BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1956--
BOOKSPoetry:Rosicrucian in the Basement: Selected Poems, 2001. Intro by William Minor. Black Moss Press, Canada. Firefly Books (Distributor), 1-800-387-5085. ISBN: 0-88753-353-1. Three Dogs and a Parrot, Select Poetry Series, Small Poetry Press, 2001. ISBN: 1-891298-11-9. Chapbook. Uncivilizing, A Collection of Poetry by Bernice Lever, Roger Nash, Robert Sward, James Raney, Caroline Davidson, Sonja Dunn. ISBN 1-895837-17-0, 127 pages, Insomniac Press, (Toronto, Canada), Fall, 1997 (Canada), Winter 1997-98 (U.S.). See Insomniac's Website. Family, Select Poets Series, with contributions by David Swanger, Charles Atkinson, Tilly Shaw. Foreword by David Alpaugh, 1994 Four Incarnations, New & Selected Poems, 1957-1991, ISBN 0-918273-90-0, Coffee House Press (Minneapolis), 1991 The Three Roberts, Premiere Performance, 1984, HMS Press & Shades Magazine, Toronto, Canada. 500 copies. Booklet. (Featuring Robert Priest, Robert Zend, and Robert Sward) The Three Roberts On Love, 1985, Dreadnaught Press, Toronto, Canada. The Three Roberts On Childhood, 1985, Moonstone Press, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Poet Santa Cruz, NUMBER #1, Jazz Press, Introduction by Morton Marcus, 1985. Booklet. Half-A-Life's History, Poems: New & Selected, 1957-1983, AYA PRESS POETRY SERIES, NUMBER #4, 750 copies printed. ISBN 0-920544-34-7, Toronto, Canada, 1983. Paperback and (also) signed, limited edition of 36 numbered copies plus two marked "hors commerce." Toronto, Canada, 1983. Movies: Left To Right, 1983, Southwestern Ontario Poetry, Canada. Booklet. Twelve Poems, 1982, Island House Book, Toronto Island, Canada. Six Poems, 1980. League of Canadian Poets "Pamphlet." Honey Bear On Lasqueti Island, B.C., 1978, Soft Press, Victoria, B.C., Canada 750 copies printed. Drawings by Irina Schestakowich. ISBN: 0-919590-27-6. Cheers For Muktananda, Anthology, 1976, Soft Press, Victoria, B.C., Canada. ISBN: 0-919590-23-3 Five Iowa Poems, 1975. Stone Wall Press, Iowa City, Iowa. (Limited, signed, numbered edition). Note: One half of this fine edition was lost in transit between Iowa City and Victoria, B.C. Gift, 1971. Soft Press, Victoria, B.C., Canada. Horgbortom Stringbottom, I Am Yours, You Are History, 1970, Swallow Press, Chicago. Hannah's Cartoon, 1970, Soft Press, Canada. Quorum/Noah (With Mike Doyle), 1970, Soft Press, Canada. Uncle Dog & Other Poems, Putnam & Co., Ltd., London, England, 1962 Kissing The Dancer & Other Poems, Introduction by William Meredith, Hardcover and paperback editions, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1964 Thousand-Year-Old Fiancee, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1965
Advertisements, Odyssey Chapbook Publication No. 1, Odyssey Chapbook Publications, Chicago, Illinois, 1958. _____ *Note: Sward’s out-of-print poetry books, UNCLE DOG & OTHER POEMS (Putnam & Co., Ltd., London, England, 1962); KISSING THE DANCER & OTHER POEMS (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1964); FOUR INCARNATIONS, NEW & SELECTED POEMS, etc., are available on Internet through Contemporary American Poetry Archive (CAPA), a project directed by Professor Wendy Battin and Charles Hartman, Connecticut College, New London, CT 06320. Contact (e-mail): wjbat@conncoll.edu or, Prof. Charles Hartman, Associate Director, CAPA, Box 5505, Connecticut College, 270 Mohegan Ave., New London, CT 06320. E-mail: COHAR@CONNCOLL.EDU Point your browser to: < http://camel.conncoll.edu/library/CAPA/capa.html >
Fiction:BLUE GUM APOCALYPSE, A COMIC NOVEL in progress. A MUCH MARRIED MAN, A NOVEL, 1996, Ekstasis Editions, Canada-USA. ISBN 0-921215-99-1. First printing, June, 1996. Second printing, August, 1996. THE JURASSIC SHALES, Novella, Coach House Press, 1000 copies printed. Toronto, Canada, 1975. (An amnesiac wakes one morning in London, England, in bed with two women. In the process of recovering his memory, he goes back in time 160 million years to the Jurassic geological period to find his true, original parents, the first of the flying dinosaurs). PENTOGY, a selection of five (5) short novels titled "Moon In Sagittarius, Me & My Friend Star." Soft Press, Victoria, B.C., Canada 1970.
Autobiography:AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY, Contemporary Authors Autobiographical Series (CAAS), Volume 13, Gale Research Co., Detroit, 1991 American Library Association (ALA), Rare Books and Manuscripts (RBMS), essay for Ethics Panel, "A Walking, Talking Example of a Split Collection," June, 2001. For viewing at Alsop Review website.
Non-Fiction:The Toronto Islands, An Illustrated History, Dreadnaught Editions, Toronto, Canada, 1982. See <http://www.cruzio.com/~scva/rsward.html> for links to “Earthquake
Collage,” 25-page multi-media work re: Santa Cruz, Oct, 1989 earthquake;
“Highway 17” collaboration with Richard Beal; articles; prose
poems; litmags on Internet; and related material originally published
in Doug Lawson's "The Blue Moon Review." Anthologies (Selected items. Please see complete Bibliography)ACID ANTHOLGY, Modern American Poetry in German translation by Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Varlag Kipenheuer & Witsch, West Germany, Melzer, 1970, two poems. AMERICA IS NOT ALL TRAFFIC LIGHTS, Anthology edited by Alice Fleming, Little, Brown, Boston, 1976. ANCHOR BOOK OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY (Doubleday), 1965. Edited by Paris Leary and Robert Kelly. Six poems: “Uncle Dog: The Poet At 9,” “What It Was,” “Kissing The Dancer,” “Terminal Theater,” “There Is No Reason...” “and “Mothers-In-Law.” BARK: SELECTED POEMS ABOUT DOGS (Anthology), Ferris Cook, A Bulfinch Press Book, Little, Brown & Company, 2000. Reprinted “Clancy the Dog” from Four Incarnations, New & Selected. (a) THE BEDFORD INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE, Fifth Edition, edited by Michael Meyer, Bedford Books, Boston, MA, 1997-98. “A Personal Analysis of T.S. Eliot’s ‘Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.’” (reprinted from “Touchstones: American Poets on a Favorite Poem eds. Robert Pack and Jay Parini). (b) THE COMPACT BEDFORD INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE, Fifth Edition, paperback volume of approx. 1,600 pages, edited by Michael Meyer, Bedford Books, Boston, MA, 1999-2000. “A Personal Analysis of T.S. Eliot’s ‘Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.’” (reprinted from “Touchstones: American Poets on a Favorite Poem eds. Robert Pack and Jay Parini). (c) [BEDFORD] POETRY: AN INTRODUCTION, Second Edition, edited by Michael Meyer, Bedford Books, Boston, MA, 1997-98. “A Personal Analysis of T.S. Eliot’s ‘Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,’” pp.380-384 (reprinted from “Touchstones: American Poets on a Favorite Poem eds. Robert Pack and Jay Parini). A CANINE TESTAMENT, edited by Dr. Benjamin Spencer, Harper & Row, New York, 1985 (included "Uncle Dog: The Poet at 9"). CARPET OF SPARROWS: POEM FOR YOUNG READERS, Anthology edited by Sarah Provost, Nocturnal Canary Press, Oneonta, New York. CONTEMPORARY LITERARY CRITICISM, "Poets At Novels," reprint of Sward's review of poet Philip Whalen's fiction. Gale Research Co., Detroit, Michigan, 1984-85 (CLC 29). DOORS INTO POETRY, edited by Chad Walsh, Prentice-Hall, 1962. Reprint of "Sunday: Chicago Morning," from NEW CAMPUS WRITING #3 (Grove). THE FACE OF POETRY: 101 POETS, anthology edited by LaVerne Harrell Clark, (photos and poetry), Introduction by Richard Eberhardt, Heidelberg Graphics, Chicago, California, 1979. GRRRR - A Collection of Poems About Bears , ed. by CB Follett, Arctos Press, 8-1/2 x 10, 250 pp, illustrations. Robert’s poem titled: “Bear Mother.” --HoBear Publications, P.O. Box 401, Sausalito, CA, 1999. Ph: 415-331-2503 HANDBOOK, Anthology edited by Rochelle Ratner and Susan Mernit, Spring Street, New York, 1976. HEARTLAND: POETS OF THE MIDWEST, edited by Lucien Stryk, Northern Illinois University Press, 1967, "Waldheim Cemetery," "Terminal Theater," "All The Mornings," "Scenes From a Text," "My Students," "Miss Elderli Dora Des Moines," and "Turnpike." HERE IS A POEM, Anthology edited by Florence McNeill, League of Canadian Poets, Toronto, 1983. ILLINOIS POETRY, edited by Earle Stibitz, Southern Illinois University Press, five poems. INSIDE OUTER SPACE, New Poems of the Space Age, an anthology edited by Robert Vas Dias, Doubleday-Anchor, A-738, 1970. "Dreams. I WANT TO BE THE POET OF YOUR KNEECAPS, an Anthology of Quirky Romantic Love, ed. by John B. Lee, Black Moss Press, Canada, 1999. John B. Lee: johnb.lee@sympatico.ca, Ph/Fax: 519-753-4597. INVENTIONS FOR IMAGINATIVE THINKING, edited by John C. Adler, Harcourt Brace & World, Inc. 1972. "Hello Poem." FOLLOWING THE PLOUGH: RECOVERING THE RURAL--POEMS ON THE LAND, Anthology, ed. John B. Lee, Black Moss Press, Canada, 2000. Three poems: “At McConkey’s Farm,” “Iowa City, Iowa,” and “Farmhouses.” LA POESIE CONTEMPORAIRE AUX ETATS-UNIS, Editions de la Revue Moderne, Paris, 1962. Translation and reprint of "What It Was" ("Ce qui fut") from THE NATION, January 28, 1961. NEUE AMERIKANISCHE SZENE, Germany, Joseph Melzer Verlag, edited and translated into German by R.D. Brinkmann and R.R. Rygulla, 1969-70. Four poems. NEW CAMPUS WRITING #3, Winter, 1959-60, Four Poems: "Al," "Sunday: Chicago Morning," "The