Publication
Short fiction, literary criticism and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in the following, under my professional name, B. D. Love. Many poetry publications include several poems or even both poetry and fiction in same issue.
California Quarterly (CQ) (poetry)
Nimrod (narrative poem sequence)
Slant (poetry)
New Orleans Review (poetry)
Troubadour (poetry)
Chaminade Literary Review (poetry)
Southern Humanities Review (literary criticism)
Watershed Wise (poetry)
National Public Radio (poetry performance on air)
Rio Grande Review (poetry)
Current News (creative nonfiction and poetry)
Pike Creek Review (fiction)
Silverlake Local (fiction, feature articles and poetry)
Dominion Review (poetry)
Many Mountains Moving (poetry)
Southern Poetry Review (poetry)
Troubadour (poetry)
Wisconsin Review (poetry)
Pacific Coast Journal (fiction)
Best Texas Writing '96 (anthology) (poetry)
The Literary Review (fiction)
The Literary Review-Website Featured Writer
Writers' Forum (fiction)
American Literary Review (poetry)
Tennessee Quarterly (fiction)
Santa Clara Review (poetry)
Slant (poetry)
Talking River Review (fiction and poetry)
Apocalypse (poetry)
Aileron (poetry)
Gulf Stream (poetry)
Many Mountains Moving (poetry)
Santa Clara Review (poetry)
New Orleans Review (fiction)
Slipstream (fiction)
River Oak Review (fiction)
Tomorrow Magazine (poetry)
Quixote Quarterly (fiction)
Other Voices (fiction)
Pacific Coast Journal (poetry)
Welter (poetry)
Poem (poetry)
California Quarterly-CQ (poetry)
Palo Alto Review (fiction)
Slant (poetry)
Seems (poetry)
Tar River Review (poetry)
A Song for Occupations (anthology) (poetry)
Kingfisher (fiction)
Epiphany (poetry)
Manoa (fiction)
Seattle Review (poetry)
Starlight Sonnet Anthology (poetry)
Appalachee Quarterly (fiction)
Birmingham Poetry Review (poetry)
Oxford Magazine (fiction)
Crosscurrents (fiction)
Poetry Northwest (poetry)
Southern Poetry Review (poetry)
Turnstile (fiction)
Widener Review (fiction)
Kansas Quarterly (poetry)
Laurel Review (poetry)
The Literary Review (poetry)
Chaminade Literary Review (poetry)
High Plains Literary Review (poetry)
Connecticut River Review (poetry)
Willow Springs (fiction)
River City (fiction)
Piedmont Literary Review (poetry)
South Coast Poetry Review (poetry)
The MacGuffin (poetry)
Sweet Nothings (Anthology) (poetry)
Footwork (poetry)
Visions (poetry)
Nebo (poetry)
Z Miscellaneous (poetry)
Beloit Poetry Journal (poetry)
Oxalis (poetry)
Blue Unicorn (poetry)
Amelia (poetry)
Fine Madness (poetry)
Stone Country (poetry)
Another Place to Publish (poetry)
Poetic Space (poetry)
Plains Poetry Journal (poetry)
Peregrine (poetry)
Music & Sound Output (fiction)
South Florida Poetry Journal (poetry)
Earth's Daughters (poetry)
Book Publication
Water at the Women's Edge (95 pages, Urthona Press, Asheville, NC, 2001)
This book has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Awards this year.
Meat Wisdom (Pudding House Press, Johnstown, Ohio, 2000)
Cut Salt Fire Grace: Sonnets, Love and Other (Rhythm Dog Editions, Los Angeles, 1995)
Awards and Nominations
Nomination: National Book Critics Circle Award for Water at the Women's Edge.
Honorable Mention: Emerson Award in Recognition of Lyric Excellence, Troubadour Magazine.
Semifinalist: the Heekin Group Foundation Fellowship for the Novel.
Semifinalist: Hollis Summers Poetry Prize for Poetry, Ohio University Press. For a book-length manuscript of poems.
Semifinalist: New Issues Award for Poetry. For a book-length manuscript of poems.
Nomination: Pushcart Prize XV: Best of the Small Presses, for fiction. Willow Springs magazine, Nance van Winckel, editor.
