Alumni and Their Books
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Corey Andrews
- Literary Nationalism in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Club Poetry (Edwin Mellen Press, 2004)
Sandra Agricola
- Master Bedroom Poems (Ohio Review Books)
- White Mercedes (Ohio Review Books)
Edward Allen
- Mustang Sally: A Novel (WW Norton & Co, 1994)
- Straight Through the Night (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1990)
David Axelrod
- Jerusalem of Grass (1992)
- The Man Who Fell in Love with a Chicken (Cross-Cultural Review Chapbook 2: American Poetry 1, 1980)
- A Dream of Feet (Poetry Series, 1976)
- Myths, Dreams, and Dances: Poems, 1968-1973
Roy Bentley
- Any One Man (Midwest Writers Series, Bottom Dog Press, 1992)
- Boy in a Boat (U of Alabama Press, 1986)
Kevin Bezner
- The Wilderness of Vision: On the Poetry of John Haines, Editor, with Kevin Walzer (Story Line Press, 1996)
Jill Bialoski
- Wanting a Child Editor (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1998)
- The End of Desire: Poems (Knopf, 1997)
Joe Bonomo
- Vanishings from that Neighborhood (Wick Chapbook Series)
Michelle Boisseau
- Understory (The Morse Poetry Prize, 1996)
- Writing Poems (Robert Wallace, Michelle Boisseau, 1996)
- No Private Life: Poems (1992)
Paula Closson Buck
- The Acquiescent Villa (Louisianna State University Press, 1999)
David Citino
Poetry
- The News and Other Poems. University of Notre Dame Press, 2002.
- The Invention of Secrecy. Ohio State University (OSU) Press, 2001.
- The Book of Appassionata: Collected Poems. OSU Press, 1998.
- Broken Symmetry. OSU Press, 1997.
- The Weight of the Heart. Quarterly Review of Literature Poetry Series, 1996.
- The Discipline: New and Selected Poems, 1980 1992. OSU Press, 1992.
- The House of Memory. OSU Press, 1990.
- A Letter of Columbus. Logan Elm Press, 1990.
- The Gift of Fire. Univ. of Arkansas Press, 1986.
- The Appassionata Doctrines. Cleveland State Univ. Poetry Center, 1986.
- The Appassionata Poems. Cleveland State Univ. Poetry Center, 1983.
- Last Rites and Other Poems. OSU Press, 1980.
- Poetry Ohio, Art of the State: An Anthology, ed. Cornfield Review Special Issue, 1984.
- 73 Ohio Poets, ed. Cornfield Review Special Issue, 1978.
Prose
- Paperwork. Essays. Kent State Univ. Press, 2003.
- The Eye of the Poet: Six Views of the Art and Craft of Poetry. A book of advice. Contributing ed. Oxford Univ. Press, 2001.
Matthew Cooperman
- Surge (1999 Wick Chapbook Series)
Vivian Corll
- Himmarshee (2002).
William Virgil Davis
- One Way to Reconstruct the Scene (Yale, 1980)
Elizabeth Dodd
- Like Memory, Caverns: Poems (New York Univ Pr, 1993)
- The Veiled Mirror and the Woman Poet: H. D., Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Bishop, and Louise Glück (Missouri, 1992)
John Gallaher
- Gentlemen in Turbans, Ladies in Cauls (Spuyten Duyvil, 2001)
Patricia Goedicke
- As Earth Begins to End (Copper Canyon, 1999)
- Invisible Horses (Milkweed Editions, 1996)
- Paul Bunyan's Bearskin (Milkweed Editions, 1992)
- The Tongues We Speak: New and Selected Poems(Milkweed Editions, 1989)
- Listen, Love(Barnwood Press, 1986)
- The Wind of Our Going (Copper Canyon Press, 1985)
- The King of Childhood (Confluence Press, 1984)
- Crossing the Same River (University of Massachusetts Press, 1980)
- The Dog That Was Barking Yesterday (Lynx House Press, 1980)
- The Trail That Turns on Itself (Ithaca House, 1978)
- For the Four Oceans (Ithaca House, 1976)
- Between Oceans (Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1968)
Karen Harper
- The Baby Farm (Signet, 1999)
- Dawn's Early Light (1997)
- Empty Cradle (1998)
- Liberty's Lady (1998)
- The Poyson Garden: An Elizabethan Mystery (1999)
- River of Sky (1995)
- The Wings of Morning (1994)
- Black Orchid (1996)
- Circle of Gold (1994)
- Dark Road Home (1996)
- Promises to Keep (1994)
