Bibliography: Eric Torgersen
Books:
In Which We See our Selves: American Ghazals, Mayapple Press, 2017.
Heart. Wood. Cincinnati, OH: Word Press, 2012. Poems.
The Man Who Loved Rilke. Greensboro, NC: March Street Press, 2008. Novella.
Inside Unity House: The John-Paul Story. Greensboro, NC.: March Street Press, 2000. Novella in verse.
Dear Friend: Rainer Maria Rilke and Paula Modersohn-Becker. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1998. Paper, 2000. Non-fiction prose: biography; art & literary history & criticism.
Good True Stories. Amherst, MA: Lynx House Press, 1994. Poems.
The Door to the Moon. Greensboro, NC: March Street Press, 1993. Poems.
Ethiopia. Hanging Loose Press, 1977. 2nd ed. 1983. Novella.
At War With Friends, Ithaca House, 1972. Poems.
The Carpenter, Salt Mound Press, 1969. Poems.
Essays:
"Gaga's Left Arm," in Serving House Journal 15, Fall 2016.
"Writing the American Ghazal," Able Muse Summer 2015.
"Reading for Otherness," North American Review blog November 10, 2014
"Rilke for Seekers," Michigan Quarterly Review 52:4, Fall 2013
"In Passing," bioStories, January 2013. http://www.todaysbiostories.blogspot.com/#blank.
"Urds,” Vocabula Review, February, 2009. online: http://www.vocabula.com/2009/VRFEB09SS.asp
“Requiem for a Friend: You Must Change Your Art,” Field 63, Fall 2000.
"Karezza and Closure," AWP Chronicle, March/April, 1996.
"Scenes from the Outsider Art Fair," Gettysburg Review, Autumn 1994.
"Letter from Worpswede," Hudson Review, Summer 1993.
"Ya Gotta Have Art [editor's title]," Detroit Free Press Magazine, Dec. 13, 1992.
"Liberation, Bureaucracy and Silence," AWP Chronicle, September, 1992.
"Why I Am (Nevertheless) Not a New Formalist," AWP Chronicle, May 1991.
"Orpheus on Translation," Translation Review #28, 1988.
"Loving (Hating) the Messenger: Transference and Teaching," AWP Newsletter, November, 1988.
"Closing the Crack Between the Worlds," New Letters 54:2, Spring 1988. Runner-up in Dorothy Churchill Cappon Essay Competition.
"What Bears Repeating," Ironwood 30, 1987.
"Credentials and Critics," AWP Newsletter, 19,1, May 1987. Partially reprinted in The Writer’s Chronicle, 35:3, December 2002.
"Declining the Gambit," Caliban 2, 1987.
"Endless Summer, or Will the Rock and Roll Generation of Poets Ever Grow Up?" The American Book Review 9,1, Jan.-Feb. 1987.
"Inflation and Poetry," American Poetry Review July-August 1983.
"Cold War in Poetry: Notes of a Conscientious Objector," American Poetry Review, July-August 1981.
"Mysteriousness: The Rhetoric of the Inner Life," Field 25, 1981.
Poems in Journals:
"An American in Paris." in Peninsula Poets Spring 2022
"Poetry," "Inventory" in Eastern Structures 15, 2020
"More" in Eastern Structures 14, 2020
"Do It," "My Brain" in Eastern Structures 13, 2020
"With Desire," Eastern Structures 12, 2019
"The Breath" in Eastern Structures 11, 2019
"Elephant" in Eastern Structures 10, 2019
"Either" in Eastern Structures 9, 2019
"This Time" in Eastern Structures 8, 2018
"The Silence" in Eastern Structures 7, 2018
"In," "The Monster," in Eastern Structures 4, 2017.
"With Me," "Goodbyes," in Eastern Structures 3, 2017.
"Under the Circumstances," "Again," online at The Ghazal Page 74, Oct. 2017
"Birds," "Before," in Eastern Structures 2, 2016.
"My Dream," "Till Then," "For That" in Eastern Structures 1, 2016
"Right," online in The Ghazal Page 60, Aug. 2016.
"Beautiful," "These Days," "The Moon" online at The Ghazal Page #58, Feb, 2016.
"With You" in Able Muse 19, 2015.
"What Is Your Earliest Memory? What Does It Mean?" Silver Birch Press "Me, as a Child" online feature, 4-5, 2015.
"Again," in The Main Street Rag, Spring 2015.
"Electric," Spillway 22, Winter 2014.
"I Will Die in Lake Superior," Flyover Country Review, December 2014.
"Birds," Peninsula Poets, Fall 2014.
"Thank You," Peninsula Poets, Spring 2014.
"Chores," "A Little Chatter," "Small Town," Hanging Loose # 103, 2014.
"Broken," Columbia Poetry Review 26, 2013.
"A Death," The Diagram 12:6, 2013. http://thediagram.com/12_6/torgersen.html
"Yet," New Ohio Review #11, Spring 2012
"Beautiful," "Strangers," The Muse (India), 1:2, Dec. 2011
http://themuse.webs.com/poems%20December%202011/Eric%20Torgersen.htm
"My Home," "A Note to You," The Ghazal Page, June, 2011. http://www.ghazalpage.net/2011/june/june_page-1.html
Two Poems, both entitled "Of Ghazals," Cafe Review, Spring 2011.
"Not Literature," Pleiades 31:2, 2011.
"Back," "To," New Madrid VI:2, Summer 2011.
"Come Back," "Eric," In Posse Review, Summer 2011. http://www.inpossereview.com/ipr_torgersen.htm
"In America," Solo Novo v.1, 2011.
“One Year Later,” “Aubade,” “Parting Wishes,” “Thaw,” “Toward” “Soon” as Six Short Poems about Loss, hard copy and online, The Michigan Poet, 2011, http://www.themichiganpoet.com/
“Holy,” New Letters 76:4, Fall 2010.
“In Praise of Public Radio,” Pearl 43, Fall-Winter 2010.