Window-Sill," and "The Basement Mountain." (Grove Press, NY.) NEW WORK #1, Sarasota, Florida, 1970. "A Biography of Harry Cellwater" (prose poem), section from The Jurassic Shales, A Novella. NEW YORKER BOOK OF POEMS, The Viking Press, New York, "Movies: Left to Right," reprinted from "The New Yorker" Magazine. THE NOW VOICES, Editors, Carli and Kilman, for Charles Scribners, New York, poem titled "In Mexico," 1972. THE POEM AS PROCESS, Anthology of poetry, edited by David Swanger, Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich, New York, 1974. POETS OF CANADA, Anthology edited by John Robert Colombo, Hurtig Publishers, Alberta, Canada, 1978. (THE) PRACTICAL IMAGINATION: STORIES, POEMS, PLAYS, Anthology edited by Northrop Frye, Sheridan Baker & George Perkins, Harper & Row, New York, 1980. SMALLER THAN GOD:WORKS OF SPIRITUAL LONGING, Anthology, ed. John B. Lee, Black Moss Press, Canada, 2001. [TBA] THE PENGUIN ANIMAL BOOK OF VERSE, edited by George MacBeth, 1965. Three poems: “Uncle Dog: The Poet At 9,” “Dodo,” and “The Apteryx.” CHICAGO REVIEW ANTHOLOGY, 1959, “Uncle Dog: The Poet At 9.” CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETS: AMERICAN POETRY SINCE 1940, (pub. 1969) edited by Mark Strand, World Publishing Company, “Uncle Dog: The Poet at 9.” MIDLAND, edited by Paul Engle, Random House, 1961. Reprinted from The Beloit Poetry Journal, “The Poetry Workshop.” POEMS ONE LINE AND LONGER, Anthology edited by William Cole, Grossman Publishers, New York, 1973. LA POESIE CONTEMPORAINE AUX ETATS-UNIS, Editions de la Revue Moderne, Paris, 1962. Translation of poem titled “What It Was (Ce Qui Fut)” which first appeared in The Nation, January 28, 1961. OF POETRY AND POWER, John F. Kennedy Memorial Anthology, Basic Books, New York, 1964. Five poems: “Reading Buber,” “That It That Thing Light,” “Celebration,” “December, 1963,” and “Poem.” OXFORD BOOK OF AMERICAN LIGHT VERSE, Anthology edited by William Harmon, Oxford University Press, New York, 1979. RIVERSIDE POETRY III, Twayne Publishers, 1958. “The Kite.” THE VOICE THAT IS GREAT WITHIN US, AMERICAN POETRY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, edited by Hayden Carruth. Two poems: “Uncle Dog: The Poet At 9,” and “Concert.” Bantam Books, New York, 1994 (in print since 1970). TESSERACTS, Science Fiction (and poetry), Press Porcepic, Victoria/Toronto, Canada, 1985-88, "Report From the Front" (poem). COACH HOUSE PRESS Anniversary Issue/Anthology, Toronto, "The Jurassic Shales" (poetry and fiction), scheduled for publication in 1989. DOG MUSIC, An Anthology of Poetry About Dogs, edited by Joseph Duemer and Jim Simmerman, St. Martin’s Press (New York). “Uncle Dog: The Poet At 9,” and “Clancy The Dog,” 1995. DRIVE, THEY SAID, POEMS ABOUT AMERICANS AND THEIR CARS, AN ANTHOLOGY, Milkweed Editions, edited by Kurt Brown. Preface by Edward Hirsch. "Scenes From A Text" and "Turnpike" (poems), 1994. THE RHETORIC OF YES, Holt, Rinehart & Winston anthology, 1972. "Uncle Dog: The Poet at 9." SILVER SCREEN - Neue Amerikanische Lyrik, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Koln, 1969-70. Four poems translated into German by Peter Behrens and R.D. Brinkmann: "The Very Air He Breathes," "The Apteryx," "Halsted Street, Chicago," and "Hillside." SOME HAYSTACKS DON'T EVEN HAVE ANY NEEDLE & OTHER MODERN VERSE, edited by Dunning, Lueders & Smith. Scott, Foresman & Co., 1968, "By The Swimming." SPACE ATLAS, 1971, edited by Prof. Dana Atchley, University of Victoria. Three contributions reprinted from "Horgbortom Stringbottom, I Am Yours, You Are History," 1970, Swallow Press. SPORTS POEMS, Dell Publishing Company, Laurel Imprint, edited by Dr. Rozanne Knudson, 1971. "By The Swimming." TOUCHSTONES, American Poets On A Favorite Poem, edited by Robert Pack and Jay Parini. Article on T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” A Bread Loaf Anthology, Middlebury College, Published by University Press of New England (Hanover and London), 1996. THE TREASURE OF OUR TONGUE, edited by Lincoln Barnett, Random House/Knopf. Braille transcription and "large type" editions also. "Hello Poem." TO SAY THE LEAST: CANADIAN POETS FROM A TO Z, Anthology edited by P.K. Page, Press Porcepic, Victoria, B.C., 1979, four poems. UNCIVILIZING, 12 poems, Insomniac Press (Toronto, Canada), Fall, 1997. VILLAGE PORTRAITS, A collection of photographs and interviews compiled by Ursula Heller, Methuen Publishers, Toronto, 1981. Includes Sward's interviews with long-time Toronto Island residents. See also THE TORONTO ISLANDS, Dreadnaught Press, 1983. X-CONNECT, WRITERS OF THE INFORMATION AGE, University of Pennsylvania, Volume 1 (1996), “an alternative non-commercial literary publication for the new generation of information-age writers... emergent creative artists with established artists who have made the transition to the new technologies of the information age.” Sward’s poem “The 1950s.” (revised from earlier version that appeared in Malahat Review (Canada). WHERE IS VIETNAM- AMERICAN POETS RESPOND, Doubleday Anchor, A-572), edited by Walter Lowenfels. Poem titled "In Mexico" reprinted from POETRY (CHICAGO). THE VOICE THAT IS GREAT WITHIN US, Bantam Anthology of Poems, edited by Hayden Carruth. "Uncle Dog: The Poet at 9" and "Concert" (reprinted from Poetry Magazine, Vol. 108, No. 1). * * * EDITED BY RS: VANCOUVER ISLANDS POEMS, Anthology of 20 West Coast poets, Soft Press, 1973, hardcover and paperback. EMILY CARR: THE UNTOLD STORY, with Edythe Hembroff- Schleicher, Hancock House Publishers, Vancouver, B.C. & Seattle, Washington, 1978. CONTEMPORARY VERSE II (CV 2), Special Double Issue, "Spiritual Poetry in Canada," co-edited with Penny Kemp, University of Manitoba, Vol. 6, No. 1 and 2, Winter, 1981-82. ____
Who's Who & Other References:CONTEMPORARY POETS, 6th edition, edited by Janice Jorgensen, St. James Press, 835 Penobscot Bldg., Detroit, Michigan 48226-4094. Includes biographical and bibliographical information. 1995. WHO’S WHO IN AMERICAN ART, 21st edition, R.R. Bowker, P.O. Box 2068, Oldsmar, Florida 34677-0037. WHO’S WHO IN AMERICAN ART, 23rd edition 1999-2000 , Marquis Who’s Who, 121 Chanlon Road, New Providence, NJ - 07974. WHO’S WHO IN AMERICAN ART, 24th edition, 2001 , Marquis Who’s Who, 121 Chanlon Road, New Providence, NJ - 07974. Who’s Who in the West, Silver 25th Anniversary Edition, Reed Reference Publishing Company, New Providence, NJ, 1996-1997 Who’s Who In California, 24th edition and 25th Anniversary Edition, 1995-1997. Who’s Who in California, 26th Edition (1997), [see also 27th Edition (1998-1999) Who’s Who In California, 27th Edition (1999-2000) Who’s Who In Canadian Literature (1999-2000), Gord Ripley, Editor, 6th Edition, Reference Press, 7 Wragg St., Tesswater, Ontario, Canada, NOG 2S0 Who’s Who In Asia and the Pacific Nations, 4th Edition (1999-2000). Who’s Who Historical Society, Carson City, Nevada Who’s Who in U.S. Writers, Editors & Poets, 2001-2002, American Biographical Institute, Inc. (ABI), Raleigh, NC. Contemporary Authors Autobiog Series (CAAS), Gale Research, Detroit, Michigan International Biographical Centre, Who’s Who in the Commonwealth International Who’s Who in Poetry and Poets’ Encyclopedia, Jocelyn Timothy, Editor, 8th Edition, 1997 (Cambridge, England) International Who’s Who in Poetry and Poets’ Encyclopedia, 9th Edition, 1999-2000, edited by Annette Greenwood, (Cambridge, England) Dictionary of International Biography, 27th edition, ed. Annette Greenwood, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England - CB2 3QP - England. (1999-2000). Dictionary of International Biography, 28th edition, ed. Annette Greenwood, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England - CB2 3QP - England. (2000-2001). International Authors and Writers Who's Who, 15th Edition, 1997 (Cambridge, England) International Authors and Writers Who’s Who, 16th Edition, 1999 (Cambridge, England) Who’s Who in Asia and the Pacific Nations, Fourth Edition (1999, 2000), edited by Michelle Shelsher, International Biographical Centre (Cambridge, England). Face of Poetry, Gallimaufry Press Directory of American Scholars Men & Women of Distinction, Internat. Biog. Centre Men of Achievement Contemporary Poets, 5th edition & 6th editions Encyclopedia of Short Fiction, ed. by Walton Beachem, 1981 Writers’ Union of Canada, Directory of Members, 1983-84 Who’s Who in American Art, Jacques Cattell Press League of Canadian Poets, 1990-91 Strathmore Who’s Who, 1998-99 Who’s Who in Canadian Literature, 1995, 1996, 1997, edited by Gord Ripley, Reference Press. 2,000 Notable American Men, Third Edition, l995 _____ The 1998 Canadian Encyclopedia (Infonautics Corporation), article titled “Toronto Islands,” by Robert Sward. Copyright (c) by McClelland & Stewart, Inc. THE NEW CANADIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA, Hurtig Publishers, University of Alberta, Edmonton. Sward's article on the Toronto Islands, 1985. Monterey Bay Writer, National Writers Union, Aptos, CA 95001, Summer 1994. Profile “Poet Robert Sward,” by John Laue Carleton Miscellany, Spring, 1967, "Robert Sward: A Mysticism of Objects," by Laurence Lieberman. [Literary criticism, overview of RS's poetry]. Malahat Review (University of Victoria, B.C., Canada), 1970. “Review of Horgbortom Stringbottom, I Am Yours, You Are History,” by Lawrence Russell.
