Poetry Chapbooks & Other Books
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December 31, 2021
Ninety-six poems about writing, damnation, or both. This book is thematically an heir to both the Elgin-nominated 'Pocket Full of Horror' (2017), and 'Beneath the Greasepaint: Poems About Creating & Creators" (2003). Samples: summer hell winter's hangover rain and sun punish the drunk lawnmowers' roar words, dead or alive these words on paper charcoal scratchings from dead hands you were once my love twenty-one years gone you speak a ghost still pacing my heart August 15, 2021
I co-edited this anthology with most of my efforts focused on the poetry. This is the eighteenth annual anthology from Parsec Ink. It includes new writers and established writers. At the time of this writing, four of the poems have been nominated for the Rhysling Award. It was a delight to get to play with the Pittsburgh science fiction community, and I'm delighted with the result. December 31, 2020 from Written Image
Thirty-five poems in three sections: Daily Fibs, Pandemic Fibs, Fantastical Fibs. Avian Intervention Ducks flew up and yelled at me while I was grilling on the first cookout day of spring. I negotiated, promising no birds had been injured in the production of this meal. Mollified, they headed back to the creek. July 23, 2020 from Hiraeth Press
This is a book of essays on writing minimalist genre poetry, liberally illustrated with samples of poetry. This book includes fifty of my poems, enough for a meaty collection. Those poems are couched in thirteen casual essays. One of those poems, "Frozen Hurricanes" won third place in the Dwarf Stars Award for the year. Collaboration with Alan Katerinsky your intelligence is in need of an upgrade otherwise artificial creator finds blame? this art does not surpass artist your thinking limits us both June 14, 2019 from Dark Particle Press.
Twenty-five urban viewpoint poems in thirty pages. life runs like water moving constantly except for those moments and those people frozen at the edges April 12, 2019 from Poet's Haven Press, 33 prose poems telling one story of what happens when scientists prove the existence of an afterlife.
Transition to afterlife cannot be completed without a sentient witness to resolve all quantum states of a soul moving from one plane to another... The failure to develop artificial intelligence haunts us all. There can be only one solution: someone must stay behind... |
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July 27, 2018 from Diminuendo Press
116 poems, notes, and a humorous essay by Herb Kauderer. Cover and frontispiece by Richard H. Fay. This book includes the Ewaipanoma-winning "A Twisted Certainty", The Dwarf Star nominee "Restoration", and the Rhysling nominees "Hard Copy" and "The First Battle of the Puffer War." |
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These four mini-chapbooks combine to contain over 400 very short poems, and 16 micro-fictions. So far they have been available only at events and brick and mortar stores. Hopefully, an online option will launch in January. The first three covers are by Moira Anne Design. The fourth cover is by me.
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she leaves her small cloaked scout ship
hovering six miles up below common flight paths of local airships yet above flight capacities of most natives taking a concentrated breath of air the lana tucks her wings and plummets from the ship's bottom hatch... despite her training she is anxious with anticipation at touching down in uncharted flora on the surface of another planet... the opposite of facebook
leaning over snow shovels the neighbor lady and I chat and I learn more about the history of the neighborhood and the history of the neighbor lady |
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engineering
(a fibonacci poem) mud & puddles tromped deep are forded by logs, floating bridges leading to bed private source
(a cinquain for Jennifer Crow) the muse has feathers and nine limbs, juggling ancient vases inscribed with mythical creatures |
July 25, 2014 from Written Image Press. Currently a nominee for the Elgin Award, this chapbook contains four poems nominated for the Rhysling Award, and one poem nominated for the Dwarf Star Award.
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HEROICS
(a cinquain) He went through hellfire to rescue his lady. While she waited in hell, to give him the chance. |
March 20, 2002 from Written Image Press. Poems outside the common reality. Edited and with an introduction by Carolyn Clink. |
GHOST DREAMS
ghost dreams are the hardest kind so vague & unreal but frightening as hell. |
November 4, 2001 from Written Image Press. Poems from the raw edges of the heart. Edited and with an introduction by David Clink. |
WRAPPED AROUND
like a forgotten rope tied around a tree your love cuts into muscle carving your initials in my flesh |
April 16, 1999 from Lightning Graphics. Poems about life refusing to stay on track. Edited by Alan Katerinsky. |
COULD-HAVE WORLD
Somewhere there's a world full of my other-selves, people I might have been but wasn't. I bet they all fight like hell. |
May 1996 from Dark Regions Press. Poems of
sleeplessness and alienation. Edited by Bobbi Sinha-Morey, introduction by David Lunde, art by Hugo nominee Linda Michaels. |
VARIATIONS OF SLEEPING ALONE
I: wrinkled sheets draw pictures of you II: curled dog murmurs & dreams of six pups III: the searching hand finds nothing and it brings relief IV: her thousandth night alone she tries again to remember why V: the skeleton next to him is light print cotton VI: he doesn't know where he'll wake. if there's sunshine & birdsong he won't care |
