Educational Background

Cornell University, B.S., 1966 University of Oregon, M.F.A. in Creative Writing, 1968

Teaching Experience

2002-present 2009 2002-2007 1988-2002 1990-1998 1988-1989 1981-1982 1981-1987 1977-1991 1984, 1986 1976 1977-1980 1972-1974 1968-1971 1967-1968

Arthur Jeremiah Roberts Professor of English, Colby College Core graduate faculty, Drew University MFA program Graduate Faculty, New England College MFA program Dana Professor of Poetry, Colby College Graduate Faculty, Warren Wilson M.F.A. program Visiting Professor of English, U. of Iowa Writer's Workshop Visiting Associate Professor of English, University of Virginia Associate Professor of English, Colby College Director, Creative Writing Program, Colby College Faculty, Bread Loaf School of English Assistant Professor of English, Colby College Visiting Writer-in-Residence, Hampshire College Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Antioch College Instructor of English, Hobart & Wm. Smith Colleges Instructor of English, University of Oregon

Courses Taught

Graduate Poetry Writing, Advanced Poetry Writing, Advanced Fiction Writing, Intermediate Poetry Writing, Intermediate Fiction Writing, Seminar in Postmodern American Poetry, Contemporary American Poetry, Contemporary American Fiction, Modern American Poetry, Modern and Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Twentieth-Century American Literature, Seminar in Postmodern American Poetry, Romantic Poetry, Modern European Poetry in Translation, Seminar in Blake and Whitman, Lyric Poetry, Poetry and Ideology, The Russian Novel, Literature and Psychology, Sites of Conflict in the 20th Century Novel, The American Short Story.

Publications

Books

History Matters: Contemporary Poetry on the Margins of American Culture (U. of Iowa Press, 2009) criticism Barter (U. of Illinois, 2003) collection of poems Grazing(U. of Illinois, 1998) collection of poems An Ira Sadoff Reader(U. of New England/Bread Loaf, 1992) a collection of stories, poems, essays Emotional Traffic (David Godine, 1990) collection of poems Uncoupling (Houghton Mifflin, 1982), novel A Northern Calendar (David Godine, 1982) chapbook of poems Maine: Nine Poems (Pym-Randall, 1981) chapbook of poems Palm Reading in Winter (Houghton Mifflin, 1978) collection of poems Settling Down (Houghton Mifflin, 1975) collection of poems

Poetry in Magazines

more than three hundred poems in The New Yorker, Poetry, Antaeus, American Poetry Review, Boulevard, The Nation, The Hudson Review, The New Republic, Esquire, New American Review, The Paris Review, Partisan Review, New England Review, Southern Review, Sewanee, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, Iowa Review Kayak, Epoch, The Ontario Review, Shenandoah, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner,Carolina Quarterly, Northwest Review, Western Humanities Review, Carolina Quarterly, Ohio Review, Denver Quarterly, Antioch Review, Yale Review, The Nation, The Sewanee Review, Missouri Review, Field

Fiction in Magazines

thirty stories in: The Paris Review, Partisan Review, Tri-Quarterly, The American Review, The Iowa Review, Transatlantic, Antioch Review, Ploughshares, Seattle Review, North American Review, Ohio Review, Carleton Miscellany, Epoch, The Mississippi Review, New England Review/Bread Load Quarterly, Denver Quarterly, Agni Review, Colorado Review, Chelsea.

