LIA PURPURA ___________________________________
5116 Norwood Road
Baltimore, MD. 21212
410.323.4232
[email protected]
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts, 1990: Poetry
University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, Iowa City, IA
Teaching/Writing Fellow
Bachelor of Arts, 1986: English
Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
CURRENT TEACHING
Loyola University, Baltimore, MD
Writer-in-Residence
Rainier Writing Workshop, Tacoma, WA
MFA Faculty (Poetry and Nonfiction)
RECENT VISITING POSITIONS
College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico (March 1-4, 2010)
Visiting Writer
Eastman Conservatory, Rochester, New York (Spring, 2009)
Visiting Writer: The Warren and Patricia Benson Forum on Creativity
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (February, 2008)
Coal Royalty Visiting Professor, Nonfiction MFA Program
University of Iowa Writing Program, Iowa City, IA (Spring 2007)
Dr. R. Bruce and Barbara G. Bedell Visiting Professor, Nonfiction MFA Program
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Rough Likeness (Essays) Sarabande Books, Forthcoming: 2012
King Baby (Poems) Alice James Books, Farmington, ME. April 2008
*Winner: Beatrice Hawley Award, 2008
* Finalist: Foreword Book of the Year Award, 2009
On Looking (Essays) Sarabande Books, Louisville, KY 2006.
*National Book Critics’ Circle Award Finalist, 2006
*Winner : Towson Award in Literature, 2009
Increase (Essays) University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA 2000
*Winner: Associated Writing Programs Award in Creative Nonfiction,
1999
Stone Sky Lifting (Poems) Ohio State University Press, Columbus, OH, 2000
*Winner: Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award, 2000
Poems of Grzegorz Musial: Berliner Tagebuch and Taste Ash.
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Madison, NJ 1998
The Brighter the Veil. Orchises Press, Alexandria, VA, 1996
*Winner: Towson University Prize in Literature, 1997
Selected Poems
Noosphere; On Form. The Paris Review. (New York, NY) Forthcoming, 2010
Net. The New Republic. May 5, 2010
Bike Ride with Hokusai Ending. The Antioch Review. Spring, 2010 vol. 68, #2
First Leaf. The New Yorker. (New York, NY) October 5, 2009
Uncertainty. The Diagram. (University of Arizona, Tucson) 10th Anniversary
Issue, Fall 2009
Holy; Rain; Forensic. Hotel Amerika. Vol. 8 #1, Fall 2009
Art. The New Republic. (Washington, DC.) Vol. 240, #4856, April 1, 2009
Mockingbird. The Normal School. California State University (Fresno, CA) Vol.
2, #1, Spring 2009
Three Stillnesses. Field. #80, Spring, 2009
Novel in Two Parts. Hotel Amerika. (Columbia College, Chicago, IL) Vol. 7, #2,
Spring 2009
Fall; Border Report. Image. #59, Fall 2008
Rescue Projects; Once. Third Coast. University of Western Michigan
(Kalamazoo, MI) Fall, 2008
Design. Orion. (Great Barrington, MA) September/October 2008
Once I was walking. . .;King Baby, remember your home. . .; There was a frozen
moment. . .; Then leaves. . . . Pebble Lake. (Houston, TX) Winter, 2008
Bag; Ledger. Smartish Pace. (Baltimore, MD). Issue 15, April, 2008
Memoir. Grove Review. (Portland, OR) Vol. 2, #, 2007
Whose need is this. . .; Warmth is coming. . .; King Baby, are you singing . . .
Witness. vol. XXI, 2007
Aftermath, Morning, Walk. Southern Review. Vol. 44 #1, 2007
Plaques; 32 Poems. (Texas Tech University) Vol 5 #2 2007
Fall; Aftermath; Some Lines. Field Magazine. (Oberlin, OH) #77, Fall 2007
Tornado. Ploughshares. Vol. 32 #4, Winter 2006-07
Trip. Poetry Northwest. Spring/Summer 2007
Parking Lot in Snow. Orion. (Great Barrington, MA) Fall 2006
Walk. Tin House. (Portland OR & Brooklyn NY) Vol. 7 #4, Summer 2006
Systematics. DoubleTake. (Johns Hopkins University Press) 2:1 Spring/Summer
2007
Cups; Portion; Proof. The Southern Review. Vol. 42, #2, Fall, 2006
Red Cluster, Mid-Summer. Prairie Schooner. Vol. 79, No. 4, Winter 2005
Before; Sap; Postcard. The Literary Review. (Fairleigh Dickinson University)
Summer 2005, Vol.48
Era. Indiana Review -- 25th Anniversary Issue. Vol.25, No. 1, 2003
Quail; Sparrow; Starling. Epoch: A Magazine of Contemporary Literature.
