Practicing to Walk Like a Heron

Acknowledgments

xi Acknowledgments I thank the editors of the following journals for publishing many of these poems, some in different forms: Alligator Juniper, Artful Dodge, Basilica Review, Big City Lit, Cairn, Chariton Review, Colorado Review, Controlled Burn, Crab Orchard Review, Dogwood, The Driftwood Review, Dunes Review, Eclipse, 5AM, Free Lunch, Harpur Palate, I-70 Review, The Listening Eye, Louisville Review, Michigan Quarterly, Mid-America Review, Nashville Review, National Wetlands Journal, Natural Bridge, North American Review, Pebble Lake Review, Peninsula Writers Anthology, Plainspoke, Poetry East, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, Sou’wester, Sycamore Review, Talking River Review, Temenos, Toad, Water-Stone Review The poems “Hands” and “The Reunion” were featured on The Writer’s Almanac. The group of circus poems was published as a chapbook titled Outside the Center Ring (Pudding House Press). “Easter, 1948” was awarded the Gary Gildner Award for Poetry from the I-70 Review. Thanks to Myra Kohsel and Sarah Baar for their generous help in preparing many of these poems. Thanks to daughter Meridith for creating the art on the cover. And thanks to the wonders at Wayne State University Press—Maya Whelan, Carrie Downes Teefey, Emily Nowak, Lindsey Alexander, Sarah Murphy. Without your work and support and joy, this collection would never have come into being. Deep thanks to Jane Bach and Greg Rappleye, who helped every one of these poems. And gratitude over and over again to Annie Martin, who believed in the work. My heart’s deepest thanks to all of you who have helped these poems along their way. My hope is that you know who you are and that you know how grateful I am. ...