“Back Then,” 32 Poems 8:2, Fall 2010.
"The Lesson," "In Poems," "Detector," "Ran Out," Parting Gifts, Summer 2010.
“With Elvis,” Iron Horse Literary Journal, Spring 2010.
"With You," Third Wednesday2:1, Winter 2009/2010.
“Back Then,” 32 Poems 8:2, Fall 2010.
"The Lesson," "In Poems," "Detector," "Ran Out," Parting Gifts, Summer 2010.
“With Elvis,” Iron Horse Literary Journal, Spring 2010.
“With You,” Third Wednesday, Winter 2009/2010.
“Case Studies I” North American Review 294:3-4, May-August 2009.
“Scenario,” “Yet,” New Ohio Review #6, Fall 2009.
“And Play,” “Postmodern,” Parting Gifts, Summer 2009.
“Out Here,” “Hands,” “Locked,” New Letters, 75:2/3, 2009.
“Chanson Américaine,” Main Street Rag, Spring 2009.
“Said,” Zone 3 #48, Fall 2008.
“A Counting,” Eclipse 19, Fall 2008.
“Taking Tickets,” online audio: third runner-up, Missouri Review Voice Only Poetry Competition, 2007. http://www.missourireview.org/content/dynamic/text_detail.php?text_id=1845
“Charity,” Light 56-57, Spring-Summer 2007.
“On Torgersen Island,” Light 52-53, Spring-Summer 2006-07.
“The Carpenter,” “When They Draw Us," "You Who in the Dream," Zone 3 Fall 2006
“Re: That” (poem), The Diagram 5:1, http://thediagram.com/5_1/torgersen.html
“Heart. Wood.” North American Review #291:1, Jan.-Feb. 2006.
“Cats,” “The Central Michigan Men’s Over Sixty Wooden Stick Lacrosse League,” Noneuclidean Café Spring 2006, http://www.noneuclideancafe.com/issues/vol1_issue2_Spring2006/torgersen.htm
“He Looks Back Over His Life and Thinks of What Might Have Been," Pindeldyboz, 2006.
"The Piper,” Gingko Tree Review #4, 2006.
“Jobs,” “Smart,” Parting Gifts 18:2, Winter 2005-06.
“In the Hospital Where Coltrane Died,” Exquisite Corpse #14, Spring 2005. http://www.corpse.org/archives/issue_14/poetick_kulchur/torgersen.html
“After Gaetan Picon,” Field #70, Spring 2004.
“Believe The Children,” Driftwood Review, Special Issue: Ludington Poetry Festival 2004, Spring 2004.
“For Cinderella,” “Clearing Out Old Books,” Willow Springs #51, January 2003.
“Freeing the Dead Cow in the River,” The Literary Review 44:4, Summer 2001.
“May Cause Drowsiness,” The Gettysburg Review, Spring 1998. Also at Gettysburg Review web site,
http://www.gettysburg.edu/ academics/gettysburg_review/trgrsn.html > .
"A Vacation," RPCV Writers & Readers, May, 1998.
"Even Things Die," "After Rilke," "Autographed Team Baseball," River Styx #44, 1995.
"The Lone Ranger Rides Off," Passages North, 14:1, Summer 1993.
"Sons and Fathers: Ashbery," "Of What Remains," Literary Review, 33:2, Winter 1990.
"Open Stage Poetry Reading," Jeopardy #25, Spring 1989.
"Driving Off the Stray," Parting Gifts 1,2, Winter 1988-89.
"Praise of Hunger, Praise of Food," "The Man Who Broke Up the Dinner Party Answers," "Villanelle of the Final Report," Ironwood 30, 1987.
"What Is Your Earliest Memory?" Hanging Loose 50/51, 1987.
"The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly," Notus 2,1, 1987.
"An Apple from Walt Whitman," Centennial Review XXXI, 4, Fall 1987.
"Not Stopping," "Not Ready for the Road," Black Fly Review #8, 1987.
"No Dancer Still Walking," Poetry NOW VII, 2, 1983.
"Open Stage Poetry Reading," Straits 2,1, Jan. 1983.
"Memory. Snow." Song 13, Summer 1983.
"Parting Wishes," "Toward," Northeast III, 14, Winter 1982-83.
"Going and Staying," "Poem for Adrienne Rich," Hudson Review XXXV, 3, Fall 1982.
"Love on the Friendship Quilt," Poetry NOW VI, 4, 1982.
"Lost Father Journal," Dreamworks II, 4, 1982.
"Running," "Taking Tickets," "Getting My Punch Back," "Good True Story," CoEvolution Quarterly 34, Summer 1982.
"Song: Moon: Follow," Song 10, Spring 1982.
"Poem Remembering Professor Cheng Hsi," "Man Not Carrying Flowers," "Already Dead," Green River Review XII, 1-, 1982.
"The Spring the Old, the Lyric," Memphis State Review, Fall 1981.
"First Shot," Poetry NOW VI, 2, 1981.
"Taking Tickets," Hanging Loose 38, Fall 1980.
"In March," "Wiping My Blood on You," Great Lakes Review, Summer 1980.
Blue Racer, Blue Racer Two, Poetry NOW V, 3, 1980.
"Dear Friend," "Thinking About the Basketball Team," Poetry NOW IV, 4, 1979.
"The Fish," "Two Home Pieces," Poetry NOW IV, 3, 1979.
"Up Here (Again)," waves 1, 1978.
"Shannon's Dream," The Spirit That Moves Us III, 1-2, Fall-Winter 1977-78.
"Poem for You Now," "Owl Gift," Dacotah Territory 14, Spring-Summer 1977.
"Cruelty/Teacup," Bits 5, 1977.
"No Hands," "Poem for Nettie Collins," Poetry NOW III, 4-6, 1977.
"Wearing Mittens," Bits 3, 1976.
"Heavy," "I Have Come To Be One Who Cries," Hanging Loose 26, Winter 1975-76.