(Cornell University: Ithaca, NY) forthcoming, 2003
Crows and Grackles; Transcendence. Image: A Journal of the Arts and
Religion (Seattle, WA.) #37, 2003
Red Leaf Squalls. The Atlanta Review. (Atlanta, GA) Vol.IX, No.1 Fall/Winter,
2002
Sudden House. Mid-American Review. *James Wright Award Winner.
(Bowling Green State University. Bowling Green, OH) Volume 22, No.2, 2002.
Milkweed; Myth. Prairie Schooner (University of Nebraska: Lincoln, NE) Vol.
74, No. 3, Fall 2000
Red. Iowa Review (University of Iowa: Iowa City, IA) Vol. 30, No. 1, Spring
2000
Love Letter from Equilibrium. Mid-American Review (Bowling Green State
University: Bowling Green, OH) Vol. 20/1&2, Anniversary Issue, 2000
Some Solaces. Ohio Review (Ohio University: Athens, OH) No. 61, 2000
Beads. Southern Review (Louisiana State University: Baton Rouge, LA) Vol.
46, No. 1, Winter 2000
Cicada. Ploughshares Vol. 25, No. 4, Winter 1999-2000
Bee. Parnassus: Poetry in Review. *Randall Jarrell Award Winner. (New
York, NY) Vol. 24, No. 1, 1999
Grasses; Lesson. Witness (Oakland Community College: Farmington Hills, MI)
Vol. 13, No. 1, 1999
I Wanted the Sound. Seneca Review Vol. 29, No. 2, Fall 1999
Accident. Antioch Review Vol. 57., No. 1, Winter 1999
Insect Study; The Horse in the Linoleum. Massachusetts Review (Boston, MA)
Vol. 29, No. 4, 1998-99
Botanist. Hayden's Ferry Review No. 23, Fall/Winter 1998-99
Shadow. Chelsea (New York, NY) Vol. 65, 1998
Triangle. Cimarron Review (Oklahoma State University: Stillwater, OK) No.
123, Spring 1998
Oath. Cutbank (University of Montana: Missoula, MT) No. 49, Spring, 1998
Girls Jumping. Dickinson Review (Dickinson College: Carlisle, PA) Vol. 13,
1998
Agreement; Dance; Disturbances. The Journal (Ohio State University: Columbus,
OH) Vol. 22, No. 2, Fall 1998
At Six Months; Stick Figure. New Letters (University of Missouri: Kansas City,
MO) Vol. 63, No. 3, Spring 1997
Peace Talks: A Fugue. Fine Madness No. 23, 1997
Self-Portrait with Scar. American Poetry Review (Philadelphia, PA) Vol. 25, No.
1, Jan/Feb 1996
Project. Passages North (Northern Michigan University: Marquette, MI) Vol. 17,
No. 2, Winter 1996
Museum Horse. Antioch Review (Antioch College: Yellow Springs, OH) Vol. 52,
No. 2, Spring 1994
Cardinal. The Plum Review No. 7, Spring/Summer 1993
At the Rail Station; Landing. The Plum Review. No. 5, Spring/Summer 1993
Late Winter; Tracking X; Wall Cycle. Indiana Review (Indiana University:
Bloomington, IN) Vol. 16, No. 2, Fall 1993
On Wanting a Child; Ration; Tale. The Plum Review (Philadelphia, PA) No 6,
Fall/Winter 1993
With the Cloud Formations. Hayden's Ferry Review (Arizona State University:
Tempe, AZ) No. 13, Fall/Winter 1993
A Little Singing. The Seneca Review (Hobart and William Smith Colleges:
Geneva, NY) Vol. 23, Nos. 1&2, Winter 1993
Little Parable for Doors. Fine Madness (Seattle, WA) Vol. 9, No. 1,
Spring/Summer 1992
Construction. Negative Capability (Mobile, AL) Vol. 14, Nos. 1&2, 1992
The Brighter the Veil. Ploughshares (Emerson College: Boston, MA) Vol. 16. No.
