John December Poems

• "I've Never Been," College Poetry Review, Spring 1983. Reprinted in Pegasus '83. Agoura, California: National Poetry Press, 1983, page 18. © 1983 John December.
• "The Woman on the Plains," and "Journal of the Magi," Mid-American Review, Volume 4, Number 2, Fall 1984, pages 142-143. © 1984 Mid-American Review/Robert Early.
• "Prize Acceptance Speech (Chemistry)," The Madison Review, Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 1985, page 66. © 1984 The Madison Review.
• "Instrument Lights," The Great Lakes Review, Volume 11, Number 1, Spring 1985, page 57. © 1985 Central Michigan University.
• "Home, Evening," "Festival Queen," and "Rituals of Earth," The Windless Orchard, Issue 45, Spring 1985, page 43. © 1985 Robert Novak, John December.
• "Living in the Iron Lung," Sou'wester, Volume 12, Number 3, Winter 1985, page 66. © 1985 the Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University.
• "The Boat, The Bridge," Big Two-Hearted, Volume 1, Number 2, Winter 1985-6, page 13. © 1986 Mid-Peninsula Library Cooperative.
• "Letters from a Season," Wind Magazine, Volume 16, Number 56, 1986, page 11. © 1985 John December.
• "Harbor Letter," Images, Volume 13, Number 1, 1987, page 11. © 1987 Gary Pacernick.
• "Lok Was Running as Fast as He Could," Mikrokosmos, Volume 33, Spring 1987, page 59. © 1987 John December.
• "Snow: A Letter," Passages North, Volume 9, Number 1, Winter 1988, page 11. © 1987 Passages North. Reprinted in Passages North Anthology. Ed. Elinor Benedict. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1990. pages 292-293. © Milkweed Editions.
• "Visiting the Czar, " Mikrosomos, Volume 34, Spring 1988, page 57. © 1988 John December.
• "Suns," and "Two Letters from a Mute," Poem, Number 61, May 1989, pages 22-23. © 1989 Huntsville Literary Association.
• "Understanding the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle," G. W. Review, Volume 9, Issue 2, page 12. © 1989 The George Washington University.
• "Letter to the Arctic," Poet Lore, Volume 84, Number 2, Summer 1989, pages 25-26. © 1989 The Writer's Center Bethesda MD.
• "Harvest Letter," CutBank, Spring 1990, Volume 336, page 32. © 1990 Associated Students of the University of Montana.
• "Not Thinking of Iowa," Spring 1993, Mikrokosmos, Volume 39, Spring 1993, page 59. © 1993 John December.