Minnesota State University, Mankato
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Mankato, MN 56001
507-389-1354
507-389-5362 (fax)
Education
M.F.A., University of Montana, 1979
A.B., San Diego State University, 1975
Teaching Assignments, 2007-2008
English 110: Introduction to Literature
English 219: Visiting Writers Series
English 344: Creative Writing—Poetry
English 649: Teaching Creative WritingEnglish 219: Visiting Writers Series
English 641: Form and Technique in Poetry
English 644: Poetry Workshop
Continuing Administrative Assignments
Director, Good Thunder Reading Series
Director, M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing
Publications
Books
The Untested Hand, Backwaters P, 2008
Famous Persons We Have Known, Eastern Washington UP, 2000
The Invisible Wedding, U of Missouri P, 1984
Toward New Weather [chapbook], Frontier Award Committee, 1978
Where We Are: The Montana Poets Anthology [co-editor], SmokeRoot P, 1978Periodical publications
Recent poems in North American Review, Manoa, and Paris Review.
Recent essays/articles in Cream City Review and View from the Loft.
Résumé versions
Quotes
"The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance starts when you try to convert it into language. Language itself is a kind of resistance to the pure flow of self. The solution is to become one's language. You cannot write a poem until you hit upon its rhythm. That rhythm not only belongs to the subject matter, it belongs to your interior world, and the moment they hook up there's a quantum leap of energy. You can ride on that rhythm, it will carry you somewhere strange. The next morning you look at the page and wonder how it all happened. You have to triumph over all your diurnal glibness and cheapness and defensiveness."
"A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu."
"Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation."
Links
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