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POEMS:

"The Whiteness of the Whale." Crazy Jane 1.1 (February 1975).

"The History of Homiletics." Crazy Jane 1.1 (February 1975).

"Traveling North." The Worcester Review 4 (1976): 28.

"60 Year Old Colonel Reapplies for Active Duty." The Worcester Review 4 (1976): 29.

"Census." The Beloit Poetry Journal 27.2 (Winter 1976-7): 29.

"We are All Very Strange." Spectrum (Fall 1978): 20.

"Cow Country." New England Review 2.1 (Fall 1979): 91.

"Snowbound Between Thaws." Poultry 1.1 (Fall 1979): 9.

"Wasteyard Valediction." Poultry 1.1 (Fall 1979): 9.

"The Magic Monkey." Poultry 1.1 (Fall 1979): 9.

"They Feed They Face." Poultry 1.1 (Fall 1979): 9.

"Landscape of Domestic Life." The Georgia Review 34.1 (Spring 1980): 161.

"Dusk." Poetry 136.2 (May 1980): 89.

"What is Coming." Panache 21 (Fall 1980): 3.

"Clay." Southern Poetry Review 20.2 (Fall 1980): 38-9.

"Paul Celan." The Iowa Review 12.4 (Fall 1981): 62.

"Worcester, Next Nine Exits." The Iowa Review 12.4 (Fall 1981): 61.

"Father Movies." New England Review 4.2 (Winter 1981): 221-2.

"Retriever." A. . . Magazine 3 (Spring 1981):37.

"How Straight Up is Curved: Homage to Emily Dickinson." New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly 6.4 (Summer 1984): 556-60.

"Here Was Buried Thomas Jefferson." Southern Poetry Review 24.1 (Spring 1984): 56-8.

"Testament of Arnaud du Tilh." Nimrod 28.1 (Fall/Winter 1984-85): 79-82.

"The Mohawk River: A Real Allegory of Twenty Years of My Life As An Artist." Blueline 6.2 (Winter/Spring 1985): 14.

"A Sermon in Stone." Piedmont Literary Review 9.3 (Fall 1984).

"The Outskirts of Everything." Poetry 146.1 (April 1985): 22.

"A Lot of Boys Bar." Poetry 146.1 (April 1985): 24.

"American Gothic." Poetry 146.1 (April 1985): 24.

"In Praise of the Coelacanth." Poetry Northwest 26.1 (Spring 1985): 24-5.

"When Clowns Go Bad." Poetry Northwest 26.2 (Spring 1985): 25.

"Bad Taste Visits Home." The Worcester Review 8.1 (Spring 1985): 30-1.

"Unguided Tour of Floyd, Virginia." The Worcester Review 8.1 (Spring 1985): 29.

"What It is Like." Artemis 8 (May 1985): 26.

"Exits on the Drive Home." Cincinnati Poetry Review 13 (Spring 1985): 21.

"Headstones." Jeopardy 21 (Spring 1985): 52.

"Crickets in August." Passages North 6.2 (Spring/Summer 1985): 19.

"Elegy at Sea." The Louisville Review 18 (Spring 1985): 15.

"Instructions for the Yearbook." The Louisville Review 18 (Spring 1985): 14.

"This Temporary Map." Blueline 7.1 (Summer/Fall 1985): 16.

"The Scholar Gypsy: A Progress Report." Southern Poetry Review 225.1 (Spring 1985): 48.

"The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad." Southern Poetry Review 25.1 (Spring 1985): 49.

"Mr. In-Between." The Montana Review 7 (1985): 62-3.

"Self-Portrait with Nostalgia." Poetry 147.4 (January 1986): 203-4.

"Self-Portrait with Self Doubt." Poetry 147.4 (January 1986): 205.

"The Editorial We." Poetry 147.4 (January 1986): 206.

"The Village Eccentric." Blueline 7.2 (Winter/Spring 1986): 50-1.

"The Valley Where We Live." CutBank 25 (Winter/Spring 1986): 38.

"Why I Love Halloween." Oxford Magazine 2.1 (Spring 1986): 30-1.

"Doggedness." The Louisville Review 20 (Spring 1986): 57-8.

"The Garden and Its Owners." Passages North 7.2 (Spring/Summer 1986): 21.

"Ode to Marlin Perkins." Antietam Review 5 (1986): 15.

"Australia." Antietam Review 5 (1986): 15.

"The Day I Cannot Stop Crying." Poetry 147.5 (August 1986): 269-70.

