Available from Propaganda Press (March 2011):
Breach Birth marks John F. Buckley’s return to writing after an eighteen-year hiatus, sliding into his new role as a poet after his previous self-image ruptured — after job security faded, after discovering he is effectively sterile, after being diagnosed with and treated for bipolar disorder — reborn as an artist in the same awkward fashion that marked his initial entry into this world. These poems chart the growth of an individual rediscovering his voice, giving birth to creative works even as he confronts his infertility, and obliquely reflecting upon the choices he has made during years of hypomania and depression. Moving forward though sometimes facing backwards, John F. Buckley invests this collection with the energy of dreams refracted and redirected but no longer deferred.
“What Is the Urge to Write Poetry Like?” — Left Behind Number 4 (2010) - “Fridays” — mad swirl (June 7, 2010)
- “Truthful Wishing about Oregon” — Two Hawks Quarterly Issue 2, Number 5 (Summer 2009)
- “Flicker, Thud” — Word Catalyst Volume 3, Number 2 (September 2009)
- “Creative Predation” — Word Catalyst Volume 3, Number 2 (September 2009)
“The Romantic Obstetrician” — The William and Mary Review Volume 49 (2011)
“Trouble” — Left Behind Number 4 (2010)- “Date in Las Vegas” — Wilderness House Literary Review Volume 5, Issue 2 (Summer 2010)
- “Ouranos”— Word Catalyst Volume 3, Number 2 (September 2009)
“Best-Selling Children’s Books According to the Salinas Scarab” — Gargoyle Number 56 (Summer 2010)- “For Charla Nash” — Wilderness House Literary Review Volume 5, Issue 2 (Summer 2010)
- “Once Naked in Millville” — The Maynard Volume 2, Number 3 (November 2009)
- “Redheads Chat about the 1980s” — The Dirty Napkin Volume 2.4 (Fall 2009)
- “Mama Rowan” — New Verse News (August 1, 2009)
- “Inheritance” — Wilderness House Literary Review Volume 5, Issue 2 (Summer 2010)
“Will the Bullshitter” — Interrobang?! Volume 2 (Fall 2009)
“Apotheosis”— Left Behind Number 4 (2010) 
“How to Be a Drunk” — Pear Noir! Number 4 (Summer 2010) - “Elemental Truncation” — Stepping Stones Magazine (August 8, 2010)
- “Spectator Sport” — The Writer’s Block [Canada] Number 3 (August 2009)
“Spud” — Santa Fe Literary Review (2010) - “Misdemeanors“ — The Prick of the Spindle Volume 4, Number 2 (2010)
- “Catholic Idol” — The Northville Review (October 2010)
“An Existentialist Children’s Story” — REAL: Regarding Arts & Letters Volume 34.2 (Spring/Summer 2010) - “Fatherhood” — Thirty First Bird Review Volume 1, Issue 1 (August 2010)
