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[forthcoming] To Leave for Our Own Country (poems), Black Lawrence Press, April 2024.

Series: The Liberty Hyde Bailey Library, a series of primary and secondary works by and about Liberty Hyde Bailey, to be published under the Comstock Publishing Associates imprint of Cornell University Press. John Linstrom, series editor. First volume forthcoming 2023. [peer-reviewed]

[forthcoming] Bailey, Liberty Hyde. The Nature-Study Idea and Related Writings. Edited by John Linstrom, Ithaca, NY, Comstock-Cornell UP, 2023. The Liberty Hyde Bailey Library. [peer-reviewed]

Bailey, Liberty Hyde. The Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardener's Companion: Essential Writings. Edited by John A. Stempien and John Linstrom, Ithaca, NY, Comstock-Cornell UP, 2019. [peer-reviewed]

Bailey, L. H. The Holy Earth. 1915. Edited by John Linstrom, introduction by Wendell Berry, Authoritative Text, Centennial Edition, Berkeley, Counterpoint, 2015.

Scholarship

Cowritten with Daniel Rinn: "Agrarian 'Naturism': Liberty Hyde Bailey and the Michigan Frontier." The Sower and the Seer: Perspectives on the Intellectual History of the American Midwest, edited by Jon K. Lauck, et al., Madison, Wisconsin Historical Society, 2021.

"Seeking a Center for Ecopoetics." Valparaiso Poetry Review, vol. 12, no. 2, Spring/Summer 2011, https://www.valpo.edu/vpr/v12n2/v12n2prose/linstromseeking.php.

"A Savage Mountain Man and Clever Irony in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." The Twainian, vol. 64, no. 2, 2008.

Literary Essays

"Remap." The Antioch Review, vol. 78, no. 1, winter 2020, pp. 72-88.

Symphonies and Sweet Potatoes.” Newfound, vol. 10, no. 2, 2019, https://newfound.org/current-issue/nonfiction-john-linstrom/.

"Fuckaroo!" Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland, edited by Lance Sacknoff, et al., North Liberty, IA, Ice Cube, 2014, pp. 166-78.

Poems

[forthcoming] "Movement and Remembering," Dunes Review.

[forthcoming] "Autumn Stridulation," Northwest Review.

[forthcoming] "Thunder and Lilies," Notre Dame Review.

"A Fulfillment." Valparaiso Poetry Review, vol. 24, no. 1, Fall/Winter 2022-2023, https://www.valpo.edu/valparaiso-poetry-review/2022/11/30/john-linstrom-a-fulfillment/.

"What Child." The Christian Century, December 2022, p. 57.

Two poems. ("The Day the Machines Came" and "Chloe Gazes through the Window Blinds.") Adelaide Magazine, year 8, no. 55, November 2022, pp. 155-59 and https://anyflip.com/fypa/eliu.

"Elegy in Ash," Poets Reading the News, 28 February 2022, http://www.poetsreadingthenews.com/2022/02/elegy-in-ash/.

"Climate Signals, Sunset Park," Commonweal Magazine, vol. 148, no. 4, April 2021, p. 41 and https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/poem-climate-signals-sunset-park.

"Industry." Commonweal Magazine, vol. 148, no. 2, February 2021, p. 15 and https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/poem-industry.

"Brooklyn Radiator." Commonweal Magazine, vol. 148, no. 1, January 2021, p. 46 and https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/poem-brooklyn-radiator.

"Dear Shadow." Commonweal Magazine, vol. 147, no. 11, December 2020, p. 61 and https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/poem-dear-shadow.

"Liturgy of Next Door." Roanoke Review, 2020, https://www.roanokereview.org/poetry2020/john-linstrom.

"Dianthus Clavelina, Sprout!" The Citron Review, vol. 10, summer 2020, https://citronreview.com/2020/06/21/dianthus-clavelina-sprout/.

"Pumpkin on the Porch." Atlanta Review, vol. 26, no. 2, 2020, p. 27 and http://atlantareview.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Atlanta-Review-Spring-2020-04.30.20.pdf.

"Notes from an Epicenter." Writers Resist, "The Viral Resistance Issue," no. 107, 2 April 2020, http://www.writersresist.com/2020/04/02/notes-from-an-epicenter/.

"Snow-bound." The New Criterion, vol. 38, no. 6, February 2020, p. 30 and https://newcriterion.com/issues/2020/2/snow-bound.

"To My Father, on the Table, Several States Away." North American Review, “Open Space” online feature, 24 December 2019, https://northamericanreview.org/open-space/my-father-table-several-states-away.

"Earth Room." About Place, "Infinite Country" issue, vol. 5, no. 4, Oct. 2019, https://aboutplacejournal.org/issues/infinite-country/east-rebirth/john-linstrom/.

"Disclaimer." Vallum: Contemporary Poetry, "Fear" issue, vol. 16, no. 2, 2019, p. 62.

"On the President's Announcement of Our Hashtag." Writers Resist, no. 95, 19 September 2019, http://www.writersresist.com/2019/09/19/on-the-presidents-announcement-of-our-hashtag/. Previously appeared in This Week in Poetry, 9 November 2015, https://thisweekinpoetry.wordpress.com/2015/11/09/on-the-presidents-announcement-of-our-hashtag/.

"Storm's Breath." Free State Review, no. 11, Late Summer / Early Fall 2019, p. 48.

"Blueshift." (Poem.) Cold Mountain Review, vol. 47, no. 2, Spring/Summer 2019, print and https://www.coldmountainreview.org/issues/spring-summer-2019/blueshift-by-john-linstrom.

"Leaving the Party." Alluvian, vol. 5, Spring 2019, http://alluvian.space/leaving-the-party-john-linstrom.

"Church of the Epiphany." Bridge Eight, 15 Dec 2018, https://www.bridgeeight.com/church-of-the-epiphany/.

"Day Sleepers." Commonweal Magazine, vol. 145, no. 15, 21 Sept. 2018, p. 13 and https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/day-sleepers.

"Ice Sheet Archive." Broad River Review, 50th Anniversary Issue, no. 50, 2018, p. 104.

"Sunrise, with Motherly Influence." Commonweal Magazine, vol. 145, no. 12, 6 July 2018, p. 44 and https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/poem-sunrise-motherly-influence.

"Annual Thaw." Commonweal Magazine, vol. 145, no. 11, 15 June 2018, p. 8 and https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/annual-thaw.

"Found in the City." Commonweal Magazine, vol. 145, no. 11, 15 June 2018, p. 31 and https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/found-city.

"Sweet Potato Elegy." Commonweal Magazine, vol. 145, no. 9, 18 May 2018, p. 10 and https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/poem-sweet-potato-elegy.

"Losing Track of the Conversation." Dunes Review, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring/Summer 2018, pp. 47-8.

Three poems ("Soot of a Young Star," "Retting," and "Little Deaths"). Narrative Northeast, "Eco Issue," no. 5, 2018, http://www.narrativenortheast.com/?p=5337.

"What was Precious." Valparaiso Poetry Review, vol. 19, no. 1, Fall/Winter 2017-2018, https://www.valpo.edu/valparaiso-poetry-review/2018/01/04/john-linstrom-what-was-precious/.

"Out of State." Valparaiso Poetry Review, vol. 14, no. 2, Spring/Summer 2013, https://www.valpo.edu/vpr/v14n2/v14n2poetry/linstromout.php.

"Daedalus, Give Me the Farthest Distance Between Two Points." The Reed, Spring 2009, p. 4.