter for the North Bay, v.3, no.8, Sept 1998

Fish Dance archived

online [now defunct, but the link above leads to the Internet Wayback Machine where much of the old site is viewable]

[I have a printout of the page on which the poem appears]

editors: Greg Darms & Nancy Cherry

some other contributors: Susan Terris, Laura Horn, CB Follett, Ruth Daigon

poem one: “One City Block”

first line: “Library free book night in the outside of”

written: TBD

poem two: “City of Swords”

first line: “The path is lingering, a green line like an apple’s”

written: TBD

publication: gestalten, issue 3, Sept 1998

1207 W. 19th St

Lawrence KS 66046

brokenboulder.com

editors: Paul Silvia & Adam Powell

some other contributors: W. B. Keckler, Errol Millder, Luke Trent, John M. Bennett

poem: “City Away From It”

first line: “First you gotta get”

written: TBD

publication: Lost and Found Times, no. 41, Nov 1998

editor: John M. Bennett 

some other contributors: Spencer Selby, Ivan Arguelles, Sheila E. Murphy, Amy Trussell

poem: “Toilette”

first line: “Over the years it took more and more work”

written: TBD

publication: Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Winter 1998

PO Box 126

Hampden-Sydney VA 23943

editor: Tom O’Grady

some other contributors: Errol Miller, Ryan G. Van Cleave, Jan Frazier, Meredith Picard

[This post will be continuously updated until I have organized my archives and the list is complete. I will be creating a separate blog post for each year. Contact information for publications is for historical purposes only.]

Published Poems 1997

poem: [one from Fact series]

first line: “The poem has been a beautiful / day”

written: TBD

publication: Antenym, 1997

Bathysphere Press

106 Fair Oaks St #1

San Francisco CA 94110

sjcarll@slip.net

editor: Steve Carll

some other contributors: Barrett Watten, Standard Schaefer, W. B. Keckler, Pierre Joris

poem: “Money Mutters”

first line: “Listen. Or look. Just sit there looking.”

written: TBD

poem: “The Dictator’s Turn”

first line: “The hopeful dictator returned her assets”

written: TBD

publication: Glyph, issue 3, 1997

The Labor of Love Cooperative

117 East Louisa #253

Seattle WA 98102

http://www.tooluser.com/glyph

editor: Sarah Byam

some other contributors: David Lee Ingersoll, Donna Barr, Sarah Byam, Roberta Gregory

poem: “The reflection of the dropwort’s fronds in the hubcap chrome”

first line: “Something of his evening, a word of it, at the far end of a thread …”

written: TBD

publication: Hawai’i Review, vol. 21.1 issue 49, Fall/Winter 1997

Dept of English

University of Hawaii at Manoa

1733 Donaghho Rd

Honolulu HI 96822

editor: Malia E. Gellert; poetry editor: Paige Jenkins

some other contributors: James D’Agostino, Christine Sneed, Sharon Kessler, Allison Eir Jenks

poem: [four from Fact series]

poem one first line: “It is morning in the poem”

poem two first line: “This is a private communication”

poem three first line: ”I would love / to be reading you”

poem four first line: “Instruction / Read this poem again.”

written: TBD

publication: The Typewriter: a literary journal from the Bay Area, issue 10, Dec 1997

PO Box 460074

San Francisco CA 94146

thetypewriter@blazt.com

editors: Adela Najarro, Aaron Dakan, Amy Holberg, t.k., and Giovanni Moro

some other contributors: A. D. Winans, Mary Rudge, Noni Howard, Diane Wang

[This post will be continuously updated until I have organized my archives and the list is complete. I will be creating a separate blog post for each year. Contact information for publications is for historical purposes only.]

Published Poems 1996

poem: [seven from Fact]

poem one first line: “You have finally come / to this poem after”

poem two first line: “This poem was made / to be seen and not”

poem three first line: “This poem is a rock / I am throwing at”

poem four first line: “This poem expresses / the unique personality”

poem five first line: “This poem was / genetically encoded”

poem six first line: “Why are you writing / me? asks the poem”

poem seven first line: “I am not the / poem, the poem”

written: TBD

publication: Exquisite Corpse, issue 57, 1996

Illinois State University

Campus Box 4241

Normal IL 61790

editors: Andrei Codrescu, Laura Rosenthal

some other contributors: Clive Matson, Anne Carson, Simon Pettet, Tom Clark

[This post will be continuously updated until I have organized my archives and the list is complete. I will be creating a separate blog post for each year. Contact information for publications is for historical purposes only.]

