Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Endowed Paul W. and Clarice Kingston Reynolds Chair of Poetry
Director, Reynolds Series Editor, Platte Valley Review Associate Professor of English
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Reynolds Chair
University of Nebraska at Kearney, English Department
202 A Thomas Hall, Kearney, NE 68849
hedgecokeaa@unk.edu
308-865-8672 phone / 308-865-8411 fax
Books Authored Edited Education
Faculty Positions Administrative Experience Major Honors & Awards
Publications/Activities Short-Term Visiting Writer/Faculty Keynotes/Papers/Panels
Readings/Performances Recordings Related Activities
Additional Notes Professional Associations Interest
References
Courses in Poetry, Creative Writing, Literary Performance Courses: 2009-2010
Beginning Poetry Advanced & Graduate Poetry
Special Topics Studies in Genre (Performance of Poetry & Prose)
Teaching Philosophy Two-Page CV
1. Blood Run, Earthworks Series, Salt Publishing. Cambridge, England. November 2006. Wordcraft Writer of the Year Award. 2006-2007, conferred 2008. US Edition 2007. [Landscape Poetry/Free-Verse-Play.] [Published.]
2. Off-Season City Pipe, Coffee House Press. Minneapolis, MN. April 2005. Wordcraft Writer of the Year Award. 2005. [Labor Poetry.] [Poetry.] [Published.]
3. Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer. The University of Nebraska Bison Books: Lincoln, Nebraska. May 2004. AIROS Book-of-the-Month. [Memoir.] [Published.]
4. Dog Road Woman, Coffee House Press. Minneapolis, MN. April 1997. Winner, American Book Award 1998. First Finalist, Paterson Poetry Prize. [Poetry.] [Published.]
5. The Year of the Rat, Grimes. Ventura, CA. January 1996. [Chapbook.] [Narrative Poetry.] [Published.]
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1. Effigies. Editor, Salt Publications. UK. 2009. [Poetry.] [Published.]
2. Bone Light. Series Editor, Red Hen Press. US. 2009. [Poetry.] [Published.]
3. To Topos. Theme: Indigenous Americas, Indigenous poetry from the Arctic Circle Inuit to the Mapuche in Chile. 2006. Published 2007. Guest Editor, Oregon State University’s International Journal. Wordcraft Circle Journal Issue of the Year 2006-2007, conferred 2008. [Invitational.] [Poetry.] [Published.]
4. They Wanted Children. Editor, Sioux Falls School District Press. Sioux Falls, SD. An anthology of coping, from American Indian, Sudanese, Latino, African American and other students of color and diverse experience attending Lincoln High School. 2003. [Poetry.] [Published.]
5. Coming to Life. Editor, Sioux Falls School District Press. Sioux Falls, SD. An anthology of writing providing meditative field in the aftermath of the 9-11 events, from the four Sioux Falls high schools. Sioux Falls, SD. 2002. [Poetry.] [Published.]
6. Voices of Thunder. Co-Editor, Institute for the American Indian Arts. Santa Fe, NM. 1993. Anthology. [Poetry/Prose.] [Published.]
7. It’s Not Quiet Anymore. Senior Editor, Institute for the American Indian Arts: Santa Fe, NM. 1992. Anthology. [Poetry/Prose.] [Published.]
VITA 2009 (partial)
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ADVANCED DEGREES/STUDIES
•VERMONT COLLEGE, Poetry/Writing MFAW, 1995
Nonfiction/Creative Nonfiction Post-Grad, 1995
•NAROPA INSTITUTE, Poetry/Prose MFA Program Summer Award Fellow 1992, 1993
•INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS, Creative Writing AFAW, 1993
•ESTELLE HARMON’S ACTORS’ WORKSHOP, Acting Professional Performing Arts Degree Certificate 1988
ADDITIONAL TRAINING
•POVERTY PLAYHOUSE/CIRCLE THEATRE, Studies in Performing Arts/Tech. 1984
•NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY, CE Studies in Traditional Arts, Photography, and Writing. 1978
•Additional CEU Credits from various institutions, including work in psychology and behavior sciences.
•Note: Bachelor’s Degree requirement was waived upon entry to graduate school, based upon GRE scores, publications, summa cum laude status, and demonstrated excellence.
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•The Distinguished Paul W. Reynolds and Clarice Kingston Reynolds Endowed Chair in English. Associate Professor of Poetry and Writing. University of Nebraska, Kearney, English Department. Fall 2007- 2012.
•Member of UNK Gender and Equity University Committee 2009-2010
•Graduate Core Faculty, University of Nebraska MFA in Writing Program. Omaha, Nebraska. Winter 2007-Current
•Professor, MFA in Writing Program, University of California Palm Desert (Riverside). Spring 2008.
•Professor, MFA Summer Program in Writing/Poetry the Naropa Institute. Poetry/Prose. Visiting 2003-2007.
•Professor, Institute of American Indian Arts. Creative Writing Program. Santa Fe, NM. 2006-2007.
•Assistant Professor, Northern Michigan University. MFA Program, English Department. Visiting Writer Host. 2004-2006 academic years. January 2005-August 2006.
•Distinguished Visiting Professor, National Endowment for the Humanities Appointment, Hartwick College. Oneonta, NY. Fall 2004.
•Faculty, Kilian College. Sioux Falls, SD. 2004. [Project developed into a full degree program in 2005.]
•Faculty, University of Sioux Falls. Sioux Falls, SD. 2003.
•Organizer, Director, Facilitator, Mentor. Mentorship for Incarcerated Youth in South Dakota. 2001-2007. Ongoing.
•Writer in Residence Sioux Falls Public Schools. 1998-2004. Sioux Falls, SD. 1998-2004.
•Organizing Director, Y Writers Voice, Sioux Falls YMCA. 2002-2003.
•Organizing Host, High Plains Regional Book Festival. Billings, Montana. 2003 and 2004.
•Writer in Residence, Arts Corr. Therapeutic. (Juvenile Corrections) SD. 1999-2007.
•Writing Instructor, Dahl Fine Arts Center. Teaching residency. 2000.
• Writing Instructor, Dahl Fine Arts Center. Teaching residency. 1998.
•Faculty, MANI KRUDO SUMMER ARTS, California State University. 1996.
•Writer in Residence, Lannan/CPITS Rural Initiative Grant, Briggs School District. Santa Paula, CA. Spring 1996.
•Post-Graduate Mentorship Teaching Partner: English Department, Oxnard College. Oxnard, CA. Spring 1996.
•Writer in Residence, Poetry/Creative Writing Instructor, California Poets in the Schools. 1994-1996.
•Instructor, FLAIR Reading and Literacy. Santa Paula, CA. 1994.
•Director and Acting Workshop Instructor, Ventura Repertory Theatre. Oxnard, CA. 1988-1989.
•Acting Workshop Instructor, Southern California Indian Center. Los Angeles, CA. 1988.
•Para-Educator, Buena Vista High School. Second-Chance High School. Ventura, CA. 1988.
•Acting and Writing Workshop Instructor, American Indian Registry for the Performing Arts. LA, CA. 1987-1989.
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Over twenty-five years board, caucus, and community service, administrative involvement/positions in national, international, and grassroots community leadership roles.
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•The Distinguished Paul W. Reynolds and Clarice Kingston Reynolds Endowed Chair in English. 2007-2012.
•Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, Resident Fellow. Southern Pines, NC. 2008-2009.
•Pushcart Nomination, by Pushcart Prize Board. 2008.
•Pushcart Nomination, by Mark Nowak, for "Sway Value," published in XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics #20. 2008.
•Paul Hanly Furfey Lecture. Association of Sociology in Religion. Boston, MA. August 1st, 2008.
