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Section C:
This index includes contributions to periodicals; entries within years are listed alphabetically
1969
1. PREVIEW: 1968-1969, edited by Leon Stokesbury
Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas, 1969
Stanford contribution: “Living” [collected in Singing Knives]
1970
2. MILL MOUNTAIN REVIEW, Vol. 1, No. 2, edited by Irv Broughton
Roanoke: Mill Mountain Review, 1970
Stanford contribution: “The Professors” [uncollected], “The Solitude of Historical Analysis” [uncollected], “The Politicians” [uncollected], “Holy Night” [uncollected], “Living” [collected in The Singing Knives]
3. PREVIEW: THE LITERATURE, edited by Leon Stokesbury
Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas, 1970
Stanford contribution: “Elegy for My Father” [collected in The Singing Knives], “Remembering the Odor in the Jewish Dentist’s House Next Door, I Recall the Picture Show Next Door to the Stamp Store in Downtown Memphis” [uncollected], “The Gospel Bird” [collected in The Singing Knives], “The Albino” [collected in The Singing Knives]
4. TANSY, No. 1 , edited by John Moritz
Lawrence: Tansy, 1970
Stanford contribution: “Early Times In A Mississippi Liquor Store” [uncollected], “The Hole” [uncollected]
5. TANSY, No. 4 , edited by John Moritz
Lawrence: Tansy, n.d. [c. 1970-71]
Stanford contribution: “Tapsticks” [collected in The Singing Knives], “Chimera” [uncollected].
1971
6. ALDEBARAN REVIEW, No. 11, edited by John Oliver Simon
Berkeley: Noh Directions Press, 1971
Stanford contribution: “On Jesus Highway” [uncollected]
7. THE CHICAGO REVIEW, Vol. 23, No. 1, edited by Robert McKean
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971
Stanford contribution: “Fish on the Trees (elegy)” [uncollected], “The Albino” [collected in The Singing Knives], “Remembering the Odor in the Jewish Dentist’s House Next Door, I Recall the Picture Show next door to the Stamp Store in Downtown Memphis” [uncollected]
8. KAYAK, No. 26, edited by George Hitchcock
Santa Cruz: Kayak Books Inc, 1971
Stanford contribution: “Wishing My Wife Had One Leg” [collected in The Singing Knives]
9. THE LITTLE REVIEW, Vol. 2, No. 2, Issue 4, edited by John McKernan
Huntington: Little Review Press, 1971
Stanford contribution: “The Kite”, [uncollected] “The Pump” [collected in The Singing Knives]
10. MILL MOUNTAIN REVIEW, Vol. 1, No. 3, edited by Irv Broughton
Roanoke, VA: Mill Mountain Review, 1971
Stanford contribution: “If I Should Wake” [collected in The Singing Knives], “The Bass” [collected in The Singing Knives], “The Doe” [uncollected], “The Minnow” [collected in The Singing Knives], “Cottonmouth” [uncollected]
11. MILL MOUNTAIN REVIEW, Vol. 1, No. 4, edited by Irv Broughton
Seattle: Mill Mountain Review, 1971
Stanford contribution: “Planning the Disappearance of Those Who Have Gone” [collected in The Singing Knives], “The Bandits” [uncollected], “Bergman the Burning Ship” [uncollected], “Bend Sinister” [uncollected], “The Mother of Yannis Ritsos” [uncollected], “The Men” [uncollected]
12. THE NATION, Vol. 213, No. 10
New York: Nation Associates Inc., October 1971
Stanford contribution: “Belladonna” [collected in The Singing Knives]
13. NEW AMERICAN REVIEW, No. 11, edited by Theodore Solotaroff
New York: New American Library, 1971
Stanford contribution: “The Gospel Bird” [collected in The Singing Knives]
14. WEST COAST REVIEW, Vol. 6, No. 2, edited by Frederick Candelaria
Burnaby: Simon Fraser University, 1971
