BRETT RUTHERFORD BIBLIOGRAPHY

Books and Chapbooks

• Songs of the I and Thou. Edinboro, PA: The Ascendant Scorpion. 1968.
• City Limits. New York: The Ascendant Scorpion. 1970.
• The Pumpkined Heart. New York: The Poet's Press. 1973.
• May Eve: A Festival of Supernatural Poetry. Grim Reaper Books, 1975. (BR is editor and one of four poets represented).
• Anniversarius: The Book of Autumn. Providence, RI: The Poet's Press. 1984 to 2011, four revised and expanded editions.
• Whippoorwill Road: The Supernatural Poems. Five editions from 1985 to 2019. Pittsburgh, PA: Grim Reaper Books.
• Piper. A novel, co-authored with John R. Robertson (pseud. John Bensink). Zebra Books, NY, 1985. Reissued in 2019 by Crossroads Press as an ebook as The Halloween Game.
• Thunderpuss: In Memoriam. Chapbook. Providence, RI: The Poet's Press. 1987.
• Prometheus on Fifth Avenue. Providence: RI: The Poet's Press. 1987, revised second edition 2018.
• At Lovecraft's Grave. Chapbook. Providence, RI: Grim Reaper Books. 1988.
• The Lost Children . Novel. Zebra Books, NY, 1988. Reissued as an ebook by Crossroads Press in 2019.
• In Chill November. Chapbook. Providence, RI: The Poet's Press. 1990.
• Night Gaunts: An Entertainment Based on the Life and Work of H.P. Lovecraft. Providence: The Poet's Press. 1993. Second revised edition 2005.
• Poems from Providence. Providence, RI: The Poet's Press. 1991. Second revised edition 2011.
• Twilight of the Dictators. With Pieter Vanderbeck. Providence, RI: The Poet's Press. 1992.
• Knecht Ruprecht, or The Bad Boy's Christmas. Providence, RI: The Poet's Press. 1992.
• The Gods As They Are, On Their Planets. Providence, RI: The Poet's Press. 2005. Revised editions 2012, 2018.
• Things Seen in Graveyards. Providence, RI: The Poet's Press. 2007. Expanded edition 2017. Companion volume of photos and digital art accompanied the 2007 edition.
• Chiggers: A Portfolio of Works-in-Progress. Chapbook. The Poet's Press, 2007.
• Doctor Jones and Other Terrors. Chapbook. Providence, RI: Grim Reaper Books. 2008.
• An Expectation of Presences. Providence, RI: The Poet's Press. 2012.
• Trilobite Love Song. Providence, RI: The Poet's Press. 2014.
• Crackers At Midnight. Pittsburgh, PA: The Poet's Press. 2018.
• The Doll Without A Face: New Poems & Revisions 2018-2019. Pittsburgh, PA: The Poet's Press. 2019.
• The Halloween Game. Novel, with John Bensink. Revised edition ebook from Crossroads Press. 2019.
• The Lost Children. Novel. Revised edition ebook from Crossroads Press. 2019.
• The Pumpkined Heart: Pennsylvania Poems. Revised and expanded edition. Pittsburgh, PA: The POet's Press. 2020.
• The Inhuman Wave: New Poems & Revisions 2019-2020. Pittsburgh, PA: The Poet's Press. 2020.
• Fatal Birds of the Soul: A Poem Cycle. Pittsburgh, PA: The Poet's Press. 2020.
• The Story of Niobe, Adapted from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Pittsburgh, PA: Yogh & Thorn Books. 2020.

