Publications
Rich Murphy has been publishing poetry since the middle of the 1970s. Since then he has published in literary journals widely in the USA and abroad.
Published Work 1974 – Spring 2025
2025
(Books) Storage Shed, Resource Publications at Wipf and Stock
Mind of Europe: A Genealogy to The Fat Man Cyberwit, India
(Essays) “Lowering Human Hubris into the Sublime” Journal of Literature and Art Studies
(Poems) “Leaving Leafing Behind,” Chiron Review, June 2025
“Birth Quakes” In Parentheses 2025
“Concession Stand” Rabble Review, June 2025
“U-Haul” The International World Literature Journal, June 2025
“Internal Affairs” Two Thirds North 25 Gallery
“Endlings” Voices Unbound Anthology from Fresh Words
“Squeeze Tender” -- New Square, Dublin, Ireland
2024
(Books)
Inside Stories, Resource Publications at Wipf and Stock
Susan Constant, Cyberwit
(Poems) “What a Big Box Stores,” “Road Crew Heroes,” “Blowing Bubbles,” “Pool Time,” “Staying Fresh:” BlazeVOX; https://static1.squarespace.com/static/66627dabf7b72f0d137f876e/t/66db6963a69ab10c7fa9c149/1725655395716/Fall+24+-+Rich+Murphy.pdf
“Leaving Leafing Behind” Chiron Review, June 2025
“Why Art:” Timada's Diary 2024
“Sold:” Bronze Bird Anthology 2025
“Generational Water Ways:” Men Matters Online Journal, June 2024
“Forgetting about It:” Somerville Daily May 2024
“The Language Bridge,” “Why Art Owns the Body:” Leere Mitte Fall 2024
“Heart Throbbers:” Sein und Werden, May 24
“Small Business Loan” Eunoia Review 2023
“Why Art Owns the Body,” “Raking Muck at the Mill,” “Spacetime Wits,” “Possessed,” “Hunter and Gatherer:” In Parentheses January 2024
“Long-Range Fans, Heart Throbbers, The Wedge Edge:” W-Poesis Magazine Fall 24
“First Place:” Neologism Poetry Journal April 2024
“From Regional Reason to Sublime” and “Culture Revision” Eratio Poetry Journal
2023
(Books) Footholds was published by Cyberwit, India in September 2023.
First Aid was published by Resource Publications at Wipf and Stock in July 2023.
(Essays) “The Experience of Being Alive Through Poetry” co-authored in Academic Journal of Nawroz University by Assistant Lecturer Vina Sarma of Nawroz University, Duhok Kurdistan, Iraq, and this poet, 2023. https://journals.nawroz.edu.krd/index.php/ajnu/article/view/1815
(Poems) “Mea-Culpa, USA:” North Dakota Quarterly,
“Presence and Mind:” Neologism Poetry Journal 11/23. https://www.neologismpoetry.com/October-2023/
“Fairy Tale Ending?:” Neologism Poetry Journal. https://www.neologismpoetry.com/September-2023/
“Torch Song,” “Thought Balloons,” “Force Majeure,” “Dopamine Tribute,” and “Highwire Writing:” BlazeVox23
http://www.blazevox.org/BX%20Covers/BXSpring23/Spring%2023%20-%20Rich%20Murphy.pdf
"Echoes Only" and "Small Business Loan:" Eunoia Review.
“Susan Constant:” 73rd edition in June, Calameo, The Ofi Press. https://www.calameo.com/account/private/read/#code-004739059bf9232951cd9
“Ambling the Cranial Hemispheres:” Neologism Poetry Journal
“Breaking the Sound Barrier," "Mooning over a Desk," and "On the Blue Planet" March 2023 issue, Fresh Words-An International Literary Magazine
2022
(Books) Meme Measure published by Resource Publications at Wipf and Stock in June 2022.
(Essays) “Carl Jung and Education” English Language Teaching and Linguistics Studies. http://www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/eltls/article/view/4686 Vol 4, no 2
(Poems) “Rising Temperature:” The Poet Magazine
“An Adoption Agency,” “Orientation Lab,” “Mindset Presents,” “First-Aid Doomer,” and “1968 Dare Devil:” Otoliths
“Over a Cereal Bowl:” New Note Poetry Magazine https://www.newnotepoetry.com/winter-2022
“Spending Time:” Rabble Review
“Cicada Algorithms” and “At the Crossroads:” Swifts &Slows https://www.arteidolia.com/swifts-slows-rich-murphy/
“Death Certificate:” Sein und Werden, http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/autumn-winter22/
“A Gander,” and “Thick Glasses:” Stone Poetry Quarterly
“Taught Ought Thought” and “An Acknowledgement” Neologism Poetry Journal
https://www.neologismpoetry.com/July-2022/
“Safe Space” and “Dewey Dismal Diagnosis:” E.Ratio
“Industrial Park America:” Lit. 202, issue 3
“The Days in Decades,” “Pop Colony,” “The Inspiring Moment:” Otoliths
“Making an Omelet,” “Gutter Livings,” and “Arresting the Mood Mob:” Argotist Online Poetry https://argotistonlinepoetry.blogspot.com/2022/07/poems-by-rich-murphy.html
“Unwell,” “Popular Allusion,” “There’s Lear,” “Report from a Brass Section,” and “Neoliberal Act Checker:” Home Planet News
“Following Orders:” Class Collective Magazine
“Boxed,” “Salvage Company Only,” “Down the Spiral Staircase:” Otoliths
“Immanent Courage:” Neologism Poetry Journal
“Future Failing:” Qutub Minar Review
“Fact Friction,” “Popular Allusion,” “Know Bound,” “Novel,” “Ways to Go:” Indicia Literary Journal
2021
(Books)
The Left Behind Poetry Prize winner at Press Americana. June 2021.
Space Craft Wipf and Stock July 2021.
2021 Keynote Speaker, International webinar. Mahatma Gandhi Gov. Arts College, Mahe, Puducherry, India: Erich Fromm Escape from Freedom and Art. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyl_WnrFkmY&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=ANURANJCK.https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/jeroy%40massart.edu/KtbxLxghkxJmTfFPBtFvhnnWrcfQcXfwxq?projector=1
(Poems) “Night at the Opera,” “Traffic Address,” “Course Obstacle:” Experiential-Experimental-Literature
“Adventures in Capitalism:” Dyst Literary Journal
“Biochem Lab” and “Memegram:” Last Stanza Poetry Journal:
"Human Spirit vs. Shelf-Life" and "Inside Story:" New Note Poetry, Winter 2021.pdf
“Erasure to Blackout,” “A Patience Portal,” and “The Garden Path to Thinking:” Poesis Journalpoesis17.pdf
“Stick-Man Muzak,” “Reason Logistics,” “Erasure to Blackout,” “The Guru Aum-Along,” and “A Patience Portal:” Die Leere Mitte
“A First Mate:” Neologism Poetry Journal https://www.neologismpoetry.com/
“Tornado Dodgers:” Fixator Press: https://fixatorpress.home.blog/2021/11/15/tornado-dodgers-by-rich-murphy/
“Cave man,” “Flint Offerings, “Culture Bubbles,” “Culture Climate Change,” “Loose Change:” Terror House Magazine: https://terrorhousemag.com/cave/
“Trigger Range:” Book of Matches https://online.fliphtml5.com/qoqiq/yotk/#p=8
“Sleeved-Heart” Oddball Magazine: https://oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-rich-murphy-2/
“The Self Express,” “Keeping It Real,” and “The Imposter System:” Otoliths: https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2021/10/rich-murphy.html
“Red Letter Day:” Grey Sparrow Journal: https://grey-sparrow-press.com/38-red-letter-day-rich-murphy/
“Foil Toil:” Courtship of the Winds. https://www.thecourtshipofwinds.org/copy-of-toc-template-1
“Destination, Mindfulness” for the Locus Delicti issue Sein und Werden.
“Gravities” and “Story Ghost:” Eratio, http://www.eratiopostmodernpoetry.com/Murphy.html
“Space Cadet 1,” Waking from the American Dream,” “Mindfulness over Matters:” North Dakota Quarterly. file:///C:/Users/Rich/Downloads/Murphy_NDQ_Proof.pdf
“Night Reading” Chiron Review
2020
(Books)
Essays - Prophetic Voice Now: Crafting Space for Visionary Thought and Practice, by Common Ground Research Network. Finalist in CGRN Publishers Prize.
Poetry – Practitioner joy, by Wipf and Stock.
(Poems)
“Space Shot,” “American Raspberry,” and “Bubble Bath:” BlazeVox
“The Failed United State:” Carcinogenic Poetry; http://www.carcinogenicpoetry.net/
"Narcissus in Wilderness," "Echo Answer," and "Gospel:" Word for/Word
“Birthplace Accidents:” Futures Trading; http://futurestradinglit.weebly.com/exchanges/futures-trading-81
"Tai Chi to the Promised Land" and "Knowledge to Bear:" Flatbush Review; http://www.flatbushreview.com/ammunition-toc.html
“All Systems Go on the Potter Wheel,” “Climate Climax,” “20/20 Vision,” and “Western Hemisphere Adult Education:” Fractured Ecologies (anthology) http://www.eyecornerpress.com/fractured-ecologies/
“Ra Ra at Intergalactic Now U.” “The Human Refreshment:” Sein und Werden
“The Lame Facts:” Oddball Magazine: https://oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-rich-murphy/
“Rainbow End:” Otoliths; https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2019/01/rich-murphy.html
“Cannonball, Swan,” Launch Pad,” “Ink Athletics,” “Posturing Post,” “Cry from a Planet;” New Texas; http://www.newtexassulross.org/poetry/five-poems-by-rich-murphy/
“Backseat Drivers,” “Bank Vault,” “Progress,” “Imperial Prototype,” and “Farming Acquiescence:” BlazeVox; http://www.blazevox.org/BX%20Covers/BXspring20/Spring20%20-%20Rich%20Murphy.pdf
“Drowning School:” The Pangolin Review. https://thepangolinreview.wixsite.com/mypoetrysite/current-issue
“Straight Talk:” The Transnational Magazine
“Confetti Catcher” and “Smile:” Otolith. https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2020/02/rich-murphy.html
2019
(Essay) Review: “The Silent G: Speak,” a review of Arpine Grenier’s book of poems by Corrupt Press. Review in The Book Publisher’s Den.
