Pelican Tracks

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I gratefully acknowledge the following magazines, in which many of these poems first appeared, some in slightly different versions: Akron—“On My Mother’s Death” Alligator Juniper—“Alligator Pears,” “Plus Shipping and Handling” America—“Akron after a Spring Rain” Borderlands—“Hurricane Lamp,” “Shucking” Clackamas Literary Review—“Incompatibles in the Wild Light” Fine Madness—“Louisiana Elegies,” “O Holy Night” The Florida Review—“Mardi Gras Indians,” “Solstice in Capricorn” The Georgia Review—“Endsheet” The Gettysburg Review—“Late Fifties on Front Street” Indiana Review—“Storyville” The Ledge—“And Redeye Gravy with Everything,” “Listening to My Mother Breathe” Louisiana Literature—“Bedtime Legends near Esplanade,” “Black Baptist Funeral,” “Family Possessions,” “Ohio Haiku,” “Pilgrimage” Mid-American Review—“The Youngstown Breakfast Show” Monster—“Pelican Tracks in the Rain Dreaming” Parnassus—“The Worst High School Marching Band in the South” The Plum Review—“Living in OH” Poetry—“Time Zones” Poetry Northwest—“Oscillating Fan” Southern Humanities Review—“Grand Isle” Southern Poetry Review—“Elegy for Clifton Chenier,” “Trailers” The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review—“ Drink Minimum” “Evening Services on North Rampart Street” was published and “Pilgrimage ” was reprinted in Uncommonplace: An Anthology of Contemporary Louisiana Poets, edited by Ann B. Dobie (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, ). “Drowning in Ohio” was published and “Ohio Haiku” was reprinted in I Have My Own Song for It: Modern Poems of Ohio, edited by Elton Glaser and William Greenway (Akron: University of Akron Press, ). ix “To John, in Alaska” won the  Milton Dorfman Poetry Prize. “ Drink Minimum” won the  poetry prize from The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review. “Solstice in Capricorn” was one of five poems that won the  Editors’ Award from The Florida Review. “Plus Shipping and Handling” won the  poetry prize from Alligator Juniper. For fellowships that helped me to complete poems for this book, I would like to thank the University of Akron and the National Endowment for the Arts. x ...