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Jeanne Murray Walker
742 South Latches Lane
Merion, PA 19066
610-660-5230
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Office: 302-831-3659 Email: jwalker@udel.edu
Website: www.JeanneMurrayWalker.com
Academic Positions
Professor of English, University of Delaware, l988‑present
Associate Professor of English, University of Delaware, l982‑87
Assistant Professor of English, University of Delaware, l975‑l98l
Education
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, l974
M.A. Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois, l969
B.A. Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, l966
VOLUMES OF POETRY
New Tracks, Night Falling, Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2009.
Reviews:
The Hudson Review
Wilmington News Journal
Indiana Review
Anglican Theological Review
Others
A Deed to the Light, University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 2004.
Reviews:
The News Journal
The Main Line Times
The Main Line Life
Image
The Midwest Review
Books and Culture
The Southern Review
Gaining Time, Copper Beech Press, Providence, RI, l998.
Stranger Than Fiction, QRL, Princeton, NJ, 1992. Winner, Quarterly Review of Literature Award.
Coming Into History, Cleveland State University Press, Cleveland, OH, l990. Winner, Cleveland State Poetry Center Competition.
Fugiti Fugitive Angels, Dragon Gate Press, Port Townsend, WA, l985. Publication supported by NEA Grant. Selected by NEA as U.S.A. entry in International Book Fair, l986.
Nailing Up The Home Sweet Home, Cleveland State University Press, Cleveland, OH, l980. Finalist: Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, Walt Whitman Award. Winner, Associated Writing Programs Award.
PUBLICATIONS IN WHICH ONE OR MORE POEMS HAVE APPEARED
Poetry, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, Georgia Review, Atlantic Monthly, Partisan Review, Boulevard, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, American Scholar, Carolina Quarterly, New England Review, Massachusetts Review, Arizona Quarterly, Ariel, Poetry Miscellany, Jawbone, Ball State University Forum, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Southern Humanities Review, Louisville Review, The Lyric, Milkweed Chronicle, Descant, Christian Century, The Fiddlehead, Nantucket Review, Wascona Review, Poetry Now, St. Andrews Review, Pennsylvania Review, Kansas Quarterly, Iris, Seattle Review, Radix, Painted Bride Quarterly, Feminist Studies, Whetstone, Northwest Review, West Branch, Midwest Quarterly, Mind The Gap, Yarrow, Image, First Things, The Nation, The Eternal Present, Mars Hill Review, Peregrine, The Aurelian, The Gettysburg Review, Rattapallax, Rock and Sling, Commonweal, Spirituality and Health, Windhover, One Trick Pony, Notre Dame Review, The Cortland Review (on line), Ruah, The Southern Review, The Delaware Poetry Review, Crux, The C.S. Lewis Chronicle, The Auralian (on line), Verse Daily (on line), Kaleidowhirl, (on-line), The Rosenbach Museum, Sou’Wester, Books & Culture, BigCityLit (on line), Literature and Belief, The Hudson Review, Solo Café, Vinyards, Mars Hill Audio, and others.
INDIVIDUAL POEMS
2009
“A Knock on Your Door, Disguised As a Sonnet,” Christianity and Literature: A Journal,
“Civic Center,” Christianity and Literature: A Journal,
“Dandelions,” Christian Century
“Forecast,” Cresset
“Holding Action,” Best American Poetry, 2009,
“How Not To,” Cresset
“Mobile: Study of Children with Escape in Mind,” (invited) BigCityLit http://www.nycbigcitylit.com/
“Notes to Yourself,” (invited) BigCityLit http://www.nycbigcitylit.com/
“Reunion,” Christian Century
Translations from Romanian of poems by Ionatan Pirosca
With Andreea Luncan and Luci Shaw
“Yes, a nameless quietness,” in Image
“At the edge of the world,” in Image
“On the expecting sidewalk,” in Image
“Without knowing I crossed over an angel,” in Image
“Look, the temptations are marching,” in Image
“And it’s as if I put on a new,” in Image
Poems Published in Limited Illustrated Edition
“Sparrows At Zero,” “What the Trees Say,” and “Praying for Rain in Santa Fe,” illustrated by Ed Colker, whose work has been collected by these among many others: Philadelphia Museum of Art, MoMA, The Modern Art Museum-Fort Worth. Haybarn Edition of poems (by various poets).
Poem Reprinted as Christmas Card by Christian Century
“Silent Night,” (requested for reprinting) as greeting card and sent to 300 donors, friends and sponsors of the magazine.
Reprint
“Writing Workshop,” Midwest Quarterly, 50th Anniversary Issue
2008
“And afterward, repenting,” Christian Century, January 27, 2009, p. 11.
“Incarnation,” Christian Century, December, 2008, pp. 10.
“Gift,”
“Holding Action,”
“Street,” Hudson Review, Fall, 2008, pp. 341-343. “Holding Action” selected for reprinting in Best American Poems, 2009. “Gift” nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
“Body Parts,” Cortland Review, No. 37, http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/37/walker.html
Finch,” Shenandoah, Fall, 2008, p. 162.
“Finch,”
“Praying For Rain Santa Fe,”
“Nativity Figure Speaks,”
“Leaves Leaving,”
“Staying Power,” at The Cody Center Gallery, Laity Lodge Exhibition “Pairings: Poems and Photographs,” January-April, 2008.
“Self Examination,” Christian Century, February 12, 2008, p. 10.
“Praying For Rain, Santa Fe,” Commonweal, May 23, 2008, p. 14
“How Everything Changed After That Sunset,”
“Because It’s So Astonishing Afterwards,” in Solo Cafe, Vol. 6, 2008.
Reprints
“Betting In Bright Sunshine At Delaware Park,”
“Driving North To the Headwater,” On the Mason-Dixon Line, Ed. Billie Travalini and Fleda Brown, Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008), pp. 256-257.“The Walk,”
“For My Daughter’s 21st Birthday,”
“The Shawl,”
“Seizure,”
“Birth,” Blessings For Mothers, Skylight Paths Publishing, 2008, pp. 32-39.
2007
“Plenty”
“Tears” in The Gettysburg Review, Vol. 20, No. 3, Autumn, 2007, pp. 355-356.
“Prayer for Samuel Johnson as he writes the dictionary,” Christian Century, February 20, 2007, p. 5.
“Poinsettia,” Christian Century, June 12, 2007, p. 26.
“Hunger,” Christian Century, August 7, 2007, p. 22.
“Navitity Figure Speaks,” Christian Century, December 11, 2007.
“To Mr. Auden A Time Of War,” Christian Century, February, 2007, p. 28.