(Poems)
“All Systems Go on the Potter Wheel,” “Climate Climax,” “20/20 Vision,” and “Western Hemisphere Adult Education:” Fractured Ecologies (anthology)
“Practice Makes,” “Cultivate One’s Own Garden,” and “Under Lucky Stars:” Terror House Magazine https://terrorhousemag.com/practice/
“The Yawn that Swallows the Sleepy Hollow” and “Atmospheric Pressure:” Literature Today
“Molecular Application Form:” Life and Legend. http://lifeandlegends.com/rich-murphy/
“Party Time USA” and “Dosey Doe Folk:” Review Americana
“The Name Game:” Poydras Review
“Zip:” Leveler: https://www.levelerpoetry.com/
“Morosis Diagnosis:” Otoliths. https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2019/05/rich-murphy.html
“Immediate Gratification Stratification,” “Fun Run Race From” and “Aqueous Humour to Smoothie.” BlazeVOX http://www.blazevox.org/BX%20Covers/BXspring19/Rich%20Murphy%20-%20Spring19.pdf
“Thought Controls,” “Life-Long Learning,” “S. O. S.,” “Terror Maintenance:” Terror House Magazine
2018
(Book) Asylum Seeker: Press Americana: Americana, an Institute for American Studies and Creative Writing
(Poems) “Real Magic” and “Microbe Morning with Caffeine” Qutub Minar Review
"Table Manner" and "The Connoisseur" Red Savina Review.
“Augury Chord,” “Armory Song,” “Art for Public Places,” “Airbag Logos” “Space Cadet,” “Diurnal of Course” Former People
“Word and Deed” Marsh Hawk Review: https://marshhawkpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Marsh-Hawk-Review-Fall-2018.pdf
“Scapegoat Borough,” “Wheelbarrow for Parable,” “New Deli Meditation,” and “Munitions Magnanimity” Projected Letters: http://projectedletters.com/scapegoat-borough-and-other-poems/
“Constitutional Crisis” Otoliths. Australia
“Inspiration / Expiration” West Texas Literary Review
“The Extinction Squad,” “Switchyard Flash on 20th Century Limited,” ” Report Card,” “The Ledge-able Constitution,” and “Log-Drumming through Human Wilderness.” Terror House Magazine
“Body Politics” and “Smarty Pants.” E.Ratio
“Ancient Script” and “At the Pharma.” Poetry Pacific
"European Canon Fodder" Poetry Super Highway: Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) issue
“The Lam,” “Carlsbad Hotel and Flop House,” “Reality Check-point,” “Watching Horse Races,” “Pot-Boiler Parable,” and “Global Societies.” Bhubaneswar Review. India
“Chestnut Frame” – Otoliths. Australia
“The Tub Suds Soap Opera” – Two Thirds North. Stockholm
2017
(Essay) (Review) “Spool Spin: Review of Spool” by Robert Cole – New Orleans Review
“Sailing Lines: Review of Spinnakers” by W. Scott Howard – Word for/ Word.
(Book) Body Politic: Prolific Press
(Poems) “Dead See Scroll.” – AntiBODY Anthology
“From Bone Shop Marina.” – Review Americana
“Work Quirk.” – Rumble Fish Quarterly (2019 Pushcart Prize Nominee)
“Cave Dwelling.” – West Texas Literary Review.
“Ogre Augury,” “Extras in the Congregation,” and “Cult Credit.” – New Texas
“A Meadow Viewed from Brambles.” – Revue Post: https://revuepost.com/
“Wearing Identification,” “Fatal Flaws,” “Lactation Nation,” and “Global Societies.” – Pennsylvania Review
“Storage Shed.” – Lalitamba. www.lalitamba.com
“Yours=Mine,” “Snap Shot For Zoe.” – Carcinogenetic Poetry. https://carcinogenicpoetry.blogspot.com/2017/07/rich-murphy-two-poems.html
"Event Horizon" and "Latest Trend." – Harbinger Asylum
“Google Drive.” – Eunoia Review
“The Nobility of Our Existence,” and “This Sad Time We must Obey.” –BlazeVox
“Asylum Seeker” – Stark: Worldwide Wisehouse. Sweden
“Modern Author.” – Synesthesia Anthology
“Inoculating Intensity,” “Lifeboat,” and “Lullaby for a Lullaby” – Backlash Journal
“Bustle Hustle” – Clockwise Cat
“Stitches for the Yugoslavian Stage,” “Austerlitz: under Siege,” “Europa Jarred Silly,” “The Conformist Convention 1943,” “Enlightenment Elegy” – Cold Noon. New Delhi. http://coldnoon.com/author/richard-murphy/
2016
(Essay) “Here Is Why the Classics” published in Zeteo Journal in January. http://zeteojournal.com/2016/01/05/thucydides-herbert-history-kerry-murphy/
“The Entanglements of Ropes” (Review) By poet W. Scott Howard and artist Ginger Knowlton
in BlazeVox Journal.
(Poems) “Surveillance for Any Era” – Sein und Werden.
“As Enfolded in a Blanket." – Aji
“Todestrieb and the Parasite," and "Sand Trap." – Former People
“Walking the Pathology”— Poetry Quarterly
“The Flee Market” – Futures Trading. Australia
2015
(Essays) “The Hopkins Path to Postmodern Poetry” was published in July in New Writing: The
International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing
(Blogs) Up to a dozen not-previously-published short essays may be found on LinkedIn and my website: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/edit?trk=hb_tab_pro_top; http://www.richinkworkshop.com/
(Poems) “Across a Nation,” “Notes from the Margin,” “Patron to the Rich,” “Anger Management,” and “Not (only) in Kansas” – BlazeVox
“Postmodern Predestination” and “Apartheid Pig Pile” – The Transnational. Germany
“Wardrobe” – Right Hand Pointing, issue 92
“American Cheese,” “Blink Response,” and “Multicultural Harmonic” – PlaySpace
“Second Nature,” “Seizure: 100 BC – 2015 AD,” “Location, Location, Location,” “Constellation Prize” – Syzygy https://syzygypoetryjournal2.wordpress.com/
“Feed Force” -- Ibbetson Street Press
“All Is Fare in Love and War,” “The Impressive Implosion,” “A Good Morning to Einstein” – issue 11 Ealain
“Conspiracy Theory" and "Prologue to the Impossible” – Red Savina Review
“Operation What Next” – Sacred Cow
“ER,” “MasterCard Detonating Charge” – Big Bridge
“Vision from Penal Colony for the Unemployed” – Whimperbang
“Distant Destiny,” “Modern Author” – Synesthesia Literary Journal
“In the Morass”— Poydras Review
“The Mortar for Oblivion” – Thin Air http://thinairmagazine.org/
“Unlimited Dolls Company” – Right Hand Pointing http://www.onesentencepoems.com/osp/rich-murphy/
2014
(Books) Americana my book of poems was recently selected as the winner in Prize Americana by The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture.
(Essays) “Focused Inquiry: Freshman Discovering the Modern and Postmodern,” The International Journal of Critical Pedagogy - http://libjournal.uncg.edu/ijcp/article/view/297/852.
“Minds of Europe as Re-enactment” – Blue Fifth Review
(Poems) “Dory Speak,” “Spine Sprinkler,” “Cheek Ruse,” “Inside Out,” and “Lying Around” – Assonance Literary Magazine
“Cemetery Emissary,” “Limp Features,” “Domestication” – Former People
“Class Time for the Arts” – Anthology: Teaching as a Human Experience
"How the West is One" and "Sewing Machine," – Brev Spread
“Eliot’s Travel Log” – Literati Quarterly
“The Fix,” “Fabric Fault,” and “Skipping Poetry.” – Wild Quarterly
"Hypnopompia" and "Hypnagogia" – Carnival Magazine http://www.carnivalitmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/jealousy.pdf
“Class Time for the Arts” and “The Next Move” – Harbinger Asylum
“The Catch” – Blast Furnace
“Shepherd into Being” – Poetry Quarterly
“Invisible Ink,” “No Play Zone” – Miracle
“Will Well Mine,” “Off the Grid” – MadHat Lit
2013
(Poems) “The Twain Shall Meet” and “Sounding From St. Petersburg, Missouri” Review Americana
“Twentieth Century Zombie” and “History According to Mary Shelley” – The End Times
“Steps to Thinking” – Poetry Quarterly
“Brilliant Philosopher” and “Arendt Errant.” Former People
"Isolation Station" and "The Brush with Exposure." – Trade Futures
“Revving Evolution.” – E.Ratio
“Chameleon” – Paper Nautilus
“Supple Talking,” “Cornerstone for Misery,” and “Silver Platters.” – BlazeVox Movies. http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/news/wednesday%E2%80%99s-poem-rich-murphy-106/
“Body Knowledge,” and “Open Heart Emergency.” Right Hand Pointing
“Evidentialism.” Exercise Bowler
2012
(Essays) “Reading Wisdoms: Mick Jagger, W.B.Yeats, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.” New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing.
“The Alexandrine Line,” “Idyllic Industries Report” -- English Chicago Review
“Anti-Generation Disorder: Episode 1” – Blue Fifth Review
“The Main Spring.” Bone Parade
“Nor’easter.” Negative Suck
“America Abbreviated.” Right Hand Pointing
"Passing Reflection." paper nautilus. http://tiny.cc/01ocv
“The Tremor State,” “The Clone Rhymes Now at Home.” Anomalous
“Death Camp Trick.” Poetica
"A Pant on Fire," and "Habitual Habitat." Straitjackets
“Bear Left and Keep to the Right” and “Gullet Gulch.” In Parentheses
“Police Convention.” Humber Pie
“Dolly and Pop,” and “Tinkered Tailor and Seamstress.” Nefarious Ballerina
“Russian Doll.” Poydras Review
“A Pound in Flesh." The Golden Triangle
Cities’ Limits,” “Protocol for a Parable,” Today’s Story Hour,” “Fixed Menu,” “Neighborhood
Relations,” and “Facing the Many Big Bangs.” Eloquent Atheist.
