Susanna Rich

Curriculum Vitae

Professional

 

Professor of English.  Kean University

Full Professor, 1997-present

Coordinator of Writing Option

Associate Professor, 1993-1997

Coordinator of Developmental Writing

Assistant Professor, 1988-1993

Coordinator of Developmental Writing

Coordinator of Humanities.  Sussex County Community College

1987-88.

 

Education

 

Post-doctoral work in the Program for Poetry.  Warren Wilson

              College.  1988-89.

 

Ph.D. in Communications, with Distinction.  Specializing in the Teaching of Writing.

New York University, 1987.

 

M.A. in Philosophy.  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Specializing in

theories of language and art. 1978.

 

B.A. in English Education, with a minor in Theater Arts. Montclair State

              University.  1974. Cum Laude.

 

 

Fellowships, Awards, and Honors

  

   2009 Emmy Award Nomination for Writer/Program, Cobb Field

  

   Fulbright Research Fellowship in Creative Writing to Hungary: 2004-5

 

   Collegium Budapest Fellowship  in Creative Writing: 2005

 

   October 2009 Book-of-the-Month selection: The Drive Home. 

            Finishing Line Press

 

   2008 Featured Poet. Darkling Literary Magazine

   Winner: 20th Century America Poetry Contest.  Sensations Magazine

           Archived in the Library of Congress

 

   Darkling Literary Magazine.  Finalist for ashes, ashes: Poems in

               Response to the Shoah.  2009 Chapbook Contest.

 

  Qarrtsiluni.  Finalist for ashes, ashes:  Poems in Response

              To the Shoah.  2009 Chapbook Contest.

    

   ABZ.  Finalist for Surfing for Jesus, 2008 Poetry Book Contest.

 

   Zone 3. Semi-finalist for Surfing for Jesus, 2008 Poetry Book Contest.

 

   Nomination for a Pushcart Prize in Poetry by Journal of NJ Poets, 2008

 

   Honorable Mention—2008 Ronald Wardall Prize

                                          

   Finalist—2008 Rain Mountain Chapbook Contest for The Drive Home

 

   Finalist—2007 Concrete Wolf  Chapbook Contest for The Drive Home

 

   Artists Embassy International.  Dance Poetry Contest. Second Prize for

              “Come to the Dance,” 2006.

    

   Nimrod/Hardman Awards 2005 Semi-finalist for Katherine Anne Porter

              Prize in Fiction for “St. Jude’s I.C.U.”

 

   Nimrod/Hardman Awards 2003  Finalist for Katherine Anne Porter

              Prize in Fiction for “Calling on Old Nick”

 

   Fugue First Place Award for Personal Essay, 2003

 

   The Best American Essays 2004 “Notable Essay” listing for “Lullaby”

 

   Elected to the Board of Trustees of The American Hungarian Museum.  Passaic,

           NJ.  2004.

             

    Kean University Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Teaching.  May

         2001.

 

    Pulliam Visiting Writer.  Franklin College.  November 1998.

 

    Phi Kappa Phi. Inducted 2 December 1998.

 

    Artist Residency with Poet Robert Creeley, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna

         Beach, Florida, Nov/Dec, 1994.

 

    Artist Residency, Virginia Center for the Arts.  Sweet Briar, VA. October 1994.

   

    Alumni Citation, Montclair State University.  2 May 1992.

 

 

Publications

 

Books:

 

The Drive Home.  Poetry.  Georgetown: Finishing Line Press, 2009.

 

Television Daddy.  Poetry. Georgetown:  Finishing Line Press, 2008.

 

The Flexible Writer: A Basic Guide.  4 editions. New York:  Longman/Allyn & Bacon,

2003, 1998, 1995, 1992.  Approx. 600 pp.

 

Instructor’s Manual for The Flexible Writer:  New York:  Longman/Allyn & Bacon,

     2003, 1998, 1995, 1992.

 

 

Websites: 

 

     Susanna Rich.  www.susannarich.com

 

     Recording of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 http://ourdailysonnet.com/2009/12/23/sonnet-130/

          and in a Hungarian translation http://ourdailysonnet.com/2009/12/23/sonnet-1302/

 

     Open Mic with interview with Bryan Curry.  New York City: UBA-TV.  August

              2009.  http://www.ubatv.com/Channel.aspx?Show=3d

 

     “A Charmed Life.” qarrtsiluni online literary magazine.  Including podcast.

