I am thankful to the editors of the following publications for their encouragement, and for giving these poems a home, sometimes in earlier incarnations:
ARTLIFE: “Another Woman,” “Coyote Song,” “What It Takes”;
Barrow Street: “The Beautiful World”;
Café Solo: “I Have Not Said If I Believe”;
Chaparral: “Chinese Lantern”;
Crying Sky: “Northridge Quake,” “That Stone”;
Levure Litteraire: “Another Dream of Death”;
Los Angeles Review: “Nobody Knows”;
Miramar: “Antidote for Night,” “Black Hands,” “Murmur,” “Once,” “Possum,” “Sarabande,” “Say Nothing,” “Under the Lemon Tree”;
Packinghouse Review: “Viento”;
Solo: “Whistle Keeps on Blowing”;
Solo Café: “Her Breath Comes in Feathers,” “Sanchez”;
Solo Novo: “Crossing Over,” “Same Loom”;
Ten California Poets: “How to Go On”;
The Kerf: “Here Day Is Surrounded”;
Ventura Life: “His Burning Cloud”;
Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond: “To Go to Riverside.”
To Phil Taggart, gracias por vida.
I am grateful to Beyond Baroque, and the poetry communities of Southern California and the Central Coast for enabling me to walk into any room where they gather, to the City of Ventura for Individual Artist Grants, to Deena Metzger for her heart-opening work, to Herbert Scott—always, and to New Issues Press which he brought into being, to the Vermont College community of writers, especially my teachers, Nancy Eimers, Cynthia Huntington, William Olsen, Betsy Sholl, and David Wojahn, for compassion, for brilliance.
Particular thanks for encouragement and support to Ron Alexander, Polly Bee, Christopher Buckley, James Cushing, Carol Davis, ellen, Paul Fericano, Friday, Elijah Imlay, Wayne Lindberg, Perie Longo, Suzanne Lummis, Glenna Luschei, Sarah Maclay, Holaday Mason, Ines Monguio, Richard Newsham, Nereyda de la O, Enid Osborn, Anita Pulier, John Ridland, Lin Rolens, Mary Kay Rummel, Fernando Salinas, Shelley Savren, Bruce Schmidt, Dian Sousa, Barry Spacks, David St. John, David Starkey, Kevin Patrick and Patti Sullivan, Amy Uyematsu, Doris Vernon, Florence Weinberger, Hilda Weiss, Jackson Wheeler, Paul Willis, Chryss Yost, Kim Young, Mariano Zaro . . . and Summer Women and the Bookish Ladies. Gratitude to the artist, Fiona Lee MacLean, and the entire community of Exploring New Horizons. Thanks to Peter Conners, Jenna Fisher, Melissa Hall, Sandy Knight, and BOA Editions for your kindness and hard work. Maia, without you, there would be no poetry. Laure-Anne Bosselaar, you are a gift in my life.
Gratitude and love to my crazy, darling family.