Books & Chapbooks – written

AUTHOR OF FIVE BOOK-LENGTH COLLECTIONS

PDF OF BOOK – for Aurora Award and other award consideration

Poems for nomination consideration
(genre poems that first appeared in 2023)

Arturo Escapes the Cabinet of Death

My fifth book-length collection of poetry:

The Black Ship

Aeolus House

Fall 2023. [Launch date: Nov 4, 2023]

Editor: Autumn Getty

Cover Image: Brett Savory
Cover Design and Typography: McNeill Design Arts
Author Photo: Alexa Carroll
Copyedited and proofread by: Sandra Kasturi and Allan Briesmaster

ISBN: 978-X-XXXXXXX-X-X (ISBN not available yet)
PS 8555 L5483 B___ 2023 (call number not available yet)

PAGES: 93

My fourth book-length collection of poetry:

The Role of Lightning in Evolution

KQP (an imprint of Chizine Publications)

Fall 2016.

Editor: none

Cover Design: Samantha Bieko

Cover Artwork: Erik Mohr

Interior Design: David Bigham & Samantha Beiko

ISBN: 978-1-77148-401-5


PS 8555 L5483 R64 2016

PAGES: 92

My third book-length collection of poetry:

Crouching Yak, Hidden Emu

The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box
Fall 2012.

Cover Art: Laurie Fraser Manifold
ISBN-13: 978-1-55497-182-4

PAGES: 90


My second book-length collection of poetry:

Monster

Tightrope Books

Fall 2010.

Editor: Shirarose Wilensky

Cover Design: Karen Correia Da Silva

Cover Art: Elicser

Typesetting: Shirarose Wilensky

ISBN: 978-1-926639-18-5
PS 8555 L5483 M66 2010

PAGES: 70


My first book-length collection of poetry:

Eating Fruit Out of Season

Tightrope Books

Spring 2008.

Editor: Autumn Getty

Copy Editor: Myna Wallin
Cover Design: David Bigham

Typesetting: Carleton Wilson

ISBN: 978-0-9783351-1-3
PS 8555 L5483 E38 2008

PAGES: 93

AUTHOR OF SIX POETRY CHAPBOOKS

If the World Were to Stop Spinning

Fall 2014

Editor: none.

[Piquant Press]
Edition of 125 copies

ISBN: 978-1-927396-09-4
no call #
PAGES: 40

One Dozen

Spring 2007

Editor: Allan Briesmaster

[Believe Your Own Press]

Ed. of 75 copies

ISBN: 978-0-9736423-6-0
PS 8555 L5483 O53 2007
C 811’ .6
C2006-906964-6
PAGES: 22

Shapeshifter

Fall 2004

Editor: Adam Getty

[Believe Your Own Press]

Ed. of 125 copies

ISBN:0-9736423-0-0
PS 8555 L5483 S453 2004
C 811’ .6

C2004-905637-9
PAGES: 39


Come-on from the Horse on 7th Avenue

Fall 2002

Editor: Herb Kauderer

[Believe Your Own Press]

Ed. of 125 copies

ISBN: 0-9730445-2-7
no call #
PAGES: 32

The Surly Blondes of Earth

Spring 2002

Editor: Sandra Kasturi

[Believe Your Own Press]

Ed. of 125 copies

ISBN: 0-9730445-1-9
no call #
PAGES: 44


His name was Gord, and he used to run with the bulls

Spring 2001

Editor: Autumn Getty

[Junction Books]
1st edition of 150 copies

2nd edition of 75 copies

ISBN: 0-9688057-4-4
no call #
PAGES: 37

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IF THE WORLD WERE TO STOP SPINNING

[FALL 2014]

A City of Buried Rivers

A Conversation between a Time Traveler…

A Ghost in the Window

A Sea Monster Tells His Story

Alien Spaceship

At the Temporal Café

Bigfoot Romance

Carpenter Road

Death Smile

Early Man

Home

Hourglass

If the World were to Stop Spinning

Nothing but Sky Overhead

Ossuary

Short Forms

Sixteen Colours

The Lady in White

The Perfect UFO Photo

The Perfect Library

The Role of Lightning in Evolution

Tin Man

Upon Finding a Letter Lost in Antiquity

White Teeth

You, the Dark Wood

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ONE DOZEN
[SPRING 2007]


Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner –

Copyright Notice, 2525 –

Cottage Road –

Frankenstein vs. the Flying Squirrels –

Gutters –

Magnetic North –

My Latest Poem –

Solitaire –

Stacks of Books –

The Earth As Egg –

The Gray Men and the Secrets of the Afterlife –

Umbilical –

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SHAPESHIFTER
[FALL 2004]


206 bones and the landscape it moves in –

A Gathering And A Letting Go –

An Embrace of Green Thorns –

Dirt –

Eggs, flour, and assorted fruit –

Flight –

Going Native –

Knots and Hollows –

Oceanus Procellarum –

Pantoum for a Recent Kill –

Reinforced Concrete –

Roots –

Small Machines –

Symbiosis –

The Last Breath Of One Such As Us –

These flowers know me now –

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COME-ON FROM THE HORSE ON 7TH AVENUE
[FALL 2002]


an alphabetical list of what separates us from the squirrels –

Art Gecko –

Badgers? We don’t need no stinking badgers! –

Come-on from the Horse on 7th Avenue –

Death Plays a Fiddle –

greener pastures –

Kansas –

killing machine –

lifeboat –

Map –

Mosquito –

My Turtle Poem –

No one taught me to fish –

Ode to the thing that crawled up on my head and died –

Quick Draw –

Rainy Season –

rare fish –

Roughing it –

The Rutabaga Poet –

Visited by Frogs –

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THE SURLY BLONDES OF EARTH
[MARCH 2002]


Alien Address at the UN –

Atlantis –

businessman from the black lagoon –

Crackpot of Science –

Curved Space –

dust –

Exhibit –

leeches –

Loud, Obnoxious Moon –

Necropolitan –

Old Haunt –

Previous Occupants –

Sailing to Atlantis –

shipwreck –

The Surly Blondes of Earth –

Toxic Girl –

Trophy –

weathered remains –

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HIS NAME WAS GORD, AND HE USED TO RUN WITH THE BULLS
[MAY 2001]


Alone –

Attic Window –

Cemetery –

Cereal Killer –

Climbing Trees –

Cold Century –

Condemned –

Exhumation –

His name was Gord, and he used to run with the bulls –

Hotline –

On Manifestation –

Spider Love –

The Creaking Cottage Door –

The Murphys’ –

The Poetry Police –

The Way Back –

Ticket #35439750 –

Watching –

Why Words Fail –