Kimonos in the Closet

Acknowledgments

62 Acknowledgments I would like to thank the editors of the following journals where versions of these poems have previously appeared: Booth: “Surgery”; Cerise Press: A Journal of Literature, Arts, and Culture: “A Good Idea” and “The Soldier’s Hundredth Birthday Cake”; Crazyhorse: “Moving Away From Home”; 5 AM: “After My Beheading,” “Chagall’s Blue Horse,” and “Curry”; Indiana Humanities Council: Think. Read. Talk: “Kimonos in the Closet” and “Rural Aria”; La Petite Zine: “The Races of Man”; Lake Effect: “An Inventory of Moons” and “My Buddhist Lessons”; Moon City Review: “Chumming Around with Hemingway,” “The Executioner,” and “Lincoln”; Plume: “Bringing Things Back from the Woods,” “Mangos,” “Talking Animals,” and “Widow”; Poetry East: “Hummingbirds,” “The Old Teacher,” and “Taking the Psychological Test”; Sentence: “The Tang Dynasty”; Third Coast: “If You Hire a Poet to Draw a Map” and “When a Fool Reaches Maturity”; Weave Magazine: “Between Dogs” and “Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights.” “Taking the Psychological Test” was also published in The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice, edited by Gary L. McDowell and F. Daniel Rzicznek (Brookline, MA: Rose Metal Press, 2010), 178. “Bringing Things Back from the Woods” will be published in A Ritual to Read Together: Poems in Conversation with William Stafford, forthcoming from Woodley Press. A number of these poems have appeared previously in a limited edition chapbook titled In Search of Mariachis published by Epiphany Editions. I am also deeply grateful to Abayomi Animashaun, Todd Davis, James Shaw, Mark Shumate, and Carol Shumate for their continued friendship and to the National Endowment for the Arts and the Arts Council of Indianapolis for their support of these poetic endeavors. ...