Published Poems 1995

poem: “Not Just the Color of Your Cheeks”

first line: “I dug my teeth into the peel of the orange.”

written: TBD

publication: Berkeley Poetry Review, issue 28, 1994-95

700 Eshleman Hall

University of California 

Berkeley CA 94704

editors: Glenn Ingersoll & Patricia Johnson

editorial board: Sam Davis, Jay Dillemuth, Katherine Lederer, Jason Mitchell, Keith Mosier, Rufo Noriega, Braden Randall

some other contributors: Nin Andrews, Michael Chitwood, Alex Corey, Forrest Hamer

[This post will be continuously updated until I have organized my archives and the list is complete. I will be creating a separate blog post for each year. Contact information for publications is for historical purposes only.]

Published Poems 1994

poem: “There Are: a found poem in the UC Berkeley library catalog”

first line: “There are alligators in our sewers”

written: TBD

publication: Berkeley Poetry Review, issue 27, 1993-94

700 Eshleman Hall

University of California 

Berkeley CA 94704

editors: Kristina Youso & Connie Vallejo

editorial board: Darren Franklin, Glenn Ingersoll, Katherine Lederer, Chelsea Mauldin, Rufo Noriega

some other contributors: Kim Addonizio, Gwendolyn Albert, Katy Lederer, Tim Donnelly

[This post will be continuously updated until I have organized my archives and the list is complete. I will be creating a separate blog post for each year. Contact information for publications is for historical purposes only.]

Published Poems 1993

poem: “Fireplace”

first line: “pops / three sparks”

written: TBD

publication: Citi Voice: a free poetry magazine, vol. 5, winter 1993

PO Box 640552

San Francisco CA 94109

editor: Mel C. Thompson

some other contributors: Michael McClure, Frank’s Depression Poetry, Maura O’Connor, Catherine Lehane

poem: “A War”

first line: “How cold is the war these days, she’s asking.”

written: TBD

publication: The Sins of Poetry: CitiVoice Anthology Series, issue 1, winter 1993

PO Box 640552

San Francisco CA 94109

editor: Mel C. Thompson

some other contributors: Dale Jensen, Amy Kashiwabara, klipschutz, Eli Coppola

[This post will be continuously updated until I have organized my archives and the list is complete. I will be creating a separate blog post for each year. Contact information for publications is for historical purposes only.]

Published Poems 1992

poem one: “These Notes Know: lines from Miller”

first line: “the seam that joined them”

written: TBD

poem two: “Stood in Places: lines from Harrach”

first line: “They chew gum”

written: TBD

poem three: “Mr. Miserable comes back”

first line: “The door keeps not wanting to return the key: it has it”

written: TBD

publication:Tight Magazine, vol. 3 no. 4, Aug 1992

PO Box 1591

Guerneville CA 95446

editor: Ann Erickson

some other contributors: Jerry Ratch, Alan Catlin, Jim Gove, Gloria Potter

[This post will be continuously updated until I have organized my archives and the list is complete. I will be creating a separate blog post for each year. Contact information for publications is for historical purposes only.]

Published Poems 1991

poem: “He hears a ringing”

first line: “Bert likes the blind- / ness of the telephone”

written: TBD

publication: Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, vol. 5 no. 1, 1991

558 Joost Ave

San Francisco CA 94127

editors: Joanne Hotchkiss, Alice Rogoff, Will Walker

some other contributors: Geri Digiorno, Jay Griswold, lyn lifshin, A. D. Winans

poem one: “mr. miserable”

first line: “I love you, mr. miserable”

written: TBD

poem two: “singed whiskers”

first line: “in night dresses we play in the park”

written: TBD

poem three: “Apparition in an Off-white Angel’s Suit”

first line: “Mrs. Joe leaves her body”

written: TBD

poem four: “hot ears”

first line: “hot ears / welcome to the cinema”

written: TBD

publication: Tight, vol. 2 no. 4, Nov 1991

PO Box 1591

Guerneville CA 95446

editor: Ann Erickson

some other contributors: Ann Erickson, Leland Stoney, Robert T. Marcacci Jr., Jake Berry

[This post will be continuously updated until I have organized my archives and the list is complete. I will be creating a separate blog post for each year. Contact information for publications is for historical purposes only.]