"Two Home Pieces," "Wanting to Talk," "Eighteen. Ellen." Shore Review 14, 1975.
"A Story," "Stick," "My Blindness," Ironwood 6, 1975.
"What You Do," "The Saint You Visit," New Letters 42, 1, Fall 1975.
"Spell for an Absence," Hanging Loose 25, Summer 1975.
"A Note from the Teacher," "A Secret (Shared Late)," Rapport 8, 1975.
"Poem for Russell Nowak," Poetry NOW II, 3, 1975.
"A Joke I Heard When I Was Twelve," Poetry NOW II, 1, 1975.
"The Party," Rapport 7, 1974.
"Winter Life," Some Broadsheet 31, 1974.
"Wind-eye," "The Forest," New Letters 40, 2, Winter 1973.
"Chant for the Poet in Hiding," Abraxas 9, 1974.
"For Steve," "Browsing," The Lamp in the Spine 6, 1973.
"Ferenj: Foreigner," "Why?" Happiness Holding Tank 10, 1973.
"The Epiphany for Today," "Good Moon," "Notes: What If This is Ghostdance," Greenfield Review II, 3, 1973.
"The Other," Hearse 17, 1972.
"Matt Working," "Closing," "News: Shot Live," Some 2, 1972.
"The Collection Agency," "Jim," "Doug, Jackie: The Theory," "Ralph," "Mike, Lee: Help," "Staying Up Late Writing Poems While She Sleeps," Salt Lick 9-10, 1971.
"Hollows," Epoch, Spring 1971.
"Visiting Old Friends/Hitchhikers," Back Door 4, 1971.
"What the Blind Kid Said," "Poet and Teacher," "Hands that Write Poems," Kamadhenu II, 1-2, 1971.
"Letter from the Peace Corps," Crazy Horse 6, March, 1971.
"Poet: Mid-Air," "The Wicked Messenger," Doones I, 4, 1971.
"Accidents," Hearse 14, 1971.
"Over," Salt Lick 4, 1970.
"Pictures: Big Sur," Cimarron Review, Jan. 1970.
"For a Small Parting," Doones I,2, 1970.
"Charm for a Traveller," Greenfield Review 1, Spring 1970.
"Barbara," Field 2, 1970.
"A Short Prayer," "One Year Later," Choice 6, 1970.
"Legends," Lillabulero 7, Summer-Fall 1969.
"Jensen: A Slideshow," Poetry Northwest, 1969.
"Me in Your Movies," "October," Ann Arbor Review 56, 1968.
"Plans for the Holy City," Kayak 16, 1968.
"Scenario," "To the Name on the Door," "In Disappearing Ink," Foxfire, Autumn-Winter 1968.
"Definitions," Poetry Review (U. of Tampa), 14, 1968.
"The Room," "Walls, If Allowed," "Aubade," Kayak 13, 1968.
"Her Villanelle," Perspective, Autumn 1967.
"Night Lights," Poetry Review (U. of Tampa), 12, 1967.
"I'm Married," Epoch, Spring 1967.
"And now. . .," "To an Old Woman," Poetry Northwest, Summer 1965.
"The Cage," "Poem in Five Parts," Epoch, Spring, 1964.
Poems Reprinted in Anthologies and Textbooks
"In the Old Sense" in Michigan Roots, Poetry Society of Michigan, 2021.
"I Will Die in Lake Superior" in And Here: 100 Years of Upper Peninsula Writing, 1917-2017, Michigan State University Press, 2017.
"Six Short Poems about Loss," in The Michigan Poet: Collected Poems 2010-2015, ed. Jonathan Jay Taylor & Foster Neill, The Michigan Poet, 2016.
"Freeing the Dead Cow in the River" in A Ritual to Read Together:, Poems in Conversation with William Stafford, ed. Becca R. Lachman, Woodley Press, 2014.
"Back Then" in Old Flame, Poems from the First Ten Years of 32 Poems Magazine, WordFarm, 2013.
"In the Garden," installed in the Oaken Transformations Sculpture and Poetry Walk, Brighton, MI.
“Villanelle of the Final Report” in I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights, Lost Horse Press, 2009.
“I’m Marrried” (as“Mi sono sposato”), Lunario dei giorni d’amore (Almanac of the Days of Love), Einaudi, Italy, 2007.
“The Story of White Man Leading Viet Cong Patrol,” The Teachers and Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms, 2nd ed., 2007.
“The Story of White Man Leading Viet Cong Patrol,” Literary Links, 2nd ed., Genoa: Cideb Editrice & Canterbury: Black Cat Publishing, 2004.
“Love on the Friendship Quilt,” Family Matters: Poems of Our Families, Bottom Dog Press, 2004.
“An Apple from Walt Whitman,” Visiting Walt: Poems Inspired by the Life & Work of Walt Whitman, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2003.
“The Story of White Man Leading Viet Cong Patrol,” Literary Links 1, Genoa: Cideb Editrice & Canterbury: Black Cat Publishing, 2000.
"The Story of White Man Leading Viet Cong Patrol," Today You Are My Favorite Poet, ed. Geof Hewitt, Heinemann, 1998.
"Getting My Punch Back" in The Anatomy of Water: A Sampling of Contemporary American Prose Poetry, ed. Steve Wilson, Linwood Publishers, 1992.
"What Is Your Earliest Memory?" "Going and Staying," "Not Stopping," Contemporary Michigan Poetry, Wayne State University Press, 1988.
"Filling the Valium Prescription," Michigan Broadsides, OtherWind Press, 1987.
"The Carpenter," The Best of Intro, ed. Charles Simic, Associated Writing Programs, 1985.
"Wearing Mittens," Writing Poetry, Little-Brown, 1982. 2nd ed. 1987. 3rd ed. 1991. 4th ed. 1996.
“What Is Your Oldest Memory? What Does It Mean?” Hang Together: The Hanging Loose Press 20th Anniversary Anthology, 1987.
