"Why do . . . ," and "To Aunt Virginia who Lives in Napa Valley," The Phoenix, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, Vol. III, No. 1. 1962
"In the Chapel," "After Grief," "On Being More," "Old," The Phoenix, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, Vol. IV, No. 1. 1963
"Riding," "Intersection: On Listening to Thelonius Monk," "Convergence," The Reed, San Jose State College, Vol. XVII, May. 1964
"The Switch," The Reed, San Jose State College, Vol. XVIII, May. 1965
"For One Who Tells Me Carpe Diem," The Free Lance, Cleveland, Vol. 9, No. 1. 1965
"Return from Hunting" and "The Bull," Poetry Northwest, Vol. VIII, No. 3, Autumn. 1965
"Outside & Inside Songs," Andante (McMahon dorm's literary magazine, University of Washington), May. 1966
"In the House of Hardware" "Job-Hunting Song" Poetry Northwest, Vol. VIII, No. 2, Summer. 1967
"For the Birthday of a Hunter," Epoch, Vol. XVII, No. 1, Fall. 1967
"A Change of Place," South Dakota Review, Vol. 5, No. 3, Autumn. 1967
"The Joy of the Spadefoot Toad," Sage #4, Fall. 1967
"Transparency," The Poetry Bag, Columbia, Mo., Vol. I, No.5, Fall. 1967
"Deus Ex Machina," Perspective, Vol. 15, No. 3, Winter-Spring. 1968
"A Gift," Southern Humanities Review, Vol. II, No. 1, 1968
"Poppies," Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, February 25. 1968
"The Tax Assessor," Kayak #16. 1968
"Elegies for the Hot Season," "Lake and Moon: Two Versions of Death," "View from Observatory Hill," Poetry Northwest. 1968
"Leaf Smoke" and "In the Columbia Gorge, After a Death,"Quixote 1968
"Magazine Salesman" and ""A Generation" Consumption, Vol. 1, No. 4, Summer. 1968
"Preparation," The Colorado Quarterly, Vol. XVII, No. 1, Summer. 1968
"The Circle," The Goodly Co. #13, November. 1968
"In the Tramp's Dress," University of Portland Review, Vol. XX, No. 2, Fall. 1968
"You, Asleep," "Roof Rat," "The Plant," "Losing Ground," "Gulls After a Ferry Between Countries," "Pisces Child," "Evolving an Instinct," Poetry Northwest, Vol. X, No. 1, Spring. 1969
"The Spider," Malahat Review #10, Spring. 1969
"The Tightrope Walker" and "Poem for the Happiness of Peter Orlovsky," Consumption, Vol. 2, No. 4, Summer. 1969
"Worlds of Different Sizes," The Nation, August 25. 1969
"Autumnal," Poetry, Vol. 114, No. 6, September. 1969
"The Blessing" and "Lullaby: Baby Bats," Epoch, Vol. XIX, No. 1, Fall. 1969
"A Map of the Pacific Ocean Floor," Rogue River Gorge #2, Ashland, OR. 1970
"Amanitas" and "Resigning from a Job in a Defense Industry," Field. 1970
"Lions," The Carleton Miscellany, Vol. XI, No. 1, Winter. 1970
"Peace Talks," "A Book by William Morris," ""Foetal Pig," Shenandoah, Vol. 21, No. 2, Winter. 1970
"His Body," "Some Meanings of Silence," "Eschatology," Poetry, Vol. CXVI, No. a, April. 1970
"Keeping House" and "Succeeding a Fraternity into an Old House," Northwest Review, Vol. 10, No. 13, Summer. 1970
Elegies for the Hot Season, (Book) New York: Ecco Press. 1970
"Peter Rabbit," The New Republic, June 20. 1970
"Three from the Market," Field #3, Fall. 1970
"Paper Snake," Puget Soundings, March, p. 3. 1970
"The Dawn of the Wheel" and "A Pumpkin at New Year's," Poetry Northwest, Vol. XIII, No. 1, Spring. 1971
"A Community," "The War Surplus Store," and "Triolets," with the first lines: "Too poor to buy," "You folded your sheet," and "I have forgotten" Poetry, Vol. CXVIII, No. 2, May. 1971
"Homage to John Clare," The Iowa Review, Vol. 2, No. 3, Summer. 1971
"Butchery," Malahat Review #19, July. 1971
"Coin," The Nation, November 1. 1971
"Peddler," The Nation, December 6. 1971
"Raffaele Minichiello," Shenandoah, Vol. XXII, No. 2, Winter. 1971
"Holding Pattern," Poetry, Vol. CXIX, No. 4, January. 1972
"What He Must Do To Earn Money," The New Yorker 1972 March 4
"Mishima," The Nation 1972 March 6
"On My Way to the Psychiatrist I Ask Directions of a Garbage Man," The New York Times 1972 March 25
"Wanting a Mummy," The New Republic, April 8. 1972
"Tenants," Stooge #6 1972
