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
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2012
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Pinyon (Spring)
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cat
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Emily Dickinson Anthology (JC Press)
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maple
seed
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The Texas Review (Vol. 32, Nos. 3 & 4)
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Penelope
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2010
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In
Their Cups (Harvard Common Press)
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Ceremony
(rpt. from Mister Martini)
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Blue
Earth Review (Vol. 8, No. 2)
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The
Wild Card Saloon
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Bar
Date
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Many
Mountains Moving (Vol. X, No. 1)
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Dead Wendy (selections):
The
Boy’s Version, Parts I–IV
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2008
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County
Lines (League of Minnesota Poets)
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Breakfast
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Painted
Bride Quarterly
(Print Annual 4)
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Immovable
Sleep (reprinted)
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2007
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Talking
Stick (Vol. 16)
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Uncle
Mike
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Painted
Bride Quarterly
(No. 76)
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Immovable
Sleep
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2006
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Talking
Stick (Vol.
15)
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Poems
Written Twenty Years Ago
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2005
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Talking
Stick (Vol.
14)
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Basement
Graffiti
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Monday
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Family
Matters
(Bottom Dog Press)
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My
Brother’s Smile
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2004
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Talking
Stick (Vol.
13)
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Grandma
Rain
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Learning
to Hunt with Dad
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Ink
Pot (No. 5)
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Prelude
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To
a Child Born and Dead*
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Walker’s
Cabin*
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Pushcart nominations
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The
Comstock Review
(Vol. 18, No. 1)
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Riding
Home
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Blue
Earth Review
(Vol. 1)
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Split
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2003
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Talking
Stick (Vol.
12)
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Breakfast
Storm
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Poetry
East
(No. 51)
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Sunset
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2001
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The
North Stone Review
(No. 13)
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Jones’s
Woods
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2000
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The
Story Garden
(Vol. 1, No. 1)
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On
the Second Try
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1998
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Enterzone (Episode 13)
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How
It All Began (reprinted)
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1997
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Enterzone (Episode 12)
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Baboon
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Mudlark (Poster No. 3)
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Tao
Te Butterfly
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Enterzone (Episode 10)
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How
It All Began
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1996
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The
Clamshell Press (Broadside No. 47)
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My
dear friend
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1995
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The
Coe Review
(No. 25)
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Bedtime
Storm
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1994
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Sidewalks (Fall)
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Family
Pride
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Word
Glut
(Spring)
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Descendant
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His
Mother’s Smile
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Spark
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1993
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Touchstone (Winter)
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Leaping
Inside
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Poetry
Motel
(Fall/Winter)
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A
Malediction: Welcoming Morning
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Loonfeather (Fall/Winter)
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First
Day On The Job
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Mankato
Poetry Review
(May)
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Young
Trapper
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1992
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Echoes (Winter)
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Lost
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Plainsongs (Fall/Winter)
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Sarah:
Her Sibling in the Woods
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Riverrun (Fall)
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Little
Brother
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Contact
II (Spring)
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Escape
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The
Lyric
(Spring)
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Serpent
Wind
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Sidewalks (March)
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The
Deer Would Speak
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Tucumcari
Literary Review
(Spring)
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Jacob
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Northbound
Geese
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Tucumcari
Literary Review
(Winter)
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Georges
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Grandfather
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1991
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Loonfeather (Fall)
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A
Spring Evening
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In
Metaphysics Class
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Two
of Us Riding Nowhere
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1990
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Minnesota
Literature
(November)
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Brief
Bio
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1989
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Loonfeather (Fall)
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Country
Estate
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In
Favor of Lies
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Omnific (July)
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Two
Meditations
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Loonfeather (Spring)
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Favorite
Hat
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The
Peonies
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Die
Zeitung
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A
Picture Is Worth 71 Words
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Whittier
Globe
(February)
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This
Can of Beer
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1987
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Studio
One (Spring)
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Wild
and Hopeful
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1983
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Studio
One (Spring)
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From
a Winter Night
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Sickness
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Shadow
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Lower
Stumpf Lake Review (Spring)
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Into
Air
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Diotima (March)
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Water
Journeys
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Sated
Clouds and Evening Sun
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1982
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The
Record
(November)
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To
Academe
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Diotima (November)
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A
Nightmare in the Day of a Life
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Just
One Ballerina
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Good-bye
(Ka-boom)
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Refugee
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Lower
Stumpf Lake Review (Spring)
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Rain
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Good-bye
to the Swan
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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.
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