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James Harms

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Morgantown, WV 26501 West Virginia University

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Education

M.F.A. Indiana University, Creative Writing, March 1988

B.A. University of Redlands, English, 1982

Academic Positions/Courses Taught (selected list)

West Virginia University, Professor of English and Creative Writing, 1994--present

Graduate Workshop in Poetry; Graduate Special Topics Course ("The New York School Poets"); Graduate Special Topics Course ("American Poetry since World War II"); Graduate Special Topics Course (“The Impact of Translation on Contemporary American Poetry”); Topics in Creative Writing ("Formal Poetry,” “The Occasional Poem”); Capstone Course in Creative Writing; and others.

East Stroudsburg University, Assistant Professor, 1991-1994

Poetry Writing; Seminar in Yeats; American Poetry; Modern American Literature; Literary Analysis and Interpretation; The Lyric; and others.

Denison University, Visiting Assistant Professor, 1989-1991

Poetry Writing, Creative Writing (two genres); 20th Century British & American Poetry; Studies in Contemporary Poetry; 19th Century American Literature; etc.

Administrative Positions

Chair, Department of English, West Virginia University, July 2012-2018

Director, MFA Program in Poetry, West Virginia University, 2000-2008

Director, Creative Writing Program, West Virginia University, 1995-2008

Program Director, New England College Low-Residency MFA in Poetry, 2008-2012

Administrative Service

West Virginia University

Chair of Department of English (2012-2018), Founding Director of MFA Program in Creative Writing and Undergraduate Program in Creative Writing (2000-2008), Founding Director of West Virginia Writers' Workshop (a Summer Writers' Conference enrolling more than 70 participants per year), Eberly College Budget and Efficiencies Task Force Member, Chair of Search Committee for Director of WVU Press, Search Committee Member for Eberly College Dean, Search Committee Member for Eberly College Associate Dean of Faculty, Search Committee Member for Eberly College Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies, Search Committee Member for Eberly College Chief Business Officer, Committee to Evaluate the Dean, Committee to Evaluate Associate Provost, Benedum Distinguished Scholar Selection Committee (Chair), and others.

Publications (books)

Rowing with Wings, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2017

Comet Scar, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2012

What to Borrow, What to Steal, Marick Press, 2011

After West, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2008

Freeways and Aqueducts, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2004

Quarters, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2001

East of Avalon (letterpress edition), Caddis Case Press, 2000

The Joy Addict, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1998; reprinted in CMUP’s Classic Contemporary Series, 2009

Modern Ocean, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1992

Publications (chapbooks)

Racheland, (chapbook), The Idaho Review, 2014

Animals in Distress & Pluto (limited edition chapbook of two stories), Wallflower Press,

2011

Double Nickels on the Dime (chapbook), The Idaho Review, 2011

L.A. Afterglow (chapbook), The Idaho Review, 1999

Publications (individual poems in journals)

“The Gods.” The Cortland Review, forthcoming.

“Every Night.” Catamaran, forthcoming.

“Auden in Winter.” The Northern Virginia Review 31 (2017): 46-7.

“Accidental Bohemian.” The 2River View 21.3 (Spring 2017):



“From My Lips.” The 2River View 21.3 (Spring 2017):



“Accidental Happiness.” Valparaiso Poetry Review, XVIII, Number 1 (Fall/Winter 2016-

2017)

“Aubade (Lisa Lisa Lisa).” The Missouri Review, October 2016



“The Only Lie Worth Telling.” Southern Humanities Review 49.2 (Spring 2015): 42-3.

“A Good Day.” Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review 41 (Winter 2015): 63.

“We Fell into the Sky.” Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review 41 (Winter 2015): 62.

“Umbrella.” Barrow Street (Winter 2014/15): 41-43.

“Lost Last Chance,” Idaho Review (2014): 93-94.

“Ransom Captive,” Idaho Review (2014): 76-79.

“The Goodbye Train,” Idaho Review (2014): 83-84.

“Racheland,” Idaho Review (2014): 80-81.

“You Live in Bars,” Idaho Review (2014): 85-86.

“Agree,” Idaho Review (2014): 87.

“Apology Accepted,” Idaho Review (2014): 88-89.

“The Promise of Happiness,” Idaho Review (2014): 90-92.

“Sister Rain,” Idaho Review (2014): 82.

“When I Heard,” Idaho Review (2014): 95.

“Will You Be My Silver Star?” Idaho Review (2014): 96.

“The Clock.” Poetry Daily (February 7, 2013).

“The Lost Grove.” A Narrow Fellow 1.1 (April 2013): 55.

“Before Speech.” A Narrow Fellow 1.1 (April 2013): 56.

“1970.” A Narrow Fellow 1.1 (April 2013): 57.

“Third Hand.” A Narrow Fellow 1.1 (April 2013): 58.

“Orpheus Beach.” Ping Pong (2012): 90-100.

“The New Moon Economy.” Shenandoah 62.1 (Fall 2012)

. Also appeared on Poetry Daily web site () as the featured poem of the day (October 27, 2012).

“Other, America.” Fifth Wednesday 10 (Spring 2012): 192.

“This Poem is Called ‘The Devil’s Eye. . . .’ Fifth Wednesday 10 (Spring 2012): 193.

“Our Father Returns from His Travels.” Hayden’s Ferry Review 50 (Spring/Summer

2012): 178.

“1966.” Hayden’s Ferry Review 50 (Spring/Summer 2012): 126.

“Men of Aran.” Cerise Press 3.8 (Fall/Winter 2011-12):

“The Joke, Good Friday.” Connotation Press 3.3 (November 2011) .

