Publications

Here and Abroad

A collection of award-winning short stories will be published in November 2010 by Cervená Barva Press.

“A Dreamer’s Guide to Cities” San Francisco Bay Press, Virginia/San Francisco: 2009

A Dreamer’s Guide to Cities
“Passages of almost ethereal beauty… lift Joan Gelfand’s ‘A Dreamer’s Guide to Cities and Streams’ into the realm of the extraordinary. ‘Transported’ alone has more poetry in it than most volumes of contemporary poetry. Here, in a few short lines we find evocation of all the senses, including the sixth, jumped into being by suggestions of beginning, danger, discovery, alarm, assurance, judgment, mission, death, and eternity—an archetypal transport to the holy realm of dreaming.” Robert Arthur, Publisher, S.F. Bay Press
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Seeking Center: A Collection of Poems by Joan Gelfand

Seeking Center
“In ‘Seeking Center,’ Joan Gelfand joins the reader in a free-wheeling discussion, beyond the poems themselves, regarding what is poetry today, here at the beginning of the twenty-first century. In forms that span from the short, highly-constrained haiku to the almost limitless prose poem, she seems to define poems as she produces them.” Kevin Arnold, President, Poetry Center San Jose
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Poets 11 2010 Anthology

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The Ferlinghetti School of Poetics, Cafe, and 5:50 AM were published in the Poets 11 2010 Anthology

Poetry

  • Cafe, Song of the San Joaquin
  • Tassahanalei and Monet, Ambush #1
  • The Ferlinghetti School of Poetics , DuPage Valley Review
  • Good Morning America, Where Are You, More Candles in the Dark Anthology
  • Paris Whistling, Ina Coolbrith Circle Anthology
  • “Making Love in an Empty Apartment” The Toronto Quarterly
  • “Sex, Death and All That Jazz” Winningwriters.com
  • “Nature Morte Au Panier” “The Light in Ordinary Things,” Anthology
  • “Good Morning, America. Where Are You?” newversenews.com, June 09
  • “Japanese Maple Tangka” Osmosis
  • “Three Poems About Nothing” Marin Poetry Center Anthology
  • “Sex, Death and All That Jazz” Caveat Lector
  • “Marriage Egg,” “Paris Whistling,” & “Who Will Immortalize You?” San Francisco Writers Conference Anthology
  • “Transported,” “Olive” Lady Jane’s Miscellany
  • “Painting Haiku” The Aurorean
  • “Dichotomy Sonnet,” “7×7 Villanelle,” “Transported,” Strange Road, March 2008
  • “Ode to Cecil Bruner,” “Torqued,” “Summer,” “Venezia,” “Cupid,” PoetryMaga-zine.com, Spring 2008
  • “Cupid” The Bookworm, Women’s National Book Association, February 2008
  • “I’ve Started to Listen To Barbra Streisand, Again,” “Brave” and “Meditation on the Seventh” Poetica, June 2008
  • “Ghazal for Baiji” newversenews.com, November, 2007
  • “War Rant” Kalliope: Women and War issue, Florida Community College, Jacksonville, Florida, January 2008
  • “Soccer Mom,” “Music/Dream Seven” 10,000 Poems/National Steinbeck Center, April 2007
  • “Ghazal for Baiji” Goddess Queen Magazine, November 2007
  • “Cupid” Oakland Out Loud, PEN/Anthology, December 2007
  • “Daddy-O” Jazz Traditions 2007, Pig Iron Press (upcoming – Fall 2008)
  • “Music Dream 14” Fourth River: Place, Space & Identity: Chatham College, Spring 2007
  • “War Rant” newversenews.com, October, 2006
  • “War Rant” www.poetslane.com, October 2006
  • “Burial” Transform: Exploring Faith Through the Arts (upcoming, 2008)
  • “Fallen Leaf Lake” RiverSedge University of Texas, Pan-American Press: Vol. 18, Spring 2005
  • “The Artist” RiverSedge, Vol. 18, Spring, 2006
  • “Collage Poem” RiverSedge, Vol. 19, Spring 2006
  • “Wedding Poem” RiverSedge, Vol. 19, Spring 2005
  • “Wedding Poem” Poetica Magazine, November 2007
  • “Daddy-O” Poetica Magazine, November 2007
  • “Wedding Poem” Kerem: Creative Explorations in Judaism, Vol. 10, 2005-2006
  • “Daddy-O” You Are Here: Poetry From the Streets of New York, Anthology, P&Q Press, NY, NY, 2006
  • “Boxed” Owen Wister Review, University of Wyoming Press, Laramie, Wyoming, 2005
  • “Burial” Eclipse, A Literary Journal, Glendale College, Glendale, California, Volume 16, 2005
  • “Burial” Cape Rock, Fall 2003
  • “The Finish Line” Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Meridian Publishing, Boca Raton, Florida (Forward by Philip Levine) Volume 3, 2004
  • “Daddy-O” Jewish Women’s Literary Annual, Jewish Women’s Resources Publishing, New York, 2006
  • “Soccer Mom” If Women Ruled the World, Anthology, Inner Ocean Press, Maui, HI, 2004
  • “Music/Dream Seven” Eureka Literary Magazine, Eureka College, Illinois, Spring 2005
  • “Home” Mills Review, Mills College, Oakland, California, Spring, 1996
  • “The Garden” Mills Review, Mills College, Oakland, California, Spring 1996

Fiction

Non_Fiction Publications

  • Women’s National Book Association to Launch Reading Group Month, Huffington Post, October 17, 2009
  • “Mom’s Canoe: Review of Becky Foust’s chapbook” Rattle, September 2009
  • “God of the Jellyfish: Review of Lucille Lang Day’s chapbook” Bay Area Seasonal Poets Review
  • “Blogging for Poets” Women and Poetry
  • “Building Your Platform” Women & Poetry
  • “Eli Broad’s Big Picture” Letter to the Editor, Vanity Fair, February 2007
  • “Stay Away From the Edge” Story of the Month, Empty Nest
  • “Digitizing the World’s Books,” Bookwoman, Fall 2007
  • “She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain” Penwomanship Magazine
  • “Self-Promotion Essentials” Letter to the Editor, Poets & Writers
  • “Why Blog?” Bookwoman News, Women’s National Book Association
  • “Between the Lines, Conversations With Women Writers,” edited by Melissa Highson
  • “The Uninvited” Letter to the Editor: New York Times Magazine
  • “Taking Charge of Your Health” Mills Quarterly
  • “Bringing Bay Area Youth the Stories of the World,” Mills Quarterly
  • “She Breaks Barriers,” A profile of Barbara Higbie, Mills Quarterly
  • “March Fong Eu” Mills Quarterly
  • “Poets in the Galleries” Walrus Review, Mills College
  • “Resources for Abused Families,” El Cerrito Journal
  • “The Net Results Can Work for You,” Bay Area Career Women

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