"Pheasant Season Opens: West of Shepherd," A Windflower Almanac, Windflower Press, 1980.
"Owl Gift," "Working Outside in Late Fall," "Pheasant Season Opens: West of Shepherd," folded broadsheet in Michigan Signature Series, Hudson-Browning Press, 1979.
"Poem for Russell Nowak," "A Story," "In a Subdivision," "I Have Come to Be One Who Cries," "Of Birthright," "My Blindness," The Third Coast, Wayne State University Press, 1976.
"The Story of White Man Leading Viet Cong Patrol," For Poets, Scholastic Book Services, 1975.
"One Year Later," Poems One Line and Longer, Grossman, 1973.
“jensen: A Slideshow” (as “jensen: Proiezione di diapositive”), “I’m Married” (as “Mi sono sposato”), “The Story of White Man Leading Viet Cong Patrol” (as “La storia del bianco al commando di una pattuglia Vietcong” in Giovani Poeti Americani (Young American Poets), Einaudi, Italy, 1973.
"I'm Married," I Love You All Day, It Is That Simple, Abbey Press, 1971.
"I'm Married," Poetry Brief, Macmillan, 1971.
"The Story of White Man Leading Viet Cong Patrol," as "Von einem weissen Mann der eine Vietcong Patrouille führte," Nordamerikanische Gedichte, Luchterhand Verlag, Germany, 1970.
"The Carpenter," Junior Voices, Penguin Books, 1969.
"The Cage," "Jensen: A Slideshow," "I'm Married," "The Story of White Man Leading Viet Cong Patrol," "Legends," "Aubade," Quickly Aging Here, Doubleday, 1969.
"Plans for the Holy City," Losers Weepers, Kayak Press, 1969.
"The Carpenter," "Theme for Piano, Oil and High Wire," Intro #1, Bantam Books, 1969.
Fiction:
"Give Me a Little Bit O' Love, Or Go Away" (story), The Third Coast, Wayne State University Press, 1982.
"Teenage Hitchhiker" (story), Hanging Loose 30, 1977.
"Bella Napoli," from Ethiopia, Some 2, 1972.
"Churchill Road," from Ethiopia, Hanging Loose 16, 1971.
"A Cab Driver," from Ethiopia, Salt Lick 10, 1971.
"Some Pictures," from Ethiopia, Salt Lick 7-8, 1971.
Translations:
Of Rainer Maria Rilke:
"Title Page," "The Blind Man's Song," "The Suicide's Song," "The Idiot's Song," "The orphan's Song," (From "The Voices"), in Aldus: A Journal of Translation 7, Winter 2015.
Sonnets to Orpheus I,6 in Measure, X:2, 2015.
"Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes." in Hermes Poetry Journal 2014, p.5.
"The Widow's Song," Measure 8:1, 2013.
Of Nicolas Born):
"Juices," That's How It Was," Sewing-Time," "The Dancer," in Blackbird 15:1, Spring, 2016.
“Lüneburg Station April 30, 1976,” Plume 58, May, 2016.
"Emergency Exit," "False Imagining with Janitor Shit Money Red Wine Etc.," "Having Arrived Here," mpT [Modern Poetry in Translation] 1, 2014.
"In the Train, Athens-Patras," "Horror: Tuesday," Michigan Quarterly Review, LI:1, Winter 2012.
"Good Morning," "A Song that Everyone Knows," "A Single Body," Zoland Poetry #5, 2011.
"A Few Notes from the Elbholz, " Field, Fall 2010.
"For Pasolini," Slope 47, http://www.slope.org/slope47/born.html .
“Child,” Atlanta Review, Spring-Summer 2009.
“On the Inside of Poems,” “Landscape with Big Car,” “Parting for Life and Parting for Death,” “Before Falling Asleep,” online, Exquisite Corpse #15, 2008. Reprinted in Exquisite Corps Annual #1, 2009.
“That’s Where He Learned What War Is He Says, Field, Fall 2008.
"Subscription," "Inheritance," Iowa Review 7, 2-3, Spring-Summer 1976 (reissued in book form as Writing from the World, University of Iowa Press, 1976).
"Finally There's Nothing More to Lose," "In the Morning on Monday," First Issue 9, Fall-Winter 1974-75.
"Bride and Groom," Kamadhenu II, 1-2, 1971.
"Case," "Bottles," "Self-Portrait," "Ethos," Doones I,4, 1971.
"Signs," Greenfield Review 1, Spring 1970.
"Infidelity," "Refrain," "For the Poor Devil Manfred Bock," "My God I Thought," "How Many Sons," "Washing Windows," "Confidence," "A Love," Modern Poetry in Translation, London, 6, 1970.
Reviews:
review of Gunnar Harding, Guarding the Air, tr. Roger Greenwald, in mPT, Modern Poetry in Translation 27:1
review of Eleanor Stanford, The Book of Sleep, RPCV Writers & Readers, Dec. 2008.
review of J. W. Johnson, "Heelloy": Modern Poetry and Songs of the Somali, RPCV Writers & Readers.
review of Donald Hall, The Happy Man, Borders Review of Books VI:9, Nov.- Dec.1987. (Reprinted in The Day I as Older, ed. Liam Rector [anthology of critical writing on Donald Hall], Story Line Press, 1989).
review of Jim Harrison, The Theory and Practice of Rivers, Borders Review of Books VI:6, July 1986.
review of three books by Faye Kicknosway, Ironwood 7-8, 1976.
review of Leaving Eden by Ralph Dickey, Greenfield Review.
review of Maya by Anselm Hollo, Greenfield Review, I, 4, 1971.
review of Living Poor by Moritz Thomsen, Nickel Review, April 1971.
review of Sphinx by Alfred Starr Hamilton, New: American and Canadian Poetry 9, 1969.
Editing/Publishing:
Edited and published waves, poetry journal, five issues, 1978-82.
Edited and published, with Paula Novotnak, Poems of the People, mimeo periodical which circulated poetry among underground newspapers, eight issues,1969-71.
