Charles J. Carlise, Jr.
chuckcarlise@hotmail.comEDUCATION
PhD in Literature and Creative Writing
University of Houston: 2012
M.A. in English (Creative Writing Emphasis)
University of California at Davis: 2003
B.A. in English
Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH: 1999
PUBLICATIONS
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Books
* In One Version of the Story (New Issues, 2016)
* Dr. Carlise’s Anatomica (in process)
* Year of Too Many Wildflowers (in process)
Poetry Chapbooks
* A Broken Escalator Still Isn’t the Stairs (Concrete Wolf, 2011)
* Casual Insomniac (Bateau, 2011)
* The Devil’s Book of Psalms (in process)
* Sunflower, Easter (in process)
Nonfiction Memoirs
* Across the Aisle, the Highway Beats as Loud (in process)
Books on Pedagogy
* Starting to Learn the Question: A Training Manual for Teachers
(commissioned by Writers in the Schools for national distribution within WITS Alliance, 2011)
Books Edited
* Wish List: How to Fix What’s Wrong with American Politics
(co-editing with Brian Stipelman; anthology of essays, in process)
Poems in Anthologies
* Cuyahoga County Library National Poetry Month Daily Project – “Street Ghazal” (April 2024)
* Verse Daily – excerpt from “A Hole of Bones & Thread” (2017)
* Best New Poets 2014 – “I Can Tell You a Story” (ed. Dorianne Laux, University of Virginia Press: 2014, p.81-3)
* Best New Poets 2012 – “A Compendium of Photographs: l’Inconnue de la Seine” (ed. Matthew Dickman, University of Virginia Press: p.27-35)
* Berfrois – “This is Where You Are.” Curated photo collaboration with Antonio Bastich. June 2011.
* Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prizes: Index of Winning Poems (2010) – “Psalm 15 as the Hurricane Takes the Roof,” “Where We Are Tonight,” “Slicing Cucumbers for Salad & the Knife Slips”
* Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prizes: Index of Winning Poems (2008) – “The First Week in Catania,” “Walking Home Alone 1am”
Poems in Journals
* Clackamas Literary Review – “We Live in Four Rooms” (forthcoming)
* Zone 3 – “The Season We Couldn’t Stop Hurting & Never Learned a Thing” (forthcoming)
* Main Street Rag – “Tremor” (forthcoming)
* Nimrod International Journal – “Solana” (Pablo Neruda International Poetry Award Finalist; 42: Awards Issue 2021)
* Nimrod International Journal – “This is Mathematics” (Pablo Neruda International Poetry Award Finalist; 42: Awards Issue 2021)
* Third Coast – “I Can Tell You a Story” (38/39: Winter 2015, p.158-9)
* Another Chicago Magazine – “Advice for the Rescuer” (53: Spring 2015)
* Zyzzyva – “Last Words” (102: Winter 2014)
* Whiskey Island – “Let Me Tell You a True Story” (61: Spring 2012)
* Iron Horse Literary Review – “A Dozen Riders Arrive on the Binghamton Greyhound” (14.2: National Poetry Month 2012)
* Gigantic Sequins – “The Subject in Context” (3.1: Winter 2011)
* minnesota review – “Antiphony” (77: Winter 2011)
* minnesota review – “One Reason I Don’t Believe in Hell” (77: Winter 2011)
* Southeast Review – “Street Ghazal” (Contest Finalist; 29.1: Winter 2011)
* American Literary Review – “Questions for the Paris Morgue, 1880” (22.1: Spring 2011)
* Southeast Review – “What the City Knows” (28.2: Fall 2010)
* DIAGRAM – “A Death Mask is a Way to Perpetuate the Transitory” (10.3: Summer 2010)
* Hayden’s Ferry Review – “Nudie Photo Hunt” (46: Summer 2010)
* Hayden’s Ferry Review – “Across the Aisle, the Highway Beats as Loud” (46: Summer 2010)
* Quarterly West – “Mechanics” (68: Spring/Summer 2009)
