David Breeden Mailing Address: RR1 Box 147 Broughton, IL 62817 County: Hamilton E-mail: davidbreeden182@earthlink.com Phone numbers: 618-647-2432 830-370-2489 Genre: Fiction, Poetry

 

Periodical Publications:

• Access: "The Eternal Light Bulb."
• Aileron: "Burying the Old Folks."
• AKA Magazine: "For Vivian Leigh to Run Through."
• Alacrán: A Literary Review: " Doing Nothing, Thanks."
• Armadillo: "One Way Fables Work."
• Art: Mag: "Fall" and "Rummage"
• Assorted Realities: "Get a Haircut," "Poetry Farm," "So, So," "Deep South," "How to Accept a Gift," "Puking in the Street," "The More Things Change," "Closer," "Elegy," "Poet: A Job Description," "Flying In," "Hard Learned," "Normal Confusions," "Keep Talking," "A Good Use for Words."
• Bad Haircut Quarterly: "Graph."
• Barking Spider: "Long Day With Leaving," and "Lament, Sort of."
• Beginnings: "Candy Machine Since You're Not Waiting." Bitterroot: "Sticks."
• Black Buzzard Review: "Recipe."
• Blue Light Review: "Relaxed."
• Blue Raincoat: "Snakes in the Garden," "For a Greeting Card," "Sex is Sledom Art."
• Borderlands: "Opinion Poll."
• Border Senses: "A Small Deposit."
• Boston Literary Review: "Bus," and "XXth Century Picnic."
• Boston Literary Review: "If You Can Get the Wrapper Off," and "Some Things I Can Do."
• The Bridge: "Beer--Wine--Liquor Backwards on the Glass," "Direction," and "Pain and Supper and That Sort of Thing."
• Bristlecone: "Untitled (I woke with a clear mind)."
• California Review: "Giving."
• California State Poetry Quarterly: "Double-Headed End Wrench."
• Cereal Box Review: "Poem Beginning with a Bad Translation of a Line from Jakob van Hoddis" and " Things to do Today."
• Cervena Barva Press Postcard Series: "Red Petal Stuck."
• Circle Magazine: "On Not Looking it Up, Ember Day 2002."
• College Poetry Review: "Giving."
• Comet Halley: "See Baby Dick."
• Concho River Review: "Apparently Think the Relatives."
• The Country Poet: "Picnics."
• Dekalb Literary and Arts Journal: "Porch."
• Dusty Dog: "Two Senses."
• Earthwise: " A Song Scrap."
• Earthwoods: "Shopping," and "Poem on Returning Out."
• El Locofoco: "Some Platitudes Discovered on Delta Airlines."
• El Locofoco: "Dear Dave."
• Famous: "Dream Penny Arcade," and "Furious, Aurelius, Bound to Catullus."
• Fault Lines: "Off a Theme of W. Stevens."
• Fine Madness: "Story."
• Flying Cow Productions: Texas Poetry Calendar. "It Rains When It Rains."
• Free Cuisenart #9: "Guanajuato, Mexico" and "Phenomenological Sunday."
• Fluid Ink Press: "The Next Thing."
• Full Circle Journal: "Stone Cielo."
• Georgetown Review: "This Won't Do."
• Georgetown Review: "Elegant Death."
• Ginger Hill: "Everyone Gets Something."
• Golpherwood Review: "Song for the Scaffold."
• Grassroots: "My __________ (Do-It-Yourself Poem.)"
• Great River Review: "Eighteen Minutes."
• Great River Review: "When You Walk Your Pet Lobster."
• The Guy Fawkes Review: "Further Adventures of Othello," and "Planned Obsolescence."
• Heartlodge: "Magic Real."
• Hootenanny '94: "Letter," and "Poem."
• Hootenanny '95: "Idee Fixe."
• In Posse: "Expectations."
• Jeopardy: "Out By the A & P."
• Jersey Works: "The Angle of Doing (Saturday Nights)," "Key to Activate," "Fixed Mark."
• Journeys of the Poet/Prophet: "Earth's Lid," and "November 1."
• Juxta: "Biting, Eating, The Right Thing," "For a Friend I Don't See," and "La Litterateur Engagee."
• Kindred Spirit: "Just a Little," and "My Daughter About 2."
• The Laurel Review: "Docking the Lamb."
• Lip Service: "Fan" and Message."
• The Literary Review: "Velvet Drapes."
• Lone Star Literary Review: "On Visiting a Place I've Only Partialy Visited Before."
• Louisiana Review: "Stale Tin Winds," "Anything Worth Describing," "Reality Tablets," "Take Two," "Dancing, Writing," "Scheduling," "Jazz & Prayer."
