This page is Literary Works. It contains links to selected poems (many with audio), stories, essays, novel excerpts, some duplicates of the UP and the Finnish pages. For a full list of these publications, see my CV.

• Poems
  

  • Amish Angelus (poem with Audio)
  • Srebrenica (Poem with Audio)
  • I Will Never Love Anyone the Way I Loved James Dean (poem with audio)
  • Blue
  • A Charm for Singers (poem with audio)
  • People of Bone and Water (poem with audio)
  • Juhannus
  • At Delphi
  • 2 Poems from Rapport
  • All Those Little Brown Birds
  • The Company (poem with audio)
  • Grandma, You Used To (poem with audio)
  • The Big Birds (poem)
  • Behind (poem)
  • Meditation at Helen Lake, Michigan
  • A Blessing (poem)
  • The Lilacs of Ishpeming (poem)

• Fiction

  • Fish Scream (short story)
  • The Blanket (short story)
  • Does It Snow in Vietnam? (short story)
  • Blueberry Season (short story)
  • Grass Fires (short story)
  •  Helvi’s Sauna (short story)
  • The Small Death (short story)

• Creative Nonfiction

  • There Are Places You Know the Flow (Essay)
  • Swimming the Midwest (Essay)
  • A Week in Creativity (essay)
  • T47NR27W (Essay)
  •  Why Does A Writer Write? Because. (Essay)
  • The Search for Anna Karna (essay)
  • Let’s Steam Up (Esssay)
  • Fragile Calm (Essay)
  • Mae (Essay)