* Confrontation – “Where We Are, Where We Are Not” (105/106: Winter 2009/Spring 2010)
* Fourteen Hills – “Katie Calls on an Evening I Am Not Expecting” (16.1: Spring 2010)
* Southern Review – “Certainty of Repetition” (45.4: Autumn 2009)
* Cimarron Review – “Proximity to What Comes Next” (167: Spring 2009)
* Beloit Poetry Journal – “Breaking Up With Katie Over 8000 Miles” (59.3: Spring 2009)
* Harpur Palate – “After Buying Lunch for a Girl My Age Who I Met on a Greyhound Bus an Hour Ago” (6.2: Winter 2007)
* Red Rock Review – “Night Binghamton” (18: Winter 2006)
* Red Rock Review – “The Edge of Sleep” (18: Winter 2006)
* Maverick Magazine – “A Framework” (12: Winter 2005)
* Poet Lore – “We Name These Things Ourselves” (99.3/4: Fall/Winter 2004)
* Poet Lore – “What Follows” (99.3/4: Fall/Winter 2004)
* Skidrow Penthouse – “Tuesday” (6: Spring 2004)
* Adagio Verse Quarterly – “Andy and I Share a Smoke” (Summer 2004)
* Adagio Verse Quarterly – “My Father Outlives His Father in Years” (Summer 2004)
* Adagio Verse Quarterly – “Omaha Transfer” (Summer 2004)
* Rearview Quarterly – “Showing My Girlfriend a Photo of the House My Parents Wanted to Build” (2.1: Spring 2003)
* Wittenberg Review – “Something in Memory” (26: 1998)
* Wittenberg Review – “This Morning” (26: 1998)
Creative Non-Fiction
* The Poleax – “Three Suggestions for Campus Protesters” (June 2017)
* Gulf Coast, Online – “Making Sense of Things” (April 2012)
* Pleiades – “A Broken Escalator Still Isn’t the Stairs” (31.1: Winter 2011)
* Pebble Lake Review – “Bosnia By Bus, 2004” (Spring 2008)
Interviews Conducted
* Gulf Coast – Chuck Klosterman, “Do You Think We’ll Be Able to Love Again?” (22.1: Spring 2010, p.224-34)
Interviews Given
* InWriting, Profile and Interview, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI (2019)
* The Columns, Interview, Westminster College, Fulton, MO (2018)
* Tiger Media Network Interview, Fort Hays State University/Delta Sigma Tau High Plains Regional Conference, Hays, KS (2017)
* The Beat Goes On, Interview with Anissa Dann for honors project, Springfield, OH (2017)
* WAYO 104.3 FM, “Flour City Yawp” Interview (with Al Albonado) and on-air Reading. Rochester, NY (2017)
* KUHF 88.7 FM, “The Front Row” Interview (with Jeanine Walker) and on-air Reading. Houston, TX (2008)
Academic Essays
* Oxford Research Encyclopedia. Jay Parini, ed. Oxford Press (2017)
. “The Beat Movement”
. “Allen Ginsberg”
. “William S. Burroughs”
* American Library Encyclopedia of Beat Literature. K. Hemmer, ed. Facts on File: four entries (2006)
. “Paul Bremser”
. “The Beat Hotel”
. “High Priest”
. “Timothy Leary”
* Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. Jay Parini, ed. Oxford Press: three entries (2004)
. “The Beat Movement”
. “Allen Ginsberg”
. “William S. Burroughs”
* Literary Kicks Online Archive. Levi Asher, ed. (2004)
. “Rebellion, the Dead, and the Culture of Cool: Counterculture & Credibility in America”
Collaborative Publications
* Wish List: How to Fix What’s Wrong with American Politics, Co-Editor with Prof. Brian Stipelman, (anthology of essays, currently in process).
* Broadside Series, featuring poems from In One Version of the Story. In collaboration with artist Solana Feldthouse (2017).
* A Broken Escalator/All Earth Speak as One, poetry/painting project. In collaboration with artist Andrew Rottner (2011).
* “This is Where You Are.” Curated photo project published in Berfois. In collaboration with photographer Antonio Bastich. (2011).
