I have published over a hundred poems in various journals, anthologies, chapbooks, and magazines, and have written many hundreds more than I have published.. Here is a sampling of some of them. In 1993 I won an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council for my poetry.

Here is my poetry chapbook of Christmas poems since 1973:  Silent Midnight Snow Comes Down	Here is my poetry chapbook of poems about motherhood,   published in 1979:  mamamama
Here are illustrations for mamamama by Pearl Piirto
Here is my poetry chapbook of poems about the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, published in 1983: Postcards from the Upper Peninsula	Here is my poetry chapbook published in 1996: Between the Memory and the Experience
Here is my poetry chapbook of poems about my travels to sacred places: Journeys to Sacred Places, that I published in 2001, and presented at the Art & Soul Conference.	I revised and republished Journeys to Sacred Places  with songs by singer-songwriter Christopher, for conference where we performed in 2001 and in 2002, and we reprinted it in 2003, 2004, and 2005

Piirto, J. (1995). A Location in the Upper Peninsula. New Brighton, MN: Sampo Publishing.
Tacoma Distinguished Poets Series - Broadsides
Sampo: The Magic Mill. Forkroads.
Also in Piirto, J. (1996). Between the Memory and the Experience.
Ohio Poets, Poetry in the Park, Glass Will and Testament, and other anthologie and journals.

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Here	A Charm for Singers	People of Bone and Water	Women Like Horses	At Delphi	Coyote
Blue	Grandma You Used To	I Will Never Love Anyone The Way I Loved James Dean	Grace	Easter	An Intensity of Lack
	Peacock Year	Kovalum New Year Dawn	Trespassing	The Company	Acropolis
	La Difunta Correa	Juhannus	Amish Angelus	Hokitita	Moose at Park Cemetery