PUBLICATIONS

Books ( Poetry )

Hot Flashes: Maiduguri Haiku, Senryu, and Tanka

Chapbooks ( Poetry )

Magazine & Journal Credits ( poetry, reviews, articles, essays, children’s verse)

Published in approximately 500 magazines, newspapers, and journals in 11 countries ( Canada, U.S.A., U.K., Ireland, Denmark, India, Nigeria, Slovenia, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand ) including The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, Quarry, Event, Prism international, Canadian Forum, Descant, Dandelion, Poetry Canada, Poetry Australia, Queen’s Quarterly, Grain, The University of Windsor Review, Dalhousie Review, Canadian Literature, Waves, Cross-Canada Writers’ Quarterly, Arc, Descant, Whetstone, Kunapipi (Denmark), Canadian Children’s Annual, Chandrabaga (India), Ganga (Nigeria), The Ottawa Citizen, NeWest Review, The Calgary Herald, Lethbridge Living, On Spec, Canadian Author, Ariel, The Antigonish Review, The Greenfield Review (USA), The New Quarterly, Prairie Fire, The Beloit Poetry Journal (USA), Germination, Island, Nebula, Northern Light, Rubicon, and The Dinosaur Review.

Anthologies & Textbooks ( Poems, poem suites unless otherwise noted )

The Best of Grain, Ed. by Caroline Heath, Don Kerr, and Anne Szumilgalski ( Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild, 1980 )
The Crafted Poem: A Step By Step Guide to Writing and Appreciation, Ed. by Susan Ioannou ( Wordwrights Canada, 1985 )
Jumbo Gumbo: Songs, Poems and Stories For Children, Ed. by Wenda McArthur and Geoffrey Ursell ( Coteau Books, 1989 )
Words We Call Home: Celebrating Creative Writing At UBC, Ed. Linda Svendsen ( University of British Columbia Press, 1990)
Out of Place: Stories and Poems, Ed. by Ven Begamudre and Judith Krause ( Coteau Books, 1991)
200% Cracked Wheat, Ed. Gary Hyland, Barbara Sapergia, and Geoffrey Ursell ( Coteau Books, 1992)
Beyond Bad Times, Ed. Vanna Tessier ( Snowapple Press, 1993)
The Canadian Anthology of Modern Verse For Children, Ed. by I.B. Iskov ( still in ms. )
Poets In The Classroom, Ed. by Betsy Struthers and Sarah Klassen ( League of Canadian Poets/ Pembroke Press, 1995 ) chapter article, “Poetry Workshop” and Bibliography
Alberta Anthology. Poem sequence: “Nothing Definite Yeti: Monster Poems,” produced by Kathleen Flaherty, CBC Radio, Alberta, 15 Dec.1996 )
Alberta Anthology. Poem sequence: “That Mournful Ballad Sound,” from Live Evil: The Miles Davis Poems ( to be broadcast in 1999, CBC Radio, Alberta )
Prosepourri ( Greensleeve Editions, forthcoming) Postcard fiction.
The Fernwood Anthology: News of the Inner World, Ed. Richard Olafson ( Ekstasis Editions, 1995)
In The Clear: A Contemporary Canadian Poetry Anthology, Ed. Allan Forrie, Patrick O’Rourke, and Glen Sorestad ( Thistledown Press Ltd., 1998 )
Tesseracts 7: New Canadian Speculative Fiction, Ed. Paula Johanson and Jean-Louis Trudel, Tesseract Books, an imprint of Books Collective, 1998 )
Losers First: An Anthology of Sports Fiction, Ed. John B. Lee ( Black Moss Press, 1999 )
I Want To Be The Poet Of Your Kneecaps: An Anthology of Love, Ed. John B. Lee ( Black Moss Press, 1999 )
Threshold: An Anthology of Contemporary Writing From Alberta, Ed. Srdja Pavlovic ( University of Alberta Press, 1999 )
Henry's Creature: Poems and Stories on the Automobile, Ed. Roger Bell & John B. Lee ( Black Moss Press, 2000 )
Epistrophy: The Jazz Literature Archive, Ed. Michael Borschuk (online, 1999 )
Chapter, “Controlled Intersections: The Signal Anthology” commissioned for inclusion in an anthology on the work of Montreal poet Michael Harris

