Department of English
College of Humanities & Social Sciences
Contemporary poetry, poetry and diversity, flash fiction, literature and the environment
For the complete and most up-to-date publication information on Professor Zimmerman's publications, please see
In Places Without Time Nothing Hurries (Leaping Mountain Press)
Traveling Among the Animals (Pudding House)
How the Garden Looks From Here (Winner of the Violet Reed Haas Poetry Award)
The Light at the Edge of Everything (Anhinga Press)
Snack Size: Poems (Mello Press)
The Hours I Keep (Main Street Rag)
鈥淲丑补迟别惫别谤,鈥 Gambling the Aisle, March, 2015.
鈥淣obody Knew My Mother Was a Drunk,鈥 and 鈥淓legy for My Friend Mary,鈥 Apple Valley Review, Fall 2019, online.
鈥淪aint Clare, I鈥檒l Do Whatever It Takes,鈥 High Plains Register, Fall 2019, print.
鈥淛oan of Arc, Patron Saint of France and Soldiers,鈥 Mizmor Anthology, Fall 2019 Poetry Edition, print and online, Poetica Publishing.
鈥淟ament for the Brief Life of Big Dogs,鈥 The CEA Critic, August 2019, print.
鈥'Saint Veronica Who is Not Mentioned in the Bible,鈥 鈥淪aint Clare of Assisi: At the Beginning of My New Life,鈥 鈥淥n the Way to the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi,鈥 and 鈥淪peed of Time and Light鈥 Amethyst Review, August 2019, October 2019, online.
鈥淜itchen Meditation,鈥 SWWIM Every day, March 15, 2019, online.
鈥淪aint Roch鈥; 鈥淕etting Lost as Child on the Feast Day of Saint Bernadette鈥; Saint Clare and the Death of Saint Francis,鈥 Voice of Eve, Fall 2018, online.
鈥淧oem for the Early Saint Johns鈥 and 鈥淭ravels with Saint Francis and Saint Clare,鈥 Chiron Review, December 2018, print.
鈥淵oung Mother Trying to Remember the Image 鈥,鈥 Trampset, May 2018, online.
鈥淪aint Clare, the Next Day,鈥 Street Light Press, April 2018, online.
鈥凌别补辫辫别补谤补苍肠别蝉,鈥 Sonic Boom, April 2018, online.
鈥淧oem for Saint John of the Cross,鈥 SWWIM Every Day, December 7, 2017, online.
鈥淢atins,鈥 1st Place, Wilda Morris鈥檚 September Poetry Challenge, Wildamorris.blogspot.com, September 2017.
鈥淩egarding a Painting by the Spanish Surrealist Remedios Varo,鈥 Four Ties Literary Review, Summer 2017, online.
鈥淣eighborhood Dogs,鈥 Alluvia, June 2017, online.
鈥淲hat I Might Write to My Mother鈥 and 鈥淚n Contrast to Common Sense,鈥 Hamilton Stone Review, Spring 2017, online.
鈥淔our Mournings,鈥 鈥淪easons Where I Live,鈥 鈥淎irline Security,鈥 and 鈥淓verything is Okay in the End,鈥 The Dandelion Review, 2016, online.
鈥淭here is No Preparation for Sudden,鈥 and 鈥淣ot About Birds,鈥 Apple Valley Review, Fall 2016, online.
鈥淧erhaps the Truth Depends,鈥 Florida Review, Fall 2016, print.
鈥淧erhaps the Truth Depends,鈥 鈥淲atching My Dog Turn Around鈥︹ 鈥淓arly Morning Poem for My Husband,鈥 鈥淏irthday,鈥 鈥淎t the End of September,鈥 The CEA Critic, 2016, print.
鈥淒reaming the Lost Ones,鈥 Two Cities Review, February 2016, online.
鈥淚 Remember Saying,鈥 Damselfly, January 2016, online.
鈥淒riving to Denver in January,鈥 Main Street Rag, Summer 2015, print.
鈥淧oem for Saint Blaise,鈥 Gravel, Spring 2015, online.
鈥淲hen I Say鈥︹ and 鈥淰illanelle for Absence,鈥 Cave Wall, Winter 2014/2015, print.
鈥淎n Abbreviated Tour of Tantrums鈥 and 鈥淎 Beginning,鈥 Hamilton Stone Review, Winter 2015, online.
鈥淔our Line Elegy鈥 and 鈥淒istracted by Science,鈥 Four Ties Literary Review, Summer 2014, online.
鈥淧ear Tree at Sunset,鈥 Garden Blessings (anthology), Spring 2014, print.
HSS Diversity in the Classroom Award 2013