Stanford contribution: “The Intruder” [collected in The Singing Knives], “The Quiver” [collected in The Singing Knives], “Friends of the House of Momus” [uncollected], “Momus” [uncollected], “White Feather” [uncollected], “Poet Manque” [uncollected], “Becoming the Unicorn” [collected in The Singing Knives], “The Tribade” [uncollected], “The Arena” [uncollected], “The Odor” [uncollected], “Solus” [uncollected], “Holy Night” [uncollected], “The Bandits” [uncollected], “The Smoking Mirrors” [uncollected], “Bergman the Burning Ship” [uncollected]
1972
15. OPEN PLACES, No. 11, edited by Eleanor M. Bender
Columbia: Stephens College, January 1972
Stanford contribution: “Strappado” [collected in The Singing Knives], “When the rain hits the snake in the head…” [uncollected], “Becoming the Unicorn” [collected in The Singing Knives], “Narcissus to Achilles” [collected in The Singing Knives]
16. HOLLINS CRITIC, Vol. 9, No. 1, edited by R.H.W. Dillard
Roanoke: Hollins College, 1972
Stanford contribution: “Chimera” [uncollected]
17. THE IOWA REVIEW, Vol. 3, No. 3, edited by Merle E. Brown
Iowa City: The University of Iowa, Summer 1972
Stanford contribution: “The Buried Sword” [uncollected], “Keeping the Lord’s Night Watch” [uncollected], “The Actresses of Night” [uncollected], “The Paramour” [collected in Ladies from Hell]
18. THE MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW, Vol. 13, No. 4
Amherst: University of Massachusetts, Autumn 1972
Stanford contribution: “Tapsticks” [collected in The Singing Knives]
19. POETRY: AUSTRALIA, No. 43, edited by Grace Perry
Sydney: South Head Press, 1972
Stanford contribution: Translation from the Spanish: “Twilight” by César Vallejo
1973
20. BOSTON AFTER DARK: THE BOSTON PHOENIX, Vol. 2, No. 51, Section 2
Boston: The Boston Phoenix, December 1973
Stanford contribution: excerpt “Blue Yodel of Poets of Times Past” [uncollected]
21. THE NEW YORK QUARTERLY, No. 15, edited by William Packard
New York: New York Quarterly Poetry Review, Summer 1973
Stanford contribution: “Death in the Cool Evening” [collected in Ladies from Hell]
1974
22. THE ARK RIVER REVIEW, Vol. 3, No. 1, edited by Jonathan Katz, A.G. Sobin, and Arthur Vogelsang
Haverford: The Ark River Review, 1974
Stanford contribution: “In Plain View” [collected in Shade], “Pasture Dream” [collected in Ladies from Hell]
23. DACOTAH TERRITORY, No. 8/9, edited by Mark Vinz
Moorehead: Moorhead State College, Fall-Winter 1974
Stanford contribution: “Suspect” [collected in Ladies from Hell], “Soybeans” [collected in Shade]
24. FIELD, No. 10, edited by Stuart Friebert and David Young
Oberlin: Oberlin College, Spring 1974
Stanford contribution: “Brothers on Sunday Night” [collected in Ladies from Hell], “Linger” [collected in Ladies from Hell]
25. FIELD, No. 11, edited by Stuart Friebert and David Young
Oberlin: Oberlin College, Fall 1974
Stanford contribution: “The Dead Man’s Fiddle” [collected in Crib Death], “The Home Movie of Those Who are Dead Now” [collected in Crib Death]
26. FIELD, 12, edited by Stuart Friebert and David Young
Oberlin: Oberlin College, Spring 1974)
Stanford contribution: “Blue Yodel of Her Feet” [uncollected], “Allegory of Death and Night” [uncollected], “Children at the Point of Death” [uncollected], “Knew it was Love, Felt it was Glory (after Pier Paolo Pasolini)” [collected in Crib Death]
27. THE IOWA REVIEW, Vol. 5, No. 2, edited by Merle E. Brown
Iowa City: The University of Iowa, Spring 1974
Stanford contribution: “Rooms” [collected in Constant Stanger], “Hidden Water” [collected in Ladies from Hell]
28. THE IOWA REVIEW, Vol. 5, No. 3, edited by Merle E. Brown
