The Dirt Riddles: Poems

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS These poems have appeared, sometimes in different forms, in the following journals. Alaska Quarterly Review: “Against Pastorals” Birmingham Poetry Review: “Haying the Fields” Blue Mesa Review: “Milkweed” Chattahoochee Review: “Quilt Rags,” “Weekly Horoscope” DIAGRAM: “Grounding,” “Landscape with Forgotten Machines” The Fourth River: “Inheritance,” “Shore” Great River Review: “After His Lessons from the Belt,” “Plantings,” “ATable Prayer” Meridian: “On Kissing My Husband at a Gas Station,” “Three Self-Portraits in a Dress” Inch: “Names for Ditch Flowers” The Midwest Quarterly: “Star Chart,” “Wind” The NewYork Quarterly: “Pinup” (as “Pinup Girl”) The North American Review: “Tornado Junk” Permafrost: “Buffalo Bones,” “Mud, Apples, Milk” Southern Poetry Review: “The Flood” “After His Lessons from the Belt,” “Haying the Fields,” “I Leave the House for the Storm,” “NewTenants,” “Plantings,” and “A Table Prayer” appeared in my chapbook Adam Walking the Garden, published by Red Dragonfly Press. I’d like to thank the following writers who saw versions of these poems, encouraged my vision, and helped me from the start so long ago to the finish: Robert Hedin, Robin Metz, Rachel Moritz, Josie Rawson, and Sheryl St. Germain. Likewise, I couldn’t have completed this manuscript without the years of kindness and support from the faculty in the English Department at the University of Minnesota.Thanks for keeping me around. For Adam Nelsen ...