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 Resumé
 Currently
  Teacher of English & history, Haverford School, Haverford, Pennsylvania, beginning fall 2002. American literature, British literature, American history, history electives. Assistant winter track coach; student literary & arts magazine advisor.  
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 Fellowships & Residencies
  Research Fellow, American Studies Department, University of Wales, Swansea, United Kingdom. 1997-2000: explored various aspects of 20th century American wars and war literature. Special emphasis on Korean War. 2001-2002: background research on the Welsh in southern Ohio. Fellowship involved research & writing as well as visits to Swansea to lecture, conduct seminars, advise & consult.  
  Guest-in-Residence, Unit One/Allen Hall, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, 1998. Lived, ate, and taught in first-year dorm. Offered programs nightly. Available during days for individual consultations with students.  
  Writer-in-Residence, The National Writer's Voice Project of the YMCA of the USA, Downtown Detroit YMCA, 1996. Conducted master-level workshops at the Y for mature writers (post-undergraduate). Lectured in individual classes at Wayne State University, Macomb Community College, and the Center for Creative Studies.  
  Visiting Professor of War and Social Consequences, The William Joiner Center, University of Massachusetts at Boston, 1990. Taught course on the Vietnam War. Edited special newsletter on women veterans' poetry. Researched VVAW Winter Soldier hearings.  
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 Teaching
  Director, Summer Writers' Workshop for High School Students, Department of English, La Salle University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1997-2000.  
  Teacher of English and History at Sandy Spring Friends School, George School, Temple University-Ambler, Germantown Friends School, La Salle University, Bucks County Community College, and the Haverford School at various times between 1978 and 2001.

Courses taught include Western Civilization, American History, American Literature of the 1920s & 1930s, Stephen Crane, Contemporary Poetry, Introduction to Poetry, English Romantic Poets, Literature of the Sea, Literature of the Vietnam War, History of the Vietnam War, History of Nonviolent Resistance in America, History of Revolutions (American, French & Russian), History of the Donner Party, Poetry Writing Workshop, Creative Writing Workshop, Composition.
 
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 Other
  Merchant seaman aboard US and Irish vessels, construction laborer, forklift operator and warehouseman, roofer, legal aide for the Pennsylvania Department of Justice, reporter, and writer-editor at various times between 1969 and 1984.  
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Honors & Awards
  Excellence in the Arts Award, Vietnam Veterans of America, 2008.
  Pennridge High School Wall of Fame, 2003.
  Honorary Fellow, American Studies, University of Wales, Swansea, 2002.
  Pew Fellowship in the Arts for Poetry, 1993.
  The President's Medal, Veterans for Peace, Inc., 1988.
  Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, 1988.
  Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Prose, 1981.
  Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation Grant, 1980.
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 Recent Activities & Selected Highlights
  38th Joe Patterson Smith Lecturer & IC Connections Convocation Speaker, Illinois College, Jacksonville, IL, October 2009.  
  Presenter, Vietnam Now! Symposium, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, July 2009.  
  Keynote Speaker, "War & War's Aftermath," Netherlands American Studies Association, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, June 2009.  
  Featured Poet, Cochin Chinoiserie , Jane Irish, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2009.  
  Featured Poet, River Poets Quarterly , v.2, #3, Summer 2008.  
  Presenter, New Jersey Council for the Humanities Teacher Institute, 2008.  
  Featured Poet, Paintings for Winning Hearts and Minds, Jane Irish, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, December 2007-January 2008.  
  Featured Poet, Marah's DVD Sooner or Later in Spain, released November 2006.  
  Featured Poet, Poets & Writers Festival, Community College of Philadelphia, Feb. 2006  
  Keynote Speaker, Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society Regional Conference & Undergraduate History Forum, April 2005  
  Keynote Speaker, Pennsylvania College English Association, April 2005  
  Featured Writer, Bucks County Writer, v.5, #3, Spring 2004  
  Featured Speaker, Library of Congress Professional Association, 2003  
  Featured Poet w/Marah ("the Last Rock-n-Roll Band") at the Tin Angel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003  
  Keynote Speaker, Margins Conference of Independent Secondary School Teachers of English, The Haverford School, Haverford, Pennsylvania, 2002.  
  Visiting Scholar, Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry, Ball State University, 2002.  
  Featured Guest, "Talk of the Nation," National Public Radio, Washington, DC, 2001.  
