Poetry Publications

Interviews, Reviews, & Related Activities

Awards

The Lost Books of the Bestiary, V Press LC, February 2023.

“Leaving the Kitchen,” The Hampden Sydney Poetry Review, forthcoming, 2023.

“Copperhead,” Indelible, 2022. Online.

“Epigenesis,” Clockhouse, Vol. 19, 2022.

“Owlets,” “Taking the Back Road Home,” “The Suburbs,” Triggerfish Critical Review, Issue 28, 2022.

“Easter Morning,” Running With Water Anthology, in the literary anthology, by V Press LC, December 2021. (Nominated for a Pushcart Prize).

“Bestiary,” The Southern Poetry Review, 58:2, 2021.

“Surviving the Six Micmac Worlds,” The Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter Issue, 2000.

“The Ghost of Things, In the Wide Room, and Riffling Through the Ruins,” in the literary anthology, Running with Water by V Press LC, December, 2019. (Nominated for a Pushcart Prize)

“Eel,” “Day 1 Dublin: Is that so?” AMP, Hofstra University digital literary magazine, Spring 2019.

“The Crow,” “The Ghost Knife.” The Orchards Poetry Journal” November 2018.

 “Lazarus Rising.” Alexandria Quarterly: A Curated Anthology of Art and Literature, Online Fall 2018.

 “Nuthatch.” A Common Wealth of Poetry: Newsletter of the Poetry Society of Virginia, August 2017.

“Holocaust” in Poetry of Politics Issue, Forage Poetry, 5 November 2016, Editor Emma Hall.

“An Autobiography of Love in Two Dimensions.” In ARTlines2 Poetry Anthology, Fall 2015.

“The Junco” Virginia English Bulletin. Vol. 59, N. 2, 2009-2010.

“Frozen Embryo,” The South Carolina Review, Spring 2008.

“Poem Against the War,” Western Reading Services: an anthology of poems on war, Winter 2007.

“A Winter Walk.” Appalachian Heritage: A Magazine of Southern Appalachian Life and Culture, Berea, Kentucky: Winter 2007.

“The Lead Indian,” in The Hampden Sydney Poetry Review, Hampden Sydney, Virginia. Fall 2007.

“Whale Death, 2000.” Timber Creek Review, Greensboro, NC, 2007.

“Home Place,” in The Paterson Literary Review. Paterson, New Jersey 2007.

“North Country Tulips.” Eclipse, Glendale College: Glendale, CA, Spring 2004.

“Bibliophile’s Revenge,” “Father,” “The Rose Window.” The River Review, University of Maine at Fort Kent: Fort Kent, ME.  Electronic Publication, Spring 2002.

“Autumn Walk Before the End of Things As You Knew Them.” Appalachian Heritage: A Magazine of Southern Appalachian Life and Culture. Berea College, Kentucky, Fall 2001.

“Gore Hotel.” Appalachian Heritage:A Magazine of Southern Appalachian Life and Culture: Berea College, Kentucky. Summer 2001.

“North Haven Morning.” Words and Images Maine’s Annual Compendium 01 Visual and Literary Creativity. University of Southern Maine, Spring Issue, 1999.

“The Colors Shine Through.” Ekphrasis.. Vol. 1, No. 5, Spring/Summer 1999.

“Frozen Garden,” Echoes Magazine: The Northern Maine Journal. No. 43, January/March 1999.

“The Frozen Garden,” The Maine Scholar: A Journal of Ideas and Public Affairs, University of Maine system, Autumn 1998.

"The Art Academy" The Virginia English Bulletin.   Vol. 45, Issue 1, 1995.

"Morning in the Blue Ridge," College English March 1995.

"The Studio" in River of Dreams Anthology, The National Library of Poetry, Owings Mills, MD, 1994.

"I Know What I Like" The Virginia English Bulletin.  Vol. 44, Issue 2, Winter 1994.

"Snow Angel" The English Journal, Vol.  83, Number 5, September 1994.

"The Bibliophile's Escape" The Writer's Eye:  An Anthology of Poetry and Prose.   Bayly Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1994.

"Hunger, At Last, in a Gas Station in Ohio, To the Harpy, and The Centerfold" in T. O'Grady, Ed).  The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review Anthology, 1975-1990, (pp. 131-133). Hampden-Sydney:  Hampden-Sydney College, 1990.