“Rounding the Block toward Camus” and “Amusement Lark.” The Straddler
“Black and White” and “Patriarchal Assault.” Right Hand Pointing
"Crumb", "Owning the Terrier", and "Love and Death in Granada." Euphony
"Mastodon Manor" and "Goose Steps." Marco Polo
“In Confidence.” James Dickey Review
“And We All Fall Down” and “Behind the Lines.” Write This
“20th Century Proem” and “Waiting for the Lame Excuses.” For Poetry
“Concessional Poetry: Lesson 1,” “Ringling Siblings,” “Neither Rhyme nor Season”
Pennsylvania Review
“Dogged,” “Tips About the Buttock and Brain,” Fjord Review
“Portal Properties,” Forty Ounce Bachelors
“All that Is Might With the World,” Poydras Review
"That Mean Mirth," "Manifest Destiny," and "Asteroid Nations". Yes, Poetry
"The Nose for Life", "Now, The Fashion Celebrity," and "Story Lines." Epiphany Magazine
“Engagement Parry,” – twenty20 Journal
“Climate Change,” Bijou Poetry Review
“Dinghy.” – Otoliths
“Mireland Exile,” “Persistent Resistance,” “Double-Vision” -- Segue
“The Motorway” – Gloom Cupboard
“The Policeman’s Orchestra,” “Imitations of Immortality,” “Plots to Plots, Plots to Plots,” “Emerson’s Experience” – The Sixers Review
“Perpetual Peace and Mississippi” – Prime Mincer
“Milk in Newspapers,” – Eudaimonia
“Day Break” and “Moral Hazard” Paper Nautilus, http://readpapernautilus.wordpress.com/
“Exercise” – Poetry Super Highway
"Found Atlas" and "24 Hour News Cycle Spoke." Eratio 15
“Toni Morrison’s Prayer of Expiation” and “Omeros Homage,” Summer (5.2) issue Black Magnolias Literary Journal
"Praxis Makes" and "Rote Note" Country Music, issue 2
“Innocence Agenda” Phati’tude Literary Magazine
"How It Is Manuel" Twenty/20 Journal, issue 1
“Pepperoni Peace” and “No Cheating.” War, Literature, and Art. http://wlajournal.com/International Journal on the Humanities
“Noble Thuggery,” “Casting Saviors.” Solo Novo. http://www.solopress.org/Solo_Novo.html
“Plato’s Poets’ Corner” and “Exotic Flower” Poetry Quarterly. http://poetryquarterly.org/
“Choke Hold,” “Class of Ages.” Chiron Review
“Double Vision” and “Faulkner’s Blackbirds.” Ofi Press Magazine
“Toward Hues.” L.E.S. http://www.lesreview.com/
Publishing History 2012-2009
(Book) Voyeur. Gival Press Poetry Award 2008, Gival Press. http://www.givalpress.com/
Video Reading “Frigid Air” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIkunkNA80k
Erin McKnight’s review may be read at Prick of the Spindle: http://www.prickofthespindle.com/reviews/3.4/small_presses/murphy/voyeur.htm
Alvin Malpaya’s review may be read at Rattle http://rattle.com/blog/2010/08/voyeur-by-rich-murphy/. Erica Goss’ review may be found in Main Street Rag, winter 2010 issue.
(Chapbook) Hunting and Pecking. Ahadada Press, Shin-Urayasu, Japan in 2009.
Video Reading “Empty Buckets” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMRdWmBgXgA
(Electronic Chapbook) Rescue Lines. Right Hand Pointing Press. 2009 (“Rescue Lines,” “High Road,” “Yelp is Coming,” “Dirty Rite,” “Foreclosure,” and “Beach Toys.”) http://www.righthandpointing.com/Issue25/murphysection.html
(Chapbook) Phoems for Mobil Vices. BlazeVox. http://www.blazevox.org/ 2009
(Essays) "Poetry's Evolving Ecology: Toward a Post-Symbol Landscape.” “Special Issue” The Journal of Ecocriticism published by the University of British Columbia. Vol 1, No 2 (2009) http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/joe/search/titles
(Anthology) 2009 “Visiting Irony” and “Aporia Workshop 2,” Imaginary Syllabus, Anthology chapters, Palm Press, Long Beach, CA
(Poems) “Omeros Homage” and “Morrison’s Prayer of Expiation” Black Magnolias
“Dinner Time,” and “Fright or Flight.” (Republication) Eudaimonia, http://epoetryreview.com/
“Bergson’s Wake-up Call,” “The Grand Misjudgment.” Canopic Jar. http://canopicjar.com/c24/index.html
“Hound Pound,” “So,” and “Salvaged Parts” MediaVirus, http://mediavirusmagazine.wordpress.com/
“This Poem.” twenty20 Journal, http://twenty20journal.com/
“Faust: Beyond Goods and People,” The Stony Thursday Book, Ireland
“Moving Fixtures,” The View from Here. http://www.viewfromheremagazine.com/
“Whelk and Wealth.” Dark Sky Magazine, http://www.darkskymagazine.com/
“The Pool of Thou,” “Wee,” and “Mused,” Burning Word. http://burningword.com/2011/01/rich-murphy-inkwell-dilemma-9-10/
“Dennis Menace.” Counter-Example, http://www.counterexamplepoetics.com/2009/05/three-poems-from-rich-murphy.html
“Anthem Vent.” Negative Suck, http://negativesuck.moonfruit.com/#
“Womb Wound.” Syllableschism, http://syllableschism.tumblr.com/.
“Rawhide.” Mastodon Dentist, http://www.shoemusicpress.com/mastodondentist/mdhome
“With Matching Cheers.” Orion Headless, http://orionheadless.com/
“Walking the Walk” and “Abra-cadaver.” Four and Twenty. http://4and20poetry.com/
“At the Gates of the Republic” and “Capital's Colander Calendar.” Clockwise Cat http://clockwisecat.blogspot.com/
"Just Outside the Pied Cow," "The Cities in One Place, "and "The Existentialist's Judgment Day." Segue 9 http://www.mid.muohio.edu/segue/
"Orbital Dating Game" and "Ethic Op Props." – Fact-Simile www.fact-simile.com
“Needling the Gods.” Foundling Review http://www.foundlingreview.com/
“Couched in Modern Art.” Exercise Bowler
“Salute.” Bijou Poetry Review. http://www.bijoupoetryreview.blogspot.com/
“In Skin Sin.” Gloom Cupboard. http://gloomcupboard.com/
“The Church Lot.” http://talonmag.com/
"Bottled Investigations," “Come on Down,” and "Masked Marvels." Folly http://www.follymag.com/follypoetry.html
“Ouch, All Together,” “Cranium Terrainium,” “Dear Great Grandchildren.” Big Bridge. http://www.bigbridge.org/BB14/Murphy.pdf
"The Guise," "Her Morning Gargle," "Gretel to Naive," "Labor Law," and "Pop" Republished in Cliterature Journal. www.cliteraturejournal.com 2009
“Postmodern Martial Arts” NOÖ Journal, issue ten, 2009
“The Service Station's Island,” “The Sure-Footed Explorers,” “The Stake,” “Relish,” “Resort,” “Exterior Wash,” “The Head of Man” and “Astrodome,” Jack http://www.jackmagazine.com/
“The Meditations of Beckett.” Feile-Festa. http://www.medcelt.org/feile-festa/v003/poetry/moorhead.html
"Gunter Grass' Ingredient," "Sartre's Virtual Vomit," and "Kafka's Bride." Counterexample Poetics. www.counterexamplepoetics.com/
“Volunteer Heroes,” Sangam Literary Magazine. http://www.sangammagazine.com/About.htm
“Now Clones.” Pank Magazine. http://www.pankmagazine.com/
“Okie Dokie,” Pemmican. http://www.pemmicanpress.com/
“Nocturne,” Osprey Journal, UK. http://www.ospreyjournal.co.uk/3home.php
“Childhood Memory,” “The Titanic Sea” Miranda Literary Magazine http://mirandamagazine.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=219&Itemid=27
“The Speech Act Moment” Language and Culture
“High Road” Bijou Poetry Review. http://www.bijoupoetryreview.blogspot.com/
“Denial Bile” Silenced Press, www.silencedpress.com
“In River City,” Blood Lotus, http://www.bloodlotus.org/
“Ladder Company.” Verdad, volume 5, http://verdadmagazine.org/vol4/contents.html
“For Heaven’s Sake,” “Neighbor Relations,” “Protocol for a Parable,” and “Cities’ Limits,” The Eloquent Atheist. http://www.eloquentatheist.com/
“Frigid air,” “Flora,” “Her Morning Gargle,” “Magic By design,” “Gretel to Naïve,” “Accessories.” Segue 7. http://www.mid.muohio.edu/segue/
2008-2007
Publishing History
(Book) The Apple in the Monkey Tree. Codhill Press. 2008.
“Circus Act” video reading
http://www.facebook.com/#/video/video.php?v=1177090107742&subj=1111038402
(Chapbook) Family Secret. Finishing Line Press, Georgetown Kentucky. 2008.
(Essay, pedagogy) “A Weekend Splash for the Big Toe.” http://www.bigtoereview.com/id66.html Big Toe Review, 2008.
(Chapbook) Great Grandfather, Pudding House Publications, Columbus, Ohio, 2007.
(Essay) “Spectacle and Aporia in the Poetry of Ted Kooser and John Ashbery.” Reconfigurations: a Journal of Poetics and Poetry. Nov. 2007. Juried http://reconfigurations.blogspot.com/
(Essay) “Howl’s Muzzle.” Fringe Magazine, April 2007 issue http://www.fringemagazine.org/issue_09_criticism.htm
(Poems) “Desire Extinguisher,” “Tort Chamber,” and “Novel Idea.” Right Hand Pointing. issue, #19
“Tuber Maneuver.” Trespass, UK, June 2008.
“Dental Record,” “Get a Grip,” “Shanks and Then Some,” “Sole to Ankle,” “Dinner Time,” and “Country Folklore,” Solo Flyer. http://www.webspawner.com/users/richmurphy/index.html
“Lost in Time.” Creature Magazine, UK. http://www.creaturemag.com/lostandfound/page20.html
“Home on the Bone.” The Fossil Record, http://www.thefossil.com/vol3no48.htm
“A Lexicon Entry,” “Archimedes,” and “Come On Down.” Ward 6, September 2007.