"Self-Portrait with Stage Fright." Poetry 147.5 (August 1986): 271.

"Breaking and Entering." Painted Bride Quarterly 28 (April 1986): 22.

"Marriage of the Magician." Painted Bride Quarterly 28 (April 1986): 23.

"To Trespass in Season." Nomad (Spring 1986): 30.

"Landscape of Domestic Life." (reprinted in 40th Anniversary Poetry Retrospective) The Georgia Review 40.3 (Fall 1986): 677.

"Midnight Special." The Pennsylvania Review 2.1 (Fall/Winter 1986): 37.

"Trouble at the Twin Altars of Work and Love." The Minnesota Review 26 (Spring 1986): 24-5.

"Guided Tour of Pigg's Hollow, Virginia." The Worcester Review 9.1 (1986): 16-7.

"The Proper Fraud." The Worcester Review 9.1 (1986): 18-20.

"Letter With Blurred Postmark." College English 48.8 (December 1986): 802.

"Rough Air." Ploughshares 12.4 (1986): 31.

"Planxty Beethoven." Ploughshares 12.4 (1986): 32.

"Aunt Dwindle and Uncle Nothing." New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly 9.3 (Spring 1987): 343-4.

"Melancholy of Arrival." The Montana Review 9 (1986): 80.

"Self-Portrait With Preferences." Caliban 2 (1987): 95.

"Self-Portrait As Author and Citizen." Caliban 2 (1987): 96.

"Instructions for Insomnia." Caliban 2 (1987): 97.

"Mnemosyne." Southern Poetry Review 27.1 (Spring 1987): 47.

"Comfortable Smoke." Poetry 150.6 (September 1987): 318-320.

"The Mind's Eye." Poetry 150.6 (September 1987): 321.

"Kinds of Jazz." Poetry 150.6 (September 1987): 322.

"The Sorrow of Snapshots." Ironwood 30 (1987): 84.

"This Pencil of Nature, This Drawing Light." Ironwood 30 (1987): 85-6.

"An Arsenal of Deer." Negative Capability 7.1-2 (1987): 143-5.

"Boys and Fireworks." Hawaii Review 20 (Fall 1986; appeared 1987): 56-7.

"A Murmur for Lord Elgin." Wisconsin Academy Review 34.3 (June 1988): 15.

"I Forget Grandmother." Wisconsin Academy Review 34.3 (June 1988): 15.

"Stinkers." The Gamut 24 (Summer 1988): 73.

"Wedding Portrait." The Gamut 24 (Summer 1988): 72.

"The Fox, A Most Cat-Like Dog." Prairie Schooner 62.2 (Summer 1988): 110-11.

"My Parents at Home." Prairie Schooner 62.2 (Summer 1988): 111-2.

"Lucky Man." Prairie Schooner 62.2 (Summer 1988): 112-3.

"Wedding Gift." Prairie Schooner 62.2 (Summer 1988): 133.

"My Father Standing at the Door." The Laurel Review 22.2 (Summer 1988): 107.

"Armed and Confused." Zone 3 3.3 (Fall 1988): 10-11.

"Sara Who Fucked Like a Horse." Men & Women: Together and Alone, ed. Morty Skylar and Mary Briggs. Iowa City: The Spirit That Moves Us Press, 1988: 154-5.

"The Word Hard." Talisman 2 (Spring 1989): 79.

"The Name of Parents." Willow Springs (Winter 1989): 58.

"Legal Fires." The Worcester Review 11.1 (1989): 23-4.

"Near Misses." The Worcester Review 11.1 (1989): 25-6.

"Effects of Twilight." Pembroke Magazine 21 (1989): 121.

"Eleanor's House." Pembroke Magazine 21 (1989): 119-20.

"Instructions for the Dream." Pembroke Magazine 21 (1989): 121.

"The Love of Poverty Creek." Pembroke Magazine 21(1989): 120.

"First Snow, Wisconsin." Wisconsin Review 23.2 (March 1989): 32.

"Farewell To Music: Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738)." Wisconsin Review 23.2 (March 1989): 32-3.

"Bob, The Art Department Skeleton." Wisconsin Review 23.2 (March 1989): 36.

"Mockingbird." Ripon College Days 124 (21 April 1989): 6.

"A Prayer Against Resurrection." Parallax (1989): 26.

"Deer at the Fence." Wisconsin Poets' Calendar: 1990, ed. Arthur Madson. Dodgeville, WI: Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, 1989: 109.

"The Iron Crib." Oxford Magazine 5.1 (Spring/Summer 1989): 73-4.