AWARDS / RECOGNITION
Reviews and Citations
2018 “Chuck Carlise, Modern Beat” – chapter in The Beat Goes On, Wittenberg University Honors Thesis, by Anissa Dunn
2018 American Postwar Pilgrimage: The Beats in Paris – literature thesis at St. Charles University in Prague, features extensive citation of my academic publications, by Margarita Kirlan
2017 Publisher’s Weekly – review of In One Version of the Story
2017 “Chuck Carlise Returns to Wittenberg for Poetry Reading” – review of colloquium lecture/reading event, in Wittenberg Torch, Springfield, OH, by Clay Waidelich
2017 “Tiger Media Network” – review of residency and reading, Hays, KS
2017 So Crazy it Just Might Work Podcast – “Idea #5” podcast discussion of my essay, “Three Suggestions for Campus Protest,” by Peter Rice
2017 Valparaiso Poetry Review – “Recommended New Book” (In One Version of the Story)
2013 Gigantic Sequins – review of Casual Insomniac, by Robby Auld
2012 “Hope, Gratitude, and Joy: Poems that Wow” The Review Review – review of poems appearing in Iron Horse Literary Journal, by Vince Covaia
2012 “Poems for this Month” Oh Lighthouse – reviews of poems appearing in minnesota review
2011 “More than a Contributor’s Copy” – review of A Broken Escalator Still Isn’t the Stairs in “Amorakhuey.net” by Amorak Huey
Recognition for Book Manuscript
2015 New Issues Press, Editor’s Choice (*included publication)
2015 Sawtooth Prize, Ahsahta Press: Finalist
2014 Hudson Prize in Poetry, Black Lawrence Press: Finalist/Runner-Up
2014 YesYes Press Prize in Poetry: Finalist
2014 Field Prize in Poetry, Oberlin College Press: Finalist
2014 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize: Finalist
2014 Joanna Cargill Award, Coconut Press: Honorable Mention
2014 Poets Out Loud Book Prize, Fordham University Press: Finalist
2014 Crab Orchard Book Series: Finalist
2014 Fence Modern Poets Series: Honored Entrant/Finalist
2014 Barrow Street Poetry Prize: Finalist
2013 Phillip Levine Prize in Poetry, Anhinga: Semi-Finalist
2013 Robert Dana Prize, Anhinga: Finalist
2013 Colorado Prize for Poetry, University of Colorado Press: Finalist
2013 Field Prize in Poetry, Oberlin College Press: Finalist
2013 Brittingham and Pollak Prizes in Poetry, University of Wisconsin: Semi-Finalist
Teaching Awards/Recognition
2024 Early Promise Conference Grant secured (two students), Ashland University
2023 President’s Fund University Grant, Ashland University
2014 Olive B. O’Connor Teaching Fellowship, Colgate University, Finalist
2011 UH Teaching Excellence Award: First-Year Composition, Commended Finalist
2007 UH Graduate Teaching Fellowship (renewable), 2007-12
Other Awards & Recognition
2020 Pablo Neruda International Poetry Prize (Nimrod International Journal): Finalist – “Solana”
2020 Pablo Neruda International Poetry Prize (Nimrod International Journal): Finalist – “This is Mathematics”
2015 Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, Tuition Scholarship: Nominee
2014 Best New Poets 2014 Selection
2014 University of Wisconsin Halls/Middlebrook Poetry Fellowship, Finalist
2014 Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Residency Fellowship Semifinalist
2014 Red Hen Poetry Award: Finalist
2012 InPrint/Paul Verlaine Prize in Poetry ($10,000)
2012 Best New Poets 2012 Selection
2012 Iron Horse, National Poetry Month Feature Issue
2011 Bateau Press “Boom Chapbook Contest,” Winner (Casual Insomniac)
2011 Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Series, Winner (A Broken Escalator Still Isn’t the Stairs)
2011 Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Series, Finalist (Proximity to What Comes Next)
2011 Pushcart Prize Nomination (six poems nominated)
2011 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation, Poetry Prize ($1,000)
2012 InPrint Writing Fellowship ($5,000)
2011 Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Residency Fellowship Semifinalist
2011 Carson McCullers Center, “Smith Writing Fellowship” First Runner-Up
2011 UH Dissertation Completion Grant, C.L.A.S.S., CWP Nominee
2010 Omnidawn Chapbook Contest, Finalist (A Broken Escalator Still Isn’t the Stairs)
2010 Omnidawn Chapbook Contest, Finalist (Proximity to What Comes Next)
2010 Southeast Review Poetry Contest, Finalist
2010 Tin House Summer Writing Workshop, Scholarship Award
2010 The Pinch Poetry Contest, Finalist
2010 Phoebe/Greg Grummer Poetry Contest, Finalist (two poems recognized)
2010 Summer Literary Seminars, Scholarship Award
2010 Squaw Valley Writers Workshops, Scholarship Award