               2009: http://qarrtsiluni.com/2009/11/05/the-charmed-life/

 

      “Passover.” qarrtsiluni online literary magazine.  “ashes,ashes: Poetry in Response

                 to the Shoah”: Finalist in chapbook contest. Including podcast.  

                 http://qarrtsiluni.com/2009/09/04/passover/

     Poets on Air.  www.poetsonair.org Founding producer and host, since

                 2002. (Website being revamped.)

 

     Kean in the Arts.  Interview with Cy Deavours.  Kean University Radio.  Winter

          1999/2000.  <http://turbo.kean.edu/~kuradio/rich.html>.

 

    ---.  http://kean.edu/~kuradio/rich.html Interview.

 

    ---.  http://kean.edu/~kuradio/RICH.html Poetry readings.

 

 

Television:

 

Open Mic with interview with Bryan Curry.  New York City: UBA-TV.  August

              2009. http://www.ubatv.co2009

2009 Emmy Award Nominee for writing and voice-overing baseball poetry for PBS documentary: 

Cobb Field, produced by Emmy Award Winning Craig Lindvahl.

Callan Films, 2008.  Airing nation-wide.

 

Gothic: 10 Anniversary Celebration of the Carriage House Poetry Series—

Founding and Current Director, Adele Kenny.  April 25, 2008.Program aired nightly April 30-May 7, 2008.

 

International Folkdancing:  Managed and Emceed a Community Presentation.

Patricia Kuran Arts Center, Fanwood.  11 April 2008.  Program

aired Ch. 35, April 14 and 15, 2008.

 

Television Daddy.  KU Television. Airing  TBA.

 

 

Radio:

 

“Passover.”  Sound recording. qarrtsiluni Finalist in 2009 chapbook contest. September 2009:

     http://qarrtsiluni.com/2009/09/04/passover/

 

“A Charmed Life.” qarrtsiluni online literary magazine.  2009: http://qarrtsiluni.com/2009/11/05/the-charmed-life/

Interviewed by Elekes Írén on Civil Radio 26 August 2005.

 

Interview bt Filippinyi Éva on Kossuth Rádio July 28, rebroadcast

on Bártok Rádio July 30

 

“BJ Ward.”  Poets on Air.  Interviewd BJ Ward with Brian Bradford.  WKNJ:  Union.  13

Nov. 2002.

 

“9/11.”  Poets on Air.   Interviewed Billy Collins, Stephen Dunn, Alicia Ostriker, D.

Nurkse,  Charlotte Mandel, Edwin Romond, Carole Stone, and Charles Bihler.

 WKNJ: Union.  11 Sept 02.

 

---. WNTI:  Hackettstown, NJ.  11 Sept 03.

 

---.  www.poetsonair.org to be posted September 2003.

 

“Psalms.” With Jim Connor.  WNTI: Hackettstown.  4 Jan 01.

 

“The Top 20 Poems of the 20th Century.”  With Joe Weil.  WNTI: Hackettstown.  28 Dec

    00.

 

---. www.poetsonair.org to be posted March 2004.

 

“Holiday Poetry, Humor, and Songs.”  With Morton D. Rich. WNTI: Hackettstown.   21

    Dec 00. 

 

Susanna’s Poetry Page.  KU Internet Radio.

http://www.kean.edu/~kuradio/keanarts.html                                           

 

 

Video Archives:

 

“Dear Anne.”  (Poem). Multicultural Recording Project. The Anne Frank Center.  New York, NY

              Recorded 12 December 2008.

 

ashes, ashes: Drawings and Poems in Response to the Shoah.  The Baird Gallery.  South Orange, NJ.  Videotaped reading

              continuously spooled during joint exhibit with Jo Jochnowitz.

 

 

Poetry:

“Anchor.” Sensations Magazine (2010): Forthcoming.

 

“Boardwalk Redemption: July 4, 1974.”   Sensations Magazine (2010): Forthcoming.

 

 “Crossing Over.” (1944) Sensations Magazine (2010): Forthcoming.

 

“Imelda’s Rondeau from Hawaii.” Sensations Magazine (2010): Forthcoming.

 

“Reflections on Mary Cassatt’s Mother and Child.Sensations Magazine (2010):   Forthcoming.

 

“Three Triolets for Isadora Duncan." Sensations Magazine (2010): Forthcoming.

 

“Trains: 1956.” Sensations Magazine (2010): Forthcoming.

 

““The Villanelle Amabel Scharff Roberts Couldn’t Finish.” Sensations Magazine (2010): Forthcoming.

 

“Praying to St. Stephen’s Hand.”  The Literary Bohemian. February (2010): 

     http://www.literarybohemian.com/poetry/poem/two-poems-by-Susanna-Rich/ .