Award: Second Kansas Quarterly/Kansas Arts Commission Award for Poetry. Amy Clampitt, judge.
Citation: for special merit, Guy Owen Poetry Prize, Southern Poetry Review. Linda Pastan, judge.
Nomination: Pushcart Prize XIII: Best of the Small Presses, for poetry. Joyce Carol Oates, nominating editor.
Awards: World Order of Narrative Poets, Three Awards: First Prize, Robert Browning Award; First Prize, Ted Hughes Award; Honorable Mention, Shakespeare Award
Workshops, Readings, Judgings, Panels and Presentations
Judge, Chapbook Competition, Alabama State Poetry Society.
Guest Writer, Alabama Writers' Conclave: I presented my own work, spoke on writing and writing theory, and coordinated a series of four workshops over a two day period.
Coordinator and Presenter, writing workshops at Barnes and Noble, Pasadena, July and November 2001.
Judge: Alabama State Poetry Society, eight separate poetry awards, April 2001.
Judge: Alabama State Poetry Society, Poetry Book Award.
Host and Coordinator: Panel discussion at CSLA for members of the Creative Writing Club, STATEMENT magazine editors, and faculty and staff of Club Literario Hermes, Department of Foreign Languages, California State University, Bakersfield.
Panel Moderator: Southern California Writing Program Administrators Affiliate Conference, California State University, Los Angeles.
Participant: Workshop in ESL (English as a Second Language) Theory and Practice: Toward Refining an Approach to Dealing with ESL Issues in ENGL 095/096; a Title III ESL Workshop, Dr. Jose Galvan, Program Coordinator.
Judge: Alabama State Poetry Society, Yearly Awards: Poetry Judge; Creative Non-Fiction Judge.
Community Service
Neighborhood liaison and community activist: Friends of the Los Angeles River. I have been active in the recent petition drive to preserve public access to the Los Angeles River as well as to begin the process of revitalizing the area for recreational use. I have written for the organization's newsletter and organized community support for our positions, as well as met with congressional staff and community leaders on these issues.
Neighborhood liaison and community activist: NorthEast Trees. I have helped to build and design a one-third mile long riverside park along the Los Angeles River, and continue to build and maintain it through the cooperation of these two organizations and the Creative Writing Club.
Recent activities include the following:
October 2001, Site Coordinator for Friends of Atwater Village River Cleanup.
May 11, 2001: Site coordinator for Friends of the Los Angeles River's Great Cleanup (La Gran Limpieza)
May, 2001: Featured on Charles Osgood's national CBS Radio show, discussing River issues.
January 26, 2001: Quoted in an article on the restoration of the Los Angeles River, New York Times.
October 11 and 18, 2000: Site Coordinator and co-sponsor for two separate cleanups and plantings along the Los Angeles Riverwalk, which I helped to build and design.
September 2000: Radio interview broadcast on National Public Radio, featuring a discussion of River issues and a reading of my benedictory poem for the Guardians of the River Gate.
August 2000: Interview published by Mother Jones magazine, in which I discuss River issues.
June, 2000: Participated in special ceremonies announcing the procurement of 8.5 million dollars for River-related projects. The event, held at the Riverwalk in Atwater Village, was hosted by former State House Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa and U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, who commended me personally in her announcement speech.
May 6, 2000: Site coordinator for La Gran Limpieza, the big cleanup, of the Los Angeles River in Atwater Village. I was later honored by Friends of the Los Angeles River at a banquet for all site coordinators.
May, 2000: Co-founded Friends of Atwater Village, a neighborhood group dedicated to historic and environmental preservation. I wrote the official charter and co-designed the organization's logo.
May, 2000: I participated in and helped coordinate a major tree planting and graffiti abatement in Atwater Village, co-sponsored by North East Trees and Friends of Atwater Village.
July 10, 1999: Performed my own benedictory poem to dedicate the new Guardians of the River Gate in Atwater Village. This is only the second gateway to the Los Angeles River to be constructed in modern history.
October 10, 1999: Organized the first-ever Pequeña Limpieza, the "little cleanup" of the Los Angeles River in Atwater Village encompassing the NorthEast Trees Riverwalk and the Creative Writing Club Garden. This highly successful event drew members of the CSLA community as well as neighbors and Friends of the River.