2010 St. Petersburg Review International Poetry Contest, Finalist
2009 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation, Poetry Prize ($1,000)
2009 Phoebe/Greg Grummer Poetry Contest, Finalist (two poems recognized)
2008 Wildacres Retreat, NC, Residency Fellowship
2008 Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow, AR, Residency Fellowship
2008 Indiana Review Open Poetry Contest, Finalist
2008 Nimrod Open Poetry Contest, Finalist
2007 Cynthia Woods Mitchell Fellowship ($5,000)
2004 Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition, Honorable Mention
2004 Adagio Verse Quarterly Editor’s Choice Award
2004 ByLine Magazine Winter Poetry Contest, 2nd Place
2004 ByLine Magazine Free Verse Poetry Contest, 3rd Place
2003 New Letters Poetry Prize, First Runner-Up (Judge: Albert Goldbarth)
2003 Celeste Turner Wright Poetry Award (Academy of American Poets)
2003 University of California “Poet Laureate” Award: Honorable Mention
1999 Sherwood Anderson Award for Fiction, Wittenberg University
1999 Ostrum Endowed Award for Expository Writing, Wittenberg University
1999 University Poetry Award, Wittenberg University
1999 Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society, Wittenberg University
1999 Phi Sigma Tau National Philosophy Honor Society, Wittenberg University
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
*More information on university teaching & pedagogy available here*
Ashland University, Ashland, OH (2022-present)
Assistant Professor of English
. English 503: Creative Writing Workshop (Ashland MFA)
. English 415: Senior Capstone Project Supervisor
. English 308: The Poem
. English 305: Writer’s Workshop Creative Nonfiction
. English 304: The Short Story
. English 301: Writer’s Workshop Poetry
. English 203: Native American Literature (online)
. English 201: Introduction to Creative Writing
. English 101: Rhetoric and Composition
. Director of Ashland Poetry Press
. Supervisor, undergraduate student interns
. Co-Director, Ashland University in Tuscany study abroad program (Spring 2024)
Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI (2019-22)
Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing
. Writing 219: Introduction to Creative Writing
. Writing 150: Rhetoric and Composition
Westminster College, Fulton, MO (2018-19)
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
. English 103: Rhetoric and Composition
. English 190: Janus & the World of Publishing I
. English 220: Janus & the World of Publishing II
. English 275: Introduction to Creative Writing (multi-genre workshop)
. English 372: Advanced Creative Writing (Fiction workshop)
. English 374: Advanced Creative Writing (Poetry workshop)
. English 399: Internship Coordinator
. Journalism, Media, & Publishing 220: Literary Journalism
. Advisor, Literary Journal: Janus
. Advisor, His/Hers/Theirs: Examining & Deconstructing the Gendered World
. Advisor, Honors Thesis (multiple)
Southern New Hampshire University (2018-19)
Assistant Professor of English, Online
. English 530: Nonfiction Fundamentals
. English 541: Nonfiction Thesis Writing
. English 551: Nonfiction Thesis Completion
Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth (2006-07, 2015-22)
(Courses feature optional university credit)
Instructor
. “Creative Nonfiction”
. “Writing About Place”
. “Crafting the Essay”
Online Writing Instructor
. “Crafting the Essay”
University of California, Santa Cruz (2004, 2012-18)
Lecturer
(Responsibilities also include training first-time Teaching Assistants and coordinating undergraduate Writing Tutors)
. Porter College Core – “Art in a Multi-Cultural Society”
. Merrill College Core – “Cultural Identities & Global Consciousness”
. Merrill 180: “Research Skills for College & Beyond”
. Writing 1: “Introduction to Composition”
. Writing 2: “A History of Cool: American Counterculture & the Modern Era”
. Writing 20: “The Nature of Written Discourse”
. Writing 21: “Meaning & Style: The Sentence in Context”
. Writing 23: “Grammar & Rhetoric: Language for Writing”
. Independent Study Supervisor
University of Houston (2007-12)
Teaching Fellow
. Creative Writing Workshop “Multi-Genre Workshop”
. Senior Honors Thesis (committee member)
. Literature & Culture: “The Beat Generation & American Culture”
. Introduction to Drama
. Introduction to Poetry
. Composition II: Rhetoric & Argument
. Composition I: Expository Writing
Tutor: UH Writing Center
. Writing Tutor
. Small Group Composition Tutor (in coordination with HRMA program.