•Great Plains Fellow. University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Lincoln, NE. 2008-2009. [Current]
•Black Earth Institute, Fellow. Black Earth Institute. Madison, WI. 2005-2008. [Current]
•South Dakota Arts Council Collaboration Grant. 2008-2009. Current.]
•Shandong University. Weihai, China. 2008. [Invitational Foreign Expert.]
•Hawthornden Castle Fellowship Residency. Hawthornden Castle. Midlothian, Scotland. May-June 2008.
•Final Judge, PEN USA, PEN Awards, Poetry. 2008.
•Final Judge, PEN America, Beyond Margins Awards. 2008.
•Writing Residency. Soul Mountain Retreat. Marilyn Nelson, Director. Old Lyme, CT. May 2008.
•United Nations Panel Facilitator. Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Forum. New York, NY. Spring 2008.
•RSC UNK Faculty Summer Research Grant. 2008.
•Kearney Area Community Foundation Project Grant. 2008.
•Nebraska Humanities Council Project Grant. 2008.
•Nebraska Arts Council Project Grant. 2008.
•RSC UNK Faculty Mini-Grant. 2008.
•Writer of the Year Award, Blood Run. Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. 2007.
•Journal Issue of the Year Award. Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry/To Topos International Poetry Journal. Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. 2008 for 2007 edition.
•Given Key to City, Rosario. 2007.
•George Garrett Prize for Community Service in Literature Nomination. Associated Writing Programs. 2007.
•Delegate, United Nations Women in Peacemaking Conference, Joan B. Kroc Center for Peace and Justice, University of San Diego. San Diego, CA. Fall 2006.
•Given Key to City, San Diego. 2007.
•Final Judge, writing competitions, Cream City Review, WI. Fall 2006.
•United Nations Presenting Speaker. Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Forum. New York, NY. Spring 2006.
•King*Chavez*Parks Faculty Award. State of Michigan/NMU. Marquette, MI. 2005.
•Writer of the Year Award. Off-Season City Pipe. Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. 2005.
•Final Judge, Student Writing Competition Wayne State University. Detroit, MI. Spring 2005.
•National Endowment for the Humanities. Distinguished Visiting Professor, Hartwick College. NY. Fall 2004.
•Book-of-the-Month, Native America Calling, for Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer. August 2004.
•Excellence in Literary Arts Award, Mayor's Awards, Sioux Empire Arts Council. 2003.
• Excellence in Teaching Award Grants, Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation. Sioux Falls, SD. 2002-2004.
•Artist Fellowship, South Dakota Arts Council. SD. 2002.
•National Mentor of the Year, Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. 2001.
•Touring Artist Grants and Tours for South Dakota Arts Council. SD. Annually 2000-2005.
•Pushcart Nomination. 2000.
•Reading Rainbow Judge, South Dakota Public Broadcast System. 2000.
•Dakota Visions Touring Artist. SD. 1999-2000.
•Individual Artist Project Grant (formerly Fellowship for the Arts), South Dakota State Arts Council. SD. 1999.
•“News Flash: Tagging Death” nominated for Pushcart. 1999.
•DOG ROAD WOMAN. Winner American Book Award, The Before Columbus Foundation, American Booksellers Association. 1998. Finalist, The Paterson Poetry Prize. 1998. Finalist, the Returning the Gift Poetry Prize. 1997.
•Resident Fellow, The MacDowell Colony. Petersborough, New Hampshire. Fall 1996.
•Charlie and Thelma Willis Memorial Award Editor’s Choice. Abiko Quarterly International. Japan. 1995.
•New Mexico Press Women’s Association Writing Award & Scholarship, New Mexico Press Women’s Association c/o The New Mexico Magazine, Emily Drabranski, President. Albuquerque, NM. 1993.
•Zora Neale Hurston Award, Naropa Institute. Boulder, CO. 1993.
•Naropa Poetry Prize/Fellowship. Boulder, CO. 1992.
•Artist Residency, Atlantic Center for the Arts. New Smyrna Beach, FL. 1992.
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POETRY PUBLICATIONS (partial listings)
A. POETRY BOOKS
1. Blood Run, Earthworks Series, Salt Publishing. Cambridge, England. November 2006. Wordcraft Writer of the Year Award. 2006-2007, conferred 2008. US Edition 2007. [Landscape Poetry/Free-Verse-Play.] [Published.]
2. Off-Season City Pipe, Coffee House Press. Minneapolis, MN. April 2005. Wordcraft Writer of the Year Award. 2005. [Labor Poetry.] [Poetry.] [Published.]
3. Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer. The University of Nebraska Bison Books: Lincoln, Nebraska. May 2004. AIROS Book-of-the-Month. [Memoir.] [Published.]
4. Dog Road Woman, Coffee House Press. Minneapolis, MN. April 1997. Winner, American Book Award 1998. First Finalist, Paterson Poetry Prize. [Poetry.] [Published.]
5. The Year of the Rat, Grimes. Ventura, CA. January 1996. [Chapbook.] [Narrative Poetry.] [Published.]
B. BOOKS EDITED
1. Effigies. Editor, Salt Publications. UK. 2009. [Poetry.] [Published.]
2. Bone Light. Series Editor, Red Hen Press. US. 2009. [Poetry.] [Published.]
3. To Topos. Theme: Indigenous Americas, Indigenous poetry from the Arctic Circle Inuit to the Mapuche in Chile. 2006. Published 2007. Guest Editor, Oregon State University’s International Journal. Wordcraft Circle Journal Issue of the Year 2006-2007, conferred 2008. [Invitational.] [Poetry.] [Published.]
4. They Wanted Children. Editor, Sioux Falls School District Press. Sioux Falls, SD. An anthology of coping, from American Indian, Sudanese, Latino, African American and other students of color and diverse experience attending Lincoln High School. 2003. [Poetry.] [Published.]
5. Coming to Life. Editor, Sioux Falls School District Press. Sioux Falls, SD. An anthology of writing providing meditative field in the aftermath of the 9-11 events, from the four Sioux Falls high schools. Sioux Falls, SD. 2002. [Poetry.] [Published.]
6. Voices of Thunder. Co-Editor, Institute for the American Indian Arts. Santa Fe, NM. 1993. Anthology. [Poetry/Prose.] [Published.]
7. It’s Not Quiet Anymore. Senior Editor, Institute for the American Indian Arts: Santa Fe, NM. 1992. Anthology. [Poetry/Prose.] [Published.]
C. ANTHOLOGIES/JOURNALS (EDITING) UNDER CONTRACT
1. Anthology. Editor, California Poets in the Schools Press. San Francisco, CA. (Publication expected 2010). An anthology of writing from California youth living on the agricultural plain, including work from migrant workers and other fieldworkers. [Poetry.] [Under Contract.]
2. Anthology. Editor, University of Arizona Press. Tucson, AZ. (Publication expected 2010). An anthology of poets of the Western Hemisphere. [Poetry.] [Under Contract.]
D. POETRY IN JOURNALS AND ANTHOLOGIES (random/partial sampling listing only, up to September 2009.)
•“Summer Fruit” and “Pando.” in Black Renaissance Noire. Quincy Troupe, Ed. NYU. 2009. [Poetry.]
•“The Wailing Room.” in Kenyon Review. Simon Ortiz, Ed. Kenyon College. 2009. [Poetry.]
•“We Were in a World.” in Sentence Magazine. Dear Rader, Guest Ed. Fall 2008. [Prose Poetry.]
•“Soul Mountain,” “Hatchlings,” “Five Poets Fox Hunt Foxwoods: a Griswold Reading,” “Spider Sleek Straddling Dream,” “Eightmile,” “Peanut Pond,” “In the Year 513 PC,” and selection of digital-poetics “Mustang Landscapes.” in the Connecticut Review. John Briggs, Ed. Fall 2008. [Poetry] [Published in full section reflecting Residency at Soul Mountain Retreat, Hedge Coke hosted with LeAnne Howe. Other residents include: Santee Frazier & Lara Mann. Other artists include: America Meredith.]