"Seaweeds," "Some Engravings of Pierre Joseph Redoute," "A Little Fire," "Siberia," Poetry, Vol. CXXI, No. 2, November. 1972
"Opossum," Shenandoah, Vol. 24, No. 1, Autumn. 1972
Sheep," The New York Times 1972 October 14
"Mary," "You lying beneath," "When I open one door," Egg, Surfside, CA, Vol. 1, No. 1, Winter 1972-1973
"Cinderella," Harper's Magazine, January. 1973
"A Feast for Rats: Old Japanese Print," The Iowa Review, Vol. 4, No. 2, Spring. 1973
"Michael," "Morning Glory Pool," "Reply to a Letter of Inquiry After My Spirituality," "Bread," "Little Gold Coin for the Mouth of the Spring," Field #8, Spring. 1973
"Little Songs," The New Republic, June 16. 1973
"Saying No: A Brief Compendium & Sometimes a Workbook with Blank Spaces," The Iowa Review, Vol. 4, No. 3, Summer. 1973
"The Gun is Such a Horse," "Honey," "Digging," "Wearing White," Harper's Magazine, July. 1973
"Page," "The Empty House," "Poem,"with the first line "The name of his boat is Ophelia." "Triolet," with the first line "She was in love with the same danger." Poetry, Vol. CXXII, No. 4, July. 1973
"Sisters," "Marlow and Nancy," "Ballad of Sonnets," "Water Poems," "Poem for Ishi, the Last Wild Indian," Antaeus #11, Autumn. 1973
Radiation, (Book) New York, NY: The Ecco Press 1973
"Myself" "Silver," The Iowa Review, Vol. 4, No. 4, Fall. 1973
"Sonnet for Joe," The New Republic, May 12. 1973
"Markers," Concerning Poetry, Vol. VI, No. II, Fall. 1973
"For Fathers," Harper's Magazine, December. 1974
"An Exhibit of Picasso," Malahat Review #30, Victoria, B.C., April. 1974
"Letter After the Poems of a Friend," "Letter by Air," "Extract," "Fresh Flowers," Poetry, Vol. CXXIV, No. 3, June. 1974
"Childish Landscape," "January Apples," Ironwood #4, December. 1974
"Poem Whose First Stanza is Martin Heidegger on George Trakl," "The Heredity of Systems," "Metaphors," "In a Garden," "Seeing Dr. H, Teacher of Villanelles, 10 Years Later," "Sentience," Poetry, Vol. CXXVI, No. 4, July. 1975
"A Coconut for Katerina," "The Bittern," "To An Alcoholic," "An Anonymous Pornographic Valentine," Field #13, Fall. 1975
"Solvents," The Ohio Review, Vol. XVII, No. 1, Fall. 1975
"Gnawing the Breast," American Review #24, April. 1976
"Studies in the Imaginary," Poetry, Vol. CXXVIII, No. 6, September. 1976
"Stonefly," The New Yorker, November, pp. 179. 1976
"On Coming Out of Nowhere," "Children," Antaeus #24, Winter. 1976
"1943," The Iowa Review, Vol. 7, No. 1, Winter. 1976
"January Apples," in Rook Folios: Encircled by an Alphabet, Derry, PA 1976
"Senility," "The Mouse," Field #16, Spring. 1977
"Centerfold Reflected in a Jet Window," The Iowa Review, Vol. 8, No. 2, Spring. 1977
"Preoccupied as last year's matted nests," "Storms side to side," The Iowa Review, Vol. 8, No. 4, Fall. 1977
"To My Mother," "The Blue Sky," Poetry Northwest, Vol. XVIII, No. 4, Winter. 1977-1978
"Last Week of Winter," The New Leader 1978 May 22
"You Bring Me Two Fish," Poets On: Endings, Vol. 2, No. 2, Summer. 1978
"Dependence on Flowers," "Sensing: Stories for a Deaf Friend," Field #18, Spring. 1978
"The Compound Eye," "On a Picture of My Parents Together in the Second Grade," "Orange Peels," Antaeus #28, Winter. 1978
"Considering Your Age," "Sitting on a Log in New York City," "Wisconsin," Willamette Week, March. 1978
The Year of Our Birth, (Book) New York, NY: The Ecco Press 1978
"Two Poems on Bitch," "Games," "Blue-Black Image," Field #20, Spring. 1979
"For Johannes Bobrowski," Chicago Review, Vol. 31, No. 1, Summer. 1979
"The Spa of the Posthumous," "In the Deceased Woman's Blossoming Yard," The Iowa Review, Vol. 10, No. 4, Fall. 1979
"Loneliness," The Agni Review 10/11. 1979
"Sensing: Stories for a Deaf Friend," "The Clown," "Writing to a Prisoner," "Corresponding," Helix #3, Australia, February. 1979
"The Jet Engine," "Haze," "Lullaby," "Debut," "Black Soap," Poetry, Vol. CXXXV, No. 5, February. 1980