"Bonus." Fox Cry 15 (1989): 39.

"The Naked and the Nude: Three Photos By Imogen Cunningham." Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, & Letters 77 (1989): 37-8.

"Self-Portrait With Wisecracks." The American Scholar 59.2 (Spring 1990): 91-2.

"Nothing." The American Scholar 59.2 (Spring 1990):92

"Father of the Man." Parallax (1990): 29.

"Word Hoard." Poetry Northwest 31.1 (Spring 1990): 17-18.

"Bad Dogs." Poetry 156.4 (July 1990): 193.

"Notes on the Creation." Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 5 (Fall 1990): 110-11.

"Real Enough." Wisconsin Poets' Calendar 1991, ed. Helen Fahrbach. Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, 1990: 87.

"Fresh Oysters." The Chronicle of Higher Education 37.5 (3 October 1990): B6.

"Phil's Shoe Repair." Fox Cry 16 (August 1990): 32.

"The Shadow Across the Bed." Calypso: Journal of Narrative Poetry and Poetic Fiction 2 (1990) : 22-6.

"Mother." Parallax (1991): 23.

"City League." Wisconsin Poets' Calendar 1992, ed. Ellen Kort. Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, 1992: 69.

"Nocturnal Rondeau." Parallax (1992): 40.

"A Lecture On Whitman." Caliban 11 (1992): 153-4.

"Home Truth." Wisconsin Poets' Calendar 1993, ed. Lenore McComas Coberly. Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, 1993: title page.

"Atropa Belladonna." Wisconsin Academy Review 38.4 (Fall 1992): 38.

"Et in Arcadia Ego." Tampa Review 6 (Spring 1993): 6.

"Somewhere in the American Heartland, Another Poet Prepares to Turn Forty." Parallax 22 (Spring 1993): 30-1.

"A Wineglass Full of Nails." Parallax 22 (Spring 1993): 32.

"Ode to Mrs. Jewell On the Occasion of My Twentieth High School Reunion." Parallax 23 (Spring 1994): 11.

"David and David, Inc." Parallax 23 (Spring 1994): 20.

"July Wind." Prairie Schooner 68.2 (Summer 1994): 61.

"Flyway." Prairie Schooner 68.2 (Summer 1994): 62-4.

"This Old Man." Sycamore Review 6.2 (Summer 1994): 30-1.

"Accidental Blessings." Sycamore Review 6.2 (Summer 1994): 32.

"Posters The Sun Is Erasing." Sycamore Review 6.2 (Summer 1994): 33.

"Sudden Summer." Wisconsin Poets' Calendar 1995, ed. Laurel Mills. Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, 1994: 36.

"Tricky Fingers." Pivot 42 (1994): 42.

"Mom Without Pop." Innisfree Magazine 13.4 (1995): 3.

Coltrane As Loud as He Got." Parallax (Spring 1995): 35.

"Cooling Heart." Parallax (Spring 1995): 48.

"First Blizzard." Parallax (Spring 1995): 70.

Ode to a Supermarket." Sycamore Review 7.2 (Summer 1995): 23.

"Long Overdue Note to My College Professor Who Broke Down and Cried One Morning in 1974 While Teaching Yeats." Sycamore Review 7.2 (Summer 1995): 25.

"Valentine Despite Valentine's Day." Pivot 43 (1995): 39.

"Western Wind." Pivot 43 (1995): 39.

"Observing Pi." Tampa Review 11 (Fall 1995): 26-7.

"First Babies of the Universe." Tampa Review 11 (Fall 1995): 59.

"Insomnia at Forty." Janus: A Journal of Literature 1 (Spring-Summer 1996): 15.

"Dog Bite." Pivot 44 (1996):

"Boomers Over the Limit." Pivot 44 (1996):

"Self-Portrait as Halloween Horse." Janus: A Journal of Literature 2 (Winter 1996): 47-8.

"Photos of Old Rock Stars." Egg (Spring 1997): 12.

"Oldies Show." Egg (Spring 1997): 13.

"Ray Charles on Late Night TV." Egg (Spring 1997): 14.

"Muskrat Ramble." Egg (Spring 1997): 15.

"Wired, 1969." Egg (Spring 1997): 16.

"Aubade." Snakeskin 21 (August 1997).

"Little Synaesthetic Love Poem." Snakeskin 21 (August 1997).

"Death in Early Middle Age." Crania 3 (August 1997): n. pag. Online. Internet. Available: http://www.digitaldaze.com/crania/issue3/index.html

"Handball Solo." Crania 3 (August 1997): n. pag. Online. Internet. Available: http://www.digitaldaze.com/crania/issue3/index.html.