Literary Publications in Magazines and Anthologies

• "About Emilie Glen," essay in The Writings of Emilie Glen 1: Poems from Chapbooks, The Poet's Press, 2009.
• "Afterword" and annotations. In John Burnett Payne, Emily and Walt, Walt and Emily, The Poet's Press, 2006.
• "All I know about my father." Literature and Gender. New York: Longman's.
• "An awesome plummeting." Sensations Magazine, Supplement 9, 2019, p. 17.
• "An Exeter vampire." Sensations Magazine, No. 45, pp. 56-57.
• "Anniversarius I." Poem. Stone Soup Poetry , Boston.
• "Anniversarius II (With Poe on Morton Street Pier)." Poem. Stone Soup Poetry No. 16 Boston, 1974
• "Anniversarium XV." Poem. Crypt of Cthulhu , Halloween 1988.
• “Anniversarium XVI.” Poem. Crypt of Cthulhu #45.
• “Anniversarium XX.” Poem. Moorish Science Monitor .
• "The Annunciation." Poem. Sensations Issue 40. 2006, p. 166.
• "As Idols Fall in the Afghan Hills." Poem. Sensations Issue 40. 2006, p. 128.
• “ Ashes in Equinox, Mars in Conjunction.” Poem. In memoriam for Barbara A. Holland. Home Planet News. No. 29, 1990, p. 11.
• “At Lovecraft's Grave.” Poem. Lovecraft Studies. Autumn 1987.
• "At Lovecraft's grave." H. P. Lovecraft Centennial Guidebook.1990, pp. 41-43.
• "At the verge of Spring." Poem. Sensations Issue 40. 2006, p. 166.
• "At the wood's edge." Sensations Magazine, No. 45, pp. 27.
• "Autumn on Mars." Poem. Sensations Issue 40. 2006, pp. 84-85.
• “Autumn song 2.” Poem. Stone Soup Poetry Issue 16. Boston. 1974, pp. 46-48.
• “Autumn Song 2.” Poem. As If the World Had Not Known Sorrow.Stone Ridge BY: Stone Ridge Poetry Society. 1985.
• "Blumenstucke", Buried Alive: An Anthology of Underground Writing, 2004.
• “Books over birds.” [Letter defending the Providence Athenaeum] East Side Monthly, Providence, RI. November 2003.
• Brett Rutherford's Poetry Blog, since November 2009.
• “Border guard.” Poem. Liberty Magazine. Vol. 3 No. 1, Sept 1989, p. 26.
• Buried Alive: An Anthology of Underground Writing . Invisible Books, 2005. Jacob Rabinowitz, ed. Features 30 pages of Rutherford poems.
• “Can any film Dracula be true to Stoker's masterpiece? Coppola's failed vampire.” Film review. Printed first in Haunts magazine (Issue 25), then reprinted in Cthulhu Prayer Society Newsletter , April 22, 2001.
• Carlota, Empress of Mexico. Drama, in The Rhode Island Writers Circle Anthology 2008.
• “Chain smoker.” Poem. Breathe! anthology, West Organge NJ: Warthog Press, 1980, pp. 2-3.
• "The Collectors.” Poem. Stone Soup Poetry (Boston) , Issue 28, 1976.
• “Come that downward plummet of the world.” Poem. Stone Soup Poetry Boston 16.
• “Creation revisited.” Poem. Haunts , Spring 1987.
• "The Crow — nevermore, oh, please!” Film review. Haunts., Issue 28, 1995, pp. 56-57.
• Cthulhu Prayer Society Newsletter. (2000 to 2003). An occasional print and e-newsletter covering topics strange and wonderful, as well as promoting local Lovecraft-related events. Sixteen issues published.
• “Day of the Gorgon: In search of the snake-haired sisters of death.” Cthulhu Prayer Society Newsletter, July 14, 2002. 3 pp.
• "Dead Alive” Film review. Haunts., Issue 26, 1994, p. 60.
• “Dead poets.” Poem. The Newport Review. Vol. 4 No. 3, Summer 1994, p. 19.
• “Eclipse.” Chrysalis, Rhode Island, Jan 1988.
• “Ed Wood.” Film review. Haunts. Issue 29. 1995, pp. 17-18.
• “Edgar and Helen.” Poem. Crypt of Cthulhu Issue 48. Vol. 6 No. 7 Lammas 1987, pp. 46-47.
• "Edinboro in the Sixties: A Microcosm of Change." Alumni News, Edinboro State University, Winter 1991.