Teaching Assistant: UH College of Technology
. Master’s Thesis Workshop
University of California, Davis (2001-03)
Teaching Fellow
. Introduction to Literary Criticism: “Foundations: Plato to Wilde”
. Topics in Literature: “The 20th Century Novel”
. Introduction to Poetry & Poetics
. Creative Writing Workshop: “Poetry”
. Humanities I: “Gender & Genesis”
. Humanities I: “The Divine Comedy”
. Humanities I: “The Year 1968”
COMMUNITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Ashland University Annual High School Creative Writing Workshop (2022-present)
. Instructor, Poetry
Power of the Pen, Ashland, OH (2023)
. Instructor, Creative Writing
Fort Hayes State University (2017)
. Writer-in-Residence
Forsythe Library, Hays, Kansas (2017)
. Public Writing Workshop, October 2017
Wittenberg University (2017)
. Writer-in-Residence
Writers in the Schools (WITS), Portland Public Schools (2013)
. Writer-in-Residence: Creative Writing
BoldFACE Writers Conference, Houston, TX (2010-11)
(*note: conference serves primarily post-baccalaureate/pre-MFA writers)
. Instructor: Non-Fiction Workshop: “Finding the Heartbeat”
. Instructor: Poetry Workshop: “Learning Your Own Voice”
Summer Creative Writing Workshops, Houston, TX (2009-11)
. Writer-in-Residence: Creative Writing
Writers in the Schools (WITS), Houston Independent School District (2007-12)
. Writer-in-Residence: Creative Writing
Lawrence (KS) Public Schools (2004)
. Writer-in-Residence: Creative Writing
Summer Institute for the Gifted, various locations (1999-2004)
. Teaching Assistant, Counselor, and Resident Assistant, various sites
. Instructor/Housemaster: “Creative Writing” and “Debate” (site: Drew University, Madison, NJ)
. Instructor/Housemaster: “Creative Writing” and “Theater” (site: Amherst College, Amherst, MA)
. Instructor/Housemaster: “Creative Writing,” “American History,” and “Introduction to Philosophy” (site: Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA)
EDITORIAL and OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Coordinator, Fall Poetry Reading (featuring Todd Kaneko), Ashland University (Spring 2024)
Coordinator, Inaugural Ashland Poetry Press Broadside Contest, Ashland, OH (2023)
Advisor, Black Fork Review, Ashland, OH (2023-present)
Coordinator, Fall Poetry Residency (featuring Ryler Dustin), Ashland University (Fall 2022)
Coordinator, Richard Snyder Memorial Book Prize, Ashland Poetry Press, Ashland, OH (2022-present)
Director, Ashland Poetry Press, Ashland University, Ashland, OH (2022-present)
Advisor, Janus Literary Journal, Westminster College, Fulton, MO (2018-19)
Host/Emcee, Janus Open-Mic Night, Westminster College, Fulton, MO (2019)
Keynote Speaker, Sigma Tau Delta Regional Conference, Hays, KS (2017)
Judge, National Day of Writing Poetry Contest, For Hays State University (2017)
Host/Emcee, Conference Open Mic, Sigma Tau Delta, Regional Conference, Hays, KS (2017)
Writer-in-Residence, Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS (2017)
Colloquium Speaker, Wittenberg University English Department, Springfield, OH (2017)
Writer-in-Residence, Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH (2017)
Co-Editor with Brian Stipelman, Wish List: How to Fix What’s Wrong with American Politics (currently in process)
Non-Fiction Editor, Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature & Fine Arts (2008-10)
Tin House Summer Workshop, Portland, OR (with D. A. Powell) (2010)
Writer-in-Residence, “Wildacres Retreat,” Wildacres, NC (2008)
Writer-in-Residence, “Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow,” AR (2008)
Nebraska Summer Writer’s Conference, Lincoln, NE (with Kim Addonizio) (2008)