"For Johannes Bobrowski," Reprinted in The Pushcart Prize, V: Best of the Small Presses, ed. Bill Henderson. Yonkers, NY: The Pushcart Press, pp. 456-57. 1980
"The Mooncalf," Crazyhorse #20, Spring. 1980
"To Mary Barnard," "The Root Hunters," The Iowa Review, Vol. 11, No. 2-3, Spring-Summer. 1980
"If the Cardinals Were Like Us," "The Firefly," Antaeus #38, Summer. 1980
"Man in an Old Myth," Antaeus 339, Autumn. 1980
"The Wheel," Concerning Poetry, Vol. 13, No. 2, Fall. 1980
"Unexplained Absences," Water Table, Seattle, No. 1, Fall. 1980
"For Elizabeth Bishop," "Alleys," American Poetry Review, Vol. 9, No. 6, November-December. 1980
"Immunization," Poets On: Passages, Vol. 4, No. 1, Winter. 1980
"His Body," The Poet's Choice: 100 American Poets' Favorite Poems, ed. George Murphy. Green Harbor, MA: Tendril, Inc., p. 103. 1980
"The Delicacy," American Poetry Review, Vol. 9, No. 1, Jan/Feb. 1980
"The Root Hunters," The Iowa Review, Vol. 11, No. 2-3, Spring-Summer. 1980
"A Tracing," "7, 22, 66," "Two Anonymous Poems Found in a Drawer, Dated 1979," Antaeus #40/41, Winter/Spring. 1981
"The Museum of the Second Creation," "Lavender Mist," Field #24, Spring. 1981
"Living Glass," "Singing Teakettle," "Preparing the Will, Three Generations," "Diary--May 15, 1980--Twin Cities," Poetry, Vol. CXXXVIII, No. June. 1981
"Utanikki, August,1978," The Iowa Review, Vol. 12, No. 2-3, Spring/Summer. 1981
Review of Leaf's Boundary by Sheila Zamora, The Iowa Review, Vol. 12, No. 2-3, Spring/Summer, pp. 373-74. 1981
"In Costume," "Precocity, November 24," "Discoveries, Mid-Letter," "Russian Lyric," American Poetry Review, Vol. 10, No. 5, September-October. 1981
"Night Vision," The Paris Review #81. 1981
"Athletic Heart Syndrome," "Pheasant," Helix #7 & 8, Australia. 1981
"Urban Ode," "Peter Is Here," "Only Once," "Wings and Seeds: For My Birthmother," Poetry, Vol. CXL, No. 4, July. 1982
"Earthstars, Birthparents' House," "Ode Near the Aspen Music School," Antaeus #47, Autumn. 1982
"Last Week of Winter," The Reaper 5. 1982
"Helen Todd: My Birthname," "The Anointing," The Iowa Review, Vol. 13, No. 1, Winter. 1982
Comment on Montale's "In the Greenhouse," Field #27, Fall, pp. 9-10. 1982
"Wanting a Mummy," "Collapsars," The Longman Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry: 1950-1980, eds. Stuart Friebert & Davis Young. New York: Longman, pp. 574-576. 1983
"Poem Begun in the Haro Strait When I Was 28 and Finished When I was 38," "Opening Fred Fujii's Shrine," Calapooya Collage #9, Summer, p. 11. 1983
"Frightening Things," "The Machinists," Quarterly West #16, Spring/Summer. 1983
Patron Happiness, (Book) New York, NY: The Ecco Press 1983
"Wedding Dress," Grand Street, Vol. 2, No. 4, July. 1983
"The Braille Volcanoes," The Nation, September 17. 1983
"Telephone Report from the Executive Inn, Owensboro, Kentucky," Hubbub, Vol. 1, No. 2, Fall. 1983
"From My Notebook, Cape Cod," Field #29, Fall. 1983
"Lament, with Flesh and Blood," The Georgia Review, Vol. XXXVII, No. 3, Fall. 1983
"Red Seeds Opening in the Shade," "Numbers 31," "The Red Wig," "Conception," "Young Women Talking about the Void," "Ode to a Friend from the Early Sixties," American Poetry Review, Vol. 12, No. 4, July/August. 1983
"Opening Fred Fujii's Shrine," Anno Secundo, ed. Fr. William Ruddy. Blessed Sacrament Church, Seattle. 1983
"Approaching Robert Hayden," Obsidian, Vol. 8, No. 1. 1984
"Ledge," "Unspoken Request (Assembly of God, 1980)," "On Being Told `You Have Stars in Your Eyes' by a Man Who Denied that 95.6% of Single-Parent Households on Welfare in Our State are Headed by Women," Grand Street, Spring. 1984
"Alcatraz," The New Republic, July 30. 1984
"Chicory at Night," "The Man on the Plane Proposes Sterilization of Poor Women," The Yale Review, Vol. 73, No. 4, Summer. 1984
"Portrait of a Man (1973)," "Poem beginning 'Standing in the Green Dolphin used books store,'" Calapooya Collage 8, Summer. 1984
Untitled essay on the writing of "Collapsars," 45 Contemporary Poems: The Creative Process, ed. Alberta Turner. New York: Longman, pp. 134-37. 1985
