Fighting Kite (page 35)

The poetry in the book certainly had a good pedigree in terms of publication.         I am grateful to the editors of the following journals and books in which these poems first appeared, sometimes in earlier versions.       Caliban — "A Visitor on Ash Wednesday"       Father Poems (Philippines) — "Playing Chess with Papa"       Hawaii Pacific Review — "Fighting Kite"       The Kenyon Review — "Newly Released, Papa Tells Me             What It's Like Inside"       Journal of American Culture — "Vietnam Era Vet"       The Madison Review — "Greased Pole" & "Tatay"       Ploughshares — "Dance of the Letters"       Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian             North American Poetry — "A Photo with Santa Claus"       Rattle — "Chewing Gum Upskirt"       Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images —             "Honor, 1946"       The Seattle Review — "Hospital Thoughts, Last Year             and Today"       Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Writing —             "Wedlock"       Zone 3 — "Refusal to Write an Elegy" & "Selling FIsh" "Vietnam Era Vet" also appeared in Dragonfly (Pecan Grove Press, 1994). "Tatay," "Honor, 1946," and "Refusal to Write an Elegy" also appeared in Ghost Wars (Final Thursday Press, 2003). I am also grateful to the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation for a grant awarded for an earlier, in-progress version of this collection. Many thanks to Sally Ann Kueker for her lovely design work and patience. I also thank colleague and good friend Grant Tracey for his accurate and judicious editing. As always, thanks to Palmer Hall for his faith in my writing. My deepest gratitude to Mary Ann for her love, gutsy editing, and the beautiful cover photo. Thamks to my children — Marty, Amanda, Amelia, Melina, and Gabriel — for their love and forbearance at how work and writing take up so much of their father's time. Page 35 A great snapshot here of a poet's literary life in mid-career. Interesting as well that some of these poetic venues are no longer extant . . . almost 20 years since this book was published. At the same time, many of these venues are still flourishing. Bravo! As always, I'd love to get some feedback or discuss anything with all y'all. Comment, okay? Thanks. Ingat.  FIGHTING KITE   INTRO FRONT CONTENTS PREVIOUS NEXT LAST