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PUBLICATIONS

Books:

Prairie Fever (poems). Steel Toe Books, 2007.

The Monkey and the Wrench: Essays into Contemporary Poetics. Akron Series in Contemporary Poetics Volume I. Co-editor with John Gallaher. University of Akron Press, January 2011.

Saint Monica (poems). Black Lawrence Press, 2011.

O Holy Insurgency (poems). Black Lawrence Press, forthcoming 2012.

Poems in Journals:

[Note: poems are also forthcoming in Barrelhouse, Bat City Review, Blackbird, H_NGM_N, iO, Redivider, The National Poetry Reveiw, and Forklift, Ohio]

"Coin Operated Engine Finds its Steam," "An Elm Tree Will Never Be the One You Love," and "A Bravery." | South Dakota Review. (Spring/Summer 2011):14-19.

“A Pact,” “Naturalism,” Committee of the Whole,” and “Fragments Addressing My Clavicle.” | Puerto del Sol. (Summer 2011): 126-133.

 “A Coin-Operated Railroad” and “Some Dead Ingenuity.” | Anti (http://anti-poetry.com/feature66/)

“A Genesis.” | Waccamaw: A Journal of Contemporary Literature. (Spring 2011). http://www.waccamawjournal.com/pages.html?x=330

“Some Discipline” and “A Rough Landing.” | Devil’s Lake. (Spring 2011).                http://english.wisc.edu/devilslake/issues/spring2011/biddinger.html

“Occupation: Hazard,” “The Fate of the Old Mill is Still Undecided,” “A Woodland Childhood.” | Midwestern Gothic. (Spring 2011).

“A Coin-Operated Gentrification Zone of the Heart,” “A Coin-Operated Apple Pie,” “A Coin-Operated Neighbor to the North,” “We Invent the Opposite of Vegas, Then Take it All Back.” | Diode. 4.2 (Spring 2011). http://www.diodepoetry.com/v4n2/content/biddinger_m.html

“A Diorama.” The Minnesota Review. (Spring 2011): 15-16.

"A Poverty," "A Trick Knee," and "In Which We Sense that We Are Not Alone." | The National Poetry Review. (Spring 2011): 5-10.

"Confabulations," "Confluence," and "Forensics" | The Journal (Spring 2010)

"A Drapery," and "O Holy Insurgency" | Center: A Journal of the Literary Arts (Spring 2010)

"Cooperative Efforts" and "Ode to Your Innocence" | Passages North (Spring 2010)

"Metropolis" and "Prelude to Our Escape" | Copper Nickel (Spring 2010)

"Portrait of Myself as a Piece of Red Candy in Your Mouth" | The Collagist (Fall 2010)

"Heresy," "Live Girls in Dead Wood Boxes," "My God," "Route 31," and "Where You Store the Gun at Night" | diode (Fall 2009)

“The Velvet Arms” | 32 Poems (Winter/Fall 2009)

“Craftsman” and “Shipwreck” | Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Art  (Fall 2009)

“Other Countries” and “Treaty Line” | Valparaiso Poetry Review (Fall 2009)

"The Cure" | The Mayo Review (May 2009)

"Saint Monica Takes Communion Twice" | Fifth Wednesday Journal (May 2009)

“Saint Monica Composes a Five Paragraph Essay on Girard’s Theory of Triangular Desire” | Third Coast  (April 2009)

“Saint Monica and the Devil’s Place” | New Ohio Review (March 2009)

“Pastoral” | New Zoo Poetry Review (February 2009)

“For the Lady Next Door,” “Gravitas,” and “Miniatures” | Slant  (February 2009)

“Clydesdales” and “My Upper Peninsula” | La Fovea (January 2009)

“Downdraft” and “Population 41,685” | Memorious: A Journal of New Verse and Fiction (December 2008)

“Saint Monica Gives it Up” | North American Review (May-August 2008)        

“Saint Monica and the Itch” | The Laurel Review (Summer 2008)

“Once I Ended Up in Wisconsin” and “Seven and Counting” | Weave Magazine (October 2008)

“Dyes and Stitchery” | North American Review (September-October 2008)

“The Way it Happened” | Crab Creek Review (Spring/Summer 2008)

“Saint Monica Stays the Course” | Ninth Letter (Spring + Summer 2008)

“The Last Man She Ever Knew” and “Saint Monica Burns it Down” | Valparaiso Poetry Review (April 2008)

“Outside Howell” and “Toughskins” | Anti- (April 2008)

“Northern Man” and “Saint Monica’s Sweet Sixteen” | Whiskey Island Magazine (Winter 2008)

“Copper Harbor” | The Bedside Guide to No Tell MotelThe Second Floor  (2007)

“Saint Monica of the Thaw” and “Habeas Corpus” | Caffeine Destiny (Fall 2007)

“The Flyers” and “Driving Away from Your Body” | Salt Hill (Winter 2007)

“Saint Monica of the Gauze” | Wicked Alice (Spring 2007)

“It’s All Too Much” and “The New Math” | Harpur Palate (February 2007)

“Brick Dust” | The Iowa Review (December 2006)

“Snakeskin” | The Eleventh Muse (2006)

“Lunar Eclipse” | Spoon River Poetry Review (Spring 2005)

“Drift” | Crazyhorse (Summer 2005)

“Man in Blue” | American Literary Review (2004)

“The Rookery” | Voice recording published online by 3am Magazine  (July 2004)

“Kicking It” | Stray Dog (June 2004)

“Dogs in the Woods” | The Briar Cliff Review  (Spring 2004)

“Bird Bones” and “Featherweight” | Perihelion (May 2004)

“Manistee” | The Portland Review  (Spring 2004)

“Salsa at the Belair Lounge” | ACM  (Winter 2004)

“Show Pony” and “Velvet Season” | Apalachee Review (2003)

“Sugar Beet,” “One-Wing Eagle,” and “Dirndl in a Tree” | Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review  (Summer/Fall 2003)

“Slim” | The Journal (Spring/Summer 2003)

“Coyote” | Bluesky Review (Spring/Summer 2003)

“Blue Spruce” and “Bird of Danger” | Red Rock Review (Spring 2003)

“Anklebone” | Puerto del Sol (Spring 2003)

“Girl in Chair” | Sycamore Review (Winter/Spring 2003)

“Wheatfield Shag” and “A Ghazal” | Good Foot (2003)

“Housewarming” | Plainsongs (April 2002)

“A Western” | Bluesky Review (Winter 2002)

“Two” | Notre Dame Review  (Winter 2002)

“Fish in Winter” | ACM (Fall 2001)

“House of Bees” | Wisconsin Review (2001)

“Razorback” | Ploughshares (Winter 2000-01, ed. Sherman Alexie)
 
“Palomino” | RHINO (2000)

“The Baker” | Whiskey Island Magazine (1999)

“The Rookery” | Indiana Review (Fall/Winter 1999)