“The Galvanized Steeles,” EOAGH, http://chax.org/eoagh/issue4/issuethree.html
“Wet Nurse.” St. Andrews Review: Cairn 42
“Complements of the House.” Words-Myth, Issue 6, spring 2007 http://www.words-myth.com/page31.html
“Calamity’s Colossus,” “The Cameo Crowd,” and “The Narcissuses.” Interpoetry http://interpoetry.com/richmurphy18.html
“Drawing Out the Swine” and “The Surprise Party.” Spiral Bridge, http://www.spiralbridge.org/home.asp
“No Match.” Salamander, Vol 12, No. 2
“Tectonics: From China to Pyrex.” Astropoetica, Volume 5.1, Spring/Summer 2007 http://www.astropoetica.com/Summer07/tectonics.html
“Bonobo, the Class Clown” and “Vaudeville Contagion.” PRECIPICe, Volume 12, Issue 1
“Fright or Flight.” Diode Vol. 1, Number 1, Fall 2007, http://www.diodepoetry.com/v1n1/index.html
“The Immutable Peace.” The Aggregated Press, Issue 3. http://www.theaggregatedpress.com/theimmutablepeace
“A Midnight Ride.” The Externalist, http://theexternalist.com/Site/Externalism-664.html
“Gender Universes.” The Cherry Blossom Review, Summer 2007 Issue II http://www.geocities.com/thecherryblossomreview/
2006
(Essay) “McLuhan’s Warning, Frye’s Strategy, Emerson’s Dream” Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning, Volume 12 Winter 2006/2007 Juried
(Poems) "Tectonics: from China to Pyrex," "The Cosmogonic Cyclist's Itinerary," "The Orbit" and "Cosmos Under Glass" Astropoetica. http://www.astropoetica.com/
“Vaudeville Contagion.” Sein und Werden 8. http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/page11.html
“Philomela’s Reading,” “Downtown.” Tryst. http://www.tryst3.com/issue14/murphy.html
“Folk Art.” Foam:e. http://www.foame.org/Issue3/poems/murphy.html
“Voyeur,” “Attention.” Voices Literary Magazine. http://www.1writersway.org/4/5/page19.html
“American Dream.” For Poetry. http://www.forpoetry.com/
“A Peck of Peace,” “The Apple in the Monkey Tree,” and “The Fiction of Science.” The Argotist. http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Murphy.htm
“That’s Precision.” Noö Journal. http://www.noojournal.com/view.php?mode=1&issue=two&id=32
“Bonobo, the Class Clown.” Chimera (Print) England; Foliate Oak (ezine)
http://www.uamont.edu/FoliateOak/
“Petty Thieves,” Poetry Magazine. Winter 2006. http://www.poetrymagazine.com/archives/2005/Holi_Day56/Current/murphy.html
“The Rodent Artist,” “Mused,” “From Pools of Thou,” “Wee,” “Passages.” Voltaire’s Inkwell http://www.voltairesinkwell.com/home.html
“Shuffling off With Buffalo,” “Genesis,” “Bog Gob,” “The Hunchback’s Rhythm,” and “Assimilating Astronomers” FRiGG Magazine. Re-publication of poems online. http://www.friggmagazine.com/issueeleven/contents11.htm
“The Ark of Oops,” “Coat-Tail Living,” “Ravishing,” “Love Story,” “Family Business.” Starry Night Review http://www.snreview.org/0206Murphy.html
“Lode Lore.” Blue Fifth Review. May 2006. http://www.angelfire.com/zine/bluefifth/
“Writing Instrument” and “Orientation”– Nebo Literary Journal
2005
(Poems) “Dinah’s Diner,” “Hot House Homes,” “Returnables,” “Altar Operations,” “Brush Work,” “Title Bouts,” “The Courtship,” and “The Heirs of Hybris.” The Mad-Hatter. http://madhattersreview.com/issue3/poetry_murphy5.shtml
“Plumbing,” “Menu,” “Jackknife,” “Crucifixion Currency.” Right Hand Pointing, Issue 7. http://www.righthandpointing.com/issue7/murphy1.html
Red River Review
“Narration Damnation.” Roux Magazine. Issue #3: Summer 2005 http://www.rouxpress.com/issue_sale.htm
“Pathos Eros,” Gh o ti Fish Magazine. Issue 3. http://www.ghotimag.com/archives/issue3/murphy.htm
“Hearts in Heels,” “No Change,” and “Practically Addicted.” Pemmican. http://www.pemmicanpress.com/archive/rich-murphy/rich-murphy-archive-page.html
“Immaculate Conception,” “Monkey Tree,” “Singing the Blurs,” “Playing with Matches.” BlazeVox. http://www.blazevox.org/05-rm.htm
“Monkey in the Apple Tree” West 47. http://www.galwayartscentre.ie/west47/west47-16/, Ireland
“Monkey in the Apple Tree” Cuirt Annual 2005, Ireland
“To Sidney’s Defense,” “Boxes of Lust,” “Jingle on the Boardwalk” Projected Letters, The Vault http://www.projectedletters.com/vault/2/murphy/, England
“Boy Meets Girl,” Red Booth, Fall 2k4, Issue Fourteen http://wtp62.com/rbr.htm
“Shuffling off With Buffalo” Aesthetica: A Review of Contemporary Artists, Issue Seven,UK
“City Autumn,” “Local Video Surveillance,” “Pottery Fragments,” “Terrorized,” “Imperial Interlude,” “The Empire Game,” “Double Vision” Pedestal Anthology http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/Secure/Content/cb.asp?cbid=4297
“Circus Act” MiPoesias http://www.mipoesias.com/September2004/murphy.htm
“American Dream Extended” Full Circle Journal http://fullcirclejrnl.com/8_Murphy.html?1079311179510
“Attention,” “Voyeur” Voices http://www.1writersway.org/4/5/page6.html
“Pearl Two” New Delta Review http://www.english.lsu.edu/journals/ndr/
“Natural Disasters,” “Chaeronea's Conquerors,” “Sports Trivia,” and “Biological Distraction,” Inertia Magazine, Issue1 V2 www.inertia.com
“Forceps Two-Step,” “Ladies and Gentlemen,” “Weather or Knots,” “The Nature of Things Now” King Log 7.1 http://www.angelfire.com/il/kinglog/frameindex.html
“Poetic Justice,” Salamander Vol 10, No. 1
“The Hunchback’s Rhythm” Vermont Literary Review Winter/Spring 2005
“Lullaby,” Words and Images, Annual 2005
“Classroom Anesthesia” Red River Review http://www.redriverreview.com/A55656/RRR.nsf/5c55ff93c07fe4f586256fa0001d38e7/2bae569bfdd251738625700a000ac102!OpenDocument
“The Empty Busy Time Bomb” Confrontation Magazine, No. 90/91Spring/Summer 2005 C. W. Post of Long Island University
“The Candle in Sunlight,” “Cross-Wise” Chaminade Review
“The Yankees at Home” Paper Tiger http://www.papertigermedia.com/guidelines/pt_guidelines.html
“That's Precision” Noö Journal http://www.noojournal.com/
“Emergency” Poetry Motel
Fall 2004
(Essay) “Vanishing Artist: American Poet and Differend,” The International Journal of the Humanities. http://ijh.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.25/prod.26 Juried
(Poems) “The Websters et al” Talking River Review, Number 19 http://www.lcsc.edu/TalkingRiverReview/
“Blueprint,” “The Isle of Man,” and “Valentine Party” Red China, http://www.redchinamagazine.com/masthead.htm
“Saying Grace,” Word Riot http://www.wordriot.org/
“Poem” Mastodon Dentist, Issue One, Winter 2004, http://www.mastodondentist.com/IssueOne/Poem.html
“Lettered Landscape,” “A Nursery Rhyme” Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review Number 24 Spring/Summer
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS 2004-1974
2004
Mastodon Dentist
Neroup Review
Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review
West 47 Ireland
Projected Letters
Red Booth
Word Riot
Aesthetica Magazine England
Pedestal Anthology
International Journal of the Humanities
Talking River Review
Red China
MiPoesias
Full Circle Journal
Memorious
Poems Niederngasse
Entelechy: Mind and Culture
New Delta Review
Inertia Magazine
King Log
Fulcrum
Salamander
Vermont Literary Review
Confrontation Magazine
Chaminade Review
2003
Los Poesy: Contemporary Art and Poetry
Rio: Journal of the Arts
WhimperbangSkyline Literary Magazine
2003
Montserrat Review
The Journal of Contemporary Anglo-Scandinavian Poetry England
Electric Acorn Ireland
New Delta Review
Alligator Juniper
2002
Poetry
Blue Unicorn
Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review
2001
Grasslands Review Editor’s Prize
Confluence
Midwest Poetry Review
2000
Thin Air
The Montserrat Review
Natural Bridge
1999
Americas Review
Icarus
1998
The Café Review
Montserrat Review
Red Hen Press / Valentine Publishing Group Anthology
Brownstone Review
Emily Dickinson Anthology NM (1997 finalist)
California Quarterly
Wings
New Millenium Writings (1998 Hon. Men.)
Dream Works Journal
Emily Dickinson Anthology NM (1998 semi-finalist)
1997
Iconoclast
Washington Square
Flint Hills Review
Onion Head Review
Spillway
American Poetry Monthly
Connecticut Poetry Review
Publications Continued
1997
Rio: A Journal of the Arts
Mangrove Magazine
1994-96
Poetry Digest
Pleiades
Eclipse
Synaesthetic
International Poetry Review
Touchstone Literary Review
Poetry Break Journal
Celebration
Poetry Motel
1990
1991-1993
Sulphur River Review
Seattle Review
Printed Matter Japan
Conditioned Response
Permafrost
Sulpher River Review
Goethe’s Notes Magazine
Black River Review
Whetstone
Higginson Journal
Axios Magazine
Dreams Magazine
Northwoods Journal
1988-89
Lake Street Review
Cha Cha Review
Slant Journal
Cotton Boll/Atlanta Review
Delirium Magazine
Contact II
Artifact Magazine
Black River Review
Sulpher River Review
Black Bear Review
Bitterroot
1987
Late Knocking
Permafrost
Slant Journal
Bare Foot Review
NRG
Poetry News
Seems Magazine
Midwest Review
Blue Unicorn
Bitterroot
1986
Grand Street
Greenfield Review
Small Pond Review
Northern Light 13 Canada
Philadelphia Poets 6:6
Blue Light
Northern Light Canada
Mt. Aukum Review
NRG
Old Hickory Review
Nomos
Mill Hunk Herald
1984-85
Greenfield Review
River City Review
Occasional Review
New Mexico Humanities Review
New Letters
Occasional Review
Passaic Review
San Fernando Poetry Journal 6
Atticus Review
Artzone
Old Hickory Review
Yellow Butterfly
NRG
Publications Continued
1983
Kansas Quarterly
Margarine Maypole Orangoutang Express
Telephone Magazine 18
Colliope’s Corner
Muse-Pie Magazine
NewArts Review
Unique Graphics Anthology
Modern Images Magazine
Amanda Blue Magazine
Rebecca Road Magazine (reprint)
Kansas Quarterly
Akros Magazine
Prophetic Voices
Piedmont Review 11:2
Arulo Magazine
Amanda Blue 2:4
Santa Fe Poetry & Arts Review
The Stone
Chariton Review
San Fernando Poetry Journal 5
Poetry North Review
Colonnade
Smoke Signals
New Mexico Humanities Review
Rolling Stone
1982
Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review
Cincinnati Poetry Review
Negative Capability
Aspect Australia
Porch 4:2
Kansas Quarterly
Small Pond Magazine
New Mexico Humanities Review
Broken Streets
Global Tapestry Journal England
Helen Review
Green Feather
Aldebaran Magazine
1981
Canvass Magazine
Bogg Magazine 48
Goblets Magazine
Ptolemy / Browns Mill Review
Rosewood Parchment
Smoke Signals
Mandala
Contact High
Old Hickory Review
Copula Magazine
Earthwise Magazine
Panhandler Magazine
Northern Light Canada
Global Tapestry Magazine 14
Taurus Magazine
Calliope’s Corner
Owlflight Magazine
A Kindred Spirit
Pembroke Magazine
Kudzu Magazine
Poetry Now
Portland Review
Scopcraeft Magazine
New Mexico Humanities Review
Kudos England
Big Scream Magazine
Harpoon Magazine
Eleven Magazine
Connecticut Poetry Review
Copula Magazine
1974-80
Nantucket Magazine
Juice Magazine
Bird Effort Magazine
Telephone Magazine
American Man Magazine
Chariton Review
Street Magazine
La-Bas Magazine
Telephone Magazine
Small Moon Magazine
Gravida Magazine
Published Work 1974 – Spring 2025
2025
(Books) Storage Shed, Resource Publications at Wipf and Stock
Mind of Europe: A Genealogy to The Fat Man Cyberwit, India
(Essays) “Lowering Human Hubris into the Sublime” Journal of Literature and Art Studies
(Poems) “Leaving Leafing Behind,” Chiron Review, June 2025
“Birth Quakes” In Parentheses 2025
“Concession Stand” Rabble Review, June 2025
“U-Haul” The International World Literature Journal, June 2025
“Internal Affairs” Two Thirds North 25 Gallery
“Endlings” Voices Unbound Anthology from Fresh Words
“Squeeze Tender” -- New Square, Dublin, Ireland
2024
(Books)
Inside Stories, Resource Publications at Wipf and Stock
Susan Constant, Cyberwit
(Poems) “What a Big Box Stores,” “Road Crew Heroes,” “Blowing Bubbles,” “Pool Time,” “Staying Fresh:” BlazeVOX; https://static1.squarespace.com/static/66627dabf7b72f0d137f876e/t/66db6963a69ab10c7fa9c149/1725655395716/Fall+24+-+Rich+Murphy.pdf
“Leaving Leafing Behind” Chiron Review, June 2025
“Why Art:” Timada's Diary 2024
“Sold:” Bronze Bird Anthology 2025
“Generational Water Ways:” Men Matters Online Journal, June 2024
“Forgetting about It:” Somerville Daily May 2024
“The Language Bridge,” “Why Art Owns the Body:” Leere Mitte Fall 2024
“Heart Throbbers:” Sein und Werden, May 24
“Small Business Loan” Eunoia Review 2023
“Why Art Owns the Body,” “Raking Muck at the Mill,” “Spacetime Wits,” “Possessed,” “Hunter and Gatherer:” In Parentheses January 2024
“Long-Range Fans, Heart Throbbers, The Wedge Edge:” W-Poesis Magazine Fall 24
“First Place:” Neologism Poetry Journal April 2024
“From Regional Reason to Sublime” and “Culture Revision” Eratio Poetry Journal
2023
(Books) Footholds was published by Cyberwit, India in September 2023.
First Aid was published by Resource Publications at Wipf and Stock in July 2023.
(Essays) “The Experience of Being Alive Through Poetry” co-authored in Academic Journal of Nawroz University by Assistant Lecturer Vina Sarma of Nawroz University, Duhok Kurdistan, Iraq, and this poet, 2023. https://journals.nawroz.edu.krd/index.php/ajnu/article/view/1815
(Poems) “Mea-Culpa, USA:” North Dakota Quarterly,
“Presence and Mind:” Neologism Poetry Journal 11/23. https://www.neologismpoetry.com/October-2023/
“Fairy Tale Ending?:” Neologism Poetry Journal. https://www.neologismpoetry.com/September-2023/
“Torch Song,” “Thought Balloons,” “Force Majeure,” “Dopamine Tribute,” and “Highwire Writing:” BlazeVox23
http://www.blazevox.org/BX%20Covers/BXSpring23/Spring%2023%20-%20Rich%20Murphy.pdf
"Echoes Only" and "Small Business Loan:" Eunoia Review.
“Susan Constant:” 73rd edition in June, Calameo, The Ofi Press. https://www.calameo.com/account/private/read/#code-004739059bf9232951cd9
“Ambling the Cranial Hemispheres:” Neologism Poetry Journal
“Breaking the Sound Barrier," "Mooning over a Desk," and "On the Blue Planet" March 2023 issue, Fresh Words-An International Literary Magazine
2022
(Books) Meme Measure published by Resource Publications at Wipf and Stock in June 2022.
(Essays) “Carl Jung and Education” English Language Teaching and Linguistics Studies. http://www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/eltls/article/view/4686 Vol 4, no 2
(Poems) “Rising Temperature:” The Poet Magazine
“An Adoption Agency,” “Orientation Lab,” “Mindset Presents,” “First-Aid Doomer,” and “1968 Dare Devil:” Otoliths
“Over a Cereal Bowl:” New Note Poetry Magazine https://www.newnotepoetry.com/winter-2022
“Spending Time:” Rabble Review
“Cicada Algorithms” and “At the Crossroads:” Swifts &Slows https://www.arteidolia.com/swifts-slows-rich-murphy/
“Death Certificate:” Sein und Werden, http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/autumn-winter22/
“A Gander,” and “Thick Glasses:” Stone Poetry Quarterly
“Taught Ought Thought” and “An Acknowledgement” Neologism Poetry Journal
https://www.neologismpoetry.com/July-2022/
“Safe Space” and “Dewey Dismal Diagnosis:” E.Ratio
“Industrial Park America:” Lit. 202, issue 3
“The Days in Decades,” “Pop Colony,” “The Inspiring Moment:” Otoliths
“Making an Omelet,” “Gutter Livings,” and “Arresting the Mood Mob:” Argotist Online Poetry https://argotistonlinepoetry.blogspot.com/2022/07/poems-by-rich-murphy.html
“Unwell,” “Popular Allusion,” “There’s Lear,” “Report from a Brass Section,” and “Neoliberal Act Checker:” Home Planet News
“Following Orders:” Class Collective Magazine
“Boxed,” “Salvage Company Only,” “Down the Spiral Staircase:” Otoliths
“Immanent Courage:” Neologism Poetry Journal
“Future Failing:” Qutub Minar Review
“Fact Friction,” “Popular Allusion,” “Know Bound,” “Novel,” “Ways to Go:” Indicia Literary Journal
2021
(Books)
The Left Behind Poetry Prize winner at Press Americana. June 2021.
Space Craft Wipf and Stock July 2021.
2021 Keynote Speaker, International webinar. Mahatma Gandhi Gov. Arts College, Mahe, Puducherry, India: Erich Fromm Escape from Freedom and Art. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyl_WnrFkmY&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=ANURANJCK.https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/jeroy%40massart.edu/KtbxLxghkxJmTfFPBtFvhnnWrcfQcXfwxq?projector=1
(Poems) “Night at the Opera,” “Traffic Address,” “Course Obstacle:” Experiential-Experimental-Literature
“Adventures in Capitalism:” Dyst Literary Journal
“Biochem Lab” and “Memegram:” Last Stanza Poetry Journal:
"Human Spirit vs. Shelf-Life" and "Inside Story:" New Note Poetry, Winter 2021.pdf
“Erasure to Blackout,” “A Patience Portal,” and “The Garden Path to Thinking:” Poesis Journal
“Stick-Man Muzak,” “Reason Logistics,” “Erasure to Blackout,” “The Guru Aum-Along,” and “A Patience Portal:” Die Leere Mitte
“A First Mate:” Neologism Poetry Journal https://www.neologismpoetry.com/
“Tornado Dodgers:” Fixator Press: https://fixatorpress.home.blog/2021/11/15/tornado-dodgers-by-rich-murphy/
“Cave man,” “Flint Offerings, “Culture Bubbles,” “Culture Climate Change,” “Loose Change:” Terror House Magazine: https://terrorhousemag.com/cave/
“Trigger Range:” Book of Matches https://online.fliphtml5.com/qoqiq/yotk/#p=8
“Sleeved-Heart” Oddball Magazine: https://oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-rich-murphy-2/
“The Self Express,” “Keeping It Real,” and “The Imposter System:” Otoliths: https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2021/10/rich-murphy.html
“Red Letter Day:” Grey Sparrow Journal: https://grey-sparrow-press.com/38-red-letter-day-rich-murphy/
“Foil Toil:” Courtship of the Winds. https://www.thecourtshipofwinds.org/copy-of-toc-template-1
“Destination, Mindfulness” for the Locus Delicti issue Sein und Werden.
“Gravities” and “Story Ghost:” Eratio, http://www.eratiopostmodernpoetry.com/Murphy.html
“Space Cadet 1,” Waking from the American Dream,” “Mindfulness over Matters:” North Dakota Quarterly. file:///C:/Users/Rich/Downloads/Murphy_NDQ_Proof.pdf
“Night Reading” Chiron Review
2020
(Books)
Essays - Prophetic Voice Now: Crafting Space for Visionary Thought and Practice, by Common Ground Research Network. Finalist in CGRN Publishers Prize.
Poetry – Practitioner joy, by Wipf and Stock.
(Poems)
“Space Shot,” “American Raspberry,” and “Bubble Bath:” BlazeVox
“The Failed United State:” Carcinogenic Poetry; http://www.carcinogenicpoetry.net/
"Narcissus in Wilderness," "Echo Answer," and "Gospel:" Word for/Word
“Birthplace Accidents:” Futures Trading; http://futurestradinglit.weebly.com/exchanges/futures-trading-81
"Tai Chi to the Promised Land" and "Knowledge to Bear:" Flatbush Review; http://www.flatbushreview.com/ammunition-toc.html
“All Systems Go on the Potter Wheel,” “Climate Climax,” “20/20 Vision,” and “Western Hemisphere Adult Education:” Fractured Ecologies (anthology) http://www.eyecornerpress.com/fractured-ecologies/
“Ra Ra at Intergalactic Now U.” “The Human Refreshment:” Sein und Werden
“The Lame Facts:” Oddball Magazine: https://oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-rich-murphy/
“Rainbow End:” Otoliths; https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2019/01/rich-murphy.html
“Cannonball, Swan,” Launch Pad,” “Ink Athletics,” “Posturing Post,” “Cry from a Planet;” New Texas; http://www.newtexassulross.org/poetry/five-poems-by-rich-murphy/
“Backseat Drivers,” “Bank Vault,” “Progress,” “Imperial Prototype,” and “Farming Acquiescence:” BlazeVox; http://www.blazevox.org/BX%20Covers/BXspring20/Spring20%20-%20Rich%20Murphy.pdf
“Drowning School:” The Pangolin Review. https://thepangolinreview.wixsite.com/mypoetrysite/current-issue
“Straight Talk:” The Transnational Magazine
“Confetti Catcher” and “Smile:” Otolith. https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2020/02/rich-murphy.html
2019
(Essay) Review: “The Silent G: Speak,” a review of Arpine Grenier’s book of poems by Corrupt Press. Review in The Book Publisher’s Den.