"Mesembryanthemum and Zauschneria," "Athletic Heart Syndrome" in Fusion West 1985
"Fringecups," Grand Street, Vol. 4, No. 3, Spring, pp. 56-57. 1985
"The Microscope in Winter," "Hallucination," Field #32, Spring 1985
"The Feather," The New Yorker, June 10, p. 44. 1985
"American Footnote: Hiroshima," Grand Street, Vol. 4, No. 4, Summer, p. 154. 1985
"Picketing Our Anti-Choice Senator at Reed College, September 1982," "Security Clearance," Crazyhorse 29, Fall, p. 26-28. 1985
Floralia, (Chapbook) Portland, OR and West Burke, VT: Trace Editions and The Janus Press 1985
"In the Surgeon's Museum of Hands," The Iowa Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, Winter, p. 33. 1985
"At the Grave of Hazel Hall," "The Senses," TriQuarterly 66, Spring/Summer 1986
"Yellow Sand Verbena," "Wild Radish," The Yale Review, Vol. 75, No. 3, Spring (June) 1986
"Deep Grass, May" Moth Mullein," "Streamers," "The Fidelity," "Eve," American Poetry Review, Vol. 15, No. 2, March/April 1986
"Secrets: Beginning to Write Them Out," Field #34, Spring, pp. 19-36. 1986
"Flowering Plum," Zyzzyva, Vol. II, No. 2, Summer, pp. 23-24. 1986
"Maureen Morris, Mother of Five, Eats a Pansy from the Garden of a Fancy Restaurant in Aspen," The Iowa Review, Vol. 16, No. 1, Winter, p. 86. 1986
"Fox," Western Humanities Review, Vol. xxxx, No. 2, Summer, pp. 123-24. 1986
"YWCA, Wilder Avenue, Honolulu," Grand Street, Vol. 5, No. 4, Summer, pp. 69-70. 1986
"The Danger Is," "Letter Resembling Things," Field #35, Fall, pp. 81-4. 1986
"Note to Sappho," The New Republic, Feb. 2, Vol. 196, No. 5, p. 39. 1987
"Of Birds and Their Metaphors," Threepenny Review #28, Vol. VII, No. 4, Winter, 22. 1987
"Alpine Two-step," Antaeus, No. 58, Spring, pp. 87-8. 1987
Alder, 1982," Zyzzyva, Vol. III, No. 2, Summer, pp. 104-5. 1987
"Presbyterian, 1983," Poetry, Vol. CLI, Nos. 1-2, October-November, pp. 94-95. 1987
"The Pantheist to His Child," Field 37, Fall, pp. 63-64. 1987
"Elegy for Floating Things," Grand Street, Vol. 7, No. 3, Spring, pp. 96-97. 1988
"Suspension: Junior Wells on a Small Stage in a Converted Barn," "Hawaiian Buddha," "Blues in the Joy of the Fourth of July, Dusk, Crissy Field, San Francisco," Tri-Quarterly, 72, Spring/Summer, pp. 186-192. 1988
Streamers, (Book) New York: The Ecco Press. 1988
"Design of Days, Redstart 7, December, 23. 1987
"Kindness," Verse, Vol. 5, No. 1, February, pp. 9-11. 1988
"The Ability to Make a Face like a Spider while Singing Blues: Junior Wells," The New Republic, p. 25 1988 May 16
"Ridge Road," "Sonnet for a Singer," Ploughshares, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 68-70. 1988
"Quilt of Rights," The American Voice, No. 11, Summer, p. 33. 1988
"Easter 1979," "Some Schizophrenics," "As She Left Their Home," "The Stranger Melody," The Missouri Review, Summer, pp. 151-158. 1988
"Black Quilt from the '60's: Synthetics: the No Blocks," "Red Diamond Centers: Approximation," Western Humanities Review, Vol. XLII, No. 3, Autumn, p. 214-215. 1988
"Mrs. Longmire Builds a Picket Fence Quilt and Talks to It," "Muskogee Quilter Explains: The Non-Shortcut Method," "Tents-of-Armageddon Quilt, Black Improvisation, 1980's," "Waterfall With Baskets, Summer Quilt," "Twelve Bar Quilt," Field, No. 39, Fall, pp. 88-94. 1988
Untitled comment on the influence of Pablo Neruda on my poetics, Quarry West 25, p. 59. 1988
"Gulls in Frost," The New Criterion, Vol. 7, No. 6, February, p. 43. 1989
"Autumn on a Small Tree," "Esther Mack's Utility Quilt with the Lights in It," "Quilt Top Discovered at the Muskogee Flea Market and Found to Contain Blocks Resembling Certain Designs of Descendants of Escapes Slaves in Suriname," "Some Metaphysics of Junior Wells," The Yale Review, Vol. 77, No. 4 1989
"Diary: Day of Rest," TriQuarterly, No. 74, Winter, pp. 180-181. 1989
"Bad Mother Blues," "Dancer to J. J. Malone and the Texas Twisters, Caspar, California," "For St. James, Who Said He Was on Tour with The Emotions," "We Were Waking," The American Poetry Review, Vol. 18, No. 3, May/June, pp. 3-4. 1989