In Which We See our Selves: American Ghazals, Mayapple Press, 2017.
Heart. Wood. Cincinnati, OH: Word Press, 2012. Poems.
The Man Who Loved Rilke. Greensboro, NC: March Street Press, 2008. Novella.
Inside Unity House: The John-Paul Story. Greensboro, NC.: March Street Press, 2000. Novella in verse.
Dear Friend: Rainer Maria Rilke and Paula Modersohn-Becker. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1998. Paper, 2000. Non-fiction prose: biography; art & literary history & criticism.
Good True Stories. Amherst, MA: Lynx House Press, 1994. Poems.
The Door to the Moon. Greensboro, NC: March Street Press, 1993. Poems.
Ethiopia. Hanging Loose Press, 1977. 2nd ed. 1983. Novella.
At War With Friends, Ithaca House, 1972. Poems.
The Carpenter, Salt Mound Press, 1969. Poems.
Essays:
"Gaga's Left Arm," in Serving House Journal 15, Fall 2016.
"Writing the American Ghazal," Able Muse Summer 2015.
"Reading for Otherness," North American Review blog November 10, 2014
"Rilke for Seekers," Michigan Quarterly Review 52:4, Fall 2013
"In Passing," bioStories, January 2013. http://www.todaysbiostories.blogspot.com/#blank.
"Urds,” Vocabula Review, February, 2009. online: http://www.vocabula.com/2009/VRFEB09SS.asp
“Requiem for a Friend: You Must Change Your Art,” Field 63, Fall 2000.
"Karezza and Closure," AWP Chronicle, March/April, 1996.
"Scenes from the Outsider Art Fair," Gettysburg Review, Autumn 1994.
"Letter from Worpswede," Hudson Review, Summer 1993.
"Ya Gotta Have Art [editor's title]," Detroit Free Press Magazine, Dec. 13, 1992.
"Liberation, Bureaucracy and Silence," AWP Chronicle, September, 1992.
"Why I Am (Nevertheless) Not a New Formalist," AWP Chronicle, May 1991.
"Orpheus on Translation," Translation Review #28, 1988.
"Loving (Hating) the Messenger: Transference and Teaching," AWP Newsletter, November, 1988.
"Closing the Crack Between the Worlds," New Letters 54:2, Spring 1988. Runner-up in Dorothy Churchill Cappon Essay Competition.
"What Bears Repeating," Ironwood 30, 1987.
"Credentials and Critics," AWP Newsletter, 19,1, May 1987. Partially reprinted in The Writer’s Chronicle, 35:3, December 2002.
"Declining the Gambit," Caliban 2, 1987.
"Endless Summer, or Will the Rock and Roll Generation of Poets Ever Grow Up?" The American Book Review 9,1, Jan.-Feb. 1987.
"Inflation and Poetry," American Poetry Review July-August 1983.
"Cold War in Poetry: Notes of a Conscientious Objector," American Poetry Review, July-August 1981.
"Mysteriousness: The Rhetoric of the Inner Life," Field 25, 1981.
Poems in Journals:
"An American in Paris." in Peninsula Poets Spring 2022
"Poetry," "Inventory" in Eastern Structures 15, 2020
"More" in Eastern Structures 14, 2020
"Do It," "My Brain" in Eastern Structures 13, 2020
"With Desire," Eastern Structures 12, 2019
"The Breath" in Eastern Structures 11, 2019
"Elephant" in Eastern Structures 10, 2019
"Either" in Eastern Structures 9, 2019
"This Time" in Eastern Structures 8, 2018
"The Silence" in Eastern Structures 7, 2018
"In," "The Monster," in Eastern Structures 4, 2017.
"With Me," "Goodbyes," in Eastern Structures 3, 2017.
"Under the Circumstances," "Again," online at The Ghazal Page 74, Oct. 2017
"Birds," "Before," in Eastern Structures 2, 2016.
"My Dream," "Till Then," "For That" in Eastern Structures 1, 2016
"Right," online in The Ghazal Page 60, Aug. 2016.
"Beautiful," "These Days," "The Moon" online at The Ghazal Page #58, Feb, 2016.
"With You" in Able Muse 19, 2015.
"What Is Your Earliest Memory? What Does It Mean?" Silver Birch Press "Me, as a Child" online feature, 4-5, 2015.
"Again," in The Main Street Rag, Spring 2015.
"Electric," Spillway 22, Winter 2014.
"I Will Die in Lake Superior," Flyover Country Review, December 2014.
"Birds," Peninsula Poets, Fall 2014.
"Thank You," Peninsula Poets, Spring 2014.
"Chores," "A Little Chatter," "Small Town," Hanging Loose # 103, 2014.
"Broken," Columbia Poetry Review 26, 2013.
"A Death," The Diagram 12:6, 2013. http://thediagram.com/12_6/torgersen.html
"Yet," New Ohio Review #11, Spring 2012
"Beautiful," "Strangers," The Muse (India), 1:2, Dec. 2011
http://themuse.webs.com/poems%20December%202011/Eric%20Torgersen.htm
"My Home," "A Note to You," The Ghazal Page, June, 2011. http://www.ghazalpage.net/2011/june/june_page-1.html
Two Poems, both entitled "Of Ghazals," Cafe Review, Spring 2011.
"Not Literature," Pleiades 31:2, 2011.
"Back," "To," New Madrid VI:2, Summer 2011.
"Come Back," "Eric," In Posse Review, Summer 2011. http://www.inpossereview.com/ipr_torgersen.htm
"In America," Solo Novo v.1, 2011.
“One Year Later,” “Aubade,” “Parting Wishes,” “Thaw,” “Toward” “Soon” as Six Short Poems about Loss, hard copy and online, The Michigan Poet, 2011, http://www.themichiganpoet.com/
“Holy,” New Letters 76:4, Fall 2010.
“In Praise of Public Radio,” Pearl 43, Fall-Winter 2010.
