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Three Poems in Impost
If you haven’t seen the collaborative poetry chapbook my son Micah and I wrote, we’d be super happy if you took a look at it here. That link will give you a preview and links to more information, including how to get a copy for yourself. He and I have been continuing to work together on poems, and projects both together and separately.
In the not too distant future we hope to be able to tell you…
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Nearby There Is a Field
In the spring of 2020, Watershed Review published my poem “Nearby There Is a Field,” along with “Emergency Room,” and “Echo.” WR continues to publish beautiful work online, including this little gem by Amorak Huey in the fall of 2023:
This season, poet Marjorie Maddox is been hosting a four-minute radio show on WPSU, focusing on Pennsylvania poets. Every Monday a new episode of Poetry Moment…
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All the Difference, Poem in the MacGuffin
I’ve been thinking about my publication successes of 2023. Not as many as I might have wanted, but definitely more than I remembered. I’ve been working on some new pieces, and pretty much have cleared off the submission slate, so I’m ready to start sending work out again.
I am particularly proud to have a poem in issue 39.1 of the print journal The MacGuffin. Much like the way I enjoy audio and…
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Letter to a 19-year-old Revolutionary
Time to start updating my publications for the year. I'm tired, but kinda proud.
I’ve been meaning to post about some of my 2023 publications, but you know: Life and stuff. But everyone has life and stuff. I shall try not to use the obvious as an excuse. Already I feel tempted to turn this into a New Year’s resolution, and I totally would if I were the type of person who made New Year’s resolutions.
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In fairness to myself, it’s been a weird year. In some ways a hard…
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Make Your Own Kind
I just wanted to let you know about another project I’m working on. I have a brother who is suffering from the memory thief of dementia. We hadn’t heard from him in some time. His last emails were getting more and more confusing, and he wasn’t returning our calls. We had gotten used to him becoming more eccentric in recent years. That’s how we thought of it. Turns out, it wasn’t a choice on his…
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Affinities, in Crab Creek Review
I am excited to share with you a poem published in this spring’s edition of Crab Creek Review. If you’re a fan of Robert Lowell, you might see a bit of influence there from his poem “Skunk Hour,” which he dedicated to Elizabeth Bishop. It’s not just the appearance of the little striped “critters,” but I realized after writing it that there was something about coming to terms with a new reality,…
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Whale Road Review
As we continue through April and national poetry month, I can happily report that I got the chance to do a reading and impromptu craft talk at my new library this weekend. We were holding an author’s fair (planned out before my arrival on the job last month) and a reading slot opened up. I even sold a copy of Mapping the Valley, the collaborative project with my son Micah, which you can learn…
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Happy Poetry Month from the Monkey
My son Micah had a poem published recently in Anti-Heroin Chic. I am super proud of him, of course. Check it out!
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Blood Orange Review
My dad turns 90 years old tomorrow and we are planning a surprise party, well, we’re going for mild surprise. Nobody will be jumping out from behind furniture and shouting “SURPRISE!” We don’t want it to be his last birthday. He and I haven’t always gotten along. When I was 16 I ran away from home.
But instead of telling you about all of that, I’d rather direct you to a poem that was just…
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Poem in Valparaiso Poetry Review
Poem in Valparaiso Poetry Review
We didn’t get out at all this Christmas or New Year’s because I tested positive for Covid, so this poem below, which I wrote reflecting on the winter of 2020 to 21, was actually just as fitting for January of 2023.
During the lockdowns I had the joy of writing with an online workshop of (mostly North East US) poets led by the never tiring, ever traveling Craig Czury. One of Craig’s tricks to get…
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Reading with Poetry Square
Reading with Poetry Square
I’m honored to have been invited by Diane Funston, Poet-in-residence at Yubba Sutter Arts and Culture, to read with Cheryl Latif and Julian Mathews in Poetry Square at 7 PM PT (10 PM EST).
Please join us, either live or after the event on YouTube here:
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October Reading
With the River Poets at the Bloomsburg Public Library
Time: Thursday, October 7th at 7:30 PM
Place: Community Room of the Bloomsburg Public Library, 225 Market Street in Bloomsburg, PA
The River Poets of central Pennsylvania are hosting my son Micah James Bauman and I at the Bloomsburg Public Library for a reading from our poetry chapbook collaboration, Mapping the Valley: Hospital Poems…
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What the Heck is a Chapbook
What the Heck is a Chapbook
I’m glad you asked.
Outside of the poetry world nobody seems to know what a chapbook is. So when I tell them that I have published two chapbooks and a third as a collaboration with my son, they often nod in puzzlement, happy for me, but obviously perplexed by my wording. Sometimes they ask, “A chat book?”
In a local paper recently, it was announced that Micah and I would be reading from our new…
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Thank you, Martha!
David J. Bauman and Micah James Bauman. Mapping the Valley: Hospital Poems. Seven Kitchens Press 4.12 (2021) 33 pages. $10.50 (includes shipping)
https://sevenkitchens.blogspot.com/2021/02/david-j-bauman-and-micah-james-bauman.html
A hard set of circumstances propelled this chapbook into existence. Father and son do not evade them. They allow them, not making a romance of them, not denying the strength of them, to construct a collection that captures the reader’s poetic sensibility and heart from beginning to end.
Their dilemma and determination are clear from the first poem to the last. Their dialog, not labeled by who wrote what, is engaging, sometimes disturbing, and often nourishing.
From the opening poem, “Stitches,” the reader is compelled to keep reading:
Trust me.
I was funny.
For certain.
And that way
no one noticed the stitches
on top of my head.
and further along, his father asks a buck along the side of the road,
Tonight I plead with you, teach me how
to be both wary and serene.
This collection gives voice and hope to parents and children who travel hard paths when an adult child’s illness detours him or her from the adult landmarks of career, independence and new family formation. For both generations, relationships shift as well. Together, they invent their own ways of relating to each other and to the world, often forming original and gratifying styles without losing entirely a sense of their difference from conventional expectation.
For those whose lives take more conventional paths, these poems are revelatory of the courage, inspiration and hard work of those who forge their own paths with sometimes awkward grace and always with dignity.
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New chapbook: Mapping the Valley
New chapbook: Mapping the Valley
My son Micah and I are thrilled to announce the publication of Mapping the Valley: Hospital Poems, a 29-page, beautifully hand-tied chapbook, selected as number 12 in Volume Four of the Seven Kitchens Press Editor’s Series! This collection of 17 poems has been over two years in the making, so if you’ve been to our pages before, you may have seen a few previews. Now we can’t wait for you to get…
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