• "First snow." Poem. Sensations Magazine. Issue 40. 2006, p. 165.
• "Frank and Lyda," Buried Alive: An Anthology of Underground Writing Invisible Press, 2004, pp. 49-54.
• “Ganymede.” Poem. Ganymede: A Male Spirituality Publication. [England], Vol 1 No 4, 1986, pp. 4-7.
• “Ganymede.” Poem, excerpts. Brown [University] Classical Journal. Issue 3, 1986, pp. 26-28.
• The Gods As They Are, On Their Planets. Poetry. The Poet's Press, 2005. 208 pages.
• “Great horror stories that should be movies.” Film commentary. Haunts 32, Winter 96/Spring 1997.
• “The harvestman.” Poem. Beyond the Rift: Poets of the Palisades.Edited by Paul Nash. Providence, RI: The Poet's Press. 2010, pp. 141-143.
• “He was not there, he is not here.” Poem. Sensations Magazine.Supplement 9, 2019.
• “Horror's new home: writer Brett Rutherford, a creative descendant of Poe and Lovecraft, returns to Rhode Island.” Interview of BR by Justin Wolff. Providence Phoenix , Dec. 3, 1999, 2 pp.
• “I see dead people -- who's who in Mt. Auburn.” A brief guide to the literary dead in Cambridge's cemetery. Cthulhu Prayer Society Newsletter , June 9, 2002. 2 pp.
• “In Prague, a tree of many colors.” The Rift, 1998.
• “Incubus/succubus.” Poem. Boston Sidewalk Stethoscope .
• “Ivan Grozni.” Poem. Liberty Magazine. Vol. 3 No. 5, May 1990, p. 38.
• “Ivan Grozni.” Poem. Der Golem: The Journal of Magical Judaism. Issue 2, Autumn 1988, pp. 10-11.
• “Julius Caesar.” Drama review. Haight-Ashbury Free Press , 1967.
• “Jurassic Park .” Film review. Haunts.. Issue 26. 1994, p. 59.
• “Lovecraft's secret park: we search for horror haunts in Lincoln Woods.” Cthulhu Prayer Society Newsletter , October 13, 2002. 4 pp. Also published on Internet.
• “Low tide.” Poem. Crypt of Cthulhu. #46.
• “Luna.” Poem. The Rift , 1997.
• “Maker of monsters, maker of gods.” Poem. Lovecraft Studies. Issue 30, Spring 1994, p. 2.
• “The man who tasted gray.” Haight-Ashbury Free Press , 1967.
• May Eve: A Festival of Supernatural Poetry. Grim Reaper Books, 1975. (BR is editor and one of four poets represented).
• "Midnight on Benefit Street, 1935." Poem. East Side Monthly, March 2005.
• "Monday Miss Schreckengost Reads Us Little Black Sambo." Poem. Rhode Island Writers' Circle Anthology 2010. RI Writers Circle.
• "Niobe's Tears and Naval Gentlemen: The Classical Poetry of Phillis Wheatley." Conference presentation. "Identities, " URI Graduate Student Conference, March 31, 2007. Published in Sensations Magazine, 2009.
• “No mausoleum, please.” Molasses in January. Edinboro, PA: Edinboro State University, Spring 1991.
• "Not years enough," Buried Alive: An Anthology of Underground Writing. Invisible Books, 2004, pp. 55-56.
• “October is coming (Anniversarius 14).” Poem. Newport Review. Vol. 3 No. 2, Fall 1988, pp. 60-61.
• "October thoughts in wartime." Poem. Sensations Magazine. Issue 40. 2006, p. 157.
• "Ode 22: A Haunting." Buried Alive: An Anthology of Underground Writing. Invisible Books, 2004, pp. 43-45.
• “Omnibus review of films and videos.” Film review. Haunts. Issue 31. 1996.
• “The Outsider.” Poem. Der Golem , 1988. Also published in Sensations Magazine, Fall/Winter 2007.
• “The Outsider.” Poem. Sensations Magazine. Issue 42, Fall/Winter 2007, pp. 288-290.
• "Pepper and salt." Poem. Rhode Island Writers' Circle Anthology 2010.
• “Pluto demoted.” Poem, and a brief memorial essay on Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of the planet Pluto. Cthulhu Prayer Society Newsletter , March 18, 2001. 3 pp.