"Designating Duet," "Holy Woman: Pecolia Warner," "Notes on a Missouri Quilt Top Pieced on a Western Auto Catalog and on Newspaper Dated December 22, 1956," Two Private Sermons from the Reverend Dr. Small Surprised by Coni, Denise, and Me One Saturday in the Sanctuary of the Southside Community Church of God," Field, No. 41, Fall, pp. 72-78. 1989
"Mysterious-Shape Quilt Top, Anonymous, Oklahoma," Tri-Quarterly 76, Fall, pp. 90-92. 1989
"Appliqué Tulip Quilt from Kansas," "Willia Ette Graham's Infinity Log Cabin Quilt, Oakland, 1987," The New Criterion, Vol. 8, No. 4, December, pp. 44-48. 1989
"Resigning from a Job in a Defense Industry," "Keeping House," Vital Signs ed. Ronald Wallace. Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, pp. 130-131. 1989
"Two Young Trees Bending in Strong Wind," The New Republic, February 5, p. 35. 1990
"One Way She Spoke to Me," "Redheart, Greenbark, Blueblossom," Field, No. 42, Spring, pp. 58-60. 1990
"The Thorn-Shaver on Fifth," The Paris Review, No. 114, Spring, pp. 123-124. 1990
"Millionaire Records," Zyzzyva, Vol. VI, No. 2, Summer, pp. 105-108. 1990
"Postcard to the Musician," "Lowell Fulson, Age 66, Eli's Mile High Club, Oakland, California," Poetry, July, pp. 187-89. 1990
"Lowell Fulson, Age 66, Eli's Mile High Club, Oakland, California," Poetry, July, 188-189. 1990
"Eclipse Facsimile," The New Yorker, August 13, p. 38. 1990
"Affirmation Against Critics," "Mixing the Patches," Poetry, October, pp. 1-3. 1990
"Center: Strip and Medallion Quilt, 1890, by Mrs. Longmire, African-American Seamstress for Her Town in Maryland," "Suit and Tie," The Kenyon Review, Vol. XII, No. 4, Fall, pp. 71-73. 1990
"On the Abundance of Shell Hinges after a Storm," Threepenny Review, Spring, p. 12. 1990
"Finding the Quilter in Her Quilt," "Wake-Up Colloquy," "I Cannot Teach Her Closure," "Persuading My Lover That My Daughter is Fun to Live With because We'll Pretend She's My Sister," "Goose-in-the-Pond Improvisations, Southside Estate-Sale Quilt and Ghost," Weber Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2, Fall, pp. 79-82. 1990
"Aggregating Anemones: New Year's Poems," Provincetown Arts, Vol. 7, p. 153. 1991
"Women and Objects," Tri-Quarterly #81, Spring/Summer, pp. 197-200. 1991
"Great Art, Great Criticism," "Illusion from a Quilt by Louise Williams," "Anonymous Kentucky Quilter," The Southern Review, Vol. 27, No. 2, April, pp. 247-249. 1991
Untitled short essay on "audience," Manoa, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring, pp. 108-110. 1991
"Genius of Fog at Ecola Creek Mouth," Poetry, pp. 5-6. 1991
"A Change of Place," South Dakota Review, Vol. 29, No.3, part two, p. 21, Autumn. 1991
"Choosing an Author for Assurance in the Night," in Field, No. 45, pp. 44-45, Fall. 1991
"Artists," "Waiting for Lesser Duckweed: On a Proposal of Issa's," The Iowa Review, Vol. 21, No. 3, Fall, pp. 4-10. 1991
"Precipice, Rush, Sheath," in The Paris Review, No. 120, Fall, p. 211. 1991
"Memento Mori: Pajamas He Fell Away From Us In," "Three Purses of a Nomadic Woman," "Postmark February 21, 1989: He Has Just Pulled The Hammer Back," "Postmark February 21, 1989: He Has Just Pulled The Hammer Back," "In Memory of the Surprised," American Poetry Review, July/August, pp. 16-17. 1991
"Choosing an Author for Assurance in the Night," Reprinted in The Best American Poetry, 1992, ed. Charles Simic. New York: Scribners 1992
"Bedrooms," in The New Yorker, January 20, p.36. 1992
"Bedrooms," in See: A Journal of Visual Culture. Michael Read, Ed. The Friends of Photography, San Francisco. 1992
"Landscape with Master Class, Northern Oregon Coast," The Southern Review, Vol. 28, No. 2, April, pp. 226-228. 1992
"Coastscape and Mr. Begley," The Yale Review, Vol 80, No. 1 & 2, April, pp. 81-84. 1992
"Women and Vision," in The Kenyon Review, Vol. XIV, No. 3, Summer, pp. 154-156. 1992
