Acknowledgments

Thanks are due to the following publications where some of these poems first appeared:

The Centennial Review, Eclectic Literary Forum, Facets,
Hudson Valley Echoes, Poets On, Without Haloes

Wild Women of Borneo appears in Catholic Girls, eds. Amber Coverdale Sumrall & Patrice Vecchione, Plume/Penguin USA Books (New York), 1992

The Carpenter’s Daughter appears in The Tie That Binds, ed. Sandra Martz, Papier Maché Press (Watsonville, California), 1988 and 1992

Eels appears in Sonnets, ed. Ira Rosenstein, Starlight Press (Long Island City), 1992

When Girls Fight appears in Scratch Marks: The Poetry Magazine of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Volume I, ed. Zack Rearick, 2006