POETRY BOOKS
The Glass Ship: Prose Poems and Tales, Sugartown Publishing, 2014
I Dream of Circus Characters: A Berkeley Chronicle, Beatitude Press, 2010
Little Lulu Talks with Vincent Van Gogh, Malthus Press, 2007, 2009
Call Home, Scarlet Tanager Books, 2005
Everything Irish, Scarlet Tanager Books, 1999
The Calling: 20th Century Women Artists, Mother's Hen, 1994
The Part-time Teacher, Rainy Day Women Press, 1991
Jane, Jane, Hawkeye Press, 1981
Been in Berkeley Too Long, with Carla Kandinsky, Ralph Dranow, and Donna Duguay,Hawkeye Press, 1980
Albuquerque Winter, Hawkeye Press, 1980
I Have Berkeley, Hawkeye Press, 1979
Website Reviews of Judy Wells’ work
http://www.medcelt.org/feile-festa/v009/prose/holz.html
Rosemarie Crupi Holz reviews The Glass Ship by Judy Wells in Feile-Festa: A Literary Arts Journal, Spring 2015, edited Frank Polizzi,
“Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?” the American Romantic poet, Edgar Allan Poe, hauntingly pondered as he sought answers to life’s mysteries. Irish American poet, Judy Wells, in her collection of prose poems, The Glass Ship, a multi-layered phantasmagoria of Technicolor dreams within dreams, is searching for answers too. Her nameless, lusty, irreverent narrator, an accomplished sailor, voyages alone on a small boat to fantastical worlds. Like Alice in Wonderland, she playfully and mischievously travels life’s looking glass, compelling us to join in her fun as she probes the serious and profound.” Read more!
Rosemarie Crupi Holz
http://www.sisterfrombelow.com/2015/02/the-muse-of-synchronicity-part-iii.html
Naomi Lowinsky, poet, author, Jungian analyst reviews The Glass Ship by Judy Wells on her blog “The Sister from Below, When the Muse Gets Her Way.” Feb. 21, 2015
“Judy Wells made a synchronistic appearance in Part I of this blog, when, lonely for companions in Poetry Land I wandered into a poetry reading where I thought I’d know no one. Judy, the featured reader, reminded me that we had an old connection—we had been in a consciousness–raising group together in the late ‘60s. Since hearing her funny provocative poetry that night—a lapsed Catholic’s thrust and parry at the nuns, the pieties, the absurdities of a Catholic education—I have loved her wit and exuberance. But the wind chimes of synchronicity really began pealing as I immersed myself in her latest book of poems, The Glass Ship.” Read more!
Naomi Lowinsky
http://galatearesurrection22.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-glass-ship-by-judy-wells.html
Review of Judy Wells’s The Glass Ship by Cherise Wyneken in Galatea Resurrects #22, 5/2014
“The first chapter of Judy Wells’ new book of poems, The Glass Ship, published by Sugartown Publishing, is a spine tingling wave in her imagined ocean that invites one to turn the page and read on. The magical cover by Sian MacQueen increases our desire to open the book and read. It is formatted in twenty-two chapters consisting of the introduction – THE GLASS SHIP, the twenty islands she visits, and home from the voyage, THE ISLAND OF EPITHALAMION.” Read more! Cherise Wyneken
POETRY PUBLICATIONS
featuring poems of Judy Wells:
Woman See'd 2, Summer 1977, "The Inner Tube," "Pigeon Energy"
Woman See'd 3, Fall 1977, "Downtown Oakland"
Woman See'd 4, Winter 1978, "Fly, she said," "The Many Rooms"
Woman See'd 5, Spring 1978, "A Furious Lady"
The Sow's Ear, Spring 1978, "The Circus Man"
The Wild Iris 5, 1978, "I Had to Tell Her"
Women Talking/ WomenListening IV, 1979, "Shifts"
City Miner 11, 1978, "My Deer"
Chameleon V, 1978, "Downtown Oakland"
Southwest Women's Poetry Exchange, 1979, "Tsonogoa," "Sammy and Me"
Southwest Women's Poetry Exchange, 1980, "Juana Maria"
Sister Lode, Dec. 1978, "The Call"
Sister Lode, Feb. 1979, "What Would the Women Say?"
Sister Lode, June/July 79, "Navajo Women"
Sister Lode, July/Aug. 80, "Can words wrought/ so soft from dream be understood?"
