Herb Kauderer
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      • Remembering Durlome Rakesh d'Mithnan (Dwarf)
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      • History of the East Kingdom
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Poetry Chapbooks & Other Books

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Ebook available here
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

Amazon Link to Triangulation: Habitats
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.





Ebook available here
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.

Amazon Link to Minimalism
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
Print Version available here
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
Print version available here
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.
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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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Print version available here
Review by James Morrow here
 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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Two-Time Nominee for the Elgin Award!
May 8, 2017 from Poet's Haven Press.  30 poems that tell a single narrative of the beginning of an alien invasion of earth.

From the viewpoint of the aliens.  

Who can pass for birds.

Check it out.  
(Wallet-size format.)


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March 26, 2016 from Written Image.  ​43 poems, and ten photos from the epic Snowstorm of '14 which dropped more snow on the Village of Lancaster in 24 hours than ever before recorded in the lower 48 states.
Print version available here
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...


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Ebook available here
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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July 19, 2015 from Phil Martino, publisher.  170 poems capturing the Pennsic War.  Snapshots, memoirs, no-s--t stories.  Pavilions, armor, & fighting.  Smiles, sighs, & old friends.  Come visit.
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July 25, 2014 from Written Image Press.  Two Time Nominee for the Elgin Award!  This chapbook contains four poems nominated for the Rhysling Award, and one poem nominated for the Dwarf Star Award.
Electronic versions available here
engineering
        (a fibonacci poem)
 
mud
&
puddles
tromped deep
are forded by logs,
floating bridges leading to bed
Ebook available here
​private source
          (a cinquain for Jennifer Crow)
 
the muse
has feathers and
nine limbs, juggling ancient
vases inscribed with mythical
creatures

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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.

Ebook available here
HEROICS
          (a cinquain)

He went 
through hellfire to
rescue his lady.  While
she waited in hell, to give him 
the chance.
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December 29, 2003 from Written Image Press.  Poems about creators and creating.  Edited by Dr. Karen Ehrlich.



Ebook available here
LIGHT VALUES
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Moonlight.
The cold colorless reflections
of the sunlight that gives us life.
All our fictions & illusions
tell us Moonlight is Romantic.
What then does that say
of Romance?
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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October 20, 1995 from Stone Lightning Press.  
Short sharp shocks of poetry.  Edited by Scott 
Spetalnik.



Ebook available here
CITY TRAFFIC
Corridors of dance improvise
ever-contemporary routines
secure in their lack 
of rehearsal or encore.


IN THE MOMENT
smokers clutter loading dock
enjoying fresh spring air
  • Home
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    • Education
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    • Professional Affiliations & Recognitions
    • Academic Presentations & Related Materials
    • Full Curriculum Vitae
  • Poetry
    • Poetry Chapbooks & Other Books
    • Poetry Samples
    • Links to My Poetry On-Line
    • "My First 508"
    • Interviews and Featured Poet appearances
    • Featured Readings
  • Writing
    • Accolades
    • Drama
    • Book Reviews >
      • 'Sacrificial Nights'
      • Moon Facts by Bob Scholfield
      • What Stranger Miracles
      • Crowned: Sign of the Dragon Book 1
      • 'The Role of Lightning in Evolution'
      • 'Why Elephants No Longer Communicate in Greek' by Timons Esaias
      • Brief Encounters with My Third Eye
    • Flash Fiction Links
    • Prose >
      • Short Fiction Bibliography
      • "A Dwarf for Each"
      • "Standard Repair"
      • "Sense of Place, Sense of Mystery"
      • Intro - Come-on from the Horse on 7th Avenue
      • "No Sense Fighting"
  • The SCA
    • SCA Photos 1
    • SCA Photos 2
    • Precedence for Andreas Hak
    • SCA Persona
    • Offices Held in the SCA
    • SCA Writings >
      • Serenity: A History of Eastern Coronets
      • "The Origin of The Betting Man's Guide
      • "The New Newsletter"
      • Old Newsletters
      • "The New Newsletter"
      • "When the VOID Was One"
      • "The Hael's First Baronial Champions Event"
      • "Aftermeetings: An Excuse to Tell Svid Stories"
      • "The Origin of Aethelmearc's Ancestral Pelican Medallion"
      • Remembering Durlome Rakesh d'Mithnan (Dwarf)
      • Growth Chart of Kingdoms for the First 23 Years of the SCA
      • Doings... An incomplete and informal chronology of the earliest days of Aethelmearc
      • History of the East Kingdom
  • Something Like a Blog