4, Winter 1990-91
Mourn That We Hear. The Denver Quarterly (University of Denver: Denver, CO)
Vol. 24, No.2, Fall 1989
Anger. Columbia Magazine of Poetry and Prose (Columbia University: New
York, NY) No. 14, 1989
Selected Essays
Verb. New York Times, “On Language” column website, ed. Ben Zimmer
(www.newyorktimes forthcoming, October 2010)
Try Our Delicious Pizza. Arts & Letters. (Georgia College and State University,
Milledgeville, GA) Forthcoming, Fall/Winter 2010
On Advice. Mason’s Road (Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT) Forthcoming,
Fall 2010
On Being a Trucker. Brevity. Fall 2010 (www.brevitymag.com)
Augury. The Iowa Review. Forthcoming, August 2010
Poetry is a Satisfying of the Desire for Resemblance. Black Warrior Review
Spring 2010
On Tools. Ecotone. Spring, 2010
A Critical Methodology for Reviewers and an Exemplary Review of the Wind Up
Alarm Clock. www.defunctmagazine.com April, 2010
Advice. Seattle Review. University of Washington (Seattle, WA). Vol. 2 # 2&3,
2010
On Luxury. Sonora Magazine. (University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ) #57, 2010
Against “Gunmetal.” Agni Magazine. #71, 2010
There Are Things Awry Here. Orion Magazine. Forthcoming, Fall 2010
GPS: On the Essays of Albert Goldbarth. Georgia Review. Vol. LXIII, , #4,
Winter, 2009
On Coming Back as a Buzzard. Orion Magazine (Great Barrington, MA)
September/October, 2009
The Sound. Columbia Magazine, Issue 46, 2009
Why Some Hybrids Work and Others Don’t. Diagram. University of Arizona
(Tucson, AZ). Fall, 2008 (www.thediagram.org)
Two Experiments and a Coda. Agni Magazine. #68, 2008
The Certainty. Water-Stone Review (Hamline University, Minneapolis, MN)
Vol. 11, Fall 2008
Remembering. Ninth Letter (University of Urbana-Champaign) Vol. 5, Issue 1,
Summer, 2008.
Street Scene. Crazyhorse. #72, Fall, 2007.
Grey. The Southern Review. Vol. 44 #1, Winter 2008
What is a Lyric Essay – Provisional Responses. Seneca Review. Vol. 37, #2, Fall
2007
The Lustres. Agni Review, #65, Fall 2007
On Being of Two Minds. Agni Review. #64, Fall 2006
Recalling New York at 4 a.m., Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, MD September 11,
2006
On Miniatures. Brevity. (on line) Summer 2006
On Looking Away; A Panoramic. Sonora Review (University of Arizona,
Tucson, AZ) #50, Spring 2006
On Form. The Iowa Review, vol 36 #1, Spring 2006
The Space Between. Ecotone, 2:1, Fall/Winter, 2006
The Smallest Woman in the World. Iowa Review, vol 36 #1 Spring 2006
Red. Seneca Review, vol. 35 #1, Spring, 2005
On Not Hurting a Fly: A Memorial. Iowa Review, vol. 35 #1, Spring, 2005
Falling Houses: mise-en-scene. Crazyhorse, #66 Fall, 2004
The Pin. Crazyhorse, #66 Fall, 2004
Glaciology. Agni Review, (Boston, MA) #60, Fall 2004
Autopsy Report. Iowa Review, Vol. 33, #3. Winter, 2003-04
Coming to See. Quarterly West (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT). #56,
Spring/Summer, 2003
Shattering.: A Compendium. Hotel Amerika (Ohio University, Athens, OH). Vol.