"Two Men Trading Dance Movements at Tabby's Blues Box and Heritage Hall, Baton Rouge," in The Paris Review, No. 124, Fall, pp. 52-55. 1992
"Food," Bakunin, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring/Summer, pp. 44-45. 1992
"The Context of a Necktie Quilt, Silk and Satins, 1940's," The New Republic, March 29, Vol. 208, No. 13, p. 48. 1993
"Bluegum: On the Curving Paths of Golden Gate Park," in Tri Quarterly, 86, Winter, pp. 50-52. 1992-1993
"Ode to Early Work," "Trading," "My Personal Hercules," in The Paris Review #127, Summer, pp. 120-123. 1993
"Six Movements for Portraits of Erzulie," "Signs of Salvation," The Iowa Review, Vol 23, No. 2 (Spring/Summer) pp. 59-62. 1993
"Path Through the Rhododendron and Azalea Test Gardens Twenty Years Ago," The New Criterion Vol 12, No. 3, November, pp. 48-49. 1993
"Chain," "Preface in Invisible Ink to Accompany the Gift of a Blank Book," Western Humanities Review, Vol XLVII, No. 4, Winter, pp. 383-385. 1993
The God of Indeterminacy (Book), Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 1993
"Desert Night, Las Vegas," Field #49, Fall, p. 47. 1993
"Lament, with Flesh and Blood," in Oregon Literature Series, eds Ingrid Wendt & Primus St. John, OSU Press, p. 238. 1993
"Reposoir: Four Legends for Mose Tolliver's `Flowering Tree'," The American Poetry Review, Vol. 23, No. 3, May/June, p. 6. 1994
"Pregnancy," in Articulation: The Body and Illness in Poetry. (revised edition), edited by Jon Mukand. The University of Iowa Press, 239-240 pp. 1994
"Outsider: Juanita Rogers," "Outsider: Minnie Evans," in The Kenyon Review, Winter, Vol. XVI, No 1, pp. 152-154. 1994
"Harmonies for the Alienation of My Daughter," "Ode for the God of Indeterminacy," Bakunin, Vol. 4, No. 2, Winter, p. 29-33 1994
"Viewing Wildflowers on Mothers Day, 1950s," in Mockingbird 1994
"The Study of Genius," Poetry, Vol. CLXIV, No. 2, May, pp. 63-64. 1994
"Phlox diffusa: A Poem for My Fiftieth Birthday," "Paths Rounding Timberline, Mt. Hood, Last Week of Summer," The Yale Review, Vol. 82, No. 3, July, pp. 24-30. 1994
"Measurings: Work and Worth," The American Voice, No. 34, pp. 95-96. 1994
"Preliminary Designs," in The Southern Review, Vol. 30, No. 3, Summer, pp. 556-558. 1994
"Justin McCarthy, Naive," "Trail to the Farthest Spring, Mt. Hood, September," "Diablerie: Haitian Spirit Flag," in Poetry Ireland Review 43/44, Autumn/Winter, pp. 96-98. 1994
"My Theory of Mockingbirds," in Poetry, vol. CLXV, No. 4, pp. 212-213. 1995
"Lessons Learned from a Small Drawing by Victor Joseph Gatto, Self-Taught Artist," in The Paris Review #135, Summer, p.51. 1995
As yet untitled prose comment, for a Symposium on Writing and Spirituality, in Manoa, Vol. 7, No. 1, Summer, p.111. 1995
"Ocean Water Absorbs Red, Orange, and Yellow Light." Harvard Review #8, spring, pp. 20-22. 1995
"The Spaces Between Birds," "Images" "Poem for My Fifty-First Birthday," Field, No. 52, Spring, pp. 64-69. 1995
"Edge Effect," "Research Trail, Cold Canyon, November: Solano County." Poetry, Vol. CLXVI, No. 4, July, pp. 203-209. 1995
"Painting Self-Portraits with the Wisdom Project Women," in The American Voice, No. 33. 1995
"Precious Metal." Field No. 53, Fall, pp. 77-79. 1995
"Trail to the Farthest Spring, Mt. Hood, September," "Lessons Learned from a Small Drawing by Victor Joseph Gatto, Self-Taught Artist," "Diablerie: Haitian Spirit Flag," in Wild Duck Review, Vol. I, No. 6, September pp. 18-19. 1995
"Edge Effect," Reprinted in The Best American Poetry, eds. Adrienne Rich and David Lehman, Scribner (New York) pp. 123-126 with comment on pp. 265-266 1996
The Space Between Birds: Mother/Daughter Poems 1967-1995. (Book), Hanover and London: Wesleyan University Press, published by University Press of New England 1996
Edge Effect: Trails and Portrayals (Book), Hanover and London: Wesleyan University Press, published by University Press of New England 1996
