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Roy Neil Graves
3. Poems and other publications for general readers:

Collections of poems:

Somewhere on the Interstate. Memphis: Ion Books, 1987. Reviewed by W. D. Haden in “Poem Collection Offers Dignity, Insight, Imagery,” The Jackson [TN] Sun, 20 Dec. 1987, 7C.
Out of Tennessee: Poems,with an Introduction . Doctoral essay. The University of Mississippi, 1977.
“Medina” and Other Poems. Jackson, TN: Old Hickory Press, 1976. Reviewed by Reed Sanderlin in Journal of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society, 5 (June 1977): 64-67.

Poems in anthologies:

“Days” and “Love Song.” Obion River Anthology: Poems, Essays and Short Stories by Area Writers. Martin, TN: Weakley County Arts & Humanities Council, 2007. 15-16.
“About 1950 in Miami." Golden Poetry: A Celebration of Southern Poets 50 and Older. Ed.Robert Hill. Atlanta: Brumby Holdings, Inc., 2002. 3-4 (and see ix.)
Fourteen poems and an interview. Always at Home Here: Insights and Poems from Six Tennessee Poets. Ed. Ernest Lee. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997. 17-36. 2nd printing 1998.
“Pentecostal Woman,” “Fall Sowing,” and “To the Family We Left at the Truckstop.” Homeworks: A Book of Tennessee Writers. Ed. Phyllis Tickle and Alice Swanson. Knoxville: Univ. of TN P, 1996. 125-27.
“July.” Neotony. Martin: Tennessee Governor’s School for the Humanities, 1996. 32.
“Buffet Night at the Pizza House.” Homewords: A Book of Tennessee Writers. Ed. Douglas Paschall and Alice Swanson. Knoxville: Univ. of TN P, 1986. 218. Rpt. from Windmills 11 (1982): 37.
“On a Partial Eclipse in 1979” and “Saturday A.M.” Old Hickory Review 13.1 (1981): 54-55. [A special issue, The Tennesseans.]
“Mrs. Overstreet.” In New Ground. Ed. Donald Askins and David Morris. Whitesburg, KY: Southern Appalachian Writers' Cooperative and Mountain Review,1977. 148.
“Where We Are.” In Celebration: A Bicentennial Anthology. Ed. Robert Simonton. Memphis: The Poetry Society of Tennessee, 1976. 2.
“A Modern Poem” and “Question.” In Contemporary American Poetry: Specialia 6. Ed. Bill Sullivan and others. Carbondale, IL, 1975. 35.
“Autumn.” In Songs of Youth. Los Angeles: American Poetry Society, 1955. 125.

Poems published in periodicals and online:

“Princeton: 42 North West College Hall.” Princeton Alumni Weekly: Writers Block: Poets Place. Web. 11 May 2010.
“Closing the Deal.” New Ground 4.1 (1996):78. [A UT Martin periodical, not the Askins and Morris anthology listed above.]
“Documents,” “View from the Tub,” “Piece of Cake,” “Somewhere on the Interstate,” “Buffet Night at the Pizza House,” and “For a Stranger.” Mañana[Austin, TX] l.9 (1995): 13-14. [This issue features these poems, with a biographical note and interview excerpts.]
“The Relic (Good Friday 1991).” The Distillery: Artistic Spirits of the South2.2 (Summer 1995): 88-89.
“Determination Revisited.” CPU Review 4.2 (Oct. 1994): 44.
“Ann (Aside).” The Upstart Crow: A Shakespeare Journal 6 (1986): v.
“The Voices of All the Women.” Bean Switch 1 (1984): 22.
“To My Japanese Students, Going Home.” Windmills 12 (1983): 21.
“Broaching Mississippi.” Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association 9.2 (1983): 35.
“Evening Out at Avent Park.” Images 8.2 (1979): 31.
“Getting through the Dark.” The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review,Winter 1979, [14].
“How an Evening School Teacher Passes His Hour.” The Educational Catalyst 9.2 (1979): 71.
“The Infant's Funeral.”Second Growth: Appalachian Nature and Culture 1 (1979): 6.
“An Oxford Lady Dressed for Fall.” The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review,Winter 1979, [14].
“Sometimes I Think of India.” Windmills 8 (1979): 9.
“Browsing among the PS's.” Images 7.2 (1978): 18.
“Expansion.” Journal of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society 6 (1978): 10-11.
“Somewhere on the Interstate.” The Panhandler: A Regional Journal 3 (1978): 34.
“Talk About.” Images 7.2 (1978): 33.
“Underpass.” The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Dec. 1977, 24.
“April 19, 1974.” Windmills 5 (1976): 17.
“The Burial.” The Goddard Journal, Spring 1976, 8.
“Driver.” The Miscellany: A Davidson Review 2.2 (1976): 9.
“Driving through Tennessee.” Mountain Review 2.3 (1976): 36.
“Epithalamion, Give or Take Ten Years.” Mississippi Review 5.2 (1976), 36-37.
“Fall Sowing.” Mountain Review 3.1 (1976): 32.
“Haying.” The Miscellany: A Davidson Review 2.1 (1976): 8-9.
“Montgomery Morning.” The Miscellany: A Davidson Review 2.1 (1976): 96.
“My Cows Like Me.” The Miscellany: A Davidson Review 2.2 (1976): 7.
“New Year, 1976.” The Miscellany: A Davidson Review 2.2 (1976): 10.
“Oaks.” Mountain Review 2.4 (1976): 36.
“Pentecostal Woman.” Appalachian Journal 3.4 (1976): 398.
“Salvation.” Twigs 13.1 (1976): 49.
“The Sassafras.” Old Hickory Review 7.2 (1975-76): 20.
“The Shape of Things to Come.” Mississippi Review 5.2 (1976): 37.
“The Barn.” Appalachian Journal 2.2 (1975): 143.
“Bug on the Fence.” Mountain Review 1.2 (1975): 36.
“Déjà Vu.” The Small Farm, no. 2 (Oct. 1975): 51.
“An Epitaph for Delta State” [light verse]. The Pacer, 23 Oct. 1975, 4.
“Form and Function.” Old Hickory Review 7.1 (1975): 15.
“Home.” The Small Farm,no. 2 (October 1975): 50.
“Specimens.” Vanderbilt Poetry Review 2.1 (1975): 30.
“Tuscaloosa.” Vanderbilt Poetry Review 2.1 (1975): 31.
“2004.” Windmills 4 (1975): 12.
“Weakley Co. Eclectic.” Windmills 4 (1975): 12.
“Epilogue.” Old Hickory Review 6.1 (Spring-Summer 1974): 53.
“February Spring.” Old Hickory Review 6.2 (1974): 27.
“The Picture Show.” Old Hickory Review 6.1 (1974): 53.
“Spring Woods.” Twigs 10.2 (1974): 16.
“There She Is.” Windmills 3 (1974): 18.
“Winter.” Old Hickory Review 6.2 (1974): 27.
“Christmas Reckoning.” Old Hickory Review 5.2 (1973): 50.
“Medina.” Old Hickory Review 5.1(1973): 40.
[“Near Dawn.”] New York Magazine14 May 1973, 110.
“Rebuttal for Winter.” Old Hickory Review 5.2 (1973): 51.
“A View on the Chesapeake.” The Lyric 42.1 (1962): 20.
“Obelus.” Duke University Archive 74.2 (1961): 45.
“Songs from Brown Leaves.” The Baptist Student 38.1 (1958): 1.