•“Wokiksuye” in After Shocks: The Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events. Tom Lombardo, Ed.
Sante Lucia Books. 2008. [Poetry.]
•“Cotton.” in Many Mountains Moving. Diane Glancy, Ed. 2008. [Poetry.]
•“Memory” and “Clan Sister.” Yellow Medicine Review. Southwestern Minnesota State University. 2008. [Poetry.]
•Multiple poems in Prometeo Memories, Prometo, Medellin, Colombia. 2008. [Poetry.]
•“Ghosts” in Letters to the World Wom-Po Anthology, Red Hen Press. January 2008. [Poetry.]
•“Something of Time,” “Dusk, Dawn, Blackbirds,” and “Eclipse.” Black Earth Institute Journal. Madison. 2008. [Poetry.]
•“Clan Sister,” “Esoterica,” and “Memory” in Oregon Literary Review, Fall 2007. [Poetry.]
•“America, I Sing Back.” in To Topos International Journal. Eric Dickey and Joseph Krause, Ed. Oregon State University. Corvallis, OR. December 2006/January 2007. [Poetry.]
•“The Change,” “Pulp and Thick Skin,” and “Street Confetti.” in French Connections: Poetry from the Franco-American Experience, Louisiana Literature Press. Christine Gelineau and Jack. B. Bedell, Ed. 2007. [Poetry.]
•“Memory” and “Snake Mound.” in People’s Tribune. Bob Lee & Sandra Reid, Ed. Chicago, IL. November/December 2006. [Poetry.]
• “Looters,” “River,” “The Dove,” and “Baggage.” in Political Affairs: A Marxist Monthly. Joe Sims, Joel Wendland, and Michael Shepler, Ed. August 2006, March 2006, and December 2005. [Regular contributor.] [Poetry.]
•“Memory,” “Memory,” “Prairie Horizons,” “Ghosts,” “Ghosts,” “Skeletons,” “Skeletons,” “Clan Sister,” “Burial Mound,” “The Mounds,” “Moon,” “Corn,” “River,” “Deer,” “Sun,” “When the Animals Leave This Place,” and “America, I Sing You Back.” in various magazines, journals, on broadsides and in newspapers throughout Venezuela, courtesy of the Cultural Minister of Venezuela, the 3rd World Festival of Poetry in Venezuela, and the Cultural Center of Maturin. Summer 2006. [Poetry.]
*note: persona poems under identical title are not duplicate poems; rather they are selections from a verse-play.
•“The Change” and “Dog Road Woman.” In The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature. Joy Porter and Kenneth Roemer, Ed. Cambridge, 2005. [Poetry.]
•“America, I Sing Back.” (America, con mi canto te respondo) and “The Dove.” (La Paloma) Prometeo: Memorias XV Festival Internacional de Poesia de Medellin. Medellin, Columbia. Pg. 149-152. 2005. [Poetry.]
•“Memory” & “Stone Snake Effigy.” Washington & Lee New Medicines anthology. Deborah Miranda, Ed. Washington & Lee. Lexington, VA. 2005. [Poetry.]
•“Ghost” & “Corn.” Parthenon West Review. San Francisco, CA. Fall 2005. [Poetry.]
•"Ghost Deer." in Ploughshares, Joy Harjo, Ed., Emerson. Boston, MA. Pg. 34. Fall 2004. [Poetry.]
•"Wachovia Wilds." in the North Carolina Literary Review, Eastern Carolina University. Greenville, NC. Pg. 38. Summer 2004. [Poetry.]
•“Swarming.” in Poets Against the War, Selected poems published hard copy from the website, The Nation Press Sam Hamill, Ed. Pg. 101. 2003. [Poetry.]
•"Crossing Sky Vault Worlds" and "Voucher, Voucher." in Cream City Review. Karen Auvinen, Ed. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Milwaukee, WI. Pg. 39-43. 2003. [Poetry.]
•"Packin' Four Corner Nabs." in XCP9: Cross Cultural Poetics, College of St. Catherine. Mark Nowak, Ed. Minneapolis, MN. Pg. 93-96. 2001. [Poetry.]
•“Cut to the Scalp” and “Putting Up Beans.” in the Iowa Review, University of Iowa. Arthur Sze and Jon Davis, Guest-Ed., Iowa City, IA. Pg. 99-102. 2001. [Poetry.]
•“Iris Blues” and “Sorrel Run.” in the South Dakota Review, Native American Issue. Brian Bedard, Ed. University of South Dakota. Vermillion, SD. Pg. 83-85. 2000. [Poetry.]
•“Dog Road Woman,” “Percheron Nambe Morning,” “The Change,” “The Year of the Rat,” and “Wokiksuye.” in Visit Teepee Town. Diane Glancy and Mark Nowak, Ed. Coffee House Press. Minneapolis, MN. Pg. 155-187. 1999. [Poetry.]
•“Woken Abruptly.” in The Midwest Quarterly, Great Plains Issue. Pittsburg State University. Stephen Meats, Ed. Pittsburg, KS. Pg. 383-385. 1999. [Poetry.]
•“News Flash: Tagging Death.” in XCP Cross Cultural Poetics3. College of St. Catherine. Mark Nowak, Ed. Minneapolis, MN. 1998. Nominated for Pushcart. Pg. 32-33. 1999. [Poetry.]
•“When the Animals Leave this Place” and “Off-Season.” in The World (Number 54), The Poetry Project, St. Mark’s Church. Ed Friedman, Ed., New York, NY. Pg. 14-19. 1998. [Poetry.]
•“The Change.” in Reinventing the Enemy’s Language. Joy Harjo, Ed. University of Arizona Press. University of Arizona. Phoenix, AZ. Pg. 325-331. 1997. [Poetry.]
•“Wheat.” in Listen to the Wild, California Poets in the Schools Press. San Francisco, CA. 1996. [Poetry.]
•“When the Animals Leave this Place.” Abiko Quarterly International Poetry Contest Editor’s Choice Award. Abiko Quarterly. Sid Corman, Editor. Japan. 1996. [Poetry.]
•“#4 Southwest Chief/LA Central” and “The Dove.” in The Santa Barbara Review. Patricia Stockton Leddy, Ed. Santa Barbara, CA Pg. 25-26. 1996. [Poetry.]
•“Red Stone Panther.” in Tree in the Sky, San Francisco, California: California Poets in the Schools Press. San Francisco, CA. Pg. 93-94. 1995. [Poetry.]
•“Darkening Light.” in 13th Moon, Judith Emlyn Johnson, Ed. SUNY Albany. Albany, NY. Pg. 19-21. 1994. [Poetry.]
•“Wokiksuye.” in Bombay Gin. Naropa Institute. Boulder, CO. Pg. 64. 1994. [Poetry.]
•“No, I Am Not a Vet.” in Skin Deep: Women Writing on Color, Cultures, and Identity. Elena Featherston, Ed. The Crossing Press. Freedom, CA. Pg. 145-147. 1994. [Poetry.]
•“Legacy,” “Pine Ridger with a Lambourghini Dream,” “Sidelays Gwances,” “State of Invisibility,” and “Pasturing.” in Subliminal Time. Leslie Scalapino, Ed. O Books. Oakland, CA. Pg.35-44. 1993. [Poetry.]
•“The Change.” in Caliban, Larry Smith, Ed. Laguna Beach, CA. Pg. 70-74. 1993. [Poetry.]
E. INTERNET WEB LITERARY PUBLICATIONS/BROADSIDES/BROCHURES (random/partial listing only)
•“Clan Sister,” “Esoterica,” and “Memory.” In Oregon Literary Review, Vol. 2, No.2. Fall 2007. [Poetry.]