2 #1, Fall 2003
Spires. Fourth Genre (Michigan State University; East Lansing, MI) 2003
On Conditions. Crazyhorse (College of Charleston, Charleston, SC) No. 62, Fall
2002
On Aesthetics. The Iowa Review (University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA) Vol. 32,
No. 3, 2002/2003
On Invisibility. The Journal (Ohio State University) Vol. 25, No. 2, Winter 2001
Excerpts from Increase. The Georgia Review (University of Georgia: Athens,
GA) Vol. 54, No. 1, Spring 2000
Excerpts from Increase. American Voice (Louisville, KY) No. 49, 1999
Where Language Lives: Notes on Translation. Willow Springs (Eastern
Washington University: Cheney, WA) No. 36, 1995 and reprinted in Source
(Montclair, NJ) 2000
Translating the Poems of Katarzyna Borun-Jagodzinska. Periplus: Poetry in
Translation (Oxford University Press: New Delhi, India) 1993
Anthologies
“On Coming Back as a Buzzard” (essay) The Pushcart Anthology XXXV, 2011
“Falling Houses” (essay) Crazyhorse 50th Anniversary Issue, forthcoming,
December 2010
“On Advice” (essay). Welcome Table Press: Occasional Papers on Practice
and Form. Welcome Table Press (Gettysburg, PA) Forthcoming, Fall 2010
“Though I Am Not”(poem) New Hungers from Old: 100 Years of ItalianAmerican Poetry (ed. Daniel Barone). Star Cloud Press, forthcoming, 2011
Two Experiments and a Coda (essay) The Pushcart Anthology XXXIV.
Pushcart Press, 2010
On Twinkies (essay) Peanut Butter, Gooseberries and Latkes! Whole World
Press, Forthcoming, 2010.
Verb (essay) One Word: Contemporary Writers on the Words They Love or
Loathe. (ed. Molly McGuire) Sarabande Books, 2010
Grey (essay) City Sages of Baltimore. City Lit Press, 2010
The Walk Through (essay/exercise) Now Write! Nonfiction Exercises from
Today’s Best Writers and Teachers (ed. Sherry Ellis). Tarcher/Penguin, 2009
Red Cluster, Mid-Summer; Bee; On Waiting; At Six Months;Standing Figure with
Knife Edge; Fall (poems). When She Named Fire. Autumn House Press, 2009
“The question of these purple blooms . . .” (poem) Poetry Daily, July 13, 2008
Walk (poem) Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House(Tin House Books)
2008
Autopsy Report (essay) Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Nonfiction,
Touchstone Press, 2009
Glaciology (essay). The Pushcart Anthology XXX. Pushcart Press, 2006
Glaciology; Autopsy Report; On Looking Away; The Lustres; Rememberin; On
Coming Back as a Buzzard named “Notable Essays” in Best American Essays,
2004, 2005 and 2007-2010
Excerpts from Increase (essays). Shorts. (W.W. Norton, Fall, 2005)
Trimming (essay). Writers' Rules. (F&W Press, 2005)
Era (poem). Indiana Review; 25th Anniversary Issue (University of Indiana,
Bloomington, IN) 2003
Selected Poems. March Hares: The Best Poems From Fine Madness (Ѕеаttlе,
WA) 2002
Requiem (poem). Birth: A Literary Companion. (University of Iowa Press;
Iowa City, IA) 2002
Bee (poem). Maryland Millennial Anthology (St. Mary' s College, St. Mary's,
MD) 2000
Love Letter from Equilibrium (poem). Mid-American Review (Bowling Green
State University: Bowling Green, OH) Vol. 20/1&2, Anniversary Issue, 2000
From the Book of Job (tr. Katarzyna Borun). Last Believer in Words: a
translation anthology from Poetry East (DePaul University: Chicago, IL) Nos.
45&46, 1998
Interviews (Lia Purpura)
An Interview With Lia Purpura: Fourth Genre (Michigan State University Press)
Forthcoming, 2010
Image: Artist of the Month. http://imagejournal.org/page/artist-of-themonth/lia-purpura
An Interview with Lia Purpura. Pebble Lake Review (Houston, TX), Fall, 2008
An Interview with Lia Purpura. Smartish Pace
(www.smartishpace.com/interviews/liapurpura). (Baltimore, MD) 2008
An Interview with Lia Purpura. Grove Review, Vol 2 No. 1 2007. (Portland OR)
Interviews (with others)
Attendant Surprise: An Interview with Stephen Kuusisto. Georgia Review, Vol.