Published Poems 1990

poem: “35 mph”

first line: “I fed him one grape”

written: TBD

publication: Tight, (issue 1?), Jan 1990

PO Box 1591

Guerneville CA 95446

editor: A. Erickson

some other contributors: Mark Neville, Ralph Smith, Hunce Voelker, Michelena Wilson

poem: “You Choose the Most Inconvenient Times to Leave Me”

first line: “When I’m half-dressed on the”

written: TBD

publication: Sonoma Mandala: literary review, vol. 16, 1989/1990

Department of English

Sonoma State University

Rohnert Park CA 94928

senior editors: Jayne McPherson, Douglas A. Powell 

some other contributors: Mimi Albert, Jerry Ratch, Janine Canan, Amy Trussell

poem: “To the Away”

first line: “The walls, bookshelves still dim,”

written: TBD

contest winners: Glenn Ingersoll, first; Mimi Albert, second; Darin DeStefano, third

contest judges: Elizabeth Herron, Paul Mariah

publication: A Stone’s Throw: a literary review of Sonoma County’s Russian River Writers’ Guild, 1990

Russian River Writers’ Guild

PO Box 1123 

Sebastopol CA 95473

managing editor: D. Jayne McPherson; associate editors: Richard Benbrook, Carol Ciavonne, Glenn Ingersoll, Don McQueen, William R. Snow

some other contributors: Zara Altair, David Bromige, Geri Digiorno, Jim McCrary

[This post will be continuously updated until I have organized my archives and the list is complete. I will be creating a separate blog post for each year. Contact information for publications is for historical purposes only.]

Published Poems 1989

poem: “Not Just the Color of Your Cheeks”

first line: “When I dug my teeth into the peel of the orange,”

written: TBD

publication: First Leaves: Santa Rosa Junior College’s Literary and Art Review, no. 49, 1989

Santa Rosa Junior College

1501 Mendocino Ave

Santa Rosa CA 95401

editors: D. Charlene Wilson, Richard Speakes, Andrea Neptune, Glenn Ingersoll, Andrew Haas, Chandra Bell, Susan Angolani

some other contributors: Maureen Hurley, D. Jayne McPherson, Gerrye Payne, Laurie Posner

[This post will be continuously updated until I have organized my archives and the list is complete. I will be creating a separate blog post for each year. Contact information for publications is for historical purposes only.]

Raise your fist, girl!

eight of nine

Since the post at the end of January I have received notification from all of ONE of the NINE magazines to which I sent work. That's just shy of eight weeks so far for eight of them. Huh. Based on the old days when I was sending work out regularly I expected to have heard from, oh, three or even five by now.

The single response was the sad but popular "these don't meet our needs."

One should not really count the days like this. The goal of the professional is to keep work circulating, to put poems out there without fretting over the fate of any particular batch. You hear when you hear, or you make up a cut-off date and figure any batch that's been out past that date is effectively rejected and you move on.

So I'm not a professional? Yeah, no.

Sending out work for me is emotionally fraught and it's not easy to face that kind of inner turmoil. The world is the world, of course, and goes on about its business without taking an individual's feelings into account. No editor should be worrying about my feelings; they should be doing what they do as best they can, putting in an interesting order work they think of value.

I won't make any money out of this. That's not what's going to happen, not even if I suddenly start getting a zillion acceptances. And the people who make magazines are barely getting by so they can't afford to pay contributors anything, except rarely. It's not about the money.

What is it about? Being part of the conversation? If current literature is a conversation, both with readers and with other writers, then, yes, I want my voice a thread in the weave. I read my contemporaries and it seems to me my work is not out of place. Even if it were, or when it is, I would still want to be noticed. That's ego, isn't it? Yes. But if you think what you say is worthless, you hold your tongue.

the envelope of love

I just walked nine batches of poems over to the post office. Last time I did a serious mailing only a handful of literary magazines were reading email submissions and they were snarky about it. Today I found in my research most have ceased reading work received in physical form. The old self-addressed stamped envelope is looking endangered.

Yay!

Online submissions are easier and cheaper for writers. I look forward to sending more work out that way.

I created a physical mailing because that’s the way you were taken seriously. Up to now. And because I wanted to take the process seriously. It’s been ages since I really committed to sending work out. Assembling the whole package — addressing the envelopes, the SASE, the stamps, the cover letter — it’s dispiriting. Especially, of course, when the hope and eagerness is bitten away at by the fat SASE of rejection. The times I have sent out work in the few last years I asked in my cover letter that the manuscript be recycled and NOT returned. The pages were often not something that could be sent out again anyway, what with editors’ pencilings or the puncture marks of staples or just the wear of handling. And if the submission came back pristine, that was its own kind of discouragement. Better the slim envelope of rejection than the fat.

Here’s hoping for the svelte envelope of love.

really, truly

My last post - May of this year - reproduced the last rejection I received. I had sent a batch of poems to the magazine 6 X 6, published by Ugly Ducking Presse in Brooklyn.

Yesterday that batch of poems got rejected again. This is what the editors said this time:

Thank you for your recent submission. We truly enjoyed reading your work. Unfortunately, we didn’t find it to be a good fit for 6 X 6. We wish you the best with your future writing.