UH Studio Series Residency: with Lisa Lewis (2008)
Reader, Fiction and Poetry, Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature & Fine Arts (2007-11)
UH Studio Series Residency: with Maurice Manning (2007)
Tin House Summer Workshop, Portland, OR (with Nick Flynn) (2006)
Poet-in-Residence, Lawrence Public School System, Lawrence, KS (2004)
Babilonia Language School, student, Taormina, Italy (2003)
Senior Editor, Swan Scythe Press Poetry Chapbook Competition (2002, 2003)
“Talking to the Animals” Group Study, UCDavis Nature & Culture Center (2002)
Witt Series Writing Residency: with Martin Lamon (1999)
Editor in Chief, Wittenberg Review of Literature and Art (1999)
Organizer, “The Writer’s Reading” Event, Kissel Auditorium, Wittenberg University (1998)
SERVICE / TRAINING
Enrollment Management and Marketing Committee, Faculty Senate, Ashland University (2022-24)
Participating panelist, Ashland University Creative Writing Webinar (2022)
Supervisor, MFA Thesis, Ashland University MFA Program (2023)
Supervisor, Capstone Thesis, Ashland University (2023)
Supervisor, Honors Theses (multiple), Westminster College (2018-19)
Adviser, Janus Literary Journal, Westminster College (2018-19)
Online Training Cohort, participant, Southern New Hampshire University (2019)
Supervisor, Independent Study (multiple), UCSC (2012-18)
Writing Program General Education Committee, UCSC (2017-18)
Participating Instructor, Multilingual Curriculum (MLC) Series, UCSC (2017)
Writing Program Entry Level Writing (ELWR) Committee, UCSC (2016-17)
Writing Program Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) Mentorship Committee, UCSC (2015-16)
Mentorship/Advising Course Instructional Assistants, UCSC (2004, 2012-18)
Advisor, Senior Honors Theses, UH Creative Writing Program (2011-12)
Curriculum Development, UH Center for Teaching Excellence (2011-12)
Pedagogy Presentation and Panel, UH Teaching Conference (2011)
Training Seminar for Teachers (facilitator) WITS, Houston, TX (2011)
Elected CWP Graduate Student Representative, Univ. of Houston (2008-10)
CWP Faculty Hiring Committee, Univ. of Houston (2008-10)
Development Intern, University of Houston Writing Center (2008)
Board of Directors, “The Next Word Literary Center,” Portland (2005-07)
Judge, Ina Coldbarth Memorial Prize for Poetry, Davis, CA (2003)
PANELS, LECTURES and PRESENTATIONS
* Panel Discussions
“Literary Citizenship” virtual panel, Ashland MFA (2023)
. Other panelists included: Other Ashland MFA faculty members and students
“AU in Tuscany Information Panel” Center for the Humanities, Ashland University (2023)
. Other presenters included Dan McDonald and Rebecca Parillo
“Life After the MFA” Ashland MFA Summer Residency (2023)
. Other panelists included: Other Ashland MFA faculty members and students
“Running a Workshop” Ashland MFA Summer Residency (2023)
. Other panelists included: Other Ashland MFA faculty members and students
“Getting Started and Getting Through: Writing in a Distracting World.” Writing Circles Discussion, Forsythe Library, Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS (2017)
. Other panelists included: James Austin, Writing Circles participants
“John Steinbeck & Of Mice and Men.” Benefit for Santa Cruz Young Writers Program. Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA (2016)
. Panelists included: Susan Shillinglaw (Dir. of National Steinbeck Center), Daisy Martin (Dir. of History/Social Studies Performance Assessment at Stanford), Chuck Carlise (UCSC Lecturer in Writing)
“Making it Work: The Writer’s Life.” BoldFace Conference Panel. M.D. Anderson Library, University of Houston, TX (2011)
. Panelists included BoldFace Writers Conference Faculty.
