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Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Grateful thanks to the editors of the following journals where these poems, or versions of them, first appeared: “Praemeditatio,” 32 Poems Magazine; “Long Dance, Slow Revolution,” Ascent; “Remedial Weeding,” the Cincinnati Review; “Hurdle,” Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry & Prose; “Covenant,” Crab Orchard Review; “Flow,” Daily Palette; “Instead,” Fulcrum; “Scant,” the Iowa Review; “Only Hat” and “Always a Little Something Somewhere in the Purse,” New Ohio Review; “Larger,” Poetry East; “Boy at Dusk,” RUNES: A Review of Poetry; “Under November,” the Saint Ann’s Review; “Table for Three” and “The Anxiety of the Pilgrim,” Tampa Review; “Allocation,” Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments. “Remedial Weeding” appeared also on Poetry Daily. For timely recognition and generous gifts I am indebted to the National Endowment for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, Timothy Murphy, and the Directors of the West Chester University Conference on Narrative and Form. I’m indebted to the several generations of my Iowa City writing group for serious consideration of poems and drafts long preceding these; for their own good examples of what can be done; for the meetings themselves, in providing an excellent and compelling reason to generate work; and to the current and long-standing members, especially, for their measured judgment and ready counsel: Kathy Hall, Dan Lechay, Jim McKean, and Jan Weissmiller. I’m grateful to the congregation and ministers of Peoples Church Unitarian Universalist of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1987–present, who have provided constant occasion for meaningful engagement with the world, countless opportunities to be of use, and plenty of good reasons to do so. I am grateful for Richard Hanson and for Will Hanson, who have steadied and sustained me, who have inspired me, and laughed. ...