Delbert R. Gardner--Writing


	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 and logos 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.

	BOOKS An “Idle Singer” and His Audience: A Study of William Morris’s Poetic Reputation in England, 1858-1900. The Hague, Netherlands: Mouton, 1975. Dissertation: William Morris’s Poetic Reputation in England, 1858-1900. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester, 1963 (held at the university library)

	STORIES "A Betrayal," The Villager, Vol. XXXX, No. 2, November 1967. "Dissection," The Copperfield Review: A Journal of History and Fiction, Vol. 9, No. 4, Autumn 2010. "Fire Worship," Red Jacket, Spring 1975. "Golden Trumpet," Red Jacket, Winter 1974. “A Good Day’s Work,” Unbridled II, Cowboy Poetry Magazine/Red Dashboard Publications, May 4, 2015. "The Good Samaritans," The Villager, Vol. XLVII, No. 4, Jan. 1976. "It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog," Green's Magazine (Fiction for the Family), Vol. II, No. 2, Winter 1974. "Loop-O-Plane," Forum: A Creative Writing Issue, Vol. 15, No. 2-3, Summer-Fall 1977. "The Manly Art," From Sac, Vol. 4: Outsider, Dec. 2016. "New Wings for the Muse," Peacock Journal, Jan. 12, 2017. "Secret Laugher," Amanuensis, Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall 1973. "The Statue," Approach: A Literary Quarterly, No. 45, Fall 1962. Reprinted in Lamplight: A Quarterly Magazine of Dark Fiction, Vol. 1, Iss. 4, June 2013, and in the Lamplight annual print collection, Lamplight, Vol. One, Ed. Jacob Haddon, Sept. 2013. "The Stubborn Leaf," Red Jacket, Spring 1974. "Who's Da Vinci?," Mystery Weekly Magazine, April 2017 (cover story).

