Rick Kempa
poet and essayist      educator      walking man
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Links to Published Works

  • "One Set of Prints for Two,"  an account of a time of unsurpassing peace on a pre-dawn walk with my daughter decades ago. ​essay, The Drowning Gull, 2017
  • ​"Eddie and Me," a tale of attraction, betrayal and the ultimate triumph from the trenches of the all-boys Catholic high school of my youth, from BioStories Magazine
  • "The Rules,"  stranded in Winnemucca in a snowstorm, December 1980, "with one glove for our four hands," flash essay, Topology    
  • “Lost Fathers.” “My son and I are shooting baskets on the playground near our home when a voice booms out from the fringe: ‘Hey, I’m gonna play too!’”  essay, Santa Fe Literary Review, 2017
  •  "Be, Be," Buddha Said and "In the Evening the Two of Us." Buddhist Poetry Review, 2015
  • "Lately They Have Been Telling Me Not to Call My Mother," poem, Apeiron Review, Spring 2014
  • "In Northern India Right Now," poem, Spirit First, 2012
  • "Call It Ours" "One of Them," "The Secret of Bruce Cooley," poems, Town Creek Poetry, Spring 2011
  • "You Do Not Need to Fear the Heat," poem with editorial comment. Leveler, February 2011
  • "Nightshift,” essay. Ducts.org
  • "The Church of the Chance Encounter,” essay, Redivider
  • “The Man Who Is Given to Motion,” essay. Midway Journal
  • "The Rudeness," Common Sense Family Doctor blog, December 2009
  • “Lost Cool,” prose poem. Conte: A Journal of Narrative Writing
  • “Prayer for My Mother,” poem. Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer’s Disease
  • “Small Breaths,” poem, Journal of the American Medical Association
  • “Sometimes at Night,” poem, Journal of the American Medical Association
  • "The Delicate Art of Dying,” “Be Two, Be One,” poems. Weber: The Contemporary West

     

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