(Poems)
“All Systems Go on the Potter Wheel,” “Climate Climax,” “20/20 Vision,” and “Western Hemisphere Adult Education:” Fractured Ecologies (anthology)
“Practice Makes,” “Cultivate One’s Own Garden,” and “Under Lucky Stars:” Terror House Magazine https://terrorhousemag.com/practice/
“The Yawn that Swallows the Sleepy Hollow” and “Atmospheric Pressure:” Literature Today
“Molecular Application Form:” Life and Legend. http://lifeandlegends.com/rich-murphy/
“Party Time USA” and “Dosey Doe Folk:” Review Americana
“The Name Game:” Poydras Review
“Zip:” Leveler: https://www.levelerpoetry.com/
“Morosis Diagnosis:” Otoliths. https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2019/05/rich-murphy.html
“Immediate Gratification Stratification,” “Fun Run Race From” and “Aqueous Humour to Smoothie.” BlazeVOX http://www.blazevox.org/BX%20Covers/BXspring19/Rich%20Murphy%20-%20Spring19.pdf
“Thought Controls,” “Life-Long Learning,” “S. O. S.,” “Terror Maintenance:” Terror House Magazine
2018
(Book) Asylum Seeker: Press Americana: Americana, an Institute for American Studies and Creative Writing
(Poems) “Real Magic” and “Microbe Morning with Caffeine” Qutub Minar Review
"Table Manner" and "The Connoisseur" Red Savina Review.
“Augury Chord,” “Armory Song,” “Art for Public Places,” “Airbag Logos” “Space Cadet,” “Diurnal of Course” Former People
“Word and Deed” Marsh Hawk Review: https://marshhawkpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Marsh-Hawk-Review-Fall-2018.pdf
“Scapegoat Borough,” “Wheelbarrow for Parable,” “New Deli Meditation,” and “Munitions Magnanimity” Projected Letters: http://projectedletters.com/scapegoat-borough-and-other-poems/
“Constitutional Crisis” Otoliths. Australia
“Inspiration / Expiration” West Texas Literary Review
“The Extinction Squad,” “Switchyard Flash on 20th Century Limited,” ” Report Card,” “The Ledge-able Constitution,” and “Log-Drumming through Human Wilderness.” Terror House Magazine
“Body Politics” and “Smarty Pants.” E.Ratio
“Ancient Script” and “At the Pharma.” Poetry Pacific
"European Canon Fodder" Poetry Super Highway: Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) issue
“The Lam,” “Carlsbad Hotel and Flop House,” “Reality Check-point,” “Watching Horse Races,” “Pot-Boiler Parable,” and “Global Societies.” Bhubaneswar Review. India
“Chestnut Frame” – Otoliths. Australia
“The Tub Suds Soap Opera” – Two Thirds North. Stockholm
2017
(Essay) (Review) “Spool Spin: Review of Spool” by Robert Cole – New Orleans Review
“Sailing Lines: Review of Spinnakers” by W. Scott Howard – Word for/ Word.
(Book) Body Politic: Prolific Press
(Poems) “Dead See Scroll.” – AntiBODY Anthology
“From Bone Shop Marina.” – Review Americana
“Work Quirk.” – Rumble Fish Quarterly (2019 Pushcart Prize Nominee)
“Cave Dwelling.” – West Texas Literary Review.
“Ogre Augury,” “Extras in the Congregation,” and “Cult Credit.” – New Texas
“A Meadow Viewed from Brambles.” – Revue Post: https://revuepost.com/
“Wearing Identification,” “Fatal Flaws,” “Lactation Nation,” and “Global Societies.” – Pennsylvania Review
“Storage Shed.” – Lalitamba. www.lalitamba.com
“Yours=Mine,” “Snap Shot For Zoe.” – Carcinogenetic Poetry. https://carcinogenicpoetry.blogspot.com/2017/07/rich-murphy-two-poems.html
"Event Horizon" and "Latest Trend." – Harbinger Asylum
“Google Drive.” – Eunoia Review
“The Nobility of Our Existence,” and “This Sad Time We must Obey.” –BlazeVox
“Asylum Seeker” – Stark: Worldwide Wisehouse. Sweden
“Modern Author.” – Synesthesia Anthology
“Inoculating Intensity,” “Lifeboat,” and “Lullaby for a Lullaby” – Backlash Journal
“Bustle Hustle” – Clockwise Cat
“Stitches for the Yugoslavian Stage,” “Austerlitz: under Siege,” “Europa Jarred Silly,” “The Conformist Convention 1943,” “Enlightenment Elegy” – Cold Noon. New Delhi. http://coldnoon.com/author/richard-murphy/
2016
(Essay) “Here Is Why the Classics” published in Zeteo Journal in January. http://zeteojournal.com/2016/01/05/thucydides-herbert-history-kerry-murphy/
“The Entanglements of Ropes” (Review) By poet W. Scott Howard and artist Ginger Knowlton
in BlazeVox Journal.
(Poems) “Surveillance for Any Era” – Sein und Werden.
“As Enfolded in a Blanket." – Aji
“Todestrieb and the Parasite," and "Sand Trap." – Former People
“Walking the Pathology”— Poetry Quarterly
“The Flee Market” – Futures Trading. Australia
2015
(Essays) “The Hopkins Path to Postmodern Poetry” was published in July in New Writing: The
International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing
(Blogs) Up to a dozen not-previously-published short essays may be found on LinkedIn and my website: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/edit?trk=hb_tab_pro_top; http://www.richinkworkshop.com/
(Poems) “Across a Nation,” “Notes from the Margin,” “Patron to the Rich,” “Anger Management,” and “Not (only) in Kansas” – BlazeVox
“Postmodern Predestination” and “Apartheid Pig Pile” – The Transnational. Germany
“Wardrobe” – Right Hand Pointing, issue 92
“American Cheese,” “Blink Response,” and “Multicultural Harmonic” – PlaySpace
“Second Nature,” “Seizure: 100 BC – 2015 AD,” “Location, Location, Location,” “Constellation Prize” – Syzygy https://syzygypoetryjournal2.wordpress.com/
“Feed Force” -- Ibbetson Street Press
“All Is Fare in Love and War,” “The Impressive Implosion,” “A Good Morning to Einstein” – issue 11 Ealain
“Conspiracy Theory" and "Prologue to the Impossible” – Red Savina Review
“Operation What Next” – Sacred Cow
“ER,” “MasterCard Detonating Charge” – Big Bridge
“Vision from Penal Colony for the Unemployed” – Whimperbang
“Distant Destiny,” “Modern Author” – Synesthesia Literary Journal
“In the Morass”— Poydras Review
“The Mortar for Oblivion” – Thin Air http://thinairmagazine.org/
“Unlimited Dolls Company” – Right Hand Pointing http://www.onesentencepoems.com/osp/rich-murphy/
2014
(Books) Americana my book of poems was recently selected as the winner in Prize Americana by The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture.
(Essays) “Focused Inquiry: Freshman Discovering the Modern and Postmodern,” The International Journal of Critical Pedagogy - http://libjournal.uncg.edu/ijcp/article/view/297/852.
“Minds of Europe as Re-enactment” – Blue Fifth Review
(Poems) “Dory Speak,” “Spine Sprinkler,” “Cheek Ruse,” “Inside Out,” and “Lying Around” – Assonance Literary Magazine
“Cemetery Emissary,” “Limp Features,” “Domestication” – Former People
“Class Time for the Arts” – Anthology: Teaching as a Human Experience
"How the West is One" and "Sewing Machine," – Brev Spread
“Eliot’s Travel Log” – Literati Quarterly
“The Fix,” “Fabric Fault,” and “Skipping Poetry.” – Wild Quarterly
"Hypnopompia" and "Hypnagogia" – Carnival Magazine http://www.carnivalitmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/jealousy.pdf
“Class Time for the Arts” and “The Next Move” – Harbinger Asylum
“The Catch” – Blast Furnace
“Shepherd into Being” – Poetry Quarterly
“Invisible Ink,” “No Play Zone” – Miracle
“Will Well Mine,” “Off the Grid” – MadHat Lit
2013
(Poems) “The Twain Shall Meet” and “Sounding From St. Petersburg, Missouri” Review Americana
“Twentieth Century Zombie” and “History According to Mary Shelley” – The End Times
“Steps to Thinking” – Poetry Quarterly
“Brilliant Philosopher” and “Arendt Errant.” Former People
"Isolation Station" and "The Brush with Exposure." – Trade Futures
“Revving Evolution.” – E.Ratio
“Chameleon” – Paper Nautilus
“Supple Talking,” “Cornerstone for Misery,” and “Silver Platters.” – BlazeVox Movies. http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/news/wednesday%E2%80%99s-poem-rich-murphy-106/
“Body Knowledge,” and “Open Heart Emergency.” Right Hand Pointing
“Evidentialism.” Exercise Bowler
2012
(Essays) “Reading Wisdoms: Mick Jagger, W.B.Yeats, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.” New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing.
“The Alexandrine Line,” “Idyllic Industries Report” -- English Chicago Review
“Anti-Generation Disorder: Episode 1” – Blue Fifth Review
“The Main Spring.” Bone Parade
“Nor’easter.” Negative Suck
“America Abbreviated.” Right Hand Pointing
"Passing Reflection." paper nautilus. http://tiny.cc/01ocv
“The Tremor State,” “The Clone Rhymes Now at Home.” Anomalous
“Death Camp Trick.” Poetica
"A Pant on Fire," and "Habitual Habitat." Straitjackets
“Bear Left and Keep to the Right” and “Gullet Gulch.” In Parentheses
“Police Convention.” Humber Pie
“Dolly and Pop,” and “Tinkered Tailor and Seamstress.” Nefarious Ballerina
“Russian Doll.” Poydras Review
“A Pound in Flesh." The Golden Triangle
Cities’ Limits,” “Protocol for a Parable,” Today’s Story Hour,” “Fixed Menu,” “Neighborhood
Relations,” and “Facing the Many Big Bangs.” Eloquent Atheist.