LXII, #4 Winter, 2008
Number Your Answers: an Interview with Gerald Stern. AWP Writer's
Chronicle, March/April l 2007
Translations
On Campus (Grzegorz Musial). The Literary Review (Fairleigh Dickinson
University: Madison, NJ) Vol. 37, No. 4, 1994
Untitled I; Untitled II; La Varsovienne; Death in Berlin; Brassai (Grzegorz
Musial). Diagnosis; To Forgive; Mozart; The End of Our Century (Krzystof
Piechowicz). The Surgeon; Shadow (Krystyna Lars). In Shadow; Fidelio I; Fidelio
II; Return from Debrecen; Senta; Seance (Katarzyna Borun-Jagodzinska). Modern
Poetry in Translation (University of Iowa: Iowa City, IA) No. 3, Summer 1993
The Match; Women Will Not Judge Me; The Night; Her Steps are Softer and
Softer; Conversion; Statement on a Discussion of the Apocalypse; Photograph of
Teresa Martin as the Maid of Orleans; Teresa in the Courtyard; Butterfly
(Katarzyna Borun-Jagodzínska). Periplus (Oxford University Press: New Delhi,
India), 1993
History; Russia Wants to Understand Itself (Grzegorz Musial). Mr. Cogito
(Pacific University: Forest Grove, OR) Vol. 11, No. 2, 1993
Conservation (Krzystof Piechowicz). Exchanges (University of Iowa: Iowa City,
IA) No. 4, 1993
Advent; Tsvetaeva (Krzystof Piechowicz). Artful Dodge (College of
Wooster: Wooster, OH) No. 24/25, 1993
Unitled*; Death of an Actress, Berlin 1937 (Grzegorz Musial). Visions
International *Visions Award Winner (Falls Church, VA) No. 43, 1993
Only a Shadow; Looking at Photographs. Seneca Review (Hobart and
William Smith Colleges: Geneva, NY) Vol. 22, No. 2, 1992
After-Hours Joint; Dream Class; The Tower (Katarzyna BorunJagodzinska). Exquisite Corpse (Baton Rouge, LA) Vol. 9, Nos. 1- 4,
1991
Exorcist; On Manet's Olympia; A Few Years After Nero (Katarzyna
Borun-Jagodzinska) Agni Review (Boston University: Boston, MA) No.
34, 1991
At Dusk; From the Book of Job; Last Photograph of Teresa Martin; A Very
Bourgeois Lyric (Katarzyna Borun-Jagodzinska). Poetry East (DePaul
University: Chicago, IL) No. 29, Spring 1990
Reviews
The Afterlife of Objects. (Dan Chiasson). Antioch Review, Vol. 61, #4, Spring
2004
Can You Relax At My House. (Michael Earl Craig). Antioch Review, Vol. 61, #2,
Spring 2003
The Gravedigger 's Birthday. (BJ Ward). Antioch Review, Vol. 61, #1, Winter,
2003.
