Besides her six books of fiction and non-fiction, LaVerne Harrell Clark is the editor/photographer of 2 companion books, which include poems and biographies of contemporary poets, most of whom are Americans. A few poets from abroad are offered as well--mainly writers, well-known to today's poetry circles. Her latest publication of an informal portrait of a poet is her jacket cover photograph of James Wright on A WILD PERFECTION:THE SELECTED LETTERS OF JAMES WRIGHT (Farrar, Straus & Giroux ed. by Anne Wright & S.R.Maley, 2005.) Clark started making the photos in l962 while serving as the founding director of the University of Arizona Poetry Center. Then, after turning full-time to her writing career in 1966, she has continued independently ever since to add to the collection of informal portraits she has made of writers, doing it mainly through her own appearances, conferences she attends and travels. For more details on her time at the U. of AZ. Poetry Center, as well as her own account of its early days, see C.L. Sonnichsen, TUCSON (U. of OK. Press, 1982) a and the U. of AZ Centennial Document, distributed by Amazon.com and identified as: "The Early Days of the U. of AZ Poetry Center" by LaVerne Harrell Clark. Both of her poetry-related books are still in print and available from the publisher: Heidelberg Graphics of Chico, CA 800-342-1845), or from Amazon.com, or other booksellers. CLARK'S 2 POETRY-RELATED BOOKS ARE: 1.THE FACE OF POETRY, a paperback reprint, $8.95, which contains poems (or self-portraits in verse) by each of the 101 contributors featured. Clark served as co-editor for the anthology with Mary MacArthur, then Assistant Director of the Literature Panel of the NEA. To introduce each of the poems included, a 5x7 black and white informal portrait of the poet by Clark is offered, with the date she made it given underneath. 2. FOCUS 101, $7.95 (pa.), is the anthology's biographical companion. It features both the photos and a text by Clark, who served additionally as its editor. Except for a few instances, it offers a photo by her of each poet that is different from the one appearing in the anthology, sometimes one dating to a different time or setting. Again, all the biographies concern the same 101 contributors who appear in the anthology. BOTH TITLES WERE WIDELY REVIEWED & RECEIVED MAJOR MEDIA ATTENTION AS WELL. Upon publication, THE FACE OF POETRY, was cited by Bill Katz, in a roundup review at the end-of-the-year for the LIBRARY JOURNAL, as being "among my 5 or 6 top choices of the year." It was also chosen as a Small Press Book Club Selection for the year and is now in its second printing. FOCUS 101 was praised by Charles Bunge in WILSON LIBRARY BULLETIN for providing "sketches" that "contain some unique items, especially the poets' observations." Val Morehouse's review for ALA BOOKLIST noted especially how this collection of biographies with the writers' portraits provides a meaningful source in which "younger small press poets are amply represented among established ones," besides furnishing, too, "a fine sampling of writers from varying ethnic backgrounds." In addition to these 2 books, Clark's photographs also appear as the illustrations for 7 other books. 2 by Clark concern author Mari Sandoz and her life and writings on Plains Indians. Over 200 of Clark's photos appear in her pictorial biography, MARl SANDOZ'S NATIVE NEBRASKA (2000, $18.95, from Arcadia), while an earlier related work with 54 is now o.p. Others appear in various of her 15 articles on Sandoz and are published in BLUE CLOUD QUARTERLY, JOURNAL OF THE WEST, ROUNDUP MAGAZINE & elsewhere. The most recent of them are with an article in the current (V.35 #1,'05)issue of WHISPERING WIND, a bimonthly magazine on Native American arts, past and present. Two other books with her photos are THE MINOAN DISTANCE and DARK NIGHT OF THE BODY, both by her husband, writer L.D. Clark, a well-known Lawrence scholar, who is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Arizona. Both of his works concern