	POETRY "After Hearing Frost at Eleven," Songs of Eretz Poetry E-Zine, Vol. 2, Iss. 2, No. 9, Nov. 2014, as part of a Father & Daughter Special Feature. Reprinted in Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, April 16, 2015. "Blues for Louis Rex," Red Jacket, Fall 1971. "Casey Bats Again," The Hollins Critic, Vol. XXIX, No. 4, October 1992. "Cocoon," American Poetry Magazine, Vol. 37, No. 1, 1956. "Cotyledons," Red Jacket, Winter 1969. "Dr. Spock, You Didn't Tell Us This," Daily Press (Newport News, VA), Hampton Sunday edition, November 1, 1981. "Dressing for a Garden Salad," Red Jacket, Fall 1973. Reprinted in Bardic Echoes, Vol. XV, No. 2, June 1974. "Finger Lake," The Literary Review, Vol. 4, No. 3, Spring 1961. Reprinted in Red Jacket, Spring 1964. Reprinted in Modern American and British Poems, p. 380-381. "Forests of Day," Spirit: A Magazine of Poetry, Vol. XXXVII, No. 2, Summer 1970. "Full Circle at the Poetry Workshop" by Delbert R. Gardner and Adele Gardner, Straylight Literary Arts Magazine, Vol. 12.1, Fall 2018. "Hollow Beats the Night," Songs of Eretz Poetry E-Zine, Aug. 2014 first anniv. iss., as part of a Father & Daughter Special Feature. Reprinted in Steve Gordon’s Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, Sun., June 28, 2015, in the "Poetry Review Father & Daughter Special Feature: Poems by Adele and Delbert R. Gardner." Reprinted in The 2015 Rhysling Anthology: The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Poetry of 2014, Ed. Rich Ristow, Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association in cooperation with Hadrosaur Productions, 2015. (Nominated in the Long Poem Category for the Rhysling Award of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association.) "Hunger," Poetry Digest, Vol. 3, No. 5, Dec.-Jan. 1955. "An Inside View of the Patient," qarrtsiluni, Health issue, Ed. Susan Elbe and Kelly Madigan Erlandson, Feb. 4, 2010; the Health issue played from Mid-January-April 2010. Includes audio edition read by the poet's son, Theo R. Gardner. "Love at the Rim," Jukebox Junction USA, River Poets Journal Special Edition, Nov. 2009. "Manet's Déjeuner sur l'Herbe (1863)," Blue Moon: Literary & Art Review, April 8, 2019. The painting that inspired Dad's poem may be viewed here. "The Meek Shall Inherit . . . (The Earthworm Speaks)," Goblin Fruit, Summer 2009. Reprinted in The 2010 Rhysling Anthology: The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Poetry of 2009, Ed. Jaime Lee Moyer, Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, 2010. (Nominated in the Long Poem Category for the Rhysling Award of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association.) Audio format, StarShipSofa No. 423, Kary English, Feb. 17, 2016, Poetry Planet No. 16: Animals & Creatures, hosted by Diane Severson. "Mermaid of Copenhagen," Red Jacket, Winter 1972. "'Mermaid of Copenhagen,' a poem which explores the purpose of beauty," won Honorable Mention in the Virginia Highlands Festival Creative Writing Contest of 1980. "The More It Changes . . . ," Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, Sun., June 28, 2015, in the "Poetry Review Father & Daughter Special Feature: Poems by Adele and Delbert R. Gardner." Reprinted in The 2016 Rhysling Anthology: The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Poetry of 2015, Ed. Charles Christian, Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, 2016. (Nominated in the Short Poem Category for the Rhysling Award of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association.) "Operation," by Delbert R. Gardner and Adele Gardner, Proud to Be: Writing By American Warriors, Vol. 9, Ed. James Brubaker, Nov. 11, 2020. "Our Mother Tongue," Hazard Cat, Feb. 9, 2011. “Persephone’s Dream,” Tales of the Talisman, Vol. 9, Iss. 3, Winter 2013/14. Reprinted, 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. "The Poet as Dreamer," Red Jacket, Winter 1973. "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.) "Sawdust People," Provincetown Review, No. 6, Winter 1963. "Scenes in an Airport" in "Destination Home," with editor Meagan Dye's introduction to the Status Hat Cities issue, features Adele (as Lyn C. A. Gardner) & her father, their two poems "Refreshment from Beyond the City's Grasp" by Lyn C. A. Gardner and "Scenes in an Airport" by Delbert R. Gardner, and a biographical statement in Editor's Note Regarding Gardner Poetry, all published in Status Hat, Cities issue, Mar. 2011. The Status Hat Cities issue is no longer available online; however, the Gardner content is available here, and there's a brief post about it on the Status Hat Productions Facebook page: Poetry Moment: Destination Home, Mar. 9, 2011. "Sink Wane," Red Jacket, Fall 1973. Reprinted in Orphic Lute, Spring 1982. "Song of Syngnathidae," Weid: The Sensibility Revue, Vol. IX, No. 36, 37, 38, Mar. 1976. "Tammuz to Ishtar," Mythic Delirium, Iss. 19, Summer/Fall 2008. Reprinted in The 2009 Rhysling Anthology: The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Poetry of 2008, Ed. Drew Morse, Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, 2009. (Nominated in the Short Poem Category for the Rhysling Award of the of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association.) "There Are, in Truth, Violets," Monmouth Review, Vol. 1, Spring 1975 (relaunch of Monmouth Letters). "Through a Dream Starkly," Red Jacket, Spring 1968. "To a Feline Philosopher," Fine Arts Discovery, Vol. 5, No. 1, Spring 1971. "To Build for a Day," The Disciple, Vol. 11, No. 8, August 1984 (published as "For a Day"). Reprinted under full title as part of "Rhyme and Reason" interview by Greg Kocher, The News-Enterprise (Elizabethtown, KY), Section C, Weekend: TV, Movies, Books, Music, Feb. 1-3, 1985, page 12C. "To the Muse of Something," StarLine* 33.4, July/Aug. 2010. "What Leaf-Fringed Legend?," El Portal (Eastern New Mexico University’s literary magazine), Vol. 75, No. 1, Spring 2017. "Who Hasn't Seen the Wind," Christian Science Monitor, February 26, 1972. "Window View," Eclectic, Spring 1973.

	NONFICTION "A Business Man with Respect," Elmira Sunday Telegram, Aug. 1, 1965. "The Consent of the Governed?," O-Dark-Thirty, the Journal for the Veterans Writing Project, June 13, 2018. "An Hysterical Protest," The CEA Critic, Vol. XXVI, No. 1, Oct. 1964. "If a Man Does Good Work," Elmira Star-Gazette, Nov. 27, 1969. "Johnny Mercer" by Delbert R. Gardner, forthcoming in POOP from Group: Newsletter of the 467th Bomb Group Association, October 2021. "Much That Is Genuine in Neumann's Poetry," Elmira Sunday Telegram, Jan. 25, 1970. "A Rose for Doc Munger," page 21, Second Air Division Association Journal, Eighth Air Force, Vol. 32, No. 3, Fall 1993. "'She's Got Good Steel in Her': Tribute to a Teacher: Taylor E. Miller," Veterans' Voices, Vol. 64, No. 3, Fall 2016. "Students display works," The Keukonian, Jan. 16, 1975, Vol. LIII, No. 10, Keuka College, Keuka Park, New York, Thurs., Jan. 16, 1975. "Thanks, But No Thanks," The Villager, Vol. LVII, No. 3, Dec. 1984. "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). "Vacation in the Southland," Fort Eustis Wheel, Nov. 5, 1981. "Woman M. D. Aided Folks Beyond the Call of Duty," Elmira Sunday Telegram or Elmira Star-Gazette, around Oct. 1948 (if you can confirm the exact date and edition of this publication, please contact us).