Visits from the Seventh. (Sarah Arvio). Antioch Review, Vol. 60, No. 4 Fall 2002
Nature Loves to Hide: Quantum Physics and the Nature of Reality, a Western
Perspective. (Shimon Malin). Antioch Review, Vol. 60, No.1, Winter 2002
House of Poured Out Waters (Jane Mead). Antioch Review, Vol. 60, No. 2,
Spring, 2002
The Probable World (Lawrence Raab). Antioch Review, Vol 59, No.1, Winter,
2001
Things and Flesh (Linda Gregg). Antioch Review, Vol. 58, No.2, Spring, 2000
Border Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream (Juan Felipe Herrera). Antioch
Review (Antioch College:Yellow Springs, OH) Vol. 58, No.1, Fall, 1999
The Terrible Stories (Lucille Clifton). Verse, (College of William and Mary,
Williamsburg, VA) Vol. 14, No. 1, 1997
Musical Texts Written and Performed
Just Look (libretto) Premier: 7th A*Devantgarde-festival, 2003, Munich,
Germany
Gold. (Song cycle commissioned by composer Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez)
Premiered by Chanticleer, San Francisco, CA., November, 2001 and October,
2006, Library of Congress Recital Series
Into the Dark and Darker Cold. (Song cycle for soprano and orchestra
commissioned by Mark Lanz Weiser). Premiered by Hopkins Symphony
Orchestra and Phyllis Bryn-Julson, February 1999
AWARDS
Pushcart Prize (“On Coming Back as a Buzzard” -- essay) The Pushcart
Anthology: XXXVI, 2011
Pushcart Prize (“Two Experiments and a Coda”-- essay) The Pushcart Anthology:
XXXIV, 2009
Towson University Prize in Literature (for On Looking) 2009
Foreword Book of the Year, Finalist: Foreword Magazine, 2009
Maine Literary Awards Finalist, 2009
National Book Critics’ Circle Award Finalist (On Looking) 2007
Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Press for King Baby 2007
Maryland State Arts Council Grant, 2007
Pushcart Prize (“Glaciology” -- essay) in The Pushcart Anthology: Best of the
Small Presses XXX, 2006
Notable Essays (Glaciology, Autopsy Report, On Looking Away; The Lustres,
Remembering) in Best American Essays, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (Prose). 2004
Thurber House Writer-in-Residence (Columbus, OH), January 2004
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency, 2002
James Wright Award. (Mid-American Review; Bowling Green State University,
Bowling Green, OH) 2001
Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award in Poetry (book publication -Stone Sky Lifting, Ohio State University Press) 2000
Associated Writing Programs Award in Creative Nonfiction (book publication -Increase, University of Georgia Press) 1999
Pushcart Prize Nominations, 1997- 2010
MacDowell Colony Residencies, 1998-2001 (recipient of Writer' s Grant 2000
and 2001)
Loyola College Summer Study Grants and Service Awards, 1999-2006 Loyola
College Research Assistant Grants, 2000-2007
Loyola College Center for Humanities Project Grants, 1999-2002
Randall Jarrell Prize in Poetry (selected by Mary Oliver for North Carolina
Writers' Network: Charlotte, NC) 1998
Towson University Prize in Literature (for The Brighter the Veil) 1998
Millay Colony Resident (named session Fellow) 1996
Visions International Translation Prize, 1996
Blue Mountain Center Residency, 1995
Fulbright Fellowship (translation of contemporary Polish poetry: University of
Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland) 1991-1992
Teaching/Writing Fellowship (University of Iowa Writers' Workshop) 1988-1990
Academy of American Poets Award (Oberlin College, Oberlin Ohio) 1986
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS HELD
Contributing Editor: Defunct Magazine, 2010Judge: Bellingham Review Poetry Contest, 2010
Judge: Black Warrior Nonfiction Contest, Fall 2010
Consulting Editor: Agni Magazine, 2010 –
Judge: Dislocate Magazine Nonfiction Contest, 2010
Consulting Editor: Pushcart Anthology, 2006 - present
Contributing Editor: Iowa Review, 2006 - present
Judge: William Rockhill Nelson Award in Nonfiction (Kansas City Star/Kansas
City Literary Festival) Spring 2007
Judge: Mt. Mercy College Literary Awards, Spring 2007
Judge: Iowa Review Awards (Nonfiction) Winter, 2006
Judge: Quarter After Eight Literary Awards, Ohio University 2006
Keynote Speaker, Community College of Baltimore County “Creative Writing
Forum” April 1, 2005
Writer-in-Residence. Ohio University, Athens, OH, January, 2005
Judge: Thurber House Literary Awards, Spring 2005
Judge: Columbus Arts Council: Columbus Literary Awards. Fall 2004
Judge: Ohio University Literary Award (Ohio University) 2004
Judge: Prologue Magazine Awards (Franklin & Marshall College) 2003
Guest Writer (University of North Carolina, Wilmington, MFA Program
Creative Writing Symposium) 2001
Staff Poetry /Nonfiction Reviewer (Antioch Review) 1999-2004
Judge: Associated Writing Programs Intro Journals Awards in Nonfiction, 2001
Judge: Gertrude Lucille Robinson Award (Ohio State University) for best
writing by an undergraduate, 2001
Guest Lecturer in Poetry (Johns Hopkins University Continuing Education) 1998
& 2001
Poet-in-Residence (The Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY) 2000
Guest Poet (St. Mary's Poetry Festival: St. Mary's College, St. Mary's, MD)
1996 & 2000
Literature Program Advisor (Maryland State Arts Council, Baltimore, MD)
1995—1998
Lecturer in Poetry (Goucher College, Baltimore, MD) 1996
Instructor of Poetry (College of Notre Dame, Continuing Education, Baltimore,
MD.) 1993-1995
Poet-in-Residence (The Hill School, Summer Session; Pottstown, PA) 1993
Guest Lecturer (Warsaw University; Warsaw, Poland) 1992
Teaching/Writing Fellow (University of Iowa Writers' Workshop) 1988-1990
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Book Jacket Copy/Forewords for:
Carl Klaus – The Made Up Self (essays: University of Iowa Press, 2010)
Megan Snyder-Camp – The Forest of Sure Things (poems: Tupelo Press, 2010)
Joe Wilkins – Killing the Murnion Dogs (poems: Black Lawrence Press, 2010)
Jon Pineda – Sleep in Me (memoir: University of Nebraska, 2010)
Nicole Cooley – Milk Dress (poems: Alice James books, 2010)
Matthew Lippman – Monkey Bars (poems: Typecast Press, 2010)
An Uncommon Accord – poems/anthology (Toadlilly Press, Chappaqua, NY, 2008)
Truth in Nonfiction – essays/anthology (University of Iowa Press, 2008)
Kathleen Rooney – Live Nude Girl (essays: University of Arkansas Press, 2008)
Arthur Salzman – Solve for X (essays: University of South Carolina Press, 2007)
Katrina Roberts – The Quick (poems: Univerisity of Washington Press, 2005)
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Academy of American Poets
Associated Writing Programs
American Literary Translators Association
PEN (by invitation)
Poetry Society of America
RECENT TALKS/PRESENTATIONS/CONFERENCES
University of Maryland, Baltimore County: Visiting Lecturer, MFA Program.
Talk: On Visual Culture. March 25, 2010
WelcomeTable Press/Fordham University Symposium: In Praise of the Essay:
Practice and Form. Talk: On Innovation, New York, NY April 24, 2010
Associated Writing Program Conference (Writing the Mind’s Wild Geography
and Remembering Rilke, Denver, CO, April 8 & 9, 2010)
“Forget Nature Writing. Let’s talk about what comes next . . .” Convened by
Orion Magazine, Blue Mountain Center, NY November 12-15, 2009
Baltimore Book Festival: A Sampler of Writers (panel discussion) Baltimore, MD,
September 26, 2009
Eastman Conservatory: Keynote Speaker, The Warren and Patricia Benson Forum
on Creativity, Rochester, NY: April 6, 2009
Baltimore Writers’ Conference (Panel on the Lyric Essay), Towson University:
November 8, 2008
Bennington MFA Program (Talk: On Sensibility), Bennington, VT: January 11,
2009
Associated Writing Programs Conference, Chicago, IL (Tribute to Albert
Goldbarth panel) February 12, 2009
RECENT READINGS
CityLit Festival, “City Sages” Reading. Baltimore, MD September 25, 2010
“In Celebration of British Women Poets of the Long 18th Century” Johns Hopkins
University Press. Baltimore, MD April 29, 2010
Holy Cross College Reading Series. Boston, MA, April 15, 2010
College of Sante Fe Reading Series. College of Sante Fe, NM, February 28March 3, 2010
Towson University Reading Series (winner of the Towson Award in Literature.