• “Pluto demoted.” Poem. Sensations Magazine. Issue 48, pp. 42-44.
• “Poe and Mrs. Whitman: Doomed romance, great poetry.” Cthulhu Prayer Society Newsletter. May 20, 2001. 3 pp.
• “Poesy interviews poet and publisher Brett Rutherford.” Interview of BR by Brian Morrisey. Poesy 3, 1991.
• “Poetry motels.” Poem. Just Add Water , May 1996. New York (1990s).
• Poets Fortnighly. A newsletter for poets, published in New York City 1971-73. Edited by Barbara A. Holland and BR. This was New York City's first “poetry calendar,” with book reviews and commentary.
• “The prophet bird.” Poem. Sensations Magazine. Issue 48, pp. 91-93.
• “Providence's North Burial Ground: 300 years old and looking its age.” Cthulhu Prayer Society Newsletter , June 10, 2001. 2 pp.
• “Remembering Medea.” Poem. Haunts. Fall 1987.
• “Reunion: poem found on the neck of a deer, killed in the Black Forest, Germany, 1975.” Poem. The Rift , April 1998.
• "Roadside Views," Buried Alive: An Anthology of Underground Writing. Invisible Books, 2004, pp.70-71.
• “Salem.” Poem. Weird Tales, 1988. Also pubished in Sensations Magazine, Fall/Winter 2008.
• “Salem.” Poem. Sensations Magazine. Issue 44, Fall/Winter 2008, pp. 48-49.
• “Scene in the fields, from Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique.” Poem. Words in Concert: Poetry Inspired by Classical Music. Forth Worth, TX: Forth Worth Poetry Society. 2019, pp. 15-16.
• “Scenes from a Mexican vampire movie.” Poem. Haunts , Spring 1987.
• “Scenes from a Mexican vampire movie.” Poem. The Rift , 1998.
• “Scenes from a Mexican vampire movie.” Poem. Buried Alive: An Anthology of Underground Writing, 2004, pp. 57-60.
• “Scenes from a Mexican vampire movie.” Poem, adapted into a comic in the magazine Midnight Graffiti, June 1988.
• “September in Gotham.” Poem. Sensations Magazine. Issue 48, pp. 14-15.
• “The sex poet.” Poem. Ally. Summer 1974, p. 33.
• “Son of Dracula.” Poem. Crypt of Cthulhu. Issue 45, Candlemas 1987.
• Songs of the I and Thou. Ascendant Scorpion Books, PA. 1968. The poet's first limited edition chapbook, hand-bound, printed on hand-marbled paper.
• “The Spiders.” Poem. Haunts.
• “The stuff that dreams are made of.” Poem. Haight-Ashbury Free Press, San Francisco, 1967. Centerfold spread poem with psychedelic illustrations.
• “Thunderpuss: In Memoriam.” Poem. Buried Alive: An Anthology of Underground Writing. Invisible Books. 2004, pp. 61-69.
• “Tillie.” Poem. Oxalis. Winter 1987-1988, p. 9.
• “Transcending Mediocrity: The Poetry of Barbara Holland.” Contact II, Spring 1979.
• “The Tree at Lovecraft's grave.” Poem for HPL's birthday, August 20, 2000. Cthulhu Prayer Society Newsletter , March 18, 2001. Also in The East Side Monthly, (Providence), November 2006.
• "The Twentieth Century." Poem. Sensations Magazine. Issue 40. 2006, p. 124.
• “Valkyries on Route 128.” Poem. Beyond: Science Fiction and Fantasy. Issue 10, July 1988.
• "Viking." Poem. Future Life.
• "Viking." Poem. On the Wing, an anthology on space flight from University of Iowa Press, Spring 2005, pp. 198-199. This poem selected for use in a statewide reading exam in North Carolina for three years 2007-2009.
• "The Watcher." Poem. Beyond the Rift: Poets of the Palisades. Edited by Paul Nash. Providence, RI: The Poet's Press. 2010, pp. 147-148.
• "What really scares you?." Film criticism. Haunts. Issue 30. Winter 1995, pp. 42-45.
• "Wolf and other wolves: an appreciation." Film review. Haunts. Issue 28. 1995, pp. 55-56.