Sister Lode, Mar./Apr. 80, "The Plum"
Conceptions Southwest, Spring 1981, "Let It Come Down," "Henry, I'm at Big Sur"
Sister Lode, May/June 1981, “Of Men, of Women”
Sister Lode, Jan. 82, "Guernica"
Berkeley Works 1, Jan. 82, "The Ph.D. is the Kiss of Death for a Woman"
Woman See'd 8, Winter 82, "The Perfect Woman's Poem," "G.A.P. (Great American Poem)"
Chameleon 6, Mar. 82, "On Paul Speer's Living Room Floor"
New America, v. 4, #3, 82, "Navajo Women," "Labor"
San Marcos Review, Spring 83, "Like Juba"
Berkeley Works 2, April 83, "The Small Nag," "Plagiarism"
Bay Area Poet's Coalition, January 1983, "Death Wings," (3rd prize in myth category)
Celibate Woman Journal 3, January 84, "She is seen alone/ at poetry,"
Buddhist Peace Fellowship Newsletter, January 1984, "38 Days, I Fear for You, Dorothy"
Fast for Life Report, March 29, 1984, "38 Days, I Fear for You, Dorothy"
Cypress Review, January 85, "Judith, My Mother Said"
Berkeley Works 4, Autumn 85, "The Couple"
Chameleon 9, Autumn 86, "Hope," "This Body," "This Fragile Earth"
Benicia Writer's ," Summer 86, "Father and Lovers," "The Plum"
Poetry San Francisco, Autumn 87, "Doubt" (Honorable Mention in Contest)
Chameleon 10, Fall 1987, The Stanford Poems, "Amboise," "Carole," "Coupling," "Blois," "Sailing," and "Paparazzi"
Kameleon 11, Spring 1988, "The New Mexico Hustle," "The Part-time Teacher is hungry," "The Part-time Teacher has a pet," "The Part-time Teacher wonders whether she should take CPR," "The Part-time Teacher is at her wits’ end," "The Part-time Teacher organizes a field trip," "The Part-time Teacher discusses her students while her mate sleeps”
Athena Incognito 9, Spring 88, "Transition"
Poetry San Francisco, Summer 1988, "Missing you a long time"
Exit 13, Aut/Win. 88, "The Part-time Teacher is jealous of other starting part-time teachers," "The Part-time Teacher wonders whether she will have a job each semester," "The Part-time Teacher has a self-effacing genius in her class"
Poetry San Francisco, Winter 89, "My Father's Death"
Poetry San Francisco, Spring 89, “The Transcendent Turtle,” (Certificate of Award)
Kameleon 13, December 90, "Leaving Albuquerque," "Ladders," "Song"
Sacred River, April 1991, “Poet with Wall Street Journal"
Sacred River, May 1991, “How I Feel Sometimes About the War," "War's End"
Sacred River, May 1993, "There are Wild Grey Ponies in my Dreams"
Dream Machinery, November 1993, "Vocation"
Beatlick's Nashville Poetry Newsletter, #17, Nov. 1993, “Confessions of a Counselor"
The Flying Dog, #10, Jan 94, "Frida Kahlo Was In Pain"
Dream Machinery, May 1994, "Summer Heat"
Pro-fess-ing, v.4, #16 May 1994, "The Part-time Teacher does not like her contract," "The Part-time Teacher wants to start a union," "The Part-time Teacher is fired from her night job"
Howling Dog, v.6, #1, 1995, "The Seminar"
Awaa-te, Fall 1995, "The Matisse T-Shirt"
Beatlick's Nashville Poetry Newsletter, #28, Jan. 1996, "I Went to Santa Fe"
Sophia, St. Mary's College, Spring, 1996, "Everything Irish about Me in a Nutshell," "How I Learned Poetry, Theology, and Grammar All on the Same Day in Sixth Grade"
Street Spirit, January 1998, "Berkeley, New Year"
Street Spirit, April 1998, "Emergency Room Flashback"
The Walrus, Mills College, Spring 1998, "What We Forgot," "English Test"
Southwest Women's Poetry Exchange, Summer 1998, "Light as the Holy Ghost"
The Crazy Child Scribbler, July 1998, "We Were the Cause of Our Second," "Grade Teacher's Nervous Breakdown"
The Kerf, College of the Redwoods, May 1999, "The Mennonite Men,"
Southwest Women's Poetry Exchange, April 1999, "The Dress"
Howling Dog, v. 6, #2, "The Seminar"
The Walrus, Mills College, Spring, 1999, "Waking the Dead/Peig's Funeral"
Southwest Women's Poetry Exchange, 2000, "A River Runs Through My Head," "Rainy Day Woman," "Adrift"
U.C. Berkeley Gold Student Yearbook, 2000, "Blue, "English Test"
Southwest Women's Poetry Exchange, April 2001, "I Went to Santa Fe"
Signature Poems: Poetry, Spasso, 2001, “Everything Irish About Me in a Nutshell”
The Irish Herald, May 2002, “The Ancestors Dance”
Colere, Coe College, 2002, “Paris, c’est l’enfer”
Southwest Women’s Poetry, “Are you Judy Wells?”