The Sadness of Sons.” Connotation Press 3.3 (November 2011) .

“Shore to Shore, Marianne.” Connotation Press 3.3 (November 2011) .

“We Made the Team.” Connotation Press 3.3 (November 2011) .

“The Werewolves of Our Youth.” Connotation Press 3.3 (November 2011) .

“Where’s Jeff.” Ecotone 11 (Spring 2011): 54-55.

“Where is My Tree House?” Ecotone 11 (Spring 2011): 53.

“Sandy Koufax.” Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature XXVII:2 (Spring/Summer 2011): 56-62.

“What Leonardo Knew.” Hamilton Stone Review 22 (Fall 2010):

“Understanding Opera.” Hamilton Stone Review 22 (Fall 2010):

“Thom Gunn.” Hamilton Stone Review 22 (Fall 2010):

“Wetback (1967).” Hamilton Stone Review 22 (Fall 2010):

“The Sunday Birds.” Hamilton Stone Review 22 (Fall 2010):

“Condition Blue.” The Louisville Review 68 (Fall 2010): 14.

“The Building.” The Louisville Review 68 (Fall 2010): 16.

“Anorak Pop.” Gargoyle 56 (2010): 79.

“Sonnet (with Extra Last Line) by Frank Gehry.” Prime Number 2

“Quiet Heart.” Prime Number 2

“Father’s Day: The Summer Solstice.” Prime Number 2

“The New Rainbow.” Prime Number 2

“Friday Rich/Saturday Poor.” Poetry International 15/16 (2010): 185.

“In Your Bright Ray.” Poetry International 15/16 (2010): 186.

“My Life in Art.” Poetry International 15/16 (2010): 187.

“Comet Scar.” West Branch 66 (Spring/Summer 2010): 98-100.

“2009.” West Branch 66 (Spring/Summer 2010): 97.

“The Shield (of Captain America).” Burnside Review 6.1 (2010): 33-4.

“A Wooden Horse.” Tygerburning 1 (2010): 93-4

“Keep My Word.” Valparaiso Poetry Review XI.2 (Spring/Summer 2010)

“Malibu ’69.” Scythe 1

“My Friend, On Fire.” Scythe 1

“My Mother’s Face.” Scythe 1

“1959.” New Ohio Review 6 (Fall 2009): 37.

“Providence.” Connotation Press 1 (September 2009).

“I Thought You Were a Spy.” Connotation Press 1 (September 2009).

“Making Up for Lost Time.” Connotation Press 1 (September 2009).

“Morning to Night to Morning.” Connotation Press 1 (September 2009).

“Days.” Kestrel 20 (Tenth Anniversary Edition 2009): 90.

“Or Two Cans Tied Together With String.” Cerise Press 1.1 (Summer 2009)



“Black Mule.” Drunken Boat 10

“You the Overheard.” Drunken Boat 10

“It’s OK if He’s a Girl.” The Laurel Review 43.1 (Winter 2009): 113.

“The Clock.” Gulf Coast 21.3 (Winter/Spring 2009): 76.

“Another.” Cave Wall 3 (Winter/Spring 2008): 46.

“Phoebe at 8.” Cave Wall 3 (Winter/Spring 2008): 47.

“Flags.” Cave Wall 3 (Winter/Spring 2008): 42.

“Though Not about Him or for Him, a Poem Called Bill Murray.” Cave Wall 3 (Winter/Spring 2008): 44.

“Bachelor Kisses.” Barrelhouse 5: 152.

“Boundary Rider.” Crazyhorse 71 (Spring 2007): 102-3.

“Lynda (Singing Chet Baker, 1988). Crazyhorse 71 (Spring 2007): 106-7.

“Lost and Through.” Crazyhorse 71 (Spring 2007): 104.

“Begin in Gladness.” Smartish Pace 14 (Spring 2007): 1.

“Phoebe.” The Cincinnati Review 4.1 (Summer 2007): 57.

“Bar Talk.” Pebble Lake Review

“The Day My Eyes Came Back.” Pebble Lake Review

“After Surrender.” Quarterly West 63 (Fall/Winter 2007): 89.

“Lamp by Lamp.” Quarterly West 63 (Fall/Winter 2007): 92.

“Sounds, West Virginia.” Quarterly West 63 (Fall/Winter 2007): 93.

“School Figures.” Quarterly West 63 (Fall/Winter 2007): 91.

“Isn’t That Enough.” Poetry International 11 (2007) 82.

“Cary Grant.” The Gettysburg Review 19:3 (Autumn 2006): 409.

“On Beauty and West Virginia at the Blue Moose Café.” The Gettysburg Review 19:3 (Autumn 2006): 410-11. Also appeared on the Poetry Daily web site () as the featured poem of the day (September 5, 2006).

“When I First Met Your Mother.” The Gettysburg Review 19:3 (Autumn 2006): 412-13.

“We Started Home, My Son and I.” West Branch 58 (Spring/Summer 2006): 41-2.

“March 17th.” West Branch 58 (Spring/Summer 2006): 39-40.

“Pastoral by Frank Gehry.” The North American Review 291.1 (Jan./Feb.): 30.

“Knowing You Were Loved.” Bat City Review 2 (2006): 115.

“We Never Named Her Helen.” Georgetown Review (2006):

“Playground Rules.” 32 Poems (Spring 2006): 24.

“Song of Sand, Song of Sea, Song of Leaving, Song of Leaves.” Poetry Southeast (Summer 2006):

“Late Afternoon: Koethe and Radiohead.” Wild River Review 1.2 (2006):

“Our Fathers.” ABZ 1 (2006): 17. Also appeared on Poetry Daily web site

() as the featured poem of the day (August 28, 2009).

