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VERN RUTSALA (Feb. 5th, 1934 - )
BIOGRAPHY
A distinguished poet, Vern Rutsala was born February 5, 1934, in McCall, Idaho. Aside from time spent in Europe and the Midwest, Rutsala has lived in Oregon most of his life. He is the author of numerous poetry books. Among his awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, a Masters Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission, the Carolyn Kizer Poetry Prize, and the Northwest Poets Prize. Rutsala taught at Lewis & Clark College from 1961-2004.
Rutsala was a regular contributor to periodicals, including Atlantic Monthly, Times Literary Supplement, Paris Review, Nation, Midland, Poetry, New Yorker, Harper's, American Poetry Review, Chicago Review, Mississippi Review, Nebraska Review, Seneca Review, and New Letters.
Education: Reed College, B.A., 1956; State University of Iowa, M.F.A., 1960. Military/Wartime Service: U.S. Army, 1956-58.
Career: Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR, 1961-2004, professor of English. Visiting professor, University of Minnesota, 1968-69, and Bowling Green State University, 1970; writer in residence, Redlands University, 1979, and University of Idaho, 1988.
Awards: National Endowment for the Arts fellow, 1974, 1979; Northwest Poets Prize, 1975; Guggenheim fellow, 1982; Carolyn Kizer Poetry Prize, 1988; Master fellowship, Oregon Arts Commission, 1990; Hazel Hall Prize, Oregon Book Award, 1992, for Selected Poems; Juniper Prize, University of Massachusetts Press, 1994, for Little-Known Sports; Duncan Lawrie Prize, Arvon Foundation, 1994.
A SAMPLING OF TITLES BY THE AUTHOR:
The Window, Wesleyan University Press (Middletown, CT), 1964.
Small Songs: A Sequence, Stone Wall Press (Iowa City, IA), 1969.
The Harmful State, Best Cellar Press (Lincoln, NE), 1971.
Laments, New Rivers Press, 1975.
The Journey Begins, University of Georgia Press (Athens), 1976.
Paragraphs, Wesleyan University Press, 1978.
The New Life, Trask House (Portland, OR), 1978.
Walking Home from the Icehouse, Carnegie Mellon University Press (Pittsburgh), 1981.
The Mystery of the Lost Shoes, Lynx House Press (Amherst, MA), 1985.
Backtracking, Storyline Press (Santa Cruz, CA), 1985.
Ruined Cities, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1987.
Selected Poems, Story Line Press (Brownsville, OR), 1991.
Little-known Sports, University of Massachusetts Press (Amherst), 1994.
DATE RANGE:
1959-2000
SCOPE AND CONTENTS
This collection is composed of poetry journals and anthologies containing poems by Vern Rutsala. The items are listed alphabetically by editor or journal title. In most cases the title of the published poem has been provided in square brackets. Box numbers are also provided for each entry.