“The Big Questions: Grad School, Revision, and Teaching as a Writer.” BoldFace Conference Panel. M.D. Anderson Library, University of Houston, TX (2010)
. Panelists included BoldFace Writers Conference Faculty.
* Lectures and Papers Presented
“Greyhound Anniversaries: The Liminal Spaces of a Writing Life”
Sigma Tau Delta Initiation, Keynote Speaker, Ashland University, OH (2022)
“All Roads Lead to Bronzeville: The Trickster and Gwendolyn Brooks”
Hanover College, Guest Lecture, Hanover, IN (2018)
“When I Think of What I Know About America: Multi-Genre Public Writing Workshop”
Hanover College, Guest Lecture, Hanover, IN (2018)
“The Most Kissed Face in the World: Keynote Address”
Sigma Tau Delta High Plains Regional Conference, Hays, KS (2017)
“I Have a Confession to Make: Multi-Genre Public Writing Workshop”
Forsythe Library, Public Writing Workshop, Hays, KS (2017)
“The Devil in the Details: Joyce Carol Oates and Arnold Friend”
Fort Hays University, Guest Lecture, Hays, KS (2017)
“How do We Get There from Here? Character and Fiction Writing”
Fort Hays State University, Guest Lecture, Hays, KS (2017)
“Another Kind of Home: Marilyn Robinson’s Housekeeping”
Fort Hays University, Guest Lecture, Hays, KS (2017)
“It Matters How You Live: What is a Writer’s Life?”
Wittenberg University, Guest Lectures, Springfield, OH (2017)
“Into That Story: The Poetic Sequence and the Thread”
Guest Lecture, Fort Hayes University, Hayes, KS (2015)
“The Abstract & the Actual: Writing the Concrete from the Abstract”
Shippensberg University, Guest Lecture, Shippensberg, PA (2014)
“Debates & Dry-Runs: Teaching Composition by Not Teaching Composition”
University of Houston, Teaching Conference, Houston, TX (2011)
“Tiny Beautiful Things: Teaching the Four-Part Writing Lesson”
WITS Fall Writer’s Training, Houston, TX (2011)
“Thresholds & Collisions: Toward Urgency in Poetry Writing”
University of Houston, Guest Lecture/Craft Talk, Houston, TX (2011)
“Let Me Tell You a Little About Me: Narcissism, Non-Fiction & Finding a Story to Tell”
BoldFACE Writer’s Conference, Craft Talk, Houston, TX (2011)
“This Exact Spot in Space: Lyric, Fragmentia, & the Poem as Constellation”
BoldFACE Writer’s Conference, Craft Talk, Houston, TX (2010)
“The Best Minds of Whose Generation?: Relevance & the Beats in the 21st Century”
Wittenberg University, Guest Lecture, Springfield, OH (2004)
“Rebellion, the Dead, & the Culture of Cool: Counterculture & Credibility in America”
Southwest/Texas Pop Culture & American Culture Association Annual Meeting, Albequerque, NM (2002)
“De-Composing Naomi: Grief & Resolution in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Kaddish’”
National Undergraduate Literature Conference, Ogden, UT (1999)
Selected Poetry/Literary Readings
* More information on readings available here*
Collaborative Events (with artist/filmmaker Solana Feldthouse)
* “The Most Kissed Face in the World” – online video/poetry collaboration (2019)
* San Fernando Art Book Fair, Los Angeles, CA – broadside event with signing (2018)
* Hanover College, Hanover, IN – reading with video installation (2018)
* Fort Hays State, Hays, KS – reading with painting and photography installation (2018)
Poetry/Literary Readings
* Ashland University Faculty Reading Series (with Kelly Sundberg, Sharleen Mondal), Ashland, OH (December 2023)
* Ashland MFA Faculty/Student Reading Series (with Marcello Hernandez Castillo, Thayne Casper) Ashland, OH (July 2023)
* Grand Valley Writers Series (with Brandon Rushtan and Oindrila Mukherjee), Allendale, MI (January 2022)
