Bibliography
Kathleen Cain
Books
The Cottonwood Tree: An American Champion. Johnson Books/Big Earth Publishing. 2007. (nonfiction). Nominated for Colorado Book Award; included in Nebraska 150 Books Project in celebration of 150 years of Nebraska statehood (https://ne150.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/NE150-150books.pdf)
Four on the Prairie (postcard series). now it’s up to you publications. 1991.
Late Bloomers (chapbook). now it’s up to you publications. 1986
Luna: Myth and Mystery. Johnson Books. 1991. o.p. (nonfiction)
Anthologies & Literary Magazines
Absence of Something Specified (an anthology about drought). Collaboration: Fern Rock Falls Press. Tiger's Eye Press. Uttered Chaos Press. Noah's Shoes Press. 2016.
“1936”
Anthology of Colorado Poets. Eds. Janice Hayes and ?. 1996.
“Tracking: Two Love Poems”
“Water Lines.”
Bardsong: The Journal for Celebrating the Celtic Spirit.
Vol. 2, Issue 1, Midsummer 2005.
“The Bog Road”
“The People (Derbhfine).”
Bevard, Linda and Nan Wigington. Fine letterpress edition (250 prints) of poem
“Meeting Grief on the Stairs” (held in the collection of letterpress arts at the University of Utah)
City Kite on a Wire: 38 Denver Poets. Mesilla Press. 1986.
“Late Bloomers”
“Museum Pieces”
“Cottonwood.”
Collecting Life: Poets on Objects Known and Imagined. 3: A Taos Press. 2011.
“Finding Daisies (Nóíníní)”
Colorado Readers at Richard’s Series. Abishag Press. 1983.
“Fern”
The Comstock Review.
24:1 Spring/Summer 2010. “Excavation at Rock Creek Farm.”
32:1 Spring/Summer 2018. “Apology to the Barn Owl”; “Arena at Arles.”
32:2 Fall/Winter 2018. “In the Garden at the Arbors.”
Crossing the River: Poets of the Western U.S. The Permanent Press. 1987.
“White Line”
“The Lesson.”
Denver Crossroads: Poems About Life in Denver (and other places) https://denvercrossroads.wordpress.com/2010/12/31/kathleen-cain-3/
“Always in a Hurry;
City Park Lake
Coming Close
Crossing on Highway 287, That June
In the Garden at the Arbors
Lowell Crossing
A Tour of the Denver Basin
St. Francis Without Hands”
Earth’s Daughters
#76. What’s Cooking? 2009. “Kuan Yin at the Sink.”
#79, Stormy Weather. 2011. “The Air Said.”
#84, Light, 2014. “Refraction.”
#89 In the Jar 2016 “Fogwatching”
#92 She Persisted 2018 “Another Ending” and “Great Western Interior Sea”
The Eleventh Muse.
Winter 1991-92 Volume 10, Number 2. “An Beal: Returning to the Tribe.”
Winter 2011-2012.
“Winds Near the Red Cliffs” (honorable mention)
“More Advice”
“The Cowboy Who Reads Camus”
Feile * Festa. http://www.medcelt.org/feile-festa/index.html
“Landfall – Western Ireland.” 2010
http://www.medcelt.org/feile-festa/v005/poetry/cain.html
“From Trá Bán.” 2011 http://www.medcelt.org/feile-festa/v006/poetry/cain.html
“Remembering Ruth Singing Peggy Gordon”
http://www.medcelt.org/feile-festa/v007/prose/cain.html
Folded Word
“For Lack of Light” Wonderfold winner for November 2018
https://folded.wordpress.com/2018/12/10/wonderfold-winner-november/
“Spailpín” http://www.medcelt.org/feile-festa/v009/poetry/cain.html
Fungi. Vol. 11, No. 1, Spring 2018
“Wild Mushrooms.”
Heartland! Poetry of Love, Resistance & Solidarity
“As If’ https://150kansaspoems.wordpress.com/2018/01/25/as-if-by-kathleen-cain/
“At the Table” https://150kansaspoems.wordpress.com/2018/06/04/at-the-table-by-kathleen-cain/
“This is a Prayer for a Field” https://150kansaspoems.wordpress.com/2018/04/26/this-is-a-prayer-for-a-field-by-kathleen-cain/
“This is not. . .” https://150kansaspoems.wordpress.com/2018/08/06/this-is-not-by-kathleen-cain/
HeartLodge: Honoring the House of the Poet.
Inaugural Issue. Spring 2005. “Seamus Heaney's Meadow.”
Vol. II, Summer 2006. “The Well Road”; “Prophecy: Populus tidwelii.”
Vol. III, Summer 2007. “Cutting a Tree for Wood.”
Vol. IV, Summer 2008. “Westminster to Longmont: the Drive.”
High Plains Literary Review. Vol. III, No. 1. Spring 1988.
“A Charm”
“Postcards from Ireland.”
Hospital Drive. Issue 8. Summer 2012. “Gravity.” http://hospitaldrive.med.virginia.edu/hospital-drive/issue-8-summer-2012/gravity/
Irish Poetry Now: Other Voices. Wolfhound Press. 1993. “Fern.”