- The Tidal Poole: An Elizabethan Mystery (2000)
- Almost Forever
- Eden's Gate
- Emerald Queen (Harper Monogram)
- The Firelands
- Island Ecstasy
- Midnight Mirage
- One Fervent Fire
- Passion's Reign
- Rapture's Crown
- Sweet Passion's Pain
- Tame the Wind
William Heyen
- Crazy Horse in Stillness: Poems (American Poets Continuum, 35, BOA, 1996)
- Diana, Charles, & the Queen: Poems (American Poets Continuum Series, Vol. 45, BOA, 1998)
- Pig Notes & Dumb Music: Prose on Poetry (American Readers Series, No 2, BOA, 1998)
- Stiletto 2: The Disinherited (1992)
- Erika: Poems of the Holocaust (1991)
- The Host: Selected Poems 1965-1990 (1994)
- Pterodactyl Rose: Poems of Ecology ( 1991)
- Ribbons: The Gulf War: A Poem (1992)
- The Shore (Stone House Press Chapbook #8, 1991)
- The Trains (1981)
- The Chestnut Rain
- The Children
- The City Parables
- Depth of field: poems
- The Descent
- Long Island Light: Poems and a Memoir
- Lord Dragonfly: five sequences
- Noise in the trees: poems and a memoir
- The Swastika Poems
Robert Kinsley
- Endangered Species (Orchisis, 1989)
- Field Stones (Orchisis, 1997)
Pamela Kircher
- Whole Sky (Four Way Books, 1996)
John Kachuba
- Why is this Job Killing Me? (Dell, 1999)
- How to Write Funny (Writers Digest Books, 2001)
- Ghosthunting Ohio (Emmis Books, 2004)
Nancy Kuhl
- In the Arbor, Wick Chapbook Series
Kathy Mangan
- Above the Tree Line: Poems (Carnegie-Mellon Univ Pr, 1995)
Wendell Mayo
- B. Horror and Other Stories (Livingston Press, 1999)
- In Lithuanian Wood (White Pine Press)
- Centaur of the North (Arte Público Press)
Scott Minar
- The Body's Fire: Poems (Clarellen Press, Rochester, NY, 2002)
Amy Newman
- Order, or Disorder (CSU, 1995)
- Camera Lyrica (Alice James, 1999 Beatrice Hawley Award)
Tom Noyes
- Beyond Faith and Other Stories (Dufour Editions, 2002)
Anthony Piccione
- For the Kingdom: Poems (American Poets Continuum, No 32, BOA, 1995)
- Seeing It Was So (Poems)
Stanley Plumly
- The Marriage in the Trees (Ecco, 1997)
- Boy on the Step: Poems (Ecco/Norton, 1989)
- Summer Celestial (The American Poetry Series, Volume 27, Ecco/Norton, 1983)
- Out-of-the-Body Travel (Ecco/Viking, 1977)
- Giraffe; Poems (LSU, 1974)
- How the Plains Indians Got Horses (Best Cellar Press, 1973)
- In the Outer Dark; Poems (LSU, 1970)
James Ragan
- The Hunger Wall: Hladova Zed (1996)
- Lusions (Grove Press Poetry Series, 1997)
- Womb-Weary : Poems (1990)
- In the Talking Hours: Poems
Bin Ramke
- Wake, University of Iowa Press (April, 1999)
- Massacre of the Innocents (University of Iowa Press, 1995)
- The Erotic Light of Gardens (Wesleyan University Press, 1989)
- The Language Student (Louisiana State University Press, 1986)
- White Monkeys (University of Georgia Press, 1981)
- The Difference Between Night and Day (Yale University Press, 1978)
Mary Ann Samyn
- Purr (New York Issues Press)
- Captivity Narrative (OSU/The Journal Award, 1999)
- Rooms by the Sea (Wick Chapbook Series, 1994)
Dave Smith
- Floating on Solitude: Three Volumes of Poetry (Illinois Poetry Series, 1996)
- Fate’s Kite: Poems, 1991-1995 (1995)
- The Fisherman's Whore (1990)
- Onliness: A Novel (1981)
- Cuba Night: Poems
- Cumberland Station: poems
- Goshawk, Antelope
- Gray Soldiers: poems
- Homage to Edgar Allan Poe: poems
Jeffery Smith
- Where the Roots Reach for Water: a Personal and Natural History of Melancholia (1999)
A.E. Stringer
- Channel Markers (Wesleyan)
David Swerdlow
- Small Holes in the Universe (WordTech Editions, 2003)
Robert Love Taylor
- Lady of Spain (1992)
- The Lost Sister (1989)
Philip Terman
- The House of Sages (MAMMOTHbooks, 1998)
Michael Waters
- Green Ash, Red Maple, Black Gum: New Poems (American Poets Continuum, No 41, BOA, 1997)
- Anniversary of the Air (1985)
- The Barn in the Air (1987)
- Bountiful (1992)
- Burden Lifters (1989)
William Wells
- Conversing With the Light (Anhinga Pr, 1988)