Brian A. Salchert, Poet (pronunciation of respondent's name) Saulkurt (street address) 3530 SW 24th Ave., Lot 41 (city&state) Gainesville, FL 32607-4509 (e.mail address) lavendermonk@aol.com (phone number) 352-338-0902 (publication credits) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rooted Sky, a volume of poems and one letter, in 1972, by Monday Morning Press * First Pick, a self-published selection of poems, in 1982, by Thinking Lizard * In Wisconsin Review and other small magazines, mostly in the 1970's, but also in the 1980's * Online at Poetry.com is an "at-the-moment" poem: Huh!?! * I have begun two major sites: http://ibnar4.tripod.com/C2.ht ml http://home.thirdage.com/spiri tuality/ibnar5/places.html * See also Patrick Martin and Google * --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (list of works) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Books/Audiobooks (some small and all rare): Rooted Sky, January 1976, 12 Sonnets from 1976, 1976 (366 sonnets), Fond du Lac, Postures, First Pick, Teasings --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (where written up) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- In newspapers: Fond du Lac Reporter West Bend News * In anthologies: Poetry Out of Wisconsin V (1980), Wisconsin Poets' Calendar: 1982, & 1983, Minnesota Poets Anthology-1973 * mayfly stuff * Huh!?! is to be published in an anthology: Nature's Echoes --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (contemporary poets important to respondent) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Donald Justice, James Tate * I am 59 and only beginning to come back to life as a writer. * Also Doug Flaherty, Marvin Bell, A. R. Ammons, W. D. Snodgrass --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (poets of yesteryear important to respondent) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clare, Keats, Shelley, Dante, Hopkins, Shakespeare, Eliot, Stevens, Roethke, Whitman, Dickinson, Starbuck --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (critics important to respondent) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- T. S. Eliot, Jonathan Culler, Wallace Stevens --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (tastes in poetry) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am eclectic in both the what and the how, although--as does Sherrod Santos--I see the poem as a teaching vehicle in the sense that what one learns from a poem is how to write poems. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |