Wonderful poems. I love reading them with the wonderful photographs.

Kathleen Kirk
Kathleen_Kirk_AT_msn_DoT_com
Normal, IL, USA
http://babbittsbooks.com/

Thank you so much, Bruce, for placing your powerful, beautiful poetry and essays within reach of so many! May the word continue spreading about your work.

Vivian Teter

Vivian Teter
Virginia Wesleyan College, Norfolk, VA
vteter_AT_vwc_DoT_edu

Dear Bruce: i just read your essay "Father's Day". I will be thinking "klafseeyalos" a week from Sunday. Thank you for sharing this. Rip EIU Class of '82

David Ripley
david_ripley_AT_glenbard_DoT_org
Oak Park/IL/USA

Hello
My name is Robin Boyd and I'm 13 years old. I'd just like to comment on your speaking at Heartland in Bloomington, Normal! My sister Rachel Boyd, is attending the class and invited me. I have recently became interested in poetry. I've started writing but right now I'm focusing on learning more about different types of poetry and poets. Listening to you was both entertaining and a learning experience. I look forward to reading your books!

Robin Boyd
reileenboyd_AT_msn_DoT_com

Congratulations on your new website, and also your new position in January, 2007!!! Guernsey, the first poet to ever open my mind, my heart, to poetry.

Nancy Jones Mann
Traverse City, MI

Nancy Mann
Traverse City, MI
njmann1_AT_chartermi_DoT_net

Gorgeous website, Bruce, though I think it might officially make you a computer guy! All my best,
DSP

Dana Stangel-Plowe
New York

great poems! great photos! i look forward to reading more of your verse.

dennis camire
bioluminescing_AT_yahoo_DoT_com

Bruce, it's a wonderful site. Your poems and the photos of you and Victoria--it all makes me homesick.

john guzlowski
jzguzlowski_AT_gmail_DoT_com
USA


john

Read "Moss" today in the newspaper. Incredible! Looked you up in Google. Read "The Letter X". Now I'm hooked. Congratulations. Absolutely wonderful!

A John Glazier
ajglazier_AT_mchsi_DoT_com
Clive, Iowa, USA

Dear Poet, I was so happy to discover and to read your wonderful poetries. I love thair great simplicity, their depth, their transparency. Your language is the language of high cultered heart. You say with an extreme elegance the most difficult thinks. Warm regards Athanase Vantchev de Thracy French Poet www.athanase.org or www. poetrypoem.com/athanase

Athanase Vantchev de Thracy
avthracy_AT_hotmail_DoT_com
Paris - France

A site for sore eyes!

Joe Kennedy
xjdmk_AT_rcn_DoT_com
Lexington MA

Bruce, you are missed here at EIU, and not only because of your extensive knowledge of and unquestionable good taste in sports teams. Congrats on your new editorship. Great photos of you in rugged gear!Say hi to Victoria! Daiva

Daiva Markelis
dmmarkelis_AT_eiu_DoT_edu
Charleston, IL

Dear Bruce, Steve Rogers sent me the URL to your website, and I must say I'm impressed! Very informative, and what excellent design and pictures! Hope to see you again when you return to DC-- Miles

Miles Moore
mmoore_AT_crain_DoT_com
Washington

Hey Bruce. Great website . . . love the photos! This way I can keep better tabs on you. Looking forward to seeing you up in Maine in a couple weeks. Steve R.

Steve Rogers
derholzer_AT_aol_DoT_com
Mount Rainier, Maryland, USA

Hey Guerns, So proud of you for embracing technology. Your website looks wonderful. I've enjoyed sitting back and reabsorbing some of the poems that I already knew and discovering the new ones I did not. You look like the epitomy of the outdoorsman. How wonderful.

Angie Gallion Lovell
ang927_AT_yahoo_DoT_com
Newnan

My friend the essayist Martin Scott once wrote of Bruce Guernsey's poems: "Bruce Guernsey’s poems are the sort of gems that slip through your fingers if you don’t hold onto them right. Cold-blooded, taut little masterpieces, their 'loneliness includes [us] unawares' in an emptiness 'so much nearer home' than we had dreamed. Like Wallace Stevens’s 'The Snow Man,' Guernsey has worked in a quiet and steadfast manner to cultivate a 'mind of winter' so he can gaze uninterrupted at the 'Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.'" "Maps" is a poem that captures this "Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is," for me. My father didn't go to war, though he has always felt he should have been on one of those French beaches, had he only been about six years older. And he loves maps. Whenever I take a trip back East, I'll recieve in the mail a manilla envelope full of them, charting out routes I already know well. Pointing out to me the right exit off the Mass Pike, I know, isn't really the point of my father's compulsion to send me maps of home. The map Guernsey describes as "a metaphor for earth," the map I think almost all American men over sixty like to keep close whether it's a map of Normandy or of the lower Maine coast--that map will always seem to me the most apt metaphor I've ever read capturing the desire of such men (maybe they are all fathers) to close a certain distance that was once all too easy to open. But I don't know ... maybe it's just me.

Chris Hanlon
chanlon_AT_eiu_DoT_edu
Charleston/IL/USA

"Moss" is a jewel.