PUBLICATIONS WITH POEMS BY VERN RUTSALA
Anderson, Maggie and Gildzen, Alex, eds. A Gathering of Poets. Kent State U. Press. Kent, Ohio. 1992 [“The Silence”] VRPUB 4
Advancing Poetry. Class Anthology- Advanced Poetry Writing 422. 1992. [“What We Really Want”] VRPUB 6
Agni. Nos. 31/32. 1990. [“Portland Hosts the Second Coming”] VRPUB 1
Agni. No. 45. 1997. [“What the World Does”] VRPUB 2
Aisling. No. 4. 1974. [“Back” “Our Mystery”] VRPUB 6
Alexander, Robert and Mark Vinz and C.W. Truesdale, eds. The Talking of Hands. New Rivers Press. Minneapolis, MN. 1998. [“Geography” “Taking The Old Road”] VRPUB 5
Alexander, Robert and Mark Vinz and C.W. Truesdale, eds. The Party Train: A Collection of North American Prose Poetry. New Rivers Press, 1996. [“Broom; Dust Mop; Ironing Board; Getting Lost; Lying; Sleeping”] VRPUB 1
Ambit. No. 53. 1972/73. [“The Three Fingered Man’] VRPUB 2
The American Poetry Review. Vol. 3. No. 3. 1974. [“The Journey Begins” and article “Poetry in the Classroom”] VRPUB 2
The American Poetry Review. Vol. 25. No. 5. September/October 1996. [“The Boneyard”] VRPUB 2
Antenna. Vol. 6. No. 1. 1981. [“Smoking” “Poison Pen Letter” “Psychiatry”]
Ardinger, Richard, ed. ‘What Thou Lovest Well Remains’ 100 Years of Ezra Pound. Limberlost Press, 1986. [includes essay ‘What Thou Lovest Well Remain’:Ezra Pound by V.R.] VRPUB 3
Bamboo Ridge. No. 21. 1983. VRPUB 4
Barnabe Mountain Review. No. 2. 1996. [“Rutsala Weather”] VRPUB 2
Behind Prism Bars. 1976. (Written by LC poetry students-dedicated to VR). VRPUB 4
Black Warrior Review. Vol. 8. No. 1. 1981. [“Speaking Her Lonely Greek” A Little Night Music”] VRPUB 4
Bosselaar, Laure-Anne. Outsiders: Poems About Rebels, Exiles, and Renegades. Milkweed Editions. Minneapolis, MN. 1999. [“Shame”] VRPUB 5
Calapooya Collage. No. 8. Summer 1984. [“Sunset and Dawn: T’ao Ch’ien”] VRPUB 2
Calapooya Collage. No. 10. Summer 1986. [“Looking For Work”] VRPUB 2
Calapooya Collage. No. 12. 1988. [“Travelling One Way”] VRPUB 2
Calapooya Collage. No. 16. 1992. [“Save What We Can: A Memoir”-VR, “Malheur Before Dawn” “Surveying Redmond” “My Other Shoes”-WS] VRPUB 6
Calapooya. No. 19. 1997. [Rutsala wins Carolyn Kizer Poetry Prize-Poems and recognition] VRPUB 2
Chadakoin Review. No. 3. Summer 1990. [“Door to Door”-VR “Explaining the Big One”-WS] VRPUB 4
Chelsea. No. 51. 1991. [“The Black Map”] VRPUB 1
Chicago Review. Vol. 29. No. 1. 1977. [“Not Listening to Canadian Radio; Snow”] VRPUB 3
Chicago Review. Vol. 30. No. 2. 1978. [“Winning and Losing: after Picasso; Orofino; Interruptions”] VRPUB 1
Choice. No. 5. [“November in the City of Roses” “Driving in the Rain”-VR, “Dear Reader” “Looking Out and Staying True”-WS] VRPUB 4
Clackamas Literary Review. Vol. 2. Issue 1. 1988. [“Thieves, The Muse in a Holding Pattern; Deceptions”] VRPUB 3
Cloud Street. Lewis & Clark College Literature and Arts Magazine, 1978. [“Geography Lesson”] VRPUB 3
College English. Vol. 48. No. 8. 1986. [“Home Remedies” “Against Telephones” “The History of Disappointment”] VRPUB 5