“Back Then,” 32 Poems 8:2, Fall 2010.
"The Lesson," "In Poems," "Detector," "Ran Out," Parting Gifts, Summer 2010.
“With Elvis,” Iron Horse Literary Journal, Spring 2010.
"With You," Third Wednesday2:1, Winter 2009/2010.
“Back Then,” 32 Poems 8:2, Fall 2010.
"The Lesson," "In Poems," "Detector," "Ran Out," Parting Gifts, Summer 2010.
“With Elvis,” Iron Horse Literary Journal, Spring 2010.
“With You,” Third Wednesday, Winter 2009/2010.
“Case Studies I” North American Review 294:3-4, May-August 2009.
“Scenario,” “Yet,” New Ohio Review #6, Fall 2009.
“And Play,” “Postmodern,” Parting Gifts, Summer 2009.
“Out Here,” “Hands,” “Locked,” New Letters, 75:2/3, 2009.
“Chanson Américaine,” Main Street Rag, Spring 2009.
“Said,” Zone 3 #48, Fall 2008.
“A Counting,” Eclipse 19, Fall 2008.
“Taking Tickets,” online audio: third runner-up, Missouri Review Voice Only Poetry Competition, 2007. http://www.missourireview.org/content/dynamic/text_detail.php?text_id=1845
“Charity,” Light 56-57, Spring-Summer 2007.
“On Torgersen Island,” Light 52-53, Spring-Summer 2006-07.
“The Carpenter,” “When They Draw Us," "You Who in the Dream," Zone 3 Fall 2006
“Re: That” (poem), The Diagram 5:1, http://thediagram.com/5_1/torgersen.html
“Heart. Wood.” North American Review #291:1, Jan.-Feb. 2006.
“Cats,” “The Central Michigan Men’s Over Sixty Wooden Stick Lacrosse League,” Noneuclidean Café Spring 2006, http://www.noneuclideancafe.com/issues/vol1_issue2_Spring2006/torgersen.htm
“He Looks Back Over His Life and Thinks of What Might Have Been," Pindeldyboz, 2006.
"The Piper,” Gingko Tree Review #4, 2006.
“Jobs,” “Smart,” Parting Gifts 18:2, Winter 2005-06.
“In the Hospital Where Coltrane Died,” Exquisite Corpse #14, Spring 2005. http://www.corpse.org/archives/issue_14/poetick_kulchur/torgersen.html
“After Gaetan Picon,” Field #70, Spring 2004.
“Believe The Children,” Driftwood Review, Special Issue: Ludington Poetry Festival 2004, Spring 2004.
“For Cinderella,” “Clearing Out Old Books,” Willow Springs #51, January 2003.
“Freeing the Dead Cow in the River,” The Literary Review 44:4, Summer 2001.
“May Cause Drowsiness,” The Gettysburg Review, Spring 1998. Also at Gettysburg Review web site,
http://www.gettysburg.edu/ academics/gettysburg_review/trgrsn.html > .
"A Vacation," RPCV Writers & Readers, May, 1998.
"Even Things Die," "After Rilke," "Autographed Team Baseball," River Styx #44, 1995.
"The Lone Ranger Rides Off," Passages North, 14:1, Summer 1993.
"Sons and Fathers: Ashbery," "Of What Remains," Literary Review, 33:2, Winter 1990.
"Open Stage Poetry Reading," Jeopardy #25, Spring 1989.
"Driving Off the Stray," Parting Gifts 1,2, Winter 1988-89.
"Praise of Hunger, Praise of Food," "The Man Who Broke Up the Dinner Party Answers," "Villanelle of the Final Report," Ironwood 30, 1987.
"What Is Your Earliest Memory?" Hanging Loose 50/51, 1987.
"The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly," Notus 2,1, 1987.
"An Apple from Walt Whitman," Centennial Review XXXI, 4, Fall 1987.
"Not Stopping," "Not Ready for the Road," Black Fly Review #8, 1987.
"No Dancer Still Walking," Poetry NOW VII, 2, 1983.
"Open Stage Poetry Reading," Straits 2,1, Jan. 1983.
"Memory. Snow." Song 13, Summer 1983.
"Parting Wishes," "Toward," Northeast III, 14, Winter 1982-83.
"Going and Staying," "Poem for Adrienne Rich," Hudson Review XXXV, 3, Fall 1982.
"Love on the Friendship Quilt," Poetry NOW VI, 4, 1982.
"Lost Father Journal," Dreamworks II, 4, 1982.
"Running," "Taking Tickets," "Getting My Punch Back," "Good True Story," CoEvolution Quarterly 34, Summer 1982.
"Song: Moon: Follow," Song 10, Spring 1982.
"Poem Remembering Professor Cheng Hsi," "Man Not Carrying Flowers," "Already Dead," Green River Review XII, 1-, 1982.
"The Spring the Old, the Lyric," Memphis State Review, Fall 1981.
"First Shot," Poetry NOW VI, 2, 1981.
"Taking Tickets," Hanging Loose 38, Fall 1980.
"In March," "Wiping My Blood on You," Great Lakes Review, Summer 1980.
Blue Racer, Blue Racer Two, Poetry NOW V, 3, 1980.
"Dear Friend," "Thinking About the Basketball Team," Poetry NOW IV, 4, 1979.
"The Fish," "Two Home Pieces," Poetry NOW IV, 3, 1979.
"Up Here (Again)," waves 1, 1978.
"Shannon's Dream," The Spirit That Moves Us III, 1-2, Fall-Winter 1977-78.
"Poem for You Now," "Owl Gift," Dacotah Territory 14, Spring-Summer 1977.
"Cruelty/Teacup," Bits 5, 1977.
"No Hands," "Poem for Nettie Collins," Poetry NOW III, 4-6, 1977.
"Wearing Mittens," Bits 3, 1976.
"Heavy," "I Have Come To Be One Who Cries," Hanging Loose 26, Winter 1975-76.