• Lousiville Review: "For A Dead Relative."
• Lucky Star: "Very Germanic."
• Luna Tack IV. "Autobiography #2," and "Wise Sayings."
• Luna Tack V. "One," " Sartre Says," and "Sport."
• Luna Tack VII. "Anniversary," and "Mid-Fall."
• The Macguffin. "Divorce," "12:15 a.m. or 3 O'clock," and "Sundries."
• Main Street Rag. "It's Good to Know Your Jesus."
• Mati: "On the End of Summer."
• Mid-American Review: "Down At This End of The Ohio."
• Midway Review: "Hamlet Exposed." (Vol. 29, Nos. 3, 2001)
• Mocha Memoirs: "Comparatively Like the Rest of Us."
• Nebo: "Banal Forces Beaten Back," "Red Petal Stuck," "The Drumming Upstairs."
• Nebo (Spring 2005): "The Gods Have Moved."
• Nidus: "My New Apartment."
• North Atlantic Review: "Throwing Hay."
• NRG: "Hiding."
• Omega-3: "How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down," "Sudden Death in the Jungle," "Another War Turns Religious," and "Thought Caused by a Good 1946 Recording."
• Outerbridge: "Dearest Folks--," "Foxhole," "Personality Improvement," and "Prisoners."
• Paragraph: "As the Nation's Thoughts Turned to Peace."
• Parting Gifts: "Graveyard Shift."
• Parting Gifts: "When You Kick A Stone," "Hats on The Ice," and "Anymore Perfect."
• Peregrine: "On the Swings."
• Pebble Lake Review: "Corner Cafe."
• Piedmont Literary Review: "So Long, Tochoma."
• Pikestaff Forum: "Silver Poplars."
• Plains Poetry Journal: "More Heart Than Style."
• The Plastic Tower: "To Be Read In The Attitude Of A Eulogy."
• The Poet: "Lunch in a Hayfield," "On Three Deaths," and "Untitled."
• Poet Magazine: "B lue Hem," and "Ditritus."
• POMPA 88: "Brand New Shoes," Penny Arcade," "Sam House," and "Second Floor."
• POMPA 90: "It's Earlier Than You Think," and "The Mall and Lucy Aud's."
• Potato Eyes: "Rummage."
• Potato Eyes: "Ticket."
• Prenez Parti: "Proposal," "On a Note from Pater," "Two Adaptations from Old English," "Pean to Ma," "End," "Again," and Last Picnic."
• Product: "Disillusion at 8:30 a.m."
• The Quarterly: "Hey Schliemann," "Aphorisms," "Further Diversions," and "Up North."
• The Quarterly: "Doing," and "Shut."
• Quirk. "Dating Your Death."
• Rambunctious Review: "Play."
• Red River Review. "Enough and Everything Else."
• R-KV-R-Y, A Quarterly. "Rehab This Time."
• Rhino: "Our Last Dialogue."
• Riverrun: "A Particular Fall," and "You Really Said You"
• Riverrun: "The Street is Full," and "What Matters."
• Rose and Thorn: "No Questions."
• Salome: "Kite.
• She: A Poetry Broadside: "A Little Hole," and "Mr. Sandman."
• Slant: "Sixth Grade."
• Sow's Ear: "Beheadin Halofarnes."
• Spectrum: "Way To A Picnic," and "My Walk."
• Springhouse: "Fall," and "Sentence."
• Studio One: "Modern Confessions."
• Studio One: "Join Up," "Stomp & Gouge," "Sweeping the Crickets," and "Thank You."
• Sundog: "Swing."
• Sunrust: "Millet, I'm Told."
• Sunrust: "Observations on a Walk."
• Sunrust: "Occupations of the Months."
• Swallow's Tale Magazine: "That Biblical Summer."
• Taproot: "Seven Experiments in Rhythm."
• The (Something): "Cog Song."
• Thorny Locust: "Arriving."
• Thunder and Honey: "Cord."
• Thunder Sandwich: "Invective Ode to my Hopes."
• Tin Lustre Mobile: "Escribe," "Filling in the Bland," "Nice Bodies," "Tabs," and "How Things Work."
• Touchstone: "Home," "Lines Written after Learning 'The Ivy Crown' Is Your Favorite Poem," and "Silenus Valley, Hazy."
• Tramp: "Find."
• Turnstile: "Buying Crickets," and "Calf Killing."
• Untitled: "Confirmation."
• Urbanus: "On the Photograph of a Suicide."
• Visions: "Greeting from Tranquility Lake."
• Viva Boheme: "A Modest Gesture," "Peggy Babcox Four Times Fast," "Poem Bordering on Honesty," "Poem Written after the Preceding One," and "Untitled."
• Voices International: "A Digit."
• WBAR (FM radio, NYC): "No Questions."
• Whiskey Island Magazine: "Your Very Nice Stuff.
  
