Non-Fiction and Scholar Publications

In addition to creative writing, I have written in numerous fields — including journalism, television, and public relations — and have authored the range of non-fiction articles, including feature stories, essays, academic articles, reports, science articles, and even accreditation reports, assurance arguments, and other documents.

A partial list of these publications follow:

Book Contributions:

A Linen Weave of Bloomington Poets, contribution in Introduction. Edited by Jenny Kander.  Lexington, KY: Wind, 2002.

The fabjob Guide to Become a Creative Writer, Sheila Seifert, ed.  Fabjob (http://www.fabjob.com)

Essays:

“The Character Connection,” Review Tales, Guest Post, December 10, 2023. (Invited by editor Jeyran Main).
https://jeyranmain.com/2023/12/10/the-character-connection-by-mary-dezember/

“Womanifesto: Kept Women of the Hegemon, Let’s Free Ourselves And Work to Free the Hegemon’s Kept Men!,” published in Value: VALUE: Stories, Essays & Poems by Women of a Certain Age, Beatlick Press, 33-45. (Invited by editor to submit.)

“Poetry Inspired by Art,” AWP 2004 Pedagogy Papers, March 2004, 146.

Academic Research Papers:

“E=mc 2 and Other Artistic Equations: Encouraging the Complementary Skills of Einstein and of Picasso through Redefinition.” Forum on Public Policy, Online, Summer 2007 edition, 2007, No. 3.  Accepted January 9, 2008.
https://www.forumonpublicpolicy.co.uk/_files/ugd/553e83_b636383a63b34b0ca9aa25b1fa291e2e.pdf
https://www.forumonpublicpolicy.co.uk/

“Poets as Modern Art Critics: Stating the ‘Redemptive Power’ of the Abstracted Image,” Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. Vol. 58, No. 1, 2004, 7-29. 
Found on jstor: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1566627

“The Wilderness, Cosmopolitanism and Wallace Stevens’ ‘Moment of Light’,” genre: An International Journal of Literature and the Arts.  Long Beach: California State University, Vol. 23 (2002), 36-45. 

“The Quest in Text: Seeking Identity in Whitman’s ‘Song’ and Rimbaud’s Hell,” genre: An International Journal of Literature and the Arts.  Long Beach: California State University, Issue No. 20 (1999): 19-27. 

Select Newspaper Feature Articles: 

To come