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Books:

Just Out:

LEADS
From OTOLITHS Press

a poem/found text/journal
journey back to Leeds, England
in search of my grandmother's childhood

Read the feature article in The Yorkshire Evening Post

Also recent:

BALANCING ACTS
From Marsh Hawk Press

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"Ratner’s contribution and, in fact, innovation in contemporary prose poetry is to bring a strong narrative perspective to the collection of prose poems."
—Julie R. Enszer, Galatea Resurrects #5
Read the full Review

TOAST SOLDIERS
New e-book
Fom Vida Loca Books

Reviews:

Julie R. Enszer has a retrospective review of three early volumes — Quarry, Combing the Waves, and Practicing To Be a Woman: New and Selected Poems —in Galatea Resurrects #7 (Added August 30)

The latest issue of Artvoice contains a short but perceptive review of Leads. (added August 31).

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'Zines & Mags:

Poetry

One Trick Pony, issue 11, contains a very sensitive review by Frank Allen on my poetry over the past 20 years. It's not online, but I highly recommend you check it out. The issue also contains poems by Len Roberts, Jim Daniels, Jeanne Murray Walker, and others. Order from : Banshee Press, P. O. Box 11186, Philadelphia, PA 19136-1394.
Added August 24, 2005
Or read the whole review at the Marsh Hawk Press blog, posted August 25, 2005

New Verse News -- This poetry blog, adding one new poem each day, continues to be one of the most exciting sites online. They've been really good to my work, with three or four poems of mine posted each month. Please check it often.

Brave Little Poem of the Day - one of my poems is featured June 24-27
added June 28

Hamilton Stone Review, Issue 12- four new prose poems, and I'm lead-off hitter
added June 28

Switched-on Gutenberg -- one poem in their new "Poems on Place & Displacement" issue
added June 20

Ars Poetica -- a themed blog with poems about poetry, has an older poem, "Sympathetic Magic" on the site for May 10.th.

Mad Hatters Review 7-- contains 5 flash ficition/prose poems (under fiction), along with original artwork and music to go along with the writing. Really great issue all around.
added February 15

Big Bridge, Issue 12 --1 prose poem included in Halvard Johnson's wonderful "Death on All Fronts" focus
added January 24

Lunarosity, December 2006 -- 5 prose poems, published alongside 4 prose poems published earlier -- a great selection.
added December 5

CrossXconnect, Issue 25 -- 2 prose poems
added December 9

Kaleidowhirl, Volume 3, Issue 4 -- 2 prose poems
added December 9

The Hiss Quarterly, Volume 3, Issue 4 -- 2 prose poems
added November 1

Apple Valley Review Volume 1, Issue 2 -- 2 prose poems
added September 2

Otoliths -- Issue 2 has 4 prose poems, Issue 3 has another 5 prose poems, Issue 6 has aother 5 prose poems. All the issues have a stellar cast of characters and some brilliant graphics.

Private -- 3 prose poems
(This is an international photo zine that publishes writing which "tells us what the eyes cannot see.")
added June 20

Prose

Speaking in Tongues: A Study of Persona in American.Canadian, and British Poetry -- written in 1984, this critical study has never been published. Now Galatea Resurrects will be publishing selected chapters.
The Poetry of Put-On examines the work of Bill Knott, Andrei Codrescu, Armand Schwerner, and Jack Spicer.
Mythic & Heroic Women discusses writings by HD, Diane DiPrima, and Margaret Atwood.
Added Nov 23, 2007

The Blue Jew Yorker -- issue 2 contains my short story, "Chicken"
added August 8, 2007

Triptych-- contains a flash ficition/prose poem, CAPE COD HIGH SCHOOL MAY BAN ALL FRAGRANCES (also check out my two other flash fiction sequences in their archives)
added April 2

"Competition: A Tale of Two Friendships" published on Web del Sol's On the Nature of Literary Friendship, edited by Robert Sward
added May 1, 2006

The Poetry Renaissance (article on e-chapbooks published free on the internet, from American Book Review, March-April 2005)

Orange — a memoir sparked by Christo & Jean Claude's The Gates
This memoir now includes a few photos, and the slideshow has been dismantled. Many of these and other Gates photos, can now be viewed as part of the Gatesmemory Project. Once you have the photos up, do a people search for my name.

Visual Work

High quality prints from the My Citi series can be purchased through Artocracy

Poetz has put up a wonderful selection of 4 holiday photos
added December 3

Poets USA: Rich & Poor Focus -- 1 prose poem & 4 photos from the My Citi Series
added October 2

Buy Nothing Day -- this marvelous Black Friday focus from a few years ago is once again featured at www.poetz.com, with 12 poems from various poets, coupled with 12 photos from the My Citi series.

Other

Bearing Life: Addenda:
Beginning in February 2006, this site will also contain links to interesting news articles.
New work by Denise Duhamel, Nina Humphrey, Carol Novack, and others. Historical texts that helped shape the image of modern-day childlessness: Kate Chopin, Rebecca Harding Davis, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and others. It also includes an updated biography of recommended reading and links to recent news articles.
This site will be updated periodically as new material surfaces -- check back often.

Software

From my Links page, I've added information about some of the obscure software programs I've found extremely useful. This site will be updated when new programs are unearthed.
Begun May 21, 2004

Recently Added Programs:
Startease: this Windows Start Menu add-on is a little dream, listing all the programs on your computer alphabetically, making it easy to locate the program you want. I resisted installing this for several weeks, worried about losing my normal Start menu, but it exists side by side and seems to know its place. Available from PC Magazine's untility menu for a small charge.
Foxit PDF Reader: an Adobe Acrobat Reader lookalike that permits you to edit PDF files (and fill in text for forms) and copy portions of the document. Also loads very quickly The free version doesn't require installation, but also doesn't let you save changed pdf form. The $39.95 pro version is installed in windows, and has more capabilities, including saving forms.

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