 

Nun Flying Through Walls.”  The Literary Bohemian.  February (2010):

     http://www.literarybohemian.com/poetry/poem/two-poems-by-Susanna-Rich/ .

 

---. Beyond the Rift: A North Jersey Literary Society Anthology.  eds. Paul Nash, et al.  

Providence: The Poet’s Press.  Spring, 2010.  Forthcoming.

 

---. Women’s Studies Bulletin. Kean University. 17.

 

“Waldo, Find My Mother in Here.”  Beyond the Rift: A North Jersey Literary Society

     Anthology.  eds. Paul Nash, et al.  Providence: The Poet’s Press, 2010.  Forthcoming.

 

“Now That We’re Done.” The Carriage House Poetry Anthology.  December (2008): 35.

(hushFourteen Hills: The SFSU Review.  16.1 (2010): 48-49.

 

“A Charmed Life.” qarrtsiluni online literary magazine.  2009: http://qarrtsiluni.com/2009/11/05/the-charmed-life/

 

“Passover.”  qarrtisiluni. http://qarrtsiluni.com/category/chapbook-finalists-2009

“ashes,ashes: Poetry in Response to the Shoah”: Finalist in chapbook contest.

Including podcast. Audio recording posted 4 September 2009. http://qarrtsiluni.com/2009/09/04/passover/

 

---.   Dovetail:  A Journal By and For Jewish/Christian Families.  11.5 May/June. (2003). 

 

---.   Writers at the Water’s Edge.  Ocean Grove:  Tri-Muse, 2003. 

 

---.  Visions: International 59 (1999): Illustrated centerfold.

 

“Driving Home in Weather.”  Argestes.  Fall-Winter (2009): 3-4.

 

“Twelve Days Before Christmas.”  A Joyous Season.  Forthcoming, 2009.

 

“The Librarian.”  Visions International.  81. (2009): 5-6.

 

“A Konyvtaros.”  “The Librarian.” Trans. Judit Hajnal Ward with Susanna Rich. Konyv, Konyvtar,

Konyvtaros. Budapest: (2009), Frontispiece.

 

“Passover.” www.qarrtsiluni.com  Sound recording of “ashes,ashes: Poetry in Response to the Shoah”: Finalist in 2009 chapbook contest.

     September 20009: Forthcoming.

 

“Sleeping with her Mother.” Portland Review. 56.2 (2010): 165-66.

 

“Making Up in the Car.”  Folly Magazine. August (2009): 8-10.

 

“A House of Words.”  Women’s Studies Bulletin 2008-2009.  58.

 

“Post-Mortem Photographs.”  Darkling Literary Magazine.  (2009): 37.

 

“The Opposite Shore.”  Sensations Magazine. 46 (Winter 2009): 47.

 

“The Hidden Mother.”  Sensations Magazine. 46 (Winter 2009): 28-29.

 

“Nothing to Wear.” The Jabberwock Review. Summer (2009): Forthcoming.

 

“My Mother’s Head.”  Skidrow Penthouse.  10 (2009): 138-141.

 

“The Thing.”  Film & History. 38.2 Fall (2008): 112.

 

“mother  your breast.”  Ars Medica.  5.1 Fall (2008): 76-78.

 

“Protecting Her Sleep.” Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry.  VI (2009): 58.

“Pinto.” Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. VI (2009): 58.

 

“Swings.”  Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. VI (2009): 59.

 

“Learning the Dance.”  Mainewoods.  74.3 August (2008): 10.

 

“The Groundskeeper.”  Cobb Field: Documentary.  Craig Lindvahl, Prod. (2008).

 

“The Odds.” Cobb Field: Documentary.  Craig Lindvahl, Prod. (2008).

 

“Baseball is the Body Talking.” Cobb Field: Documentary.  Craig Lindvahl, Prod. (2008).

 

Holy Cow!Cobb Field: Documentary.  Craig Lindvahl, Prod. (2008).

 

“Sleepwalker: Budapest.”  Confrontation 104 (Summer 2009): 268.

 

---.  Women’s Studies Bulletin 2008-2009.  27.

 

---.  Also accepted by Salt Hill.

 

“The Thing.”  Folly Magazine @ www.follymag.com. May 2008.

 

---.  Film & History.  38.2 (2008): 112.

 

“To . . . loneliness@rejects.org.”  Borderlands 30 Spring/Summer (2008): 44-45.

 

“In the Garden of Grief.”  Darkling.  (2008): 22.

 

“Dear Anne.”  Darkling. (2008): 23.

 

“Hitler’s.”  Darkling. (2008): 22.

