Works Published

 

Richard Carr

Richard-Carr@comcast.net

www.RichardCarr.info

 

Poetry Collections | Poems | Essays & Reviews

 

 

Poetry Collections

 

Books

Imperfect Prayers.  Steel Toe Books (2012).

One Sleeve.  Evening Street Press (2011).

Ace.  Word Works Books (2009).  Winner 2008 Washington Prize.

Street Portraits.  The Backwaters Press (2008).

Honey.  Gival Press (2008).  Winner 2007 Gival Press Poetry Award, selected by Barbara Louise Ungar.  Finalist 2008 ForeWord Book of the Year Award.

Mister Martini.  University of North Texas Press (2008).  Winner 2007 Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye.

 

Chapbooks

Butterfly and Nothingness.  Mudlark (2004).

Letters from North Prospect.  Frank Cat Press (1997).  Winner 1997 Frank Cat Press Poetry Chapbook Competition.

 

 

Poems

 

2012

Pinyon (Spring)

cat

Emily Dickinson Anthology (JC Press)

maple seed

The Texas Review (Vol. 32, Nos. 3 & 4)

Penelope

2010

In Their Cups (Harvard Common Press)

Ceremony (rpt. from Mister Martini)

Blue Earth Review (Vol. 8, No. 2)

The Wild Card Saloon

Bar Date

Many Mountains Moving (Vol. X, No. 1)

Dead Wendy (selections):

The Boy’s Version, Parts I–IV

2008

County Lines (League of Minnesota Poets)

Breakfast

Painted Bride Quarterly (Print Annual 4)

Immovable Sleep (reprinted)

2007

Talking Stick (Vol. 16)

Uncle Mike

 

Painted Bride Quarterly (No. 76)

Immovable Sleep

2006

Talking Stick (Vol. 15)

Poems Written Twenty Years Ago

2005

Talking Stick (Vol. 14)

Basement Graffiti

 

 

Monday

 

Family Matters (Bottom Dog Press)

My Brother’s Smile

2004

Talking Stick (Vol. 13)

Grandma Rain

 

 

Learning to Hunt with Dad

 

Ink Pot (No. 5)

Prelude 

 

 

To a Child Born and Dead*

 

 

Walker’s Cabin*

 

 

* Pushcart nominations

 

The Comstock Review (Vol. 18, No. 1)

Riding Home

 

Blue Earth Review (Vol. 1)

Split 

2003

Talking Stick (Vol. 12)

Breakfast Storm

 

Poetry East (No. 51)

Sunset

2001

The North Stone Review (No. 13)

Jones’s Woods

2000

The Story Garden (Vol. 1, No. 1)

On the Second Try

1998

Enterzone (Episode 13)

How It All Began (reprinted)

1997

Enterzone (Episode 12)

Baboon

 

Mudlark (Poster No. 3)

Tao Te Butterfly

 

Enterzone (Episode 10)

How It All Began

1996

The Clamshell Press (Broadside No. 47)

My dear friend

1995

The Coe Review (No. 25)

Bedtime Storm

1994

Sidewalks (Fall)

Family Pride

 

Word Glut (Spring)

Descendant

 

 

His Mother’s Smile

 

 

Spark

1993

Touchstone (Winter)

Leaping Inside

 

Poetry Motel (Fall/Winter)

A Malediction:  Welcoming Morning

 

Loonfeather (Fall/Winter)

First Day On The Job

 

Mankato Poetry Review (May)

Young Trapper

1992

Echoes (Winter)

Lost

 

Plainsongs (Fall/Winter)

Sarah:  Her Sibling in the Woods

 

Riverrun (Fall)

Little Brother

 

Contact II (Spring)

Escape

 

The Lyric (Spring)

Serpent Wind

 

Sidewalks (March)

The Deer Would Speak

 

Tucumcari Literary Review (Spring)

Jacob

 

 

Northbound Geese

 

Tucumcari Literary Review (Winter)

Georges

 

 

Grandfather

1991

Loonfeather (Fall)

A Spring Evening

 

 

In Metaphysics Class

 

 

Two of Us Riding Nowhere

1990

Minnesota Literature (November)

Brief Bio

1989

Loonfeather (Fall)

Country Estate

 

 

In Favor of Lies

 

Omnific (July)

Two Meditations

 

Loonfeather (Spring)

Favorite Hat

 

 

The Peonies

 

 

Die Zeitung

 

 

A Picture Is Worth 71 Words

 

Whittier Globe (February)

This Can of Beer

1987

Studio One (Spring)

Wild and Hopeful

1983

Studio One (Spring)

From a Winter Night

 

 

Sickness

 

 

Shadow

 

Lower Stumpf Lake Review (Spring)

Into Air

 

Diotima (March)

Water Journeys

 

 

Sated Clouds and Evening Sun

1982

The Record (November)

To Academe

 

Diotima (November)

A Nightmare in the Day of a Life

 

 

Just One Ballerina

 

 

Good-bye (Ka-boom)

 

 

Refugee

 

Lower Stumpf Lake Review (Spring)

Rain

 

 

Good-bye to the Swan

 

 

 

 

Essays & Reviews

 

“Reading New Poetry—and Getting It.”  New Letters.  Fall 2010 (Vol. 77, No. 1). 

New European Poets:  European Relations.”  New Letters.  Fall 2008 (Vol. 75, No. 1).  Published under pseudonym George Fitzpatrick.

“Assessment Tools:  Writing and Research Skills.”  Dakota County Technical College Assessment Update.  Fall 2003 (Vol. 8, No. 1).

“Strange Journey:  Ed Dorn’s Way West” (reprinted).  Thus Spake the Corpse:  An Exquisite Corpse Reader, 1988-1998 (Volume 1, Poetry & Essays).  Black Sparrow Press.  2000.

“Strange Journey:  Ed Dorn’s Way West.”  Exquisite Corpse.  1995 (No. 51). 

Rorty, Metaphor, and Language Games.”  Macalester Journal of Philosophy.  Spring 1994 (No. 5).

“Truth in Poetry:  To Ring Or Not To Ring.”  The Signal.  Fall 1992 (Vol. VI, No. 1).

“Why New Formalism?”  Minnesota Literature.  October 1992.

“The Malady of Writing.”  Minnesota Literature.  November 1991.

“Toward the Definition of Poetry.”  Minnesota Literature.  November 1990.

“‘Five Principles of Poetry’ Reexamined.”  Minnesota Literature.  March 1990.