• Widener Review: "Paying."
• Winewood: "Age or Indifference."
• Wormwood Review: "Celine Blues," and "First Morning."
• Yet Another Small Magazine: "Going Under the Porch."
• Yet Another Small Magazine: "Summarizing Santayna."
• Z Miscellaneous: "All You Need."
• Zuzu's Petals: "Where it is."
• Zuzu's Petals: "You Know How."

Book Publications:

• A Poet's Guide to Divorce, Waterbury, Connecticut, 2005.
• Ice Cream and Suicide (poetry), UKA Press, Bristol, United Kingdom, 2005.
• Chucking the Cliffs Notes (novel). Pulpbits Press, www.pulpbits.com.
• Surviving the Coup (poetry). Greensboro, NC: March Street Press, 2003.
• Artistas (novel), Indian Lake, NY: Superior Books, 2001.
• Another Number (novel). Austin, Texas: Silver Phoenix Press, 1998.
• Double Headed End Wrench (poetry), Bristol, Indiana: The Cloverdale Press, 1992.
• Hey Schliemann (poetry), Lewiston, New York: Edwin Melling Press, 1990.
  

Forthcoming Publications:

Awards, Fellowships, Grants and Honors:

• Who's Who in America
• Contemporary Authors
• Who's Who Among America's Teachers
• Directory of American Poets and Fiction Witers
• International Who's Who in Poetry
• Who's Who Among American Freelance Journalists
  

Recent Readings, Performances and Productions:

• September 2004, fiction reading, Langston Review Reading Series, Granbury, Texas.
• Fiction judge for the 2004 Oregon Literary Fellowships.
• Coordinator, Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers Annual Convention, San Antonio, Texas, September 22-25 2004.
• March 2005, poetry reading, Conference of College Teachers of English, Waco, Texas, Baylor University.
• April 15 - 16, 2005. Austin International Poetry Festival, Café Mundi and Ruta Maya Caf&eacute.
• May 30 - June 1, featured poet, Forrest Fest, Lemesa, Texas.
• June 2005, featured poet, La Tazza Fesca, Austin, Texas.

Recent Workshops:

• Coordinator, Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers Annual Convention, San Antonio, Texas, September 22-25, 2004.

Present Employment:
Preferred Audience: Open
Willing to travel: Yes

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