D.H.Lawrence's life and travels, with the first offering photographs about his time in Europe, and the second furnishing images related to his time in Mexico and New Mexico. Her Lawrence photographs have also appeared in such magazines as these: TEXAS QUARTERLY, D.H. LAWRENCE REVIEW & WESTWAYS. For more information about these titles, see her husband's separate website as a writer (a novelist as well as scholar): www.ldclark.net. The 3 remaining titles that are also illustrated by Clark are books written by her, all of which are now available in paperback: 1.THEY SANG FOR HORSES, a non-fiction classic about Navajo & Apache lore and mythology, which won the 1967 University of Chicago Folklore Prize, available now in the 2001 revised edition of University Press of Colorado, $27. The new edition contains for the first time 35 of her photographs of Navajo and Apache lifeways at places located throughout the Southwest, though mostly in New Mexico and Arizona, the latter state being where she lived for over 30 years. She has traveled extensively, studying these Native Americans and others like the Hopi and Pueblo peoples of the Rio Grande, as well as the AZ. Yaqui, people whose ancestors originated in Mexico, but who are now living near her former home in Tucson. Some of the magazines offering her photos of Native American cultures are: JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE, PHANTASM & BLUE CLOUD QUARTERLY. She also did related research on folklore and fiestas in Spain and Mexico and was awarded a grant from the American Philosophical Society in 1967, 1969, for her research in this connection. 2.KEEPERS OF THE EARTH (winner of the 1998, best 1st. novel award from Western Writers of America). Now in its second printing, it is set in a small Texas town that is modeled on her native Smithville, the place where she and her husband again reside, and published by Cinco Puntos Press, $15). Each of its chapters open with different views of life and landscapes, typical of those found in the small Colorado River town near Austin where she was born and raised. 3.THE DEADLY SWARM & OTHER STORIES (a short story collection, set in the Southwest, and published by Hermes House Press, first in NYC, with a second printing in Northampton, MA, $8.) It garnered the 1986 1st. place prize for a book of fiction in the national biennial contest of the National League of American Pen Women that same year and features a cover and black and white photographs by her throughout. The images show the ancestral land she inherited from her mother, property which belonged to her great-grandfather Bunte, the pioneer landowner for which the Bunte Town community adjacent to Smithville was named. For more on these titles, see her website as a writer:www.writersregister.com/artists/TX7; also use all 3 of Clark's names on Google, AOL, and other search engines for more info. Note Clark also has a separate website as a photographer, which displays 12 online poets' photos, which should also be consulted: http://artistsregister.com/artists/TX3. Besides her photos of writers included in books, her portraits appear, too, in a wide variety of magazines, anthologies and reference works, among them: AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW, CODA, POETRY NOW, NEW YORK QUARTERLY, RE:AL, NITTY-GRITTY, GREAT LAKES REVIEW, SUN TRACKS, SUMAC, LA CONFLUENCIA,THE STONE, WINDLESS ORCHARD, STONE DRUM, AMOTFA, IMAGES, PEMBROKE, and in David Allen Evans's NEW VOICES IN AMERICAN POETRY, Miller Williams' CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY, Arthur and Glee Knight's BEAT BOOK, Satiation & Shelly's ON WRITERS & WRITING and in Harold Bloom's 20TH CENTURY BRITISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE. Of the 500 contemporary writers she has photographed, whose names appear on the following listing, there is sometimes a selection of poses of an artist available. If you wish to order black & white (with none available in color)informal portraits of any of the writers listed, contact Clark by e-mail