Publications

Publications

Collections of Poetry:

From Mr. Bondo’s Unshared Life, Hamilton Stone Editions, 2013.

Sleepwalker's Songs: New & Selected Poems, Hamilton Stone Editions, 2012.

Temporary Meaning, Hamilton Stone Editions, 2006.

Changing the Subject, in collaboration with Halvard Johnson, Red Hen Press, March, 2004.

Live Music, chapbook, Pecan Grove Press, August, 2001.

Changing the Subject, electronic chapbook, in collaboration with Halvard Johnson, The Blue Moon Review, December 10, 2000: http://thebluemoon.com/poetry/cts.shtml

The Headlong Future, New Rivers Press, St. Paul, MN, 1990.

The Year Is Approaching Snow, W.D. Hoffstadt & Sons, Syracuse, NY, 1981.

The Fires In Oil Drums, chapbook, San Pedro Press, St. David, AZ, 1980.

Edited collections:

Fever Dreams: Contemporary Arizona Poetry, co-editor with Leilani Wright, University of Arizona Press, 1997.

In Like Company: The Porch and Salt River Review Anthology, MadHat Press, 2015.

Poems in Anthologies:

"I Dream of War," 100 Poets Against the War, Salt Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 2003. "Signal Deaths" & "Temporary Meaning," in Tumblewords: Writers Reading The West, ed. by William L. Fox, published by Western States Arts Federation and the University of Nevada Press.

"Prime Norton" & "Autumn Mid-week" in Gold Dust: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry, Nevada City, CA, 1986.

"Prime Norton" in The Bisbee Poetry Anthology, Bisbee Press Collective, Bisbee, AZ, 1983.

"The Bandaged Man," "Recent Estimate of a Wall," & "From The Winter Hole" inSpecialia: Contemporary American Poetry, Professional Productivity Assoc., Carbondale, IL, 1975.

Magazines and Journals:

Hole In The Head Review, 2022,: “Theater of War”

Nine Mile, Fall, 2021: “Riffs on an Absent Piano”

Nine Mile, Spring, 2021: “On Approaching Eighty,” “We didn’t meet the April challenge,” “Easier to think of it this way,” “Politically,” “Upon Reading”

Nine Mile, Fall, 2017: “What the World Needs”

On Barcelona, 2014: : “Pairings”

Gargoyle, 2013: “I want you to understand this poem”

On Barcelona , 2012: “Mouth Opened Before Thought Was Finished”; “Customizers”; “This Poet Will Help Me”

Otoliths, November, 2011: "Lament," "Puffball Acceptance," "Ology"

Truck, October 2011, ed. Kelly Cherry: "Seasonal" & "Demise,"

Hinchas de Poesia, #4: "Gladdy's Blues," "Fountain," "Update," http://www.hinchasdepoesia.com/Hinchas/HINCHAS_FOUR/cervantes.html

SOL: English Writing in Mexico, March, 2011: "Shock Value," http://www.solliterarymagazine.com/poetry/jim-cervantes-shock-value/

Hamilton Stone Review, Issue # 17 Winter 2009: "X" (fiction), http://www.hamiltonstone.org/hsr17.html

Tata Nacho #2: "Crab Oscar," "Tour Bus" (fiction) http://tatanacho.wordpress.com/

Tata Nacho #1, September, 2008: “Cone of Uncertainty,” “Rides” (fiction) http://tatanacho.wordpress.com/

Linebreak #38, October, 2008: “Third Hand Tale: West Virginia” http://linebreak.org/72/third-hand-tale-west-virginia/

Big Bridge, Vol. 3, No. 3: "Number Three of Photo Album Shuffled," http://www.bigbridge.org/BB14/WAR09.HTM#JCervantes

Merge, Fall 2007: “Poems That Arrived Without a Briefcase,” “Four Visionary Stories,” “Idyll Beneath a Thunderhead.”