"Two Home Pieces," "Wanting to Talk," "Eighteen. Ellen." Shore Review 14, 1975.
"A Story," "Stick," "My Blindness," Ironwood 6, 1975.
"What You Do," "The Saint You Visit," New Letters 42, 1, Fall 1975.
"Spell for an Absence," Hanging Loose 25, Summer 1975.
"A Note from the Teacher," "A Secret (Shared Late)," Rapport 8, 1975.
"Poem for Russell Nowak," Poetry NOW II, 3, 1975.
"A Joke I Heard When I Was Twelve," Poetry NOW II, 1, 1975.
"The Party," Rapport 7, 1974.
"Winter Life," Some Broadsheet 31, 1974.
"Wind-eye," "The Forest," New Letters 40, 2, Winter 1973.
"Chant for the Poet in Hiding," Abraxas 9, 1974.
"For Steve," "Browsing," The Lamp in the Spine 6, 1973.
"Ferenj: Foreigner," "Why?" Happiness Holding Tank 10, 1973.
"The Epiphany for Today," "Good Moon," "Notes: What If This is Ghostdance," Greenfield Review II, 3, 1973.
"The Other," Hearse 17, 1972.
"Matt Working," "Closing," "News: Shot Live," Some 2, 1972.
"The Collection Agency," "Jim," "Doug, Jackie: The Theory," "Ralph," "Mike, Lee: Help," "Staying Up Late Writing Poems While She Sleeps," Salt Lick 9-10, 1971.
"Hollows," Epoch, Spring 1971.
"Visiting Old Friends/Hitchhikers," Back Door 4, 1971.
"What the Blind Kid Said," "Poet and Teacher," "Hands that Write Poems," Kamadhenu II, 1-2, 1971.
"Letter from the Peace Corps," Crazy Horse 6, March, 1971.
"Poet: Mid-Air," "The Wicked Messenger," Doones I, 4, 1971.
"Accidents," Hearse 14, 1971.
"Over," Salt Lick 4, 1970.
"Pictures: Big Sur," Cimarron Review, Jan. 1970.
"For a Small Parting," Doones I,2, 1970.
"Charm for a Traveller," Greenfield Review 1, Spring 1970.
"Barbara," Field 2, 1970.
"A Short Prayer," "One Year Later," Choice 6, 1970.
"Legends," Lillabulero 7, Summer-Fall 1969.
"Jensen: A Slideshow," Poetry Northwest, 1969.
"Me in Your Movies," "October," Ann Arbor Review 56, 1968.
"Plans for the Holy City," Kayak 16, 1968.
"Scenario," "To the Name on the Door," "In Disappearing Ink," Foxfire, Autumn-Winter 1968.
"Definitions," Poetry Review (U. of Tampa), 14, 1968.
"The Room," "Walls, If Allowed," "Aubade," Kayak 13, 1968.
"Her Villanelle," Perspective, Autumn 1967.
"Night Lights," Poetry Review (U. of Tampa), 12, 1967.
"I'm Married," Epoch, Spring 1967.
"And now. . .," "To an Old Woman," Poetry Northwest, Summer 1965.
"The Cage," "Poem in Five Parts," Epoch, Spring, 1964.
Poems Reprinted in Anthologies and Textbooks
"In the Old Sense" in Michigan Roots, Poetry Society of Michigan, 2021.
"I Will Die in Lake Superior" in And Here: 100 Years of Upper Peninsula Writing, 1917-2017, Michigan State University Press, 2017.
"Six Short Poems about Loss," in The Michigan Poet: Collected Poems 2010-2015, ed. Jonathan Jay Taylor & Foster Neill, The Michigan Poet, 2016.
"Freeing the Dead Cow in the River" in A Ritual to Read Together:, Poems in Conversation with William Stafford, ed. Becca R. Lachman, Woodley Press, 2014.
"Back Then" in Old Flame, Poems from the First Ten Years of 32 Poems Magazine, WordFarm, 2013.
"In the Garden," installed in the Oaken Transformations Sculpture and Poetry Walk, Brighton, MI.
“Villanelle of the Final Report” in I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights, Lost Horse Press, 2009.
“I’m Marrried” (as“Mi sono sposato”), Lunario dei giorni d’amore (Almanac of the Days of Love), Einaudi, Italy, 2007.
“The Story of White Man Leading Viet Cong Patrol,” The Teachers and Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms, 2nd ed., 2007.
“The Story of White Man Leading Viet Cong Patrol,” Literary Links, 2nd ed., Genoa: Cideb Editrice & Canterbury: Black Cat Publishing, 2004.
“Love on the Friendship Quilt,” Family Matters: Poems of Our Families, Bottom Dog Press, 2004.
“An Apple from Walt Whitman,” Visiting Walt: Poems Inspired by the Life & Work of Walt Whitman, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2003.
“The Story of White Man Leading Viet Cong Patrol,” Literary Links 1, Genoa: Cideb Editrice & Canterbury: Black Cat Publishing, 2000.
"The Story of White Man Leading Viet Cong Patrol," Today You Are My Favorite Poet, ed. Geof Hewitt, Heinemann, 1998.
"Getting My Punch Back" in The Anatomy of Water: A Sampling of Contemporary American Prose Poetry, ed. Steve Wilson, Linwood Publishers, 1992.
"What Is Your Earliest Memory?" "Going and Staying," "Not Stopping," Contemporary Michigan Poetry, Wayne State University Press, 1988.
"Filling the Valium Prescription," Michigan Broadsides, OtherWind Press, 1987.
"The Carpenter," The Best of Intro, ed. Charles Simic, Associated Writing Programs, 1985.
"Wearing Mittens," Writing Poetry, Little-Brown, 1982. 2nd ed. 1987. 3rd ed. 1991. 4th ed. 1996.
“What Is Your Oldest Memory? What Does It Mean?” Hang Together: The Hanging Loose Press 20th Anniversary Anthology, 1987.
"Pheasant Season Opens: West of Shepherd," A Windflower Almanac, Windflower Press, 1980.