 

“The Buck.”  Darkling.  (2008): 23.

 

---.  Poem, Revised.  Ed. Robert Hartwell Fiske. Rockport:  Marion Street P., 2008.

 

---.  Writers at the Water’s Edge.   Ocean Grove:  Tri-Muse, 2003.

 

---.  For She is The Tree of Life.  Ed. Valerie Kack-Brice.  Berkeley, CA:

          Conari, 1995.

 

---. South Coast Poetry Journal. 13 (1993): 26-27.  Honorable Mention.

 

“The End-All Diet.”  Sanskrit. 39 (2008): 7

 

---.  Also accepted by Borderlands.

 

“Funeral for My ’84 Mustang.” Lips.  30/31. December (2008): Forthcoming.

 

“Scriptoderm CQ®: For Getting Over You.”  Terminus.  (2008): Forthcoming.

 

---. Also accepted by Borderlands.

 

“Eucharist.”  Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts.  27 Fall (2008): 36.

 

“Clothing: Auschwitz.”  Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts. 27 Fall (2008): 34.

 

---. Also accepted by Darkling.

 

“Coming Out: A Villanelle.” Eureka Literary Magazine. 16.1/2 (2008): 127.

 

---.  Also accepted by Darkling.

 

“Wrapping Paper.”  VerseDaily. org.  October 7 and 9, 2007.

 

“Not Brushing My Teeth” Crucible 43 Fall (2007): 17-18.

 

---. The Dos Passos Review. 4.1 June (2007): 20-1.

 

---.  Also accepted by Bayou.

 

---.  Also accepted by The Rambler.

 

“To Sperm Lost.”  Willard & Maple.  (2009): Forthcoming.

 

“Meetings.”  Southern California Review.  I.1. Spring (2008): 32-3.

 

“Surfing for Jesus at Christmas.”  ABZ. 3 (2008): 37.

 

“Fourth Street.” U.S. 1 Worksheets. 53 (2008): 20.

 

“Dancing With Wide Skirts.”  Poems of Ecstasy.  Ed. Don Moores.  Forthcoming.

 

---. Mainewoods. 70.3 (August, 2007): 9.

 

“Hurry Up, Sunrise.” Urthona.  Cambridge, UK.  25 Summer (2008): 15.

 

“Requiem for a Terrorist’s Hands.” Urthona.  Cambridge, UK.  25 Summer (2008) 15

 

“Fourth Street.”  Pennsylvania English.  Forthcoming, 2008.

 

“Grandmother’s Apron Pocket.”  Pennsylvania English.  Forthcoming, 2008.

 

“Nightwalkers.”  Pennsylvania English.  Forthcoming, 2008.

 

“Extreme Makeover: Another Application.”  Diner.  7 November (2007): 211.

 

“Making Returns to the Supermarket After Yet Another Bash.”  Diner.  7 November

              (2007): 210.

 

“In the Hospital Coffee Shop.” Bellevue Literary Review 7.2 Fall (2007): 89.

 

“Television Daddy.” Paterson Literary Review. Editor’s Choice in the 2007 Allen

Ginsberg Poetry Contest 37 Spring (2009-10): 303.

 

“Lungs.” Spillway. 13 (Spring, 2007): 96.

 

---. Pennsylvania English. Forthcoming, 2008.

 

“Interview.” Future Cycle. 1.2 (2007): 28-9.

 

“Cinderella’s Update on the Slipper.” Flint Hills Review 12 (2007): 24.

 

---.  RiverSedge. 21.1 Spring (2008): Forthcoming.

 

---.  Also accepted by Sierra Nevada College Review.

 

“Baby Sister.”  Studio One. May (2007): 24.

 

---. Willow Review XXXIV Spring (2007): 58.

 

---. Soundings East 29.1 Spring/Summer (2007): 55.

 

---. Also accepted by Flyway.

 

---. Also accepted by Red Wheelbarrow.

 

---. Also accepted by Limestone Review.  

 

“Marking Your Paper in the Dentist’s Chair.” College English Notes: Spring (2007): 12.

 

“Fly in the Classroom While Reading ‘I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died.’”  College

              English Notes: Spring (2007): 11.

 

“Lady Macbeth Explains End-of-Season Sales.”  College English Notes:  Spring (2007): 11.

 

---.  Reprinting.  College English Notes.  Fall (2008):  Forthcoming.

 

“Blesséd Be J.C. Penney.”  Xavier Review. 27.2 (2007): 60-1.

 

---.  Also accepted by Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review.

