Mark Saba
publications
"Judith of the Lights" (an epic poem) in Three Women: Touching The Boundaries of Life (Mellen Poetry Press, Lewiston NY, 1996)
Winner, Mellen Poetry Award
anthologies
(poems)

"He Was a Poet And When He Died" in Poetic Voices Without Borders (Gival Press, 2006)

"These Are The Boys We Send to War" in Poetry for Peace (Sandstar Publications, 2002)

"Steinbeck in Nantucket" in Nantucket: An Anthology
(Whitefish Press, 2001)

"Days of Love" in Essential Love (Grayson Books, 2000)

"Enrichetta Is Singing" in Elvis in Oz: New Stories and Poems
from the Hollins Creative Writing Program (University of Virginia
Press, 1992)


journals
(stories)

"Ada" in Fiction (2003)
"Renewed" in The Midnight Mind (2003)
"Eva" in Phantasmagoria (2002)
"Pax Christi" in Confrontation (1988)
"Tracks" in South Dakota Review (1984)

(essays)

"Living by Imagination" in Journal of Creative Work, SJI
(online, 2007)
"The Music of Being" in Palo Alto Review (2006)
"Why Study Art?" in Under The Sun (2003)

(poems)

""Last Words" in Connecticut Review (forthcoming)
Tree Tectonics" in Steam Ticket (2007)
"Driving Away from New York City" in FutureCyle Poetry
(online, 2007)
"Gorky Park, 1986" in Poetry Repair (online, 2006)
"My Mother Straightens Her Babushka," "Creole Woman with a Black Parasol," and "The Purple Heart" in Louisiana Literature (2005)
"Sam" in Palimpsest (2005)
"The Poem Altar" and "A Convocation" in ByLine (2005)
"A Pittsburgh Christmas" in Paper Street (2004)
"Sam" in Palimpsest (2005)
"Gertrude Grace," Tuesday Morning," and "Heaven on The Apple" in Caduceus (2004)
"Heaven on The Beast" in Xanadu (2004)
"Polish Men" and "I Love Your Tears" in Caduceus (2003)
"Dreams" and "Dismembering The Swing Set" in Palimpsest (2003)
"At Medugorje" in Mars Hill Review (2003)
"What Stirs The Creation" in Voices in Italian Americana (2002)
"Doing Push-ups" in CPR International (2001)
"Prayer to Thomas Merton" in U.S. Catholic (1999)
"Lines" in The Larcom Review (1999)
"First Light" in Wings (1997)
"Maria Antonia Waits for Her Twin" in The MacGuffin (1995)
"Negli Abruzzi" in Connecticut River Review (1992)
"A Love Poem" and "The Magnolia Branch" in Mildred (1991)
"Lights from San Francisco Bay" in Kentucky Poetry Review (1991)
"On The Eve of My Mother's Liver Transplant" in Ledge (1991)
"Nan" in Permafrost (1986)
"To Buffy Who Cried at First Seeing Snow" in Artemis (1984)
"Lost Song" in Jeopardy (1984)


poetry video

He Was a Poet And When He Died (2004)

directed by Mark Saba
videography by Mark Saba and Jerry Domian
edited by Doug Forbush
original musical score by Istvan Peter B'Racz

Shown at:
Ilumé: An Alchemy of Text and Image (Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, 2005, curated by Gerard Wozek and Mary Russell)
ArtsAHA! (Omaha, 2005)
Kehler Liddell Gallery (New Haven, 2005)
Finalist in USA Film Festival Short Film and Video Competition
(Dallas, 2005)

See stills from the video.

A soul-searching story in which the main character (Nick Pater) has recurring dreams of a father who died when he was a toddler. Nick's quest for a father figure involves fraternity brothers, a chancellor at the university, an intellectual soul-mate, and a crazed uncle. Finally Nick takes a trip to Sardinia, the birthplace of his ancestors, where he finds answers to many questions he has about himself.

Read an excerpt.
bio
publications
writing
art
books
The Landscapes of Pater (a novel, The Vineyard Press, NY, 2004)
Thaddeus Olsen (a novella, in the volume Desperate Remedies, Apis Books, UK, 2008)
Thaddeus Olsen explores issues of identity, privilege, and the state of higher education in the US. Thaddeus has family roots in Poland and native Americans of the central plains. He struggles to understand what these bloodlines mean to him, and whether or not they supercede his identity as purely American. Eventually he must assert himself in the midst of a conflict at the ivy-league university that employs him as an Information Technology service provider.

Read an excerpt.