University of Iowa

Wayne Clifford is a Canadian poet, editor, and educator. He has written more than a dozen books of poetry, including the goundbreaking sonnet sequence The Exile's Papers, which currently extends over three volumes. After attaining his M.A. and M.F.A. at the University of Iowa in 1969, he spent three and half decades working at a small college in Kingston, Ontario. Leaving to write full-time in 2004, Clifford was appointed as the Poetry Editor at Porcupine's Quill. He presently lives on the island of Grand Manan in the Bay of Fundy. 

Bibliography

Man in a Window. Toronto, Ontario: Coach House Press, 1965.

Eighteen. Toronto, Ontario: Coach House Press, 1966.

Alphabook. Kingston, Ontario: Makework Press, 1972.

Glass Passages. Ottawa, Ontario: Oberon Press, 1976.

An Ache in the Ear. Toronto, Ontario: Coach House Press, 1979.

On Abducting the 'Cello. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 2004.

The Book of Were. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 2006.

The Exile's Papers: Part One: The Duplicity of Autobiography. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 2007.

The Exile's Papers: Part Two: The Face as its Thousand Ships. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 2009.

Jane Again. Emeryville, Ontario: Biblioasis, 2009

Learning to Dance with a Peg Leg. Frog Hollow Press, 2009.

The Exile's Papers: Part Three: The Dirt's Passion Is Flesh Sorrow. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 2011.

Wayne Clifford is a Canadian poet, editor, and educator. He has written more than a dozen books of poetry, including the goundbreaking sonnet sequence The Exile's Papers, which currently extends over three volumes. After attaining his M.A. and M.F.A. at the University of Iowa in 1969, he spent three and half decades working at a small college in Kingston, Ontario. Leaving to write full-time in 2004, Clifford was appointed as the Poetry Editor at Porcupine's Quill. He presently lives on the island of Grand Manan in the Bay of Fundy. 

Bibliography

Man in a Window. Toronto, Ontario: Coach House Press, 1965.

Eighteen. Toronto, Ontario: Coach House Press, 1966.

Alphabook. Kingston, Ontario: Makework Press, 1972.

Glass Passages. Ottawa, Ontario: Oberon Press, 1976.

An Ache in the Ear. Toronto, Ontario: Coach House Press, 1979.

On Abducting the 'Cello. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 2004.

The Book of Were. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 2006.

The Exile's Papers: Part One: The Duplicity of Autobiography. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 2007.

The Exile's Papers: Part Two: The Face as its Thousand Ships. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 2009.

Jane Again. Emeryville, Ontario: Biblioasis, 2009

Learning to Dance with a Peg Leg. Frog Hollow Press, 2009.

The Exile's Papers: Part Three: The Dirt's Passion Is Flesh Sorrow. Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 2011.

For more poems, see the Academy of America Poets

• The End
• Orpheus Alone
• The Idea

the Poetry Archive

• Eating Poetry
• From the Long Sad Party
• Man and Camel
• My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer
• The Coming of Light

and The Poetry Foundation

• “The Dreadful Has Already Happened
• Black Maps
• Coming to This
• Courtship
• Eating Poetry
• Elegy 1969
• Futility in Key West
• In Celebration
• Keeping Things Whole
• Lines for Winter
• My Life
• Mystery and Solitude in Topeka
• No Words Can Describe It
• Orpheus Alone
• Our Masterpiece Is the Private Life
• Seven Poems
• The End
• The Garden
• The Idea
• The Marriage
• The Minister of Culture Gets His Wish
• The Mysterious Arrival of an Unusual Letter
• The Prediction
• The Untelling
• To Himself
• Where Are the Waters of Childhood?

   

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    • --. The Story of Our Lives. New York: Atheneum, 1973. PS 3569.T69 S7 Robarts Library
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    • --. Elegy for My Father. Iowa City, IA: Windhover, 1978.
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    • --. Selected Poems. New York: Atheneum, 1980. PS 3569.T69 A6 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview
    • --. The Continuous Life. New York: Knopf, 1990. PS 3569.T69 C6 Robarts Library
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    • --. Blizzard of One: Poems. New York: Knopf, 1998. PS 3569.T69 B57 1998 Robarts Library
    • --. New Selected Poems. New York: Knopf, 2007. PS 3569.T69 A6 2007X Robarts Library

Simon J. Ortiz, poet, writer, storyteller, and Doctor of Letters, is author of over a dozen books, including Out There Somewhere, Men on the Moon, After and Before the Lightning, and Woven Stone. He is also the editor of numerous collections, including Speaking for the Generations: Native Writers on Writing, and Earth Power Coming: Short Fiction in Native American Literature. He has taught at the University of New Mexico and the Institute of American Indian Arts, and served as lieutenant governor of the Pueblo of Acoma and consulting editor of the Pueblo of Acoma Press. As a teacher of poetry and fiction, he stresses the artful power of the "storytelling voice." He teaches and writes now at the University of Toronto.

• Naked in the Wind. NC: QUetzal-Vihio Press, 1971.
• Going for the Rain. New York: Harper, 1976.
• Fight Back: For the sake of the people for the sake of the land. Albuqurque: University if New Mexico Press, 1980.
• From Sand Creek: Rising in this heart which is our America. New York: Thunder's Mouth, 1981.
• Out There Somewhere. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2002.
• Men on the Moon: collected short stories. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1999.
• Speaking for the Generations: native writers on writing. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1998.
• After and Before the Lightning. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1994.
• Woven Stone. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1992.
• Song, Poetry, Language. Tsaile, AZ: Navajo Community COllege Press, 1978.
• A Poem is a Journey. Bourbonais, IL: Pternandon Press, 1981.