Current Projects:
Recent, current and forthcoming publications.*
*for an absurdly complete E.T. bibliography, click here.
Forthcoming:
Heart. Wood., a collection of new poems, from Word Press, July, 2012.
"In the Train, Athens-Patras," "Horror: Tuesday," translations from Nicolas Born, in Michigan Quarterly Review.
A ghazal, "Yet," in New Ohio Review.
Current and Recent:
Two ghazals,"Beautiful" and "Strangers," in The Muse, India, December 2011.
Two ghazals, "Come Back" and "Eric," in In Posse Review, June 2011.
Two ghazals, "To" and "Back," in New Madrid, Summer 2011.
"Good Morning," "The Man Who Was Buried Alive," A Song That Everyone Knows," "A Single Body" (four translations from Nicolas Born) in Zoland Poetry 5, 2011.
A ghazal, "In America," in Solo Novo 1, 2011.
A ghazal, "Not Literature," in Pleiades 31:2, 2011.
Two ghazals, "My Home," "A Note to You," in The Ghazal Page, online.
Two ghazals, both called "Of Ghazals," in Cafe Review Agha Shahid Ali tribute issue, Summer 2011.
Six short poems as "mini-booklet" from The Michigan Poet, www.themichiganpoet.com.
"For Pasolini," a translation from Nicolas Born, in Slope 47, online.
"In Praise of Public Radio" in Pearl 43, Fall-Winter 2010.
"A Few Notes from the Elbholz," translation of Nicolas Born's "Ein Paar Notizen aus dem Elbholz," in Field, Fall 2010.
A ghazal, "Back Then," in 32poems 8:2, Fall 2010.
A ghazal, "Holy," in New Letters 76:4, Fall 2010.
Four ghazals, "The Lesson," "In Poems," "Detector," "Ran Out," in Parting Gifts, Summer 2010..
A ghazal, "With Elvis," Iron Horse Literary Review 12:1, Spring 2010.
A ghazal, "With You," Third Wednesday 2:1, Winter 2009/2010..
"Case Studies I," in North American Review 294:3-4, May-August, 2009..
"Villanelle of the Final Report" in I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights, Lost Horse Press, 2009.
Two ghazals, "Scenario" and "Yet," in New Ohio Review #6, Fall 2009.
"Love on the Friendship Quilt," "Killing the Milk Snakes," "I Will Die in Lake Superior" in Ambassador Poetry, Sept. 2009.
Two ghazals, "And Play" and "Postmodern," in Parting Gifts, Summer 2009.
Three ghazals, "Hands," "Out Here," "Locked," in New Letters, Winter-Spring 2009.
A translation of Nicolas Born, "Child," in Atlanta Review, Spring-Summer 2009.
"Chanson Americaine" in Main Street Rag, Spring 2009.
Four translations from NIcolas Born, "On the Inside of Poems," "Landscape with Big Car," "Parting for Life and Parting for Death," and "Before Falling Asleep," in Exquisite Corpse #15, http://www.corpse.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=237&Itemid=1 . The same poems appear ed in the Exquisite Corpse (print) Annual, #1.
A translation from Nicolas Born, "That's Where He Learned What War Is, He Says," in Field, Fall 2008.
A ghazal, "Said," in Zone 3, Fall 2008.
"A Counting" in Eclipse, Fall 2008.
"In the Hospital Where Coltrane Died" in Exquisite Corpse 14, http://www.corpse.org/archives/issue_14/poetick_kulchur/torgersen.html
A little essay called "Urds" in Vocabula Review (subscription required to read the whole thing).
Recent Appearances etc:
On July 12, 2011, from 5-7 pm, E.T. read from his work along with Linda Nemec Foster, Patrick McGinnity, Jennifer Burd, Darrin Doyle and Saleem Peeradina, as one small part of UP: The Book Tour.
E.T. served as judge for the 2010 PoetryJett.com / National Poetry Month Prize at Central Michigan University.
E. T. served as visiting writer for the Upper Peninsula Writing Project Retreat August 17-18, 2009.
E.T. read briefly along with other contributors to the launch issue of the new online journal The Ambassador Poetry Project, September 25, 2009 at 7:00 pm in the Grosse Pointe Art Center. See www.ambassadorpoetry.com for more details on this interesting new project to bring together the poets of Michigan and Ontario.
E.T. read his poetry October 5, 2009 in the Art Reach Center, 319 S. University, Mt. Pleasant, in the new Wellspring Literary Series. For more information about this ongoing series, contact coordinator Robert Fanning.
last updated January 5, 2011