College English. Vol. 54. No. 3. 1992. [“Moon Driving” and “Writing to the Past”] VRPUB 1
Colley, Ann C. and Judith K Moore. Starting With Poetry. Harcourt, 1973. [“Listening; Other Lives”] VRPUB 3
Collier, Michael. The Wesleyan Tradition: Four Decades of American Poetry. [includes “Lovers in Summer” and “Late at Night” and “Bodies”] VRPUB 1
Colorado Review. New series: Vol. 18, No. 1. 1991. [“The Super 99 Drive-in Chronicle; Carpentry”] VRPUB 3
Colorado State Review. Vol. 7, No. 1. 1979. [“To a Liar” and “Forgotten Dreams”] VRPUB 1
Crab Orchard Review. Vol. 5. No. 2. 2000. [“Fifteen”] VRPUB 4
Crazyhorse. No. 32. 1987. [“Field Burning”] VRPUB 5
Crazyhorse. No. 41. 1991. [“Missing It”] VRPUB 1
Crazyhorse. No. 51. Winter 1996. [“Layers”] VRPUB 2
Daniel, Edyth, et al., eds. Counterpoint in Literature. Scott, Foresman and Co., 1974. [“Bijou”] VRPUB 3
Decal. No. 3. Winter 1972/72. [“Being Away”] VRPUB 4
Denver Quarterly. Vol. 27. No. 3 . Winter 1993. [“Departures, Arrivals. . .”] VRPUB 4
A Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers. 1991-92 edition. 1990. VRPUB 2
The Dragonfly. Vol. 4 No. 4. 1977. [“War of the Worlds”] VRPUB 1
Dunning, Stephen, Edward Lueders and Hugh Smith, comps. Some haystacks don’t Even Have Needles. Scott, Foresman and Company. Glenview, IL. 1969. [“Looking in the Album” “Sunday”- VR –3WS poems] VRPUB 4
Durak: An International Magazine of Poetry. No. 4. 1980. [“Occupation”] VRPUB 3
Elkhorn Review. Winter 1985-86. [“Hands and Faces”] VRPUB 2
England, Eugene and Peter Makuck, eds. An Open World: Essays on Leslie Norris. Camden House, 1994. [includes “Anecdotes into Story: ‘Some Opposites of Good’”] VRPUB 4
Enright, Martin, ed. In the West of Ireland: A Literary Celebration in Contemporary Poetry. Enright House of Ireland, 1992. [“Another of the Lost”] VRPUB 1
Epoch. Vol. 25. No. 1. Fall 1975. [“Sleeping for a Year; Awake Five Years”] VRPUB 3
Erhart, W. D. ed. Carrying the Darkness: American Indochina- The Poetry of the Vietnam War. Avon Books. New York. 1985. [“The Silence”-V.R. and “Report From an Unappointed Committee”-Stafford] VRPUB 4
Erhart, W. D. ed. Carrying the Darkness: American Indochina- The Poetry of the Vietnam War. Texas Tech University Press. Lubbock, TX. 1989. [“The Silence”-V.R. and “Report From an Unappointed Committee”-Stafford] VRPUB 4
Esquire. Vol. 84. No. 3. 1975. [“Leaving England”] VRPUB 6
Farrell, Edmund J., Ruth s. Cohen and L. Jane Christensen. Discoveries in Literature. Scott, Foresman and Company. Glenview, IL. 1985. [“Visits”] VRPUB 2
Field, Edward. ed. A Geography of Poets. Bantam Books. New York. 1979. [“Washrags” “Fame” “Words”] VRPUB 4
Field, Edward and Gerald Locklin and Charles Stetler, eds. A New Geography of Poets. University of Arkansas Press, 1992. [“Northwest Passage”] VRPUB 3
Fine Madness. Vol. 1. No. 1. 1982. [“The Dead”] VRPUB 6
Fine Madness. Vol. 2. No. 1. 1984/5. [“Elegy in Advance”] VRPUB 3
Fireweed: Poetry of Western Oregon. Vol. 2. No. 4. 1991. [“The Furniture Factory”] VRPUB 1
