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Victor Henry (Victor H. Bausch) served in Viet Nam with the 2nd Battalion, 47th Infantry, 9th Infantry Division, 1967-68. Afterwards he earned a B.A. in English (1978) and an M.A. in English (1982) from California State University, Stanislaus. His second master’s degree, a Master of Library Science, is from San Jose State University (1989).
He is a member of Veterans for Peace.
His poetry and prose poems have appeared in small press magazines, anthologies, and e-zines, such as Slipstream;The Paterson Literary Review; Nobody Gets Off The Bus: The Viet Nam Generation Big Book; Vietnam War Poetry; The Homestead Review; Red River Review; Dead Snakes, and Misfitmagazine, among others.
His book, What They Wanted, was published by FutureCycle Press. To order copies, please visit: http://goo.gl/JxeO0s
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Online Publications:
- Consumable Food Units, Monterey Poetry Review, Fall 2024
- Two Poems, Monterey Poetry Review, Spring 2024
- Two Poems, Monterey Poetry Review, Fall 2023
- Three Haiku Poems, Monterey Poetry Review, Spring 2023
- Hope Deferred, Monterey Poetry Review, Fall 2022
- Bezos, Branson and Musk, Porter Gulch Review (pgs. 54-55), 2021
- President Mitch McConnell Announced Today, Winedrunk Sidewalk, January 9, 2021
- Beneath the Surface of American Innocence, Monterey Poetry Review, January 15, 2021
- Beneath the Surface of American Exceptionalism, Winedrunk Sidewalk, December 30, 2020
- Trump Fondles, Hugs and Kisses Old Glory, Winedrunk Sidewalk, December 6, 2020
- The Smell of Death, Winedrunk Sidewalk, November 10, 2020
- Lest We Forget, Winedrunk Sidewalk, October 7, 2020
- I Cease to Ask What Informs,
Winedrunk Sidewalk, August 10, 2020
- The Senate Kills a Bipartisan Bill, Winedrunk Sidewalk, July 27, 2020
- Listening to Ravel’s Bolero While Reading, Winedrunk Sidewalk, July 10, 2020
- Precarity, Winedrunk Sidewalk, June 30, 2020
- The Authoritarian and the Oligarchs, Winedrunk Sidewalk, June 18, 2020
- Pompeo and Trump Steal the Burden of Truth, Winedrunk Sidewalk, May 15, 2020
- The Tweedledee and Tweedledumb Syndrome, Winedrunk Sidewalk, May 8, 2020
- The Con is On,Winedrunk Sidewalk, April 25, 2020
- Saving Capitalism, One Grandparent at a Time, Winedrunk Sidewalk, April 11, 2020
- Believe Me Winedrunk Sidewalk, February 2, 2020
- Standing up to Trump's Hair in a Mighty Wind, Winedrunk Sidewalk, January 13, 2020
- Tell Me, Winedrunk Sidewalk, January 9, 2020
- Two Poems, Monterey Poetry Review, Spring 2020
- Three Poems, Monterey Poetry Review, Summer 2019
- Two Poems, The Homestead Review, No. 41, 2019
- Three Poems, Monterey Poetry Review, Summer 2018
- Because the Body, In Between Hangovers, November 24, 2017
- The Great Divide, Winedrunk Sidewalk, October 25, 2017
- Open Borders, Winedrunk Sidewalk, October 17, 2017
- Unconditional Love, In Between Hangovers, October 11, 2017
- Storm, In Between Hangovers, September 21, 2017
- Three Poems, Monterey Poetry Review, September 15, 2017
- Five Poems,
The Homestead Review, September 1, 2017
- Left Behind, In Between Hangovers, September 1, 2017
- Pheromone Love, In Between Hangovers, June 18, 2017
- Loyal Love, In Between Hangovers, May 23, 2017
- Open Borders,
In Between Hangovers, April 29, 2017
- Blissfully Ignorant, Your One Phone Call, April 26, 2017
- Three Poems,The Homestead Review, Spring 2017
- Embracing the Collision, Your One Phone Call, March 22, 2017
- Lies, In Between Hangovers, March 10, 2017
- Imperial Wars, In Between Hangovers, February 18, 2017
