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PUBLICATION INFORMATION

If you want any of the publications that my work will/has appeared in, here is ordering information!

PUBLICATION	ISSUE	HOW TO ORDER	POEMS INCLUDED
LUCID MOON	#39 March/April 2000	Unfortunately,LUCID MOON is on hiatus. If you already sent in your money Ralph will give you a refund, or you could order a back issue	Benchmarks Better than TV Breeze Orator Portal
NORTHERN STARS MAGAZINE	"Upcoming Issues" Breeze - Sept 2000 Portal - March/April 2001	The editor, Beverly Kleikamp, will let me know when they will be published,I'll pass that along to you. Breeze - Sept 2000 Portal - March/April 2001	Blessed Back Forty Breeze The Promise Portal
CREATIVE JUICES	June/July 2000	send $3.00 to Geraldine Powell Creative Juices;Forestland Publications 423 Burnham Highway Canterbury, CT 06331	She Lies Near Miss The Promise
THE REJECTION NOTICE REVIEW A Poetry and Arts 'zine	April 2000	Information not available, for copies, email me!	Presumption
NUTHOUSE	? - I'm trying to find out!	send $4.00 (for subscription) to: NutHouse Twin Rivers Press P.O. Box 119 Ellenton, FL 34222	Presumption
THE BLIND MAN'S RAINBOW	Spring 2000 Volume V, Issue 3	$3 Issue, $10 Subscription Checks payable to Melody Sherosky PO BOX 1557 Erie, PA 16507-0557	Transmutation Swing
THE NEW MIRAGE QUARTERLY JOURNAL	Summer 2000 May, number 52 issn 1525-240X	$36 Subscription Checks payable to Good Samaritan Press PO BOX 803232 Santa Clarita, CA 91380	Beginnings
NITE WRITER"S INTERNATIONAL LITERARY ARTS JOURNAL	Fall 2000 Winter 2000	$6 single copy Checks payable to: NITE WRITER"S INTERNATIONAL LITERARY ARTS JOURNAL 137 Pointview Road #300 Pittsburgh, PA 15227	Laundromat Don't
POETIC LICENSE	June, July, August, September 2000	$5.50 single copy $49/year Checks payable to: POETIC LICENSE P.O. Box 311 Kewanee, IL 61443-0311 Be sure to include Month and Year you want	Decomissioned- June Senseless - July New Neighbors - August Pissed - September
POETIC VOICES	"Future Issue" She publishes twice a year, September & March I'll let you know when	$5.00 single copy $10/year - 2 issues Checks payable to: POETIC VOICES P.O. Box 1684 Durant, OK 74702-1684	Lombard
THE POET HOUSE	"Future Collection" They do audio CD's - not print I'll let you know when	$50.00 single copy Checks payable to: THE POET HOUSE P.O. Box 1228 Spring Hill, TN 37174-1228	Senseless
THE WHITE CROW	Volume 4 Issue 4 ISSN 1085-1518	$2.00 single copy $6.00 - 4 issue sunscription Checks payable to: Osric Publishing P.O. Box 4501 Ann Arbor, MI 48106	Benchmarks Slaughterhouse
The International Library of Poetry NATURES ECHOES	ISBN 1-58235-564-9	$65.00 single copy Coming to a book store near you.	BEGINNINGS

Publishers comments:
Ralph Haselmann Jr.(LUCID MOON), "I really enjoyed your poetry, it's rich in detail and wistful in thought".

Beverly Kleikamp (NORTHERN STARS MAGAZINE), "You are an excellent poet."

From a review of WHITE CROW in the CHIRON REVIEW "White Crow #4 [sic] (POB 4501 Ann Arbor, MI 48106; $6/4), in only 30 pages, has 3 wonderful poems - David P. Offutt (divorce in the courtroom); Charlene Mary-Cath Smith (small breasts); and Jack Shadoian (15 battered husbands file complaints); and 2 excellent short stories, especially "Avenue Des Ternes" by May Spangler (a mother and a twelve year-old daughter do a little shopping: cannelloni for dinner...a first bra...a dress). This stroll around Paris, on a chilly Spring day, is the best short story I've read in 2000--and would merit any prize on offer!"

by Tim Scannell, David Offutt's Bench Marks

We need the long poem, like the 3000-line masterpiece by Todd Moore (Working on My Duende) [Reviews, Oct'01]. We need the complex, textured lyric, like Alan Catlin's Stop Making Sense. We also need the flashing truth of our usual Hesiodic works and days, offered here in a first 22-poem collection.

Its glint of poetic truth is at a railroad crossing: "He whoops and hollers at the train as it passes� / Man-child�oblivious to CNN� / on his way to Tastee-Freeze, / for a dipped cone on a warm day." A nip of ethical tone is in "Bigot," the narrator handing two cigarettes to a stranger ("ragged and smudged"), '�with one hand, the other in / reserve, / tense. He needs a light, obliging, but / not handing over the Zippo." The modern illness of not accepting a person's plainspoken word is in "Transmutation," the pregnant wife at a mirror, "�swollen breasts / just months removed from pertness. / Areolas now targets for an unborn mouth� [doubting] / when he tells her she is beautiful." Beauty in "Queenie": "Plastic spooning canned peaches, / she's careful not to drip nectar / on her new sweater."

This poet, in an assured voice, details the small event, meeting or conversation of prosaic daylight and evening; no wasted word�clear judgments made. The inferences are sensible, as in the poem "Priorities": a woman gives sandwiches, cigarettes, gloves and coats to the homeless, "�at the entrances of their cardboard condos." A pair of gloves, once given to ward off the cold, were "traded�for a bottle," yet she "�hands over the cellophaned / Roast beef on wheat�" regardless, giving only a smile to the narrator asking "why she does this."

As Ren� Descartes said, "The heart has reasons the mind knows nothing of," and because of that overarching and eternal truth, the reader hopes for many more collections by David Offutt. Heart, alone, is a very good reason for a poem�and another, and another.

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