“Baker,”
“Messages,” The Cresset, Christmas, 2007, p. 26 and p. 14.
“Centering,” Commonweal, November 9, 2007, p. 18.
“Thanks,” Crux, Vol. 42, No. 4, Winter 2006 (issued in February 2007), p. 11.
“While It Lasted,” Crux, Spring, 2007, Vol 43, No. 1, p. 29.
“What the Trees Say,” Crux, Fall, 2007, Vol. 43, No. 3, p. 10.
“Silent Night,” Crux, Winter, 2007, Vol. 43, No. 4, p. 39.
“The Stars of Last Resort,”
“Sister Storm,”
“Foreknowledge,” Image, Number 53, 2007, pp. 101-103.
“I Make My X,”
“Leaving,” The Southern Review, Summer, 2007, pp. 602-603.
“Puberty,”
“After Image,”
“Teaching Annabell To Read,” Delaware Poetry Review, On Line, Vol. 1, No. 2,
www.depoetry.com. Invited.
Reprints
“Take Heart,” Reflections: Yale Divinity School, Vol. 94, No. 2, p. 32.
“Geese, Tree, Apple, Leaves,”
“The Nurses,”
“Miss Leona Gifford’s Hair,” reprinted in Kaleidowhirl, on-line poetry journal at www.home.alltel.net/ellablue, 2007.
“Bergman,”
“Leaving The Planetarium,”
“Delila Calls To Say Miss Leona Gifford Is Dead,”
“Staying Power,”
“Studying Physics With My Daughter,” Image On Line, www.imagejournal.org.
2006
“Elegy: Lloyd Aderhold, d. Sept. 12, 2001,”
“Uffizi Madonna,”
“Rich Young Ruler,”
“Shopping,”
“Tree In Winter at Sixty Miles Per Hour,” Prairie Schooner, Winter, 2006, pp. 35-40.
“Shoes: Take Five,” The Gettysburg Review, Summer, 2006, p. 271.
“Make Use Of It,” Cresset, September, 2006, p. 38.
“Ownership,” Cresset, June, 2006, p. 24.
“Praise Prepositions,” Books and Culture, November/December, 2006, p. 19
and on Books and Culture Web site, www.booksandculture.com.
“Art,”
“Recycling,” in Sou’Wester, Fall, 2006. pp. 18-19.
“Perspective,” in Christian Century, July 11, 2006, p. 34.
“To Mr. Auden In A Time of War,” in Christian Century, February 6, 2007.
“Prayer for Sam Johnson as he writes the dictionary,” Christian Century, February 20, 2007, p. 10.
Reprints
“Foreknowledge,” Reprinted in The C.S. Lewis Chronicle, Fall, 2007.
“Shakespeare Finds The Map,” in Conspicuous Mapping: Poets Journey through Verbal Geography, The Rosenbach Museum and Library, 2005, p. 24.
2005
“Shoes: Take Five,” Gettysburg Review, Winter, 2006, p.
“Aubade: To the One Who Asked For A Bird Poem,”
“If Found, Drop Into Any Mail Box,”
“Distinctions: After 9:11,”
“What Keeps the Button On,” One Trick Pony, pp.
“Bell,” The Christian Century, March 22, 2005, p. 9.
“Blue Water,” The Christian Century, May 3, 2005, p. 11.
“After Terrorism,”
“Divergence,”
“Five Finger Exercise,”
“Prepositions,”
“The Nurses,”
“Birthday,”
“Van Gogh,”
“Sacrifice,”
“Geese, Tree, Apple, Leaves,”
“Little Blessing for My Floater,”
“Little Blessing for Playing Catch,”
“Spirits,” Ruah, Summer, 2005, pp. 23-37.
“Shakespeare Finds The Map,” in Conspicuous Mapping: Poets Journey through Verbal Geography, The Rosenbach Museum and Library, 2005, p. 24.
Reprints
“So Far, So Good,” Reprinted on a poster by The Pennsylvania Center for the Book and sent to several thousand schools and libraries around the state of Pennsylvania. No application. Selected by a jury from Pennsylvania poets.
“Coming East From Cleveland to Philadelphia at Harvest,” in Commonwealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania, Penn State University Press, 2005. (Invited),
pp. 6-7.
“Staying Power,” in the online poetry anthology, Enskyment, www.authorme.com/online/default.hotmail#Walker.
“Staying Power,” in Peregrine, A Showcase Of Poems By Alumni And Faculty At The University Of Pennsylvania, May, 2005. (Invited), p. 105.
“How Mother Courage Saves Desdemona,” in Fine Frenzy: Contemporary Poets Respond to Shakespeare, University of Iowa Press, 2005. (Invited), p. 79.
“Laying the Stones,”
“Protestant Icon” in Rock & Sling, Volume 1, No. 1, February 2005. (Invited),
pp. 106-107.
“Pardon” in The Aurelian,. Spring 2005. (Invited). On line and archived.
“Flt #4372” in On The Wing: American Poems of Air and Space, University of Iowa Press, Spring, 2005. (Invited), p. 76.
Translations of Romanian Poems
With Andreea Luncan, Camilia Luncan, and Luci Shaw
“Prayer Falling On the Platform,” For Ioan Alexandru, Ionatan Pirosca,
“You Went By,” Camelia Luncan,
“Beyond,” Teofil Stanciu,
“Draw Me With You,” Alin Creangă in Christianity and Literature, Vol. 54, No. 1, Fall, 2005, pp. 72, 94, 110, and 117.
"Angels and Icons," Teofil Stanciu,
"A Little Dance at the Start of the Road." Andreea Luncan,
"In the morning," Alain Creanga,
"When the words start to love," Ionatan Pirosca,
"The Lute," Catalin Lata in Radix, Fall, 2005, pp. 15, 17, and 19.
“Communication, Cassy Cross,
“Untltled” from The Kingdom’s Windows, Ionatan Pirosca,
“I’m Singing,” Teofil Stanciu in The Drunken Boat: An Online Journal of International Poetry, Fall/Winter 2005 Vol.5, Issue III-IV, at www.thedrunkenboat.com
2004
“Staying Power,” Poetry, May, 2004, p. 93.
“Air On A String of A’s Played At The Rosenbach Museum,” in 26 Letters, 26 Poets, An Anthology of poems in celebration of The Rosenbach Museum & Library’s exhibition R is for Rosenbach, Philadelphia: Rosenbach Museum, p. 3, Summer, 2004. (Commissioned)
“Hunter,”
“End of the Semester Reverie,”
“Winter Morning,” Prairie Schooner, Winter, 2003, pp. 32-36.