The Spoon River Poetry Review, Vol. XXIX, No. 2: "Seven Incarnations"

Scrivener Creative Review, #28, 2004: "Objects That Sing"

88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, October, 2003, Issue 3: "A Villanelle Returns From War" & "Against Clean Lines"

Hamilton StoneReview, Fall 2003: "Nation as Null Set," "When Mr. Bondo awoke with his hair on fire" & "Hundreds of miles to the south, in the frying pan city" (both from Mr. Bondo's Unshared Life)

Tattoo Highway #7, Fall, 2003: "Magnetic Express"

The Laurel Review, V. 37, No.1, Winter, 2003: "Piracy," "How Dreams Resolve," & "Argument in the Afternoon"

Tattoo Highway, Vol. 5, No. 2, August, 2003: "Magnetic Express"

Gargoyle #45, 2002, "Poems for Friends in Mid-Winter"

Tattoo Highway, Vol. 4, No.1, January, 2001: "Clear and Mysterious"

Nebo, Fall, 2001, "Hummingbird in Zero Gravity"

Sugar Mule #8, September, 2001: "Slow Drain of Time" & "Fear via Place"

Tattoo Highway, 2001, "Roadside Attractions":"Roosters and Train Whistles" & "Wolf Couple"

Boston Review, Vol. 26, No. 2, April/May, 2001: "from Mr. Bondo's Unshared Life" (four poems)

The North American Review, Vol. 286, No. 1, January/February, 2001: "Directions to Oblivion"

Red Cedar Review, V XXXVI, No. 1, Winter 2000-01: "Proposition and Question"

Quarterly West, No. 51, Autumn-Winter 2000-2001: "Fortune Cookie"

Poetry Now, "Does everyone wonder about the birds" & "Now it is morning, noon, and night," from Mr. Bondo's Unshared Life.

Kota Press, "Doll's Lesson." LogicAlley , "On Sleeping in a Strange Bed."

The Florida Review, V XXIV, N0. 1, Winter, 1999: "Of My Previous Life."

Terrain: A Journal of The Built & Natural Environments, No. 2, Winter, 1999: "Reclamation at 4 a.m."

The Free Cuisenart, #27, October, 1999: "The Body Draws Guard Duty."

Perehelion, V. I, No. 3, December, 1998: "The Memory Priest" & "Empty Chairs."

Chili Verde Review, April, 1997: "A Night Where a Child Can Die."

Ascent, V21, No. 2, Winter. 1997: "Winter Loss."

This Is Not Art, Issue #2, Summer 1997: "Bar Code" & "Drought Poem."

Whiskey Island, Winter, 1996: "This First Prayer."

Recursive Angel, Issue #5, June-July 1996: "Forecast for Unsettled Weather."

Thin Air, No. 1, Fall/Winter, 1995/96: "Starfall" & "What Might Have Been and What Was Never Meant To Be."

Lucid Stone, No. 3, Fall, 1995: "Traveling In Strange Company" & "The Town Cafe."

Gruene Street, Vol. I, No.1, Summer, 1995 : "Temporary Meaning."

Blue Mesa Review (Albuquerque), Spring, 1994: "Signal Deaths."

South Ash Press (Phoenix), October, 1993: "Spring Loaded" & "The Death of Salvador Dali."

Southwest , I:1, Spring, 1992: "Black Water" & "Wind on the Face of a Lake."

Pacific Review, San Diego State Univ., 1988: "Gulf Coast Blues."

The Altadena Review, No. 10, 1988 (Altadena, CA): "According To Poincare."

Starline, X:6, Nov.-Dec., 1987 (Schedectady, NY): "Music of the Tethered Man."

Northern Arizona Review, 1986-87 (Flagstaff): "The Unacccountable Solitudes" & "A Place That Is The Same Elsewhere."

Hayden's Ferry Review, Spring, 1986 (Tempe, AZ): "Make The Turtle Whole."

Northern Arizona Review, 1985-86 (Flagstaff): "Gulf Coast Blues."

Telescope , Fall, 1985 (Sparks, MD): "In Lieu of an Ars Poetica."

raccoon, No. 9, 1984 (Memphis): "Elegy for the Oldest Son."

Memphis State Review, Fall, 1983: "Letter To Franz Douskey."

Northwest Review, XXXI: 1, 1983 (Eugene): "This Season."

Telescope, I:2, 1983 (Baltimore): "The Long Dream of a Life."

The New Laurel Review, Spring, 1983 (New Orleans): "Northern Lights."

Stone Country, X:1/2, 1982 (Menemsha, NJ): "For Comfort."

Continental Drift, I:1, Spring, 1982 (Boulder, CO): "The Garden of Antiquities."