Iowa City: The University of Iowa, Summer 1974
Stanford contribution: “A Past: Wintered Like a Circus ” [uncollected]
29. IRONWOOD, No. 4, edited by Michael Cuddihy
Tucson: Ironwood, December 1974
Stanford contribution: “Handling Paper with Cold Hands” [collected in You], “Lost Recipe” [uncollected], “Crest” [uncollected], “Island Funeral” [collected in Crib Death], “Getting to Sleep” [collected in Ladies from Hell]
30. THE LITTLE REVIEW, Vol. 5, No. 1, Issue 9, edited by John McKernan
Dorchester: Little Review Press, 1974
Stanford contribution: “Blue Yodel of Those Who Were Always Telling Me” [uncollected]
31. POETRY: AUSTRALIA, No. 51, edited by Grace Perry
Sydney: South Head Press(1974)
Stanford contribution: Translation from the Spanish: “Message by Lorca Sent to Me in an Infant’s Casket” by Nicanor Parra
32. PRAIRIE SCHOONER, Vol. 48, No. 3, edited by Bernice Slote
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, Fall 1974
Stanford contribution: “Sudden Opera” [collected in Ladies from Hell]
1975
33. AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW, Vol. 4, No. 2, edited by Stephen Berg
Philadelphia: American Poetry Review, March-April 1975
Stanford contribution: “What About This” [uncollected], “They Really Do” [uncollected]
34. IRONWOOD, No. 6, edited by Michael Cuddihy
Tucson: Ironwood Press, 1975
Stanford contribution: “The Burial Ship” [uncollected], “The Wolves” [uncollected]
35. THE LITTLE REVIEW, Vol. 5, No. 2, Issue 10, edited by John McKernan
Dorchester: Little Review Press, 1975
Stanford contribution: “Blue Yodel” [collected in Arkansas Bench Stone], “Their Names Are Spoken” [collected in Arkansas Bench Stone], “Island” [collected in Arkansas Bench Stone], “Tale” [collected in Arkansas Bench Stone], “Will” [collected in Arkansas Bench Stone], “Shed” [collected in Arkansas Bench Stone], “Blue Yodel of the Quick and the Dead” [collected in Arkansas Bench Stone], “Lament of the Land Surveyor” [collected in Arkansas Bench Stone], “Monk’s Dog” [collected in Arkansas Bench Stone], “Women Singing When Their Husbands Are Gone” [collected in Ladies from Hell, “Lap” [collected in Arkansas Bench Stone], “Mouths Full of Spit” [collected in Arkansas Bench Stone]
1976
36. OUT THERE, No. 10, edited by Rose Lesniak
Chicago: Out There Press, (1976)
Stanford contribution: “Only One Set in The Singer’s Eyes” [collected in Crib Death], “Why The Moon is The Outhouse” [collected in Crib Death], “Porch Chair” [uncollected].
1977
37. BARATARIA, No. 3, edited by Ellen Gilchrist and Everette Maddox
New Orleans: The Barataria Press, Spring-Summer 1977
Stanford contribution: “Dreamt by a Man in a Field” [uncollected], “Between Love and Death” [collected in Crib Death], ”You” [uncollected], “Would You Like to Lie Down with the Light on and Cry” [collected in Crib Death], “Allegory of Youth” [uncollected]
38. BARATARIA, No. 4 , edited by Ellen Gilchrist and Everette Maddox
New Orleans: The Barataria Press, Fall 1977
Stanford contribution: “The Captain’s Desk” [uncollected]
39. IRONWOOD, 9, edited by Michael Cuddihy
Tucson: Ironwood Press, Spring 1977
Stanford contribution: “Taking Your Life” [collected in Crib Death], “Amaranth” [collected in Crib Death], “A Woman Driving a Stake into the Ground at Midnight” [collected in Crib Death], “Strange Roads before Light” [collected in Crib Death], “Only One Set in the Singer’s Eyes” [collected in Crib Death], “The Angel of Death” [collected in Crib Death], “Death and the Arkansas River” [collected in Constant Stranger]
1978
40. IRONWOOD, No. 12, edited by Michael Cuddihy