“Forgetting To Call My Mother,”
“After 9/11: The Separations,”
“Domestic Violence,”
“Take Heart,” The Gettysburg Review, Vol. 17, No. 13, 2004,
“Anger,” pp. 450-454.
“Helping the Morning,” The Christian Century, March 19, 2004, p. 10.
“The Doubter,” The Christian Century, July 27, 2004, p. 30.
“Praise Prepositions,” The Christian Century, November 16, 2004, p. 10.
“Duck Pond in December,”
“Luci’s Knee,” The Journal, Spring/Summer 2004, pp. 83-84.
“If Found, Drop Into Any Mailbox,”
“What Keeps The Button On,”
“Aubade: To the One Who Asked For a Bird Poem,” One Trick Pony, Winter, 2004,
“Distinctions: After 9/11,”
“Miracle,” Anglican Theological Review, Vol. 86, No. 4, Fall, 2004, p. 661. Choice,” featured in Premier Issue of The Aurelian, On Line, July, 2004, and archived. (Invited).
2003
“Little Blessing for My Floater,” Poetry, November, 2003, p. 92.
“Little Blessing for Sparrows in Winter,” Poetry, November, 2003, p. 91.
“Advice to a Young Poet,” The Midwest Quarterly, Special Issue, Letters To A Young Poet, Summer, 2003, p.
“Geese, Tree, Apple, Leaves,” The Mars Hill Review, Fall, 2003
“Prayers of the People,” The Eternal Present, Crossroad Press, Berkeley, 2003, p. 395. Published in India, 2008.
“Light, Everything is Light,” The Eternal Present, Crossroad Press, Berkeley, 2003, 196.Published in India, 2008.
“From Dust to Dust,” The Eternal Present, Crossroad Press, Berkeley, 2003, p. 15. Published in India, 2008.
“ Look at Her Now,” The Eternal Present, Crossroad Press, Berkeley, 2003, p. 60.
Published in India, 2008.
“Advent Prayer,” The Eternal Present, Crossroad Press, Berkeley, 2003, p. 368.
Published in India, 2008.
“She Did,” The Eternal Present, Crossroad Press, Berkeley, 2003, p. 390.
Published in India, 2008.
“The Scarf,” Notre Dame Review, Number 17, Winter, 2004, p. 134.
“Melting Pot,”
“Letting Go,” The Southern Review, Fall, 2003, pp. 743-744.
“Dinner Party, Shenandoah, Vol. 52, No. 4, p. 26.
“The Dutiful,”
“Trying to Read The Encyclopaedia Of Things No One Knows,” The Gettysburg Review, p.
Reprints
“Whacky Gardener Weds Head of Lettuce,” reprinted in Strongly Spent: Fifty Years of Shenandoah Poetry, Vol. 53, No. 1-2, Ed. R. T. Smith, Washington and Lee University, p. 226.
“Prayer Of A Wallpaper Stripper,” The Eternal Present, Crossroad Press, Berkeley, 2003, p. 363.
“Chosen To Lay Down The Sign,” The Eternal Present, Crossroad Press, Berkeley, 2003, p. 211.
“Holy Night,” The Eternal Present, Crossroad Press, Berkeley, 2003, p. 383.
“So Far, So Good,” The Eternal Present, Crossroad Press, Berkeley, 2003, p. 334.
“Bjorn Larsen and Aunt Joe at the Dump,” The Eternal Present, Crossroad Press, Berkeley, 2003, p. 286.
“Keeping the Plane Up,” The Eternal Present, Crossroad Press, Berkeley, 2003, p. 289.
“Learning To Swim In Lake Adley,” The Eternal Present, Crossroad Press, Berkeley, 2003, p. 229.
“Oh, You Kid,” The Eternal Present, Crossroad Press, Berkeley, 2003, p. 158.
"Sewing,” The Eternal Present, Crossroad Press, Berkeley, 2003, p. 78.
“Portrait of the Virgin Who Said No to Gabriel,” in Preaching the Poetry of The Gospels. Elizabeth Michael Boyle, (Collegeville, Mn: Liturgical Press, 2003, p. 15
2002
“Myth,” in West Branch, Fall 2002, No. 51, p.111.
“The 7:42 Amtrak For New York,”
“What A Person Does When She’s 13 And Her Father Dies,”
“On the Imagination,”
“Hope”
“Outlaw,” in The Cortland Review, Issue 21, On Line at www.CortlandReview.com.
“Crayon Drawing: The Cold War,” in Spirituality and Health, Summer, 2002, p. 19.
“Gaining Time,”
“Letter to a Friend,”
“Poem to be Stolen from my Toyota Camry,” in Image, No. 33, pp. 60-63.
“Sacrifice,” in Cressett, p. 16.
“Wee Hours,” in The Christian Century, July 31-August 13, 2002, p. 26.
“Van Gogh,” in The Christian Century,
“Freedom to Choose,”
“February 29th,,,” .
“Domestic Violence,”
“Night Light,” in Cresset, Spring, 2002, pp 28-30.
Reprints
“Coming Into History,” Reprinted in The Poetry Anthology 1912-2002, Ivan R. Dee Publisher, 2002.
“Reading the New York Times,” in Birth, Ed. Kristin Kovacic and Lynne Barrett, University of Iowa Press, 2002, p. 16.
“Ways to Move Beyond the Self,” in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 162,
The Gale Group, June 12, 2002.
FEATURED IN PUBLICATIONS
Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 98, Interviewed by Ken Meyers about New Tracks, Night Falling and about Metaphor as the Heart of Poetry. See http://www.marshillaudio.org/resources/guest_detail.asp?ID=411
Host of an hour-long television documentary on poetry in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania with two invited poets, taped with a live audience. Rebroadcast in a series called “Humanities Live,” March, 2007-2010,
http://www.pahumanities.org/projects/poets.php.
“Image Exclusive: Jeanne Murray Walker Reading, Web site with audio, Image magazine. http://imagejournal.org/page/news/jeanne-murray-walker-audio.
“Explorations of the Ordinary,” by Roger Morris, Signature, Winter, 2007, pp. 72-73.
Poetry (on Line) November, 2003 and May 2004, archived.
http://www.poetrymagazine.org/issue archives.html
Cresset, with biography and artistic statement, archived.
http://www.valpo.edu/cresset/eas02wal.html
Image feature: Artist of the Month and Audio Reading, Image web site: http://imagejournal.org/page/artist-of-the-month/jeanne-murray-walker
Poet of the Month (on line), with biography and artistic statement,
May 2004, http://members.aol.com/poetrynet/month/archive/walker/index.html
Verse Daily (on Line) June 9, 2004 and December 11, 2003, archived.
http://www.versedaily.org/archives.shtml
Wheaton, Alumni Magazine, with poem and statement, Volume 3, No 4, p. 48.