CD ( limited edition, privately published ):

C 4/4 Miles, Richard Stevenson with The Naked Ear ( A Muse ‘n’ Blues Production, A Division of Sound Gallery Enterprises Lethbridge, AB, 1999. ) Includes " On The Corner ( Move It )," “Zimbabwe (Alpha Omega),” Ascenseur pour l'Echafaud ( C'est fini )," "Kind of Blue ( Wind Song)," "Once Upon a Summertime ( When I Think of You)," " Rigt Off (The Heavyweight )," “Heroin (Blue Flame),” “Miles Take On Sugar Ray (The Dancer),” "Bitches Brew: Improvisation #2 (Solstice)," “Live Evil (Evernow),” "Tutu (Azania)," and "Gondwana (African Sunrise).” Poems by Richard Stevenson; original music (titles in parentheses) by T. Gordon Lee. Poetry reading, Richard Stevenson, all tracks; trumpet, flugelhorn, pocket trumpet, electric trumpet, T. Gordon Leigh, various tracks; bass guitar, tracks 2,3,8,9,11, Dana Beauchemin; drums, tracks 2, 4, 7, 9, Brad Brouwer ; guest guitar, track 9, Art MacCrimmon; loop drums, tracks 1,4,6,9,11; additional percussion, T. Gordon Lee. Recorded at Tonesmith Studios, Lethbridge, AB; Art McCrimmon, sound engineer.

Unpublished Manuscripts & Works-in-Progress

Take Me To Your Leader! ( YA verse, under consideration )>br> Alex Anklebone & Andy The Dog ( children’s picture book in verse )
The Haunting of Amos Manor ( working title of a young adult novel)
A Tidings of Magpies: Haiku, Senryu, and Tanka

Other Works

Across Miles ( a website multimedia collaboration with Marlene Ménard, including handmade paper backgrounds, photo collage, charcoal sketches, poems, sound bytes and readings) Opened at Nova Scotia Teacher’s College, Truro, Nova Scotia, in November 1996. (See samples at http://www.pi-flora.com/pi/write/rs/Default.htm on Marlene’s Professional Informatics system ) Being edited for Thistledown at this time; will serve as back-up web site to book & CD publication.
Nothing Definite Yeti ( live jazz-rock show of YA verse material, with Peter Heseltine on drums & percussion; Ryan Heseltine on alto, soprano, & baritone saxes, flute; Alex Thomson on bass guitars. ( The basic touring group collectively called Sasquatch ) Have also played occasionally a rhythm guitar player, Jim O'Meara (on electric and acoustic guitar )and bass trombone player, Nick Sullivan.

Awards

Norma Epstein Award (for “Best unpublished book by a Canadian university student”). Office of the Dean, University of Toronto, 1983. Co-winner with Brian Burke of Vancouver.
Winning entry, Literary Storefront National Poetry Chapbook Competition, Vancouver, 1983
Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, 12th Annual Writers Guild of Alberta Book Awards, 1994 for From The Mouths of Angels (Ekstasis Editions, 1993)
ACIFA Excellence in Promoting Student Learning Award, June 4, 1996 from The Alberta College-Institutes Faculties Association ( Each college nominates one person on their staff; a jury of peers decides on one winner (occasionally two co-winners in the event of a tie vote) for the whole province.
Literary Rose Award from Pyrowords for "Across Miles" for excellence in publishing on the Web. Also: several undergraduate scholarships, a graduate assistantship, a graduate fellowship, Several Alberta Foundation For the Arts Project grants ( in both the Intermediate and Senior Artist categories), two BC Cultural Fund Senior Arts Scholarships Arts grants, and several magazine awards for "best poem" in Pierian Spring and other magazines.