Free Lunch: A Poetry Miscellany. No. 24. Spring 2000. [“Ghazal”] VRPUB 5
Gettysburg. Vol. 10. No. 2. Summer 1997. [“What’s Out There Now”] VRPUB 4
Gonzalez-Viana and Joseph A. Soldati. O Poetry! Oh Poesia. Oregon –Peru Poetry Project. Trujillo, Peru and Monmouth, OR. 1997. [“Billie Holiday”] VRPUB 5
Happiness Holding Tank. Nos. 3 & 4. 1972. [“The Lonely Man” “The Lonely Man Speaks” “The Lonely Man Writes”] VRPUB 2
Harlan, William K. Probes: An Introduction to Poetry. The Macmillan Company. New York. 1973. [“The Institution”] VRPUB 4
Harper’s Magazine. Vol. 248. No. 1489. [“The Furniture Factory” “Reedy’s Galaxy”] VRPUB 6
Harris, Marie and Kathleen Aquero. An Ear to the Ground: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. University of Georgia Press, 1989. [contains “Words”] VRPUB 1
Harvard Magazine. Vol. 90. No. 1. 1987. [“Living Somewhere Else”] VRPUB 6
Henderson, Bill, ed. The Pushcart Prize, X: Best of the Small Presses. Pushcart Press. Wainscott, NY. 1985. [“Wilderness”-VR -3 WS poems] VRPUB 4
Hewitt, Margaret, ed. Good Time. Penguin Books. New York. 1974. [“Sunday”] VRPUB 4
Hubbub. Vol. 3. No. 1. 1985. [VR is guest editor, introduces ‘special British issue’] VRPUB 6
Hubbub. Vol. 9. No. 2. 1991. [V.R. is consulting editor] VRPUB 3
Hubbub. Vol. 10. Nos. 1 & 2. 1992. [includes “Driving North”] VRPUB 1
Hubbub. Vol. 12. 1995. [“Little-Known Sports” reviewed by Ken Garner, Reviews “Sufficiency” by Doug Marx, VR is consulting ed.] VRPUB 5
Hubbub. Vol. 15. 1998-99. [“Robert Hazel’s Washington” essay] VRPUB 2
Inscape. Vol. 3. Nos. 1 & 2. 1972. [“The Silence”] VRPUB 2
Inscape. Vol. 4. No. 1. 1974. [“Outside”] VRPUB 2
Inscape. Vol. 4. No. 2. 1975. VRPUB 4
Ironwood. No. 3 1973. [“Maintenance”]
Interim. Vol. 5. No. 2. 1986. [“Spring in McCall, Idaho” “April”] VRPUB 5
Jauss, David, ed. The Best of Crazyhorse. University of Arkansas Press, 1990. [contains “This Life, This Day”] VRPUB 1
Jefferson Monthly. Vol. 18. No. 11. November 1994. [“The Dead”] VRPUB 2
Johnson, Peter, ed. The Best of the Prose Poem: An International Journal. White Pine Press. Buffalo, NY. 2000. [“Hannelore“]VRPUB 5
Kansas Quarterly. Vol. 21. No. 3. 1989. [“The Hard Market”] VRPUB 1
LaMorticella, Barbara, and Steve Nemirow. Portland Lights: A Poetry Anthology. Nine Lights Press. Portland OR. 1999, [“Prospectus for Visitors”-VR, poems by Wm. and Kim Stafford] VRPUB 5
Larson, Clinton F. and William Stafford, eds. Modern Poetry of Western America. Brigham Young University Press, 1975. [“Other Lives; He Who Remains; My Love; Seven Preludes to Silence; Requiem for Sonora”] VRPUB 3
LC Review. Vol. 14. No. 1. 1987 [“Woolly Mammoths Then and Now”]
Levertov, Denise, comp. and ed. Out of the War Shadow. (1968 Peace Calendar) [“News”] VRPUB 4
Literature and Belief. Vol. 6. 1986. [“The Other House”] VRPUB 4
Lowenfels, Walter, ed. Where is Vietnam? American Poets Respond. Anchor, Doubleday, 1967. [“August 6, 1965”] VRPUB 3
