| Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following magazines in which some of these poems first appeared, a few in different form. Georgia Review, "Skirts"; North American Review, "The Bed of Music"; Ploughshares, "Dust Storm'' and "First Marriage"; Southern Humanities Review, "The Past"; Alaska Quarterly Review, ''Funereal," "November," and "Figuration"; American Literary Review, "The Wooden Egg"; Connecticut Review, "The Composer," "The Last of Our Embraces Transformed from the First" and "Sylvia Plimack Mangold Paints"; Prairie Schooner, "Sappho's Voice"; Sycamore Review, "Brain Teasers"; Southern Poetry Review, "Sandwoman"; Ontario Review, "Turkeys in August"; Alkali Flats, "The Breakfast Room," and "The Circle Theatre"; Louisiana Literature, "The Movie Fan"; Connecticut English Journal, "Vines and Cathedral Lines"; Nebraska Review, "Flamingos"; Pivot, "Sappho Views Her X-Rays." |
| "Figuration" received a commendation from the National Poetry Competition, 1995; "The Reunion" received a commendation in the same competition in 1996. |
| "A Prelapsarian Mood Piece" received first prize and was published in the 1996 Emily Dickinson Award Anthology, published by Universities West Press, 1997. |
| "The Breakfast Room" received The Yeats Prize awarded by the Yeats Society of New York, 1997. |
| "Dust Storm" was reprinted in Best American Poetry, 1997 (New York: Scribners Paperback, 1997) and in Anthology of Magazine |
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