EDUCATION

   2023 - Caregiver Conference, “Caring for People with Memory Loss,” School of Public Health, University of Minnesota

   1988 – Bachelor of Arts, Dual Degrees, English and French, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Summa Cum Laude

 

HAND DRUM TRAINING

     2000 - 2012 - Afro-Caribbean Conga 

     2011- Middle Eastern Tabla

     2000 - 2009 - Middle Eastern and Brazilian Frame Drums 

 

ASSOCIATIONS

     Alzheimer's Association, Volunteer Co-Facilitator, Support Group for Caregivers

     Phi Beta Kappa

 

BOOKS

     BIG-SHIT SHODDIES - Satirical Limericks (2019, Book Baby)

     WITHOUT, HAIKU (2013, Book Baby)

     HOME FRONT: Poems of the Bush II Years (2012, Book Baby)

 

CD and MP3s

     2019 - Exile in the Homeland: An Open Poem to Congress

     2017 - amazingly fractal

     2014 - SOLITARY: Song for Herman Wallace

     2012 - Joe Hill (On Life Support)

     2009 – Monocle Man  

     2004 – Just War  

 

FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, ACCOLADES

     2019 - Selected as one of "The Sixty-Four" best poets, Black Mountain Press

     2008 – Poem of Distinction, Write Corners Press

     2004 – Poetry and Honorable Mention Awards, Minneapolis Housing Fund

     2001 – Three-month residency fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

     1998 – One-month residency fellowship, Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Red Wing, MN

 

AWARD NOMINATIONS

     Pushcart Prize 2007: "1:7-04 diptych as variation on a US army survival manual theme of fire"  (Unlikely 2.0)

     Pushcart Prize 2000: "Volkswagons, -30°" (ArtWord Quarterly, Winter 2000, #19)

 

GRANTS

     2001- Minnesota State Arts Board grant

 

PRINT and ELECTRONIC PUBLICATION HISTORY (Partial Listing)

     2019 - "Philosophy's Daughters" (short story), Santa Fe Writers Project

     2018 - "Etiolating", Petrichor

     2018 - "Passage of Time", "inequinox", Caliban 30

     2017 - "When in the Night You Wake To It", Caliban 29

     2017 - "Meditation on What He Said", in Otoliths 46

     2017 - "Map 1", collaboration with Tom Cassidy, Caliban 26

     2016 - "Hawk Poem # 4" Caliban 22

     2015 - "a becoming if" Caliban 21  

     2015 - "Hawk Poem #5", "Hawk Poem #6"  Caliban 19 

     2014 - "toccata", "Reading Levi" in Caliban 17

     2014 - "Maybe It Did" in MonkeyBicycle

     2014 - "7KY in Two Voices" Otoliths

     2014 - "Mythology", "Parting Poem" (Audio) Mad Hatter's Review Issue 15

     2013 - "because i heard the word" Blue Fifth Review / Blue Fifth Notebook Series

     2013 - "a ballad of thirst", "waiting" (video), Otoliths

     2013 - "apostolic fractal", "ashes," Caliban 11

     2012 - "in the expurgation of mask" ditch

     2012 - "expiation", "corrections paralleled", Big Bridge

     2012 - "fractal 1", "Every Drop", Otoliths

     2012 - “silence,” "Every Drop", Skidrow Penthouse, New York

     2012 - JUST WAR Audio Files: “Home Front” and “waiting”, Mad Hatters’ Review

     2012 - “Remittance”, “in the templed margins of narrow”,  Caliban 6

     2011 - “Condom Trilogy” in Skidrow Penthouse, New York

     2011 - “Morning Epistle in the Month of 2000 Bombs”, “Defeat of Barbarism” in social-i (UK)

     2010 - "child of the", "Genomic Kaddish", "Page 13 forward", in The Journal of the Motherhood Initiative #1:1

 

PUBLISHED IMAGES

     2018 - "5156", 2018, The William and Mary Review

     2017 - "Meditation on What He Said” Otoliths 46

     2017 - "Map 1", Collaboration with Tom Cassidy, in Caliban #26

     2014 - "Are You Thinking about It Yet" and "Red Pen" in Otoliths

     2014 - "zazen with asemic ice" in Otoliths

     2014 - "Blue" and "future dream" featured in Mad Hatter's Review Issue 15

 

PERFORMANCES, READINGS, COLLABORATIONS (Partial Listing) 

     2017 - Cheap Theater, "Sacred Chaos"

     2016 - Minnedada 1984, August 13, Audio Performance (Group show), Minnesota Center for Book Arts

     2013 - JUST WAR: A Collaboration of Poetry and Art, Boneshaker Books, Minneapolis, MN

     2013 - SubText, Group Reading, Saint Paul, MN

     2013 - Boneshaker Books, Group Reading, Minneapolis, MN

     2013 - Cheap Theater, Group Reading, Minneapolis, MN

     2013 - HOME FRONT, Book Release, Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, Boulder, CO

     2013 - HOME FRONT, Book Release, A Room of One's Own, Madison, WI

     2013 - Light Grey Art Lab, Group Reading, Minneapolis, MN

     2012 - 11/23, HOME FRONT, Book Launch, The Book House, Minneapolis, MN

     2012 - 11/20, Group Reading, the University Club, Saint Paul, MN

     2012 - 6/16, Featured Poet, Cheap Theater, Minneapolis, MN

     2008 -  PRESENTE!  Original show of poetry and drumming, featuring music from "Monocle Man" and "Just War," part of Spirit in the House showcase of varying performers, poets, and writers, United Methodist Church, Minneapolis, MN