My Publications, Performances, and Awards

POETRY
Collections and Longer Works

2010
Scapes  (poetry chapbook, downloadable) Differentia Press at Issuu

2009
OTown 85-95 (poetry chapbook, downloadable) DeepOakland.org, Oakland

1997
Decision Forest (poetry collection), Pantograph Press, Berkeley

1989
’Round Midnight (long poem chapbook), Altazor Editions, San Francisco

1988
Animations (poetry collection), City Lights Books, San Francisco

1978
Shooting Scripts (poetry collection), Black Stone Press, San Francisco

Journals

1969-
Poetry and translations have appeared in:
(Print) Antaeus, Antenym, The Bay Guardian, Beatitude, Caliban, City Lights Review, Compact Bone, Coracle, Facture, Five Fingers Review, Gallery Works, Gas, Juxta, kayak, Mantis, Malthus, Melodeon, Mike & Dale’s Younger Poets, Montana Gothic, The New College Review, Orpheus Grid, Processed World, Prosodia, Root & Branch, syllogism, Talisman, Terra, ur*vox, Velocities, and other magazines;
(Web): Alterran Poetry Assemblage, Counterexample Poetics, black fire white fire, Deep Oakland, Duration Press Archive, MSNBC.com, The Newport Review, and other sites.

Anthologies
2005
The Alchemy of Stars: The Rhysling Award Winners Showcase. US: Science Fiction Poetry Association, 2005.

2001
2001: A Science Fiction Poetry Anthology. Ridgecrest, CA: Anamnesis Press

1995–97
The City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology (different poems in the two editions). San Francisco: City Lights Books

1993
Terminal Velocities: An Anthology of Speculative Poetry. (“The Snarling Gift,” a 41-page poem). Berkeley, CA: Velocities Publications

1984
Burning With A Vision: Poetry of Science and the Fantastic. Philadelphia: Owlswick Press

SELECTED ESSAYS

1998
“Given: An Autobiography” in Andres, Linda R. and Marilyn O’Connell Allen, eds., Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series vol. 28. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, Inc.

1997
“The Pyramid and the Tree” in Cornford, Decision Forest, op.cit. (and in updated version here)

1997
“Colorless All-Color: Notes on White Culture” in Bad Subjects #33, Race Issue. Berkeley, CA: Bad Subjects. (URL: http://eserver.org/bs/33/cornford.html)

1996
“Cosmology: Intelligence and Infinity in Language” in Alterran Poetry Assemblage # 3. Toronto, Canada

POETRY TEACHING—CHILDREN

1981
Eating the Yema of the Sol (six Spanish bilingual poetry lessons for children), ed. and intro., BUSD Publications, Berkeley, CA

1980
These Words Are My Words, with Robert Glück, eds. and intro., (anthology of children’s poems from Berkeley Grade 2-3 classes), Poetry Playhouse, Berkeley, CA

PERFORMANCE
(with composer Daniel Steven Crafts)

2007
“Spider Woman” in From a Distant Mesa, an orchestral song cycle on the Southwest’s history and culture (premieres 2009-10 season with the Santa Fe Pro Musica)

2001
Otter’s Tale (spoken narrative to accompany an orchestral work)

1992
The Pied Piper of Hamelin (libretto for children’s opera based on the poem by Robert Browning)

1985
Ad Nauseam (one-hour radio performance work for three actors using sound collage and poetry)

1984
Fundamentals (ninety-minute experimental theater piece using sound collage, slide projection, and choreopoetry; adapted for radio 1985)

1984
A Soldier’s Tale (futuristic comic reworking of the libretto/narrative for the Stravinsky piece, co-authored and performed with Melinda Gebbie and Michael Peppe, together with the Berkeley Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Kent Nagano)

1980-81
Theater of Operations (experimental theater, performed with the music group the Funktionaries)

PERIODICALS & JOURNALISM

2004-5
Wrote for The Dispatcher, newspaper of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU)

1984-5
Reported for The Progressive on the British miners’ strike and the Watsonville Cannery workers’ strike

1981-2004
Co-edited Processed World, a magazine of information work and modern life; wrote numerous articles under various pseudonyms (most often Louis Michaelson) and own name; drew cartoons and graphics

AWARDS

1985
National Endowment of the Arts grant (with D.S. Crafts) for Fundamentals and Ad Nauseam

1981
Rhysling Award for Best Short Poem, Science Fiction Poetry Association