Nebraska Review, Spring, 1982 (Fairbury,): "Sienna."

Whetstone, No. 8, Spring, 1981 (St. David, AZ): "After Gardening: Dream and Remembrance."

Telescope, I:1, Spring, 1981 (Baltimore): "Shallow Music" & "The Hero's Ceremony of Possibilities."

Ploughshares, 6:4, 1981 (Cambridge): "The Sun Intent Upon This Earth."

New Letters, 46:2, Winter, 1980 (Kansas City): "The Killing of the Rooster" & "When Something Large Breaks."

Porch, III:3, Summer/Fall, 1980 (Tempe): "Poems For The Dog Star."

Black Warrior Review, VII:1, Fall, 1980 (University, AL): "The Old Man Dreams" & "The Proxy."

permafrost, II:2, Fall, 1980 (Fairbanks): "Fleur-de-lis" & "Sometimes Our Angels Emerge From a Base of Fire."

West Branch, No. 6, 1980 (Lewisburg, PA): "In Seclusion."

The Seattle Review, III:1, Spring, 1980: "A Letter To Myself About a Friend."

The Seattle Review, II:1, Spring, 1979: "From The Sister's Diary."

raccoon, No. 4, 1978 (Memphis): "State of Grace."

Cincinnati Poetry Review, No. 5, 1978: "In A Brown Study, Or 'Violet'."

Panjandrum, No. 6/7, 1978 (San Francisco): "Learning With Felt Figures" & "Different Hours."

Daimon, Fall, 1977 (Atlanta): "The Window's Turn," "Houston, 1949" & "36th Birthday."

Cutbank, No. 8, 1977 (Missoula, MT): "On The Therapeutist."

Rocky Mountain Review, No. 8, 1977 (Durango, CO): "My Wife Transformed" & "Late Apples."

En Passant, I:3, 1976 (Wilmington, DE): "Dream Western."

En Passant, I:2, 1976: "At The Abandoned Farm."

En Passant, I:1, 1975: "Autumn Mid-week."

Michigan Quarterly Review, XIV:1, Winter, 1975 (Ann Arbor): "Amaryllis."

Workshop #25, Summer/Fall, 1975 (Brattleboro, VT): "On The Photographs."

Madrona, II:6, 1973 (Seattle): "Horses" (trans. from Spanish of Dimitrio Korsi).

Quarry, Summer, 1973 (Kingston, ON): "Travelling" & "A Little Bit of Swan Lake."

Jeopardy, Spring, 1973 (Bellingham, WA): "Two Friends Return."

Western Humanities Review, XXVI: 3, Summer, 1972 (Salt Lake City): "Casting A Flying Orchestra."

Madrona, Fall, 1971 (Seattle): "The Lady Poet" & "The L.C. Smith."

Tennessee Poetry Journal, II:3, Spring, 1969 (Martin, TN): "A Thumb in the Mind" & "Dance of the Adolescents."

Reviews:

Chiron Review , Vol. XIII, No.3, Autumn, 1994: review of A Natural Good Shot, by Leilani Wright.

New Mexico Humanities Review, Summer, 1984 (Socorro, NM): reviews of Everything That Has Been Shall Be Again, John Gilgun; I'm Amazed That You're Still Singing, Jack Myers; Rowing Across The Dark, Franz Douskey.

New Mexico Humanities Review, Spring, 1984: review of Ruby For Grief, Michael Burkard.

Porch, IV:1, Winter, 1980 (Tempe): "From The Desk": capsule review of five books.Ironwood, V:7, No. 2, Fall, 1979 (Tucson): "A Depot of Light": review of In A White Light, Michael Burkard.

Porch, II:3/4, Summer/Fall, 1979 (Tempe): "Passing It On": review of Brother Songs, ed. Jim Perlman.

Porch, I:4, Spring, 1978 (Seattle): review of The St. Vlas Elegies, Pamela Stewart.

Porch, I:2, Summer/Fall, 1977 (Seattle): "Where The Ochre Deer Stand Frozen": review of The Illustrations, Norman Dubie.

Literary Non-Fiction:

"The Scottsdale Progress Saturday Magazine," May 15, 1982: "A Conversation With James Dickey"

"The Scottsdale Progress Saturday Magazine," October 23, 1982: "Poets and Peace," essay on poets involved in the anti-nuclear movement.