Notre Dame Review Website, “The Scarf,” including a bio, note about the poem’s
composition, and a brief essay, www.nd.edu~ndr/review.htm
ANTHOLOGIES IN WHICH WORK HAS BEEN REPRINTED
To Make A Poem (Longmans); Western Wind (Scribners); Mother To Daughter, Daughter To Mother (The Feminist Press); The Iowa Review Collection Of Contemporary Women Writers (Macmillan); Country Of The Risen King (Baker House); Sightseers Into Pilgrims (Tyndale House); Waltzing On Water (Dell); Sutured Words: An Anthology of Poetry About Medicine (Aviva Press); An Anthology of Villanelles (University of Idaho Press); Poetry Magazine (WXPN Radio, Philadelphia); Light Year, l986 and l987 (Bits Press); The Voice Of America; Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry; Passages North Anthology; Western Wind: An Introduction To Poetry, Ed. John Frederick Nims (McGraw Hill); Poetry’s 75th Anniversary Issue: The Poetry Anthology 1912-2002 (Ivan R. Dee); Birth: An Anthology of Literature about Birth (University of Iowa Press); The Eternal Present, Ed. Andrea Miller (Crossroad Publishing); Prairie Schooner: 75th Anniversary Issue; Strongly Spent: 50 Years Of Shenandoah Poetry; 26 Letters, 26 Poets: An Anthology of Poems Commissioned in Celebration of The Rosenbach Museum; A Fine Frenzy: Contemporary Poets Respond to Shakespeare (University of Iowa Press), Commonwealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania, Shadow and Light: Literature and the Life of Faith (Abilene Christian University Press), Bearing the Mystery: Twenty Years of Image, and many others.
PRODUCED PLAY SCRIPTS
“The Tillie Project,” A Play in Two Acts. Commissioned and developed by The Centenary Stage, Hackettstown, New Jersey. Premiered in October-November, 2002.
“The Queen’s 2 Bodies,” A Play in Two Acts. Developing and producing organizations include The Hedgerow Theatre, Rose Valley, PA; Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, Orlando, FL; Utah Shakespeare Festival, Cedar City, UT; David Lipscomb University Theatre, Nashville, TN; Christians in Theatre Arts Convention (CITA), Chicago, IL; Interact Theatre, Philadelphia, PA.
Finalist, Eugene O’Neill Competition, 2001; Winner, CITA Competition, 2000
"Inventing Montana," A Play in Two Acts. Developing and producing organizations include The Man in the Moon Theatre, London, England; The Pacific Theatre, Vancouver, BC; Centenary Stage, Hackettstown, NJ.
Winner, William and Arlene Lewis Playwriting Contest, Brigham Young University, l994.
Finalist, New Harmony Workshop, l996.
Published by Dramatic Publishing Company, 2002.
"Rowing Into Light On Lake Adley," A Play in Two Acts. Developing and producing organizations include The University of Delaware’s Professional Theatre Training Program; The Charlotte Repertory Theatre, Charlotte, NC; Hedgerow Theatre, Rose Valley, PA; Brigham Young University Theatre, Provo, UT.
Winner, Stage Time Award, Minneapolis Playwright's Center, l996.
Winner, Washington National Theatre Competition, l995.
Winner, William and Arlene Lewis Playwriting Contest, Brigham Young University, l994.
Winner, The Virginia Duvall Mann Award (Charlotte Repertory Theatre New Plays in America Festival Competition), l994.
"The Chosen Daughter," A Play in Two Acts. Commissioned, developed and produced by The Arena Theater, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL. Other producing organizations include Abilene Christian University, Abilene, TX; Dordt College, Sioux Center, Iowa; Hedgerow Theatre, Rose Valley, PA.
Published by Encore Performance Publishing, 1998.
"Stories From The National Enquirer," A Play In Two Acts. Developing and producing organizations include The Man in The Moon Theatre, London, England; The Gloucester Stage, Boston, MA; Source Theatre, Washington, DC.
Winner, l990 Washington D.C. Theater Festival Competition.
Published by Dramatic Publishing Company, 2002, under the title: “Tales From The Daily Tabloid.”
PUBLISHED PLAYS (IN PRINT)
“The Queen, the Earl, and the Waiting Woman,” CITA Anthology, 2009.
“Inventing Montana,” Woodstock, Illinois: Dramatic Publishing Company, 2002.
“Tales From The Daily Tabloid,” Woodstock, Illinois: Dramatic Publishing Company, 2002.
PUBLISHED PLAYS (ON LINE)
The Alexander Street Press published my scripts in North American Women’s Drama, which contains the work of what they consider the most important women playwrights in English. This is an online scholarly reference tool available through university and college libraries across the U.S. and Canada. I have given the Press three of my scripts: “Stories From The National Enquirer,” “Inventing Montana,” and “Rowing Into Light On Lake Adley.” 2004.
SHORT FICTION
"Sudden Fever," Redbook, June, l989. Read at “Writing Aloud,” Interact Theatre,
Philadelphia’s reading space for short fiction, carried by WHYY radio.
"Failing Latin," Whetstone, Fall, l989.
"Three Women," Southern Humanities Review, Winter, l99l.
"The Graduation," The Southern Review,” Spring, l993.
ESSAYS
“Take Down the Sun and Use It,” The George Nixon Memorial Lecture delivered at Mary Hardin-Baylor, Belton, Texas, reprinted in Windhover, Vol. 14, January, 2010, pp. 66-74.
“Saving Images,” (reprinted) Bearing the Mystery: Twenty Years of Image, Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2009, pp 350-360.
“The Steep and Exhilarating Mountains of Playwriting,” A Syllable Of Water, Ed. Emilie Griffin, Brewster, Mass.: Paraclete, 2008, pp. 129-141.
“The Genius of Doing What You Like,” Essay in Festschrift Volume for Clyde Kilby, The Buswell Memorial Library, Special Collections, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois.
“Breaking the Illusions: What Playwrights Owe to Actors,” Image, No. 45, pp. 79-90,
“A Comment on the State of the Art: Poetry in 2004,” Christianity and Literature, Vol. 54, No. 1, Fall, 2005, pp. 93-110.
“Poetry As A Bridge to Romania,” Christianity and Literature, Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 111-116.