Maguire, James H., ed. The Literature of Idaho: An Anthology. Hemingway Western Studies. Boise, ID. 1986. [“Words” “Northwest Passage” “Something Like Spinks” “Lonely Roads”] VRPUB 5
Malmstrom, Jean and Barbara Bondar. Language Alive: Linear A. Harper & Row, Publishers. New York. 1975. [“Sunday”] VRPUB 5
McFarland, Ronald E. and William Studebaker, eds. Idaho’s Poetry: A Centennial Anthology. University of Idaho Press, 1988. [“Gravel, Roads, Fathers, Idaho, Hobos, Memory; The Coast of Idaho; Words”] VRPUB 3
Mid-American Review. Vol. 18. No. 1. Fall 1997. [“The Story Without End”] VRPUB 2
Miller, James E., Kerry M. Wood and Carlota Cardenas de Dwyer. The United States in Literature. Scott, Foresman and Company. 1989. [“Words”] VRPUB 2
Mississippi Review. Vol. 9. No. 3. 1981. [“from Bestiary” “from Little-Known Sports”] VRPUB 4
Mississippi Review. Vol. 19. No. 3. 1991. [“Poetry and Vision:1990”] VRPUB 1
Mr. Cogito. Vol. 4. No. 3. Summer 1985. [“My Sense of Your Life”] VRPUB 4
Monday Poems. Lewis & Clark College. Portland, OR. 1967. [“Lament for Weekdays”-VR. “Bill Watson’s Report From Canada”-WS] VRPUB 4
Mud Creek. Vol. 1. No. 1. 1989. [“Families Returning”] VRPUB 1
Mukland, Jon, ed. Articulations: The Body and Illness in Poetry. University of Iowa Press, 1994. [“A Day in March; The Improvement”] VRPUB 3
Nebraska Review. No. 2. 1982. [“Answering the Telephone” “Flipping the Sentence” “Strangers”] VRPUB 3
New England Review. Vol. 2. No. 4. 1980. [“The Icecold Freight”] VRPUB 3
New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly. Vol. 8. No. 1. 1985. [“The Truth About Us: William Carlos Williams”] VRPUB 5
New Statesman. Vol. 84. No. 2171. October 27, 1972. [“Living in Someone Else’s House”] VRPUB 2
Pioneer Log. Vol. 36. No. 3. 1977. [“Rutsala Publishes Recent Poetry” by Nancy Rouch] VRPUB 6
Northwest Poets and Artists 1990 Calendar. Bainbridge Island Arts Council. Bainbridge Island, WA. 1989. [“Fame”] VRPUB 6
Northwest Review. Vol. 10. No. 2. 1970. [“Evenings at Home” “Memories of the Late Forties”-VR “Alive in the Mountains” “When We Were Poor” “Written Under the Robert L. Stevenson Tree on Oahu” “A Character” “In the Cold” “ Butterflies in the Radiator Grill”-WS] VRPUB 3
Northwest Review. Vol. 14. No. 1. 1974. [review of Kenneth O. Hanson’s The Uncorrected World by V.R.]
Northwest Review. Vol. 14. No. 3. Spring 1975. [“Visiting Day” “The New Life”] VRPUB 4
Nye, Naomi Shihab, comp. What Have You Lost? Greenwillow Books. New York. 1999. [“Other Lives”] VRPUB 4
Open Spaces. Vol. 1. No. 3. Summer 1998. [“Cannon Beach Meditations” and articles by David Savage and Rishona Zimring] VRPUB 2
Oregon English Journal. Vol. 13. No. 2. Fall 1991. [“The Great Oregon Serial Poem” additions by Rutsala, Wm. and Kim Stafford] VRPUB 2
The Oregon Times. Vol. 1. No. 5. May 24, 1971. [Article on a poetry workshop led by Rutsala] VRPUB 2
Oregon State Poetry Association Newsletter. June 1976. [“Rutsala on the paragraph form-from ‘The Harmful State’” “Stafford on ‘How I Write’ from ‘Going Places’”] VRPUB 6
