Poetry · 1976 to today
Poems
Vernon has been writing poems for fifty years. His work has appeared in
The Southern Review · JAMA · Commonweal · The Texas Observer · Willow Springs · Birmingham Arts Journal · Intro 8 (Anchor Books)
Titles marked Read here or Read online can be read in full. His collection The Sound of Falling is available as a signed copy.
2020s
- “Ancient Firefly”Commonweal, July (online)/Aug. (print) 2024
2010s
- “Five Questions for Three Birds”Commonweal, Sept. (online/print) 2019
- “A Constellation of Stones”Commonweal, Aug. (online)/Sept. (print) 2019
- “The Ballad of Scrapyard, the Devil, and Jean Marie”The Ampersand Review, Sept. 29, 2013
- “The New Incarnation”The Ampersand Review, Sept. 22, 2013
- “A New Song of Despair: New Orleans 2005”The Ampersand Review, Sept. 15, 2013
- The Sound of FallingBook of poems, Negative Capability Press 2013
- “You Might Say”Where Beach Meets Ocean, The Block Island Poetry Project, 2013
- “I’m Not Telling You Anything”Where Beach Meets Ocean, The Block Island Poetry Project, 2013
- “Say We Have Felt This”Birmingham Arts Journal, Vol. 7, #4, Feb. 2011
- “The Sound of Falling”The Texas Observer, Vol. 102, #20, Nov. 12, 2010
- “Walking Between Grace and Grief”JAMA, Vol. 303, #18, May 12, 2010
- “Listening to the Heart of Grace”JAMA, Vol. 303, #17, May 5, 2010
2000s
- “The Peach Speaks to Helen Gill”Whatever Remembers Us, Negative Capability Press, 2006
- “Bones and Onions on the Road to Beaver Meadow”Literary Mobile, Negative Capability Press, 2002
1990s
- “Bryce Hospital, 1932”Elk River Review, Vol. 3, #4, Spring 1996
- “Small Absence”Willow Springs, #37, Jan. 1996
1970s–80s
- “A Gathering of Voices”Negative Capability, 1980
- “The Art of Leathercraft”Intro 8, Anchor Books, Ed. George Garrett, 1977
- “An Approaching Storm”Manchac, April 1977
- “River Rising”Manchac, April 1977
- “Disbelief at a Radio Weather Report”The Southern Review, Vol. 12, #3, Summer 1976
- “Weight”The Southern Review, Vol. 12, #3, Summer 1976
- “Eating Bad Bread”The Southern Review, Vol. 12, #3, Summer 1976
- “On Every Evening Walk”Manchac, May 1976