"To a Penny Postcard, c 1911", "Four Anonymous Women with Bright Sad Mouths", Field #55, Fall, pp. 72-76. 1996
"Tri Tactics" The Progressive, p. 30. 1997
"Rolaids Bottle Vase, Chicago Highrise", The Antioch Review, Vol. 55, No. 1, p. 85. 1997
"Primaries," "From Several Flea Markets in Arkansas," New England Review, Vol. 18, No. 1, p. 160-62. 1997
"Chalk-Circle Compass", Poetry, Vol. CLXIX, No. 5, pp. 332-333. 1997
"Through Lace Curtains, Ravens' (Pasternak)," The Yale Review, Vol. 85, No. 2, pp. 39-40. 1997
"Material Theology," The Southern Review, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 275-279. 1997
"Driving in Circles with the Blind," Zyzzyva, Vol. XIII, No. 2, pp. 171-173. 1997
"The Hectograph," Field #57, pp. 103-106. 1997
"To a Book of Needles, 1918," Poetry, Vol. CLXXI, No. 1, pp. 52-53. 1997
"Seven Telegrams to Miss Olive M. Richards," The Massachusetts Review, Winter Issue, pp. 514-518. 1997
"With Respect to the Palmer Method", The Missouri Review Vol. XX, No. 3, pp. 78-79. 1997
"Peppertree and Tea," Mänoa 9:1, pp. 59-61. 1997
"Given and Received," The Southern Review, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 32-33. 1998
"Philosophy," The American Voice, No. 45, pp. 77-79. 1998
"Man with a Tail," Oxymoron, Vol. 2, pp. 40-41. 1998
"Gypsy Life," DoubleTake, p. 123. 1998
"A Perspective of Tangerines," The Yale Review, Vol. 87, No. 1, pp. 94-95. 1999
"In Her Image," Ploughshares, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 21-22. 1999
"Last October," Field, #61 Fall, p127 1999
"Approaching Robert Hayden," "Design of Days," "Hawaiian Buddha," "Given and Received," >"Man with a Tail," "In Her Image," "A Gentlewoman," Reprinted in Metre 7/8, A Magazine of International Poetry, Eds. by Justin Quinn and David Wheatley 2000
"Blossom River Drive," "Children of the Village," Field #64, Spring, pp. 18-19. 2001
"Do-It-Yourselfers Ghazal," "Expectation Days," "Cabawaguni Scarecrow," ZYZZYVA #61, Spring pp. 87-89. 2001
"The Mexican Acrobat," TriQuarterly #110/111, Fall, p. 147. 2001
"Solvents." Reprinted in The Ohio Review New & Selected, Vol II M-Z, p. 71. 2001
A Visit to Civilization (Book), Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press 2002
"Three from the Market," reprinted in Appetite: Food As Metaphor. Eds. Phyllis Stowell and Jeanne Foster. BOA editors, Ltd, Rochester, NY, pp. 120-121 2002
"On Being Transparent," Poetry, No 6, September issue, p. 318. 2002
"Virtue Study: It was his first," Poetry, November issue, p.51. 2002
"Pre-Op Room," The Yale Review, Vol 91, No. 1, pp. 38-39. 2003
"Blue Puzzle," Pacific Review, p. 34. 2003
"Foil," "Gospel Disinclined," The Kenyon Review, Vol. XXVI, No. 3, Summer, pp. 131-132. 2004
"Officer and Gentleman and a Small Heroic Order," Paris Review, No. 170, Summer, pp. 19-20. 2004
"For a Buried Doll's Head, "Comparative Threats," Manufactured 1890's," Crazyhorse, No. 67, Spring, pp. 89-90. 2005
"'Someone Talked'," "Silent Area," Field, No. 72, Spring, pp. 38-40. 2005
"Virtue Study: Pastoral," Harvard Review, No. 28, pp. 138-139. 2005
"The Bat By Porch Light," Agni, No. 63, pp. 77-78. 2006
"Grouse," "On Suicide Watch," Poetry, Vol. CLXXXVII, No. 6, March, pp. 455-457. 2006
"Sandra McPherson to Daryl Hine," letter dated 27 October 1969, in Between the Lines: A History of Poetry in Letters, 1962-2002, Eds. Joseph Parisi and Stephen Young, Ivan R. Dee Publisher, Chicago, 2006, p. 124. 2006
Expectation Days, (Book), Champaign-Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press 2007
"Far Away in Time, The Senses Return to Me As I Identify with That Tree," "Personal Estates," "Dodder and True Rhymes," The Yale Review, Vol. 98. No. 1, January, pp. 39-42. 2010
"As We Understand Them (I)," "As We Understand Them (II)," Field, No. 83, Fall, pp. 84-85. 2010
Monitoring to Assess Progress toward Meeting the Assabet River, Massachusetts, Phosphorus Total Maximum Daily Load - Aquatic Macrophyte Biomass and Sediment - Phosphorus Flux (Report), Pembroke and Sacramento Publishing Service Centers 2011
