Gary Gildner has received a National Magazine Award, Pushcart prizes in fiction and nonfiction, and the Iowa Poetry Prize for The Bunker in the Parsley Fields (Iowa, 1997). He’s read at the Library of Congress and on the ferry crossing Lake Michigan. Rita Moreno reads his poem “In My Meanest Daydream” in When It Was a Game. Gildner’s most recent collection of stories, his fourth, is The Capital of Kansas City (BkMk, 2016). In addition to eight volumes of poetry, Gildner has published two memoirs: Memoirs: The Warsaw Sparks (Iowa, 1990; Nebraska, 2008), and My Grandfather’s Book (Michigan State, 2002). A collection of personal essays, How I Married Michele, will appear in 2020 from BkMk. He lives in Arizona’s Catalina Mountains.
Fiction
Winter 2002
Come Sta? Come Va?
On the phone, with the husband, I thought the name was Tuttle. But it turned out he had trouble with his r’s. The wife, when I arrived at their house, […]
Poetry
Winter 2002
A New Song
In my daughter's room upstairs we are sometimes stopped by a wasp or two, or more, crawling across the warmed glass of her sunny window— sluggish things come from their […]
Poetry
Winter 2002
In Pioneer Park (Later)
On the one swing in Pioneer Park not broken, a boy and girl taking turns pushing each other are trying to reach the sky. He wears her new baseball cap, […]