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Degrees:
Master’s—Literature/Writing/Poetry, University of New Hampshire.
BA--Art & Literature, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH.
College teaching:
Currently at Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH. Twelve years at University of NH; visitor or adjunct at others, including Salem College, NC, Antioch College, OH, Keene State College, NH. Courses include beginning, advanced & graduate poetry, fiction & literature, introductory & advanced creative nonfiction. Specially designed courses such as “Sense of Wonder” for writers across disciplines, “Nature Writing,” “Community & Identity” & “Ethics.” Visiting writer seminars. Continuing education, “Writing from Experience.”
Other teaching, judging, etc.:
Poetry appreciation workshops. Private paid tutor for homeschoolers, & mentor / instructor of adults in all writing fields, at all levels. Artist-in-the-schools creative writing & other arts programs from K-12, including work with teachers as consultant. Community-centered arts & poetry workshops. Frost Place Young Poets Conference, 2008. Presentation at the Frost Place Teachers Conference, 2008. Numerous Young Writers Conferences. (Co-founder of NH YWC.) Long-term creative writing course for the mentally ill (Riverbend, Concord, NH). English as a second language, piano & other music, theatre arts, crafts, summer camps. Counseling of troubled teenagers. Editing of literary magazines, including 13th Moon, Antioch Review. Judge for poetry contests: NH Charitable Funds (20 yrs), New England Writers (natl, 1998), Maine Arts Council (2001), NH Arts Council (2002), Poetry Out Loud (NH segment of national program, 2006, 2007, 2008). Teacher workshop on poetry appreciation & instruction, Great River Arts, VT, 2008.
Facilitating:
Lecture / workshop sessions on publishing & poetry for NH Writers’ Project, for whom I also co-organized & taught for their new Writers in the Schools program. New England Writers’ Conference (Hanover, NH, 1997). Artists’ time management & inspiration workshop for New England Artists Congress (Newport, NH, 1997). Poetry reading / discussion series “After Frost” (twice) under New England Humanities Council. Week-long workshop / lectures at Chautauqua, NY, 1999, 2005, 2007, 2008. Various literary discussion groups such as “What Is NH Reading,” workshops & panels for schools, libraries & organizations including NH Councils on the Humanities & the Arts, & Co. of Women.
Other activities:
Writing mentor. Organize, write grants for & run school & community arts programs for all ages, including Project Week, visiting musicians, artists & environmentalists; direct children’s plays; organize fine arts exhibits, performance cabarets, hands-on arts workshops. Member NH Writers’ Project, Academy of American Poets, Poetry Society of America.
Books:
Strange Terrain: A Poetry Handbook for Reluctant Readers, Hobblebush Books 2009
Be That Empty, Harbor Mountain Press 2007
I Love This Dark World, Zoland Books 1996
Elemental, Zoland Books 1993
Anthologies:
Best American Poetry 1993
Poet’s Choice (Robert Hass’s selections from the Washington Post Book Review)
Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry 1987 & 1997
Women.Period
Life on the Line
Out of Season
What’s Become of Eden: Poems of Family at Century’s End
1996 Women Writers Calendar
Portsmouth (NH) Arts Calendar 1996
Claiming the Spirit Within: A Sourcebook of Women’s Poetry
Under the Legislature of Stars: An Anthology of NH Poets
Anthology of Hospice Writings
Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel, volumes 1 and 2
Heartbeat of New England: Anthology of Contemporary Nature Poetry
2008 Poets’ Guide to NH
Essays:
Chautauqua Review; Earth Tones; Hospice; Writing on the Wall
Audiotapes:
NH Poets Read Poetry; Alice B. Fogel Reading Selected Poems
Poems in journals
(sometimes more than once): A Fine Madness, Atlanta Review, Barrow Street (featured), Beloit Poetry Journal, Bleeding on the Page, Blue Ink, Boston Globe, Boston Review (featured), Chautauqua Literary Review, Chelsea, Christian Science Monitor, Conscience, Crab Creek Review, Crazy Quilt, Cream City Review, Frisk, Green Mountains Review, Greensboro Review, Hotel Amerika, Hootenanny, Hospice, Hubbub, Iowa Review, Ironwood, Larcom Review, Many Mountains Moving, Marlboro Review, Minnesota Review, Negative Capability, No Tell Motel, Notre Dame, Phoenix, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, Poetry East, Poetry Northwest, Rattapallax, Red Brick Review, River Oak, Seneca Review, Southern Poetry Review, The Journal, Third Coast, Tar River, TriQuarterly, Washington Post, Worcester Review, World Letter, Yankee Magazine, Zone 3, Chautauqua, others.
Awards & Honors:
National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist’s Fellowship 1997. Alligator Juniper Award. New England Poetry Club’s Varoujan Award, first prize. Poem included in Best American Poetry 1993. Wildwood Competition, two honorable mentions. Morin Prize, first place. Negative Capability Magazine, honorable mentions for essay “Poetry in Mind” & for poem sequence “After Chagall.” Work in Progress Grant for YA novel from Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators. Several compositions & performances of music put to my poems, from coast to coast. Three Pushcart nominations.