Criticism and Annotated Editions

• “Across the Sublime Divide: Dryden and Handel’s Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day.” academia.edu, March 2019.
• “Arcadian, Gothic and Gay: The History of Porsenna, King of Russia.” academia.edu, March 2019.
• The Barbara Holland Reader. Edited and annotated by Brett Rutherford. Pittsburgh, PA: The Poet's Press. 2020.
• “The Beast Re-Asserts Itself: Vitalism in the Science Fiction of H.G. Wells.” academia.edu, March 2019.
• “Charlotte Brontë and the Ego Triumphant.” academia.edu, February 2019.
• Break Every Bond: Sarah Helen Whitman in Providence. (Literary essays and selected poems). Edited and annotated by Brett Rutherford. Pittsburgh: Yogh & Thorn Books. 2019.
• Fitzroy, A T. (pseud. Rose Allatini). Despised and Rejected. Edited and annotated by Brett Rutherford. Yogh & Thorn Books. 2010.
• “Foreword.” Germany: A Winter’s Tale. Translated by Jacob Rabinowitz. Pittsburgh, PA. Yogh & Thorn Books. 2016.
• “Frederick Douglass and Robert Ingersoll: From Religious Argument to the Appeal to Reason.” academia.edu, March 2019.
• Glen, Emilie. Moon Laundry: Rediscovered Poems and Fiction. Edited and annotated by Brett Rutherford. Pittsburgh, PA: The Poet's Press. 2019.
• Glen, Emilie. The Writings of Emilie Glen 1: Poems from Chapbooks. Edited and annotated by Brett Rutherford. Providence, RI: The Poet's Press. 2009.
• Glen, Emilie. The Writings of Emilie Glen 2: Fiction and Prose Poems. Edited and annotated by Brett Rutherford. Pittsburgh, PA: The Poet's Press. 2016.
• Glen, Emilie. The Writings of Emilie Glen 3: Poems from Magazines. Edited and annotated by Brett Rutherford. Pittsburgh, PA: The Poet's Press. 2016.
• Glen, Emilie. The Writings of Emilie Glen 4: Poems from Manuscripts. Edited and annotated by Brett Rutherford. Pittsburgh, PA: The Poet's Press. 2017.
• Holland, Barbara A. After Hours in Bohemia: Lost Poems from Notebooks, Manuscripts and Magazines. Edited and annotated by Brett Rutherford. Pittsburgh, PA: The Poet's Press. 2020.
• Holland, Barbara A. The Beckoning Eye: Poems from Magazines. Edited and annotated by Brett Rutherford. Pittsburgh, PA: The Poet's Press. 2019.
• Holland, Barbara A. Medusa: The Lost First Chapbook. Edited and annotated by Brett Rutherford. Pittsburgh, PA: The Poet's Press. 2019.
• Holland, Barbara A. Out of Avernus: The Exiled Sorceress and The Fallen Priestess. Edited and annotated by Brett Rutherford. Pittsburgh, PA: The Poet's Press. 2019.
• Holland, Barbara A. The Secret Agent and Other Poems from Notebooks and Chapbooks. Edited and annotated by Brett Rutherford. Pittsburgh, PA: The Poet's Press. 2019.
• Holland, Barbara A. The Shipping on the Styx. Edited and annotated by Brett Rutherford. Pittsburgh, PA: The Poet's Press. 2019.
• Last Flowers: The Romance and Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe and Sarah Helen Whitman. 1987. Providence: The Poet’s Press. Fourth, revised edition 2011.
• Lewis, Matthew Gregory. Tales of Wonder, Volume 1. 2010. Pittsburgh: Yogh & Thorn Books. Revised edition 2012. Edited and annotated by Brett Rutherford.
• Lewis, Matthew Gregory. Tales of Wonder, Volume 2. 2012. Pittsburgh: Yogh & Thorn Books. Edited and annotated by Brett Rutherford.
• “The myth of Niobe and The Boston Massacre.” Book chapter. academia.edu. 2020.
• “Niobe’s tears and naval gentlemen: the classical poetry of Phillis Wheatley.” Sensations Magazine. No. 45. pp. 28-32.
• “Niobe’s tears: the classical poetry of Phillis Wheatley.” Book chapter. academia.edu. 2020.
• “No Girls Allowed: Love and Fear in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.” academia.edu, February 2019.
• “Oedipus and Faust in the Narrative Structure of Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor.” academia.edu, February 2019.
• “Sarah Helen Whitman as poet and literary critic.” (Book chapter). academia.edu. May 2019.
• Sorley, Charles Hamilton. Death and the Downs: The Poetry of Charles Hamilton Sorley. Edited and annotated by Brett Rutherford. Providence: Yogh & Thorn Books. 2010. Revised edition 2017.
• The Story of Niobe. Adapted from Ovid's Metamorphoses by Brett Rutherford, Phillis Wheatley, and Samuel Croxall. With two essays by Brett Rutherford. Pittsburgh, PA: Yogh & Thorn Books. 2020.
• “The Story of St. Patrick’s Purgatory.” Book chapter. academia.edu, March 2019.
• Tales of Terror: The Supernatural Poem Since 1800. Volume 1. Edited and annotated by Brett Rutherford. Pittsburgh, PA: Yogh & Thorn Books. 2015.
• Tales of Terror: The Supernatural Poem Since 1800. Volume 2. Edited and annotated by Brett Rutherford. Pittsburgh, PA: Yogh & Thorn Books. 2016.
• “Transcending Mediocrity.” [On the poetry of Barbara A. Holland.] Contact II. No. 12. Spring 1979, pp. 4-5.
• Two Russian Exiles: The Fiction of Mikhail Artsybashev and Leonid Andreyev. Edited and annotated by Brett Rutherford. Pittsburgh: Yogh & Thorn Books. 2019.
• “Virginia Woolf’s Egyptomania: Echoes of The Book of the Dead in To the Lighthouse.” Woolf Studies Annual. Vol. 24, 2018, pp. 135-164.