“She Said.” ABZ 1 (2006): 18.

“One Long Sentence and a Few Short Ones . . .” McSweeney’s: links/sestinas/14JamesHarms.html

“7 Things I Lost When I Threw the Cigar Box in the River.” 1913 2 (2005): 82-88.

“Murmur R.E.M.” The Oxford American 50 (Summer 2005): 75.

“An Accordion in Autumn.” Alligator Juniper (2005): 148.

“Blue Sleep.” Alligator Juniper(2005): 149.

“Call him you, or who you were. . . .” Alligator Juniper (2005): 150.

“Remembrancer.” Alligator Juniper (2005): 147.

“Breakfast in West Virginia.” Rivendell 4, (Spring 2007): 60.

“When Dean Left West Virginia.” Rivendell 4 (Spring 2007): 61.

“Mountaintop Removal . . .” Rivendell 4 (Spring 2007): 59.

“For Ashes, for Letting Go. Sycamore Review 17.2 (Summer/Fall 2005): 14 (also featured on Sycamore Review web version: ).

“Pisgah Church Cemetery.” Shenandoah 55.1 (Spring/Summer 2005): 42-3.

“Love Poem by Frank Gehry.” Hunger Mountain 6 (Spring 2005): 148.

“Elegy by Frank Gehry.” Hunger Mountain 6 (Spring 2005): 146-7.

“If I could breakdown anywhere . . .” Hunger Mountain 6 (Spring 2005): 149-51.

“Spring in Lincoln Park, 1910.” Crazyhorse 67 (Spring 2005): 109.

“As If.” Nightsun 23 (Fall 2004): 71.

“The Difficult Science of Separation.” Smartish Pace 10 (Spring 2004): 109.

“Like Mercury, the Monongahela.” Ploughshares 30.1 (Spring 2004): 70-1.

“A Friday at the End of August.” Tar River Poetry 43.1 (Fall 2003): 34-5.

“Landscape as the Latest Diet (Southern California).” Tar River Poetry 43.1 (Fall 2003): 34.

“The Astronaut.” Sycamore Review 15 (Winter/Spring 2003): 179.

“Comedy: Morgantown, West Virginia.” Sycamore Review 15 (Winter/Spring 2003): 180-1

“Farmers Market, Los Angeles.” Sycamore Review 15 (Winter/Spring 2003): 177-9.

“Held Down.” Hotel Amerika 1.2 (Spring 2003): 122-3.

"My Dream of Bob Marley." Verse 19.3 (2003): 126-8 (also appeared in Jacket 19).

“The Anodyne Yes.” Controlled Burn IX (Winter 2003): 56-7.

“Solstice.” Controlled Burn IX (Winter 2003): 58.

"Loose Pictures." Canary River Review 1 (Autumn 2002): 71.

"Nothing New But Everything." Canary River Review 1 (Autumn 2002): 72.

"If Afternoon." Cimarron Review 141 (Fall 2002): 7-8.

"It's a Wonderful Lie." Cimarron Review (Fall 2002): 9-11.

"Photo of My Stepfather in an Altadena Evening." Poetry International (2002): 56-7.

"California Stars in West Virginia (for Walt)." Poetry International VI (2002): 58-9.

"Phoebe at Daybreak." Smartish Pace 6 (2002): 13.

"Union Station, Los Angeles (the Reagan Years)." TriQuarterly 112(fall/winter 2002): 148-9.

"High Life." TriQuarterly 112 (fall/winter 2002): 117.

"So Long, Sunset Boulevard." The Blue Moon Review (online now--2002).

"February." The Blue Moon Review (online now--2002).

"Harriet Doerr." West Branch 49.2 (Fall 2001): 10-11.

"By Heart." West Branch 49.2 (Fall 2001): 12-13.

"Western Sky." West Branch 49.2 (Fall 2001): 8-9.

"Loves Leaves More than Flowers." Natural Bridge 5 (Spring 2001): 121.

"Midwinter Visitant." Luna 4 (Spring 2001): 174-5.

"Now." Luna 4 (Spring 2001): 170-1. Also appeared on the Poetry Daily web site () as the featured poem of the day (July 9, 2001).

"Want." Luna 4 (Spring 2001): 173.

"Pacific Standard Time." Pleiades 21.1 (Winter 2001): 74-5.

"Bluegrass." Crab Orchard Review 5.2 (Spring/Summer 2000): 109-10.

"Phonebooth." Pleiades 20.2 (Summer 2000): 140-1.

"Aubade in Morgantown." Aintietam Review 2000: 57.

"Instead of Nothing." Tamaqua 7.1 (2000): 67-70.

"Dance." Tamaqua 7.1 (2000): 65-6.

"Choose." Denver Quarterly 34.4 (Winter 2000): 35.

L.A. Afterglow, a chapbook of the following poems, appeared in The Idaho Review 2 (1999): 135-169. "The Invention of Los Angeles," "Santa Monica Pier," "The Ruined Air," "The Day I Was Conceived," "The Dodgers, 1958," "Highway 99," "Airlight," "Nightswimming," "Border Radio," "East of Los Angeles, 1992," "Surf City," "Afterthought: The Bends."

"The Sanity of My Vessel." The Gettysburg Review 12.1 (Spring 1999): 127-8..

"Reunion of Extra Shadows." The Gettysburg Review 12.1 (Spring 1999): 129-30. Also appeared on the Poetry Daily web site () as the featured poem of the day (March 3, 2004).

"Sleek for the Long Flight." Poetry CLXXIII (January 1999): 231.

