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Education Goddard College. MFA-Creative Writing, July, 2003. Creative thesis: Water-Rites, poems. Critical thesis: “Past, Present, and Possible: How Time Works in the Poem.” Teaching thesis: “Winging It: Teaching and Learning within the Constraints of Community College Requirements”
Thomas Jefferson College. BPh. Arts & Literature, 1979 (transcripts arrive from Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI).
The New School for Social Research. Freshman Year Program, 1976.
Recent non-matriculated coursework and seminars: “Understanding and Writing Art Criticism,” 7-week series at New Arts Program, Kutztown PA. William Zimmer, seminar leader. 2004.
“Revising in Form” 3-day intensive with Diane Thiel; “Meter” 3-day intensive with Timothy Steele; “Blank Verse” 3-day intensive with Rachel Hadas; “Writing for Song,” seminar with Dana Gioia, West Chester Poetry Conference, West Chester University. 2003, 2004, 2006.
“Crosswalk Workshop: Designing, Revising, Organizing, Developing and Writing Curriculum Based on Proposed PA Academic Arts and Humanities Standards.”James Ritchey, workshop leader, Kutztown University. 2001.
“Poetic Voice” with Christopher Davis. Iowa Summer Writing Workshops. 1998.
“Art as a Way of Learning,” an arts integration seminar. Dr. Patricia Pinciotti, workshop leader, Northampton Area Community College. 1998.
Teaching Experience DeSales University, Center Valley, PA, 2003-present: “Communication and Thought I” 2 sections basic comp, freshman level “Communication and Thought II: the Research Paper” 9 sections, freshman level “Introduction to Poetry I” 2 sections DeSales’ Annual Writer’s Conference: “Creative Non-Fiction” 2-hr seminar workshop Penn State University/Lehigh Valley, Fogelsville, PA, 2005, 2006: “Creative Writing 1” 1 section “Rhetoric and Composition” 1 section, freshman level Lehigh Carbon Community College, Schnecksville, PA, 2002-present: “Literary Analysis through Writing” 1 section, sophomore level “Fundamentals of Writing” 1 section, remedial comp, freshman level “Creative Writing” non-credit, half-semester adult-ed course “Writing Your Memoir” non-credit, half-semester adult-ed course “Writing for Fun and Profit” non-credit, one seminar adult-ed course Lehigh Valley Writer’s Academy, Allentown, PA, 2004: “Individual Voices, Common Ground in the Personal Essay” seminar University of Pennsylvania Annual Writer’s Conference, 2003-2005: “CNF from the Very First Paragraph,” “Writing and Reading Radio Commentary” and “Classical Allusions, Contemporary Poetry” 2-hr seminar workshops Goddard College, 2003: “Immediacy and Image: Haiku Practice as a Means of Generating Creative Work” “Writing the Garden” (graduate seminar classes) Northampton Area Community College, Bethlehem, PA, 2002: “Temperament Is Destiny: Muriel Rukeyser as Feminist and Outsider” guest lecturer for Dr. Margaret Borene’s “Women’s History and Literature” course Antioch College Philadelphia, 1983: “Black English to Standard English Writing Literacy” (assistant instructor) Other career experience: Lehigh Carbon Community College: Writing tutor. 2003. Rodale Press, Emmaus, PA: various positions, including research and editing. 1986-1990.
Areas of Teaching Interest: The research paper; Contemporary poetry, Asian poetry (analysis and creative writing); Creative non-fiction; Children’s literature 1900-1920; Literary analysis; Literature and writing for non-humanities majors; environmental/nature writing
Publications: Essays/Articles/Reviews (Poetry, books, and other publications listed on Publications page) “Past, Present, and Possible: How Time Works in Poems” The Writer’s Chronicle, Sept. 2004 “The Trauma of Being a Self in the World: A Review of Poetry as Survival by Gregory Orr” Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts, Autumn 2004 “Notes from the Fringe” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Autumn 2005 “Unlikely Muse, or How Teaching the Research Paper Has Helped My Writing” Poets&Writers online Teachers’ Forum, February 2006 “Is Poetry a DNA–Based Imperative?” upcoming (Fall 2006) in Diner “Ancient Prose: A Case for Haibun” Sentence, a Journal of Prose Poetics, Vol. 1, 2003 “Writing as a ‘Trustworthy Process’,” “Tess Gallagher and ‘The Poem as a Container for Grief’,” and “Opened Ground by Seamus Heaney: Crediting Poetry” Pitkin Critical Arts Review, 2002-2003 “In the Open: A Review” Sparks magazine, 2003 “Technology and Poetic Language: Some Questions for Poets” DayBreak, 2000 “The Disfigured Word: Francis Ponge” Heat magazine, 1983 Memoir and other personal essays have appeared in: Mothering online, The Mother Is Me, Welcome Home, afterimages, Moms Online, in Lessons in Love: Gifts from Our Grandmothers, Carol Dovi, ed. (Crown Publishers, 2000) and Abbeywood Press’ future anthology Family, Friends & Strangers Articles submitted for publication: “A Matter of Balance” (Sentence) “Inner Ecology: An Aesthetic of the Ordinary” (Isotope)
“Whitman’s Paumanok Poems and the Value of ‘Being Faithful to Things’” (Mickle Street Review) “Writing Instruction for the Non-Humanities Major: The Dilemma of Teaching ‘Formally Ignorant Specialists’ the Tools of Written Self-Expression” (Writer’s Chronicle)
Book Publication More than Shelter. New York: Spire Press, 2004 Small Things Rise and Go. Kanona NY: FootHills Press, 2006 The Minor Fauna. Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press, 2006 Submitted for publication: Water-Rites, 51 poems; Strange Ladies, 24 poems
Associations Academy of American Poets ASCAP Association of American University Women—Allentown Branch: Board Member, Educational Fund Chairperson 1998-2001 Associated Writing Programs Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Lehigh Valley Arts Council Modern Language Association Pennsylvania Council on the Arts: Artists-in-Education Rostered Artist; qualified for PCA’s Special Opportunities Pool Poets&Writers, Inc.; listed writer in A Directory of American Poetry and Fiction Writers Teachers & Writers, Inc.
Award Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, 1998
Miscellaneous Nominated twice for Pushcart Prizes Nominated for the Academy of Arts & Letters (for libretto) Served as regional judge for Pennsylvania’s Governor’s School of the Arts, (Creative Writing) for 7 years Twice served on a panel of judges of the Red Rock Arts Award (Creative Writing) for adjudicated youths in Pennsylvania, and for the 2000 Youth Poetry Contest sponsored by the Morning Call, Allentown, PA Served as final judge for the 2006 Spire Press Chapbook Competition Served as panelist for Lehigh Valley Arts Council/PCA “Project Stream” grants, 2006
Creative Writing Study During the past 20 years, I have attended seminars, workshops and classes taught by the following writers (among others):
Anita Skeen Robert Kelly Clark Strand Christopher Davis Carol Berge Anselm Hollo Beatrix Gates Michael Klein Jan Clausen Dorianne Laux Kim Addonizio Stanley Plumly Elena Georgiou Harry Humes Len Roberts Joan Larkin Paul Martin Julianna Spahr Nicholas Christopher Timothy Steele Kenny Fries Linnea Johnson Etheridge Knight Diane Thiel David Mason Dana Gioia Rachel Hadas
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