CD-ROM and other:CD-ROM, Gale Research Inc., DISCovering AUTHORS CANADA #1, edited by James P. Draper, a database containing biographies and criticism on approximately 350 authors with special emphasis on Canadian authors. 1994. Includes Robert Sward's 2,086-word interview with singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen reprinted from THE MALAHAT REVIEW, 1986. Note: Interview was originally done for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's radio feature ANTHOLOGY and broadcast nationally in 1985. The second half of the interview appears in POETRY FLASH with photos by R. Sward. CD-ROM DISCovering AUTHORS #2 (DA Modules (DA-M) edited by Janet Witalec with Sward’s 2,086-word interview with Leonard Cohen. 1995. ELECTRONIC MUSIC CENTER of Columbia and Princeton Universities. Daria Semegen's setting for chorus of "Poem: For". THOUSAND YEAR OLD FIANCEE & OTHER POEMS, Western Michigan University, Aural Press (1005), full-length phonograph recording, c. 1966. TAPESTRY SINGERS, ADELAIDE COURT THEATER, May, 1984. Three Poems ("Alpha The Dog," "Lagoon Goon," and "Toronto Island Suite") set to music by David Passmore for performances in Toronto and on tour.
I. PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS, 1956--1971(see below for Publications 1971--present)
THE ABSOLUTE CANNON REVIEW, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1970-71. Mantra section from work in progress. (THE) ACTIVIST, March, 1965, "Meeting My Classes," "The Knowing." AIRON 9, Buenos Aires, Argentina, four poems reprinted and translated into Spanish from POETRY (CHICAGO).Translated by Madela Ezcurra and Eduwardo Costa. Poems titled "Peliculas Italianas," "No Hay Salida," "Mi Padre Con Alas," and "La Llegada." AMBIT #12 (London, England), "Spring, 1962, "Letter to His First Dog." AMBIT #14, Winter, 1962, Four poems: "I Am Trying to Look Out," "Miss M," "Bad People Glow Too," and "Cow." AMBIT #18, Winter, 1964. Four Poems: Gomper's Park," "Lone Mourner," "Report from the Front," and "Her Husband's Guggenheim." AMBIT #49 OR #50, 1970-71, "Father in Law." AMBIT #50, 1971-1972, "Suicide." AMBIT #53, Two Poems. AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION JOURNAL (ABA), Nov. 1962, review of Webster's 3rd International Dictionary, reprinted from June 1962 issue of POETRY CHICAGO. "Daughters of Earth." ** (see below) ANTIOCH REVIEW, Sept. 1956, "Before Firing." Sept. 1957, "The Last Railing." Sept. 1957, "The Bird." Winter, 1958, "Flesh, Filter, Paper" and "A New Opulence" (from ADVERTISEMENTS, Odyssey Chapbook Series, 1958). Fall, 1960, "Song," "Convert" and "Momma on M. X." ___, 1961, "The Ceiling." Fall, 1962, "Convert" ___, 1963, "Patience." ___, 1964, "Mirrors Break." APPROACH, No. 17, 1956, "Now is the Time." No. 19, 1956, "A Fresco (Giotto)," and "Pure Red Laughs and Black." No. 24, 1957, "Piece of a Train," plus five others. No. 26, 1958, "We Dug Our Holes" and "By the Swimming." No. 28, 1958, "Fredsheets. No. __, 1960, "Letter on a February Spring." No. 36, 1960, (Summer) "Portrait for J.W." ART (MAGAZINE), Toronto, Canada, "Letter from Victoria" (on Vancouver Island Art Scene), Fall, 1974. ARTS IN SOCIETY (third issue), Fall, 1959, "Snow." ARTES / LETRAS DIALOGOS, May-June, 1965, Mexico City. Translation by Jose Emilio Pacheco of "Owl," (Buho). Contemporary poets survey by Ramon Xirau. BELOIT POETRY JOURNAL, Spring, 1956, "Chimneyhigh," "Satyr Engineer," and "Before We Waked, It Seemed." Winter, 1956-57, "Ladder Wire" and "Picnic Party." Winter, 1957-58, "Poetry, Banana, Wife & the Sonnet." Summer, 1958, "The Apteryx." Spring, 1959, "The Poetry Workshop" (to be reprinted in Iowa Workshop Anthology, Random House). Winter, 1959-60, "The President." Fall, 1960, "Landlady," and "On the Departure." Fall, 1963, "Poem: For" (Willam Carlos Williams Memorial Chapbook). BEST ARTICLES & STORIES, May 1958, "Flesh, Filter, Paper," reprinted from ANTIOCH REVIEW. August-September, 1958, "By the Swimming," reprinted from APPROACH. BLACK BOX, The New Classroom for audio-serial publication, Washington, D.C. Mixed Media work.1972-73. Cassette tape format. Taped June, 1972, Madison, Wisconsin. BRICK #19, A JOURNAL OF REVIEWS, 1983. Review of Paul Trachtenberg's SHORT CHANGES FOR LORETTA. THE CALIFORNIA QUARTERLY (UC Davis), 1971-72, A Journal of Literature, Reviews and Translations. Sections from prose poem "The Jurassic Shales," A Novella. CANADIAN FORUM, Toronto, September-October, 1981, "Poetry in China." R. Sward feature of Chinese poet Wang Sindi. CANADIAN LITERATURE, 1981, book reviews. CANADIAN YACHTING, February, 1982, "Blindness No Handicap To Determined Sailors." Feature story on blind sailor and his family (reprinted from TORONTO STAR). THE CAROLINA QUARTERLY, Winter, 1957, "The Mountain." Fall, 1957, "Mr. Hat." Spring, 1958, "Grandma Refreshed!" (THE) CARLETON MISCELLANY, Summer, 1960, "The Manhattan Directory" and "Suds in Terrycloth." And "Classified," "I've Been Killing Things," and "Emu." (THE) CARLETON MISCELLANY, Winter, 1960, "Saturday Review--Classified," (THE) CARLETON MISCELLANY, Spring, 1962, "American Heritage." (THE) CARLETON MISCELLANY, Winter, 1962, "New York Times Book Review." (THE) CARLETON MISCELLANY, Fall, 1963, "Dog Exercise Area." (THE) CARLETON MISCELLANY, Winter, 1963-64, "Aspirin" and "Her Husband's Guggenheim." (THE) CARLETON MISCELLANY, Spring, 1965, Four poems including "Gifts for the Bereaved," "Poppa Wails," "Mrs. White," and "Poppa and Widow White." (THE) CARLETON MISCELLANY, Winter-Spring 1967, "Perth Amboy, New Jersey" section of IN MEXICO (later retitled HORGBORTOM STRINGBOTTOM, I AM YOURS, YOU ARE HISTORY). Prof. Laurence Lieberman's article on William Stafford and R. Sward, "A Mysticism of Objects," appears in this same issue. CENTER (Woodstock, NY), 1972, "Another Poet's Car." CHELSEA REVIEW #9, 1960, "Dedication." Plus "Ad," "There's No Reason," Photos of Poets," Poem: Fallacy," "Emu." CHELSEA REVIEW, March 1961, Five Poems: "Emu," "I've Been Killing Things," "There Is No Reason Why Not," "Photos of Some Poets," and "Poem: Fallacy." CHELSEA REVIEW, September, 1962, "House on Stilts" and "Winged Pig." And review of Robert Creeley's For Love and Frederick Bock's Fountains of Regardlessness. CHELSEA REVIEW, 1964, Four poems: "All the Mornings," "Another Thing that Glows," "Salerno," and "This Is A Church." CHICAGO REVIEW, Spring, 1957, "Uncle Dog: the Poet at 9." Reprinted in CHICAGO REVIEW ANTHOLOGY, 1959. CHICAGO REVIEW, Summer, 1965, "Watchtower." COASTLINES, Spring, 1959, "Labor Day," "Third Floor Rear" and "Lines in Lieu of a Prayer." COASTLINES #16, Autumn 1960, Two poems, "Store" and "The Wedding" appeared in a later issue. COLORADO REVIEW, Summer, 1957, "Mr. Donaldcock MC." COMPASS REVIEW, April, 1958, "The Book of Job" and "Epigram." Summer, 1958, "This Man." Summer, 1959, "To God, on the Backcover of TIME" and "Passage to India." CONTACT #3 (CONTACT-WESTERN REVIEW), Fall, 1959, "For Charlie." CONTEMPORARY VERSE II (CV-2), University of Manitoba, Special West Coast Issue edited by Colin Browne. Poetry. COSMEP NEWSLETTER, August, 1972, Vol. 3, No. 10/11, "Open Poetry Reading Interrupted by Electronic Signal in the Brain." (prose) CRAZY HORSE #8, Marshall, Minnesota, 1971. "Raspberry" (poem). CROSS CANADA WRITERS' QUARTERLY , Summer, 1982, Three Poems. DENVER QUARTERLY, Spring 1969, "Two Poems." DESCANT, 1983, "Two Poems." EL CORNO EMPLUMADO, Mexico City, edited by Margaret Randall, 1967. "Three Poems." EPOCH, Fall, 1958, "And His Pregnant Wife." Winter, 1958-59, "A