•“America, I Sing Back,” “Memory,” “Skeletons,” “Ghosts,” and “The Mounds.” selected for broadside prints from the 3rd World Poetry Festival in Venezuela. Caracus, Tucupita, and Maturin. 2006. [Poetry.]
•“Looters,” “River,” “The Dove,” and “Baggage.” in Political Affairs Online Magazine. August 2006, March 2006, and the November/December 2005, Editions, 2005-2006. [Poetry.]
•“Street Confetti,” and Off-Season City Pipe (book volume), selected for inclusion for the Academy of American Poets National Poetry Month. 2005. [Poetry.]
•“Last Lunar Eclipse, 2004.” E-verse, Milkweed Publications. 2005. [Poetry.]
•Dennison University, Ohio mounds series poems in the Earthworks festivities. (Brochure.) October 2005. [Poetry.]
•“Street Confetti,” Eternity Safeway” and “Clowns Crowned in-RAGE.” on Xcp: Streetnotes biannual on-line literary magazine. David Michalski, Editor. UC Davis. Davis, CA. Winter 2003. [Honored by a link from Art in the Public Interest.] [Poetry.]
•“Shapings,” “Gore,” and “Swarming.” with “civic duty as a private citizen statement” and "The Tanks Come Blasting," 2003, on Poets Against the War, on <poetsagainstthewar.org> & 2004 <voicesinwartime.org>. Also on UK site of PAW. [Poetry.]
•“Street Confetti,” Eternity Safeway” and “Clowns Crowned in-RAGE.” on Xcp: Streetnotes biannual on-line literary magazine. David Michalski, Editor. UC Davis. Davis, CA. Winter 2003. [Poetry.]
•“Ghost Deer.” Libraries of South Dakota, David Allen Evans, SD Poet Laureate, Ed. Displayed in SD Libraries, including the State Library in Pierre, SD. 2003 (Broadside.) [Poetry.]
•Excerpts from Dog Road Woman on Poetry of the 20th Century. 2002. [Poetry.]
•"Drunk Butterflies" and "Eternity Safeway." on Native Realities juried e-journal magazine. Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. Lee Francis IV, Editor. 2001. [Poetry.]
CREATIVE NONFICTION/FICTION PUBLICATIONS
F. CREATIVE NONFICTION BOOKS
Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer. The University of Nebraska Bison Books: Lincoln, Nebraska. May 2004. [Memoir.]
G. FICTION/NONFICTION/CREATIVE NONFICTION IN JOURNALS AND ANTHOLOGIES (random/partial listing only)
•"The Wailing Room" and "N8V Ed: Leyef @ Aiye'." in Black Renaissance Noire. Quincy Troupe, Ed. NYU. 2009. [Surrealism/Creative Nonfiction Essay.] [Memoir Excerpt.]
•"Deep Creek." in Kenyon Review. Simon Ortiz, Ed. Kenyon College. 2009. [Creative Nonfiction Essay.]
•"On Drowning Pond." in Indian Country Noir. Sarah Cortez & Liz Martinez, Ed. Akashic Books. 2009. [Fiction.]
•“Grizzled.” in Bombay Gin. 2008. [Surrealism/Nonfiction Essay.]
•“Horses.” in Yellow Medicine Review. Southwestern Minnesota State University. 2008. [Surrealism/Nonfiction Essay.] •“Ridge Notes.” in Sovereign Bones: New Native American Writing. Eric Gansworth, Ed. Nation Books. 2007. [Creative Nonfiction Essay.]
•Several short stories forthcoming in Anthology. Heid Erdrich, Ed. Minneapolis, MN. 2007. [Fiction]•Memoir Excerpts forthcoming in The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing after the Removal a Southeastern Tribal Anthology. Janet McAdams and Geary Hobson, Ed. Norman, OK. 2007. [Creative Nonfiction.]
•“Digs.” novel excerpts (2), Literary Sci-Fi Anthology. Dawn Maracle, Ed. Canada. 2003. [Fiction.]
•"In the Fields." (memoir excerpt from Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer) in Sister Nations. Heid E. Erdrich and Laura Tohe, Ed, Minnesota Historical Society Press. Minneapolis, MN. Pg. 30-34. 2002. [Creative Nonfiction.]
•"Fish." (memoir excerpt from Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer) in Gatherings XII, En'owkin center/Theytus Books. Penticton, British Columbia, Canada. Pg. 198-200. 2001. [Creative Nonfiction.]
•“Seeds.” in Speaking for the Generations and the Land. Simon Ortiz, Ed. The University of Arizona Press. Tucson, AZ. Pg. 92-116. 1997. [Creative Nonfiction.]
•“The Sun and Moon Over Jasper.” in American Fiction 8th Edition. Alan Davis, Ed. New Rivers Press. Morehead, MN. Pg. 142-148. 1996. [Fiction.]
•“Digs.” (novel excerpt) in Gatherings VII. Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm & Jeanette Armstrong, Ed. Penticton, British Columbia, Canada. Pg. 33-45. 1996. [Fiction.]
•“Nightmare.” in Gatherings V. Beth Cuthand, Ed. Penticton, British Columbia, Canada. Pg. 202-204. 1994. [Creative Nonfiction.]
•“Calling Blues and “Nightmare.” in It’s Not Quiet Anymore, works included in this book were juried and selected by co-editors. Institute for American Indian Arts Press. Santa Fe, NM. Pg. 155. 1993. [Creative Nonfiction.]
•“Raining Eyes.” in Voices of Thunder, works included in this book were juried and selected by co-editors. Institute for American Indian Arts Press. Santa Fe, NM. Pg. 77-79. 1992. [Creative Nonfiction.]
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(poetry, prose, cross-genre, fiction, nonfiction, lyric, script, activism, and Native /multicultural literatures)
•Visiting Writer, Brady and Star Academy. Arts Corr. Custer, SD. July-August 2009. [Poetry.]
•Visiting Writer, Brady and Star Academy. Arts Corr. Custer, SD. August 2008. [Poetry.]
•Visiting Writer, University of Nebraska Low Residency MFA Program. Nebraska City, NE. July 2008. [Poetry/Prose/Theory/Lecture.]
•Visiting Writer. University of California, Riverside/Palm Desert. Palm Desert, CA. January 2008. [Poetry Intensives/Master Classes.]
•Visiting Writer, University of Nebraska Low Residency MFA Program. Nebraska City, NE. January 2008. [Poetry/Prose/Theory/Lecture.]
•Visiting Writer, University of South Dakota. Vermillion, SD. November 2007. [Poetry/Verse-Play.]
•Visiting Faculty, Transformative Language Program, Goddard College. Plainview, VT. September 2007. [Poetry/Transformative Language.]
•Visiting Writer/Summer Faculty, Naropa University. Boulder, CO. July 2007. [Poetry/Prose/Labor Writing.]
•Visiting Writer, Mayborn Institute. Dallas, TX. July 2007. [Nonfiction/Memoir.]
•Visiting Writer, Taos Writers Conference. Taos, NM. July 2007. [Nonfiction/Memoir.]
•Visiting Writer, Santa Fe Writers Conference. Santa Fe, NM. June, 2007. [Poetry.]
•Visiting Writer, University of Santa Barbara. Chumash Scholars Series. Santa Barbara/Santa Ynez, CA. May, 2007. [Poetry.]
•Visiting Writer, Writers Garret. Dallas, TX. March, 2007. [Nonfiction/Memoir.]
•Visiting Writer, Carlow University. MFA Program. Pittsburg, PA. January 2007. [Poetry/Nonfiction.]
•Think-Tank Fellow, Black Earth Institute. Madison, WI. October 2006. [Correlations between literature, art, music, performance, physics and the sciences, humanities, environmental and critical concerns.]