Knowing Stones: Poems of Exotic Places. John Gordon Burke Publishers. 2000. “Daughters”
“A Dream of the Poul na Brone Dolmen.”
Lavanderia: A Mixed Load of Women, Wash, and Word. City Works Press. 2009.
“On the Outskirts of Marseilles.”
Looking for Home: Women Writing About Exile. Milkweed Editions. 1990.
“The Lesson”
“Returned American”
Malala: Poems for Malala Yousafzai. Futurecycle Press. Haynesville, NC. 2013.
“Lingering.”
https://www.amazon.in/Malala-Poems-Yousafzai-Multiple-Authors/dp/1938853369
The Master’s Hand: Reflections on Rane. Bill Rane Trust. 2008.
“On Not Using the Word 'Heart' in a Poem.”
Nebraska Authors’ Page
https://nebraskaauthors.org/authors/kathleen-cain-seiler
Nebraska Poetry: A Sesquicentennial Anthology, 1867-2017. Ed. Daniel Simon. Stephen F. Austin University Press. 2017.
“1936”
“Sunset Clouds Retell History Outside Lincoln, Nebraska”
Occasional poem for the 10th anniversary of The College Hill Library, Westminster, CO.
“A Day at the Library.”
Pinyon 7 Spring 1999
The Crossing, June 1996 https://mountainscholar.org/bitstream/handle/11166/168139/cogjm.PIN_POE_1999_ISS7_COMP.pdf?sequence=7&isAllowed=y
17. Spring 2008.
“Tumbleweed Exchange.”
The Prompt Literary Magazine (online). Vol. 3, Isssue #1.
“It Happens Like This.”
Natural Bridge. Issue No. 7, Spring 2002. Irish Issue.
“Homage to Thomas McGreevy.”
Rusty Nails & Astronauts: A Wolfhound Poetry Anthology. Wolfhound Press. 1999.
“Fern”
Sage Green Journal
“What This Means, Being Cottonwood” http://www.sagegreenjournal.org/kathleen-cain.html
Tattoo Highway
“High Plains Parable.” TH/20. http://www.tattoohighway.org/20/kchighplains.html
“The Blue.” TH/19.
http://www.tattoohighway.org/19/kcblue.html
Threaded Lives:Poems from the Fiber World (from ekphrasis presentation at the Rane Gallery, Taos).
“Hamadryad.”
Tiger's Eye Journal. 2015.
“Arachnia” and “Fukushima.”
Times of Sorrow, Times of Grace: Writing by Women of the Great Plains/High Plains. Backwaters Press. 2002.
“What This Means, Being Cottonwood.”
Turn (anthology). Uttered Chaos. 2013.
“Letters from the Field”
Untidy Season: An Anthology of Nebraska Women Poets. Backwaters Press. Omaha, NE. 2013.
“Blue Wheelbarrow, Green Note”
White Pelican Review. Spring 2008. Volume Nine, Number One.
“Sunset Clouds Retell History Near Lincoln, NE.”
Womanthology: A Collection of Colorado Women Poets. Eds. Janet H. Yench and Kathy B. Riley. Perfect Printing, Inc. Denver, Colorado. 1977
“Genesis”
Zeus Seduces the Wicked Stepmother in the Saloon of the Gingerbread House: Myth, Fairy Tale & Legend for the Twenty-First Century. Winterhawk Press. 2008.
“Horseshoes from the Other World.”
Magazines and Newspapers
The Bloomsbury Review (book magazine). Served as contributing editor from 1982, wrote dozens of reviews, essays, and author interviews. A favorite among them, an interview with first poetry instructor at the University of Nebraska: “A Man for All Genres: An Interview with Poet, Critic, Editor, Publisher, Teacher, Mentor & Screenwriter Greg Kuzma.” The Bloomsbury Review. May/June/July 2009.
Celtic Connection
“Wake Song for Sean Sheehan.” (poem)
“Finn MacCool and the Genetically Modified Salmon of Wisdom” (article)
Colorado Independent News Poetry
“Now” November 21, 2013
https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2013/11/21/news-poem-now/
“Hegemony”August 29, 2017
http://www.coloradoindependent.com/166835/news-poetry-hegemony
“A Rose for Paris” July 30, 2017
http://www.coloradoindependent.com/166502/news-poetry-a-rose-for-paris
“A Tour of the Denver Basin”
Colorado Independent News Poetry. September 27, 2017
http://www.coloradoindependent.com/167128/news-poetry-a-tour-of-the-denver-basin
“A Day at the Library (and no, I don’t mean Amazon) August 10, 2018
Contango (arts newspaper). Interview with Denver artist Homare Ikeda; interview with Wade Wood, former owner of The Victorian Theater, Denver.
Denver Post. Article on Bobby Sands hunger strike. 1981.
Fungi. Vol. 10: No. 4, Winter 2018. p.36.
“The Mushroom Hunter.” (poem)
Ireland of the Welcomes. “Beating Out the Old Year.”
The Scanner. Editor, monthly newsletter on environmental scanning for Front Range Community College. Included interviews with community members, editorials, feature articles, and coordinating guest articles.
Video
Eco-Diary: The Cottonwood Tree. Interview with Kathleen Cain. City of Arvada. Channel 8. July 26, 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kOgbm_efX8