Christine Delea Biography, Photos, and Publications

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Poetry Publications

Books:

Ordinary Days in Ordinary Places: Pudding House Press

Anthologies:

I Have My Own Song for It: Modern Poems about Ohio, University of Akron Press, 2002, Edited by Elton Glaser and William Greenway.
"Fast Opera" and "Leaving Downtown Marietta, Ohio, 1983"

Prairie Volcano: An Anthology of North Dakota Writing, Dacotah Territory Press, 1995, Edited by Martha Meek and Jay Meek.
"The Rug Men Come to Town"

Recent and Upcoming Journal Publications:

Upcoming

"In Fifty Years" and "Verbs" — Re)verb
"New Orleans Mardi Gras, 1984" — New York Quarterly
"What Good-bye Tastes Like" — Seedhouse
"Ascendancy"-cash prize not included
"The Flowering Word," "The Power of Brooms" and "Unexplored"—Pegasus
"Gone at Night" and "The Sea Mermaid's Story"—Ship of Fools
"How to Spot a Pirate" and "Wife, Summer, West Virginia"—Ibbetson Street Press
"I Never Get Tired of The Wizard of Oz"—Mochila Review
"In Fifty Years" and "Verbs"—Re)verb
"Letter to the Astronaut"—White Heron
"Metaphors and Lies"—Antietam Review
"Midnight: Catskills"—Gingko Tree Review
"Moons in Autumn"—The Pikeville Review
"A Reluctant Client at the Shelter Speaks" and "It's Been a Busy Week"—OSPA's Verseweavers

2003

"Bayview, Captree, Higbie, Manetuck, Paumanok, Oquenock, Secatogue, Westbrook" and
      "How to Find Your Way in New York City, Especially If You Have Low Expectations" —
      South Dakota Review
"City Singing and Beyond" and "Familiarity" — LSR
"Danger" — VPA's Anthology of New England Writers
"Joy—When There Is Nothing Else" — Deus Loci
"The Skeleton Holding Up the Sky" — PSNH's The Poet's Touchstone

2002

"Alice, Post-Wonderland" — Quercus Review
"Birth Control, with Smoke: Margaret Sanger Has an Idea" — Clark Street Review
"At the Support Meeting for People Working Menial Jobs that Have Sexual-Sounding Titles" —      Fireweed
"As I Wait for Floods and Tornadoes, I Think about Chaos and Control" — Concho River Review
"The Bad Wife" — Phoebe: A Journal of Feminist Scholarship, Theory, and Aesthetics
"A Blessing of Bees" — Potpourri
"Candy" — Green Hills Literary Lantern
"Cigarettes and Blue Dye, No Bullets" — Barnwood
"Cycles" — Inventing the Invisible/Art in the Air
"How to Perform First Aid on Yourself" — The Berkshire Review
"How to Teach Palmistry" — Ellipsis
"Ideally, This Plan Should Work" — Miller's Pond
"I Love Men on Prozac" — www.winningwriters.com
"The Lawyer in the Moon" — OSPA Verseweavers
"The Poseidon Adventure Comes to North Babylon, New York" — Crab Orchard Review
"The Problem with Hanging Out with Dead Elvis in Vegas" — Old Red Kimono
"What Fences Do Without Words" — Taproot

2001

"About the Things We Leave Behind in Cities" — Poems and Plays
"After the Bridge" — Clark Street Review
"An Approximation of Mars" — Heliotrope
"Chimneys" and "Clouds" — Soundings East
"For the Aliens, Once They Land" and "What the Birds Are Worth" — Sow's Ear Poetry Review
"Gentle Advice for the Lovelorn and Nervous" and "Winter Night" — Oregon Review
"I Love Men on Prozac" — Spoon River Poetry Review
"Ireland, Scotland, New York, Massachusetts" — One Trick Pony"Jewelweed" — Pinyon
"My Job and Why I Left It" — Wavelength
"Now, at 40, I Want Poems" and "Sitting in the White House Bar in Fishkill, New York" — South      Dakota Review
"Obsession" — Fox Cry Review
"The Odds of Winning at Love Aren't in Your Favor" — Rattapallax
"Quiet Lives of Aspiration" — Sulphur River Literary Review
"Resurrection" — West Wind Review
"Winter Rain" — Little Brown Poetry

2000

"Catching Cold" — The Lucid Stone
"Drought Summer" — Petroglyph
"The Front Yard, The Back Yard" — Raintown Review
"Grave" — Trestle Creek Review
"The Mysterious Connection Between Birds and Humans Solved," "Sins," and "Two Questions about      Modern Poetry" — Parting Gifts
"The Opera, Broken Glass, and Adult Perceptions" — PDQ
"Parents" — Pennsylvania English
"Reptile World" — Seedhouse
"Taking the Plunge" — Washington Square
"What I Find In South Dakota" — LitRag

1999

"A Clean House Is a Good House" — Devil Blossoms
"A Prisoner in My Own Home" — Maelstrom
"Animals" — Albatross
"Every Photograph I've Ever Seen" and "Young Children at Midnight" — The Distillery
"How to Tell" — Artworld Quarterly
"Life on the Moon" — Gulf Stream Magazine
"My Friend in Hawaii Knows about Love" — Sighting: Poems of Discovery
"The Rocks the Finns Moved" — Cottonwood
"Scare Crows" — Red Owl
"This Being the First Night They Left the House" — Footprints
"Towards Earth" — The Oregonian
"The Village of Expectancy" — Riverrun

1998

"Articulable" — Bookpress: The Newspaper of the Literary Arts
"Bras: A Sestina" — National League of American PEN Women/ Portland Branch, Contest      Newsletter
"Circus Memory/Newborn Fate" — Pudding
"City of Stars," "What My Father Does and Doesn't Do," and "Woman with a Book" — Poem
"Crop Duster's Wife" — Plainsongs
"Crossroads" and "This Is What They Found Reading Poetry" — Black Dirt
"The Dream Readers" — The Listening Eye
"The Far Mountain," "How to Tame Me," and "What the Neighbors Suspect Is True" — The
      Pointed Circle
"Hearing Whispers" — Re:AL
"The Hunt, The Memory" — Old Red Kimono
"Knives" — Fireweed
"Looking for Elvis" and "Under the Watchful Eyes of Great Art" — Porcupine Literary Arts      Review
"Masque" — Potpourri
"Outside of Town" — Midwest Quarterly Review
"Picture This in Chalk" and "This Poem Being an Explanation in Which I Explain Why I Stay with
     That No Good Man" — Möbius
"Two Days at the Old House" — Coe Review
"The Words You Know" — The Sierra Nevada College Review

1997

"Fine, Smooth Lines Like Peacock Plumes" — North Dakota Quarterly
"Honey" — The Rockford Review
"I Do Laundry Well" — The Comstock Review
"Satin Stitching" — American Poets and Poetry
"Watching Things Burn" — No Exit