•Visiting Writer, Whidbey Island MFA Program. Whidbey Island, WA. March 2006. [Poetry.]
•Visiting Writer, Appalachian State University. Boone, NC. March 2005. [Poetry/Nonfiction.]
•Master class, Writing from Life, Sioux Falls Arts Council. Sioux Falls, SD. 2004. [Poetry/Nonfiction.]
•Master Class, Writing from Life, Dahl Fine Arts Center. Rapid City, SD. August 2004. [Poetry/Nonfiction.]
•Presenter, Therapeutic Writing and Survival and Working with Mentally Ill Patients, Wellness Conference, Mental Health Associates. Yankton, SD. June 2004. [Critical.]
•Guest Faculty, University of Sioux Falls. Sioux Falls, SD. 2002. [Poetry/Nonfiction.]
•Visiting Faculty, Stonechild College, Ft. Peck College, MSU (Montana Tour). Rocky Boy, Polson, and Billings, MT. 2002. [Poetry/Nonfiction]
•Visiting Faculty, Milwaukee Institute of Arts and Design. Class Presentations, Lecture, and Reading. Milwaukee, WI. 2002. [Poetry/Nonfiction.]
•Scholar in Residence, American Indian Studies/English Department, the University of Minnesota. Presented in several Poetry, Advanced Creative Writing, and Native American Philosophy classes. Two Readings. Morris, MN. 2002. [Poetry/Fiction/Nonfiction.]
•Visiting Writing Faculty, Black Hills State University. Spearfish, SD. 2001. [Nonfiction/Poetry/Creative Writing/Native Literature.]
•Visiting Poet/Writer, The Poetry Project, Master Classes. Manhattan, NY. Spring 2001. [Nonfiction/Poetry.]
•Visiting Poet/Writer, Native American Literature and Creative Writing Classes, Reading. University of South Dakota. Vermillion, SD. Spring 2001. [Nonfiction/Poetry.]
•Speaker/Presenter/ Workshop Teacher/Master Classes “Coupling the Beautiful and the Horrendous,” Black Hills Writers’ Conference. Rapid City, SD. April 2001. [Poetry/Nonfiction.]
•Writing Instructor, Dahl Fine Arts Center, Summer Art Camp Workshops. Rapid City, SD. June 2000. [Poetry/Nonfiction.]
•Visiting Poet, Ideafest, USD Vermillion, Native American Literature Talk, Reading. Vermillion, SD. Spring 2000. [Native American Literature/Philosophy.]
•Poet/Writer, Dakota Visions Tour. Rapid City, Aberdeen, Brookings, and Yankton, workshops. South Dakota Libraries, Yankton College, Aberdeen High School Creative Writing class, presented for SDSU American West Literature and Native American Literature, writing workshops, Brookings, SD. 1999-2000. [Poetry/Nonfiction.]
•Contract Writer, Harcourt Brace. Literature, invitational writer for reading assessment testings, 4th - 11th grades, nationwide public schools. 1999-2000. [Essay.]
•Visiting Writer, Paterson Poetry Prize Winners: (New Jersey) The Poetry Center/Passaic College, Poetry Marathon. Teaching workshops following, in the Paterson school area. Passaic and Paterson, NJ. Spring 1999. [Poetry.]
•Visiting Writer, USD. Native American Philosophy, Native Literature, and Writing Classes, Reading: Tiyospaye Center on campus. Vermillion, SD. Spring 1999. [Nonfiction/Poetry/Literature/Philosophy.]
•Writing/songwriting instructor, Arts Corr/South Dakotans for the Arts. 1 week to month-long residencies include working with incarcerated youth in Plankinton and Custer. Workshops involve teaching dignity, realness, active living, therapeutic writing and performance, songwriting, and applying ideas to possibility. 1999-2007. [Poetry/Nonfiction/Fiction/Lyric/Native and Multicultural Literature] (Ongoing.)
•Writing Instructor, South Dakota Arts Council, Artist in the Classroom programs. Multiple repeating residencies include: K-12, special and regular classrooms, as well as presenting regular teacher in-services in Sioux Falls, Brandon, Canton, Brookings, Arlington, Aberdeen, Sisseston, Vermillion, Rapid City, Freeman, Wagner, and others. Residencies also include service to acute care and recovery patients in the state hospital at Yankton, SD. 1998-2007 [Poetry/Nonfiction/Native and Multicultural Literature.] (Ongoing.)
•Teaching Residency, Dahl Fine Arts Center. Rapid City, SD. Summer 1998. [Performance/Poetry/Nonfiction.]
•Guest Faculty, St. Catherine’s College. Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN. Winter 1998. [Poetry/Nonfiction.]
•Workshop Instruction, Center School, an urban Native American upper grade school. Minneapolis, MN. Winter 1998. [Poetry/Nonfiction.]
•Workshops, Heart of the Earth School, an urban Native American School. St. Paul, MN. Winter 1998. [Poetry/Nonfiction.]
•Guest Professor, MANI KRUDO California State University at Long Beach Graduate Summer Arts Program. Visiting Writer, Advising Master Classes, Reading. Long Beach, CA. 1996. Organized by Juan Felipe Herrera. [Multigenre/Poetry/Performance.]
•Full-District Long-Term Poet Residency, Briggs School District, Lannan/CPITS Rural Initiative Grant. Santa Paula, CA. Spring 1996. [Poetry.]
•Poetry Workshop Instructor, “Coupling the Beautiful and the Horrendous,” Bishop California Poets in the Schools Annual Conference. Bishop, CA. Fall 1995. Organized by Eva Poole-Gelson. [Poetry]
•Teacher In-Service Presenter, Roads to Writing, focus on teaching poetry and creative writing in the middle-school grade levels. Ventura, CA. Fall 1995. [Critical.]
•Teaching Writing Workshop Instructor and Native American Writers Panelist, “Cultural Duty” an “Coupling the Beautiful and the Horrendous,” Gathering Poetry and Power Forces, and Poet-Teacher Conference, August 1995. Sponsored by the Lannan Foundation, Poets & Writers, Inc., and
California Poets in the Schools. San Francisco, CA. August 1995. Workshops. [Critical.]
•Prison Arts Project: Listed with William James Association for Creative Writing Instruction. Sacramento, CA. 1995. [Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Playwriting.]
•Reading and Literacy Instructor, FLAIR. Santa Paula, CA 1994. [Literacy/Reading.]
•Visiting Poet, Oxnard College, for Professor Shelley Savren’s Creative Writing and Poetry Classes. Oxnard, CA. Spring 1994 and Fall 1995. [Nonfiction/Poetry.]
•Visiting Writer. University of Montana, Lecture for Professor Debra Earling’s Class--Native American Women’s Literature. Missoula, MT. 1994. {Women’s Literature/Native American Literature.]
*Poets on the Prairie Reading Series, included Readings, Workshops, and Lectures. [Multigenre/Critical.]
•Plenty Coups High School. Pryor, MT. 1994. [Nonfiction/Poetry.]
•Plenty Coups Primary School. Pryor, MT. 1994. [Nonfiction/Poetry.]
•Little Big Horn College, Crow Agency. MT, 1994. [Nonfiction/Poetry.]
*My work in this program was noted in the National Writer’s Voice National Newsletter.
•Special Guest, Institute for the American Indian Arts, Creative Writing Department and Museum. Santa Fe, NM. 1994. [Poetry/Fiction/Nonfiction.]
•Visiting Writing Instructor, Desert Hills Troubled and Abused Youth Center. Albuquerque, NM. 1994. [Nonfiction/Multicultural Literature.]
•Special Guest, College of Santa Fe, Literature Department, (Native American Women’s Literature Lecturer). Santa Fe, NM. 1993. [Women’s Literature/Native American Literature.]
