Its Ghostly Workshop: Poems

Acknowledgments

75 Acknowledgments I am grateful to the editors of the following periodicals and anthologies , in which these poems first appeared. Some poems have been revised since their first appearance in print, and some titles have changed. Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature: “Anecdote of the Half-Rubber” (Fall 2009/Winter 2010), “The Day Jerry Suna Came to Baseball Practice Drunk,” “A Different World,” “Double,” “Perfect Hit,” and “Yankees” (all Fall 2008/Winter 2009); Anglican Theological Review: “Roman Sleep” (Fall 2012) and “Via Appia, Near Ciampio” (Winter 2012); Ascent: “Come on In, Come on Along” (12 May 2012); Beyond the Seventh Morning: Spirituality and Nature: “Palatine,” “Satiro e Ninfa ,” and “Supermoon” (2012); Blackbird: “Its Ghostly Workshop” (Fall 2007), “Campidoglio” (Spring 2010), “Edward Teller’s Leg,” “Flashes” (both Fall 2008), and “The Tomb of the Scipios” (Fall 2012); Connotation Press, An Online Artifact: “Piazza G. G. Belli” and “A Wizard in the Forum” (both November 2010); The Hollins Critic: “Ford, Joyce, Pound, Quinn” (February 2012); In Place of Love and Country: “The Fascist Salute” and “Little Gidding” (2012); Kentucky: Poets of Place: “A Negroni for the Master” (April 2012); Lady Jane’s Miscellany: “At First” and “Bentornato,” (both Summer 2009); New Virginia Review: “Album” (November 1989); Plume: “The Carvaggio Room” (January 2013), “Early Christianity: A Poem” (December 2012), “κάθαρσης” (16 February 2012), and “Rome” (December 2012); The Poe Messenger: “Edgar Poe Tries to Get His Act Together” (Winter 1997), “Mr. Poe Calls on Mrs. Shelton” (Winter 1996), and “Poe’s Last Words” (Winter 1998/ Spring 1999); The Poets of the Sala Capizucchi: “DTC,” “Pisa,” “The Rewiring,” and “Shithouse” (2011); Poetry Northwest: “Distraction” (Autumn 1998); Ravishing DisUnities: An Anthology of True Ghazals in English: “Incarnation” (2000); Shenandoah: “Via della Scala, Trastevere ” (Winter 2010). 76 Thanks also to the editors of anthologies and online sites where some of the above poems have been reprinted. In Place of Love and Country: “Ford, Joyce, Pound, Quinn” (2012); Poe Revealed: “Edgar Poe Tries to Get His Act Together” (17 April 2009); Poetry Daily: “Double” (10 July 2010), “Edward Teller’s Leg” (12 December 2008), and “κάθαρσης” (6 March 2012). And a special thanks to librarians (especially Mary Horne), administrators , and colleagues at St. Christopher’s School for their support of my writing and research, and generally, for their encouragement and celebration of the arts. ...