PUBLICATIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The poems in After Rubén, often in earlier versions, have appeared in literary journals, anthologies, community publications, online archives, or as broadsides. I would like to gratefully acknowledge these sources here.

Academy of American Poets archive (online): “Jugglers”; El Andar: “The Inevitable”; Beltway Poetry Quarterly (online): “January 21, 2013,” “2012,” “1916,” “To George W. Bush” (as “To the President”), “Symphony in Gray,” and “The Century”; Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review: “Voices” (as “My Father’s Voice(s)”); Bordersenses: “Reasons Why She Didn’t”; Chain: “Walt” (as “Walt Whitman”); The Chattahoochee Review: “Portrait with lines of Montale”; Chrysalis: “1916”; Crab Orchard Review: “To the Old World” (as “Viejo Mundo”) and “We Talk Dogs”(as “Dogs”), as one of two embedded poems in the nonfiction piece, “The Nicaraguan Novel”; DÁNTA: “Symphony in Gray”; Diálogo: “We Talk Dogs” (as “Perros”); Electronic Poetry Review (online): “Poem with Citations from the O.E.D.” and “Blister”; Forward to Velma: “January 21, 2013”; Great River Review: “Academia Escolar,” “Gloria’s” and “Wind & Rain” (as “Of Wind and Rain”); Heliotrope: “The Century”; Jacket (online): “Nicaragua in a Voice”and “Postcard” (as “View from the Park”); The Journal: “Lui Minghe Speaks”; Jung Journal: “Helen Speaks”; KONCH (online): “Bay Area Rapid Transit”; The Los Angeles Review: “Poem Beginning With a Fragment of Andrés Montoya”; Luna: “Postcard” (as “View from the Park”); Mandorla: “2012,” “Voices,” “Bay Area Rapid Transit” (as “Poem”), “December 31, 1965,” and “Wind & Rain” (as “Of Wind and Rain”); MiPoesias: “January 21, 2013”; The Noe Valley Voice: “Jugglers” and “Postcard” (as “View from the Park”); Oxford Review of Books (online): “Tenochtitlan, 1523”; PALABRA: “I Pursue a Shape,” “Seashell” (as “Caracol”), and “Winter Hours”; Pilgrimage: “Calle Momotombo” and “Poem With a Phrase of Isherwood”; Poetry Flash: “1985” (as “Witness”); Poetry Foundation archive (online): “Blister”; Poetry Now: “Jugglers”; Public Pool (online): “Canción,” “After Fragments of Juan Felipe Herrera,” and “Creed”; Tertulia (online): “Nicaragua in a Voice,” and “A Wave”; Written Here: “Helen Speaks.”

“Keough Hall” appeared in the online anthology No Tender Fences: An anthology of Immigrant & First Generation American Poetry (2019), which was a fundraiser for the organization, Raices - Texas.

“Far Away” appeared in HERE: Poems for the Planet (Cooper Canyon Press, 2019)

“Far Away” was made into a limited edition broadside on the occasion of a reading on April 13, 2019, in Santa Barbara, CA as part of the Mission Poetry Series, curated by Emma Trelles.

“Far Away,” “Seashell,” “The Man and the Wolf,” “To George W. Bush,” “January 21, 2013,” “Winter Hours,” “I Pursue a Shape,” and “1916,” along with Rubén Darío’s Spanish-language originals, made up the limited edition chapbook His Tongue a Swath of Sky (m o m o t o m b i t o, 2019)

“My Rubén” (essay) appeared in Crab Orchard Review in June, 2019.

“Winter Hours,” along with the Spanish original, “De invierno,” appeared in a brief essay, “Translation as activism: an updated version of Rubén Darío” in Poetry International (online), summer of 2018.

“2012” appeared in Nepantla: an anthology for queer poets of color (Nightboat Books, 2018).

“Keough Hall” was part of the Poetry Foundation’s PoetryNow audio podcast series in July, 2017.

“We Talk Dogs” (as “Dogs”), “January 21, 2013,” and “Blister” appeared in Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States (Tia Chucha Press, 2017).

“Poem with a Phrase of Isherwood” appeared in Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice (University of Arizona Press, 2016).

“Postcard” appeared in Not Like the Rest of Us: An Anthology of Contemporary Indiana Writers (Indiana Writers Center, 2016).

“Poem With A Phrase of Isherwood” appeared in Cave Canem Anthology XIII. (Aquarious Press/Willow Books, 2015).

“Lui Minghe Speaks” appeared in A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry (University of Akron Press, 2012).

“To George W. Bush” (as “To the President”) appeared in Full Moon On K Street (Plan B Press, 2010).

“Jugglers” appeared in Helen Burns Poetry Anthology: New Voices from the Academy of American Poets’ University & College Prizes, 1999–2008. (Academy of American Poets, 2010).

“Blister” appeared in Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry (Floricanto Press, 2008).

“Poem with Citations from the O.E.D” appeared in Structure & Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turns (Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 2007).

“Ernesto Cardenal in Berkeley,” “Poem with Citations from the O.E.D.,” “Portrait with Lines of Montale,” “Because They Lived Abroad” (as “Grid”), “To the Old World” (as “Al Viejo Mundo”), and “Far Away” appeared in The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (University of Arizona Press, 2007).

“The Man and the Wolf” and “Nicaragua in a Voice” appeared in Evensong: Contemporary American Poets on Spirituality (Bottom Dog Press, 2006).

“The Century” appeared in Red, White, & Blues: Poetic Vistas on the Promise of America (University of Iowa Press, 2004).

“1985” (as “Her Hair”) appeared in Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California (Heyday Books, 2002).

“Photo, 1945” appeared in American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement (University of Iowa Press, 2001).

“Postcard” (as “View from the Park”), “Jugglers,” and “Photo, 1945” appeared in Light, Yogurt, Strawberry Milk, (Chicano Chapbook Series, #26, 1999).

“Symphony in Gray” and “Walt” (as “Walt Whitman”) appeared in Glow of Our Sweat (Scapegoat Press, 2010).

“The Inevitable” (as “Rubén Darío as Prelude”) appeared in Puerta del Sol (Bilingual Press, 2005).

“Portrait with lines of Montale” was a Red Dragonfly Press broadside, set by hand by the author and printed on September 21–22, 2007 at the Anderson Center in Red Wing, MN, in an edition of eighty-five.

“Jugglers” won an Academy of American Poets Prize in 1999.

“1985” (as “Witness”) won 1^st Place in Mr. Cogito’s Human Rights Poetry Contest in 1987.