- The Commander Dictator Fascist-in-Chief, I Am Not a Silent Poet, February 1, 2017
- At the Outskirts of Indifference, In Between Hangovers, January 27, 2017
- He Loved All the Women in the World, In Between Hangovers, November 29, 2016
- He, In Between Hangovers, November 7, 2016
- Hard Woman, In Between Hangovers, October 17, 2016
- Two Opposites, Monterey Poetry Review, Fall 2016
- She, In Between Hangovers, September 25, 2016
- Defragging His Mind, In Between Hangovers, August 14, 2016
- Fire and Ice, In Between Hangovers, August 5, 2016
- Dopamine Dope, In Between Hangovers, July 30, 2016
- Trump Out Trumps Himself at the Wall, In Between Hangovers, July 21, 2016
- Two Poems, Dead Snakes, June 24, 2016
- Three Poems,
Dead Snakes, June 14, 2016
- Three Poems, Dead Snakes, June 11, 2016
- Three Poems,
Dead Snakes, April 9, 2016
- Three Poems, Dead Snakes, April 5, 2016
- Two Poems, Homestead Review, Spring 2016
- One Poem, Dead Snakes, November 17, 2015
- Three Poems, Dead Snakes, November 10, 2015
- Three Poems, Misfitmagazine.net No. 16, Fall 2015
- True Love, Dead Snakes, October 13, 2015
- Three Poems, Dead Snakes, September 7, 2015
- Three Poems, Homestead Review, Fall 2015
- Born in a Boxing Gym, Dead Snakes, August 15, 2015
- Two Poems, Dead Snakes, August 11, 2015
- Three Poems, Dead Snakes, July 14, 2015
- Three Poems, Dead Snakes, July 11, 2015
- South of Oaxaca, Misfit Magazine, No. 15
- Three Poems, Dead Snakes, June 2, 2015
- Three Poems, The Homestead Review, Spring 2015
- Three Poems, Dead Snakes, April 29, 2015
- Three Poems, Dead Snakes, April 13, 2015
- Satisfying Only Necessities, Monterey Poetry Review, Spring 2015
- Three Poems, Dead Snakes, March 14, 2015
- Multiple Poems, Vietnam War Poetry, 2015
- Three Poems, Dead Snakes, February 12, 2015
- Three Poems, Dead Snakes, February 3, 2015
- Willful Ignorance, Red River Review, November 2014
- You Call That Art?, Misfitmagazine, No. 12
- Three Poems, The Homestead Review, Fall 2014
- One Poem, Dead Snakes, August 28, 2014
- Two Poems, Misfitmagazine, No. 11
- Three Poems, Dead Snakes, August 5, 2014
- No Dogs Allowed, Aphelion, July 2014
- Three Poems, Dead Snakes, July 16, 2014
- Three Poems, in Homestead Review, Spring 2014
- Three Poems, in Homestead Review, 2013
- Three Poems, in Homestead Review, 2012
- AWOL,
in Red River Review, November 2002
- Flack
Jacket, in Red River Review, November 2002
- Hookup,
in Red River Review, August 2002
- R & R, in Red River Review, August 2002
- Poets
On The Line, Vol. 9 (Vietnam work)
- Poets
On The Line, Vol. 6 (Vietnam work)
- Vietnam
Generation Journal
- What
They Wanted: Viet Nam Poetry
- Prose
Poems
 TAKING
LESSONS FROM THE DUMMY
A writer, voice
in full throat, midway through an experimental novel, loses his visual
voice like a filmmaker who loses his leading actor to a coronary. In
anger he chastises his luck like a moody lover chiding celibacy. Frantically,
he searches through his page proofs, hoping to find his voice but the
proofs seize him like a leper's first kiss. Confused, he begins to dictate
into a tape recorder during the day, and at night watch talk shows,
wasting away like an anorexic performing aerobics. In desperation he
enrolls in a "How to Throw Your Voice" correspondence course. His teacher,
a master ventriloquist, wanted by the Actors' Equity Association for
not paying his past union dues, has disappeared like a thief in a mystery
novel. Now the writer takes lessons from the dummy, hoping that the
dummy will be able to pull the strings.
c2004-2020 by Victor
Henry (Victor H. Bausch)
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