“Rounding the Block toward Camus” and “Amusement Lark.” The Straddler
“Black and White” and “Patriarchal Assault.” Right Hand Pointing
"Crumb", "Owning the Terrier", and "Love and Death in Granada." Euphony
"Mastodon Manor" and "Goose Steps." Marco Polo
“In Confidence.” James Dickey Review
“And We All Fall Down” and “Behind the Lines.” Write This
“20th Century Proem” and “Waiting for the Lame Excuses.” For Poetry
“Concessional Poetry: Lesson 1,” “Ringling Siblings,” “Neither Rhyme nor Season”
Pennsylvania Review
“Dogged,” “Tips About the Buttock and Brain,” Fjord Review
“Portal Properties,” Forty Ounce Bachelors
“All that Is Might With the World,” Poydras Review
"That Mean Mirth," "Manifest Destiny," and "Asteroid Nations". Yes, Poetry
"The Nose for Life", "Now, The Fashion Celebrity," and "Story Lines." Epiphany Magazine
“Engagement Parry,” – twenty20 Journal
“Climate Change,” Bijou Poetry Review
“Dinghy.” – Otoliths
“Mireland Exile,” “Persistent Resistance,” “Double-Vision” -- Segue
“The Motorway” – Gloom Cupboard
“The Policeman’s Orchestra,” “Imitations of Immortality,” “Plots to Plots, Plots to Plots,” “Emerson’s Experience” – The Sixers Review
“Perpetual Peace and Mississippi” – Prime Mincer
“Milk in Newspapers,” – Eudaimonia
“Day Break” and “Moral Hazard” Paper Nautilus, http://readpapernautilus.wordpress.com/
“Exercise” – Poetry Super Highway
"Found Atlas" and "24 Hour News Cycle Spoke." Eratio 15
“Toni Morrison’s Prayer of Expiation” and “Omeros Homage,” Summer (5.2) issue Black Magnolias Literary Journal
"Praxis Makes" and "Rote Note" Country Music, issue 2
“Innocence Agenda” Phati’tude Literary Magazine
"How It Is Manuel" Twenty/20 Journal, issue 1
“Pepperoni Peace” and “No Cheating.” War, Literature, and Art. http://wlajournal.com/International Journal on the Humanities
“Noble Thuggery,” “Casting Saviors.” Solo Novo. http://www.solopress.org/Solo_Novo.html
“Plato’s Poets’ Corner” and “Exotic Flower” Poetry Quarterly. http://poetryquarterly.org/
“Choke Hold,” “Class of Ages.” Chiron Review
“Double Vision” and “Faulkner’s Blackbirds.” Ofi Press Magazine
“Toward Hues.” L.E.S. http://www.lesreview.com/
Publishing History 2012-2009
(Book) Voyeur. Gival Press Poetry Award 2008, Gival Press. http://www.givalpress.com/
Video Reading “Frigid Air” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIkunkNA80k
Erin McKnight’s review may be read at Prick of the Spindle: http://www.prickofthespindle.com/reviews/3.4/small_presses/murphy/voyeur.htm
Alvin Malpaya’s review may be read at Rattle http://rattle.com/blog/2010/08/voyeur-by-rich-murphy/. Erica Goss’ review may be found in Main Street Rag, winter 2010 issue.
(Chapbook) Hunting and Pecking. Ahadada Press, Shin-Urayasu, Japan in 2009.
Video Reading “Empty Buckets” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMRdWmBgXgA
(Electronic Chapbook) Rescue Lines. Right Hand Pointing Press. 2009 (“Rescue Lines,” “High Road,” “Yelp is Coming,” “Dirty Rite,” “Foreclosure,” and “Beach Toys.”) http://www.righthandpointing.com/Issue25/murphysection.html
(Chapbook) Phoems for Mobil Vices. BlazeVox. http://www.blazevox.org/ 2009
(Essays) "Poetry's Evolving Ecology: Toward a Post-Symbol Landscape.” “Special Issue” The Journal of Ecocriticism published by the University of British Columbia. Vol 1, No 2 (2009) http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/joe/search/titles
(Anthology) 2009 “Visiting Irony” and “Aporia Workshop 2,” Imaginary Syllabus, Anthology chapters, Palm Press, Long Beach, CA
(Poems) “Omeros Homage” and “Morrison’s Prayer of Expiation” Black Magnolias
“Dinner Time,” and “Fright or Flight.” (Republication) Eudaimonia, http://epoetryreview.com/
“Bergson’s Wake-up Call,” “The Grand Misjudgment.” Canopic Jar. http://canopicjar.com/c24/index.html
“Hound Pound,” “So,” and “Salvaged Parts” MediaVirus, http://mediavirusmagazine.wordpress.com/
“This Poem.” twenty20 Journal, http://twenty20journal.com/
“Faust: Beyond Goods and People,” The Stony Thursday Book, Ireland
“Moving Fixtures,” The View from Here. http://www.viewfromheremagazine.com/
“Whelk and Wealth.” Dark Sky Magazine, http://www.darkskymagazine.com/
“The Pool of Thou,” “Wee,” and “Mused,” Burning Word. http://burningword.com/2011/01/rich-murphy-inkwell-dilemma-9-10/
“Dennis Menace.” Counter-Example, http://www.counterexamplepoetics.com/2009/05/three-poems-from-rich-murphy.html
“Anthem Vent.” Negative Suck, http://negativesuck.moonfruit.com/#
“Womb Wound.” Syllableschism, http://syllableschism.tumblr.com/.
“Rawhide.” Mastodon Dentist, http://www.shoemusicpress.com/mastodondentist/mdhome
“With Matching Cheers.” Orion Headless, http://orionheadless.com/
“Walking the Walk” and “Abra-cadaver.” Four and Twenty. http://4and20poetry.com/
“At the Gates of the Republic” and “Capital's Colander Calendar.” Clockwise Cat http://clockwisecat.blogspot.com/
"Just Outside the Pied Cow," "The Cities in One Place, "and "The Existentialist's Judgment Day." Segue 9 http://www.mid.muohio.edu/segue/
"Orbital Dating Game" and "Ethic Op Props." – Fact-Simile www.fact-simile.com
“Needling the Gods.” Foundling Review http://www.foundlingreview.com/
“Couched in Modern Art.” Exercise Bowler
“Salute.” Bijou Poetry Review. http://www.bijoupoetryreview.blogspot.com/
“In Skin Sin.” Gloom Cupboard. http://gloomcupboard.com/
“The Church Lot.” http://talonmag.com/
"Bottled Investigations," “Come on Down,” and "Masked Marvels." Folly http://www.follymag.com/follypoetry.html
“Ouch, All Together,” “Cranium Terrainium,” “Dear Great Grandchildren.” Big Bridge. http://www.bigbridge.org/BB14/Murphy.pdf
"The Guise," "Her Morning Gargle," "Gretel to Naive," "Labor Law," and "Pop" Republished in Cliterature Journal. www.cliteraturejournal.com 2009
“Postmodern Martial Arts” NOÖ Journal, issue ten, 2009
“The Service Station's Island,” “The Sure-Footed Explorers,” “The Stake,” “Relish,” “Resort,” “Exterior Wash,” “The Head of Man” and “Astrodome,” Jack http://www.jackmagazine.com/
“The Meditations of Beckett.” Feile-Festa. http://www.medcelt.org/feile-festa/v003/poetry/moorhead.html
"Gunter Grass' Ingredient," "Sartre's Virtual Vomit," and "Kafka's Bride." Counterexample Poetics. www.counterexamplepoetics.com/
“Volunteer Heroes,” Sangam Literary Magazine. http://www.sangammagazine.com/About.htm
“Now Clones.” Pank Magazine. http://www.pankmagazine.com/
“Okie Dokie,” Pemmican. http://www.pemmicanpress.com/
“Nocturne,” Osprey Journal, UK. http://www.ospreyjournal.co.uk/3home.php
“Childhood Memory,” “The Titanic Sea” Miranda Literary Magazine http://mirandamagazine.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=219&Itemid=27
“The Speech Act Moment” Language and Culture
“High Road” Bijou Poetry Review. http://www.bijoupoetryreview.blogspot.com/
“Denial Bile” Silenced Press, www.silencedpress.com
“In River City,” Blood Lotus, http://www.bloodlotus.org/
“Ladder Company.” Verdad, volume 5, http://verdadmagazine.org/vol4/contents.html
“For Heaven’s Sake,” “Neighbor Relations,” “Protocol for a Parable,” and “Cities’ Limits,” The Eloquent Atheist. http://www.eloquentatheist.com/
“Frigid air,” “Flora,” “Her Morning Gargle,” “Magic By design,” “Gretel to Naïve,” “Accessories.” Segue 7. http://www.mid.muohio.edu/segue/
2008-2007
Publishing History
(Book) The Apple in the Monkey Tree. Codhill Press. 2008.
“Circus Act” video reading
http://www.facebook.com/#/video/video.php?v=1177090107742&subj=1111038402
(Chapbook) Family Secret. Finishing Line Press, Georgetown Kentucky. 2008.
(Essay, pedagogy) “A Weekend Splash for the Big Toe.” http://www.bigtoereview.com/id66.html Big Toe Review, 2008.
(Chapbook) Great Grandfather, Pudding House Publications, Columbus, Ohio, 2007.
(Essay) “Spectacle and Aporia in the Poetry of Ted Kooser and John Ashbery.” Reconfigurations: a Journal of Poetics and Poetry. Nov. 2007. Juried http://reconfigurations.blogspot.com/
(Essay) “Howl’s Muzzle.” Fringe Magazine, April 2007 issue http://www.fringemagazine.org/issue_09_criticism.htm
(Poems) “Desire Extinguisher,” “Tort Chamber,” and “Novel Idea.” Right Hand Pointing. issue, #19
“Tuber Maneuver.” Trespass, UK, June 2008.
“Dental Record,” “Get a Grip,” “Shanks and Then Some,” “Sole to Ankle,” “Dinner Time,” and “Country Folklore,” Solo Flyer. http://www.webspawner.com/users/richmurphy/index.html
“Lost in Time.” Creature Magazine, UK. http://www.creaturemag.com/lostandfound/page20.html
“Home on the Bone.” The Fossil Record, http://www.thefossil.com/vol3no48.htm
“A Lexicon Entry,” “Archimedes,” and “Come On Down.” Ward 6, September 2007.