“Watching Ted Kooser Hand Over Nebraska,” in Midwest Quarterly, Summer, 2005, pp. 426-430.
“Giving Up Jerusalem: An Open Letter to my Fundamentalist People,” Image, Number 40, pp. 63-75.
“Alice Munro: A Quiet Grace,” More than Words: Contemporary Writers on the Books That Shaped Them, Ed. James Schaap, Baker Book House, 2002. Commissioned. Publication in Korean, 2004; Chinese, 2006; Portugese, 2008.
“Writing as a Subversive Activity,” The Cresset, Spring 2002. Commissioned.
“Saving Images,” Image, Number 30, Spring 2001, pp. 97-106.
“On Poets and Poetry” The Christian Imagination: Essays on Literature and Writing, Ed. Leland Ryken (Wheaton: Harold Shaw, Wheaton Literary Series, 2001). Commissioned
"Speaking Of Metaphor,” The Journalist’s Craft, Edited by Dennis Jackson and John Taylor, New York: Allworth Press, 2001, pp. 167-182. Commissioned.
“High Fantasy, Rites of Passage, and Cultural Value,” MLA Volume Options in Teaching Children’s Literature, Ed. Glenn Saddler, New York: Modern Language Association, 1992; Reprinted in Lilith In A New Light: Essays on George MacDonald, Ed., Lucas Harriman, New York: McFarland, 2008.
“Reciprocity and Exchange in Samuel Delany’s Nova,” Extrapolation, Vol. 23, No. 3, Fall, 1982, pp. 221-234. Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Ed. Daniel G. Marowsky (Detroit: Gale Research Co.), 1988.
“Memory and Culture Within the Individual: The Breakdown of Social Exchange in Memoirs of a Survivor,” Doris Lessing at MLA: Archives, Ed. Ellen Rose, l986 (Winner of NEMLA Award for Best Critical Volume, 1987).
“Myth, Exchange, and History in The Left Hand of Darkness,” Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 6, No. 18, part 2, July, 1979, pp. 180-189. Reprinted in Ursula LeGuin, ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House), 1986, pp. 182-193.
“Teaching Children Social Exchange Systems: Survival of the Fittest in Alexei Panshin’s Rite of Passage,” Extrapolation, Vol. 27, No. 1, Spring, 1986, pp. 19-32.
“A Lion, A Witch and A Wardrobe as Rite of Passage,” Children’s Literature in Education, Vol. 16, No. 3, Spring, 1985, pp. 177-188.
“Exchange Short-Circuited: The Isolated Scientist in H. G. Wells’ The Invisible Man,” in Journal of Narrative Technique, Vol. 15, No. 2, Spring, 1985, pp. 156-168.
“The Demoness and the Grail: Deciphering George MacDonald’s Lilith,” in The Scope of the Fantastic,” Ed. Robert Collins and Howard D. Pearce (London, England: Greenwood Press), 1985, pp. 179-190.
“Reciprocity and Exchange in A Canticle for Leibowitz,” Renascence, Vol. 33, No. 2, Winter, 1981, pp. 67-85.
“Reciprocity and Exchange in William Golding’s The Inheritors,” Science-Fiction Studies, Vol. 8, Part 3, November 1981, pp. 297-310.
“Rites of Passage Today: The Cultural Significance of A Wizard of Earthsea,” Mosaic, Vol. 13, No. 3. Winter, 1980, pp. 170-191.
“Saving Images in Spenser’s Faerie Queene,” Essays in Literature, Vol. 7, No. 2, Fall, 1980, pp. 153-165.
“Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land: Utopian Social Exchange Created by a Secular God-Man,” Journal of Popular Culture, Vol 3, No. 1, pp. 70-89.
“Finding a Happy Medium: Form in the Poetry of Chad Walsh,” For The Time Being, Vol. 4, no. 2, 1979, pp. 1-25.
“The Art of Memory and the Maleger Episode: Spenser’s Faerie Queene II, xi.” In Spenser at Kalamazoo, Ed. David Richardson, The Spenser Society, Summer, 1978, pp. 16-32.
“Science Fiction: A Commentary on Itself As Lies,” Modern Language Studies, Vol. 8, No. 3, Fall, 1978, pp. 29-38.
“Totalitarian and Liminal Societies in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We,” Mosaic, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 113-128.
“Jubilate Agno as Song,” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 20, No. 3, 1977, pp. 449-460.
TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY
Hosted (and developed and wrote) an hour-long documentary on poetry in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania with two invited poets before a live audience. Rebroadcast in a series called “Humanities Live,” on WHYY television, radio and webcast, repeatedly during 2007-2009.
EDITED VOLUME
Shadow and Light: Literature and the Life of Faith, Ed. Darryl Tippens, Stephen Weathers, and Jeanne Murray Walker, Abilene, TX: ACU Press, 2005. This anthology contains poetry, fiction, drama, and non-fiction prose written between 1300 and 2004. Review in Image Update, January 2, 2006. “Shadow and Light is now the stand-out, single-volume faith and literature text.”
SELECTED GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
· Pew Fellow in Poetry, 1998 [$50,000 Stipend]
· National Endowment For The Arts Fellowship, l994
· Pennsylvania Council On The Arts Fellow, ’84,’87,’89,’91,’94, ’01, ’04, 07.
· General University Research Fellow, ’75, ’80,’83,’86,’91,’96, 2000, 2006
· Fellow, University of Delaware Center For Advanced Study, l993 (Research year)
· Delaware State Arts Council Fellowship, l982
· Delaware Humanities Forum Grant, l985
· Teaching Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, 1972-73
· Atlantic Monthly Fellowships (for Poetry and for Fiction), Bread Loaf School of English, l965
SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS
· “Holding Action” selected for inclusion in Best American Poetry, 2009.
· Glenna Luschi Prairie Schooner Prize for Poetry, 2007.
· Scripts included in Alexander Street Press’s The North American Women’s Drama Project, a scholarly resource making available for academic study what the Press considers the most important work by women playwrights on this continent.
· “So Far, So Good,” a poem selected by a jury and printed on a poster for distribution to schools, post offices, state government buildings, and prisons in Pennsylvania. 2005.
· Readers’ Choice Award from The Prairie Schooner for four poems published in Winter Issue, 2003.
· Twelve Pushcart Prize nominations.
· My manuscripts, letters, and papers have been requested by several libraries and are being collected and held by Special Collections at The Buswell Memorial Library, Wheaton College as well as in Special Collections, Morris Library, University of Delaware.
· Featured Poet in a number of periodicals and/or web pages including Poetry, Verse Daily, Image, Midwest Quarterly, Wheaton, Christian Century, Cresset, Cortland Review, and Poet of the Month.