  Keynote Speaker, Conference on Contemporary Views of American Literature and Culture in the Great 60s, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, 2000.  
  Keynote Speaker, Conference on War in Memory, Popular Culture and Folklore, Center for the Study of the Korean War and the National Archives and Records Administration Central Plains Division, Kansas City, Missouri, 2000.  
  Featured Poet, Acoma 18: Rivista Internazionale di Studi Nordamericani, Rome & Bergamo, Italy, 2000.  
  Participant, Korea-America Dialogue, Maureen & Mike Mansfield Center, University of Montana, 1999.  
  Featured Speaker, 25th Annual Eastern Community College Social Science Association, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1999.  
  Participant, Vietnam-America Dialogue, Maureen & Mike Mansfield Center, University of Montana, 1998.  
  Guest Editor, War, Literature & the Arts, Fall/Winter 1997 special issue titled I Remember: Soldier-Poets of the Korean War.  
  Participant, 43rd National Security Seminar, U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, 1997.  
  Featured Poet, A Public Symposium: History, Literature & Music of the Vietnam War, El Paso, Texas, 1996.  
  Phi Beta Kappa Lecturer, Rutgers University-Newark, New Jersey, 1995.  
  Featured Poet, Austrian Association of American Studies, Universitat Klagenfurt, 1993.  
  Faculty, Second Mountain Empire Conference: Trauma & the Humanities, Department of Veterans Affairs, Johnson City, Tennessee, 1992.  
  Featured Writer, Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series #9: American Writers of the Vietnam War, Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1991.  
  Foreword, Visions of War, Dreams of Peace: Writings of Women in the Vietnam War, Warner Books, 1991.  
  Participant, First Conference of U.S. & Vietnamese Veteran-Writers, Hanoi, 1990.  
  Isota Tucker Epps Lecturer, Shipley School, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, 1989.  
  Poetry Advisor, The Lessons of the Vietnam War, Center for Social Studies Education, 1988.  
  Featured Poet, Steinman Arts Festival, St. Lawrence University, New York, 1987.  
  Contributor, Winning Hearts and Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans, First Casualty Press, 1972.  
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 Education
  Doctor of Philosophy, University of Wales at Swansea, 2000.
  Master of Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, 1978.
  Bachelor of Arts, Swarthmore College, 1973.
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Military Service
  U.S. Marine Corps, 1966-69; Sergeant (E5); Honorable Discharge.
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  Bibliography
 Books: Poetry
  Beautiful Wreckage: New & Selected Poems, Adastra Press, 1999.
  The Distance We Travel, Adastra Press, 1993.
  Just for Laughs, Viet Nam Generation & Burning Cities Press, 1990.
  The Outer Banks & Other Poems, Adastra Press, 1984.
  To Those Who Have Gone Home Tired, Thunder's Mouth Press, 1984.
  The Samisdat Poems, Samisdat, 1980.
  A Generation of Peace, New Voices Publishing Company, 1975.
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 Books: Prose
  The Madness of It All: Essays on War, Literature, and American Life, McFarland & Co., 2002.
  Ordinary Lives: Platoon 1005 and the Vietnam War, Temple University Press, 1999.
  Busted: A Vietnam Veteran in Nixon's America, University of Massachuetts Press, 1995.
  In the Shadow of Vietnam: Essays 1977-1991, McFarland & Company, Inc., 1991.
  Passing Time: Memoir of a Vietnam Veteran Against the War, McFarland & Co., 1989.
  Going Back: An Ex-Marine Returns to Vietnam, McFarland & Company, Inc., 1987.
  Vietnam-Perkasie: A Combat Marine Memoir, McFarland & Company, Inc., 1983.
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 Editor
  Unaccustomed Mercy: Soldier-Poets of the Vietnam War, Texas Tech Univ. Press, 1989.
  Carrying the Darkness: Poetry of the Vietnam War, Texas Tech University Press, 1989.
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 Co-editor
  Retrieving Bones: Stories & Poems of the Korean War, Rutgers University Press, 1999.
(with Philip K. Jason)
  Demilitarized Zones: Veterans After Vietnam, East River Anthology, 1976.
(with Jan Barry)
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 Chapbooks: Poetry
  Sleeping with the Dead, Adastra Press, 2006.