Oresick, Peter and Nicholas Coles. Working Classics: Poems on Industrial Life. University Illinois Press, 1990. [“The Furniture Factory”] VRPUB 1
Panoply. Vol. 1. No. 2. 1987. [“You Should Pay Attention” “The New World”] VRPUB 5
Pebble. No. 11. 1974. [“Reunion: A Scenario; The House of Cards; On Paragraphs”] VRPUB 3
Pendragon. Vol. 1. No. 3. 1982. [“Lying” “Attic” “Crudity”] VRPUB 6
Ploughshares. Vol. 15, No. 1. 1989. [“Killing Flies in Georgia”] VRPUB 1
Poetry East. No. 15. 1984. [“Sunday Drives”] VRPUB 5
Poetry East. No. 32. 1991. [“Learning Your Lesson”] VRPUB 1
Poetry Kanto. No. 2. 1985. [“Forest; The Backyard at Night”] VRPUB 3
Poetry Northwest. Vol. 3. No. 3. Fall 1962. [“Meetings” “The Cough”] VRPUB 4
Poetry Northwest. Vol. 15. No. 1. 1974. [“Games in the Evening”] VRPUB 3
Poetry Northwest. Vol. 18. No. 1. 1977. [“On a Binge With Dakota Slim” “Clukov and Rambian”] VRPUB 4
Poetry Northwest. Vol. 21. No. No. 1. 1980. [“This Poem is a Tyrant”] VRPUB 5
Poetry Northwest. Vol. 36. No. 1. Spring 1995. [“Reading: A Memoir”] VRPUB 4
Poetry Society of America Bulletin. Vol. 68. No. 5. 1978. [VR mentioned as a new member-referred to as ‘she’] VRPUB 6
Poetry Now. Vol. 1. No. 5. 1974. [“Signature” “The Talent Hunt”] VRPUB 2
Poetry Now. Vol. 1. No. 6. 1974. [“Northwest Passage” “Tom Pete”] VRPUB 2
Poetry Now. Vol. 2. No. 3. 1975. [interview and several poems] VRPUB 2
Poetry Now. Vol. 3. No. 1. 1976. [“Things” “O Tannenbaum”] VRPUB 2
Poetry Now. Vol. 4. No. 1. 1978. [“The Public Lecture” “Killing Time” “The Terrible Infant”] VRPUB 2
Poetry Now. Vol. 4. No. 3. 1979. [“The Ghost on the Second Floor”-VR, “About Yesterday”-WS] VRPUB 6
Poetry Now. Vol. 4. No. 4. 1979. [“Public Appearances” “A Snapshot” “Monsters” “ The Photographer” “In the Natural History Museum” “Further Reasons”] VRPUB 6
Poetry Now. Vol. 5. No. 2. 1980. [“On Time” “Offering Consolation”] VRPUB 6
Poetry Now. Vol. 5. No. 3. 1980. [“What We Really Want”-VR, “Being an American”-WS] VRPUB 6
Poetry Texas. Vol. 1. No. 1. 1976. [“The Coast of Idaho”] VRPUB 3
Poetry Texas. Vol. 1. No. 2. 1977. [The poetry from the Northwest Section is guest edited by V.R.] VRPUB 3
Poetry. Vol. 117. No. 3. December 1970. [“Unlocking the Door”] VRPUB 2
Poetry. Vol. 119. No. 4. January 1972. [“A Secret Army” “Boxing Day” “Mesh”] VRPUB 2
Poetry. Vol. 122. No. 1. April 1973. [“Like the Poets of Ancient China” “Paths” “Quest”] VRPUB 2
Poetry. Vol. 125. No. 3. 1974. [“Dawn; A Rain; A Rain of Rites; The Whorehouse in a Calcutta Street”] VRPUB 3
Poetry. Vol. 125. No. 3. 1974. [“Drinking Late”]
Poetry. Vol. 127. No. 3. 1975. [“The World; Moving West; Going to War”] VRPUB 3
Poetry. Vol. 134. No. 3. 1979. [“Time”; “The Death Committee”; “Less is More. . .”; “East Wind”] VRPUB 1
Poetry. Vol. 137. No. 2. 1980. [“Skaters” “Prospectus For Visitors” “The Fears of the Poor”] VRPUB 4
Poetry. Vol. 145. No. 4. 1985. [“An American Morning; Coming Home] VRPUB 3
Poetry. Vol. 149. No. 2. 1986. [“Shelter; White Water”] VRPUB 3
Poetry. Vol. CLV. No. 4. 1990. [“The Muses of Rooms”] VRPUB 1
