Bart Edelman’s poetry collections include Crossing the Hackensack (Prometheus Press), Under Damaris’ Dress (Lightning Publications), The Alphabet of Love (Red Hen Press), The Gentle Man (Red Hen Press), The Last Mojito (Red Hen Press), The Geographer’s Wife (Red Hen Press), Whistling to Trick the Wind (Meadowlark Press), and This Body Is Never at Rest: New and Selected Poems 1993 – 2023 (Meadowlark Press).  He has taught at Glendale College, where he edited Eclipse, a literary journal, and, most recently, in the MFA program at Antioch University, Los Angeles.  His work has been widely anthologized in textbooks published by City Lights Books, Etruscan Press, Fountainhead Press, Harcourt Brace, Longman, McGraw-Hill, Prentice Hall, Simon & Schuster, Thomson/Heinle, the University of Iowa Press, Wadsworth, and others. He lives in Pasadena, California.
                                           Alphabetical Cocktails

Adam’s Apple
Bye Bye Birdie
Collateral Damage
Deadeye Doris
Elusive Angel
Fairweather Friend
God Damn Shame
Handsome Johnny
Ironic Twist
Jeckyll & Clyde
Killer’s Cupid
Long-legged Logan
Mysterious Stranger
Nancy Drew
Ozzie Nelson
Put Up Your Dukes
Quill & Bones
Reservoir Frog
Starvin’ Marvin
Tom Terrific
Unruly Mess
Village Idiot
Widow’s Peak
Xmas Kiss
Yellow Submarine
Zippity Doo Dah

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