  A Sort of Peace: Echoes and Images of the Vietnam War , Fox Photo Arts, 2005. (with photographer Don Fox)
  Greatest Hits: 1970-2000, Puddinghouse Press, 2001.
  Mostly Nothing Happens, Adastra Press,1996.
  Winter Bells , Adastra Press, 1988.
  Channel Fever, Backstreet Editions, 1982.
  Matters of the Heart, Adastra Press, 1981.
  Empire, Samisdat, 1978.
  Rootless, Samisdat, 1977.
  A Generation of Peace (Revised), Samisdat, 1977.
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 Articles & Essays (excluding creative writing)
  "Words for John Balaban, " War, Literature & the Arts, v.20, #1&2, 2008.  
  "Knock Their Jocks Off, Boys!" Swarthmore College Bulletin, v. CV, #3, December 2007.  
  "Kenny & Me: A Story of War and Friendship." North American Review, v. 292, #1, 2007.  
  "Kenny & Me: A Story of War and Friendship." Main Line Life, September 13th, 2006 (abridged version).  
  "Gloria Emerson: A Remembrance." War, Literature & the Arts, v. 18, #1&2, 2006.  
  "James Magner, Jr., William Meredith & Reg Saner: Reluctant Poets of the Korean War." Cycnos v. 21, #2, 2004.  
  "Carrying the Ghost of Ray Catina," War, Literature & the Arts, v.16, #1&2, 2004.  
  "What's the Point of Poetry?" The VVAW Veteran, v.34, #1, Spring 2004.  
  "A Dirty and Murderous Joke: The Korean War Poetry of Keith Wilson." Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos, Numero 9, 2003.  
  "Rolando Hinojosa: Native Son Home from Asia." Proceedings of the Center for the Study of the Korean War, v.3, #1, 2003.  
  "A World That Is Not Just Ours." Swarthmore College Bulletin, v.C, #2, September 2002.  
  "Drawbridges on the Delaware: the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge." The Virginia Quarterly Review, v.78, #4, Fall 2002.  
  "Hell's Music: A Neglected Poem from a Neglected War." The Proceedings of the Center for the Study of the Korean War, v.2, #1, April 2002.  
  "'The Madness of It All': A Rumination on War, Journalism & Brotherhood." The Virginia Quarterly Review, v.78, #1, Winter 2002.  
  "David Dye and the World Cafe: Music with Latitude." Swarthmore College Bulletin, v.XCVIV, #2, September 2001.  
  "'In Cases Like This, There Is No Need to Vote': Korean War Poetry in the Context of American 20th Century War Poetry." The Colby Quarterly, v.XXXVII, #3, September 2001.  
  "William Childress: Korea Bound, 1952." Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos, Numero 8, 2001.  
  "Setting the Record Straight: An Addendum to the Life and Poetry of William Wantling." Poetry Wales, v.37, #1, July 2001.  
 

"The Poetry of Bullets, or: How Does a War Mean?" The Proceedings of the Center for the Study of the Korean War, v.1, #1, April 2001.

 
  "Above All, the Waste: American Soldier-Poets and the Korean War."
Remembering the "Forgotten War": The Korean War Through Literature and Art
. Philip West & Suh Ji-moon, eds. M.E. Sharpe, 2001.
 
  "Pennridge High School and the Vietnam War." The Vietnam War on Campus. Marc Gilbert, ed. Prager, 2001.  
  Entries on William Childress, Rolando Hinojosa & Keith Wilson in the Encyclopedia of American War Literature. Mark Graves & Philip Jason, eds. Greenwood, 2001.  
  "Poetry of the Korean War." Encyclopedia of the Korean War: A Political, Social, and Military History. Spencer C. Tucker, ed. ABC-CLIO, 2000.  
  "From the Halls of Montezuma to the Chosin Reservoir." The Virginia Quarterly Review, v.76, #3, Summer 2000.  
  "Howard Fast's 'Korean Litany.'" War, Literature and the Arts, v.12, #1, Spring/Summer 2000.  
  "Forgotten War, Forgotten Words." Poetry Wales, v.34, #4, April 1999.  
  "Tugboats on the Delaware: Teresa McAllister." The Virginia Quarterly Review, v.75, #1, Winter 1999.  
  "'I Want to Try It All Before I Go': The Life and Poetry of William Wantling." American Poetry Review, November/December 1998.  
