EDUCATION
1988 – Bachelor of Arts, Dual Degrees, English Literature 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 Phi Beta Kappa
BOOKS
WITHOUT, HAIKU (2013, Book Baby)
HOME FRONT: Poems of the Bush II Years (2012, Book Baby)
CDs
2009 – Monocle Man
2004 – Just War
MP3s
2013 - SOLITARY: Song for Herman Wallace
2012 - Joe Hill (On Life Support)
FELLOWSHIPS AND OTHER AWARDS
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)
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 / EVENTS/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 - Release Reading, HOME FRONT, Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, Boulder, CO
2013 - Release Reading, HOME FRONT, A Room of One's Own, Madison, WI
2013 - Light Grey Art Lab, Group Reading, Minneapolis, MN
2012 - Meet the Author, Book-Signing, Minneapolis, MN
2012 - November 23, BOOK LAUNCH, The Book House in Dinkytown, Minneapolis, MN
2012 - November 20, the University Club, Group Reading, Saint Paul, MN
2012 - June 16, Featured Poet, Cheap Theater, Minneapolis, MN
2008 - PRESENTE! My original show of poetry and drumming, featuring music from my CDs, "Monocle Man" and "Just War," part of Spirit in the House showcase of varying performers, poets, and writers, presented at United Methodist Church, Minneapolis, MN