Anthologies

Wright, Charles, ed. Best Poems of 2008 (Scribner) 2008 Liebmann, ed. Between Heaven And Earth: A Literary Guide To The Poetry Of Birds (Houghton Mifflin Co.) 2007 O’Rourke, ed, “At the Movies,” Notre Dame Review 20 Year anthology (Notre Dame University Press) 2007 Schramm, Living in Storms (Eastern Washington University Press).2007 The Paris Review, ed. The Paris Review Book for Planes, Trains, Elevators and Waiting Rooms (Paris Review Editions: NY) 2005. Coghill and Tammaro, ed. Visiting Walt -- poems inspired by Whitman (U. of Iowa, Iowa City, Ia.) 2005 McNair, ed. The Maine Poets (Downeast Books) 2005 Lehman, Great American Prose Poems (Scribner: NY) 2004 Garrison and Hermsen, ed. O Taste And See (Bottom Dog Press: Huron, OH) 2004 Creeley, ed. Best Poems of 2002(Scribner)2002 Weingarten, ed. Poets of the New Century, (David Godine) 2002 Berg, ed. My Business is Circumference (Paul Dry Books) 2001 Berg,Bonnano and Vogelsang, The Body Electric (Norton) 2000 Berg, ed. Influence and Mastery (forthcoming, Paul Drey Books) Plumly, The New Bread Loaf Anthology Of Contemporary Poetry (Upne) 1999) Ed. Kempher, The Primer Of The Prose Poem 1999 Thom Living in Storms: Contemporary Poetry and the Moods of Manic-Depression(Purdue Univ. Press) 1999 Raz, ed. The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Jewish-American Writing (U.of Neb.) 1998 Brown, Verse and Universe (Milkweed) 1998 Brown and Bosselar, Night Out (Milkweed) 1998 Pack and Parini, eds, Introspections (UPNE) 1998 Klotz, St. Martin's Introduction to Literature (St. Martin's) 1997 Meyer,The Bedford Introduction to Literature.(Bedford Books), 1996 Henderson, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, 1996 Daniels, Letters to America: American Poets on Race (Wayne State) 1996 Schinder, Lights! Camera! Poetry! (Harcourt Bace) 1996 Goldstein, At the Movies (U. of Michigan) 1996 Truesdale, The Party Train (New Rivers) 1996 Levin, The Poetry of Solitude: a Tribute to Edward Hopper (Rizzoli) 1995 McQuade, etc. The Harper Anthology of American Literature(Harper & Row) 1994 McNair,. The Quotable Moose (UPNE) 1994 Pack and Parini, Poems for a Small Planet (UPNE)1993 Weingarten and Myers, New Poets of the Nineties (Godine) 1991 Plimpton, The Paris Review Anthology (Doubleday)1991 Feinstein, The Jazz Poetry Anthology (U. of Indiana Press) 1991 Paul Ruffin, The New England Poets, (U. Mass. Press), 1988 Pack, Lea & Parini, ed., The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (U.Press of New England) 1985. Rich Ives, ed. Time Enough For The World (Owl Creek Press) 1985. Jason Shindler, ed. Divided Light:Poems of Fathers and Sons (Sheep Meadow) 1984. William O'Rourke, ed. On The Job:Stories About Work (Random House) 1977. William Abrams, ed. Prize Stories of 1976:The O. Henry Awards (Doubleday)1977. Betty Parry, ed. The Unicorn in the Garden (Word Works) 1978. Bruce Taylor, ed. Eating the Menu:Contemporary Poets (Kendall-Hunt) 1974. The Borestone Mountain Awards:Best Poems of 1974; Best Poems of 1976. Daniel Halpern, ed. The American Poetry Anthology (Avon Books) 1975.