Exchange, Dec. 2002
Crazy Child Scribbler, October 2003, “Feather River Art Camp: 104º," "The Power of Story"
Bay Area Poets Seasonal Review, Winter 2004, “The Corks”
Living in the Land of the Dead, v. 2, 2005, “Emergency Room Flashback”
The Berkeley Daily Planet, Dec. 30. 2005-2006, “Supermarket Love,” “I Dream of Circus Characters,” “Mary’s Poem”
Feile-Festa Literary Arts Journal, Spring 2006, “Agrigento”
The Crazy Child Scribbler, July 2006, #48, “Une femme d’un certain age”
The Berkeley Daily Planet, July 7-10, 2006, “Last Poetry Reading at Cody’s Books”
Bay Area Poets Seasonal Review, Summer 2006, “Last Poetry Reading at Cody’s Books”
Southwest Women’s Poetry Exchange, Summer 2006, #18, “Abdication”
Reunion: Stanford in France, September 2006, “A la recherche du temps perdu”
The Berkeley Daily Planet, Dec. 29-Jan. 4, 2007, “Girl at The Beanery”
Carquinez Poetry Review, January 2007, “Reflecting on Milosz”
Feile-Festa Literary Arts Journal, Spring 2007, “Black Iris,
Beatlick News, v. II, #36,“Little Lulu Talks with Frida Kahlo”
The Berkeley Daily Planet, Nov. 16-19, 2007, “Berkeley Marina Haiku”—haiku sequence
North Coast Literary Review “On Seeing the Chagall Ceiling at the Paris Opera”
Penzance Press, 2008
Berkeley Daily Planet, Dec. 23, 2008,“Night at the Musée d’Orsay,” “I Want to Live in Paris,” “Election Haiku Diary, 2008”
Bay Area Poets Seasonal Review, Fall 2008, v.4, no. 2, “When I’m 64”
Rattlesnake 21, March 2009, “Night at the Musée d’Orsay”
Living in the Land of the Dead, v. 3, Spring 2009, “Transition: Frida Kahlo Speaks”
Bay Area Poets Seasonal Review, Spring 2009, vol. 4, #3, “The Long Ago, Far Away Doll”
Crazy Child Scribbler, January 2010, Issue #62, “Hawk”
Feile-Festa Literary Arts Journal, Spring 2010, “Ancestor Conflict”
Bay Area Poets Seasonal Review, Spring/Summer 2010, “Morning Like a Turner Painting as I Ride the Train”(Best Bay Area-Themed Poem)
Crazy Child Scribbler, October 2010, Issue no. 65 (guest editor), “Whistling in the Dark”
Crazy Child Scribbler, 2011, Issue #66, “The Wind and My Grief”
Feile-Festa Literary Arts Journal, Spring 2011, “Poet Jack Foley Says We’re Not Writing for Eternity”
Living in the Land of the Dead, An Anthology of Creative Writings & Visual Arts, v. 4, Summer 2011, “Rowing to Hawaii”
California Quarterly, Spring 2012, 37/3, “Hokusai’s Wave.”
California Quarterly, 2012, 38/3&4,“Time”
Marin Poetry Anthology, v. 15, 2012, “The Glass Ship”
Psychological Perspectives, 2013, v. 56, Issue 2, “Back in the Pink” and “Island of the Great Egg”
Living in the Land of the Dead, Fall 2013, v. 5, “Walnut Jesus”
North Coast Literary Review, Fall, 2013, #5, “After Reading Galway Kinnell’s 'Oatmeal'”
California Quarterly 39/3, “Space”2013
Crazy Child Scribbler, Jan. 2015, Issue 82, “The Traveling Mole”
Stanford: a Publication of the Stanford Alumni Association, January/February 2015, “The Glass Ship”
California Quarterly, 41/2, “Visions”2015
Crazy Child Scribbler, April 2015, Issue 83,“The Island of Croissants”
ON-LINE PUBLICATIONS
www.bbbooks.com
“The Part-time Teacher Wants to Start a Union”
The Part Timer Post
“The Part-time Teacher Sneaks Xerox Copies”
“The Part-time Teacher Call in Sick”
“The Part-time Teacher is Hungry”
www.papergraders.com
“The Part-time Teacher Does Not Like Her Contract”
“The Part-time Teacher Meets a Fellow Traveler”
“The Part-time Teacher Wants to Start a Union”
http://www.levurelitteraire.com/0NUMERO4/PDF/judy.pdf
Nov. 2011, Feu-illets d’Hypnos/PDF
“What We Forgot,” “Let’s Talk about the Fun Side of Catholicism,” “91-Year-Old Filly,” “Miss Havisham Does Not Live Here,” “The Matisse T-Shirt,” “Supermarket Love”
February 15, 2012
“The Swing”
(Toby Beilawski, editor)
February 21, 2012
“Haiku for Red-headed Beauty”
Elizabeth Hack, editor
“Black” and “Monet’s Gift”
Issue #2, 2012
(Chapter 4 and Chapter 1)
Issue #3, 2013 “Awe” (Chapter 6)
Issue #4, 2014 “What the Naturalist Told Me”
(Chapter 6)
California Poets
Jannie Dresser, editor
“Back Home in Bed with Rice Goddess” and “Tolstoy in July”
Back cover photo of Judy Wells, taken by Diane Rusnak, standing before the photographer's painting entitled "Relaxed Swimmer."
m among the hundred thousands who can make his sandwich just right. One day the white islands may grow green trees, but for now, all is white, a pure white universe.
2010
2007 Chapbook
2005