or by post (with a SASE included), indicating the quantity needed, a preference in size (8x10; 5x7) and include your plan of use. Prices range according to usage and to her terms, and must also cover postage & handling costs. Publication rights to all photos are reserved by Clark, with proper credit due her in the publication. She assures reasonable consideration will be given in assigning a fee that is commensurate with the kind of publication, distribution and use, which you state will be made of any of her photos. A LISTING OF 500 INFORMAL PHOTOS OF WRITERS by LaVERNE HARRELL CLARK, with copyright retained by LaVerne H. Clark Again, a reminder note: all publication & use rights are reserved by Clark. A proper credit line & the permission for use, with the terms of use granted, are criteria necessary from Clark before any use can be made of any of the writers' photographs listed below (a listing updated thru 6/16/05): Contact: lhldclark@aol.com, or write her @ 604 Main Street, Smithville,TX 78957. Note: the keys beside some names indicate places to see and consider photos of that writer. Bks=Clark's 2 companion volumes, THE FACE OF POETRY and FOCUS 101; www=Clark's photo website: >http://artistsregister.com/artists/TX3. The website has a set of online portraits. Note particularly, too, that photos which can be seen here on this Artistic site in connection with both the above profile, or the attached articles on Clark, are also indicated in parenthesis beside a name. A..A..A Dannie Abse (Wales) Randall Ackley (Bks) Helen Adam Alice Adams Ai Francisco X. Alarcon (Chicano) Sandra Alcosser Charles Alexander Sherman Alexi Aga Shahid Ali (deceased) Paula Gunn Allen (Bks) (Laguna-Sioux) Judy Alter Patricia Anaya Rudolfo Anaya (Chicano) Brother Antoninus (William Everson) Barbara Anderson Jon Anderson (Bks) Lee Anderson (deceased) Michael Anderson David Apodaca (Chicano) Linda Morales Armas (Chicana) Jose Armas (Chicano) John Ashberry Margaret Atwood (Canada) B..B..B Dick Bakken Margaret Boothe Baddour Eve Ball (deceased) Amiri Barka (Leroi Jones) Coleman Barks Judith Barrington (Canada) Richard Barnes Jay Barwell Ronald Bayes Byrd Baylor (children) Patricia Beer (England) Marvin Bell (Bks)(see above, Profile,illus.p.l) Ted Berrigan (deceasd) Charles Bernstein (deceased) Mei Mei Bersenbrugge Brother Benet (Benet Tvedten) Gloria Bird (Spokane) Leonard Bird (Bks) Mary Clearman Blew Martha Blue Robet Bly (See above, Profile, illus. p.1) Louise Bogan (Bks)(See this site, article:TWU (deceased) Library exhibit, p.1 illus) Richard Bodner Jorge Luis Borges (See above, deceased, Argentina) Profile, illus.p.2) Vance Bourjaily Michael Bowden George Bowering (Bks) (Canada) Edward Kamu Braithwaite (Jamaica) David Breeden Karen Brennan Susan Bright Joseph Brodsky (Russia) Ann Bromley Gwendolyn Brooks (deceased) Olga Broumas Rosellen Brown Steven Ford Brown Carol Bruchac Joseph Bruchac Robert Grant Burns Bobby Byrd (Bks)(See article on KEEPERS,here,p2) Lee Merrill Byrd C..C..C Francois Camoin Criss Cannady Margarita Cota Cardenas Henry Carlisle Liz Carpenter Hayden Carruth Jared Carter Jefferson Carter (Bks) Raymond Carver (See article, TWU Lib.exhib,p.3) (deceased) Jaime Chavez (Chicano) Maxine Chernoff David Chorlton Paul Christensen John Ciardi (Bks) (deceased) Siv Cedering (Fox) Neil Claremon (Bks) L.D.Clark (See article on Lawrence Studies,p.3) Andy Clausen Linda Clausen Lucille Clifton (www; Bks) Thomas Cobb (Bks) James Cody (deceased) Robert P. Tristram Coffin (deceased) (Bk-anthology;See article TWU News,2) Robert J. Conley (Bks)(See article,Foreword,2) (Cherokee) Robert Creeley (deceased)(profile,illus. p.2; www;Bks) Judson Crews Eleanor Crockett James Crumley Michael Cuddihy (Bks) (deceased) D..D..D Beverly Dahlen Margarita Dalton Terry Dalrymple Robert Dante Cecil Day Lewis (Bks) (deceased, England)(See article, TWU news,1) Madeline De Fries Nicholas Delbanico Nepthali De L鯮 (Chicano) Abelardo Delgado (Bks) (deceased, Chicano) Allen De Loach Joan De Loach Vine De Loria, Jr. (Sioux) Alison