Bruce Tindall - Poems and Books

Published poems

• The Sky is Falling in West Branch .
• The Ambassador of the Interregnum, The Ambassador as Horatius and The Last Ivory-Billed Woodpecker in Beloit Poetry Journal, vol. 55, nos. 1&2, fall/winter 2004 double issue (forthcoming).
• I Am Passsed Over for the Directorship of the Software Systems Department and Definition for an Unknown Adverb in Southern Poetry Review, vol. 42, no. 1, Spring/Summer 2003.
• Cheap Trumpet in Poet Lore, vol. 98, no. 1/2, Spring/Summer 2003.
• The Matter of the Heart in Atlanta Review, vol. IX, no. 2, Spring 2003.
• Admit It in West Branch, no. 52, Spring 2003.
• [The Bridge Builder's Daughters in Small Pond, 2003 (forthcoming). As of mid-2004 it appears that this journal is no longer being published, and this poem was never printed in it.]
• The Retired Professor in Diner, vol. 2, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2002.
• The 1998 Emergence of Brood XIX, Magicicada tredecim, Wake County, N.C.; Continuum; and Not a Story of the Buddha in Poem , no. 88, Nov. 2002.
• Baby Love, The Trees Greet the Rain, and The Mountains are High and the Emperor Is Far Away in Texas Observer (Naomi Shihab Nye, poetry editor), vol. 93, no. 18 (Sep. 28, 2001), and also online in the archive of The Texas Observer.
• ..."The Trees Greet the Rain" reprinted in anthology Is This Forever, Or What? Poems and Paintings from Texas , Naomi Shihab Nye, editor (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2004) (forthcoming).
• Germinal in Diner (Worcester, Mass.), issue 2, Summer 2001.
• A haiku ["Unfinished web"] in Hummingbird, vol. XI, no. 4 (June 2001).
• The Railroad from Shu in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, no. 14, Spring 2000.
• A haiku ["Cloudless sky"] in Frogpond (Haiku Society of America), vol. 23, no. 1.
• A Fable in Plainsongs (Hastings College), vol. 20, no. 2, January 2000.
• ...excerpted in Plainsongs's entry in Poet's Market 2001.
• Eheu, Infanta, Scientia Plena in Cumberland Poetry Review , vol. 19, no. 1, Fall 1999.
• "The Enthralling Task of Overhauling" in Hummingbird , vol. 10, no. 2, Dec. 1999.
• The Lake in Hummingbird , vol. 10, no. 1 (September 1999).
• Et Expecto in Hummingbird , vol. 9, no. 3, March 1999. (ISSN 1053-6485)
• A Southern Retreat and On A Tour of the Bahamas in Poem , no. 81, May 1999.
• A Short History of the Reformation in Light Quarterly (Chicago), issue 28, Spring 2000.
• The Heaven of Bees in Crucible , Fall 1998.
• Driving Past the Freedmen's Cemetery in The Independent Weekly (Durham, N.C.), 25 March 1998, a finalist in their annual contest.
• ...reprinted in Fine Lines: The 1998 Independent Poetry Chapbook (Raleigh: Horse & Buggy Press, 1998).
• Bedroom Suite and Maturity in Cumberland Poetry Review (Nashville, Tenn.), vol. 17 no. 2, Spring 1998.
• April in New Delta Review (Louisiana State University), vol. 14 no. 2, Spring/Summer 1997.
• Pursuit of Happiness in The Pittsburgh Quarterly , vol. 7, no. 1, Spring 1997.
• The Last of the Firewood on a Dark Cold Day in Yalobusha Review (University of Mississippi), vol. 3, [April] 1997.
• Et Semini Eius in Main Street Rag Poetry Journal (Charlotte, N.C.), vol. 2 no. 1, Spring 1997.
• Coed Stabbed on Campus Sidewalk: Chapel Hill, 1965 , Honorable Mention in 1996 Icarus competition judged by Peter Meinke; published in the competition's chapbook Icarus: Experiments in Flight (Kill Devil Hills, N.C., Dec. 1996).
• Produce in Coastal Plains Poetry (Washington, N.C.), Fall 1997.
• Very Well Then I Contradict Myself in Asheville Poetry Review (Asheville, N.C.), vol. 3 no. 1, Spring/Summer 1996.
• Recurring Dream: in Potato Eyes (Troy, Maine: Nightshade Press), no. 11/12, February 1996.
• Cleanliness and Green in Wellspring (Kenansville, N.C.: James Sprunt Community College), no. 5, 1995.
• True 'Cue in Now and Then (Johnson City, Tennessee: East Tennessee State University, Center for Appalachian Studies and Services), vol. 11 no. 3, Fall 1994.

Books (partly) by me

• Did Mohawks Wear Mohawks? And Other Wonders, Plunders, and Blunders by Bruce Tindall and Mark Watson (New York: Morrow/Quill, 1991), ISBN 0-688-09859-2. Praised by Louis Rubin (founder of Algonquin Books) and Melvin Belli (flamboyant attorney). Featured on the NBC-TV Today program Feb. 4, 1992. Yes, we know the sentence about Dalmatians and urea is incorrect; sorry. Enjoy the rest of the book.

• How Does Olive Oil Lose Its Virginity? Answers to the Enigmatic Questions of Everyday Life by Bruce Tindall and Mark Watson (New York: Morrow/Quill, 1994), ISBN 0-688-12681-2. Recommended as a gift for logophiles by William Safire in his New York Times Magazine column, Dec. 18, 1994.

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