Poetry. Vol. CLX. No. 3. 1992. [“Becoming American”] VRPUB 1
Poetry. Vol. CLXIV, No. 2. 1994. [“Listening to a Russian Choir”] VRPUB 1
Poets On: Distances. Vol. 6. No. 2. 1982. VRPUB 4
Portland Review. Vol. 23. 1977. [includes results of the Branford P. Millar Awards judged by V.R.] VRPUB 3
Portland Review. Vol. 25. 1979. [“Living C.P. Snow” “Farmikng Poetry”] VRPUB 4
Portland Review. Vol. 28. No. 1. 1982. [“Summer Questions, 1981”] VRPUB 5
Portlander. Vol. 1. 1992-93. [“The Old Place”] VRPUB 2
Prairie Schooner. Vol. 71. No. 3. Fall 1997. [“We Learned It at the Movies” “The House of Loneliness”] VRPUB 2
Quarry. No. 4. 1974. [“Welcome to the Club” “Roots, Sources and Imaginary Eggs”-essay] VRPUB 5
Quarterly West. No. 12. 1981. [“East of Here” “Helpless Day”] VRPUB 4
Rain City Review. Vol. 1, No. 2. 1993. [“Recording”] VRPUB 1
Rain City Review. Vol. 3. No. 6. 1995/96. [“Industrial Relations”] VRPUB 4
Rainy Season. No. 1. 1981. [“A Curse on Shopkeepers”] VRPUB 6
River City. Vol. 20. No. 2. 2000. [“Identities”] VRPUB 5
River Styx. No. 37. 1993. [“You Said I Should Look” “The End of Waiting”] VRPUB 4
Runciman, Lex and Steven Sher, eds. Northwest Variety: Personal Essays by 14 Regional Authors. Arrowood Books. Corvallis, OR. 1987. [“The Frozen Lake”] VRPUB 4
Rutsala, Vern, ed. British Poetry 1972. England: Baleen Press, 1972. VRPUB 1
Rutsala, Vern. Walking Home from the Icehouse. 1981. Carnegie-Mellon University Press. Pittsburgh, PA. VRPUB 1
Rutsala, Vern. Writings (folder). Miscellaneous collected photocopies and clippings of VR published poetry and other writing.
Rutsala, Vern. October 6, 1970. Linfield College. Audio tape. VRPUB 4
St. Andrews Review. Vol. 1. No. 1. 1970. [“Report on the Day”-VR. “How to Live With a Volcano” “Alarmists” “Thinking About Marriage”-WS] VRPUB 4
Sallyport. Vol. 30. No. 1. 1971. [“Quiet Streets”] VRPUB 4
Seattle Review. Vol. 12. No. 1. 1989. [“The Forgetful House”] VRPUB 3
Seidman, Hugh and Frances Whyatt, eds. Equal Time. Equal Time Press. New York. 1972. [“Friday at 4:30” “Friends”
Seneca Review. Vol. 2. No. 2. 1971. [“Cave”] VRPUB 5
Seneca Review. Vol. VI. No. 2 1976 [ “Lessons From Long Valley”] VRPUB 3
Seneca Review. Vol. 19. No. 2. 1989. [“Letting things Slide”] VRPUB 1
Seneca Review. Vol. 19. No. 2. 1990. [“The Moment’s Equation”]
Seneca Review. Vol. 21. No. 2. 1991. [untitled portions of notebook] VRPUB 1
Shevin, David. The Red Herring of Courage. and C. Ronald Kimberling. The Good Conduct Medal. Slipshod Review Press. Bowling Green, OH. 1975. VRPUB 4
Skyline. Vol. 1. No. 2. 1981. [“The Only Season with Two Names” “Giving Up the Past”] VRPUB 4
South Dakota Review. Vol. 13. No. 3. Fall 1975. [Commentary by VR and WS] VRPUB 4
Southern Poetry Review. Vol. 33. No. 2. 1993. [includes “Reunion on the Weekend of the Fourth” and “Office Hours Ancestors and Drought”] VRPUB 1
Southwest Review. Vol. 74. No. 1. 1989. [“The Rest of Your Life”] VRPUB 1
Spingarn, Lawrence P., ed. Poets West: Contemporary Poems from the Eleven Western States. Perivale Press, 1975. [“The Shack Outside Boise”] VRPUB 3