"Memorial Night." Crania 3 (August 1997): n. pag. Online. Internet. Available: http://www.digitaldaze.com/crania/issue3/index.html.

"The Dogs in Dutch Paintings." Pares Cum Paribus 4 (Fall-Winter 1997). Also translated into Spanish by Oscar E. Aguilera. n. pag. Online. Internet. Available: HTTP://rehue.csociales.uchile.cl/rehuehome/facultad/publicaciones/Pares/pares4/

"Know the Whirlwind." Pares Cum Paribus 4 (Fall-Winter 1997). Also translated into Spanish by Oscar E. Aguilera. n. pag. Online. Internet. Available: HTTP://rehue.csociales.uchile.cl/rehuehome/facultad/publicaciones/Pares/pares4/

"The Poet Grows Less and Less Postmodern As Summer Advances." The Laurel Review 31.2 (Summer 1997): 54-5.

"Ten Minutes of Silence For John Lennon." Reprinted from Magic Shows. The Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine (Cleveland OH), 7 December, 1997: 7.

"Love Poem Under Pressure." Wisconsin Academy Review 44.1 (Winter 1997-1998): 43.

"Acting on the Fly." CrossConnect (March 1998): n. pag. Online. Internet. Available: http://tech1.dccs.upenn.edu/~xconnect/v3/i3/g/contents.html

"How the Text Smells." CrossConnect (March 1998): n. pag. Online. Internet. Available: http://tech1.dccs.upenn.edu/~xconnect/v3/i3/g/contents.html

"A Wineglass Full of Nails." CrossConnect (March 1998): n. pag. Online. Internet. Available: http://tech1.dccs.upenn.edu/~xconnect/v3/i3/g/contents.html

"Alternate Take." The Cortland Review 5 (October 1998): n. pag. Online. Internet. Available: http://www.cortlandreview.com/issuefive/graham5.htm

"Wedding Reception." The Cortland Review 5 (October 1998): n. pag. Online. Internet. Available: http://www.cortlandreview.com/issuefive/graham5.htm

"Honeymoon Island." The Cortland Review 5 (October 1998): n. pag. Online. Internet. Available: http://www.cortlandreview.com/issuefive/graham5.htm

"Old Poet Enduring Praise." The Cortland Review 5 (October 1998): n. pag. Online. Internet. Available: http://www.cortlandreview.com/issuefive/graham5.htm

"Elegy for Roger Case." The Cortland Review 5 (October 1998): n. pag. Online. Internet. Available: http://www.cortlandreview.com/issuefive/graham5.htm

"The Dogs in Dutch Paintings." Poetry International 2 (1998): 35.

"All Employee Christmas Party." The Cortland Review Holiday Special (December 1998): n. pag. Online. Internet. Available: http://www.cortlandreview.com/features/holiday98/graham.htm

"The Tape in My Head." Snakeskin (January 1999): n. pag. Online. Internet. Available: http://www.homepages.nildram.co.uk/-simmers/38tapein.htm

"Survival Diptych." For Poetry (January 1999): n. pag. Online. Internet. Available: http://www.forpoetry.com/david_graham.htm

"Just Guessing: A Little Lecture on Ambition." Maine Times, Fall 1998.

"Self-Portrait as Runner Up." Riding the Meridian (May 1999): n. pag. Online. Internet. Available: http://www.heelstone.com/meridian/poetry.html

"David Graham, or Current Resident." The Cortland Review 5 (August 1999): n. pag. Online. Internet. Available: http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/8/graham8.htm

"Homage to Sadie Bosheers." The Cortland Review 5 (August 1999): n. pag. Online. Internet. Available: http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/8/graham8.htm

"Summons." Famous Reporter 20 (December 1999): 37.

"Crow Songs." Salt River Review 2.1 (Winter, 1999-2000): n. pag. Online. Internet. Available: http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/users/cervantes/SRR/SRR7/graham_1.html

"Sundowning At The Dementia Unit." Salt River Review 2.1 (Winter, 1999-2000): n. pag. Online. Internet. Available: http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/users/cervantes/SRR/SRR7/graham_2.html

"Problems of Community Theater." Snakeskin (May 2000): n. pag. Online. Internet. Available: http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~simmers/second.htm

"Letter to Manhattan." The Alley (June, 2000) : n. pag. Online. Internet. Available: http://www.logicalley.com/letter_to_manhattan.htm

 

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