Towson, MD) October 7, 2009
Berry College Reading Series (Rome, GA) April 4, 2009
Kensington Row Bookstore (Kensington, MD) March 28, 2009
Associated Writing Programs Conference (Chicago, IL) February 14, 2009
Knox College Reading Series (Galesburg, IL) February 9, 2009
Bennington College, MFA Reading Series (Bennington, VT) January 10, 2009
Madison Area Technical College (Madison, WI) November 6, 2008
510 Reading Series (Baltimore, MD) November 15, 2008
University of Wyoming (Laramie, WY) November 16, 2008
Black Hills State University (Spearfish, SD) November 18, 2008
Red Canoe Book Store (Baltimore, MD) October 11, 2008
Lyon College (Batesville, AR) September 29, 2008
City Lit Festival (Baltimore, MD) September, 27, 2008
Barnes and Noble (Baltimore, MD) July 7, 2008
Chautauqua Institution (Chautauqua, NY) June 20, 2008
Smartish Pace Magazine (Baltimore, MD) May 8, 2008
Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, MD) March 3, 2008
College of St, Mary’s (St. Mary’s MD) April 3, 2008
Sweet Briar College Reading Series (Sweet Briar, VA) March 5, 2008
Warren Community College Reading Series (Warren, NJ) March 13, 2008
Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore) March 27, 2008
University of Alabama MFA Reading Series (Tuscaloosa, AL) February 21, 2008
Cecil College of Maryland, November 29, 2008
NonfictionNow! Conference (Iowa City), November 9, 2007
University of Baltimore Reading Series (Baltimore) October 10, 2007
Western Michigan University Reading Series (Kalamazoo, MI) October 10, 2007
College Of Notre Dame of Maryland Reading Series (Baltimore) October 16,
2007
West Side Y Reading Series (New York, NY) October 26, 2007
Prairie Lights Bookstore (Iowa City, IA) February 22, 2007
Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, MD) March 14, 2007
Loyola College Faculty Reading, October 17, 2006
The Writers' Center, Bethesda, MD September 29, 2007
WYPR: The Signal, Baltimore, MD September 29, 2007
Enoch Pratt Library, Baltimore, MD September 2007
Kelly Writers' House, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, November
2007
Carver Technical High School (Towson, Maryland) January 25, 2006
Nonfiction-Now Conference (University of Iowa, IA) November 12, 2005
Wordworks, Cafe Muse Reading Series (Bethesda, MD) September 15, 2005
Community College of Baltimore County (Essex, MD) April 15, 2005
Agni Magazine Authors Reading (Vancouver, BC Canada) April 2, 2005
Agni Magazine Authors Reading (Boston, MA) November18, 2004
Saratoga Springs Public Library Reading Series (Saratoga Springs, NY)
November 30, 2004
University of Maryland Reading Series (College Park, MD) October 13, 2004
Loyola College Faculty Reading Series (Baltimore, MD) October, 2004
Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, MD) November 1, 2004
Baltimore Book Festival. (Baltimore City) September, 2004
CityLit Festival. Enoch Pratt Free Library (Baltimore, MD) April, 2004
University of Baltimore (Baltimore, MD) April, 2004
WYPR (National Public Radio, Baltimore, MD) “Poetry in a Time of Crisis” with
Michael Collier, Stanley Plumly and E. Ethelbert Miller. February, 2003
Associated Writing Programs Conference (Baltimore, MD) February 26, 2003
Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH), March 4, 2003
Maryland Institute College of Art, February l4, 2002
University of Pennsylvania (Kelly Writers' House), January 19, 2002
Whitman College Reading Series (Walla Walla, WA) November 15, 2001
Writers Live! Reading Series: Enoch Pratt Free Library, Main Branch (Baltimore,
MD) May 2001
Barnes and Noble (Baltimore, MD) April 2001
Associated Writing Programs Conference Award-Winner Reading (Palm Springs,
CA) April 2001
Johns Hopkins University Continuing Education Poetry Seminar (Baltimore, MD)
April 2001
University of North Carolina, Wilmington, MFA Program First Annual Writers'
Symposium. (Wilmington, NC) March 2001
Richard Stockton State College Reading Series, with Stephen Dunn. (Stockton,
NJ) December, 2000
The Chautauqua Institution (Chautauqua, NY) July 2000
St. Mary's Poetry Festival (St. Mary' s College, St. Mary's, MD) May 2000