Letter to His Psychiatrist" and "The Party At Which No One Spoke." Winter, 1960-61, "Pennsylvania Turnpike." Spring, 1962, "The Lords, The Beavers (Letter," and "I Have Just Bought a House…" Fall, 1962, review of Jack Gilbert's Views of Jeopardy. Winter, 1962, review of BEST POEMS OF 1961 (Borestone Awards Anthology). Spring, 1965, Two poems, "Chicago Public Library" and "People Coming Out of People." THE ETRUSCAN (New South Wales, Australia), March-June, 1971. "Mothers in Law" reprinted from KISSING THE DANCER, Cornell University Press, 1964. See article by Nancy Keesing. EQUAL TIME (New York City), 1971, "Crab" from "Call Sign" sequence. EXCALIBER, York University, Canada, April, 1981, feature on R. Sward by Stuart Ross. Poetry. EXPOSICION EXHAUSTIVA DE LA NUEVA POESIA GALERIA U, DEL 7 DE FEBRERO AL 5 DE MARZO DE 1972, MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY. INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. EXTENSIONS #5/6 (New York), 1971, sections from prose poem The Jurassic Shales beginning "I am bearing this dream…" THE FIDDLEHEAD (A Canadian Poetry Journal), February, 1957, "The House." May, 1957, "Poem." August, 1957, "Cloudjumper." Fall, 1958, "Antar-Tick-Tock," from ADVERTISEMENTS (ODYSSEY CHAPBOOK #1). Winter, 1958, "The Freezing." Winter, 1959, "Sentence." Fall, 1959-60, Issue #42, "Brooklyn Bridge" Spring, 1960, "The Kiss." Fall, 1960, "Knock, Knock." FINANCIAL POST NEWSPAPER, May 1982, "Collectors Find Rare Books Don't Have To Be Old." Feature. FOLIO, Winter, 1956-57, "99-44/100%" FOLIO, Summer, 1957, "Moon." FREISCHUTZ, June-July, 1959, "Paarker 61," from ADVERTISEMENTS. FROM A WINDOW, Tucson, Arizona, April, 1965, "Thousand Year Old Fiancee." GALLEY SAIL REVIEW #7, Winter, 1960, "Socrates at the Symposium." GENESIS WEST, Summer, 1963, "That That All Encloses." GENESIS WEST, ___, 1964, "Hedgehog and the Fox." THE GLOBE AND MAIL, Toronto, Canada, April 30, 1981, "International Poetry Festivals." GLOBE & MAIL, Nov. 28, 1981, feature on poet David Donnell and Toronto's Old Bohemian Embassy. THE GOODLY CO #8, 1967, Section #34 of IN MEXICO (HORGBORTOM…). GREENFIELD REVIEW (Greenfield Center, NY), 1983-84, section from "Toronto Island Suite." HARLEQUIN, Winter, 1956, "Words." HUDSON REVIEW, Fall, 1963, Two Poems: "Attic by the River" and "Elm Trees." (THE) HUMANIST, January-February, 1964, "Report from the Front." INLAND, Summer, 1959, "On the New 1959 Republican Penny." INKSTONE, Bowling Green University, Ohio, "Impossible Hurricane Loss of Name Poem." IOWA REVIEW (Iowa City, Iowa), Spring 1971. "Who's Wilder, Who's More Mystical?" IOWA REVIEW, c. 1972, "Solipsist," "The Next Poem You Write," "Dr. Soft on Marriage." KARAKI, Victoria, B.C., No. 3, 1972, "Fathers in Law" (retitled "Risk"). KYAK (San Francisco, CA) #21, 1970, "Scarf Gobble Wallow Inventory." KYAK (Santa Cruz, CA), 1971 / 1972, 12 page excerpt of the novella The Jurassic Shales (Coach House Press, Toronto, 1975). LEAGUE OF CANADIAN POETS NEWSLETTER No. 17, 1975-76, "An Informal View of the 1975 Annual General Meeting (AGM). LOUISVILLE COURIER JOURNAL, Sunday, Dc. 29, 1963, review of Stanley Burnshaw's "Caged In An Animal's Mind." World of Books Section. MALAHAT REVIEW, Victoria, B.C., "Innocence—1950." MARTLAT Newspaper, University of Victoria, February 17, 1972, interview by Tim Groves. MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW, 1964, Two poems: "Calamine Lotion," and Kaddish." MATRIX (London, England), Spring, 1975. Poems. METRONOME, JAZZ YEARBOOK, 1959, "Lullaby" and "The Coin of Light." MICHIGAN QUARTERLY REVIEW, Summer, 1965, "Deer/Blown Leaves." MONDAY (Newspaper, Victoria, B.C.), article on League of Canadian Poets Meeting in Victoria, 1975. MT. SHASTA SELECTIONS (MSS), Winter, 1961, Two Poems: "Dodo," and "Scenes From A Text." MT. SHASTA SELECTIONS (MSS), 1963-64, Nine poems: Four sections from "Albany Park, Chicago" series plus "A Particular Woods," "BMT," "Two-Headed Lamb," "Owls," and "Farewell Poem." (THE) NAKED EAR #8, Winter, 1957-58, "The Mortar." THE NATION, Jan. 28, 1961, "What It Was." THE NATION, March 10, 1962, "Owl." May, 1962, "Mothers-in-Law." Sept. 29, 1962, "The Weather." March 1, 1965, "Granite, for John Torres." NEUE ZURCHER ZEITUNG (WEEKEND SECTION OF "WOCHENENDE"), Zurich, Switzerland. German translation of "Portrait of the Toronto Island Community," with photographs by Ursula Heller and interviews by R. Sward. ("Individualisten mit Gemeinschaftssinn, Die Bowohner der Toronto Island"). NEW CAMPUS WRITING #3, Winter, 1959-60, Four Poems: "Al," "Sunday: Chicago Morning," "The Window-Sill," and "The Basement Mountain." (Grove Press, NY.) NEW LETTERS (University of Missouri-Kansas City), 1984. Poetry. NEW MEXICO QUARTERLY, Autumn, 1957, "Tom Cobb, Cornhead & Me." NEW ORLEANS POETRY JOURNAL, October, 1956, "The Opener," "Mr. Blue Shirt and Chamois," and "Bric-a-Brack." May, 1957, "Underground" (revised and retitled "In Cities"). September, 1957, "Mr. Door." August, 1958, "The Kite." (Reprinted in RIVERSIDE POETRY #3, Twayne Publishers, 1958). NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE (Newspaper), Sunday, February 10, 1957, "Mr. Blueshirt and Chamois," reprinted from Oct. 1956 issue of NEW ORLEANS POETRY JOURNAL. NEW YORK TIMES, June 19, 1964, "Learning How." THE NEW YORKER, 1964, "Movies: Left To Right" (reprinted in New Yorker's Anthology of Poetry). NOMAD, ___, 1961, "Mert." NORTHSTONE REVIEW, Minneapolis, MN, 1972, "Seven Poems." NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, Spring 1967, Two Poems. NORTHERN LIGHT #6, University of Manitoba, 1980-81, poetry. ODYSSEY, Spring, 1959, "D. R. Rivers, Ph.D.," and "Empty Bathtub." ONTARIO CRAFT, Spring, 1982, "A Shared Path," feature on tapestry artist Elizabeth Griffin and Chris Thompson, raku potter. OUT OF SIGHT magazine, Issues #26 and #73, 1972-73, "Open Poetry Reading." Edited by George Cambers, published by Out of Sight Library, Wichita, Kansas. ORANGE COUNTY ILLUSTRATED, __ 1964, "Hillside" and "Love Poem". THE OUTSIDER, Fall, 1961, "Momma Mountain." THE OUTSIDER #3, Spring, 1963, "Donna Is Her Name," "Museum," "Mr. Attis." PENNY POEMS, Winter Series 1961, "Nature With Two Hands." QUAGGA, Winter, 1962, "Howard Johnson's." QUARTERLY REVIEW OF LITERATURE, Winter, 1962, "National Geographic." QUARTERLY REVIEW OF LTIERATURE, __ 1966, Five poems including "Holding Hands" and "The Enthusiast." QUILL & QUIRE, Toronto, Canada, April 1981, review of Margaret Atwood's TRUE STORIES. QUILL & QUIRE, February, 1981, feature on Earle Birney and his poetry. QUILL & QUIRE, April, 1982, "Adding Imagination to the Bookbinders' Art." Feature story. QUILL & QUIRE, June, 1982, "A Conversation with Saul Bellow: Truth Should Have Some Style." Interview conducted at time of publication of Bellow's THE DEAN'S DECEMBER. PARIS REVIEW, Fall, 1964, Three poems: "All For A Day," "Nightgown, Wife's Gown," "Tarzan at the Bijou." PERSPECTIVE, Winter, 1959, "The Poet Steadies Himself." PERSPECTIVE, Autumn, 1964, "First Snowfall." PERSPECTIVE, 1965, three poems: "What Has Happened," "Theory of Flight," and "Reader of Newspapers." POET MAGAZINE (Madras, South India), Summer, 1962, "Owls." POETRY AUSTRALIA, Special International Issue, 1984-85. Poetry. POETRY CANADA REVIEW, Summer, 1981, review of poetry. "Guest Column." POETRY CHICAGO, February, 1957, "The House." December, 1957, "Miss Elderli Dora Des Moines" and "Mr. Middlegreens." May, 1959, "Barbecue" (six sections, three pages). 