“The Galvanized Steeles,” EOAGH, http://chax.org/eoagh/issue4/issuethree.html
“Wet Nurse.” St. Andrews Review: Cairn 42
“Complements of the House.” Words-Myth, Issue 6, spring 2007 http://www.words-myth.com/page31.html
“Calamity’s Colossus,” “The Cameo Crowd,” and “The Narcissuses.” Interpoetry http://interpoetry.com/richmurphy18.html
“Drawing Out the Swine” and “The Surprise Party.” Spiral Bridge, http://www.spiralbridge.org/home.asp
“No Match.” Salamander, Vol 12, No. 2
“Tectonics: From China to Pyrex.” Astropoetica, Volume 5.1, Spring/Summer 2007 http://www.astropoetica.com/Summer07/tectonics.html
“Bonobo, the Class Clown” and “Vaudeville Contagion.” PRECIPICe, Volume 12, Issue 1
“Fright or Flight.” Diode Vol. 1, Number 1, Fall 2007, http://www.diodepoetry.com/v1n1/index.html
“The Immutable Peace.” The Aggregated Press, Issue 3. http://www.theaggregatedpress.com/theimmutablepeace
“A Midnight Ride.” The Externalist, http://theexternalist.com/Site/Externalism-664.html
“Gender Universes.” The Cherry Blossom Review, Summer 2007 Issue II http://www.geocities.com/thecherryblossomreview/
2006
(Essay) “McLuhan’s Warning, Frye’s Strategy, Emerson’s Dream” Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning, Volume 12 Winter 2006/2007 Juried
(Poems) "Tectonics: from China to Pyrex," "The Cosmogonic Cyclist's Itinerary," "The Orbit" and "Cosmos Under Glass" Astropoetica. http://www.astropoetica.com/
“Vaudeville Contagion.” Sein und Werden 8. http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/page11.html
“Philomela’s Reading,” “Downtown.” Tryst. http://www.tryst3.com/issue14/murphy.html
“Folk Art.” Foam:e. http://www.foame.org/Issue3/poems/murphy.html
“Voyeur,” “Attention.” Voices Literary Magazine. http://www.1writersway.org/4/5/page19.html
“American Dream.” For Poetry. http://www.forpoetry.com/
“A Peck of Peace,” “The Apple in the Monkey Tree,” and “The Fiction of Science.” The Argotist. http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Murphy.htm
“That’s Precision.” Noö Journal. http://www.noojournal.com/view.php?mode=1&issue=two&id=32
“Bonobo, the Class Clown.” Chimera (Print) England; Foliate Oak (ezine)
http://www.uamont.edu/FoliateOak/
“Petty Thieves,” Poetry Magazine. Winter 2006. http://www.poetrymagazine.com/archives/2005/Holi_Day56/Current/murphy.html
“The Rodent Artist,” “Mused,” “From Pools of Thou,” “Wee,” “Passages.” Voltaire’s Inkwell http://www.voltairesinkwell.com/home.html
“Shuffling off With Buffalo,” “Genesis,” “Bog Gob,” “The Hunchback’s Rhythm,” and “Assimilating Astronomers” FRiGG Magazine. Re-publication of poems online. http://www.friggmagazine.com/issueeleven/contents11.htm
“The Ark of Oops,” “Coat-Tail Living,” “Ravishing,” “Love Story,” “Family Business.” Starry Night Review http://www.snreview.org/0206Murphy.html
“Lode Lore.” Blue Fifth Review. May 2006. http://www.angelfire.com/zine/bluefifth/
“Writing Instrument” and “Orientation”– Nebo Literary Journal
2005
(Poems) “Dinah’s Diner,” “Hot House Homes,” “Returnables,” “Altar Operations,” “Brush Work,” “Title Bouts,” “The Courtship,” and “The Heirs of Hybris.” The Mad-Hatter. http://madhattersreview.com/issue3/poetry_murphy5.shtml
“Plumbing,” “Menu,” “Jackknife,” “Crucifixion Currency.” Right Hand Pointing, Issue 7. http://www.righthandpointing.com/issue7/murphy1.html
Red River Review
“Narration Damnation.” Roux Magazine. Issue #3: Summer 2005 http://www.rouxpress.com/issue_sale.htm
“Pathos Eros,” Gh o ti Fish Magazine. Issue 3. http://www.ghotimag.com/archives/issue3/murphy.htm
“Hearts in Heels,” “No Change,” and “Practically Addicted.” Pemmican. http://www.pemmicanpress.com/archive/rich-murphy/rich-murphy-archive-page.html
“Immaculate Conception,” “Monkey Tree,” “Singing the Blurs,” “Playing with Matches.” BlazeVox. http://www.blazevox.org/05-rm.htm
“Monkey in the Apple Tree” West 47. http://www.galwayartscentre.ie/west47/west47-16/, Ireland
“Monkey in the Apple Tree” Cuirt Annual 2005, Ireland
“To Sidney’s Defense,” “Boxes of Lust,” “Jingle on the Boardwalk” Projected Letters, The Vault http://www.projectedletters.com/vault/2/murphy/, England
“Boy Meets Girl,” Red Booth, Fall 2k4, Issue Fourteen http://wtp62.com/rbr.htm
“Shuffling off With Buffalo” Aesthetica: A Review of Contemporary Artists, Issue Seven,UK
“City Autumn,” “Local Video Surveillance,” “Pottery Fragments,” “Terrorized,” “Imperial Interlude,” “The Empire Game,” “Double Vision” Pedestal Anthology http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/Secure/Content/cb.asp?cbid=4297
“Circus Act” MiPoesias http://www.mipoesias.com/September2004/murphy.htm
“American Dream Extended” Full Circle Journal http://fullcirclejrnl.com/8_Murphy.html?1079311179510
“Attention,” “Voyeur” Voices http://www.1writersway.org/4/5/page6.html
“Pearl Two” New Delta Review http://www.english.lsu.edu/journals/ndr/
“Natural Disasters,” “Chaeronea's Conquerors,” “Sports Trivia,” and “Biological Distraction,” Inertia Magazine, Issue1 V2 www.inertia.com
“Forceps Two-Step,” “Ladies and Gentlemen,” “Weather or Knots,” “The Nature of Things Now” King Log 7.1 http://www.angelfire.com/il/kinglog/frameindex.html
“Poetic Justice,” Salamander Vol 10, No. 1
“The Hunchback’s Rhythm” Vermont Literary Review Winter/Spring 2005
“Lullaby,” Words and Images, Annual 2005
“Classroom Anesthesia” Red River Review http://www.redriverreview.com/A55656/RRR.nsf/5c55ff93c07fe4f586256fa0001d38e7/2bae569bfdd251738625700a000ac102!OpenDocument
“The Empty Busy Time Bomb” Confrontation Magazine, No. 90/91Spring/Summer 2005 C. W. Post of Long Island University
“The Candle in Sunlight,” “Cross-Wise” Chaminade Review
“The Yankees at Home” Paper Tiger http://www.papertigermedia.com/guidelines/pt_guidelines.html
“That's Precision” Noö Journal http://www.noojournal.com/
“Emergency” Poetry Motel
Fall 2004
(Essay) “Vanishing Artist: American Poet and Differend,” The International Journal of the Humanities. http://ijh.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.25/prod.26 Juried
(Poems) “The Websters et al” Talking River Review, Number 19 http://www.lcsc.edu/TalkingRiverReview/
“Blueprint,” “The Isle of Man,” and “Valentine Party” Red China, http://www.redchinamagazine.com/masthead.htm
“Saying Grace,” Word Riot http://www.wordriot.org/
“Poem” Mastodon Dentist, Issue One, Winter 2004, http://www.mastodondentist.com/IssueOne/Poem.html
“Lettered Landscape,” “A Nursery Rhyme” Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review Number 24 Spring/Summer
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS 2004-1974
2004
Mastodon Dentist
Neroup Review
Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review
West 47 Ireland
Projected Letters
Red Booth
Word Riot
Aesthetica Magazine England
Pedestal Anthology
International Journal of the Humanities
Talking River Review
Red China
MiPoesias
Full Circle Journal
Memorious
Poems Niederngasse
Entelechy: Mind and Culture
New Delta Review
Inertia Magazine
King Log
Fulcrum
Salamander
Vermont Literary Review
Confrontation Magazine
Chaminade Review
2003
Los Poesy: Contemporary Art and Poetry
Rio: Journal of the Arts
WhimperbangSkyline Literary Magazine
2003
Montserrat Review
The Journal of Contemporary Anglo-Scandinavian Poetry England
Electric Acorn Ireland
New Delta Review
Alligator Juniper
2002
Poetry
Blue Unicorn
Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review
2001
Grasslands Review Editor’s Prize
Confluence
Midwest Poetry Review
2000
Thin Air
The Montserrat Review
Natural Bridge
1999
Americas Review
Icarus
1998
The Café Review
Montserrat Review
Red Hen Press / Valentine Publishing Group Anthology
Brownstone Review
Emily Dickinson Anthology NM (1997 finalist)
California Quarterly
Wings
New Millenium Writings (1998 Hon. Men.)
Dream Works Journal
Emily Dickinson Anthology NM (1998 semi-finalist)
1997
Iconoclast
Washington Square
Flint Hills Review
Onion Head Review
Spillway
American Poetry Monthly
Connecticut Poetry Review
Publications Continued
1997
Rio: A Journal of the Arts
Mangrove Magazine
1994-96
Poetry Digest
Pleiades
Eclipse
Synaesthetic
International Poetry Review
Touchstone Literary Review
Poetry Break Journal
Celebration
Poetry Motel
1990
1991-1993
Sulphur River Review
Seattle Review
Printed Matter Japan
Conditioned Response
Permafrost
Sulpher River Review
Goethe’s Notes Magazine
Black River Review
Whetstone
Higginson Journal
Axios Magazine
Dreams Magazine
Northwoods Journal
1988-89
Lake Street Review
Cha Cha Review
Slant Journal
Cotton Boll/Atlanta Review
Delirium Magazine
Contact II
Artifact Magazine
Black River Review
Sulpher River Review
Black Bear Review
Bitterroot
1987
Late Knocking
Permafrost
Slant Journal
Bare Foot Review
NRG
Poetry News
Seems Magazine
Midwest Review
Blue Unicorn
Bitterroot
1986
Grand Street
Greenfield Review
Small Pond Review
Northern Light 13 Canada
Philadelphia Poets 6:6
Blue Light
Northern Light Canada
Mt. Aukum Review
NRG
Old Hickory Review
Nomos
Mill Hunk Herald
1984-85
Greenfield Review
River City Review
Occasional Review
New Mexico Humanities Review
New Letters
Occasional Review
Passaic Review
San Fernando Poetry Journal 6
Atticus Review
Artzone
Old Hickory Review
Yellow Butterfly
NRG
Publications Continued
1983
Kansas Quarterly
Margarine Maypole Orangoutang Express
Telephone Magazine 18
Colliope’s Corner
Muse-Pie Magazine
NewArts Review
Unique Graphics Anthology
Modern Images Magazine
Amanda Blue Magazine
Rebecca Road Magazine (reprint)
Kansas Quarterly
Akros Magazine
Prophetic Voices
Piedmont Review 11:2
Arulo Magazine
Amanda Blue 2:4
Santa Fe Poetry & Arts Review
The Stone
Chariton Review
San Fernando Poetry Journal 5
Poetry North Review
Colonnade
Smoke Signals
New Mexico Humanities Review
Rolling Stone
1982
Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review
Cincinnati Poetry Review
Negative Capability
Aspect Australia
Porch 4:2
Kansas Quarterly
Small Pond Magazine
New Mexico Humanities Review
Broken Streets
Global Tapestry Journal England
Helen Review
Green Feather
Aldebaran Magazine
1981
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