"Divorce." The Journal 22.2 (Autumn 1998): 97-8.

"Fable." Crazyhorse 54 (Spring 1998): 50-51.

"When the Circus Comes." Crazyhorse 54 (Spring 1998): 52-55.

"Fountain." American Literary Review 8.2 (Fall 1997): 86.

"Twilight at the Edge of the Empire." American Literary Review 8.2 (Fall 1997): 87

"Winter Memory of Summer Trespass." Chelsea 63 (Fall 1997): 54-5.

"Bruise." Kestrel 10 (Fall 1997): 40.

"Votive." Kestrel, 10 (Fall 1997): 41.

"Faith." Kestrel, 10 (Fall 1997): 39.

"Laundromat." Kestrel, 10 (Fall 1997): 38.

"Photo." Kestrel, 10 (Fall 1997): 36.

"East of Avalon." Kestrel, 10 (Fall 1997): 33.

"Los Angeles, the Angels." Poetry Northwest XXXVIII.3 (Autumn 1997): 13.

"Copernicus." Poetry International 1 (Spring 1997): 64-65.

"Never Mind." Poetry International 1 (Spring 1997): 63.

"Now that Stephen's Back." Thin Air 3 (1996): 18-19.

"Helicopter." Poetry Northwest XXXVII.3 (Autumn 1996): 36-37.

"Sick of Food." Poet Lore 91.3 (Fall 1996): 41-42.

"Legacy." The Kenyon Review XVIII.3 (Summer/Fall 1996): 138-139.

"Soon." The Kenyon Review XVIII.3 (Summer/Fall 1996): 139-140.

"After Yes." The Gettysburg Review 9.3 (Summer 1996): 438.

"The Friend Who Never Married." The Gettysburg Review 9.3 (Summer 1996): 439-40.

"Range Life." Colorado Review XXIII.1 (Spring 1996): 59-60.

"Lucy." Crazyhorse 50 (Spring 1996): 101-103 .

"Autobiography as Slide Show." Another Chicago Magazine 31: 58-9.

“Copper Wire." The Missouri Review 18.2 (Fall 1995): 196.

"Decadence: Newport Beach, California." The Missouri Review 18.2 (Fall 1995): 192.

"Elegy as Evening, as Exodus." The Missouri Review 18.2 (Fall 1995): 191.

"In Any Country." The Missouri Review 18.2 (Fall 1995): 194.

"Mother to Daughter." The Missouri Review 18.2 (Fall 1995): 195.

"20th Century Boy." The Missouri Review 18.2 (Fall 1995): 198.

"First Elegy." Crazyhorse 46 (Spring 95): 86-90.

"My Own Little Piece of Hollywood." Quarterly West 40 (Spring/Summer 1995): 78-9.

"Reel around the Shadow." Chicago Review 40.2&3 (1994): 134-5.

"Almost Always." The Journal 18.1 (Spring/Summer 1994): 52-3.

"Theoretical Life." Hayden's Ferry Review 14 (Spring/Summer 1994): 55.

"Los Angeles." Illinois Review 1.2 (Spring 1994): 29-30.

"Tribe and Country." Indiana Review 17.1 (Spring 1994): 160.

"Wherever You Hang Your Head." New England Review 16.2 (Spring 1994): 30.

"Mariner without a Moon." New England Review 16.2 (Spring 1994): 31-2.

"From Ocean Park to Healdsburg." Poetry CLXIV.2 (May 1994): 93-4.

"Mrs. Worthington." Poetry CLXIV.2 (April 1994): 23.

"Field Trip to My First Time." Poetry Northwest XXXIV.3 (Autumn 1993): 44-5.

"The Other World." College English 55.3. (March 1993): 323.

"Epithalamium." The Antioch Review 50.4 (Fall 1992): 730.

"Sky." The Antioch Review 50.4 (Fall 1992): 729.

"The Joy Addict." Poetry East 33 (Spring 1992): 54-55.

"Tomorrow, We'll Dance in America." Denver Quarterly 26.4 (Spring 1992): 28-9.

"Fin de Siecle." The American Voice 26 (Spring 1992): 40.

"The Tables on the Plaza." The American Voice 26 (Spring 1992): 41-43.

"Close Your Eyes and Go to Heaven." The Southern Poetry Review XXXII.1 (Spring 1992): 36-7.

"At the Rally to Protest." Passages North 12.2 (Winter 1991): 4.

"If All of Us Worry." Passages North 12.2 (Winter 1991): 27.

"Days Before Grace." The Journal 15.1 (Summer 1991): 60.

"Isabelle's Sister." Three Rivers Poetry Journal 37/38: 34-5.

"So Long Lonely Afternoon." Three Rivers Poetry Journal 37/38: 32-3.

"Explaining the Evening News to Corbyn." The Kenyon Review XIII.1 (Winter 991): 49-50.

"'When I Wish upon a Star that Turns into a Plane.'" The Kenyon Review XIII.1 Winter 1991): 51-52.

"Serious Affection." The Kenyon Review XIII.1 (Winter 1991): 52-53.

"Fear of Angels." Orange Coast Review 1.1: 22.

"Peter Case." Orange Coast Review 1.1: 68-9.

"Safer Shadow." The Missouri Review XIII.2 (1990): 74.

"Fond Promise." The Journal (Summer 1990): 35.

"Y-Turn." The Journal 14.1 (Summer 1990): 36-7.

"The Hole in the Moon." The American Poetry Review 19.2 (March/April 1990): 42.

"Somewhere Someone is Saying Good-bye." Carolina Quarterly 42.3 (Spring 1990): 37-8.