"Owl Gift," "Working Outside in Late Fall," "Pheasant Season Opens: West of Shepherd," folded broadsheet in Michigan Signature Series, Hudson-Browning Press, 1979.
"Poem for Russell Nowak," "A Story," "In a Subdivision," "I Have Come to Be One Who Cries," "Of Birthright," "My Blindness," The Third Coast, Wayne State University Press, 1976.
"The Story of White Man Leading Viet Cong Patrol," For Poets, Scholastic Book Services, 1975.
"One Year Later," Poems One Line and Longer, Grossman, 1973.
“jensen: A Slideshow” (as “jensen: Proiezione di diapositive”), “I’m Married” (as “Mi sono sposato”), “The Story of White Man Leading Viet Cong Patrol” (as “La storia del bianco al commando di una pattuglia Vietcong” in Giovani Poeti Americani (Young American Poets), Einaudi, Italy, 1973.
"I'm Married," I Love You All Day, It Is That Simple, Abbey Press, 1971.
"I'm Married," Poetry Brief, Macmillan, 1971.
"The Story of White Man Leading Viet Cong Patrol," as "Von einem weissen Mann der eine Vietcong Patrouille führte," Nordamerikanische Gedichte, Luchterhand Verlag, Germany, 1970.
"The Carpenter," Junior Voices, Penguin Books, 1969.
"The Cage," "Jensen: A Slideshow," "I'm Married," "The Story of White Man Leading Viet Cong Patrol," "Legends," "Aubade," Quickly Aging Here, Doubleday, 1969.
"Plans for the Holy City," Losers Weepers, Kayak Press, 1969.
"The Carpenter," "Theme for Piano, Oil and High Wire," Intro #1, Bantam Books, 1969.
Fiction:
"Give Me a Little Bit O' Love, Or Go Away" (story), The Third Coast, Wayne State University Press, 1982.
"Teenage Hitchhiker" (story), Hanging Loose 30, 1977.
"Bella Napoli," from Ethiopia, Some 2, 1972.
"Churchill Road," from Ethiopia, Hanging Loose 16, 1971.
"A Cab Driver," from Ethiopia, Salt Lick 10, 1971.
"Some Pictures," from Ethiopia, Salt Lick 7-8, 1971.
Translations:
Of Rainer Maria Rilke:
"Title Page," "The Blind Man's Song," "The Suicide's Song," "The Idiot's Song," "The orphan's Song," (From "The Voices"), in Aldus: A Journal of Translation 7, Winter 2015.
Sonnets to Orpheus I,6 in Measure, X:2, 2015.
"Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes." in Hermes Poetry Journal 2014, p.5.
"The Widow's Song," Measure 8:1, 2013.
Of Nicolas Born):
"Juices," That's How It Was," Sewing-Time," "The Dancer," in Blackbird 15:1, Spring, 2016.
“Lüneburg Station April 30, 1976,” Plume 58, May, 2016.
"Emergency Exit," "False Imagining with Janitor Shit Money Red Wine Etc.," "Having Arrived Here," mpT [Modern Poetry in Translation] 1, 2014.
"In the Train, Athens-Patras," "Horror: Tuesday," Michigan Quarterly Review, LI:1, Winter 2012.
"Good Morning," "A Song that Everyone Knows," "A Single Body," Zoland Poetry #5, 2011.
"A Few Notes from the Elbholz, " Field, Fall 2010.
"For Pasolini," Slope 47, http://www.slope.org/slope47/born.html .
“Child,” Atlanta Review, Spring-Summer 2009.
“On the Inside of Poems,” “Landscape with Big Car,” “Parting for Life and Parting for Death,” “Before Falling Asleep,” online, Exquisite Corpse #15, 2008. Reprinted in Exquisite Corps Annual #1, 2009.
“That’s Where He Learned What War Is He Says, Field, Fall 2008.
"Subscription," "Inheritance," Iowa Review 7, 2-3, Spring-Summer 1976 (reissued in book form as Writing from the World, University of Iowa Press, 1976).
"Finally There's Nothing More to Lose," "In the Morning on Monday," First Issue 9, Fall-Winter 1974-75.
"Bride and Groom," Kamadhenu II, 1-2, 1971.
"Case," "Bottles," "Self-Portrait," "Ethos," Doones I,4, 1971.
"Signs," Greenfield Review 1, Spring 1970.
"Infidelity," "Refrain," "For the Poor Devil Manfred Bock," "My God I Thought," "How Many Sons," "Washing Windows," "Confidence," "A Love," Modern Poetry in Translation, London, 6, 1970.
Reviews:
review of Gunnar Harding, Guarding the Air, tr. Roger Greenwald, in mPT, Modern Poetry in Translation 27:1
review of Eleanor Stanford, The Book of Sleep, RPCV Writers & Readers, Dec. 2008.
review of J. W. Johnson, "Heelloy": Modern Poetry and Songs of the Somali, RPCV Writers & Readers.
review of Donald Hall, The Happy Man, Borders Review of Books VI:9, Nov.- Dec.1987. (Reprinted in The Day I as Older, ed. Liam Rector [anthology of critical writing on Donald Hall], Story Line Press, 1989).
review of Jim Harrison, The Theory and Practice of Rivers, Borders Review of Books VI:6, July 1986.
review of three books by Faye Kicknosway, Ironwood 7-8, 1976.
review of Leaving Eden by Ralph Dickey, Greenfield Review.
review of Maya by Anselm Hollo, Greenfield Review, I, 4, 1971.
review of Living Poor by Moritz Thomsen, Nickel Review, April 1971.
review of Sphinx by Alfred Starr Hamilton, New: American and Canadian Poetry 9, 1969.
Editing/Publishing:
Edited and published waves, poetry journal, five issues, 1978-82.
Edited and published, with Paula Novotnak, Poems of the People, mimeo periodical which circulated poetry among underground newspapers, eight issues,1969-71.