Hawthorne Deming R.P. Dickey (Bks) Chris Dietz W.S. (Simone)Di Piero Bruce Dobler Stephen Dobyns Edward Dorn Harriett Doerr (deceased) Robert C.S.Downs Norman Dubie (Bks) Alan Dugan (Bks) (deceased) Robert Duncan (www) (deceased) Stephen Dunn (Bks) E..E..E Bill Eastlake (deceased) Richard Eberhart (deceased)(Bks)(See 2 in article: Foreword) p.1 Barbara Einzig Stanley Elkin Lynn Emmanuel Gretel Ehrlich Martin Espada Loris Essary Wm.Everson (Br.Antoninus) F..F..F Karen Falkenstrom Tom Farber Mick Fedullo Lawrence Ferlinghetti (www) Robert Feldman Thomas Michael Fisher Robert Fink Robert Flynn Carolyn Forch Paul Foreman David Gene Fowler Rene Franco Kathleen Fraser Charlotte J. Frisbie Carol Frost Gene Frumkin (Bks) Dwight Fullinghim G..G..G Tess Gallagher Sunil Gangopdhyay (India) Ruth Gardner Rita Garitano (Bks) Tony Garrett (England) Thomas Gavin Dan Gerber (Bks) Graeme Gibson (Canada) Jack Gilbert Sandra Gilbert Frances Gillmor (deceased) Diane Glancy (Cherokee) Steve Gende Barent Gjelsness Miguel Gonzalez-Gerth (Bks) Vivian Gornick Beckian Fritz Goldberg Larry Goodell (Bks) Jorie Graham Byrd Granger Frank Graziano Michael Gregory Linda Gregg Sylvia A. Grider E.V. Griffith (deceased) Thom Gunn (Bks) (deceased) R. S. Gwynn H..H..H Drummond Hadley (Bks) Raven Hail (Cherokee) Donald Hall (Bks) Mark Halperin Sam Hamill Patricia Hampl Ann Marie (Huck) (Bks) Haralambie Joy Harjo (Creek)(Bks)(See article: Coda,p.2) Michael Harper (Bks) Jim Harris Jim Harrison (Bks) Linda Hasselstrom Amy Hempel Seamus Heaney (Ireland) Shelby Hearon Victor Hernandez- Cruz (Puerto Rico) Adrian Henry (England) Marcela Aguilar Henson(Chicana) James Hepworth Rueben Hernandez, Jr. (Chicano) Marquetta Herring Robert Hemenway Jim Heynen Billy Bob Hill Walter Lee Hill Grady Hillman Hannah Hinchman George Hitchcock (Bks) Tony Hoagland Michael Hogan Linda Hogan (Creek) James Hoggard Cynthia Hogue Ann Hood Peter Hooten Robert Houston Susan Howe Andrew Hudgins James Humphrey (Bks) William Humphrey (deceased) John R.Humphreys (deceased) Diana Huntress I..I..I David Ignatow (Bks) (deceased) Lawson Fusao Inada (Bks) Jeremy Ingalls (Bks) (deceased) Will Inman (Bks) J..J..J Fleda Brown Jackson Guida Jackson Richard Jackson Joyce Jenkins Denis Johnson Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka) June Jordan (Bks) (deceased) Teresa Jordan Donald Justice (Bks) (deceased) K..K..K Michael Kabotie (Hopi) Roberta Kalechofsky Shirley Kaufman John Kay George Keithley Elmer Kelton X.J.Kennedy Rolly Kent (Bks) Ken Kesey (deceased) Galway Kinnell (www) Carolyn Kizer William Kloefkorn John Knoepfle Karl Kopp (Bks) Maxine Kumin (www; Bks) Stanley Kunitz (www) L..L..L Elizabeth Searle Lamb William Laufer James Laughlin (deceased) James Ward Lee John Lehmann (England) Doris Lessing (England) Denise Levertov (www) Philip Levine (Bks) Pat Little Dog Mark Loeffler John Logan (Bks) (deceased) Francisco Lomeli (Chicano) Robert Longoni Barry Lopez Ivan Lourie Sandra Lynn M..M..M Mary MacArthur Cynthia MacDonald Nathaniel Mackey Archibald MacLeish (www; Bks)(See article: (deceased) Foreword, p.3) Jackson MacLow Rita Magdaleno (Chicana) Nancy Mairs Carolyn Maisel (Bks) Paul Malanga Richard Mandell E. Anthony Mares Richard Marius Daphne Marlatt (Canada) Demitria Martinez Robert Matte, Jr. William Matthews (deceased) Peter Matthiessin Eugene McCarthy Howard McCord (Bks) Thomas McGuane Kevin McIlvoy Larry McMurtry Robert S.McPherson Sandra McPherson (Bks) Joyce Meier (deceased) Miguel Mendez M. (Chicano) William Meredith(Bks)(See article,FACE,p.2) Carol S. Merrill (Bks) James Merrill (deceased) W.S. Merwin Robert Mezey Leonard Michaels Christopher Middleton (Bks) Jane Miller Josephine Miles Czeslaw Milosz (Poland) Barney Mitchell (Emerson Blackhorse) (Navajo) Don Mitchell N.Scott Momaday (www) (Kiowa) Pete Morgan (England) Hilda Morley Wright Morris (deceased) Lisel Mueller Deborah Munro (Canada) Joseph Colin Murphey (deceased) Sheila Murphy Roger Murray N..N..N Alivia Nada (Josie Mora; Chicana) Tenny Nathanson Burgess Needle John Newlove (Bks) (deceased,Canada) bp Nichol (deceased,Canada) Carolyn Niethammer John Frederick Nims (Bks) (deceased) Nora Naranjo-Morse (Santa Clara) Susan North (Bks) Alice Notley Robert Novak Naomi Shihab Nye O..O..O Tim O'Brien Joe Olvera (Chicano) Tillie Olsen Steve Orlen (Bks) Carolyn Osborn Sharon Olds Carol Ole Dave Oliphant Simon Ortiz (Bks) (Acoma) P...P...P Robert Pack Grace Paley (See article, TWU Lib.exhib,p.3) Michael Palmer Greg Pape Nicanor Parra (Chile) Linda Pastan Raymond Richard Patterson (deceased) (Bks) Tom Patterson Bill Pearlman (Bks) Fernando Penalosa (Chicano) Robert Peterson Charles Potts (Bks) Al Poulin, Jr. Lawrence Clark Powell(deceased) Ron Powers William Price Jean Pumphrey Q..Q..Q Leroy Quintana (Bks) R..R..R A.K. Ramanujan (Bks) (deceased;India) Belle Randall John Crowe Ransom (Bks) (deceased) Michael Rattee George Reavey (Bks) (deceased) Jean Reavey Peter Redgrove (Bks) (England) Ishmael Reed Kenneth Rexroth (www) (deceased) Boyer Rickel Adrienne Rich Nancy Rifkin Alberto Rios Marina Rivera (Bks) (Silvia Wild; Chicana) Eliana Rivero (Cuba) Eloise Roach (deceased) Joyce Gibson Roach Janet Rodney Margarita Luna Robles (Chicana) Foster Robertson Mary Elsie Robertson Marilynne Robinson William Roecker (Bks) Lou Halsell Rodenberger Luis Rodrigues (Chicano) Orlando Romero (Bks) (Spanish Amer.) William Pitt Root (Bks) Jerome Rothenberg (Bks) Paul Ruffin Jim Ruppert Barrie Ryan Michael Ryan S..S..S Ira Sadoff Benjamin A.Saenz (Chicano) Raul Salinas Ricardo Sanchez (Bks) (deceased; Chicano) Jim Sanderson Greg Sarris (Coast Miwok) Josephine Saunders (Bks) John Savant Leslie Scalapino Paul Schaefer Susan Fromberg Schaeffer Harris Schiff (Bks) Dorey Schmidt Lee Schultz Greg A. Seegar Jan Seale Lore Segal Jeanne Shannon Karl Shapiro Richard Shelton (Bks) Jim Shepard Jane Shore Alix Kates Shulman Peggy Shumaker Michael Sikes Leslie Silko Charles Simic (Bks) Ron Silliman Myra Sklarew Annich Smith David Smith Ken Smith (England) Gary Snyder (www; Bks) Mary Snotherly Ruth Slonim Miriam Bornstein-Somoza (Chicana) Marcia Southwick Gary Soto (Chicano) Stephen Spender (deceased; England) Bart Lanier Stafford III William Stafford (Bks) (deceased) Ann Stanford Les Standiford George Starbuck Wallace Stegner (deceased) Paul Stein Ruth Stephan(Bks)(See article,FOCUS,p.1) (deceased) Alan Stephens (Bks) Gerald Stern Pamela Stewart (Bks) Primus St. John (Bks) Robert Stone Ruth Stone (Bks) Mark Strand (Bks) Lyn Strongin Lyn Luria- Sukenick Brian Swann Robert Sward (Bks) May Swenson (Bks) (dec.) Tree Swenson T..T..T Carmen Tafolla (Chicana) Nard Taiz David Tammer Nathaniel Tarn Charles Taylor Marshall Terry D.M. Thomas (Bks) (England) Robert Thomson Jean Thompson Dan Thrapp Estela Portillo Tremblay (Chicana) Tomas Transtromer (Bks) (Sweden) Arnulfo Trejo (Chicano) Benet Tvedten (Br. Benet) U..U..U Donald Urioste (Chicano) V..V..V Mona Van Duyn (deceased) Craig Van Riper Rex Veeder Ellen Bryant Voigt W. .W..W Derek Walcott Diane Wakoski (www; Bks) Anne Waldman Rosemarie Waldrop Alice Walker Mary Alexander Walker (children) Scott Walker David Raphael Wang (Bks) (deceased) Frederick Ward Ramona Weeks (deceased) Roger Weingarten Larry Weirather (Bks) Ron Welburn James Welch (See article, CODA, p.1) (deceased, Blackfoot) David Wevill Reed Whittemore (Bks) Betty Wiesepape Richard Wilbur (Bks)(See article, FOCUS, p.3) Peter Wild (Bks) David Wilk W.R. (Bill) Wilkins C.K. Williams (Bks) Angus Wilson (deceased, England) Darryl Wilson (Pit River) Keith Wilson (Bks)(See article, CODA, p.3) Miles Wilson John Witschel David Wojahn Hilma Wolitzer Charles Wright James Wright (deceased) (Bks;Cover--WILD PERFECTION:LETTERS,Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2005) Jane Roberts Wood Christopher Woods Elizabeth Woody (Warm Springs/Navajo) Y..Y..Y David Yates (deceased) Yusef Yomunyakan Marguerite Young (Bks)(See article, FOCUS,p.2) (deceased) Ray A. Young Bear (Tama/Sioux) Z..Z..Z Steven Zerback Alison Zier Ofelia Zepeda (Tohono O?odam) Thomas Zigal Adam Zagajewski (Poland) Paul Zimmer (Bks)