“Son” was published in The New Yorker, edited by Kevin Young.
“Beckoned” was published in Harper’s, edited by Ben Lerner.
“Carbonized Forest” is for the artist Richard Fishman.
“Madonna del Parto” was published in Poem-a-Day, Academy of American Poets, edited by Meghan O’Rourke & Evie Shockley.
“On a Sentence by Fernanda Melchor” was published in The Nation, edited by Carmen Giménez Smith & Stephanie Burt.
“Stepping Out of the Light” and “What It Sounds Like” were published in Poetry, edited by Don Share.
“The Sounding” was published in Resistance, Rebellion, Life: 50 Poems Now, edited by Amit Majmudar, Knopf, 2017.
An earlier form of “First Ballad: a Wreath” was published in Mānoa, edited by Frank Stewart.
The late poet Jake Adam York sent me from Colorado a mano, a handstone used by ancient Pueblo for grinding meal, etc. He asked me to write a poem for it.
At the inspired instigation of Steve Alpert (thank you, Steve), an earlier form of “Archaic Mano” was included in a collaboration with glass artist Michael Rogers, ceramicist Rick Hirsch, and poet C.D. Wright. Poems and sculptural works were exhibited at the University Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology in 2012 and at the Cohen Gallery, Granoff Center, Brown University, 2013. The earlier version of the poem was published in Lana Turner: a Journal of Poetry and Opinion, edited by Calvin Bedient.
Some of the poems in “Tell Them No” were published in a collaboration with Gus Van Sant called “Thirteen Flowers,” NeueJournal, edited by Dominic Teja Sidhu. Others in this series were published in Sijo: an International Journal of Poetry and Song, edited by David McCann, Wayne de Fremery & Dan Disney.
“Evaporación: a Border History” was first published in Hwaet!, edited by Neil Astley, Bloodaxe Books (UK), 2016; republished in Atlantic Drift, edited by James Byrne & Robert Sheppard, Arc Publications, 2017, and in Poetry International, edited by Ilya Kaminsky.
The poems in “Ruth” were first published in Conjunctions, edited by Bradford Morrow.
Six poems from “Littoral Zone,” with photographs by Michael Flomen, were published in earlier drafts in Alligatorzine, edited by Kurt Devrese.
As after certain events, everything changes, many of the poems cited above are different now than at the time of their publication in magazines.
Thanks for the care of your words Calvin Bedient, James Byrne, Lynn Keller, Pilar Fraile Amador & Esther Ramón. In gratefulness for your friendship: Brenda Hillman, Bob Hass, Dan Beachy-Quick, Arthur Sze, Sharon Olds, Laura Mullen, Valerie Mejer, Mike Perrow, Lida Junghans, Brady Earnhart, Anna Deeny, Don Mee Choi, Brian Evenson, Pura López Colomé, Cole Swensen, Edmundo Garrido, Carmen Giménez Smith, Christina Davis, Declan Spring, and Eliot Weinberger.
Thanks to the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley where some of these poems gushed forth.