•Visiting Writer, Bureau of Indian Affairs Santa Fe Indian School. Santa Fe. NM, 1992. [Nonfiction/Poetry/Native and Multicultural Literature.]
•Instructor, UNICEF: Writing Workshop. Rapid City, SD. 1990. [Technical/Grantwriting.]
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•Associated Writers Programs [AWP] Conference, Chicago, Illinois. February 2009. Moderator/Chair/Paper/Reading/Organizing Host. [Organizing Host "Indigenous AWP Poets & Writers Read for the Chicago American Indian Center Trickster Gallery"] [Chair: Brain Power: Processing the Beautiful and the Horrendous.] [Organizing Host/Moderator/Chair/Panelist/Participant.] [Paper Presentation Black Earth Institute Think Tank: Poet as Oracle] [Competitive/Invitational/Initiating.]
•The Paul Hanly Furfey Lecture. “Principle: The Hummingbird and the Sloth.” for Crossing Boundaries National Conference. Association For The Sociology Of Religion 70th Annual Meeting. Boston Park Plaza Hotel. August 2008. Keynote Address/Paper Published. [Critical/Theory.]
•“Sway Value: Cross-Cultural Poetics,” XCP, critical essay 2008
•Lecture. "Oraliterature and the Creative Writing Process," and “Recreation Theory.” Reading. University of Nebraska Low Residency MFA. July 2008. [Lecture/Theory/Reading.]
•Facilitator/Speaker Nominator. Native Writers Panel. Indigenous Peoples Forum. United Nations. April 2008.
•Keynote. Dakota Conference, Augustana College. Sioux Falls, SD. 2008. Keynote. [Verse Play Performance/Talk.]
•Keynote. Society for the Study of Southern Literature. College of William and Mary. [Reading.]
•Keynote. “Indigenous Literatures and the Built World.” Indigenous Literatures and Other Arts Conference. University of Oregon. May 2008. [Lecture/Reading.]
•Associated Writers Programs [AWP] Conference, New York, New York. February 2008 Moderator/Chair/
Paper/Reading. [Chair: Indigenous Poets: Reading by Six Native Writers] [Paper Presentation for Climate Change: Writing, Activism, and the Environment.] [Organizing Host/Moderator/Chair/Panelist/Participant.]
•Lecture. "Writing Life: Unraveling Landscape and Lineage Memory.” Reading. University of Nebraska Low Residency MFA. January 2008. [Lecture/Reading.]
•Paper. “Some Talk of Poetry.” Campus Notes. University of Nebraska at Kearney, NE. 2008.
•Paper. “Something of Time.” Black Earth Institute. Madison, WI. 2008
•Encyclopedia Entry: James Thomas Stevens. Greenwood Publishing. 2008.
•Lecture. “El bilingüismo en el proceso de la creación literaria.” Hosted by Rodolfo Hachén, integrante de la Cátedra de Etnolingüística de la Escuela de Antropología, UNR. Ícaro Artes 1º de Mayo 1117. Casa 2. Rosario, AR. October 2007. [Lecture/Reading.]
•Transformative Language Conference, Goddard College, VT. Fall 2007. Keynote address/Workshop. [Transformative Language.]
•Faculty Chat, Revolution & Resistance Colloquium. Naropa University. Boulder, CO. July 2007.
•Mayborn Institute Conference, Dallas, TX. July 2007. Keynote address. [Nonfiction.]
•Native American Literature Symposium [NALS], Mt. Pleasant, MI. March 2007. Chair. [IAIA's Impact on Native and American Literature] [Critical/Pedagogy.]
•Associated Writers Programs [AWP] Conference, Atlanta, GA. March 2007. Moderator/Chair/Paper/Reading. [Moderated PEN Panel: Black, White and Read All Over] [Chair: Talking English: Anything but Token Reading by Eleven Native Writers] [Paper Presentation: Teaching Writing by Indigenous Literatures] [AWP Indigenous Women Poets reading to Benefit Paula Gunn Allen, Charis Books] [Organizing Host/Moderator/Chair/Panelist/Participant/ Pedagogy.]
•Cangleska Center for Domestic Violence, Oglala Lakota College, Dahl Fine Arts Center, Kyle and Rapid City, SD. November 2006. Panelist/Readings. [Critical: Sisterhood Address Regarding Violence, Abuse, and Women’s Dignity; Readings: Nonfiction/Poetry]
•Association for the Study of American Women Writers. Philadelphia, PN. November 2006. Plenary Speaker. [Critical: State of the Field Address: Indigenous Literatures.]
•Sequoyah Symposium. Little Rock, AK. October 2006. Paper/Reading. [Educative Processes, Critical and Abstract Reasoning Built through Traditional Indigenous Oratory, Traditional Educative Process.]
•Faculty Lecturer, IAIA. Santa Fe, NM. October 2006. Lecture. [Critical: Unifying Balance; Creating Possibility] [Philosophy/Environment/Sustainability.]
•Ann Arbor Book Festival. Ann Arbor, MI. May 2006. Panel/Reading.
[Nonfiction: Indigenous Writing/Nonfiction/Poetry]
•Iowa State University, Restorying the Landscape Environmental Symposium. February 2006. Keynote address. [Sustainability/ Environmental Concerns,/Writing, Community,/Oral Traditions]
•Midwest Modern Language Association. Milwaukee, WI. November 2005. Paper/Panel/Chair. [Nonfiction/Native Memoir/Resistance Writing from People of Diaspora.]
•Custer Youth Correctional Camp. Custer, SD. July, 2005. In-Service Lecture. [Survival Writing.]
•IV International Poetry Festival of Medellin. Botanical Gardens Indigenous Panel, Medellin, Colombia, South America. June 005. Paper/Panel. [Poetry/Indigenous Resistance in a World of Wars on Indigenous Peoples/Indigenous Writing for Peace, Mound Preservation, and Labor Writing.]
•New Medicines Festival. Washington & Lee. Lexington, VA. May 2005. Panels (2). [Nonfiction/Memoir/Poetry/Resistance Writing from Southeastern Indigenous Peoples.]
•South Eastern Women’s Studies Association, Southeastern Conference. Eastern Carolina University. Greenville, NC. April 2005. Paper/Panel/Chair. [Writing as Activism. Mounds, Built Landscape, and Labor Writing.]
•Associated Writing Programs. Memoir panel. Vancouver, BC. March 2005. Panel. [Nonfiction/Memoir/Native Memoir as Resistance.]
•Visiting Writer. Appalachian State University. Boone, NC. March 2005. Lecture.
[Cross-Genre Nonfiction/Poetry Writing Landscapes from Life.]
•University of North Carolina. Charlotte, Graduate Student Association Conference. Charlotte, NC. January 2005. Keynote Lecture. [Pedagogy/Philosophy of a Native Writer: Intellectual Possibility.]
•Modern Language Association. Invited panelist, Intersections Between, Working-Class and Cultural Writing, Native Literature Segment. Philadelphia, PA. December 2004. (unable to perform due to automobile accident.) [Paper included: Nonfiction/Memoir/Poetry.]
•Native American Literature Symposium. Southern/Southeastern Panel. Shakopee, MN. April 2004. Panel. [Nonfiction/Memoir/Poetry/Southeastern Indigenous Writing.]
•MFA Summer Program in Writing/Poetry the Naropa Institute. Boulder, CO. 2003. Colloquium Panels (2). [Nonfiction/Poetry/Cross-Cultural and International Writing/Coping through Writing/Memory.]
• Faculty in Residence, SUNY, Oneonta. Lecture: Indigenous Working Class. Oneonta, NY. Spring 2003. Lecture. [Multigenre/Critical/Labor/Eco-Ethos Indigenous Thought.]