1959- POETRY CHICAGO, June, 1960, Five poems: "A Walk in the Scenery," "Turnpike," "A Letter," "Beach Scenes," and "Pet Shop." POETRY CHICAGO, July 1960, "Poetry Chronicle," reviews of 5 recent books of poetry. POETRY CHICAGO, June 1962, review of Webster's Third International Dictionary, titled "Daughters of Earth."** POETRY CHICAGO, September, 1962, Six Poems: "Kissing The Dancer," "El-101," "Lost Umbrellas," "Steeple," "Marriage," and "An End To Doubt." POETRY CHICAGO, August, 1963, Poetry Chronicle titled "Signatures," Review of five recent books of poetry. POETRY CHICAGO, ____, 1964, Four poems: "My Father, With Wings," "Ghost," "The Nazarucks," and "Terminal Theater." POETRY CHICAGO, ___ , 1964, ""There's No Way Out," "Arrival," "Pavane," "Italian Films," "Historical Society," and "Old Postal Cards." POETRY CHICAGO, ___, 1964, Review of Reed Whittemore's "The Fascination of the Abomination." POETRY NORTHWEST, Summer, 1962, "The Cyclades." POETRY NORTHWEST, Fall-Winter, 1963-64, Three poems: "War's End, At Howie's" ("A Door Slams"), "Bryn Mawr Avenue," and "It Is A Party." POETRY TORONTO, February, 1976, poetry. POETRY TORONTO, March 1981, poetry. POETRY TORONTO #100, April, 1984. Two Poems. PRAIRIE SCHOONER, Fall, 1957, "Mrs Chalk and the Blackboard." PRISM INTERNATIONAL (Vancouver, Canada), Summer 1970, Vol 10.1, "The Queen and the Drowning Divebomber." From The Jurassic Shales, A Novella. RAMPIKE (York University, Canada), 1984, Two Poems. SATIS (England), Summer, 1961. Four Poems: "The Immortals in Question," "The Coin of Light," "Grass," and "The Leaves." SATURDAY REVIEW, October 27, 1956, "Aloud." SEIZURE MAGAZINE, 1972-73Eugene, Oregon, "For Fidelity" and "140." SENECA REVIEW, Geneva, NY, 1972, "Voices." SHELTER, Bowling Green, Ohio, 1971, "Letter to Morocco." SHENANDOAH, Fall, 1963, "For Stones." SHENANDOAH, 1964, "Interruption I and II." SIGNAL HILL BROADSIDES, Victoria, B.C., Vol. 1, No. 5, 1977. Series produced by Vancouver Island, Canada, poets (P.K. Page; Marilyn Bowering; Susan Musgrave; R. Sward…) SPARROW, Winter, 1961, "Rocky Mountains" and "Poem." SPECTRUM, Spring, 1965, Three poems including "Field Museum" and "Transformations." STONE #10, Ithaca, NY, 1973-74, Three Poems. A SUPPLEMENT, August, 1964, Deep Springs, California, edited by Barney Childs, two poems: "Hedgehog and the Fox" and "Grandma." TORONTO LIFE, January, 1982, poetry. TORONTO STAR (Newspaper). Frequent book reviews, literary features and articles about The Toronto Islands, adapted from THE TORONTO ISLAND (nonfiction) book. TAMBOURINE (St. Louis, MO), Spring, 1967, "In Mexico". TRACE #43, Autumn 1961, review ("Approximations of Clarity") of Lawrence P. Spingarn's "Letters from Exile." TRANSATLANTIC REVIEW #11, Winter, 1962, "Hello Poem." (with record seven (7) typos in one poem! ) TRANSATLANTIC REVIEW #19, Autumn, 1965, Five poems including "Beginning," "Hotel Excelsior" and "At McConkey's Farm." TRI-QUARTERLY #16 (Northwestern Univ.), "Hotel Rivello," prose poem section from The Jurassic Shales, A Novella. TROJAN HORSE (Cornell), Nov. 1963, "Over the Tunnel and Through the Bridge, A review of Paul Blackburn." TUATARA, Victoria, B.C., three poems including "89th Congress." UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO REVIEW, Spring, 1982, poetry. VIEW FROM THE SILVER BRIDGE, Canada, Vol. 1., No. 3. Five poems including ""To James Elroy Flecker" and Getting It On." VIEWS, 1957-58, "Burial, By No One" and "Lightning and the Ants." Winter, 1958-59, "God-Clouds and Ritter." VIGILANTE (Calgary, Canada), 1971-72, three poems from "Callsigns." WAVES, Spring, 1977, poetry. WAVES, Spring, 1984, Three Poems. WHETSTONE, Winter, 1956,"The Man's Eyes and the Dog," and others. Fall, 1958, "Eight Poems." Fall, 1959, "A Letter" and other poems. WILD DOG #14, 1965, "All Women." WILD DOG, 1965-66, "For the 89th Congress." WORMWOOD REVIEW, Winter, 1960, "Xmas In New York, Santa With A Gun." WORMWOOD REVIEW, Winter, 1961, "Miami Beach." WORMWOOD REVIEW, Winter, 1962, "Where Her Teeth Were." ZAHIR, Portsmouth, NH, "How to be at a Poetry Reading," "What it Feels like…" and "Dear Incredible…" ______________ II. PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS, 1972--ANOTHER CHICAGO MAGAZINE (ACM) #37, Winter 2000-2001, “Rosicrucian in the Basement, A Poem Cycle,” including title poem, “Jesus” and “Rosy Cross Father,” pp. 190-194. ALSOP REVIEW, edited by Jamie Wasserman. February-March, 1999. 14 poems, including “All For A Day,” “Take Me Home, I Need Repair,” “Ode to Torpor,” “Turning 60,” “Portrait of an L.A. Daughter,” “Scarlet The Parrot,” “House on Stilts,” “Hannah,” “My Muse,” “Scenes from a Text,” “Lullaby,” “Clancy The Dog,” and “All For A Day.” Plus interviews with Gwendolyn MacEwen and others. AMBIT MAGAZINE (London, England), Issues #103, #106, and #107, 1986-1988. "How To Cure A Broken Heart I" (from a work in progress) in issue #103. Three poems ("On My Way To The Korean War," "Saint Clare of Assisi," and "Clancy The Dog") in issue #106. "My Dancing Girl Father" (fiction) and "How To Cure A Broken Heart II" (fiction), in issue #107. AMBIT MAGAZINE, Issue #165, Summer-Fall, 2001. “Rosicrucian in the Basement” (first three sections of opening poem.). Appeared in the U.S.A. also (ANOTHER CHICAGO MAGAZINE #37). AMERICAN BOOK REVIEW (Boulder, Colorado). A review of “The Bukowski/Purdy Letters, 1964-1974,” Paget Press. Charles Bukowski’s 10-year correspondence with Canadian poet Al Purdy. Reprinted in "Salt Spring Island Tatler," Summer, 1997. BLUE MOON REVIEW (BMR), "Book Launch in Victoria, B.C." (non-fiction article), SPRING ‘98. BMR is edited by Doug Lawson (following his departure from BPQ -- see below). Robert Sward is contributing editor. BMR, Nov., 1998 (Winter Special Feature) Guest Editor for issue on theme of *Fame.* [Includes contributions by Lewis Turco, Penny Cagan, Doug McClellan, Susan Terris, T. Dunn, Ruth Daigon, Colin Morton, Elissa Alford, Robert Priest...] BLUE MOON REVIEW, Spring 1999, “Dante Paradiso...” [accepted by David Graham at BMR] BLUE PENNY QUARTERLY (BPQ), hardcopy and online version (America Online/Internet), September, 1994. “My Dancing Girl Father.” A PEN Syndicated Fiction Project selection, this short story was broadcast on National Public Radio in NPR’s “The Sound of Writing,” Series 8, 1992. Doug Lawson, editor - Ms. Palmer, poetry editor. [In 1996, BPQ "evolved" to its new incarnation: "Blue Moon Review." Sward continues as Contributing Editor.] BPQ #3 (Fall-Winter 1994), Sward’s interview with Margaret Atwood and selected chapters from A Much-Married Man. BPQ, Volume 2, Issue 1 (June, 1995), reprinting “The Kite.” BPQ (Fall-Winter 1995), EARTHQUAKE COLLAGE, a multi-media commemoration of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. A [23 “window”] collection of visuals, poetry, journal and media excerpts designed exclusively for the World Wide Web. Sponsored by VIRGINIA ONLINE MAGAZINE and THE BLUEPPENNY QUARTERLY. URL: http://www.comet.chv.va.us/quake (or) http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/olp/bpq/front-page.html (or) http://www.comet.chv.va.us/epubs BPQ (1995- 1996 ) At invitation of Doug Lawson, Editor, Sward will serve as Contributing Editor to BluePenny and Guest Editor BPQ’s Summer 1996 issue. BOOKERY/BOOKPRESS, Ithaca, NY, (hardcopy and Internet literary e-Zine), February, 1999. “Breather in Air,” four poems for Michael. “Swimmer in Air,” “July 4,” “Houseboat,” and “Mountain Solitaire.” [“Breather in Air” reprinted 1999 in Poetry Magazine.com--Internet publication, Ruth Daigon, guest editor.] BOOKERY/BOOKPRESS (hardcopy and Internet literary e-Zine), “Rosicrucian in the Basement,” (poem), Sept. 2000. Tracey Calhoun, Mgr. Editor. BOOKERY/BOOKPRESS (hardcopy and Internet literary e-Zine, Ithaca, NY), “POST-MODERN--A (MOSTLY FOUND) POEM,” (poem), November, 2000. CALIFORNIA PART-TIMER, CCFT, AFL-CIO, Fall 1998, Vol. 10, No. 1 "It's A Gun," poem. Reprinted in CCFT (Santa Cruz/Monterey) Newsletter, Dec., 1998. DAVKA, Summer, 1996. “Portrait of an L.A. Daughter,” (Poem), with 8x10 photo of Robert with daughter Hannah Davi. DISQUIETING MUSES, February, 1999. “My Muse.” [http://home.pacbell.net/rleah/muses/Feb99/] eSCENE, the Internet’s first anthology of the year’s best online fiction. Sward is guest editor for eSCENE 1996 [lit mag issue on Internet Summer 1996]. Won “Way Cool [Internet] Award” for outstanding site. FICTION-ONLINE, An Internet Literary Magazine, edited by Bill Ramsay [ngwazi@clark.net], Vol. 2, Number 1, January-February, 1995. Two poems reprinted from Four Incarnations: “The Kite” and “Nightgown, Wife’s Gown.” FIDDLEHEAD, New Brunswick, NB, Canada, Winter 2001. “Wedding Song” (for Barbara) and “Fashion Makes The Heart Grow Fonder.” FREE LUNCH, 1989-1996, “Basketball’s The American Game Because It’s Hysterical,” “108,000 Ways Of Making Love,” “Turning 60” (three poems). Ron Offen, Editor. (Acknowledgement: “Basketball’s The American Game Because It’s Hysterical, “Turning 60,” and/or “100,000 Ways Of Making Love” by Robert Sward appeared in FREE LUNCH.) GALLEY SAIL REVIEW (Berkeley, CA), Spring, 1986, "Island Ferry Poem" (re-titled, "Sausalito.). New work scheduled for publication in 1989. GRUENE STREET (Internet Journal of Prose & Poetry, Virginia Tech), Amelia Franz, Editor: aff@tenet.edu http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/olp/gs/gruene.html “House On Stilts” and “Photo Op - 1972.” Vol. 1, Issue 2, December, 1995. HANGING LOOSE PRESS, (Brooklyn, NY), “God is in the Cracks,” poem, 2001. INSIDE ENGLISH (English Council of California Two-Year Colleges, Robert Rippy and Barbara Bilson, Editors, San Bernardino College), March, 1995, “All For A Day.” INSIDE ENGLISH Summer/Fall, 1996, “Blind Poet.” LA POESIE CONTEMPORAINE AUX ETATS-UNIS, Editions de la REVUE MODERNE, Paris, 1962. [Anthology]. Translation of poem titled “What It Was” (Ce qui fut) which first appeared in THE NATION, January 16, 1961. Reprinted in FOUR INCRNATIONS, NEW & SELECTED POEMS. [Up-date for French bibliography, ‘95.] LEAGUE OF CANADIAN POETS, June, 1998, "Send a Poetry Postcard by E-mail," Electronic poetry/postcard, "One For The Road" (aka "Only The Lonely"). MALAHAT REVIEW (University of Victoria, Canada) #77, December, 1986, "An Interview With Leonard Cohen." (This interview originally took place in Montreal after the release of Cohen's album "Various Positions." The interview was broadcast nationally as part of the hour-long CBC Radio feature, "Anthology." Robert Sward then transcribed and edited the interview. One large portion appeared in POETRY FLASH (see below), and a second portion in the MALAHAT REVIEW). See above for CD-ROM DISCovery version available from Gale Research Inc. MISSISSIPPI REVIEW WEB, "MacADDICT - Poem for Two Voices," ___ 1997. [monthly version drawing from work published in print version]. "It's A Gun," Fall, 1997. (poem) See "Poets & Writers Magazine" feature, Nov/Dec. '97 for more on MRW. http://sushi.st.usm.edu/mrw MONTEREY LIFE MAGAZINE, December, 1986, "The Santa Who Almost Wasn't, Confessions Of A Hired Beard" (non-fiction feature). MONTEREY LIFE MAGAZINE, December, 1986, "Season's Readings" (A holiday book review feature). Three food reviews: "Coffee/Cappuccino," July, 1987; "Brunching In Paradise," August-September; and "Dining After Dark" ("Where To Go When The Final Curtain Falls."). MUDLARK, An Electronic Journal of Poetry & Poetics ("Never in and never out of print..."), edited by William Slaughter [mudlark@unf.edu]. ___________ Mudlark Poster #7, "The Biggest Party Animal Of Them All" and "Millionaire" electronic broadside, August, 1997. < http://www.unf.edu/mudlark/posters/rs.html > MUDLARK #13, "The Immortals, In Question" and “Report From The Front.” OCTAVO (lit eZine, San Jose, CA), “Book Launch in VICTORIA, BC,” SPRING 1999. Also appears in BMR, 1998. PARES CUM PARIBUS (literary e-Zine of the University of Chile), Winter 1996-97, edited by Oscar Aguilera, who translated "How to Succeed as Saint Nick" into Spanish -- publication appears: http://www.uchile.cl/facultades/csociales/pares/pares2/ PARES CUM PARIBUS #4, Fall/Winter, 1997-98. Pares cum Paribus es una publicacion de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Chile. Sward guest edited issue devoted to World Wide Web poets (translated into Spanish by Oscar Aguilera). Includes Oscar Aguilera’s translation into Spanish of Prof. Laurence Lieberman’s “Mysticism of Objects,” [Una mistica de los objetos]. a critique of Sward’s poetry in the 1960s. PERIHELION / WEB DEL SOL, January, 2000, “Stalking the Wild Ashbery: Two Reviews, John Ashbery’s GIRLS ON THE RUN; and WAKEFULNESS. _______ Podiatry Online CENTRAL, February, 2001, “Arch Supports--The Fitting” and “The Podiatrist’s Son” with Introduction by Alan Sherman, D.P.M., February 20, 2001. http://www.podiatrytime.net/sward.html (429) LETTERS March 26, 2001, Podiatry Online NewsFlash, “God is in the Cracks.” THE PODIATRY ONLINE WEB PORTAL _________ POETRY FLASH (Berkeley, CA), August, 1987, "The Poet As Musician: An Interview With Leonard Cohen." (See MALAHAT REVIEW above for more information). POETRY FLASH ( Berkeley, CA), November/December, 1997, Number 274, "Why I Publish In E-Zines: One Writer's View of Online Publishing.” POETRY FLASH (Berkeley, CA), Summer, 2000, book reviews of B.H. Fairchild; C.K. Williams; and David St. John. POETRYMAGAZINE.COM, April, 2001, “Rosicrucian in the Basement” and “Take Me Home I Need Repair,” two poems (reprinted). POETRY USA, Winter 1990-91. "Honey Bear" and "Alfa The Dog." POETS ON (Mill Valley, CA). 1989-1997. A variety of poems in various issues including “Lullaby” (‘Rockabye dust/in the mourning cradle...’). PURR, literary eZine, Summer 1998, reprint of "T.S. ELIOT'S LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK," QUARRY WEST #35, (Univ. Calif. Santa Cruz), Poets & Writers of Monterey Bay, Nov. 1999, “Four poems for Michael, Breather in Air.” REALPOETIK (rpoetik@wln.com), “the little literary magazine of the Internet... A moderated listserv...” started in March, 1994 by “Sal” Salasin, Editor, 206 Lilly Rd., NE, Apt. K-8, Olympia, WA 98506. or, e-mail: rpoetik@thanatos.wln.com (1) “Dear George... I have just bought a house” (poem - On-line 1994); (2) five sections from “A Much-Married Man-A Novel” (re-printed from the David Alpaugh Select Poets Series publication FAMILY, 1994); (3) Sward’s interview with Margaret Atwood (On-line June 8, 1994); (4) “The 1950s,” 3-page poem, (Online December 24, 1994); (5) “Scarlet The Parrot,” “Aspirin,” and “Amnesiac,” 5 pages (total), (On-line February 21, 1995); (6) “Rock-Dropper” - “Like artist-terrorist Rock-Dropper...” (Online May 9, 1995); (7) “Five (Short) Poems,” “Dada,” “Remaindered,” “Dirge,” “Marriage,” and “Lullaby” (On-line October 4, 1995). (8) “Portrait Of An L.A. Daughter,” (Online November 27, 1995). (9) "It's a Gun," ["Sara's got on earphones..."] (Online July 26, 1997). (10) “Father,” (‘The voice has change...’), (Online Febr. 25, 1999). (11) RECURSIVE ANGEL (Online), “Hannah,” reprinted from Four Incarnations. "Angry Villanelle" (poem), Fall/Winter, 1997-98. ["Villonesque