List of Published Poetry & Nonfiction

Note: My earlier work was published under my married name or my birth name.
I began to be published as Claire Garden in the 1980s.
Publications are listed in reverse chronological order.

Poems:

"One of Your Stockings," and "Some 6000 Years," Windfall, Winter, 1995.

"Snake Medicine for the New Land," Windfall, Fall, 1995, p. 6.

"Summer Grass," Windfall, Summer, 1995.

"Dream Light," and "Taking Time," Windfall, Spring, 1995.

"Release," Contact, #37, Feb/Mar, 1984, p. 10.

"The Brotherhood," Iowa English Bulletin, Spring, 1978.

"trees under wires strung," See: A Visual Sprectrum of the Arts, January-February, 1978.

"stretching canvas," See: A visual Spectrum of the Arts, November-December, 1977.

"Today," See: A visual Spectrum of the Arts, September-October, 1977.

"meat and potatoes woman" and "Beulah Muffins," Iowa English Bulletin, Spring, 1977.

"Marigold," Poetry, Winston Paramount Books, Babylon, N.Y. 11702, 1976.

"Macho," The North American Mentor, Winter, 1975.

"Reviews," Lyrical Iowa, 1975.

"Earthworm and Butterfly" (prose poem), Sprays of Rubies, Ragnarok Press, Holly Springs, Mississippi, 1975.

"Warning," North Country Anvil, No. 13, October/November, 1974, p. 94.

The Gentle Way, (broadside of judo poems), Ragnarok Press, Holly Springs, Mississippi, 1974.

"Chez-moi," and "A Strain of Lohengrin," Colleges of Mid-American English Review, 1973.

"Dark Water," "Heroics," and "A Dream," Iowa English Bulletin, Fall, 1973.

"Song of the Will o' the WASP," The Crisis, February, 1972.

Nonfiction:

"Manifesting Your Sustainable Habitat: The future of your neighborhood could begin next Tuesday at 7 pm in your living room," In Context, Autumn, (#14) 1986, p. 51.

"Which peat should you use for what?" Gurney's Gardening News, April-May, 1984.

"If you don't have a big plot, grow it in an old pail or clay pot," (with Irene Zimmerle) Gurney's Gardening News, February-March, 1984.

"Do you know where your garden bugs go for the winter?" Gurney's Gardening News, October-November, 1983.

"Bare little sticks grow into stately trees," Gurney's Gardening News, August-September, 1983.

"Starting seedlings with artificial lighting," Gurney's Gardening News, February/March, 1983.

"John Gordon: Dialogue with Nature," American Artist, July, 1980, p. 31.

"The Remembered Earth: Momaday's House Made of Dawn," South Dakota Review, Spring, 1973.

"The Symbolic Richness of Richard Wright's 'Bright and Morning Star,'" Negro American Literature Forum, Winter, 1972: Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 110-112.

"Malcolm X: Racism and the Quest for Justice," Iowa English Bulletin, Fall, 1971, pp. 14-20.