"The Sequel." Crazyhorse 36 (Spring 1989): 17-18.

"My Androgynous Years." Crazyhorse 36 (Spring 1989): 19-20.

"Versions of Transport." Indiana Review 13.1 (Winter 1989): 68-69.

"Inherit the Earth." Indiana Review 13.1 (Winter 1989): 70.

"Fragile Bridges." Indiana Review 13.1 (Winter 1989): 71-2.

"Grace to Be Born and Live." Ironwood 16.1/2 (Spring/Fall 1988): 114-15.

"Poem." Ironwood 16.1/2 (Spring/Fall 1988): 116-17.

"Salzburg Cathedral." The Jacaranda Review III.2 (Fall/Winter 1988): 95-6.

"See How We Are." Ploughshares 15.1: 48-9.

"Breakfast on the Patio." The Southern Poetry Review XXVIII.2 (Fall 1988): 10-11.

"Penance." Poetry CLII.3 (June 1988): 146-7.

"Everywhere at Once." The Missouri Review XI.2 (1988): 104-5.

"Between Lives We Write the History." Denver Quarterly 22.4 (Spring 1988): 57.

"Homecoming." Poetry East 23/24 (Fall 1987): 123-4.

"Stories." Poetry East 23/24 (Fall 1987): 125-6.

"Gravity Hill." MSS V.3 (1987): 192-3.

"On the Anniversary of Rain." The Louisville Review (Winter 1987)

"Mexican Christmas." Poetry CXLIX.3 (December 1986): 156-7.

Publications (individual poems in anthologies, textbooks, etc.)

“Kennedy Wins West Virginia!” Eyes Burning at the Edge of the Woods: Fiction and Poetry

from West Virginia. Laura Long & Dough Van Gundy, eds. West Virginia University Press, 2017.

“A Wooden Horse.” Poet Showcase. Alice B. Fogel & Sidney Hall Jr.. eds. Brookline,

NH: Hobblebush Books, 2015:

“One Long Sentence and a Few Short Ones; or, 39 Lines by Frank Gehry.” The Incredible

Sestina Anthology. Daniel Nester, ed. Austin: Write Bloody Publishing, 2013: 127-8.

“Men of Aran: A Sentence.” Alhambra Poetry Calendar 2013. Shafiq Naz, ed. Bertem,

Belgium: Alhambra Publishing, 2013.

“My Name is Rabbit.” Alhambra Poetry Calendar 2013 for Young Readers. Shafiq Naz, ed.

Bertem, Belgium: Alhambra Publishing, 2013.

“So Long, Sunset Boulevard” and “You Again?” The Sentence as a Poetic Form. Gary

Young and Christopher Buckley, eds. Spokane: Lynx House Press, 2012: 19 & 90.

“Making Up for Lost Time.” Collecting Life: Poets on Objects Known and Imagined. A. Watson, ed. Denver: 3: A Taos Press, 2011: 45.

“Ghost.” Aspects of Robinson: Homage to Weldon Kees. Christopher Buckley & Christopher Howell, eds. Omaha: Backwaters Press, 2011: 193.

“Lamp by Lamp.” Alhambra Poetry Calendar 2011. Shafiq Naz, ed. Bertem, Belgium: Alhambra Publishing, 2011.

“Harvest News” and “Union Station, Los Angeles (The Reagan Years).” The Rose

Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice. Eds. Gary McDowell and F. Daniel Rzicznek. Boston: Rose Metal Press, 2010.

“Phoebe at 8.” Alhambra Poetry Calendar 2010. Shafiq Naz, ed. Bertem, Belgium: Alhambra Publishing, 2010.

“Bar Talk.” Alhambra Poetry Calendar 2009. Shafiq Naz, ed. Bertem, Belgium: Alhambra Publishing, 2009.

“Union Station, Los Angeles,” “Gridlock,” ”Song of Sand, Song of Sea . . .” Bear Flag

Republic. Christopher Buckley & Gary Young, eds. San Francisco: Alcatraz Editions, 2008: 187-190.

“Midwinter Visitant.” A Cadence of Hooves. Suzan Jantz, ed. Igo, CA: Yarroway

Mountain Press , 2008: 267-8.

“We Started Home, My Son and I.” The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses XXXII. Bill Henderson, ed. Wainscott: Pushcart Press, 2007: 234-5.

“Breakfast in West Virginia.” Coal: A Poetry Anthology. Chris Green and Edwina Pendarvis, eds. Ashland: Blair Mountain Press, 2006.

“Pisgah Church Cemetery,” ”Harrier Doerr.” ”Twilight at the Edge of the Empire.” Under the Rock Umbrella: Contemporary American Poets from 1951-1977. William Walsh, ed. Mercer University Press, 2006.

“After West,” a sequence of 13 poems. Red, White & Blues: Poetic Vistas on the Promise

of America. Virgil Suarez and Ryan G. Van Cleave, eds. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004.

"My Androgynous Years," Soon," "Los Angeles, The Angels," "The Joy Addict." The New Young American Poets: An Anthology. Kevin Prufer, ed. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000.

"Mariner without a Moon," "From Ocean Park to Healdsburg," "Epithalamium," "Explaining the Evening News to Corbyn," "Breakfast on the Patio." American Poetry: Next Generation. Gerald Costanzo & Jim Daniels, eds. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2000.

"Sky," "Reel Around the Fountain," "As Always," "The Joy Addict." The Bread Loaf Anthology of New American Poets. Michael Collier, ed. Hanover: University Press of New England, 2000.