SFuller

Congrats on a beautiful site! I can't believe you of all people, people who talk at length about how computers are evil, have a website. I guess you sold your soul to the dark computer underlords. I would say that more people will know about your long affair with the Sox but you'd already managed to broadcast that everywhere. Seriously, though. Great site, have added to my faves. I'm glad that more people will have access to your great work. Love, Sara

Sara Woollen-Danner
sara_DoT_woollen-danner_AT_uc_DoT_edu
Cincinnati, OH

Bruce, you are the best hunter among poets and the best poet among hunters. Looks as if a poem I wrote long ago was meant for you, and quite a challenge to your hunting routines! Re-read my "Hunting the Unicorn" in that spirit. And happy fishing, as well! ~ Adam

adam czerniawski

utopia

Great to hear from you again, Bruce, and to visit the elegant mansion you've built in cyberspace. Enjoyed re-reading poems I already know from Peripheral Vision and January Thaw and discovering new ones in The Lost Brigade. I'm getting my "small" press revved up in hopes that your site will require a new edition of Peripheral Vision.

David Alpaugh
davidalpaugh_AT_comcast_DoT_net
Pleasant Hill, CA

It's about time you got a website, Bruce. Hopefully, this will help you reach more people. You reached me during that crazy summer of 2001 when you taught me so much about poetry and about myself while on that ship, where time stood still. I love the picture of you fishing with the bio, and I'm so glad you mentioned your love of the Sox.

Gavin Jenkins
Gavin53_AT_hotmail_DoT_com
Verona, PA, United States

Dear Bruce, If not for your picture on the homepage, I wouldn't believe it was "The" Bruce Guernsey's website. Did you know that back in my folky days I once wrote a song about you that began . . . "Got a friend who's a poet And he doesn't have e-mail And he doesn't have voice mail, or a message machine . . . Blah, blah, blah . . . . Blah, blah, (I don't remember what comes here) If you call him and he's not home . . . Ya know his phone just rings." Okay - now you see why I gave up the songwriting genre. But still - a website!?! Slogan Joe would turn over in his grave if he knew. Randi

Randi Faust
imafaust_AT_gmail_DoT_com
Houston, TX

Is that Ronnie or Donnie that has gone "nationwide" on the web? I have spun over to the Dark Side and now a rapid Yankees Fan. Go Jeter! Go 'Roid Ragers Giambi and Sheffield! Come on over, Bruce- they win games, they spend money, they have class and a stadium with real seats.

Tom Douglas
thomas_AT_thomasdouglas_DoT_com
Fairbanks, Alaska USA

Dear Mr. Guernsey, Greetings. Our firm -- Huff, Blowhard & Threaten -- has been retained as counsel to a well-known client who wishes to remain anonymous. Your website has been identified as among those containing material deemed offensive, libellous and litigation-inducing to Republicans, "Red State" households, New York Yankee management, and other decent Americans. Your recent email has been referred to us as Exhibit #1. Please be advised that we will be watching. Until further notice, John Ashcroft.

Lanny Jones
landon_DoT_jones_AT_verizon_DoT_net

Who'd a thunk it! The Luddite Lad on-line. Who knows, maybe the Sox might even win the ...wait a minute, the world really is upside down. Welcome to cyberspace. Great site!!

Philip Brady
psbrady_AT_gmail_DoT_com
Youngstown, OH

Beautiful site, Bruce. Congratulations. All continues to rock along here in Ol'Virginny. Best. A.

L. Anderson Orr
laorr1_AT_cox_DoT_net
Norfolk, Va. Usa

Good Luck and MANY BLESSINGS!

Carolyn Weiher
cw_AT_scia_DoT_net
Bushnell, FL 33513-7889

What kind of website is this? No links to the Steelers Nation? Oh, I get it. It's a work in progress. Pretty snazzy except for the Steelers omission.

John Burkoff
burkoff_AT_pitt_DoT_edu
Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Dear Bruce: Great website, but don't quit your 'day job'! ;) Rip EIU Class of ;82

David Ripley
david_ripley_AT_glenbard_DoT_org
Oak Park/IL/USA

Bruce, Your website is lovely! Victoria did a beautiful job as well with the pictures. Many blessings . . . Erin Zinzilieta- Pennington

Erin Pennington
epennington_AT_carmi_DoT_white_DoT_k12_DoT_il_DoT_us
Carmi,IL 62821

Congratulations on the new site. I hope you post many hits and it becomes all the rage. Best, Vivian

Vivian Garcia
vivian_garcia_AT_prenhall_DoT_com
Palisades Park, NJ

A Rat surrendered here A brief career of Cheer And Fraud and Fear. Of Ignominy’s due Let all addicted to Beware. The most obliging Trap Its tendency to snap Cannot resist— Temptation is the Friend Repugnantly resigned At last.

Daniel Williams
danie3c_AT_adelphia_DoT_net

*** you, Guernsey

John Balaban
tbalaban_AT_earthlink_DoT_net

Nice site. What is this world coming to when Guernsey has a website? Now I'm off to continue my work on bruceguerseyfans.com... ;^) s.

Stacia
stacialynch_AT_mac_DoT_com
Charleston, IL

Great idea!! When I catch up on my work today, I'll browse your WEBsite and make comments. You have posted a great picture. Makes me want to jump on my bicycle and come visit you.

flute snyder
fluteduo_AT_aol_DoT_com
hudson/wi/usa

Mr. Guernsey, Pretty snazzy website you got here! I especially like the colors and backgrounds you chose. Although I don't have any good essays or poems posted on my website, you can learn all about trademark and copyright law if you visit it. Take care!

Morris Turek
mturek_AT_uwalumni_DoT_com
St. Louis, MO

Dr. Guernsey- Okay, so I wanted to prove that I really did check out your website. :) It was nice reading (and in some cases rereading) your poetry. You have a style of writing that I both appreciate and admire.

Kelly
klundeiu_AT_yahoo_DoT_com
IL

Wow dad! This website is great. Where's my free books? Love you!

Meg
vegmeg_AT_yahoo_DoT_com
planet earth, life #3