Stand Magazine. Vol. 30. No. 1. 1988/89. [“The Lost Barn”] VRPUB 1
Stand Magazine. Vol. 31. No. 3. Summer 1990. [“Folly”] VRPUB 4
Sycamore Review. Vol. 2. No. 2. 1990. [“The Moment’s Equation”] VRPUB 1
Talking River Review. No. 1. Fall 1994. [“At This Point”] VRPUB 2
Tampa Review. No. 13. Fall/Winter 1996. [“The Muse of the First of the Month” “Letters From Cedar Road”] VRPUB 4
Tar River Poetry. Vol. 24. No. 2. 1985. [“The History of Apples; Making a Living”] VRPUB 3
Tar River Poetry. Vol. 28. No. 1. Fall 1988. [“Surfaces” “Calling Up the Rain”] VRPUB 4
Tar River Poetry. Vol. 35. No. 1. Fall 1995. [“Run Sheep Run” “The Protocol of Shadows”] VRPUB 2
Tar River Poetry. Vol. 38. No. 1. 1998. [“The History of Apples”] VRPUB 3
The American Scholar. Vol. 45. No. 2. 1976. [“Visitors”] VRPUB 3
The American Scholar. Vol. 48. No. 3. 1979. [‘The Other Place”] VRPUB 5
The Antioch Review. Vol. 54. No. 2. Spring 1996. [“The Song”] VRPUB 2
The Atlantic. Vol. 254. No. 2. 1984. [“The Windowsill Over the Sink”] VRPUB 6
The Atlantic. Vol. 259. No. 2. 1987. [“Traffic Watch”] VRPUB 6
The Bellingham Review. Vol. No. 2. 1986. [“The Other Night”] VRPUB 5
The Chariton Review. Vol. 12. No. 1. 1986. [“Louver”] VRPUB 3
The Chowder Review. Nos. 20 and 21. 1985. [“The Way We Live Now”] VRPUB 3
The Georgia Review. Vol. 35. No. 4. 1981. [“Moonlight Walk: Li Po”] VRPUB 5
The Georgia Review. Vol. XLIII, No. 3. 1989. [“Specter”] VRPUB 1
The Greenfield Review. Vol. 9. Nos. 1 & 2. 1981. [“Getting Into Bed; Stupidity; Being With It; Hangover”] VRPUB 5
The Hudson Review. Vol. 27. No. 4. Winter 1974-5. [“Access Road”] VRPUB 3
The Hudson Review. Vol. 38. No. 4. 1986. [“Backtracking” is discussed in Liam Rector’s essay “The Creatures in Their Places’ VRPUB 5
The Hudson Review. Vol. 40. No. 1. 1987. [“Talking to Strangers”] VRPUB 5
The Iowa Review. Vol. 9. No. 2. 1978. [“Eagle Squadron”] VRPUB 1
The Iowa Review. Vol. 11. No. 1. 1980. [“On the Town” “Lines Begin in Dejection”] VRPUB 4
The Journal. Vol. 21. No. 1. Spring 1997. [“Killing Time”] VRPUB 2
The Kenyon Review. Vol. 9. No. 1. 1987. [“Raisins” “Father Fear”] VRPUB 5
The Laurel Review. Vol. 30. No. 1. Winter 1996. [“Getting and Spending”] VRPUB 2
The Lewis and Clark Review. Vol. 14, No. 1. 1986/87. [Wooly Mammoths, Then and Now]
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The New Yorker. October 27, 1975. [“Walking From the Icehouse”] VRPUB 6
The New Yorker. March 24, 1980. [“The Final Cut”] VRPUB 6
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The Wilmington Review. Vol. 1. Nos. 1 & 2. 1987. [“To the Canadian Immigration Officials at Blaine, Washington”] VRPUB 6
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West Branch. No. 41. 1997. [“Slivers”] VRPUB 2
Westigan Review of Poetry. Issue 12. 1978.
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Willow Springs. No. 43. 1999. [“What We Owe”] VRPUB 4
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