Delbert R. Gardner--News


	Adele Gardner Is Agent & Literary Executor for Delbert R. Gardner Please note that (c) copyright to all photographs on this page except for publication covers is owned by Adele Gardner and/or the Gardner family. Photos were created by Adele Gardner and/or are from her collection and that of the Gardner family. Menu portraits created by Adele Gardner (left & center) and Daniel Michael Hegarty Sr. (right). All rights reserved. Latest Collaboration by Father & Daughter Team "Operation," by Delbert R. Gardner and Adele Gardner, Proud to Be: Writing By American Warriors, Vol. 9, Ed. James Brubaker, Nov. 11, 2020. Dad's Newest World War II Article "Johnny Mercer" by Delbert R. Gardner, forthcoming in POOP from Group: Newsletter of the 467th Bomb Group Association, October 2021. Dad's Newest Poetry Publication "Persephone's Dream" is now available in electronic format in Timeless Tales, Iss. 11, May 2020, Hades & Persephone, complete with audio read by Adele Gardner (the author's daughter) and an author's statement prepared with the help of Marilyn Gardner (wife) and Adele. Dad's Newest World War II Article "Troopship to England: A Memoir aboard the Frederick Lykes," POOP from Group: Newsletter of the 467th Bomb Group Association, October 2019. Complete with photographs by Delbert R. Gardner and two courtesy of The Mariners' Museum (Newport News, Virginia). Other recently published collaborations: "Full Circle at the Poetry Workshop" by Delbert R. Gardner and Adele Gardner, Straylight Literary Arts Magazine, Vol. 12.1, Fall 2018. Dad wrote most of this poem while sitting beside me in a poetry workshop at the CNU Writers Conference, taught by one of my favorite professors (also a fantastic poet), Dr. Jay S. Paul. I didn't realize he was writing about me. His reflections on fatherhood include the two of us attending writing workshops together from my earliest days. Recent Joint Appearances by Del and Adele "Manet's Déjeuner sur l'Herbe (1863)" by Delbert R. Gardner and "October Bees" by Adele Gardner, two poems published together in Blue Moon: Literary & Art Review, April 8, 2019. The painting that inspired Dad's poem may be viewed here. Other Recent World War II narratives from DRG! "The Consent of the Governed?," O-Dark-Thirty, the Journal for the Veterans Writing Project, June 13, 2018. Collaboration by Father & Daughter Team is nominated for the Rhysling! "Pre-Raphaelite Girls," by Delbert R. Gardner and Adele Gardner, has been nominated in the Long Poem Category for the Rhysling Award of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association and reprinted in The 2018 Rhysling Anthology: The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Poetry of 2017, Ed. Linda D. Addison, The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, 2018. The poem first appeaered in Buckshot Magazine, July 12, 2017. *"Who's Da Vinci?" by Delbert R. Gardner is the cover story for Mystery Weekly Magazine, April 2017!* The cover painting not only illustrates Dad's story, but actually represents the painting described in the story itself!

	Recently Published Stories "The Manly Art," From Sac, Vol. 4: Outsider, Dec. 2016. "New Wings for the Muse," Peacock Journal, Jan. 12, 2017. "Who's Da Vinci?," Mystery Weekly Magazine, April 2017 (cover story).

	Recently Published Poetry "Full Circle at the Poetry Workshop" by Delbert R. Gardner and Adele Gardner, Straylight Literary Arts Magazine, Vol. 12.1, Fall 2018. "Manet's Déjeuner sur l'Herbe (1863)," Blue Moon: Literary & Art Review, April 8, 2019. "Persephone's Dream," Timeless Tales, Iss. 11, May 2020, Hades & Persephone, complete with audio read by Adele Gardner (the author's daughter) and an author's statement prepared with the help of Marilyn Gardner (wife) and Adele. "Pre-Raphaelite Girls," written with his daughter, Adele Gardner, and published in Buckshot Magazine, July 12, 2017. Reprinted in The 2018 Rhysling Anthology: The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Poetry of 2017, Ed. Linda D. Addison, The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, 2018. (Nominated in the Long Poem Category for the Rhysling Award of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association.) "What Leaf-Fringed Legend?," El Portal (Eastern New Mexico University’s literary magazine), Vol. 75, No. 1, Spring 2017.

	Recently Published Nonfiction "The Consent of the Governed?," O-Dark-Thirty, the Journal for the Veterans Writing Project, June 13, 2018. "'She's Got Good Steel in Her': Tribute to a Teacher: Taylor E. Miller," Veterans' Voices, Vol. 64, No. 3, Fall 2016.

	Recent Audio Fun "The Meek Shall Inherit . . . (The Earthworm Speaks)," StarShipSofa No. 423, Kary English, Feb. 17, 2016, Poetry Planet No. 16: Animals & Creatures, hosted by Diane Severson. "Persephone's Dream," Timeless Tales, Iss. 11, May 2020, Hades & Persephone, complete with audio read by Adele Gardner (the author's daughter) and an author's statement prepared with the help of Marilyn Gardner (wife) and Adele.

	Recent Author's Statements "Statement on Beauty" at the end of "New Wings for the Muse," Peacock Journal, Jan. 12, 2017. "Persephone's Dream," Timeless Tales, Iss. 11, May 2020, Hades & Persephone, complete with audio read by Adele Gardner (the author's daughter) and an author's statement prepared with the help of Marilyn Gardner (wife) and Adele.

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