Tucson: Ironwood Press, Fall 1978
Stanford contribution: “The Light The Dead See” [collected in Crib Death], “In this House” [collected in Crib Death], “A Milk Truck Running into a Crazy Maid at the Corner of Getwell and Park” [collected in Crib Death], “The Boy Who Shot Weathercocks” [collected in Crib Death]
1979
41. AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW, Vol. 8, No. 2, edited by Stephen Berg
Philadelphia: World Poetry, March/April 1979
Stanford contribution: “The History of John Stoss” [collected in You], “Starving to Death” [uncollected], “Source” [uncollected], “Light Blue” [uncollected], “Death and Memory” [uncollected]
42. SUN & MOON: A JOURNAL OF LITERATURE & ART, No. 8, edited by Douglas Messerli and Howard Fox
College Park: Sun & Moon, Fall 1979
Stanford contribution: “The Angel of Death” [collected in Crib Death], “Freedom, Revolt, and Love” [uncollected]
1980s and beyond
43. IRONWOOD, No. 17, edited by Michael Cuddihy
Tucson: Ironwood Press, April 1981
Stanford contribution: “The Picture Show Next Door to The Stamp Store in Downtown Memphis” [collected in The Singing Knives], “The Pump” [collected in The Singing Knives], “Getting to Sleep” [collected in Ladies from Hell], “Lost Recipe” [collected in Crib Death], “Wind Blowing on a Sick Man”, “The Burial Ship”, “Everybody Who is Dead”, “Between Love and Death”, “Blue Yodel of the Lost Child”, “Allegory of Death and Night”, “A Milk Truck Running into a Crazy Maid at the Corner of Getwell and Park”, “The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You”, Selections
44. IRONWOOD, No. 23, edited by Michael Cuddihy
Tucson: Ironwood Press, Spring 1984
Stanford contribution: “Crossed” [uncollected]
45. RACCOON, No. 24/25, Tenth Anniversary Issue.
Memphis: Ion Books, May 1987
Stanford contribution: “There Is No Where in You a Paradise That Is No Place and There You Do Not Enter Except Without a Story”
46. NEW LETTERS, Vol. 64, No. 3, edited by James McKinley
Kansas City: University of Missouri-Kansas City, Spring 1998
Stanford contribution: “Dead Child”
Unknown Contributions
ASK THE POET
BOSTON AFTER DARK
BOSTON PHOENIX
THE CIRCULAR RUINS [Scotland]
DE QUINCEY [England]
EDGE [Christchurch , New Zealand]
GHOST SHIP [Ireland]
THE HUNCHBACK IN THE PARK [Wales]
LA BELL ET LA BETE [France]
LA NOTTE [Italy]
THE LITTLE REVIEW
THE NATION, Vol. 213, No. 10 (1971)
THE PARTISAN REVIEW
POETRY NOW, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1975)
THE PORTABLE PLATEAU, Volume 1 Number 1 (1997)
ROAD APPLE REVIEW [Albuquerque]
SEEMS [DeKalb]
STINKTREE [Memphis]
VILLAGE
Cambridge: The Harvard Advocate, March 1955















Amsterdam: Barbarber, (c. 1958)





Keble College, Oxford: Tomorrow, February – March 1960














New York, October 1964




































































































1946-1947 studied fine arts at Baylor. In addition, Crews did graduate study at the University of Texas, El Paso in 1967. He has worked as an educator at Wharton County Junior College, New Mexico (1967-1970), the University of New Mexico, Gallup Branch (1971-1972), and at the University of Zambia (1974-1978). He has also been involved in social work. After two years in the U. S. Army Medical Corps during World War II, Crews moved his family and business, Motive Press, from Waco, Texas, to Taos, New Mexico, where he began his writing and publishing career in earnest.













































New York: Kulchur Press, Summer 1964





























