Translations and Adaptations

• "Assignation." From Chinese. After a Chinese poem “P’u Sa Man” by Li Yü
• "At the wood's edge." From the Iroquois (Onondaga). Opening section of a Native American funeral ritual.
• "The Black Huntsman." From French. After Victor Hugo's "Le chasseur noir." Published in Whippoorwill Road: The Supernatural Poems.
• "By A Roman Road Forgotten." From Russian. Translated and adapted from a poem by Yevgenii Yevtushenko.
• "The Cemetery at Eylau." From French. Translated from a poem by Victor Hugo.
• "Chaucer's Prologue to The Parliament of Fowles." From Middle English.
• "Dance of the Witches' Sabbath." From French. Translated and adapted from Victor Hugo’s "La Ronde du Sabbat," 1825.
• "Death and the Maiden." From German. After a poem by Matthias Claudius.
• "The Demons." From Russian. Adapted from a poem by Alexander Pushkin.
• "The Developer." From Anglo-Saxon. After an 11th century Anglo-Saxon poem.
• "Down South." From Chinese. After the Chinese of Li Yü (d. 978 CE).
• "Exile, Under the New Moon." From Chinese. Adapted from the Chinese of Li Yü.
• Fatal Birds of the Soul: A Poem Cycle. From German. A poem cycle expanded from Rilke's Duino Elegies I & II. Pittsburgh, PA: The Poet's Press. 2020.
• "Fisherman." From Chinese. After the Chinese of Li Yü (d. 978 CE).
• "Icelandic Justice." From Old Norse.
• "I'm Like a River." From Russian. From a poem by Anna Akhmatova.
• "From the Lips of the Last Inca." From Spanish. Adapted from a poem by José Eusebio Caro (1817-1853).
• "Gertrude and the Revenant." From Danish. A heathen tales of the Danes.
• "Love Song in Finland." From German. After a poem by Goethe, "Finnische Lied," 1810.
• "Moonlight in the Cemetery." From French. Adapted from Théophile Gautier’s "Au Cimitière: Claire de Lune."
• "Nocturne." From Spanish. Adapted from a poem by José Asuncion Silva (1865-1896).
• "Ode 100 of Hafiz." From Persian. Adapated from the translation by Richard LeGallienne.
• "Old Scholar Under Autumn Trees." From Chinese. From a Chinese Painting and Poem by Shen Chou, 1470 CE.
• "Only An Apple." From Greek. After a poem by Plato.
• "The Poet Who Starved." From German. After a poem by Uhland.
• "El Precio." Translated into Spanish. A Spanish-language version of my poem, "The Price." An Expectation of Presences. Pittsburgh, PA: The POet's Press. 2012.
• "The Rage of Athena at Troy." From Greek. Adapted from Eurpides' The Trojan Women.
• "The Ravens Are Waiting, the Crows Have Arrived." From Anglo-Saxon. Section 2 of this poem adapted from The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 937 CE.
• "The Ruins of Rome," from Hildebert of Lavardin, c. 1103 CE.
• "To the Shah, King of Kings." From Persian. Adapted from Hafiz, via Emerson.
• The Story of Niobe. From Latin. Adapted from Ovid's Metamorphoses by Brett Rutherford, Phillis Wheatley, and Samuel Croxall. With two essays by Brett Rutherford. Pittsburgh, PA: Yogh & Thorn Books. 2020.
• "That Moment." From Russian. From a poem by Anna Akhmatova. In Trilobite Love Song. Pittsburgh, PA: The Poet's Press. 2014.
• "They Closed His Eyes." From Spanish. Freely adapted from a poem by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer.
• "To Cyrnus." From Greek. Adapted from a poem by Theognis.
• "The Warning of Solon the Athenian." From Greek.
• "Which One Are You." From Russian. Adapted from Akhmatova's "The Muse."
• "Two Times Haunted." From an Anglo-Saxon poem, "Scael se gaest cuman."
• "The Were-Raven, Part 1." From Danish. Adapted from an ancient Danish ballad.
• "Who Cares to Listen to Songs?" From Russian. From a poem by Anna Akkhmatova.In The Doll Without A Face. Pittsburgh, PA: The Poet's Press. 2019.