"Light Schemes," "Early California Art," the Normal School, Vol. 4, No. 1, Spring, pp. 32 & 108. 2011
"Writing Day: An Accurate Record," Certain Uncollected Poems, p. 37 2012
"Hideout," The Plume Anthology of Poetry (Book), Asheville, North Carolina: MadHat Press, pp. 181. 2013
"Loose Flowers," Field, No. 89, Fall, pp. 48-49 2013
"The Uses of Silhouettes," The Yale Review, Vol. 101, No. 4, October, pp.30. 2013
Outline Scribe: New and Renewed Poems (Book), Ostrakon Press 2015
"George's Harmonica," Ecotone: The Sound Issue, No. 20, Fall. pp. 119-120. 2015
"Unspoken Request (Assembly of God 1980)," "Gospel Disinclined," "Signs of Salvation," "Unitarian Easter," Sacramento Voices (Book), Cold River Press, pp. 48-51. 2016
"My Birth Father's Pencil: Drawing of an Illusion of Wisdom," "Cimarron Review, No. 195, Spring, pp. 50-51. 2016
"Said the Parakeet," New Friend," Poetry, Vol. 1 CCVIII, No. 3, June, pp. 248-251 2016
"Hoh," "Imprint," Field, No. 95, Fall, pp. 90-92. 2016
"Courbet is a Desperate Man," Ploughshares, Vol. 42, No. 4, Winter, pp. 85-86. 2016-2017
"The Larry Shirts," Basalt, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 23. 2017
"Coupleting Discretely," Crazyhorse, No. 92, p. 27 Fall 2017
"Coordinates," Five Blind Boys," The Yale Review, Vol. 105, No. 1, January, pp. 32-36. 2017
"Investigation in Gray and Gaudy," "Las Hormigas," Poetry, Vol. CCIX, No. 4, January, pp.339-343. 2017
"Hematological," Field, No. 96, Spring, pp.40. 2017
"The Dijon Sky," Kenyon Review, Vol. XXXIX, No. 1, May/June, pp. 66-68. 2017
"Last Conversations," Poetry, Vol. CCXI, No. 1, October, pp. 18-19. 2017
"Sitting on a Desk Together at SMU," Poetry, pp. 328-329 January 2018
"You Get a Free Shadow along with Me," Ecotone, p. 81 Spring/Summer 2018
"Runneth Over," Field, No. 98, p. 50 Spring 2018
"Ten Pre-Revolutionary Pillows," Ploughshares, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 109-110 Spring 2018
"Stage Whispers," Cirque, Vol. 9, No. 1, p. 127 Winter 2018
"Mezzanine," The Antioch Review, p. 164 Winter 2018
"Upright/Downright," Agni, No. 88, pp. 216-217 2018
"Yoemon and Kasane," online 2018
"Channeling Menashe," online 2018
"Contrary Carpenty," Aurora Poetry, Vol. 1 2018
"Cap Gun," Aurora Poetry, Vol. 1 2018
"Meres a nu," "Upon Your DNA," "Quicksilver, Cougars, and Quartz," Basalt, Vol. 12, No. 1 2018
"Foraging for Sound," "Why I Won't Go Back to Hell," Epoch, Vol. 67, No. 3 2018
"Peculiar Ceilings," Plume Poetry, No. 6, p. 240 2018
"The Singer of Scarlatti," "Pachelbel's Onion: A Rolling Ode," and "Mary Barnard Revisited." Red Wheelbarrow 2018
"Speech Crush." Poetry February 2019
"Lute Frets Ghazal." The Iowa Review Spring 2019
"Swimming During Polio," "Get Back into the Alphabet Box." Field 100 Spring 2019
"Dodge Ridge." Plume Poetry 7 2019
"Birth Mother," Vox Populi, Online January 25, 2019
"For Elizabeth Bishop." Vox Populi, Online February 25, 2019
"The Delicacy." Vox Populi, Online March 11, 2019
"For a Buried Doll's Head, Manufactured 1890s." Vox Populi, Online May 19, 2019
"Drunkard's Path." Vox Populi, Online June 3, 2019
"Choro for a father Dancing." TriQuarterly, Online July 15, 2019
"Garden Monk." Vox Populi, Online August 19, 2019
"For Cindy, Who Cut Her Own Throat: Sutter Psych Hospital." Pedestal Issue 84, Online 2019
"Far Away in Time, the Senses Return to Me as I Identify with That Tree." Vox Populi, Online September 20, 2019
"Going to See Dr. Jones Out of Loneliness, 1966." Vox Populi, Online October 26, 2019
"On the Abundance of Shell Hinges after a Storm." Vox Populi, Online November 18, 2019
"So You Forgot Your Leaf." Whitefish, Online December 2019
"Timing" Broadside, Moving Parts Press, Santa Cruz December 2019
Manuscripts undated
Additional published poems and prose 1973-2009
Poems published under the name Sandra Gibson 1978-1979
Garnder, Thomas 1985 August 14
Poetry 1978 December 13
Thornwillow Press 1997 August 7
VanStavern, Jan 1990 October 30