  "Soldier-Poets of the Korean War." War, Literature and the Arts, v.9, #2, Fall/Winter 1997.  
  "What Grace Is Found in So Much Loss?" The Virginia Quarterly Review, v.73, #1, Winter 1997.  
  "Military Intelligence." Swarthmore College Bulletin, v.XCV, #3, December 1997.  
  "The War and the Academy." The United States and Viet Nam from War to Peace. Robert M. Slabey, ed. McFarland, 1996.  
  "Who's Responsible? Bobbie Ann Mason's In Country, Popular Culture and the Gulf War." The Gulf War Did Not Happen: Politics, Culture and Warfare Post-Vietnam. Jeffrey Walsh, ed. Ashgate Ltd., 1995.  
  "Talking About Poetry: An Interview with Daniel Hoffman." Words to Create a World: Interviews, Essays, and Reviews of Contemporary Poetry. Daniel Hoffman. University of Michigan Press, 1993.  
  "The Play's the Thing: A Profile of Stephen Lang." Swarthmore College Bulletin, v.LXXXIX, #5, May 1992.  
  "General Orders: An Interview with Vo Nguyen Giap." Gallery, February 1991.  
  "A Common Language: Vietnam Re-Visited." The Virginia Quarterly Review, v.67, #3, Summer 1991.  
  "Teaching the Vietnam War." William Joiner Center Newsletter, v.4, #1, July 1990.  
  "Soldier-Poets of the Vietnam War." Tell Me Lies About Vietnam. Alf Louvre & Jeffrey Walsh, eds. Open University Press, 1988.  
  "Los Norteamericanos y Centroamerica." Unwinding the Vietnam War. Reese Williams, ed. The Real Comet Press, 1987.  
  "Going Back: A Poet Who Was Once a Marine Returns to Vietnam." Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, March 16, 1986.  
  "On the Poetry of Gary Metras." The Pikestaff Forum #6, Fall 1984.  
  "Waiting for the Fire: Vietnam War Poetry by Non-Vietnam Veterans." Poetry East, #9/10, Winter 1982/Spring 1983.  
  "An Interview with Natalie L.M. Petesch & the Prose Writings of Natalie L.M. Petesch." The Greenfield Review, v.10, #1 & 2, 1982.  
  "The United States Screw & Bolt Company." National Vietnam Veterans Review, v.2, #4, May 1982.  
  "Tom McGrath: A Political Poet." In These Times, February 22-28, 1978.  
  "Robert Lowell: Patrician Poet and Pacifist." In These Times, October 19-25, 1977.  
       
  Commentaries
on various subjects published over the years in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Forum, Republic Monitor, London (Ontario) Free Press, Baltimore Sun, National Catholic Reporter, San Jose Mercury News, Reader's Digest, The Utne Reader, Present Tense, Sacramento Bee, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Chicago Tribune, Houston Post, San Diego Union Tribune, Vancouver Sun, San Francisco Examiner, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Daily Journal, San Francisco Daily Journal, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Newark Star-Ledger, Kleine Zeitung (Austria), and USA Today.
 
  Broadcast commentaries
on National Public Radio's Morning Edition and Weekend All Things Considered.