Musical Compositions and Collaborations

• Elegy and Variations for String Orchestra.
• String Quartet No. 1 (Quartet version of Elegy and Variations).
• An English Fantasia for Harpsichord.
• Orchids and Bromeliads, for oboe and piano.
• Preludes for Piano (work-in-progress).
• Prelude-Rhapsody in G for piano.
• Musical collaborations: Pennsylvania composer William Alexander of Edinboro State University composed a set of choral pieces, a song cycle, and several symphonic pieces using text from or inspired by BR's poems. "Visions for Orchestra," based on three Rutherford poems, had its world premiere in Erie and Edinboro on April 7, 2005. Another Alexander-Rutherford collaboration was performed by this orchestra in April 2007. An Alexander composition, Suite from Whippoorwill Road, for flute and piano, was premiered in October 2009.

Dramatic Works

• Carlota, Empress of Mexico. Play in verse. Performed by The Writer's Circle, Providence, RI. June 8, 9 & 10, 2007. Workshop production, staged reading. Performed November 2007 for Brown Learning in Retirement drama workshop.
• The Death of Queen Jocasta. Dramatic scene in blank verse to be added to Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. Performed at Brown University, Alumni Hall, April 2004 by The Writers' Circle. A workshop staged reading. The Writer's Circle of Providence selected Brett Rutherford's dramatic scene, "The Death of Jocasta," for a staged reading in April 2004. This reading was at Alumni Hall at Brown University, with a cast of professional actresses and students. The scene, in blank verse in ancient Greek style, is written to be inserted in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. In the Sophocles original, Queen Jocasta does the "proper" thing by committing suicide offstage when she learns that she has been married to her own son for twenty years. Rutherford's drama is a feminist exploration of Queen Jocasta's dilemma. In this version, she does not commit suicide: she is put on trial and condemned by the women of Thebes, and offers up a spirited self-defense. This small play had a tremendous impact on its audience, many of whom mistook it for a translation.
• Knecht Ruprecht, or The Bad Boy's Christmas. Monologue. Performed at The Pulse Theater, West 42nd Street, New York, NY. Staged reading
• The Milwaukee Intervention. A one-scene skit or play. In The Inhuman Wave. Pittsburgh, PA: The Poet's Press. 2020.
• Nachtmahre. Play. German translation of Brett Rutherford'sNight Gaunts by Arne Zastrow. Performed by Expressis Verbis, Heidelberg. Germany, January 2006.
• Night Gaunts: An Entertainment Based on the Life and Works of H.P. Lovecraft. Play. Performed at The Providence Athenaeum, Providence, RI. Brett Rutherford's play, Night Gaunts, was written to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the death of America's greatest horror writer, who spent almost his entire life in Providence. Two staged readings in 1987 and 1990 featured actor Carl Johnson as H.P. Lovecraft and played to sold-out houses. The script was published by The Poet's Press in 1988, and in a new, revised edition in 2005. The play includes two vivid female characters — Lovecraft's mother, who gets a great mad scene, and Lovecraft's New York wife, Sonia Greene, who enacts a kind of "Horror Honeymooners" with the romantically inept author. This play was adapted by Hal Hamilton into a radio drama, broadcast in Boston in October 2004.
• The Prisoner. A one-scene play or skit. In An Expectation of Presences. Pittsburgh, PA: The Poet's Press. 2012.
• Who Is Athena? A pageant in verse for the installation of a bust of Athena at The Providence Athenauem, July 7, 2008. Adapted from Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Callimachus, and Solon the Wise.

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