MY WRITINGS
BOOKS
Language and Lewis Carroll, Mouton-DeGruyter. Janua Linguarum, Series Maior, 26. (1970). 245 pp. LC: 73-101966. A scholarly work.
Sticklewort and Feverfew, The Pikestaff Press (1980). A novel.
The Farringford Cadenza, The Pikestaff Press (2007). A novel.
POEMS
“Philippic,” Mikrokosmos #1 (1959)
“Succession,” Charlatan #1 (1963). Foldout section on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
“A View of the Conrad Hilton from the Wabash YMCA,” The Post- Amerikan (1974)
“Fadeout (for Jim Scrimgeour),” [ 1978 ], published electronically on this website (2008)
“On the Spoil Heaps (for Dorothea),” in Applecart #1 (1979), 23 and This Awkward Mud, READ ILLINOIS, Illinois State Library (1984), 11
“Balboa Park,” [ 1984 ], published electronically on this website (2008)
“The Wonderful World,” in Light Year ‘87, ed. Robert Wallace. (Cleveland, OH: Bits Press, 1986), 176
“The Current Occupant of the White House Prepares for War: February, 2003,” published electronically via the Internet in the Poets Against the War Anthology (2003)
"Epitaph for a Prolific Novelist," published electronically on this website (2009)
STORIES
“Point of Departure,” Big Muddy, 5, #2 (2005), pp. 102-118
ESSAYS
On Literature
"Review of Daniel F. Kirk’s Charles Dodgson, Semeiotician," in Philological Quarterly, XLIII (July, 1964), 429-431
"Review of Roger Pfingston’s Nesting," in The Pikestaff Forum #2 (Winter, 1979), 21
"Review of Curtis White’s Heretical Songs," in The Pikestaff Forum #5 (Spring, 1983), 30
On Writing“Nine Years to Grow a Raddermelish: or, Self-Publication, The Small Press, and the Joys of Doing-It-Yourself,” The Friends of Milner Library Newsletter, #22 (Spring, 1981), 3-6
“Some Reflections on the Writing of Sticklewort and Feverfew,” SIGNAL (International Reading Association’s Special Interest Group on Literature for the Adolescent Reader), VI, #9 (May, 1981), 1, 3-4, 13
"A Short Course in Creative Writing," as taught by Robert D. Sutherland at Illinois State University, 1974-1992. (38 pp.), published electronically on this website (2009)
“Conventions of Written English Punctuation Usage: General Guidelines,” ISU Creative Writing classes, 1988"The Importance of Suspense in Mystery-Writing," (41 pp.), published electronically on the blog: http://mystery-writing-vergil.blogspot.com/ and this website (2009).
On Editing and Publishing
“Publishing: Politics and Establishment Parochialism,” paper read and distributed at the MMLA Convention, Cincinnati, OH, (Nov. 5, 1982)
“The Self-Publishing Option,” excerpt (modified) from “Publishing: Politics and Establishment Parochialism”, widely distributed over many years and published electronically on this website (2008)
“By Way of Farewell: Looking Back on Nineteen Years of Editing and Producing The Pikestaff Forum,” in The Pikestaff Forum #13 (1996), 24-26
On Education“The Teaching of English Composition to Gifted High School Students,” Illinois State University Bulletin, LXIII (Nov., 1965). 11-18 (Report of the Summer Institute in English, 1965)
“Education Through Freedom,” Readings for Rhetoric, ed. Frederick P. Kroeger, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1969, pp. 469-476
“Some Thoughts on Conceptual Learning and Information Retrieval,” broadside distributed at Illinois State University (March, 1969)
“Letting Students Be: Report on a Continuing Experiment in Education,” College English, 32, #7 (April, 1971), 733-739
“On Being Parents” (with Marilyn Sutherland), The Post-Amerikan (April/May, 1990), 7
“On Being a Father”, interview by Mary Blick for a college Sociology course in “Family” (1994), published electronically on this website (2008)
On Political Matters“FBI Surveillance in Bloomington-Normal: A Local Citizen’s File,” The Post-Amerikan, 14, #3 (June-July, 1985), 4-7. [Printing, and discussing, selections from RDS’s FBI file obtained under the Freedom of Information Act; as a public document paid for by taxpayer’s money]
“Toward Strengthening a Sense of Literary Community,” Illinois Writers Review, 9, # 2 (Winter 1990), 32-43
“Coping with Hate Speech and Hate Crimes,” The Post-Amerikan (Aug/Sept., 1999), 12-13
“How Does One Sustain Oneself as a Social Activist in an Indifferent or Hostile Environment?” presented to the Unitarian Universalist Church, Bloomington, IL (July 9, 2000) published on this website [2008]
“Defending Civil Liberties Against the Government’s ‘War on Terrorism’,” a speech given and distributed in printed form to the Unitarian Universalist Church of Bloomington-Normal, IL on March, 2003
“The Essence of Patriotism in a Difficult Time,” The INDY (April 16, 2003), 2
“TASERS: Bloomington’s Own Version of ‘Shock and Awe’?”, The INDY (April, 2004), lead article
On Various Topics“Problems of Shared Governance at Illinois State University: Management by Objectives--Catch-phrase of the Seventies”, quotation from panel sponsored by AAUP chapter at, ISU (December, 1974)
“Response to Donald Shields and John Cragan’s ‘The Interfacing of Rhetorical Theory and Computers for Speech Writers,’” delivered to the Rhetoric section of the Midwest Modern Language Association Convention in Chicago, IL (1977)
“Report on the American Writers Congress.” New York (Oct. 9-12, 1981), The Post-Amerikan (Nov.,1981) (eye-witness account and critique)
“Thoughts on Aging,” in round-robin Lifegame Newsletter of David Sutherland’s Pomona College graduating class (1987)
“Businesses learning to live with HIV and AIDS in the workplace” (with Beth Raboin), Business to Business: McLean County’s Monthly Business Magazine (May, 1999), 6, 8
“HIV/AIDS: Update on a Growing Epidemic—Are You At Risk of Becoming Infected?”, The INDY (Aug., 2003), 7
“Reminiscences of Illinois State University (1964-1975)”, The INDY (Feb. 2007), 1, 5, 7-8
