Her recent books include Habibi (a novel for teens), Lullaby Raft (a picture book) and Never in a Hurry (essays). Her books of poems are Red Suitcase (BOA) and Words under the Words: Selected Poems. She has edited four prize-winning anthologies of poetry for young readers and is a Guggenheim Fellow for 1997–1998.
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“String” is for Phyllis Theroux. “F” by Denise Levertov, from Poems 1968-1972
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“How Far is it to the Land We Left?” is for Aidan Artemus Gurovitsch.
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“Listening to Poetry in a Language I Do Not Understand” is for Shuntarō Tanikawa.
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John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for their heartening support.
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Invisible, a chapbook, (Trilobite Press, Denton, 1989).
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Travel Alarm (a chapbook), (Wings Press, Houston, 1993);
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Written with a Spoon: A Poet’s Cookbook, edited by Nancy Fay and Judith Rafaela Sherman (Asher Publishing, New Mexico, 1995);
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The Place My Words Are Looking For, edited by Paul B. Janeczko (Bradbury Press, 1990);