 
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 Readings, Lectures & Presentations
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Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Abington Friends School
Albert Ludwig Universitat
Alexander Dawson School
Allentown Arts Center
American Forum for Global Education
Ameriski Center-Ljubljana
Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies
Ball State University
Bergen Community College
Bodine High School for Int'l. Affairs
Boston Public Library
Boonton High School
Brandywine Peace Community
Bryn Mawr School
Bucknell University
Buffalo State College
Bucks County Community College
Bucks County Prison
Burr Oak Junior High School
Butler University
Cedar Crest College
Central Bucks High School East
Central High School
Chestnut Hill College
Cherry Hill High School East
City College of New York
Clarion University
College Hill Moravian Church
College of Southern Maryland
Colorado State University
Community College of Philadelphia
Cooper Union
Cornell University
Costa Mesa High School
Country Day Sch. of the Sacred Heart
Crete Monee High School
Curtis Institute of Music
Da Nang Writers Association
Darien High School
Davidson College
Deibler Elementary School
Delaware Valley College
Detroit Opera House
Detroit Public Library
DeMontfort University
Drexel University
Dwight D. Eisenhower Library
Dylan Thomas Centre-Ty Llen
Earlham College
Elizabethtown College
El Paso Museum of Art
Emporia State University
Erskine College
Eugenia Hospital Forum
Fairmount Park Art Commission
First Unitarian Church of Ithaca
First Unitarian Society of Erie
Florida Atlantic University
Fordham University
Franklin Inn Club
Free Library of Philadelphia
Freedom High School
Friends Select School
George Mason University
George School
Georgetown University
German-American Inst.-Heidelberg
Germantown Academy
Gershman YM-YWHA
Gettysburg College
Glenville State College
Green River Community College
Greenwich High School
Groton School
Goucher College
Gwent College of Higher Education
Gwynedd Mercy College
Gymnasium Jergitsch
Hai Phong Writers Association
Hatboro-Horsham High School
Harvard Yenching Library
Haverford College
Hayfield Poetry Festival
Hilbert College
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Ho Chi Minh City Writers Association
Hobble Diamond Ranch
Houston Baptist University
Hudson Valley Community College
Hue Writers Association
Hult Center for the Performing Arts
Illinois College
Illinois Institute of Technology
Indiana University Northwest
Indianapolis Art Center
Institute of Contemporary Art
International Poetry Forum
James A. Michener Art Museum
John A. Logan College
John A. Stockton College
Karl Franzens Universitat
Kennesaw State University
Kimberton Farms School
Lake Forest College
La Salle College High School
La Salle University
Lehigh University
Lehigh Valley Community College
Long Island University
Madog Center for Welsh Studies
Manchester Metropolitan University
Manor Junior College
Massachusetts State Laboratory Inst.

Masterman High School
Miami University
Minnetrista Cultural Center
Miquon School
Montgomery County Comm. Coll.
Mount Saint Joseph's Academy
Muhlenberg College
Mullica Hill Friends School
Nathan Mayhew Seminars
Neshaminy High School
Newark Public Library
New England College
New Hampshire State Prison
New York Poetry Festival
New York Shakespeare Festival
New York University
North Georgia College
Northampton Center for the Arts
Northampton Community College
Northwestern University
Oak Park River Forest High School
Ocean County College of New Jersey
Olchfa School
Oxford University-Wolfson College
Painted Bride Arts Center
Palisades High School
Pearl S. Buck Foundation
Pendle Hill Study Center
Pennington School
Pennsylvania State University
Philadelphia Art Alliance
Phila. Northeast Regional Library
Phila. Northwest Regional Library
Philips Brooks House
Phillips Exeter Academy
Richmond Alternative High School
Rockview State Prison
Rosenbach Museum
Rutgers University
Rutgers University-Camden
Saint Joseph's University
Saint Mary's University
Saint Michael's College
Saint Norbert College
Saint Thomas Aquinas College
Salisbury Unitarian Fellowship
Sanford School
School of the Holy Child
Scranton Public Library
South Eugene High School
Spirit Square Center for the Arts
Springside School
SUNY-Cortland
SUNY-Farmingdale
SUNY-Purchase
Stetson University
Temple University
The Asia Society
The Haverford School
The Korea Society
The Writers Center
Thomas Paine Unit. Univ. Church
Thornton Friends School
Toms River South High School
Trinity University
Tulane University
United Auto Workers Region 1A
Universidad de Sevilla
Universitat Innsbruck
Universitat Klagenfurt
Universitat Munchen
Universitat Salzburg
University of the Arts
University of California-Riverside
University of Connecticut-Stamford
University of Delaware
University of Georgia
University of Indianapolis
University of Massachusettes-Dartmouth