"Living in the City" The Carolina Literary Quarterly, Issue 11, 47, Summer 1990.

"Benediction" The Antietam Review:  A Journal of Creative Writing and Photography, 10, Spring 1990.

"Lazarus" and "Snow Angel" The Writer's Eye: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose.   Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (1990), 1.

"The Studio" published in The Writer's Eye:  An Anthology of Poetry and Prose.   Bayly Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1989), 48.

"Benediction and How We Come to It." T. O'Grady (Ed.) The Hampden- Sydney Poetry Review, Hampden Sydney College, VA. 52, 1987.

"The Suicide” “The Cincinnati Poetry Review, Cincinnati, OH, 13, 54, 1986.

"Hospital Demise" The South Florida Poetry Review, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 1986.

"Teased Hair" Skyline.  Charlottesville, VA, 1981.

"The Bull" The Cedar Rock Review, New Braunfels, TX, 1979.

"Hunger" The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review,  Guest Editor: Quinten Vest, Hampden-Sydney College, VA, 1979.

"Primal Sound" An Anthology of Fathering, Columbia, MD, 1977.

"In Your Dream of Destruction" The Inner Ear.   St. Paul, MN, 1977.

"At Last, in a Gas Station in Ohio and Centerfold" The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review.   Hampden Sydney College, 1978.

"Father, How We Love You and How to Make Magic," Poet and Critic, Iowa State University, IA, 1977.

"The Law," The West Virginia Law Review.  West Virginia University: Morgantown, WV, 1973.

 Interviews

“A Conversation with Sinead Morrissey, The Writer’s Chronicle, September 2019.

“A Conversation with Rita Dove,” Agni Online December 2018.

“A Conversation with Medbh McGuckian,” The Writer’s Chronicle December 2016, Vol 49, No.3.

 “Ted Kooser and Chapman Hood Frazier, interview date, 2012,” Poetry Criticism (Lawrence Trudeau, editor), Vol. 162, pp. 298-303 (2015).

“Interview with Tim Seibles,” Shenandoah: The Washing and Lee University Review Vol. 64, Number 2 (2015).

“Special Feature: Interview with Ted Kooser.” Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee Review Vol. 61, Number 1 (Winter 2012).

“A Conversation with Nikki Giovanni,” The Writer’s Chronicle March/April, Vol. 43, Number 5 (2011).

“A Conversation with Gregory Orr.” The Writer’s Chronicle, March/April, Vol. 42, Number 5 (2010).

Reviews

 Review of "Silence Opens"  by Amy Clampitt,  Virginia Quarterly Review  Summer 1970 (3) 54.

Whispers to the Earth: A Review. The Hampden Sydney Poetry Review Fall 1982.

Poetry Editorships

 Dos Passos Review, Longwood University, Farmville, VA: Poetry Editor, 2004-2005.

 The Hampden Sydney Poetry Review,  Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney, VA: Guest Editor, 1982.

 Nelson, K. and C. H. Frazier, (Fall, 2015) ONE/OFF Group Exhibition. The Walton Gallery, Petersburg, VA.

 Nelson, K. and C. H. Frazier, (Fall, 2015) Ideation Experience Art Exhibition, Denver. CO. Artistic book making collaboration on the poem, “The Orange.”

 The Lost Books of the Bestiary, Finalist for the V Press L.C. Poetry Prize.

“Rifling Through the Ruins,” nominated for a Push Cart Prize by V Press L.C., December 2019.

Honored with the United in Excellence Plaque from the Prince Edward County Board of Education on June 5, 2018.

Finalist in the 2018 Alexandria Quarterly Poetry Chapbook Contest for The Books of the Bestiary: A Chapbook, April 2018.

First Place in The Big Read Poetry Contest, Heart of Virginia Reads, sponsored by NEA for “Tangier Island.” April, 2019.

Finalist in the ARTlines2 National Poetry Competition for the poem, “An Autobiography of Love in Two Dimensions,” an ekphrastic poem based on an “African Linguist Staff.”  The poem is published in the Artlines2 Poetry Anthology, Fall 2015.

Invited as a reader for 73 Poems for 73 Years: Memorial Celebrating the Life of Lucille Clifton. September 21, 2010, Furious Flower Poetry Center, James Madison University.

Honorable Mention, Appalachian Heritage for the poem, “Hotel Gore.”

