Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors of the following publications:
The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day: “After the Squall” and “Division Street”; Fifth Wednesday: “Falls,” “Haiku,” “High Ground,” “Of Mice,” “Seed,” “Skein,” and “text”; Harvard Review: “The Marriage Bed”; The New Yorker: “The Wide Stars Above Our Sky”; Poetry Magazine: “Ghost, Fountain,” “Hedgerows,” “Lear’s Wife,” and “The Tree Agreement”; TAB: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics: “Accidents” and “Closing House”; Virginia Quarterly Review: “Bat House,” “The Elevated,” and “The Week Before She Died”; World Literature Today: “Daybreak” and “Parents at Rest”; and The Yale Review: “The Middle Seat.”
The following poems have appeared or will appear in the following anthologies:
Brute Neighbors: Urban Nature Poetry, Prose and Photography (DePaul, 2011): “Borders”; City Creatures (University of Chicago Press, 2015): “Visitations”; Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology (University of Georgia Press, 2017): “Whale Song”; The Golden Shovel Anthology (University of Arkansas Press, 2017): “Division Street”; Poesia e Luce: Venezia (Antoloia Poetica, 2016): “Of What’s Sea-Locked.”
“Francesca’s Circle” was commissioned by Marco Nereo Rotelli for his light illumination, Divina Natura at The Field Museum of Chicago, June 2013.
I would like to express gratitude to my friends who have helped to encourage this work: Cynthia Atkins, Sophie Cabot Black, John Fuller, Dana Gioia, Thea Goodman, Chris Green, Susan Hahn, Joy Harjo, Grace Schulman, Jeff Shotts, and Tree Swenson.
Many thanks, also, to the incredible staff at Red Hen Press.