Essays

"Irredeemable Loss in Three Contemporary Poets" (The Kenyon Review, Summer, 2009) "History Matters:a Minority Report" American Poetry Review, Nov./Dec.2007 "Czeslaw Milosz and the Late Style," American Poetry Review, March/April 2007 "Olena Kalytik Davis and the Retro-New," American Poetry Review, Nov./Dec. 2006 "Frank O’Hara’s Strategic Fictions," American Poetry Review, July/August 2006 "On the Margins" (part two, the prose poem) American Poetry Review, March/April 2006 "On the Margins," American Poetry Review, Nov./Dec.2005 "Taking Flight: Essay on "Childhood Reading," Betty Greenway, ed. Twice-Told Children's Tales: The Childhood Reading of Writers for Adults (Routledge) 2005 "Trafficking in the Radiant" Spirituality in American Poetry," American Poetry Review, July/August, 2005 "Dreaming Creatures," essay on the poetry of Gerald Stern and C.K. Williams, American Poetry Review, Jan-Feb.2005 "Mixed Messages," The Georgia Review, Summer 2004 "Playful And Stately To The End: the poetry of Kenneth Koch," Daily Forward, Jan,31, 2003 "Louise Gluck and the End of Romanticism," New England Review, Fall, 2001 "Inside/Out: Blurring the Boundaries Between Mimetic and Representational Poetries," The American Poetry Review (April, 2000) "Modernism and the Myths of Closure," AWP Chronicle, Spring 1996 "Transformation and Surprise: Intensification and Imagination," American Poetry Review, Jan./Feb. 1995 Philip Levine, Under Discussion (U. of Michigan Series) 1991 Hearing Voices: the Fiction of Poetic Voice," New England Review, Fall, 1992 Selecting the Selected: "An Interpretation of a Cultural Moment," The ColoradoReview, Fall, 1992 "Neo-Formalism: A Dangerous Nostalgia," American Poetry Review, Jan-Feb. 1990 "Ben Webster," the Missouri Review, Spring, 1987. "The Meditative Poem: “The Reemergence of Intelligence in Contemporary American Poetry," American Poetry Review, Nov./Dec. 1980. "A Chronicle of Recent Poetry," The Antioch Review, Spring, 1977. "Freedom or Form," The Mississippi Review, Summer, 1977. "Conrad and Sartre: Lord Jim as Existential Hero," The Dalhousie Review, #49.

Reviews:

Northwest Review, Antioch Review, Seneca Review, American Book Review, Chicago Review. Daily Forward

Translations:

Poems of Max Jacob and Paul Eluard in Chelsea, Ironwood, Granite, Footprints

Editing Experience

The Seneca Review, co-founder and co-editor, 1968-76. The Antioch Review, poetry editor, 1974-78.

Awards, Professional Activities

Glenna Luchesi Prize, Prairie Schooner, 2008 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry, 1999-2000 Moderator, “Is Writing Poetry Barbaric After the Holocaust?” National Holocaust Museum, Washington, D.C. Participants Gerald Stern, Nobel Laureate Czslaw Milosz, and Marge Piercy. Jerome Shestack Prize, American Poetry Review 1998(Best Poems published in 1997) George Bogin Memorial Prize, Poetry Society of America 1996 Staff, Indiana University Writer's Conference, Summer, 1991, 1993 Faculty, Bread Loaf School of English, 1984, 1986, 1990 Staff, Aspen Writer's Conference, Summer, 1979, 1980. Staff Assistant, Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, 1977, 1978, 1982. Creative Arts Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 1979-80 Staff, Stonecoast Writer's Conference, Summer, 1983, 1984. Alan Collins Fellow in Poetry and Prose, Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, 1974. Staff, National Poetry Festival, Allendale, Michigan, Summer, 1974. Fellow, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, 1973. Distinctive Story Award, Martha Foley's Best Short Stories of 1974; 1975; 1978;81, 90. Best 100 Books of 1978, The Philadelphia Enquirer (for Palm Reading in Winter Best Books of Poetry, 1978, The Washington Post (for Palm Reading in Winter

Readings

Library of Congress, Folger Shakespeare Library, Academy of American Poets: Donnell Library, The Poetry Center: San Francisco State University, National Public Radio, WGBH-radio--Boston, Ann Arbor Educational TV, Aspen Educational TV, WBAI radio, WYSO radio, Provincetown Fine Arts Center, The Blacksmith House--Cambridge, Mass. Louisville Institute for the Graphic Arts, Textile Museum: Washington, D.C., Antioch College, American University, U. of Arizona, Arizona State University, Boston University, Brandeis University, California Institute of the Arts, Colby College, Cooper Union, Dartmouth College, U. of Delaware, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, University of Iowa, U. of Michigan, U. of Minnesota, U. of New Hampshire, New Hampton School, U. of New Mexico, New School for Social Research, Occidental College, Portland State U., Reed College, Rutgers University, St. Mary's College, Western Michigan University, U. of Virginia., Lynchburg College, Randolph Macon College, Creighton College, Drake University, William & Mary, etc.