· Invitation to contribute to volumes celebrating milestone anniversaries of Poetry, Shenandoah, and Prairie Schooner.
· Interview in Poet’s Market 2003.
· “Aunt Joe Learns To Keep Her Balance,” a poem selected by The Academy of American Poets to appear on an illustrated poster in busses and subway trains.
· Pew Foundation Playwrights’ Exchange Program (Philadelphia Playwrights matched to Minneapolis Theatres). Winner. Prize: One week to work on dramatic monologues with The Red Eye Collaborative, May 1996.
· Best Monologues, 1994 and Best Monologues, 1996 by Smith and Kraus selected six of my monologues for inclusion.
· Stage Time International Competition. Winner for “Rowing Into Light on Lake Adley”, a Two Act Play. Prize: A week of development with Minneapolis Playwrights Center, l996.
· The Virginia Duvall Mann Award, Winner for “Rowing Into Light on Lake Adley”. Prize: A week with The Charlotte Repertory Theatre and inclusion in its Festival for New Plays, Charlotte, NC, l995.
· William P. and Arlene R. Lewis Playwriting Award. Winner for “Rowing Into Light on Lake Adley”, l994, and for “Inventing Montana”, l996. Performance at Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, Utah.
· Poems set to music by Harrod and Funck, recorded on CD.
· Coladay Award. Winner for Stranger Than Fiction, a book of poems published by Quarterly Review of Literature, Princeton, New Jersey
· Washington D.C. Theater Festival Competition. First Place Winner for “Stories From The National Enquirer," A Two Act Play selected from 600 scripts, l990. Play produced by Source Theatre, Washington, DC.
· Prairie Schooner/Strousse Award For Best Sequence of Poems, l988.
· Cleveland State University Poetry Center Award. Winner for Coming Into History, a book of poems. Published by Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1985.
· NEA International Book Fair selected Fugitive Angels, my second book, for inclusion, l987.
· Associated Writing Programs Competition, Winner, l980. Also: Finalist, Yale Series Competition and Walt Whitman Competition, for Nailing Up The Home Sweet Home, a book of poems, 1980.
· Henry Rago Award, Poetry Society of America, Winner for “Summer Song,” a poem, l977.
· Atlantic Monthly Competition, First Place Winner, Poetry and First Place Winner, Fiction, l965. The only time anyone has won first prize in both categories. Prize: Atlantic Monthly Fellowship to Bread Loaf School of English.
READINGS, TALKS, AND WORKSHOPS SINCE 2002
Cedarviille College, Cedarville, OH, Keynote Address and Poetry Reading, Conference on Christianity and Literature, Mid-East Region, October 12, 2006.
Robin’s Book Store, Philadelphia, PA, Poetry Reading Celebrating Poetry Month, April 12, 2006.
Regent College, Vancouver, BC, Poetry Reading, January 31, 2007.
University of Delaware Center For Lifelong Learning, Poetry Reading, October 31, 2006.
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, Poetry Workshop, December 17, 2006.
Chrysostom Society, San Antonio, Texas, Poetry Reading, March 10, 2007.
Library of Congress, Poetry Reading, “Poetry at Noon,” March 12, 2007.
University of Delaware, Women and Violence, Poetry Reading from “Coming Into History,” January, 2007.
William Jeanes Memorial Library, Lafayette Hill, PA,Poetry Reading and Workshop, October 26, 2007.
Celebration of the Centenary of Lutheran Campus Ministry, University of Delaware, Poetry Reading, February 16, 2007, 7:30pm.
St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Ardmore, PA, Adult Forum, February 13, 2005.
Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA, Convocation Talk, February 18, 2005.
Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA, Poetry Reading, February 18, 2005, supported by a grant from Poets and Writers, New York City.
Eastern University, Poetry Reading, St. David, PA, February 23, 2005.
Academy of Lifelong Learning, Wilmington, Delaware, March 8, 2005.
The Center For The Book, Penn State University, University Park, PA, March 24, 2005. Reading to mark the publication of the poster of the poem, “So Far, So Good.”
The Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia, PA, Poetry Reading, April 20, 2005, commissioned to write and read a poem for Exhibit “Conscious Mapping”.
The University of Illinois at Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, Poetry Reading, April 14, 2005.
The University of Illinois YMCA and University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL, Poetry Reading, April 15, 2005.
Radnor Library, Poetry Reading, Radnor, PA, June 20, 2005.
:Cuvinte la Schimb (Words Exchange) Poetry Conference in Cluj, Romania, Poetry Reading and Keynote Address, May 28-June 2 , 2005, drawing poets from every part of Romania.
Babs-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania, Talk about how metaphor functions and how it can bridge cultures. May 30, 2005.
Barnes and Noble, Devon, PA, July 13, 2005.
Eastern College Lecture Series, Windows on the World, A Forum on Controversial Issues, “Why Poetry Might Still Save Us From Ourselves, September 23, 2005.
Christiana Presbyterian Church, Adult Forum, discussion of Shadow and Light,
October 9, 2005.
Associated Writing Programs Conference, Panel Convener, Moderator, and Speaker, “Naming God: Dogma, Doggerel, and Spiritual Exploration in Poetry,” April 2, 2005.
Baylor University, “The Queen’s 2 Bodies,” by The Baylor University Theatre Department, April 9, 2005.
The Art Within Symposium and Showcase, Atlanta, GA, “Swing Level,” Script developed and given a staged reading, October 12, 2005.
The Glen Workshops, Santa Fe, New Mexico, , Staged Reading of “The Queen’s 2 Bodies, a full-length play,” August 7, 2004.
2nd Annual International Symposium & Showcase, Atlanta, GA., Panelist and Critic, Art Within Theatre, , October 10-16, 2004.
Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) International Conference, Philadelphia, PA, Scriptwriting Workshop Leader and Lecturer, June 24, 2004.
Academy For Lifelong Learning, Wilmington, Delaware, Poetry Reading, February 24, 2004.
The Chrysostom Society, San Antonio, TX. Panelist responding to paper, “The Globalization of Christianity” by Joel Carpenter, former head of The Center For Religious Studies at The Pew Foundation, March 12-13, 2004.
Taylor University Poetry Festival, Upland, Indiana, Keynote Address and Poetry Reading, April 1, 2004.
Robin’s Book Store, Philadelphia, PA,Poetry Reading, Celebration of Poetry Month, April 18, 2004.
Calvin College Festival of the Arts, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Poetry Workshop, April 22, 2004; Script Writing Workshop, April 23, 2004.
