ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Some of these poems have appeared in All About Steinsky 101, Art on the Line, Ball, The Berkeley Poetry Review, Billy Bragg Forum Guestbook, Birthstone, California State Poetry Quarterly, Calling Home, Caprice, Central Park, Coffeehouse Quarterly, cold-drill, Collision, Compages, Convolvulus, the Cutting Edge, Exquisite Corpse, For A Living: The Poetry of Work, hollynear.com, Homeless Not Helpless, Hurricane Alice, Ikon, Journal of Women and Religion, Liberating Memory, Long Shot, Love Lights, Modern Poetry Studies, The New Press, News From Nowhere, New York Quarterly, pemmican, People's Tribune/Tribuno del Pueblo, Poetry USA, Poets Gallery, Poets on Parnassus, Portland Oregon Poetry Festival Anthology, Practicing Angels, Processed World, Rain City Review, Room, A Room of One's Own, Samisdat, San Francisco Bay Guardian, San Francisco Chronicle, Slow Motion Magazine, Social Anarchism, The Spirit That Moves Us, Synapse, Talking Raven, Transfer, Tunnel Road, Urban Aborigines, Velvet Wings, What We Hold In Common: An Introduction to Working-Class Studies, Womanblood: Portraits of Women in Prose and Poetry, Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives, Women's Studies Journal of the Feminist Press, Women's Studies Quarterly, work, Working Classics, Working Class Studies, and Zenger's/Golden Gater.

Grateful thanks to the librarians and staffs of the public libraries of Mount Vernon, Stanwood and Camano and Skagit Valley Community College in Washington state, and the Marin City, Sausalito, San Francisco Main and North Beach branches and the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, to the staffs of Caffe Trieste in North Beach and Sausalito, to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, to Agneta Falk and Julia Stein for encouraging Carol to collect her works into book form, to Julia for assisting me with the manuscript of "The Maggie Poems," and to Margeaux, Ralph and Larry Hushagen for putting me up and putting up with me during my stay in Stanwood, and to Erin Alberson, Angela Alioto, Jahahara Alkebulan-Ma'at, Lisa Allen, Paula Gunn Allen, Tom Ammiano, Tom Andrejewski, Zoe Anglesey, Ai Araki, Chris Ashley, Jerry Atkin, Alex Bagwell, Harriet Bagwell, Laura Baker, Thomas Banks, Chuck Barone, Genevieve Belfiglio, Connie R. Bell, Rico Bell, Virginia Benavides, Alan Benjamin, Lincoln Bergman, Donald Bergstrom, Joe Berry, Gene Berson, Iris Biblowitz, Black 47, Jeff Blankfort, Maria Blum, Paul Boden, Judy Boliver, Lynn Bonfield, Bob Booker, Jerry Borstel, Billy Bragg and the Blokes, Joe Brenner, James H. Broadhurst, Lisa Broadhurst, Robin Brownfield, Leiann Burton, Christopher Butters, Barbara Byrd, Jack Cade, Ernesto Cardenal, Perlette Carr, Bob Carson, Wilfredo Q. Castano, Hazel L. Chappell, Todd Chretian, Renny Christopher, Joanne Cimelli, Mel Clay, Merritt Clifton, Robin Michelle Clifton, Andrei Codrescu, Nicholas Coles, John Conyers, Jr., Yolanda Cortez, Anne Lyle Cowan, Kevin L. Coyne, John Crawford, Patricia Cross, Mario A. Cubas, Mary Ann Curtis, Lincoln Cushing, Daniel Dabkoski, Derek Dabkoski, Laurie Dabkoski, Terra Dally, Chris Daly, Jim Daniels, Kim Davis, Roberto deLa Paz, James Denison, Regina Dobson, Peter Donavan, Sue Doro, Sharon Doubiago, Jon Drane, Jesse Drew, Mark Dudzic, John Durham, Marcus Duskin, Barbara Early, Daniel Ellsberg, Sue Englander, Larry Evans,Terry Evans, Bob Fenster, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Louis Ferrell, Randy Fingland, Gail Fischer, Paul Fisher, Sam Fisher, Alexei Folger, Sesshu Foster, Jon Fromer, David Gabow, Jake Gabow, Armour Garland,Wayne Garland, Luther Gaylord, Renee Gibbons, Bernard Gilbert, El Gilbert, Joe Glazer, Jeff Goldthorpe, Matt Gonzalez, Michael Governor, Archie Green, Kim Green, Tom Greenhalgh, Robert Greenwald, Kaye Griffin, Susan Griffin, Roo Grubis, Philip Hackett, Sue Jean Halvorsen, Brian Christopher