Forever UT Martin
A Song for the Campus Centennial
Text Copyright © Roy Neil Graves 2000,
with all rights assigned to UT Martin
(Musical setting by Dwight Gatwood)

I.

America since pilgrim days
Has chartered souls to quest—
Her minds, to seek the outward bounds,
No art nor truth suppressed.
In pioneering Tennessee
Aspiring aims endured,
Our founders planting here the hopes
That others have secured.



II.

We celebrate a heritage
By discipline passed down:
What days have reeled upon these grounds
Where thousands have moved on.
Now still we range on rainbow dreams,
Our commons crowned with skies,
And touch the echoes of the years,
Outlasting enterprise



III.

Unleash the granite cornerstone
That all her latent prayer
Inspire a beat our hearts can feel,
The best our minds can dare.
For golden seasons yet to be
We, sons and daughters all,
Embrace the earth and sound the stars
In measures past recall.


Refrain:


Then lift the lamp!
Then raise the cup!
Let bolder hearts in one strong voice command,
"UT Martin!  Tennessee!  
Forever may she stand!"

Song Texts:

“Forever UT Martin: A Song for the Campus Centennial,” with Dwight Gatwood, composer. Inaugural performance by University Singers and UTM Brass Ensemble, Kevin Lambert, conductor, at various Centennial events on campus and in Martin, October 2000. Reprinted above right.
“CVCC Alma Mater,” in collaboration with Sue Lain Graves (1968).“Alma Mater.” Central Virginia Community College. 2006-2010. Web. 11 May 2010.

“The Scholar Meets the Road.” Reproduced from “Utopics,”The Tennessee Alumnus78.1 (1998): 4. All rights reserved.

Articles for general audiences:

“Amendment One Demoralizes Gays Across America,” The [UT Martin] Pacer, 31 Oct. 2006, p. 2. Rpt. (with different heading) Weakley Country [TN] Press, 2 Nov. 2006.
“Vice Chancellor’s Words Disturbing; We Have the Right to Voice Opinions [editorial title].” The [UT Martin] Pacer, 21 Feb. 2003: 2. Online 20 Feb. 2003. <http://pacer.utm.edu/view_article.php?article=669>.
“ ‘What seest thou else?’ A Teacher Looks at Recent Days.” The Norris [TN] Bulletin, 13 Sept. 2001: 8-9.
“Poetry in Motion.” Runner’s World, Aug. 1997, 118. (See “UTM Professor Writes ‘Poetry in Motion’ for Runner’s World.” Weakley County [TN] Press, 5 August 1997.)
“My Favorite Race.” Runner’s World, Nov. 1996, 116.
“Professor Says Homosexuality Is a Taboo Subject at UTM [editorial title].” The [UT Martin] Pacer, 5 Oct. 1995: 4.
“The Pack Shed Fire of 1954: Downtown Medina’s Close Escape.” Medina Star 1.6 (13 June 1988): 1, 11.
“A Free Press Safeguards My Freedom.” Weakley County [TN] Press, 18 Dec. 1980, 2.
“Hall-Moody Marks 75th Anniversary.” The Tennessee Alumnus 55.4 (1975): 2-4.
“The New Criticism” [parody]. The Princeton Tiger 67.5 (1961): 6ff. Rpt. as “A Re-Revaluation of the Nature Poetry in Emily Dirkerford.” Potpourriof Randolph-Macon Woman’s College 9.2 (1962): 10-11. Also rpt. as “A Critical Contribution.” Duke University Archive 74.1 (1961): 44-45.
“UT-Martin Was Born at Baptist Meeting [editorial title].” The TenneScene 9.10 (1975): 4-5.

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