* Nimrod Virtual Reading Series (2020-21)
* Janus Fundraiser Reading, Fulton, MO (2019)
* Hanover College, Hanover, IN (2018)
* Sigma Tau Delta Regional Conference, Keynote Speaker, Hays, KS (2017)
* Wittenberg Colloquium Series, Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH (2017)
* Indy Reads Books, Indianapolis, IN (2017)
* Trident Booksellers & Cafe, Boston, MA (2017)
* Pete’s Big Salmon Reading, (with David Eye, Martha Rhodes), Pete’s Candy Shop, Brooklyn, NY (2017)
* Wild Writers Poetry Salon, Poetry Jazz Cafe, Toronto, ON (2017)
* Poetry in Akron, Blue Door Gallery, Akron, OH (2017)
* Curbside Books & Records (with C.Russell Price, Holly Amos, Meredith Maltby, Erin Watson), Chicago, IL (2017)
* Literati Books (with Susanna Lang), Ann Arbor, MI (2017)
* With Poetry Reading Series (with Jeremy Glazier), Milo Arts Center, Columbus, OH (2017)
* Flour City Yawp, Radio Interview and Reading, Rochester, NY (2017)
* Voyageur Book Shop, Milwaukee, WI (2017)
* Art Bar Poetry Series (with Pearl Pirie, Darrell Epp), Free Times Cafe, Toronto, Ontario (2017)
* Sundays at Erv’s (with Alexandra Watson, Nina Boutsikaris, YZ Chin), Erv’s on Beekman, Brooklyn, NY (2017)
* City Books (with Jason Kirin), Pittsburgh, PA (2017)
* Show & Tell Reading Night, SE 58th Café, Portland, OR (2013)
* Poetry Night, Featured Reader, Bellingham, WA (2012)
* InPrint Prize Winners Reading. Houston, TX (2012)
* This is Beautiful, This is Beautiful: Six Small Presses. Simone’s, Chicago, IL (2012)
* Word for Word Series (with Kevin Prufer and Edward Porter). 14 Pews, Houston, TX (2011)
* BoldFACE Faculty Reading (with Rebecca Wadlinger). Honors College, M.D. Anderson Library, Houston, TX (2011)
* Gulf Coast Reading Series, (with Ryler Dustin and Quincy Flowers). Brazo’s Bookstore, Houston, TX (2011)
* BoldFACE Faculty Reading (with Adam Peterson). Honors College, M.D. Anderson Library, Houston, TX (2010)
* Poison Pen Reading Series: Gulf Coast Editors’ Reading. Poison Girl. Houston, TX (2009)
* Poison Pen Reading Series (with Michael Dumanis). Poison Girl. Houston, TX (2009)
* Dairy Hollow Fellows Reading. Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow, Eureka Springs, AR (2008)
* Poison Pen Reading Series: Gulf Coast Editors’ Reading. Poison Girl. Houston, TX (2008)
* KUHF 88.7 FM, “The Front Row” Interview and Reading. Houston, TX (2008)
* Gulf Coast Reading Series (with Jeanine Walker and David Lombardi). Brazo’s Bookstore, Houston, TX (2008)
* Alberta Street Readers, (with Arlo Voorhies). Alberta Street Public House, Portland, OR (2007)
* Bold-Sky Poetry Series (with Brittany Baldwin). Bold-Sky Café, Portland, OR (2006)
* Poet-in-Residence Readings. Various locations, Lawrence, KS (2004)
* Winter Reading Series (with Kirsten Lundstrum and Christien Gholson). Café Roma, Davis, CA (2003)
* Winter Reading Series (with Mark Pearson and Jodi Angel). Café Roma, Davis, CA (2002)
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE
Field Manager, Working America (2006)
Training and campaign coordination during 2006 mid-term elections
Portland, OR
Assistant Director, Fund for Public Interest Research (2005)
Hiring, training, and supervision of sixty-member staff and $450,000 budget
Portland, OR
Housemaster/Instructor, Summer Institute for the Gifted (1999-2004)
Residential director of forty high school boys; training and coordination for staff of six counselors; primary instructor for four academic courses/session
Various campuses
REFERENCES
References available upon request