University of Notre Dame
University of Oregon
University of Pennsylvania
University of Texas-Austin
University of Texas-El Paso
University of Toledo
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse
University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
U.S. Air Force Academy
U.S. Military Academy
U.S. Naval Academy
YM-YWHA of Metro New Jersey
YWCA of Germantown
Valley Forge Military College
Villa Maria College
Villanova University
Wallingford Community Arts Center
Wallingford Elementary School
Walt Whitman Poetry Center
Washington Project for the Arts
Washington Storytellers Theater
Washington World Gallery
Wellington High School
West Side YMCA
Western Michigan University
Westtown School
William Penn Charter School
William Penn High School
Wilmington Friends School
Wisconsin Veterans' Museum
World Affairs Council
Yardley-Makefield Free Library
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 Poetry & Prose in Journals & Periodicals
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American Poetry Review
An-Nasr (Algeria)
Another Chicago Magazine
Archipel (Belgium)
Banajyotsna (India)
Big Sky Journal
But Nhon Lua Viet (US)
Cedar Hill Review
Chiron Review
Christian Science Monitor
Cimarron Review
College English
Colorado Review
Connecticut Poetry Review
Cultural Critique
Cycnos (France)
Dialogi (Slovenia)
Epoch Poetry Quarterly (Taiwan)
Fellowship
Fiction International
Friends Journal
Greenfield Review
Hollow Spring Review
Humanistic Judaism
Interchange (UK)
Journal of American Culture
Kurungabaa (Australia)
L'arbre a Paroles (Belgium)
Le Journal des Poetes (Belgium)
Lesarten (Austria)
Michigan Quarterly Review
Military Journal
Ming Pao Monthly (Hong Kong)
Nasi Razgledi (Yugoslavia)
Negative Capability
New Hampshire Gazette
New Letters

North American Review
North Carolina Literary Review
One Trick Pony
Owen Wister Review
Painted Bride Quarterly
Piedmont Literary Review
Poet Lore
Poetry Australia
Poetry East
Poetry International
Poetry Wales
Puerto del Sol
Rattle
Rekishi Sho Tsushin (Japan)
Sacred Bearings
Samisdat
San Fernando Poetry Journal
San Pedro Poetry Review
Schuylkill Valley Journal
Sevilla Cultural (Spain)
South Boston Literary Gazette
Studies in Education
Thanh Nien Daily (Vietnam)
The Veteran (VVA)
The Veteran (VVAW)
TriQuarterly
Tulane Literary Review
Van (Vietnam)
Van Nghe Quan Doi (Vietnam)
Ventana (Nicaragua)
Viet Nam Generation
Virginia Quarterly Review
Voices Israel
Voices West
War, Literature & the Arts
Washington Post Magazine
Zeitschrift fur Australienstudien (Austria)
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 Anthologies & Textbooks
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  Poems & Prose have also been reprinted in over 100 anthologies, textbooks, cultural studies, critical studies and other books. Recent examples include:
  Amerika no Reshiki to Bunka (American History and Culture) , Housou Daigaku kyouiki shinkokai, Japan, 2008.  
  Who Built America: Working People and the Nation's History , Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008.  
  Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry, Oxford University Press, 2007.  
  American War Poetry, Goldensohn, ed., Columbia University Press, 2006.  
  Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound and Sense, 9th ed., Thomson Wadsworth, 2006.  
  Perrine's Sound & Sense: An Introduction to Poetry, 11th ed., Thomson Wadsworth, 2005.  
  Global Voices: Historical Inquiries for the 21st Century, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (Australia), 2005.  
  Tough Times Companion, Culbertson, ed. VA Foundation for the Humanities, 2003.  
  Fresh Water: Poems from the Rivers, Lakes, and Streams, Bosveld, ed. Pudding House, 2003.  
  Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge, Connors, ed. Grayson Books, 2003.  
  The American Nation. Boyer & Stuckey, eds. Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 2001.  
  Vietnam & Other American Fantasies. H. Bruce Franklin. University of Massachusetts Press, 2000.  
  Stories from Where We Live: The North Atlantic Coast. Sara St. Antoine, ed. Milkweed Editions,2000.  
  Times of Change: Vietnam and the 60s. Perfection Learning Corporation, 2000.  
  Ho Tro Thanh Nhan Vat Cua Toi. Ho Anh Thai. Nha Xuat Ban Thanh Nien (Hanoi), 2000.  
  Portland Lights: A Poetry Anthology. LaMorticella & Nemirow, eds. Nine Lights Press, 1999.  
  From Inquiry to Argument. Linda McMeniman. Allyn & Bacon, 1999.  
  Daybook of Critical Reading and Writing. Claggett, Reid & Vinz. Houghton Mifflin, 1998.  
  A Broken Heart Still Beats: After Your Child Dies. McCracken & Semel, eds. Hazelden, 1998.  
  Our Mothers' Spirits: On the Death of Mothers and the Grief of Men. Blauner, ed. ReganBooks,1998.  
  Brooding the Heartland: Poets of the Midwest. M.L. Liebler, ed. Bottom Dog Press, 1998.  
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