Villanelle", editor calls it.] RECURSIVE ANGEL is edited by Gene Doty, and David Sutherland. http://www.calldei.com/~recangel RED FROG - Poems from the planet Earth. Six or more poems translated into Spanish by Oscar Aguilera, editor of Pares Cum Paribus, Univer. of Chile. http://redfrog.norconnect.no/~poems/poems/01266.html [to -01268] REDWOOD COAST REVIEW, Volume 2, Number 3, Summer 2000. Stephen Kessler, Editor. “Ten Years Under The Eucalyptus,” poem. SAND RIVER JOURNAL (curly.lpl.arizona.edu), Erik Asphaug, Editor, (asphaug@lpl.arizona.edu), “The 1950’s” (poem - On-line May 4, 1995), revised and reprinted from “The Malahat Review” (Canada), etc.; SALT SPRING ISLAND TATLER, "Electric Sky, A Rolling Journal of Notes, Comments and Opinion." Robert Sward is American correspondent to editor Norman Klenman's "Tatler": (1) July, 1997, "Book Launch in Victoria, B.C.," a 1800-word essay. (2) Aug. 7, '97, "All At Sea With T.S.E. - A Reading of T.S. Eliot's 'Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.'" (3) Aug. 15, 1997, "Scarlet The Parrot," (poem reprinted from "Four Incarnations.") "Scarlet in the Electric Sky" (4) Aug. 21, 1997, "The Charles Bukowski/Al Purdy Correspondence," review of Paget Press book. (5) Sept. 25, 1997, "Letter From The States," re: Canada-U.S. West Coast fish war. (6) Nov, 1997, "Ten Years Under The Eucalyptus: The Tree That Destroyed California" (poem). (7) Dec., 1997, "Millionaire" (poem). (8) Dec., 1997, "How to succeed as St. Nick" (reprinted from San Jose Mercury News). (9) SAN JOSE METRO (San Jose, CA), January 26-February 1, 1989, Mr. Taste Test reviews Herbal Teas. In progress (for an issue due in March, 1989), a two page feature on Odwalla Juices. SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, Feature in the "Living" Section, December 11, 1987, "How To Succeed As Saint Nick." Note: This 2500-word feature appeared in an earlier form in the SANTA CRUZ EXPRESS in December,1985 and was reprinted in the GOOD TIMES (Santa Cruz) in December, 1988. SANTA CLARA REVIEW, Santa Clara University, “Fashion Makes The Heart Grow Fonder,” Spring/Summer, 1998. SANTA CLARA REVIEW, “My Dancing Girl Father” (Fiction), Spring/Summer, 1998. SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL, Spotlight Section, “Who Are You?” (poem), Friday, May 21, 1999. SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL, Monday, August 28, 2000, “Ten Years Under The Eucalyptus,” with correction(s). SHIRIM (A Jewish Poetry Journal), Vol. XVIII, No. 1, Winter 1999-2000, “Poem for My Mother [KADDISH],” “House on Stilts,” “Chicago Public Library,” “Thousand Year Old Fiancee,” and “On My Way To The Korean War.” (THE) SIERRA CLUB/ MAGAZINE: VENTANA CHAPTER, Febr. 1998, "The Tree That Destroyed California: Ten Years Under the Eucalyptus." SNAKESKIN Poetry Webzine (http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~simmers), May, 1996, two poems: “Dogs RRR Us” and “Blind Poet.” George Simmers, editor. SNAKESKIN, Internet Literary eZine, Summer 1996. “At Sea With T.S.E.,” reprinting Robert’s (prose) essay on T.S. Eliot’s “Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock” from TOUCHSTONES, AMERICAN POETS ON A FAVORITE POEM, Middlebury/New England University Press. SOLO 5, Winter-Spring 2001-2002. “Ode to Torpor.” (poem). Editor: David Oliveira. TASTE MAGAZINE, (bi-weekly), January, 1986 to January, 1987, Robert Sward, writing under the name "Mr. Taste Test," served as regular food reviewer for the l2 months TASTE MAGAZINE was in existence. TRANSMOG 17, Spring 1995, (a surreal, poetry/aRT ‘zine published by Forrest Richey, Rt 6, Box 138, Charleston, WV 25311 - email: far@medinah.atc.ucarb.com) reprinted two poems, “Aspirin” and “Amnesia,” from Robert Salasin’s electronic magazine, rpoetik, 1995. TRANSMOG 18, Summer 1995, reprint of “Scarlet The Parrot” (poem). TUNDRA (Foster City, CA), Michael Dylan Welch, editor. “Iowa,” reprinted from out of print FOUR INCARNATIONS. University of Toronto, Canada, CanPoetry Website. Selection of poems plus critical pieces. Interview with Gwendolyn MacEwen, Saul Bellow, Leonard Cohen and others. Some material also appears at Jamie Wasserman’s Alsop Review (see above). WEB DEL SOL, Editor’s Picks #2, Mike Neff, editor - _Kaddish_ (10-page poem with voices). “LOCUS OF LITERARY ART ON THE WWW” Published May, 1999. http://www.webdelsol.com WEB DEL SOL, _Sex & TV with Aunt Em_ , Sept. 1999, Web Del Sol Mini-Chapbook http://www.webdelsol.com/LITARTS/Robert_Sward WEB DEL SOL / See PERIHELION , January, 2000, “Stalking the Wild Ashbery: Two Reviews, John Ashbery’s GIRLS ON THE RUN; and WAKEFULNESS. WEB DEL SOL, Writers’ Friendship, 2000- an ongoing series of essays re: Writers’ Friendship. Introduction by RS. Contributors include Jack Foley, Ruth Daigon, James Houston, William Minor, Laurence Lieberman and others. WEB DEL SOL, Editor’s Choice, online publication of “Rosicrucian in the Basement.” WRITERS CONNECTIONS (San Jose, CA), Summer, June, 1997, "Why I Publish in E-Zines, One Writer's View of Online Publishing," pp. 16-17 with two sidebars, "URLs for E-Zines" and "Online Reference Tools for Literary E-Zines." WRITERSHOOD, http://www.writershood.com/review.html - Reprint of reviews of B.H. Fairchild's “Art of the Lathe,” David St. John's “In the Pines,” and C.K. Williams’ “Repair.” Ed. Gary Blankenship. Summer, 2001. WRITERS' UNION OF CANADA NEWSLETTER, Sept. '97, "Book Launch in Victoria, B.C.: Every Author's Nightmare." (1800-word, non-fiction article on Author's Tour gone wrong.). X-CONNECT (C r o s s C o n n e c t), “Writers of the Information Age,” University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Fall, 1996, "The 1950s" (see below re: X-Connect HAR DCOPY Anthology "Writers of the Information Age"). X-CONNECT (CrossConnect) Winter-Spring (January/February), 1997, two poems: "Sex and TV with Aunt Muriel, 1945;" and "Turning 60." WEBSITE. X-CONNECT (Cross Connect), Spring-Summer 1998, "Sex and TV with Aunt Muriel, 1945-1998, Part II, 52 years later" (run in fiction section) with links up and back to "Muriel" Part 1.) WEBSITE. X-CONNECT (Cross Connect), HARDCOPY, “Writers of the Information Age III,” “Sex and TV with Aunt Miriam--1945,” reprinted from X-CONNECT’s website at University of Pennsylvania. X-CONNECT (Cross Connect), Vol. 5, Issue 2, Fall, 2000. “Fashion Makes The Heart Grow Fonder.” Reprinted in Fourth [hardcopy] Print Annual, Fall/Winter 2000. Zuzu Petals, T. Dunn, Editor: ZUZU's PETALS QUARTERLY ONLINE (Spring/Summer '97) #14 (ZPQ #14) "Basketball's The American Game Because It's Hysterical" (poem). ZUZU's PETALS QUARTERLY ONLINE(Spring, 1998-) #16 (or #17), "Ten Years Under The Eucalyptus - The Tree That Destroyed California." ZUZU’s PETALS QUARTERLY ONLINE #18 (Spring-Summer, 1999), _A Conversation With Saul Bellow, ‘Truth Should Have Some Style,’ Interview with emphasis on Saul Bellow’s novel, _The Dean’s December_. http://www.zuzu.com/18/18-bell.htm The Zuzu's Petals Literary Resource/ Zuzu's Petals Quarterly Online. Ithaca, NY. http://www.zuzu.com / E-Mail: info@zuzu.com [Featured in Entertainment Weekly/ A USA Today HotSite] Works in Progress:Rosicrucian in the Basement II. Verse Drama, 2002-2003. 108,000 WAYS OF MAKING LOVE, POEMS. IMPULSE TO ART (A book-length collection of interviews with 20 internationally known literary figures including Saul Bellow, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen... WRITING YOUR LIFE HISTORY, a how-to manual for an autobiography workshop Sward has taught for UC Santa Cruz since 1987.