"Dogtown," "Elegy as Evening, As Exodus," "Los Angeles," "Sky." The Geography of Home: California's Poetry of Place. Christopher Buckley & Gary Young, eds. Berkeley: Hey Day Books, 1999.

"Busing," "Field Trip to My First Time." Learning By Heart: ContemporaryAmerican Poetry About School. Maggie Anderson & David Hassler, eds. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999.

"Los Angeles, The Angels." The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses XXIII. Bill Henderson, ed. Wainscott: Pushcart Press, 1999. 466-7.

"The Hole in the Moon," "Decadence: Newport Beach, California," "Elegy as Evening, as Exodus." The Beach Book: A Literary Companion. Aleda Shirley, ed. Louisville: Sarabande Books, 1999.

"When Your Wish Upon a Star that Turns into a Plane." Sweet Nothings: An Anthology of Rock and Roll in American Poetry. Jim Elledge, ed. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1994. 156-7.

"Tomorrow We'll Dance in America." The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses XVIII. Bill Henderson, ed. Wainscott: Pushcart Press, 1993. 488-9.

"Breakfast on the Patio," "Explaining the Evening News to Corbyn," "My Androgynous Years." The Carnegie Mellon Anthology of Poetry. Gerald Costanzo and Jim Daniels, eds. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon UP, 1993. 98-102.

Publications (short fiction in journals)

“When I Get Where I’m Going.” The Idaho Review V (2003): 189-205.

"Saw You See Me." The Antioch Review 59.4 (Fall 2001): 718-23.

"Pilgrimage." Western Humanities Review XLVII.3 (Fall 1993): 272-279.

Publications (essay/review/interview)

“The Cuckold.” Guernica, (February 2014). n. pag. Web.

Review of Shannon by Campbell McGrath. West Branch 67 (Fall/Winter 2010): 131-33.

“’Goodtime Jesus’ and Other Sort-of Prose Poems.” West Branch 63 (Fall/Winter

2008): 92-99.

Review of Collected Poems by Lynda Hull. West Branch 62 (Spring/Summer 2008): 124.

“Jean Valentine: Remnants and Recognition.” West Branch 56 (Spring/Summer 2005): 72-80.

“An Interview with William Matthews.” Co-authored with David Wojahn. Blackbird: an online journal of the arts Fall 2004: (). Also in Blues for Bill, University of Akron Press, 2005: 85-117.

Review of OneOnOne by Jack Myers. Chelsea 70/71 (2001): 349-352.

Review of A Saturday Night at the Flying Dog by Marcia Southwick. Chelsea 70/71 (2001): 347-349.

Review of Late Leisure by Eleanor Ross Taylor. Chelsea 70/71 (2001): 352-354.

"Clarity instead of Order: The Practice of Postmodernism in the Poetry of James Tate." Denver Quarterly 33.3 (Fall 1998): 81-88.

"A Delightful Collection of Criticism" (Review of Fred Chappell's A Way of Happening). Greensboro News & Record 5 Apr. 1998: F5.

"Disclosing the Real News: Four Young Slovenian Poets." The Antioch Review 52.1 (Winter 1994): 147-152.

More than a dozen short reviews of books of contemporary poetry have appeared in The Antioch Review since 1992.

Publications (essays in edited editions)

“Jean Valentine: Remnants and Recognition.” On the Poetry of Jean Valentine. Kazim Ali and John Hoppenthaler, eds. University of Michigan Press, 2012: 116-120.

“On Weldon Kees.” Aspects of Robinson: Homage to Weldon Kees. Christopher Buckley & Christopher Howell, eds. Omaha: Backwaters Press, 2011: 193-4

“’Goodtime Jesus’ and Other Sort-of Prose Poems.” The Rose Metal

Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice. Eds.

Gary McDowell and F. Daniel Rzicznek. Boston: Rose Metal Press, 2010

“’Goodtime Jesus’ and Other Sort-of Prose Poems.” Bear Flag Republic. Christopher Buckley & Gary Young, eds. San Francisco: Alcatraz Editions, 2008: 6-12.

"Clarity instead of Order: The Practice of Postmodernism in the Poetry of James Tate." A Poetry Criticism Reader. Jerry Harp & Jan Weismiller, eds. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006. 52-60.

"Eleanor Ross Taylor and Silence." The Lighthouse Keeper: Essays on the Poetry of Eleanor Ross Taylor, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Press, 2001: 78-84.

Interviews

“A Conversation Between Poets” in Shining Rock Poetry Anthology & Book Review (), Spring/Fall 2017.

Interviewed on How a Poem Happens (),

July 17, 2009.

Interviewed on the Joe Milford Poetry Show (),

May 24, 2009.

Interviewed in Another Chicago Magazine 47 (2007): 205-214.

Distinctions

Winner, The Northern Virginia Review Award for Poetry, 2017.

Editor’s Selection for “Orpheus Beach,” Water’s Edge. St. Paul: Taylor & O’Neill, 2012.

Caperton Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Writing, West Virginia University,

2010.

Sigma Tau Delta Outstanding Teacher, Department of English, West Virginia University, 2009-2010, 2003-2004.

Featured on the Poetry Daily web site () five times (see listings above

for individual poem publications).

Distinguished Poet in Residence, Stadler Center for Poetry, Bucknell University, Spring 2008

Pushcart Prize, 2008, 1998, 1993 (See anthology publications for details).

National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, 2005

Outstanding Researcher, Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, West Virginia

University 2004.

Finalist (for Quarters), Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award, 2001, Binghamton University

Claude Worthington Benedum Distinguished Scholar, West Virginia University, 2000.