•Therapeutic Writing and Survival, Wellness Conference. Mental Health Associates. Yankton, SD. June 2004. Lecture. [Nonfiction/Memoir/Poetry/Labor Writing/Intersections in Indigenous and Working-Class Literatures.]
•Visiting Faculty, Milwaukee Institute of Arts and Design. Milwaukee, WI. 2002. Lecture.
[Critical/Nonfiction/Memoir/Poetry.]
•In-Service Presenter, Sioux Falls Public Schools. 1998-2004. Multiple lectures/workshops. [Pedagogy/Critical/All Genre/Cross Genre.]
•Advisor, Writers’ Guild. The Guild hosted open-mic for Washington Pavilion’s Leonardo’s Café with capacity audiences. 2001-2004. [Organizing Host.]
•USD Vermillion. Spring 2001. Lecture. [Native American Literature.].
• Ft. Peck College, Ft. Peck Reservation. Montana, 2002. Lecture. [Creative Process.]
•Stonechild College, Rocky Boy Reservation. Montana. 2002. Lecture. [Creative Process.]
•Dakota Conference, Augustana College, Native Writers' Panel. Sioux Falls, SD. 2002. Panel/Facilitator/Keynote. [Native American Literary and Oral History.]
•2001 SDEA/OEI Presenter. K-12 Integrated Studies Project. Sioux Falls, SD. 2001. Paper/Panel. [Enhancing Native American Studies and Assisting Youth At Risk through Literary Arts and Native Literature.]
•Arts Alive State of SD Conference. Spearfish, SD. Fall 2000. YAR Keynote. (Taped Interview SDPR). [Therapeutic Visual, Theatrical, and Literary Arts for Youth at Risk.]
•Native American Literature: a Keyhole into Culture: Scholars Lecture Series. Oxnard College. Oxnard, CA. 12. Spring 1996. Lecturer. [Native American Literature/Nonfiction/Poetry/Fiction.]
•Gathering Poetry and Power Forces: 1995 Poet-Teacher, Conference-Teaching, Writing Workshop Instructor and Native American Poetry Panelist. August 1995. Sponsored by the Lannan Foundation, Poets & Writers, Inc., and California Poets in the Schools. San Francisco, CA. August 1995. Panel. [Teaching Native American Literature and Poetry, Methodology and Pedagogy.]
•Vermont College: Graduate Lecturer, MFA program. Montpelier, VT. July 1995. Lecture. [Cross-Genre Pedagogy/Pluralistic Methodology.]
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Over 300 appearances, including several international festival invitations and performances from migrant fields and reservations to Lincoln Hall in New York and the Ruskin Series in Los Angeles, from Kearney to the world festival in Venezuela.
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•University of Nebraska, Winter Residency, MFA Program, Nebraska City, NE. July 2009. [Videotape.]
•University of Nebraska, Winter Residency, MFA Program, Nebraska City, NE. December 2008-January 2009. [Videotape.]
•Shandong TV, Weihai, China. Reading “Weihai in Moonlight.” July 2008. [Broadcast video/audiotapes.]
•University of Nebraska, Summer Residency, MFA Program, Nebraska City, NE. July 2008. [Videotape.]
•Center for Western Studies of Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD. April 2008. [Videotape.]
•Southern Literature Conference. College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. April 2008. [Videotape.]
•Ruskin Art Club Poetry Series, Los Angeles, CA. February 2008. [Videotape.]
•Writing from the Desert Series, Rancho Mirage Library, Rancho Mirage, CA. January 2008. [Broadcast video/audiotapes.]
•Drake Theater, Reynolds Series, Reynolds Trio Reading, Kearney, NE. December 2007. [Broadcast video/audiotapes.]
•NETV, Nebraska Television, ABC Affiliate, Axtel, NE. December 2007. [Broadcast video/audiotapes.]
•NET Radio Friday Live, NPR Affiliate, Lincoln, NE. December 2007. [Broadcast video/audiotapes.]
•Food for Thought, South Dakota Public Radio, Vermillion, SD. November 2007. [Broadcast video/audiotapes.]
•XV International Festival of Poetry, Rosario, Argentina, South America. Secretaría de Cultura de la Provincia de Santa Fe. Secretaría de Cultura y Educación Municipalidad de Rosario. October 2007. Readings in multiple locations in Rosario and surrounding region, including: 16:45. Celebración de los 15 años del Festival de Poesía con los presentes. Visita de poetas del Festival al Taller Literario “Historial de Soledades” de la Unidad de Detención III. Participan internos integrantes del Taller Literario que funciona dentro de la institución desde 2001, coordinado por Susana Valenti. Este Taller ha presentado tres publicaciones: Entre la oscuridad y la valenti-a (2002), Condición circular (2003) y A centímetros del día (2005). October 2008. [Broadcast video/audiotapes.]
•Transformative Language Conference, Goddard College, VT. September 2007. Reading. [Broadcast video/audiotapes.]
•XVII Prometeo International Poetry Festival, Medellin, Colombia, South America. July 2007. Readings (6) in multiple locations in Medellin and surrounding region for peace in the war zone. [Broadcast video/audiotapes.]
•XVII Prometeo International Poetry Festival of Medellin, Colombia. Multiple recordings in Medellin and Caldez. July 2007. [Broadcast video/audiotapes.]
•Australian Broadcast Corporation, ABC, Sydney, NSW. April 2007. [Actor performed broadcast audiotape.]
•Arts on Air, De Paul University, Chicago, IL. February 2007. [Podcast audiotape]
•NPR’s Prosody, WYEP, Pittsburgh, PA. January 2007. [Broadcast audiotape}
•3rd World Poetry Festival of Venezuela. Multiple recordings in Caracas, Maturin, and Tucupita, Venezuela. July 2006. [Broadcast video/audiotapes.]
•United Nations Radio, New York, NY. May 2006. [Broadcast audiotape.]
•SDPR Radio Interview. Vermillion, SD. January 2006. [Broadcast audiotape.]
•Terra Sancta. Amman, Jordan. August 2005. [Broadcast video/audiotape.]
•XV Prometeo International Poetry Festival of Medellin. Medellin, Colombia. June-July 2005. [Broadcast video/audiotapes.]
•Red Tales Radio, Michelle St. John, Interview. Toronto, Canada. May 2005. [Broadcast audiotape.]
•Labor Radio Book Interview, KFAI. Minneapolis, MN. May, 2005. [Broadcast audiotape.]
•New Medicines Festival, Washington & Lee. Lexington, KY. Spring 2005. [Broadcast video/audiotape.]
•San Jose-Bay Area Radio, KKUP, Book Interview. San Jose, CA. March 2005. [Broadcast audiotape.]
•University of North Carolina, Keynote. Charlotte, NC. January 2005. [Broadcast video/audiotape.]
•KFAI, Labor Reading. Minneapolis, MN. May 2005. [Broadcast audiotape.]
•Hartwick College. Oneonta, NY. October and November, 2005. [Broadcast video/audiotape.]
•Native America Calling. Albuquerque, NM. August 2004. [Broadcast audiotape.]
•DVD, Western Heritage Museum. Billings, MT. July 2004. [Broadcast video/audiotape.]
•Yellowstone Public Radio National Public Radio Affiliate. Billings, MT. July 2004. [Broadcast audiotape.]
•Holter Museum. Helena, MT. April 2004. [Broadcast video/audiotape.]
•South Dakota Public Broadcasting Radio, Food For Thought, live show with recording Vermillion, SD.. March 2004. [Broadcast audiotape.]
•South Dakota Public Broadcasting Radio, Arts Alive Conference. Spearfish, SD. 2000. Aired February 2001. [Broadcast audiotape.]
•South Dakota Public Broadcasting, Public Library, Dakota Visions Tour. Brookings, SD. 2000. Aired 2000 & 2001. [Broadcast video/audiotape.]
