Chance of a Ghost: An Anthology of Ghost Poems

by Gloria Vando (Editor), Philip Miller (Editor)

Includes biographical notes and pictures of the contributors.

Contents
Dana Gioia / Unsaid
Albert Goldbarth / Why I Believe in Ghosts
Donna Prinzmetal / What I Tell Myself at 3am
Cecilia Woloch / After World
Wyatt Townley / Abyss
Donna Biffar / Absent
Neil Carpathios / Daynight
Phyllis Stowell-Travis / "Arc of Grief"
Philip Brady / Light of Evening
Carl Bettis / Being Haunted
Deena Metzger / Feasting theDead
Samuel Menashe / The Host
Douglas Asper / The Dead
Peter Cooley / The Revenant
Charles Fishman / Dark Roads
Gabrielle LeMay / Seance for Sylvia
Mervyn Taylor / Ghost Driver
Lorna Knowles Blake / Harbor Watch
John Mark Eberhart / Just one Ghost
Malcolm Glass / At the Grave of Edgar Casey
Kate Barsotti / Wild Roses
John Hollander / The Outcasts
H.L. Hix / Hearing Flute Playing Although There Is No Flute Player
/ Let the Stranger Now Enter the Soul
Anthony Hecht / Ghost in the Martini
Elizabeth Goldring / Hotel
Lee Rossi / Ghost Diary
Kristin Abraham / After Lake Huron
Jeanette Clough / The Last Joyride
Cathy Colman / Sex Ghost
Timothy Liu / After the Storm
James Nolan / After I Die
/ Garden Lizards
David Ray / Ghosts of Pennsylvania Street
Judy Ray / Working Alone
Marjorie Stelmach / Doorways
Jane O. Wayne / In Small Rooms
Assef Al-Jundi / Ghosts of Old Encinos
Maryfrances Wagner / Estate Sale
Marilyn A. Johnson / Hauntings
Jan Gilbert / Presence, photograph
Charles Webb / Ghosts
Brian Daldorph / Augusta House
Michael Morical / The Musician
Gail White / What the Children Still Believe
Richard Wilbur / All Hallows' Eve
Miriam Sagan / All Hallows
Wayne Lanter / Oct 31 Nearing Midnight
Paola Corso / A Well-Ventilated Basement Apartment
Jo McDougall / Eight Years A Ghost
/ The Widow Speaks
Eve Merriam / Knowledge
Martha McFerren / Notes of an Unrevealed Nature
Greg Field / Giving Away the Night
Anika Paris / Trails of Love
Christopher Conlon / Perfume, and Silence
Anita Vølez-Mitchell / The Milky Way
Katherine Northrop / Inside the Room
Marie Pal / Another Door
Patty Seyburne / Long Distance
Jeanie Wilson / At Dusk
Sarah Hannah / Northampton
Willa Schneberg / Grief
Bruce Bond / Terra Incognita
Cecil M. Franking / Plea to a Special Ghost
Richard Beban / Fooling the Living
Sally Bliumis / For My Father
Robert Stewart / My Father's Haunt
Bruce Henricksen / Solitude
Eloise Klein Healy / The Ghosts
Wendy Wilder Larsen / Ghost Call
Jim Natal / Missing Scene
Bertha Rogers / Jay and Father in Winter
David Lehman / March 8
/ May 20
Alicia Ostriker / Schumann, Op. 16, The Greater Happiness
Virgil Suørez / Duende
Jim Barnes / In Vauvenargues
Robert C. Jones / Charlotte Bronte
Allen C. Fischer / Frankenstein
Patricia Brody / Dangerous to Know
Michael Waters / Making Love at the Frost Place
Michelle Boisseau / Flesh Is Air
Michael Burkard / Sober Ghost
Gloria Vando / A Gift from the Poet
Susan Aizenberg / Capote in Brooklyn
Ann Slegman / Sighting Elvis at Safeway
/ A Glance at Frank O'Hara's Fire Island
David Citino / While Crooning "Love Me Tender," the Ghost of Elvis Makes Love to Me: Now I Carry His Baby
Joel Allegretti / Unimpressed with Offenbach, Weary of Rilke, Perplexed by Cocteau, though Amused by "Black Orpheus," Eurydice Reveals Herself to be the Original Greta Garbo
Susan Whitmore / Greek Ghosts
Dolores Miller / Diagnosis
William Trowbridge / Jacob Marley
John Engels / The Time
Kristen Struebing-Beazley / [untitled]
Hilary Tham / Superstition Butterfly
Eamon Grennan / Ghosts
Charles Simic / Tiptoer
Robert Phillips / Ghost Story
William Jay Smith / A Room in the Villa
Eric Horsting / Memory: Five a.m..
Elena Karina Byrne / Mask of Insomnia
Rawdon Tomlinson / How the Dead Call Me Back
Peg Peoples / Up Late at a Dark Window
Philomene Bennett / Shadows Persist, painting
Phyllis Becker / Watch Cat
Naomi Shihab NyevDog
Billy Collins / The Revenant.
Margaret Peters Schwed / On Desire
Trish Reeves / Ghost of the Dove
Rebecca Seiferle / The Foundling
Tom Wayman / Birds, in the Last of the Dark
Dianne Glancy / Ethnology Drawer #2, File 145
Vern Rutsala / Ghosts
Inez, Colette / Writing an Ijala in May
Jane Langley / Angle of Shadows
John Hoppenthaler / Ashokan Reservoir: A Catskill Story
Linda Lerner / Skeleton
Donna Trussell / The Oncologist and Her Ghosts
Susan Thomas / The Hand Waves Goodbye
Richard Newman / Phantoms
Donna Reis / Interviewing Ghosts
Penelope Scambly Schott / May the Generations Die in the Correct Order
Gary Lechliter / Poltergeist Factory
Patricia Lawson / Tedious Ghost
Judith Taylor / The Demon Lover
/ Mask
Andrew Glaze / Ghostwriter
Jason Santalucia / The Truth
Neal Bowers / Conversions
Thoma Zvi Wilson / Arrangement
Kathryn Stripling Byer / All Hallows' Eve
Sharat Chandra / The Absent
Kevin Prufer / The Gladiator
Charles Guenther / ...

Genres: Poetry

269 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Robert · Rating 4 out of 5]

I saved this book for October and it was a very entertaining read that made my Halloween glow a bit brighter. A few of my favorite poems from this collection, "Ghost Driver" by Mervyn Taylor, "Ghosts of Old Encinos" by Assef Al-Jundi, "The Augusta House" by Brian Daldorph, "Charlotte Bronte" by Robert C. Jones, "A Room in the Villa" by William Jay Smith.