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching/CASE West Virginia Professor of the Year, 1999

WVU Foundation Outstanding Teacher, 1999

Outstanding Researcher, Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, West Virginia

University 1999.

Outstanding Teacher, Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, West Virgina University, 1998.

West Virginia Commission on the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing, 1998.

Senate Research Grant for Creative Writing, West Virginia University, Summer 1995, Summer 1997.

Radiological Consultants Association Faculty Development Summer Fellowship (Creative Writing), West Virginia University, Summer 1995.

PEN/Revson Fellowship, PEN American Center, 1994.

Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing, 1994.

John Ciardi Fellowship, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Summer 1992.

Year-long Residency Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, 1990-91 (declined).

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend (for participation in a teaching seminar on "Modernist American Poetry"), 1990.

National Society of Arts and Letters Literature Award, March 1986.

Fellowship, The Corporation of Yaddo, June 1987.

Fellowship, The MacDowell Colony, May 1987.

Indiana University Writers' Conference Scholarship, June 1986.

Academy of American Poets Prize, April 1986.

Editorial

Editorial/Advisory Board, West Virginia University Press, 2012-present.

Guest Editor, Tygerburning 2, 2012.

Contributing Editor, Pushcart Prize Anthology, 1994-present

Contributing Editor, West Branch, 2004-present.

Guest Editor, , November 2009.

Guest Editor, Kestrel 16, Spring 2001.

Faculty Advisor, Calliope, West Virginia University, 1995-2008

Assistant Poetry Editor, The Antioch Review, 1994-95.

Poetry Co-Editor, Indiana Review, 1985-87.

Poetry Readings/Panel Presentations

Eyes Glowing . . . anthology reading, 1-2-3 Pleasant Street, Morgantown, WV March 2017

Echoes & Visions Reading Series, Wor-Wic Community College, November 2016

Male Poets Writing Home and Hearth, AWP, Los Angeles, April 2016

Where We Begin to Revise the Poem (part 2), AWP, Los Angeles, April 2016

Blue Moose Reading Series, Morgantown, WV, May 2015

Where We Begin to Revise the Poem (part 1), AWP, Minneapolis, April 2015

Ping-Pong/Poetry Crush, AWP, Seattle, February 2014

Incredible Sestina Anthology Reading, AWP, Seattle, February 2014

Connotation Press Reading, AWP, Chicago, March 2012.

Marietta College, September 2011.

Northern Kentucky University, July 2011.

A Celebration of Carnegie Mellon University Press, AWP, Washington DC, February 2011.

Concord Literary Festival, October 2010

Commemorative Reading for 9/11, Erika’s, Brooklyn, NY, September 2010

West Virginia Writers’ Workshop, July 2010

Erika’s Upstairs, Brooklyn, NY, April 2009

Stillwater Poetry Festival, September 2008

University of Scranton, April 2008

East Stroudsburg University, April 2008

DeSales University, April 2008

UP Reading Series, Pittsburgh, PA, April 2008

Salisbury University, April 2008

Lycoming College, March 2008

Writers-at-the-Beach, Rehoboth Beach, DE, March 2008

Susquehanna University, February 2008

Bucknell University, January 2008

Humanities Speakers Series, WVU Parkersburg, April 2007

Muskingum College, April 2007

Writers at the Beach, Rehobeth Beach, DE, March 2007

National Poetry Month, Booksandcoffee, Dewey Beach, Delaware, April 2006

Miners and their Families Benefit Reading, Fairmont, West Virginia, February 2006

Kentucky Wesleyan College, Owensboro, Kentucky, August 2005

Reading to Honor Martin Luther King, Morgantown, WV, January 2005

“Readings on the Bowery” – Bowery Poetry Club, New York, October 2004

St. Thomas Aquinas College, New York, October 2004

Ohio University, October 2004

“Hear and Be Heard” – Poetry and Politics, Morgantown, WV, September 2004.

Split Rock Arts Program, University of Minnesota, August 2004

Bucknell University, June 2004

Fairfield University, April 2004

Upper Arlington Area Library, Columbus, Ohio, April 2004

Ohio Wesleyan University, April 2004

Benefit Reading for Parents’ Place, Morgantown, April 2002

West Virginia Wesleyan College, March 2002

Waynesburg College, March 2002

“Talk of the Nation,” National Public Radio, January 2002.

Hofstra University, July 2001

College of New Jersey, April 2001

University of Southern California, March 2001

California State University, Northridge, March 2001

Long Beach City College, March 2001

University of California, Riverside, March 2001

California State University, Fresno, March 2001

Frostburg State University, Maryland, October 2000

University of Redlands, March 2000

East Stroudsburg University, April 1999.

Boarman Arts Center, Martinsburg, West Virginia, January 1999

Susquehanna University, October 1998

Regional Writers Program at Waldmore Mansion, Clarksburg, WV, October 1998

Kestrel Reading, La Mama La Galleria, New York City, May 1998

West Virginia Wesleyan Literary Festival, April 1997

Blennerhasset Reading Series, Parkersburg, WV, March 1997

CCS Reading Series, New York, NY, February 1997

Marshall University, December 1996, April 2004

GodenRod Writers' Conference, October 1995.

West Virginia Wesleyan College, November 1994.

"Share Our Strength" Benefit, Morgantown, West Virginia, November 1994.

West Chester University of Pennsylvania, October 1994.

University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, February 1994, October 1992.

University of Redlands, November 1993.

La Mama La Galleria, New York City, May 1993.

Pennsylvania State University--Hazelton, March 1993.

The Horizons Program, Warren Hills Schools, New Jersey, October 1992.