I included a SASE, but asked them to recycle the manuscript rather than return it. I’m guessing whoever was in charge of throwing stuff out either forgot to or was reluctant to. When it came time to review poems for a new issue my poems were still lying around and got included in the considerations. Since there was no SASE the editors spent their own money on a stamp and envelope to send me the bad news. Nice of them, eh?

In the first rejection they “really enjoyed … some truly amazing moments.” This rejection they “truly enjoyed [the] reading.” Considering the silence that’s the usual response even to published work, I got a pretty good deal. Two letters claiming to have gotten pleasure from my poems.

“I think you’re a really great guy, but I’m just not that into you.”

A few months ago I sent poems to 6 X 6, a poetry magazine published by Ugly Duckling Presse in Brooklyn. Today came this:

Thank you so much for your submission! We really enjoyed your work - it had some truly amazing moments; however, we did not find it a good fit for 6 X 6. We wish you all the best - happy writing!

Glenn Ingersoll - January 5 reading at Redwood Cafe, Cotati

Glenn Ingersoll will be reading poetry with Alan Bern in Cotati at the Redwood Cafe on January 5, 5-7pm.

musical guests: Steve Shain, bass; Nick Alvan; songs, bass/guitar

Redwood Cafe First Sundays Series
at Redwood Cafe
8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati

Glenn Ingersoll has had work in magazines (Exquisite Corpse, Carolina Quarterly) and ezines (Cortland Review, Shampoo), and has published two chapbooks, "City Walks" (1999) and "Fact" (2013). He was one of the coordinators of Poetry & Pizza in San Francisco, a reading series benefiting nonprofits. He works for the Berkeley Public Library. erkeley Public Library.

Alan Bern has published two volumes of poetry with Fithian Press: No no the saddest (2004) and Waterwalking in Berkeley (2007). He is currently at work on two books: one based on the theme of Sacred Mountains and the other dedicated to his parents. Alan is a storyteller and performer working with the dancer, Lucinda Weaver, as PACES: dance & poetry fit to the space. PACES has performed stage-piece collaborations in Italy and Switzerland; and they have performed as well in local libraries, museums, and bookstores. Alan is also a printer and designer, and collaborates with the artist Robert Woods: they work together under the imprint of Lines & Faces, http://linesandfaces.com/. They produce illustrated broadsides and in 2014 will be printing and publishing the book dedicated to his parents, even greater distances. Alan has worked in public libraries in the East Bay Area for 20 years in a variety of jobs and is currently a Children’s Librarian at Berkeley Public’s Central Library.

Whitman-Stein Poetry Fest in San Francisco, Nov 24

Glenn Ingersoll will be reading as part of the Whitman-Stein Poetry Fest in San Francisco, Sunday, November 24, 2-4pm at the AWE Gallery, 678 Portola. No admission fee.

The Whitman-Stein Poetry Fest was founded by Ron Alexander and happens each spring in Santa Barbara. Sunday's Whitman-Stein is a reunion of Bay Area poets who have read down south.

Ron Alexander created the event to bring poetry to the contemporary LGBT community so named it after two famous American poets, one gay and one lesbian. We're here already, we've been queer a long time, get with it.

To help connect us to our history, poets & listeners alike, Ron asked the poets to read at least one poem by an older gay, lesbian, transgender or bisexual poet before reading their own poems. When I read in Santa Barbara in the spring I read a poem by my mentor the pioneering gay publisher, Paul Mariah. I will be reading the same poem in San Francisco.

The other poets:

Nixson Borah (Atascadero) reads Robert Peters

Giovanna Capone (Oakland) reads Pamela Sneed

Marc Hofstadter (Walnut Creek) reads James Schuyler

Tobey Kaplan (Oakland) reads Djuna Barnes

Kit Kennedy (San Francisco) reads Sappho

Jan Steckel (Oakland) reads Gabriela Mistral

more about the venue:
AWE: A Woman’s Eye Gallery
678 Portola Drive
San Francisco, CA
across from Tower Market
in Miraloma Park
free parking at the adjacent Ebenezer/herchurch Lutheran - PURPLE church
(415) 265-8237
http://www.awegallery.com/

more about the Whitman-Stein Poetry Fest:
http://whitman-stein.org

help from mother earth

1:10 a.m., in bed, tired of having Sundy, the shorthair, stomp over my pillow, I'm staring at the ceiling, hand on Sutra, the fat fluffy cat who snores, when there's a thump and a ripple passes under the bed. The cats tore outta there. Hm, earthquake, I said to myself. Now maybe I can get to sleep cat-free.