Poetry Chapbooks & Other Books
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31 December 2025
Sixty-nine poems of economics & politics, today and tomorrow. economic depression budget committee some hard choices are required three minutes a day Martian dome air is turned off the colonists hold their breath Business Deal Red-haired wonder sells her image to business. Her trademark is lost. Her own family photos omit her forgotten face. traffic jam dirigible cars Venus’s winds wreak havoc late for work again 23 October 2025
Thirty-two poems set in the virtual reality of the Dreamers Mall. Window shop the future Silken Things in The Tank To truly reproduce the feel of silk in a virtual world the developers had to create virtual silk worms, busily working under human care as they have for 6,000 years. I am delighted for the existence of these moth caterpillars that sweeten the interface of my virtual hand and the sweeping curve of your sleeping back. Let the domestications continue. 11 July 2025
241 period haiku and 23 anachronisms E2W#6F la corde de la bourse emmêlée si difficile de trouver ce qu’il y a à l’intérieur le jour où tu m’as quitté E2W#7E the snarled pouch string so hard to find what’s inside the day you left me E2W#35 E long-stemmed goblet the wine spills across her dress heart-broken red E2W#168 lunar eclipse Pennsic holds a parade of fools I was not invited! E2W#216 Brigadoon last year tumbles like all the years before am I not still young? 31 December 2024
39 poems about family, romance and society. Still Learning For most of my life my father’s vilest insult for anyone was “college educated.” And yet, when the cancer came he held on until after I graduated from my M.F.A. program understanding that my writing meant something and maybe college wasn’t so bad after all. July 18, 2024
78 speculative poems related to water. Copies of the limited print run are available from the author. traces of civilization Greenland's sharks swim slowly living seven hundred years; you can find individuals whose skin is carved with scars of both battles with Vikings and nuclear residue the second mermaid's ghost still trapped between worlds... December 31, 2023
Seventy poems about the surreal world of sleep including two Rhysling nominees. Copies of the limited print run are available from the author. temptation I kept drifting back to sleep... I was thirsty and there was lemonade in my dreams August 8, 2023
This is a lengthy memoir of my life with my best friend. It includes a lot about the SCA, but also our literary friendship. This was published in honor of the Celebration of Bear's Life as part of the party honoring the 50th Pennsic War, an amazing event that Bear loved and was intimately connected to. Dedication: If this book has a moral, it's that fate watches out for fools and best friends. December 21, 2023
Twenty-six haibun, including two Rhysling nominees, and "Frozen Hurricanes" which wone third place in the Dwarf Star Awards. This book is a thematic sequel to The Book of Answers (2014) and The Book of Fibs (2020). Paralingual In the polyglot space colony, humanity persists, as it always has. There it is, right in front of us. A bilingual love affair: the cadence is uncapturable. Her French and his English run at conflicting gaits. Hear the confusions through their long circular walks of the outer hull. See the cooperations though fancy meals cooked together in an attempt to make bland colony fare tasty. They search for the primal chants inside that will tell them their love will endure. They look not with eyes, but ears, sorting through the industrial sounds of the colony. through the stumbling sounds each listening for their home not in words but heartbeats --------------------------------------------- July 21, 2022
On May 1st, 1966 the Society for Creative Anachronism was created. The SCA, Inc has grown to be an international non-profit educational organization with a robust membership. As the title suggests, this is a narrative history of the chapter of the SCA known as the East Kingdom from before the chapter actually existed, until past its twenty-fifth anniversary. It is rather lushly cited to give other historians ideas of where to look for documentation. Co-author Andreas Hak was the Archivist of the East, and later historian of its descendant chapter, the Kingdom of Aethelmearc. He notes that he wishes history depended less on people who fought simulated combat, and more on memoirs and researchers. 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. |
The ebook edition with
a new cover was released July 19, 2002 in celebration of the 16th NASFiC taking place in Buffalo, NY. 
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. BUTTERFLY GHOST frantically it flutters wrapping every favored leaf & flower in gentle ghost cocoons not meaning to frighten only hoping to help old friends survive this hardest transformation |
November 4, 2001 from Written Image Press. Poems from the raw edges of the heart. Edited and with an introduction by David Clink. |
Ebook released 30 November 2024 WRAPPED AROUND like a forgotten rope tied around a tree your love cuts into muscle carving your initials in my flesh Inspired In the best of all worlds we would do nothing without inspiration. Especially kiss. The uninspired kiss is the palest lie with which we paint each other. Whether it’s the flaming passion of a parting lover or the sweet innocence of a two year old with puckered lips, all of life is just the filler since the last good kiss. |
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 |