Public Readings (Poetry & Prose), 1961-- (selected--see complete listing)New York University, Winter, 1959. U.S. Embassy, London, England, February, 1961. Connecticut College, New London, CT, 1959 and 1961. Cornell University, November, 1961 Cornell University, Literature Club, January, 1963. Le Metro Café, NYC, Dec. 1963 (Paul Blackburn reading series) Harpur College, NY, April 1963. Queen's College, NY, Dec., 1963. Recorded interview and poetry reading for New York City radio station WEVD "Enjoyment of Poetry" series. Fall, 1963. Florence Lennon interviewer and director of series. New England Poetry Circuit, 15 readings (Dartmouth, Wesleyan, University of Connecticut, etc.), c. 1965.San Francisco State Poetry Center; Brandeis; St. John's College in Santa Fe, Mexico; University of New Mexico; Princeton University… Northwest Poetry Circuit, (Lewis & Clark, University of Oregon…), 1967. Vassar College; University of Calgary (Canada), University of British Columbia, 1969-70; University of Wisconsin; University of Minnesota; Carleton College; University of Illinois… 1972 Eye 5, Readings at Evergreen College and elsewhere in Washington State. The Three Roberts (Robert Zend, Robert Priest, Robert Sward): at Grossman's Tavern, Toronto; Major Roberts Restaurant, Toronto; Axle Tree Coffee House, Toronto; The Fallout Shelter, Toronto; the Free Times Café, Toronto… Including CBC Radio Show "Anthology" and CJRT-FM Radio, 1983-84. Walden Pond Bookstore, Oakland Prose & Poetry Reading, September 9, 1989 Circadia Coffee House, San Francisco February 8, 1999 Coffee Mill Readings, Oakland Poetry Reading, February 9, 1989 Zachary's Readings, 819 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz Wednesday, March 1, 1989 Waverly (Poetry) Readings, Palo Alto 957 Colorado Street Friday, April 7, 1989 Galley Sail Poetry Series, Berkeley Friday, April 14, 1989 Harbourfront World Poetry Festival, Toronto, Canada May 3-9, 1993 [audience of 300-400 people] Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, "Mother's Day Poem" commissioned by CBC Radio and read by author May, 1993 Santa Cruz Art League Theater, 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz, CA, sponsored by the National Writers’ Union, April 20, 1994. Book-launch and celebration of the Select Poet Series book, FAMILY (with Charles Atkinson, David Swanger and Tilly Washburn Shaw). Poets For Poetry, A Reading To Benefit the Gault School Poetry Program, Gault School, Santa Cruz, CA - June 3, 1994 Friends of the UCSC Library, McHenry Library, June 16, 1994 Bonanza Bookstore, Walnut Creek, CA, September 27, 1994. Reading #2 from FAMILY with fellow authors, David Swanger, Tillie Shaw, Charles Atkinson, & Robert Sward. Capitola Book Cafe, Capitola, CA, October 27, 1994. Reading #3 from FAMILY with fellow authors. Pope Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA, August 18, 1995. *Harbourfront Reading Series, Toronto, Canada, March, 1996. *Pope Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. “Earthquake Collage,” a commemoration of the 6th anniversary of the 1989 shaker with fellow authors Maud Meehan, Roz Spafford, David Swanger, Tilly Shaw, Mort Marcus and others. RS organized reading at the suggestion of gallery owner Linda Pope as “benefit” to the Gallery. October 17, 1995. *Capitola Book Cafe, Capitola, CA. Book-launch of MMMan, August 22, 1996. *Thunderbird Bookstore, Carmel, CA, September 13, 1996 (with Allston James). *Bookshop Santa Cruz. October 15, 1996. Canadian Book Tour, October, 1996, re: A Much-Married Man, A Novel. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Writers House. October, 1996. Louden-Nelson Community Center, Dec. 5, '97, Santa Cruz, with David Swanger, Roz Spafford. Aptos Coffee House, Aptos, CA, May 16, 1998, with Dona Stein and Anita Wilkins. Bookshop Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, September, 1998. Bookshop Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, November, 2000 (selections from Rosicrucian in the Basement) Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Cedar Street, Santa Cruz. Two Poetry Slam readings, 1999. 40th Anniversary of Jack Kerouac's trip to Big Sur July 22, 2001, reading with other Bay Area writers at Washington Square Park, San Francisco. Capitola Book Café, Capitola, CA, September 25, 2001, book launch for Rosicrucian in the Basement and Three Dogs and a Parrot. Bookshop Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, November 13, 2001, launch for Rosicrucian in the Basement and Three Dogs and a Parrot. _________ MISCELLANEOUS (including Radio Work, Contests and Panels)CBC RADIO FEATURE "ANTHOLOGY" - hour-long program called "Spiritual Poetry in Canada," with interviews with Margaret Atwood, Joy Kogawa, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Earle Birney, David McFadden, John Robert Colombo and others. First broadcast April, 1983. Re-broadcast April, 1984. CBC "ANTHOLOGY" - hour-long feature called "Poetry as Performance." On location at Harbourfront, Grossman's Tavern, The Trojan Horse Coffee House and elsewhere to investigate the public reading phenomenon. Includes The Dub Poets, Earle Birney reading and singing with the musical group Nexus; the Three Roberts; the Four Horseman; and poet Sean O'Huigin in performance at the Morse Street Elementary School. Broadcast June 30,1984. - Judge, Steinbeck Festival (for fiction), 2000. - - Judge, el Andar Prize for Literary Excellence (for fiction), 2000. - Coordinator / Panelist / Moderator - Associated Writing Programs (AWP), Web Fair 2000, Palm Springs, CA, “Struggles in Net Publishing: Electronic vs. Traditional, Ongoing copyright issues, Plagiarism, Ethics and All Else. - Panelist for Amer. Libr. Assn. (ALA), Rare Books and Manuscripts (RBMS) on Ethics. June, 2001, San Francisco, CA. Contributed paper on 'Split Collections.' - EPOCH MAGAZINE, Cornell University. Served on editorial board, 1962-1963. - Founder and editor, Soft Press, 1970-1979, 21 books combining poetry and visual art - Film (experimental) in collaboration with poets Sean Virgo and Susan Musgrave. Completed October, 1969. Probably in archives at University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. - Produced a series of five (5) lithographs in collaboration with Prof. Dana Atchley of the Dept. of Studio Visual Art, University of Victoria. Spring, 1971. The five lithographs in a limited signed edition of ten copies incorporate themes and key images from (largely) the Callsigns collaboration with Robin Skelton. Poems by RS that underlie the edition include "Raspberry" (from Callsigns), "Ndugull (Swahili for "brother", also from Callsigns), "Crab" (from Callsigns). Permanent part of the Provincial Museum collection in Victoria, B.C. - THE ISLANDERS, A Travelling Exhibition of Photographs by Ursula Heller and Poetry and Stories by Robert Sward. Based on THE TORONTO ISLANDS book. Show opened at Toronto City Hall in Nov. 1980, and travelled to Harbourfront, Northern District Library, City Hall Library, Metro Toronto Library and other locations. An estimated 50,000 people viewed THE ISLANDERS, 1980-84. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, Archives re: correspondence, drafts/worksheets, etc.1985-- Robert Sward Archive of publications, worksheets, “Santa Cruziana,” correspondence, etc., Special Collections, McHenry Library, University of California at Santa Cruz. Call #MS 91. 5.4 cubic feet (12 boxes). Contact: Rita Bottoms. Link to UCSC McHenry Library Special Collections: <http://library.ucsc.edu/search/a+sward+robert/1,1,16/item&a+sward+ robert+1933&11,,16> 1969-1985: Archive of SOFT PRESS/Robert Sward, National Library of Canada, Rare Books and Special Collections, 395 Wellington St., Ottawa, Ontario, K1A ON4. Canada. <http://www.nlc-bnc.ca> 1979-1983: Archive of The Toronto Islands, An Illustrated History, and other Sward writings regarding that historical community: Albert Fulton, Archivist, 5 Ojibway, Toronto Island, Toronto, Ontario, M5J 2D9, Canada. 1951-1972: Robert Sward Papers. Extensive correspondence with literary figures, little magazine editors, and small press publishers, 1951-1972. Washington University’s Olin Library, St. Louis, Missouri. < http://library.wustl.edu/~spec/manuscripts/mlc/sward/ > c. 13,000 papers. *1957- CAPA: The Contemporary American Poetry Archive. CAPA is an electronic archive designed to make out-of-print volumes of poetry available to readers, scholars, and researchers. The books are stored as individual text-only files accessible via the World Wide Web on the Internet. (See above for more information). ___ What follows is list of holdings at University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada of Sward material. UVIC-36 ----(+.long) +000:1 |STA c |TYP b |LEV c |ENC 1 |DES a |LINK - +005:1 19990715152800.0 +008:1 |ADD 950309 |DTY i |DATE1 1937 |DATE2 1979 |COU |PHY |GOV |LANG eng |SOUR +035:1 |aSC116 +100:1 1-|aSward, Robert,|d1933- +245:1 --|aRobert Sward fonds +260:1 |c1937-1979 +300:1 --|a70 cm|3of textual records and other material +520:1 --|aThe fonds consists of rough drafts and notes for Sward's poetry and prose fiction; publicity material for poetry readings given by Sward; correspondence relating to monetary appraisal of Sward's papers, correspondence between Sward and Wayne Carver, and correspondence regarding grants; Sward's daily journals, lecture notes and notebooks; publications, including magazines, brochures, chapbooks and booklets; Sward family photographs and photographs of Sward with friends and fellow writers, and slides of art works by Judith Sward; art work for publications by Soft Press; film, "The July Movie", by former Uvic Professor Frederick Edell; and, correspondence, essay and notebook of Irina Schestakowich. +545:1 --|a Robert Sward was born in Chicago. He obtained a B.A. from the University of Illinois and an M.A. from the University of Iowa. He was appointed Visiting Poet in the University of Victoria Department of Creative Writing in 1969, and also taught in the University of Victoria Department of English. Sward's publications include "Half A Life's History, Poems: New and Selected, 1957-1983", and the Coach House Press novel "Jurassic Shales". In 1970 he founded the Soft Press publishing company in Victoria and produced 21 books combining poetry and visual art. In the early 1970s Sward and Robin Skelton began collaborating on a book of poems "Callsigns and Hannah", but due to disagreements the collaboration was abandoned and Skelton completed the book on his own, publishing it as "Callsigns". +548:1 |aTitle based on the contents of the fonds. +555:1 --|aInventory available with series and file level control. +591:1 |aIncludes: 70 cm of textual records, ca. 220 photographs, ca. 260 slides, and 2 film rolls +600:1 14|aSward, Robert,|d1933- +600:2 14|aCarver, Wayne +600:3 14|aSward, Judith +600:4 14|aSchestakowich, Irina,|d1944- +600:5 34|aSward (family) +610:1 24|aSoft Press +700:1 11|aSchestakowich, Irina,|d1944- +850:1 |aUniversity of Victoria Archives and Special Collections See also Robert's Rare Books and Manuscript (RBMS) essay on Ethics for American Library Association (ALA) meeting June, 2001, ref: "A Walking, Talking Example of a Split Collection." and to Washington University Libraries ("WU Libraries Special Collections - MLC - Robert Sward > Papers, 1951- ), ca. 13,000 items. http://www.library.wustl.edu/units/spec/manuscripts/mlc/sward/
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