	Published Collaborations by Father & Daughter Team "Full Circle at the Poetry Workshop" by Delbert R. Gardner and Adele Gardner, Straylight Literary Arts Magazine, Vol. 12.1, Fall 2018. "Operation," by Delbert R. Gardner and Adele Gardner, Proud to Be: Writing By American Warriors, Vol. 9, Ed. James Brubaker, Nov. 11, 2020. "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," by Delbert R. Gardner and Adele Gardner, 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.) More Father & Daughter Appearances Together Blue Moon: Literary & Art Review, April 8, 2019. "Manet's Déjeuner sur l'Herbe (1863)" by Delbert R. Gardner. The painting that inspired Dad's poem may be viewed here. "October Bees" by Adele Gardner Songs of Eretz Poetry Review, Sun., June 28, 2015, in the "Poetry Review Father & Daughter Special Feature: Poems by Adele and Delbert R. Gardner." "'The More It Changes . . . '" by Delbert R. Gardner "Hollow Beats the Night" by Delbert R. Gardner "Row Your Boat Ashore" by Adele Gardner "WWII Muscles" by Adele Gardner “Deliverance” by Adele Gardner Songs of Eretz Poetry E-Zine, Aug. 2014 first anniv. iss., as part of a Father & Daughter Special Feature. "Hollow Beats the Night" by Delbert R. Gardner "WWII Muscles" by Adele Gardner Songs of Eretz Poetry E-Zine, Vol. 2, Iss. 2, No. 9, Nov. 2014, as part of a Father & Daughter Special Feature. "After Hearing Frost at Eleven" by Delbert R. Gardner "Row Your Boat Ashore" by Adele Gardner The 2016 Rhysling Anthology: The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Poetry of 2015, Ed. Charles Christian, Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, 2016. "'The More It Changes . . . '" by Delbert R. Gardner "The Boats" by Adele Gardner “Deliverance” by Adele Gardner The 2015 Rhysling Anthology: The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Poetry of 2014, Ed. Rich Ristow, Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association in cooperation with Hadrosaur Productions, 2015. "Hollow Beats the Night" by Delbert R. Gardner "Row Your Boat Ashore" by Adele Gardner The 2010 Rhysling Anthology: The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Poetry of 2009, Ed. Jaime Lee Moyer, Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, 2010. "The Meek Shall Inherit . . . (The Earthworm Speaks)" by Delbert R. Gardner "God's Cat" by Adele Gardner StarShipSofa No. 423, Kary English, Feb. 17, 2016, Poetry Planet No. 16: Animals & Creatures, hosted by Diane Severson. "The Meek Shall Inherit . . . (The Earthworm Speaks)" by Delbert R. Gardner "God's Cat" by Adele Gardner Tales of the Talisman, Vol. 9, Iss. 3, Winter 2013/14. “Persephone’s Dream” by Delbert R. Gardner "Die Alone, the Demon Said" by Adele Gardner StarLine* 33.4, July/Aug. 2010. "To the Muse of Something" by Delbert R. Gardner "Schrödinger's Catsitter" by Adele Gardner Hazard Cat accepted these at the same time: "Our Mother Tongue" by Delbert R. Gardner, Feb. 9, 2011. "Claiming the Cat-Scope" by Adele Gardner, Aug. 6, 2010. The 2009 Rhysling Anthology: The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Poetry of 2008, Ed. Drew Morse, Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, 2009. "Tammuz to Ishtar" by Delbert R. Gardner "The Dispossessed" by Adele Gardner Status Hat, Cities issue, Mar. 2011. Editor Meagan Dye included a special section titled "Destination Home" that featured Adele & Delbert R. Gardner. Though the journal is no longer online, the Gardner content is available here, and there's a brief post about it on the Status Hat Productions Facebook page: Poetry Moment: Destination Home, Mar. 9, 2011. "Scenes in an Airport" by Delbert R. Gardner "Refreshment from Beyond the City's Grasp" by Adele Gardner "Destination Home," with editor Meagan Dye's introduction to the Status Hat Cities issue, featured Adele & her father, their two poems, and a personal statement in "Editor's Note Regarding Gardner Poetry."

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