Hamilton, Virgil Hancock, Q.R. Hand, Susan Heath, Nicole Henares, Safiya Henderson-Holmes, Pat Hickerson, Mary Higgins, Monica Hill, Richard Hill, Roanne Hinden, Robert Hinish, Jack Hirschman, Phyllis Holiday, Susie Honeyman, Wayne Horman, Erica Horn, Sheri Hostetler, Richard Howe, Mary Huey, Robert Irminger, Tim Jacobs, Renee Jackson, Sean Jackson, Jacqueline, Todd Jailer, Joan Jasper, Gaia Jenkins, Shirley Jenkins, Dale Jensen, Theresa Jensen, Terri Jewel,Gary Johanson, Michael Johnson, Phyllis Johnson, Walter Johnson, Clay Joseph, Rob Joseph, Paul Kantner, Nancy Kato, Mary Ke, James Kennedy, Sarah Kennedy, Myung-Hee Kim, Howard Kirby, Gwyn Kirk, Larry Kirwin, Rick Knee, Dennis Kucinich, Tom Lacey, Carol Lambiase, Rob Lang, Jon Langford, Tom Larke, Dianne Layden, Norman Lederer,Tim Lennon, James J. Leo, Deborah LeSueur, Genny Lim, Dave Lippman, Bonnie Lober, Errol Lobo, Jonathan London, George Long, Fred Lonidier, Bob Lucien, Ewan Machlagan, Jackie Maciel, devorah majors, Erik Malm, Angela Mankiewicz, Rosemary Manno, Maria Mappouridis, Ada L. McAdow, Jerry McGuire, Andrea McHenry, Keith McHenry, Heather McKay, Stephen Mead, the Mekons, Sarah Menefee, Kathleen Merrigan, Dean Metcalf, Gary Meyer, Theo Michael, Adam David Miller, Valerie Miner, Doug Minkler, Ross Mirkarimi, Yvonne Misa,Gail Mitchell, the Modern Lovers, H.D. Moe, Owen Mold, Keith Moore, Michael Moore, Aurora Levins Morales, Pattie Mote, Much Ado About Karen, Alejandro Murgia, Amanda Murphy, James I. Musheno, Keri Amanda Myers, Louise Nayer, Holly Near, Crawdad Nelson,Walter Nervik, Jack Nestor, Brad Newsham, Gavin Newsom, Gerald Nicosia, Leanna Noble, Jonathan North, Hilton Obenzinger, Major O'Brien, Margo Okusawa-Rey, Peter Oresick, William Packard, Greg Palast, Barbara Paschke, Jim Patten, Sonja Pedersen, Nelson Peery, David Pendergast, Richard Perdue, Shirley Perdue, Aaron Peskin, Rebecca Peters, Millie Phillips, Lisa Pizza, Csaba Polony, David S. Pontrelli, Jon Quays, Vess Quinlan, Carlos Ramirez, Ramu, Margaret Randall, Shirley Sheba Rapoport, Steve Rayshich, Tim Redmond, Alan Reed, Fanny Renoir, Iris Richardson, Jonathan Richman, Naomi Richman, Shirley W. Rida, Ross Rieder, Sam Robert, Val Roberts, Tony Robles, Peter Rockwell, Christy Rodgers, Luis Rodriguez, Silvio Rodriguez, Alice Rogoff, Kelly Kelly Rollins, Nora Roman, Peter Romanovsky, Sarah Rosedale, Diana Rossi, Angel Rubio, Gwyn Rubio, Tony Ryan, Robert A. Salasis, Carol Lee Sanchez, Ronald Saurer, Cross Cut Saw, Saul Schniderman, Lee Schore, Mike Schwab, Mark Schwartz, Max Schwartz, Susan Schwartzenberg, Valda Self, Mariella Setzu, Ellen Shaffer, Janet Sue Shaw, Arthur Sheridan, Susan Sherman, Bill Shields, Leonard R. Shindel, Maxine D. Shindel, Sandy Shreve, Kristi Siegel, James Sifert, Elly Simmons, Leslie Simon, Patricia Singer, Shirley Sitler, Don Skiles, Paul E. Smith, Stephanie Smith, Henry Spencer, Byron Spooner, Pete Stark, Pamela Strand, Roger Strobel, Bill Stroud, Jim Swann, Sandy Swann, Amber Tamlyn, Alicia Tarlen, Leah Tarlen, Si and Jane Tarlen, Fran Taylor, Cary Tennis, Steve Tett, Michael Theriault, Jeff Thompson, Katia Thompson, Tracey Thorne, Jim Tilly, Sally Timms, Jon Tout, Kazmi Torii, James Tracy, C.H. Trowbridge, Betty L. Truxall, George Tsongas, Jule Uddfolk, Stephanie A. Van Horn, Roberto Vargas, Bill Vartnaw, Steve Vender, John Ventola, Joel Ventresca, Charles Vermont, Remi Vespa, David Volpendesta, Richard Wada, Stephen Walker, David Walters, Barbara C. Waterhouse, Philip A. Waterhouse, Tom Wayman, ruth weiss, Dave Welsh, Ken Werner, Julie West, Kristen Wetterhahn, Don White, Marybeth Whitehead, Gail Wiley, Alice M. Willis, Geoff Wilson, Jerry ("J.T.") Windley, Lily Wong, Nellie Wong, Merle Woo, Pat Wynne, Francisco X. Alarcon, Yoav Sapir, Yusuf Umaro, Janet Zandy, William Zandy, Steve Zeltzer, Emily Zimmerman, Natalie Zlatereva, and many others I've forgotten to include here.

Grateful thanks, hasta la siempre.