Second Place in Poetry, Bayley Museum's, The Writer's Eye Contest, Judge: Stephen Cushman, 1996.

Grand Prize in The National Library of Poetry Competition, October 1996. $1,000 Award, “The Studio.”

Richard A. Meade Award for Outstanding Scholarship, University of Virginia, April 22, 1994.

Honorable Mention, Bayly Museum's The Writer's Eye Contest, Judge: Gregory Orr, 1994.

Honorable Mention, Irene Leach Poetry Contest, reading at The Chrysler Museum, 1992.

Second Place in Poetry, Bayly Museum's The Writer's Eye Contest, Judge:  Judy Longely, 1991.

Honored Guest at The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review Anthology Ceremony, 1990.

First Place in Poetry, in Bayly Museum's The Writer's Eye Contest, Judge:  Michael Ryan, 1989, for “Raising Lazarus.” (Second Poem received Special Commendation Award).

First Place in Poetry:  Bayly Museum's The Writer's Eye Contest:  Judge:  Deborah Nystrom, 1989, “The Studio.”

Honorable Mention in both poetry and essay categories:  The Virginia Commonwealth University Writers Forum/AAUW Literary Contest, 1985.

Second Place in the Essay Category in The Virginia Commonwealth University Writers Forum/AAUW Literary Contest, 1984.

Winner of the following Awards for the annual Poetry Society of Virginia Contests, 2014-2023:

• Edgar Allen Poe Memorial Prize: 1st Place, “Appalachian Sutra,” 2023, The Books of the Bestiary,” 2017.

• Nancy Byrd Turner Memorial Prize: 1st Place, “Morning Sonata,” 2023, 2nd Place, “Dublin” 2015, HM: “Zooplanton,” 2022.

• Sarah Lockwood Prize: 1st Place, “Leaving the Home Place: Sonnet Sequence,” 2023,“Hunting in the High Barn,” 2020.

• Charlotte Wise Memorial Prize, 1st Place, “Easter Morning,” 2022.

• John Newcomb Prize: 1st Place, “Day 11: The Aran Island of Inishmore,” 2020.

• Bess Gresham Prize: 1st Place, “What is a Vessel Among Friends?” 2023, “Day Two: Dublin in Fractals of Four,” 2020.

• Elizabeth Urquhart Prize: 2nd Place, “The Mime of Firenze,” 2023, “Tangier Island.” 2020.

• Carleton Drewry Prize: 1st Place, “Day 11: The Aran Island of Inishmore, 2020, “I Know What I like, 2016, 2nd Place: “The Forgettables,” 2023, “Morning On the Benedict Haid Farm, 2020, 3rd Place: Morning on the Benedict Haid Farm, 2020, HM: “The Farmer,” 2015.

• Brodie Herndon Prize: HM, “Beyond the Pane.” 2020, “The Dream of John Wayne’s Death, 2015.

• Campbell Prize: HM, “The Girl Next Door.” 2020.

• Honoring Fatherhood Award: 1st Place, “Father’s Funeral,”2019.

• Karma Deane Ogden Memorial Award: 2nd Place,“Burrowing”, 2019, 3rd Place: “Angel and Scorpion: The Conjoined, 2023, HM“After The Famine,” 2020.

• A Sense of Place Award: 3rd Place, “Tangier Island,” 2019.

• Miriam Rachimi Memorial: 1st Place,“Mothman,” 2017, 2nd Place: “The Orchid,” 2015.

• Anne Spencer Memorial: 2nd Place,“Opossum.” 2017.

• Loretta Dunn Memorial: 2nd Place, “Namesake,” HM, “Copperhead,” 2017.

• Emma Gray Trigg Memorial: HM,“Katydid,” 2017, "Derry/Londonderry or Derry-Londonderry, 2014."

• Judah, Sarah, Grace and Tom Memorial: 2nd Place, "Dragon," 2015.

• Ada Sanderson Memorial: HM,"Horned Owl,"2015.

• The Robert S. Sergeant Memorial: 1st Place for "Crow," 2015.

• Sestina/Villanelle Award: 3rd Place, "Sestina:  The Role of Gold Foil on the way to Seven Eleven." 2015.

• Ekphrastic Poetry Award: 1st Place, “The Rose Window,” 2022.

• Cenie H. Moon Prize: 2nd Place, “Luminosity,” 2022.