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Published Work
Poetry published by Fred Gerhard under his name or a pseudonym.
2024
"Chasm in the Conversation," "Writing Supplies," and "Peeled" in Many Voices ~ One Stage, Metaphysical Fox Press, 2024
"Author's Ridge" and "Roots" in Wandering Roots, Quabbin Quills, 2024
"The Poetry Magazine" in Pour Me a Poem: Anthology, Metaphysical Fox Press, 2024
"What in the Blazes" (contest winner) and "At Root" in Art on the Trails: Legacy, 2024
"A Root Out of Dry Ground" (short story), Quibble Quarterly, Vol. II., 2024
"Lines," "My Mother, I," and "Sky-Writer" on exhibit rotating through The Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg City Hall, and The Boulder Art Gallery as part of Words from the Burg, Fitchburg, MA.
"Things I Cannot Change," "Serpent In the Sky," and "If Love Is Not Over," on exhibit in the ekphrastic art gallery show, Jen Okumura - 'Self Awareness and Love: All-Inclusive Works' at the Creative Connections Art Gallery, Ashburnham, MA
"Window," "The Ducks," Flipside," "Dandelions," "Lilacs Still Bloom in Ashburnham," "Jig," "Yellow Daylily," "Clover," "Eft Song," "Stereo Crickets," "Moss," "Abuzz," "Under a Maple Tree," "Waves," and "The Way They Spoke of You" Lilacs Still Bloom in Ashburnham: Songs of Spring, Second Edition, Petronella Press, 2024
Drifting to "Hello," (Khotso Publishing), his first full-length poetry book. It includes most of his published poetry from the 1980s to 2023.
"Winter Love," on exhibit in the art gallery show, Long Dark Winter at the New Dawn Arts Center, Ashburnham, MA
2023
"Darkening Trees," Poetry in the Pines, contest winner, 2023
“Going On,” Anti-Heroin Chic, 2023
“A Kinder Solitude,” Friends Journal, 2023
"Window," "The Ducks," Flipside," "Dandelions," "Lilacs Still Bloom in Ashburnham," "Jig," "Yellow Daylily," "Clover," "Eft Song," "Stereo Crickets," "Moss," "Abuzz," "Under a Maple Tree," "Waves," and "The Way They Spoke of You" Lilacs Still Bloom in Ashburnham: Songs of Spring, Local Gems Poetry Press, 2023
"Rippling," "Adrift," and "Earthen Vessels" Art on the Trails: Transformation, Route 7 Press, 2023
“Attic Haunt,” “Mend,” Psythur from Ravens Quoth Press, 2022
2022
“The Sea, The Sea,” “Voice Above the Waves,” “What to do with the Body⸺,” Monadnock Underground, 2022
“Open Sway,” “This Time Around,” and “Stasis,” Art on the Trails: Exposure, Route 7 Press, 2022
“Arroyo,” “First Drop,” “Ice Flow” Cascades and Currents anthology from Quabbin Quills, 2022
“Blacklight,” Fiddles and Scribbles, 2022
“Ghosted,” “Disassembled,” POETiCA REViEW, 2022
“Daring Duo,” Cacti Fur, 2022
“Block,” Snaps of Scintillating Souls, 2022
“Ajar,” “The Paper Door,” Door is A Jar Magazine, 2022
2021
“189,” Black Moon Magazine, 2021
“The Cartwheel,” “A Day in June,” “Not Loved,” “Seeing,” “You Are Here,” In a Field of Dandelions, Maya McCormick, 2021
“A Train Runs Through,” “Third Lap,” “Trolley Museum,” accepted for Highveld Poetry Review anthology, 2021
“Atmosphere,” Pif Magazine, 2021
“Autumn Will,” Sylvia Magazine, 2021
“Dandelion Fairy,” “Maple Wings,” “Slow Silver,” “Teine Sith,” “Walk With Me, Will-o-the Wisp,” Into the Glen: Into the Light, Fae Corp Publishing, 2021
“i and you,” “Gray Hullaballoo,” “New Vision,” Otherwise Engaged Literature and Arts Journal, 2021
“Prodigal,” “Sundown,” Harpy Hybrid Review, 2021
“Seed,” Asylum Magazine, 2021
“The Cart Path,” accepted by Golden Walkman Magazine, 2021
“The Way,” Amethyst Review, 2021
2020
“Altered State,” “Returning Home By Pleasant Street,” From the Soil: A Hometown Anthology, Exeter Publishing, 2020
“Help! I Need Somebody,” “The Mushroom Garden,” "Uncoiling," Art on the Trails: Rising Up, Route 7 Press, 2020
“Presence,” “Chill November,” “Closest Thing,” “Crossing the Dark Wing," Heavy Feather Review, 2020
“I Was a Psychologist,” Global Poemic, 2020
“In Reply,” Litterateur, 2020
“What To Do,” “Rogue,” “Sonnet I,” “Sonnet IV,” Insulatus, 2020
2019
“Corner Seat in an Ashburnham Gallery,” exhibited at Creative Connections gallery, 2019
“Need Not,” Entropy Magazine, 2019
“Sunward,” “Eclipse,” “Telescope,” Until the Stars Burn Out, 2019
2018
“If I Say I Am Afraid,” Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis, 2018
2017
“You Danced the Day of the Dead,” Contemporary Dance, 2017
“Dance,” Wild Musette Journal, 2017
2005
“Kerouac Rain,” “Orbisonia Dawn,” The Chelmsford Poetry Review, 2005
2004
“Angel in the Fall,” “Emptying Clouds,” “Love Has Known It All Along,” “Morning Glory,” “My Heart Ensnared,” Feelings of the Heart, 2004
1985
“The String,” Musings, 1985
1984
“Against Gray,” “All You Need Bring,” “Fatigues,” “On The Steps,” “Shadow Fences,” “Sweet To My Bitter,” “Waiting To Rain,” Musings, 1984
1983
“A Farewell to Pinewoods,” “A World Without Numbers,” “Falling Song,” “From Your Pen,” “In Consolation,” “Life-Light,” “New England Dulcimer,” “Not Me,” “On The Surface,” “Piano,” “Ripples in the Water,” Musings, 1983
“New Season,” Manuscript, 1983
1981
“Dear Harpsichord,” Manuscript, 1981
1979
“Reel of the Inner Mind,” Des Pensées , 1979