•South Dakota Public Broadcasting, Native American Week Poet USD. Vermillion, SD. 1999. [Broadcast audiotape.]
•KCTV, Art City 2 Poetry Festival. Santa Barbara, CA. 1995. [Broadcast videotape.]
•Writer’s Voice Reading Series YMCA. PBS, Public Libraries, and Public Schools. Billings, MT. 1994. [Broadcast audiotape.]
•WBAI, Free Poetry Hour, Peter Lamborn Wilson directed. New York, NY. 1994. [Broadcast audiotape.]
•Naropa Institute. Boulder, CO. 1993. [Video/audiotape.]
•Center for Contemporary Arts, IAIA/CCA sponsored. Santa Fe, NM. 1993. [Audiotape.]
•Institute for American Indian Arts Museum/IAIA sponsored. Santa Fe, New Mexico. 1993. [Broadcast video/audiotape.]
Partial only. Random selections over career. Over 175 career recordings.
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1. SCRIPTS
Several original scenes/monologues produced in Hollywood--one full three act a finalist in the National Repertory Theater Company, biennial contest.
Completed television scripts produced on Tennessee Cable TV.
Radio scripts with improv troupe, LA.
2. DIRECTED
Directed, Promoted, Created, Introduced, over fifty literary and performance productions between 1982 and 2008. Some of which include the following:
Directed, Hosted, Created “Craft and Compilation” Radio Poetry Hour. KLPR Radio. 2007-current. [Broadcast audiotapes.]
Directed, Promoted, Created, Introduced Northern Plains Intertribal Poetry Bout, WPBA Sanctioned, Joe Hipp Championship Tribute. Ventura Theater. Billings, Montana. July 2004. [Broadcast video/audiotapes.] [NPR covered.]
Directed, Queens New York (premiere) three-act play by Angelo Michael Masino. Hollywood, CA. Also several scenes and monologues produced in Hollywood at the Avenue Theatre and Alley Theatre, La Brea Street. Numerous other scenes and one-acts over the course of four years in Los Angeles. 1985-1989. [Variety Reviewed.]
Directed and co-produced two shows on Tennessee Cable TV “Rabbit Run” and “Bluegrass to Blues.” 1982-1985.
3. ACTED
In over fifty staged scenes, monologues, and plays in Hollywood. Film/television/radio experience, including lead and supporting roles. 1985-1989.
4. SONGS
Produced and/or published available upon request.
5. NEWSPAPER
Articles/photojournalism published available upon request.
6. TECHNICAL
a. Publishing: Layout, design, proofreading, manuscript editor, typesetting, and distribution.
b. Stage/Video: prop director, lights & sound engineer, camera operator, editing board, script supervisor, and other technical positions.
c. Recording: Track mixer, editing/mixing board.
d. Visual Arts: Under separate vita. Twenty-five years in paint, sculpture, installation, weaving, pottery, photography and mixed-media. Visual work has been shown in galleries including John Hopkins, Paterson Museum, and the gallery of the Institute of American Indian Arts and published in Connecticut Review, Black Earth Institute Journal, Kearney Hub, and Future Earth.
e. Cover Art: Photographs on Covers of Off-Season City Pipe and Blood Run.
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1. AUTHORED BOOKS REVIEWED/NOTED IN:
The Academy of American Poets; Booklist; Publisher’s Weekly; American Indian Culture and Research Journal; Altar Magazine; American Indian Quarterly; Atlantis; Billings Gazette; The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature; Catalyst; Cold Mountain Review; Etc. Magazine; The Fourth Genre; Great Plains Quarterly; Hate Crimes & Civil Rights; New Pages; St. Mark’s Poetry Place; Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association Conference; Star Tribune; Quiet Mountain Reviews, Rattle, Raven Chronicles….
2. SCHOLARLY/FIELD WORK REVIEWED/NOTED IN:
The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature; Poets & Writers Magazine; South Dakota Magazine; the Mississippi Review; Indian Country Today, Berea College, Union Institute Magazine, People’s Tribune….
3. INTERVIEWS INCLUDE:
Poets & Writers Magazine; Quiet Mountain Reviews; the Power of Words, social and personal transformation through the spoken, written and sung word, The Transformative Language Program, Goddard, Cary Mirriam-Goldberg & Janet Tallman, Ed. 2007; El Colombiano, 2007; Clarin. Buenos Aires, 2007; Pagina 12, Argentina, 2007; ANTOLOGIA: POETICAS de MUJERES de America, 2007; Letralia 173: Tierra de Letres, 2007; Mississippi Quarterly, Ellen Arnold & Susan Gardner, 2008….
4. TERMINOLOGY/LITERARY APPROACH DEFINED:
“Sway Value: Cross-Cultural Poetics.” in XCP 20, Mark Nowak, Ed., 2008; “Congenital Memory” in XCP, Mark Nowak, Ed, 2004 (pub. 2006): “Coupling The Beautiful and the Horrendous” in CPITS Newsletter and CPITS Conferences, 1995; “Cultural Duty” in Free Press Notes 1991.
5. ANNOTATIONS:
“Lines on Wendell Berry” in Life Lines, Academy of American Poets, Nathan Hill, ed, 2006;
RECENT ENCYCLOPEDIC ENTRIES FORTHCOMING: (Invited in 2008 and Accepted to run in 2009.)
Stevens, James Thomas. Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States. Emmanuel Nelson. Greenwood Publishing. 2009.
Labor Poetics. Writers Digest. 2009.
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Academy of American Poets, AWP, PEN America, PEN USA, PEN International, PSA, ASAIL, MLA, MMLA, SEWSA, North Carolina Writer’s Network, AAUP, AFTRA, CAMP. (Current and past.)
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Poetry; Prose; Literary Art; American and Indigenous Literary Movements; Oratory, Oral Traditions and Traditional and Transformative Educative Processes; Abstract and Critical Reasoning and Thinking; Indigenous, First Nations, and Multicultural Literatures; Ancient and Recent Indigenous Mound Cities; Indigenous Astronomy and Sciences; Indigenous Pictographs and Traditional Arts; Indigenous Cultural Knowledge; Peace Theory; Peacemaking; Possibilities of Peace through Poetry and Performance; Human Condition—Frailty; Cultivating Pan-American Indigenous Exchange; Philosophy; Art; the Affect of Parental Mental Illness upon Creative Process; Creative Process; Imagination and Possibility; Societal Conditioning Resulting in Apathy and Criminal Behavior; Mentorship for the Insane and Incarcerated; Working-Class and Labor Writing; Working-Class and Labor Concerns; Fieldworkers; Cultural Philosophy through the Arts and Literature; Pluralism; Effective Teaching; Theater; Film; Scriptwriting; Painting; Sculpture, Song; the Natural World; Environmental Dilemma; Sustainability and the Arts; Coupling the Beautiful, the Horrendous, and Historical Knowledge to Recreate Life Experience and Coping through Writing; Linguistics; Healing Domestic and Societal Violence; and Uniting/Reuniting Indigenous Peoples Despite Oppressive Measures; North Carolina; Quebec; Woodlands.
Other experience includes: Cultural, community, hemispheric, and global activism, peacemaking, negotiations and mediation, organizing, sharecropping tobacco, traditional agriculture, commercial fishing and bass angling, construction work (carpentry, heavy equipment operation), landscaping, literary arts, performing arts, singing, theater, dance, photography, filmmaking, painting and sculpture (recent shows include works in the Paterson Museum, Paterson, New Jersey and in Primitive Edge Gallery of the Institute of American Indian Arts).
*Speaking/Performing Engagements may be booked through Speakers for a New America.
(800)691-6888 or email info@speakersforanewamerica.com
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Professor Emerita
University of Alaska Fairbanks
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Professor M. L. Liebler
Department of English
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Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202
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