Rosenbach Museum, Philadelphia, PA, Poetry Reading, April 28, 2004.
Think Coffee Lounge and Bistro, Vancouver, British Columbia, Poetry Reading, July 23, 2004.
Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia, Poetry Reading, July 28, 2004.
University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, Poetry Reading, September 21, 2004.
Robin’s Bookstore, Philadelphia, PA, Poetry Reading, November 16, 2004.
Barnes and Noble Book Store, Bryn Mawr, PA, Poetry Reading, October 28, 2004.
Christianity and Literature Awards Luncheon, Modern Language Association Meetings, Philadelphia, PA., Poetry Reading With Comments, December 29, Philadelphia, PA, 2004.
Houghton College, Houghton, New York, Spring Writing Festival, April 11, 2003.
Mad Poets Reading, Media, PA, May 15, 2003.
Gordon College, Wenham, MA, November 12, 2003.
The Academy of Lifelong Learning, Wilmington, Delaware, December 10, 2003.
Commissioned poem on Malcolm Muggeridge at Malcolm Muggeridge Rediscovered: A Conference Celebrating His Centenary, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL, May 23, 2003.
The Glen Workshop, St. John’s College, Santa Fe, NM, August 7, 2003.
The Academy of Lifelong Learning, Wilmington, Delaware, May 7, 2002.
The Academy of Lifelong Learning, Wilmington, Delaware, October 31, 2002.
Trinity Arts Conference, Dallas, Texas, June 23, 2002.
University of Delaware, Interfaith Memorial Service, September 11, 2002
St. Mary’s Adult Forum, Reading The Great Poems, April 28 and May 5.
St. Mary’s Adult Forum, Reading The Great Poems, October 27 and November 2.
Oxford University, C.S. Lewis Foundation Conference, Reading and Interview, July 29.
The Chrysostom Society, San Antonio, Texas, Reading, February 24, 2003.
Grove City College Writers’ Conference, Mar. 18-20, 2002, Keynote Speaker,
Informal Talk, “Writing as a Subversive Activity,” Chapel Talk, “The Healing Power of Metaphor,” Lecture, “How Much Pressure To Apply: Transformation in Theatre”
Delmarva Discussions, April 25, 2003, Informal Talk and reading, “Writing Autobiography: Elinore Pruitt Stewart and Letters of a Woman Homesteader.”
The Centenary Theatre, “The Tillie Walk,” September 14, 2002, Hackettstown, New Jersey.
Cambridge University, C.S. Lewis Conference, July 27, 2002, ”George Herbert’s Poetry,”.
HONORS AND AWARDS SINCE 2002
Shaped and hosted a WHYY Television documentary on poetry in Pennsylvania. Selected from Commonwealth Speakers for this hour long program, which is one of six in a series called Arts Alive. The documentary was taped on March 29, 2007 in the WHYY studio in front of a live audience. It has been broadcast and rebroadcast on TV and will appear on webcast.
Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Prize for Poetry, 2007, $1,500.
Pennsylvania State Council on the Arts Fellowship for Creative Nonfiction, 2007.
“Geese, Tree, Apple, Leaves,” nominated by Kaleidowhirl for On Line Poem of the Year.
A Deed To The Light nominated for the 2005 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize by The University of Illinois Press.
University of Delaware GUR Grant for Summer, 2006.
“The Queen’s 2 Bodies” chosen for The Women Playwrights Project by Centenary State Theatre, Hackettstown, New Jersey. The play was given 1 week of rehearsal with professional actors and director, followed by staged reading, April 5, 2006.
Pennsylvania Center For the Book selected “So Far, So Good,” to print as a poster and distribute statewide to schools, post offices, state government buildings, and prisons, 2005.
Achievement Award from The Conference on Christianity and Literature for serving as Poetry Editor of Christianity and Literature from 1985-2005, Presented by John Cox, President of The Conference, at MLA, December 29, 2005, Philadelphia, PA.
Reader’s Choice Award for four poems published in Prairie Schooner, Winter 2003, announced in Prairie Schooner, Spring, 2004 issue. $250 Award and Press Release.
“Little Blessing For My Floater” appeared in Poetry’s WHO KNEW brochure advertising Poetry magazine, 2004.
Appointed Commonwealth Speaker, Pennsylania Humanities Council, 2004-present.
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Playwriting, 2004.
Winner, Utah Shakespeare Festival Competition, “The Queen’s 2 Bodies: The Double Life of Elizabeth I,” Honored with Play Development and Production at The Utah Shakespeare Festival, summer 2003.
International New Play Showcase, “ The Queen’s 2 Bodies: The Double Life of Elizabeth I,” Interact Theatre, Philadelphia, in Collaboration with The Eugene O’Neill Festival Theatre. The play was given a week’s development and a staged reading before an international audience of directors, actors, and literary managers, Summer 2003.
Twelve nominations for The Pushcart Prize in Poetry.
INTERVIEWS AND RADIO APPEARANCES SINCE 2002
Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 98, Interviewed by Ken Meyers about New Tracks, Night Falling and about Metaphor as the Heart of Poetry. See http://www.marshillaudio.org/resources/guest_detail.asp?ID=411
Poetry and the tragedy at Virginia Tech, Interview on WBOC-TV, Dover, April 28, 2007.
“Appreciating the Arts,” Interview in The Lookout, September 17, 2006, p. 9.
Radix, “Interview: The Romanian Poetry Translation Project,” with Jeanne Murray Walker and Luci Shaw by Sharon Gallagher, Fall, 2005, pp. 12-19.
Mars Hill Audio Journal, a bimonthly audio magazine of contemporary culture Audio Tape and CD. Interview by Ken Meyers, reflecting on issues surrounding the anthology, Shadow and Light with Jeanne Murray Walker and Darryl Tippens (Provost at Pepperdine University) May/June 2005.
“Keepin’ the Faith,” Hour-long interview by Steve Shoemaker about A Deed To the Light, on WEFT 90.1 simultaneously broadcast on the Web at www.will.uiuc.edu , AM 580, July 11, 2004.
“The Dick Miller Show,” on New Jersey Public Radio, Newark, New Jersey, taped in late October, 2002.
“The Sherry Leopard Call In Show,” on WRNJ, Hackettstown, NJ. October 19, 2002, 10am.
Interview in Poets’ Market 2003, Writers’ Digest Books, pp. 92-94.
TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
Courses Taught 2002-2008
Introduction to Poetry, Introduction to Drama, Script Writing, Poetry Writing, Advanced Poetry Writing (Undergraduate and Graduate Level), Contemporary Drama (Graduate Level) English Education, Shakespeare, Writing the Women Ancestors, Tools of Textual Analysis, Modern and Contemporary Poetry (Graduate Level)
Undergraduate Honors Theses Director
Eight students.
International Programs
Leader, Study Abroad Programs in London:
Winter Session, 2003
Summer Session 2003
Winter Session 2005
Winter Session 2006
Winter Session 2008
Summer Session 2009
OTHER TEACHING , JUDGING, CONSULTING, EDITING
Faculty, Seattle Pacific University MFA Program. Poetry and Non-fiction prose writing. 2007-continuing.
Examiner in Poetry for Honors Degrees at Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, May 35-26, 2004. and May 22-24, 2003.
Panelist to judge entries for the Arlen G. Meyer Literary Prize for the Lily Fellows Program in the Humanities and the Arts, December, 2005.
Consultant for Paraclete Press, as it began a line of individual volumes of poetry. I guest-edited volumes of poems by the poets Paul Mariani, Robert Siegel, Scott Cairns, and translations of Anna Kamienska from Polish.. 2004-2007.
Taught by invitation a week-long Workshop in Poetry, Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia, July 26-30, 2004.
Taught by invitation a week-long Workshop in Script Writing, The Glen Workshops, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 2-7, 2004.
Icarus International Literary Competition, on the 100th Anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ Flight. Selected a winning poem and several honorable mentions. Wrote a brief essay to be included in the volume.
Panelist, Selected New Jersey Poets in the Schools, New Jersey Arts Council, April, 2003.
SERVICE
Editorial Positions
· Editorial Board, Shenandoah, 1994-present
· Editorial Board, Image, 2006-
· Poetry Editor, Christianity and Literature, 1988-2005.
Board of Directors, Christianity and Literative, a Division of the Modern Language Association
Consultant and Judge
· Consultant, John Frederick Nims' Oxford Anthology of Poetry
· Consultant and Reviewer, Delaware Arts Council; New Jersey Arts Council; A tlantic Region Arts Council, Delaware State Arts Council, New York State Arts Council.
· Contest judge for college, university, high school, regional groups, and national poetry competitions, including The University of Pennsylvania, Icarus, Kansas Newman University, Houghton College, The University of Wisconsin, Academy of American Poets Prize, New Jersey Poet Laureate Prize, EPA Poetry Awards, Delaware State Arts Council, and others.
· Honors Examiner at Swarthmore College
Organizational Memberships
· Dramatists Guild Of America
· Poets and Writers
· Founding Member, Women Writers Workshop of Philadelphia
· Vice President, Chrysostom Society (International Writers’ Organization).
· Board Member, Christianity and Literature, a Division of The Modern Language Association
· Founding Member, The Writers/Directors Workshop, Lambs Players Theatre, San Diego, California, development venue for new theatre scripts.
· Founding Member, Philadelphia Dramatists Center
· Founding Member, Rosedale Playwrights’ Weekend, Vancouver Canada
Selected Poetry Readings and/or Workshops
· COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES. Oxford University (England), University of Pennsylvania, Cleveland State University, Wheaton College, Houghton College, Elizabethtown College, Calvin College, University of Delaware, Brandywine College, Baylor University, Bryn Mawr College, Washington and Lee University, Messiah College, University of Wisconsin, Westmont College, Grove City College, Seattle Pacific College, Regent College (Vancouver, BC) Gordon College, Pittsburgh University of Kansas, Swarthmore College, Dordt College, C. S. Lewis Institute at Williams College, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, University of Illinois at Urbana, Penn State University, Universitatea Babes-Bolyai, (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), Academy For Lifelong Learning, Eastern Mennonite University, and others.
· ART GALLERIES. The Muse Gallery, Marian Locks Gallery, DCCA Gallery .
· BOOK STORES. Robin's Book Store, David's Book Shelf, Borders Book Stores, Barnes and Noble, Volume II, and others.
· HIGH SCHOOLS. Brandywine High School, Thomas Edison High School, Newark High School, Tower Hill School, APR Series for Philadelphia High School Teachers, Stony Brook School, Friends Central, and others.
· RADIO. Poetry reading and interviews on Radio Times, WXPN, WDEL, Dick Miller Show on WNJR, The Voice of America, Mars Hill Audio Interview.
· OTHERS. Wildwood Poetry Festival, West Branch Poetry Festival, The Free Library of Philadelphia, Words Exchange Poetry Conference, Cluj, Romania, PEN Women of Delaware, Small Press Book Fair in New York City, New York Public Library, Artists and Teachers Institute of New Jersey, Image Writers Conference (Colorado Springs), Mississippi College Writers' Workshop, Cape May Writers Conference, Regent College, Community of Jesus on Cape Cod, Anniversary Celebration of Prairie Schooner, The Grand Opera House in Wilmington, Manyunk Arts Center, CITA National Conference, The Community of Jesus (Cape Cod, MA), The Glen Writers’ Workshop, Haverford Arts Center, Kelly Writers’ House, others.
University Service
Seven years on English Department Executive Committee, four on Undergraduate Programs Committee, four Search Committees. Established and continue to run The University of Delaware Script Writing Competition (12 years). Advised The Graduate Creative Writing Workshop. Member of The Creative Writing Concentration Faculty and The Drama Concentration Faculty. Manuscript Reviews for The University of Delaware Press.
Professional Service
· Commonwealth Speaker for Pennsylvania Humanities Council.
· Frequent reviews of academic and/or poetry manuscripts for presses.
Community Service
· Hundreds of poetry readings, talks in schools, churches, art museums, restaurants, bars, and community centers
· Executive Committee of the Vestry, St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Ardmore, PA. Many volunteer activities at St. Mary’s, including 5 years of teaching Sunday School, and helping to maintain the church’s Inter-Faith Hospitality Network, which takes in, houses, and feeds homeless people. Member,
Education Committee and Lector, St. Peter's Episcopal, Philadelphia
· Speaker at numerous events sponsored by Delaware Humanities Forum in Wilmington and Newark
BIOGRAPHICAL LISTINGS
Who's Who in America
Contemporary Writers
Who's Who In International Women
The World Who's Who of Women
Who's Who In U.S. Writers, Editors and Poets
Dictionary of American Scholars
Modern American Poetry
Poets and Writers Directory of Writers
Two Thousand Notable American Women
Personalities of America
The International Authors and Writers Who's Who
The International Who's Who in Poetry and Poets’ Encyclopaedia
International Directory of Distinguished Leadership
Dictionary of International Biography
Who's Who in Education
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