The Gallery, Easton, Pennsylvania, October 1992.

Denison University, Granville, Ohio March 1992.

Indiana University, March 1992.

The Poetry Forum at Larry's Bar, Columbus, Ohio, April 1990.

Kentucky Center for the Arts, April 1990.

National Society of Arts and Letters, Bloomington, Indiana, March 1986.

The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire, May 1987

Writers' Conferences/Residencies (teaching/directing)

West Virginia Writers' Workshop, West Virginia Univ., July 1997-present (served as Director from 1997-2008).

First West Workshop for Women Writers, Northern Kentucky University, July 2011

Writers at the Beach, Rehoboth Beach, 2007, 2008

Poet-in-Residence, Stadler Center for Poetry, Spring 2008

Rehobeth Beach Writers Guild, Poetry Workshop, April 1, 2006

Kentucky Retreat for Women Writers. August 2005.

Ohio University Poet in Residence. October 2004.

Poetry about Painting. Split Rock Arts Program, August 2004

Poet in Residence, June Seminar for Younger Poets, Bucknell University, June 2004.

Hofstra University Summer Writers' Conference, July 2001

College of New Jersey Writers' Conference, April 2001

WVW Inc., 1999 Conference, June 1999.

Meacham Writers' Workshops, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, October 1992, February 1994.

Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (as a fellow), August 1992.

Indiana University Writers' Conference, June 1992.

Collaborations

Quiet Heart. A ballet piece choreographed and directed by Renee Nicholson (West Virginia University Department of Dance) based on my poem “Quiet Heart.” I recorded the spoken text and worked with Professor Nicholson in rehearsals on the staging of the performance. Debut February 2011.

For That Which Has No Words. Twelve visual artists created works based on my poems (as well as the poet Grace Cavalieri) for an exhibition that ran from January 17 to February 19, 1999 at the Boarman Arts Center in Martinsburg, West Virginia.

Haunts, a short film directed by Donald Rayne Mitchell. Mitchell and I collaborated on the concept; I then wrote the text/poem, which is read by the featured actor as a voice over. The film premiered at the Angelika Theatre in New York, September 22, 1994 and has since been selected for the Athens (Ohio) International Film and Video Festival, the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema, the San Francisco Poetry Film/Video Festival (at which it received an honorable mention) and others. It has also been aired on Public Television in Philadelphia and elsewhere.

Inner Ear, a multi-media performance piece featuring live dance, music, video art and recorded text, the last of which I wrote. The piece premiered at the Third Avenue Performance Space in Columbus, Ohio, November 1-4, 1990.

Academic Service (in addition to Administrative Service)

West Virginia University

Coordinator of Writers-in-the-Schools Program, Dissertation and Thesis Committees, Creative Writing Committee (Chair), Promotion and Tenure Committee, Graduate Faculty Council Member, Academic Advisor, Dean’s Advisory Committee, Eberly College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Researcher Committee, Eberly College Outstanding Teacher Committee, Teaching Horizons Task Force, and many others.

East Stroudsburg University

Reading Series Director, Festival of the Arts Committee, Search and Screen Committee, Reading Coordinator for National African-American History Month, Writing Track Curriculum Committee, Awards Committee (Chair), Faculty Advisor to Calliope (student literary magazine).

Denison University

Co-Director of Beck Reading Series, Search and Screen Committee.

Professional Service

Judge, Hopwood Prizes, University of Michigan, 2017

Judge, American Literary Review Poetry Contest, 2012

Judge, Walton Fellowship in Poetry, University of Arkansas MFA Program, April 2008.

Judge, Crab Orchard Review Series, First Book Prize, Southern Illinois University Press,

Judge, NCTE Program to Recognize Excellence in Student Literary Magazines, 2006-7

Literature Fellowship Panel, The MacDowell Colony, periodically 1999- present.

Judge, North Carolina Poetry Society, January 2005.

Judge, Jean Burden/Academy of American Poets' Prize, University of Redlands, 2000.

Co-Judge, AWP National Program Director's Prizes for Undergraduate Literary Magazines, 1999.

Preliminary Reader, Tom Wick Poetry Prize, Kent State University Press, 1996

Panelist, Mississippi Arts Commission, April 1995.

Preliminary Reader, AWP Prize in Poetry, 1993

Judge, Creative Writing Contest, Pennsylvania State University--Hazelton, 1993.

Judge, Creative Writing Contest, University of Louisville, Southern Indiana University and other area colleges, 1990.

Professional Membership

Associated Writing Programs

PEN American Center

Modern Language Association

References (selected listing)

Laura Kasischke, Allan Seager Collegiate Professor of English Language and Literature,

University of Michigan. laurakk@umich.edu

David Wojahn, Professor of English, Virginia Commonwealth University. dcwojahn@mail2.vcu.edu

Mary Ann Samyn, Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing, West Virginia University. MaryAnn.Samyn@mail.wvu.edu

Mark Brazaitis, Professor and Former Director of Creative Writing, West Virginia

University. Mark.Brazaitis@mail.wvu.edu

David St. John, Professor of English, University of Southern California.

dstjohn@usc.edu

Ralph Angel, Professor of English, University of Redlands. ralph_angel@redlands.edu

Donald Hall, formerly Jackson Distinguished Professor and Chair of Department of English, West Virginia University; now Dean of Arts and Sciences, Lehigh University. deh211@lehigh.edu

Yusef Komunyakaa, Professor of English, New York University.

Patrick Conner, former Chair and Professor of English, West Virginia University.

Gail Galloway Adams, Professor of English, West Virginia University

Maura Stanton, Professor of English, Indiana University.

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