 

“Admission: Of and To.”  The Vocabula Review.  22 April (2007). www.vocabula.com

 

“A Poet’s Luck.” The Vocabula Review.  22 April (2007).  www.vocabula.com.

 

“Cape May in January.”  River Oak Review.  2.5 Winter (2008): 36-7.

 

“Cinderella’s Update on the Slipper.”  Accepted by Sierra Nevada College Review. 

 

“The Softness Truth Requires.”  REAL: Regarding Arts & Letters. 32.1 Summer/Fall

(2007): 51.

 

“This Marriage.”  REAL: Regarding Arts & Letters. 32.1 Summer/Fall (2007):

124.

             

“Cinderella Confesses to the Stepmother.”  Hubbub. 24 Spring (2008): 35.

 

---.  Also accepted by Passages North.

 

“Cinderella Bestows the Fire  upon the Stepmother.”  Hubbub. 24 Spring (2008):

              34.

 

---.  Also accepted by Sierra Nevada College Review.

 

“In the Ever-After, Cinderella Writes Her Stepsister.” Hubbub. 24 Spring (2008):

36.

 

---.  Also accepted by Sierra Nevada College Review.

 

---. Also accepted by Passages North.

 

“Imagine.”  Lullwater Review.  Forthcoming.

 

“Island Coffee Shop.”  Beauty/Truth  1.2 Spring/Summer (2007): 27.

 

“Daydreaming on Seriphos.” Beauty/Truth 1.2 Spring/Summer (2007): 28.

 

“Back to You, Robin.” Beauty/Truth 1.2 Spring/Summer (2007): 29.

 

“The Child Left.” Eclipse. 19 Fall (2008): 168.

 

“The Bachelor.” Eclipse. 19 Fall (2008): 169.

 

“Signaling No One in the Dark.” Tiferet  7 (Summer): 2008. 67.

 

“Self-Flushing.”  Rio Grande Review.  www.riograndereview.com.

 

“Beggar in Hungary.”  The Evansille Review XXVII (2007): 100-1.

 

“Applause.”  Poems of Ecstasy.  Ed. Don Moores.  Forthcoming.

 

---. Porcupine 10.2 (2007): 19.

 

“Wrapping Paper.”  Porcupine 10.2 (2007): 20-21.

 

“Multiple Seed: To Students Writing in Response to ‘Paterson’.”  English Journal

97.1 (2007): 123.

 

“Rebecca Speaks.”  English Journal 96.4 (March 2007): 122.

 

“The Catless.”  Rio Grande Review Online.  www.riograndereview.com.

 

“Just Testing.”  Rio Grande Review 28 Fall (2006): 94-5.

 

“Our Lady of the Coupon.”  Zone 3  XII. 1. Spring (2007): 56-7.

 

“Playgirl.” Willow Review XXXIV Spring (2007):  59.

 

---. Also accepted by Lullwater.

 

“Communion Sunday.”  Willow Review. XXXIV Spring (2007): 60.

 

“My Mother: The Queen of Kvetch.” Journal of New Jersey Poets  44 (2007):

6-7.

 

---. Also accepted by Rio Grande Review.

 

“Home Movies.”  Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television

Studies. 37.1 (2007): 28.

 

“Christmas Baggage.” Carquinez Poetry Review 5 (2007): 70.

 

“Cordelia Tells Her Story on the Montebank Williams Show Before It’s Too Late”

Carquinez Poetry Review 5 (2007):  69.

 

“Campus at Dawn.”  Sulphur River Literary Review XXIV. 1 Spring (2008):

Forthcoming.

 

“Buying My Father Shoes.” The South Carolina Review. 39.2 Spring (2007): 147-8.

 

---. Also accepted by The Evansville Review.

 

---. Also accepted by Connecticut Review.

 

 “Pentecost Sunday: Mátyás Church, Budapest.” The South Carolina Review. 39.2 Spring

(2007): 146-7.

 

“We’re Fringed.”  Birmingham Poetry Review 33 Summer/Fall (2007): 46.

 

---.  Also accepted by Owen Wister Review.

 

“Reklámszatyrok.”  PoLísz (Budapest).  Trans. of “Shopping Bags” by Éva Tóth.  100

Anniversary issue. December (2006)-January 2007. 130. 

 

“Shopping Bags.”  Visions-International.  75 (2006): 14.

 

“Walking Holly Down a Wooded Lane.”  Poem.  Huntsville Literary Association.

              96 November (2006): 61-2.

 

“Gathering Flowers Before Frost.”  Green Prints 67 Autumn (2006): 53.

 

“Eat up the Music.”  Mainewoods 67.3 (1 Sept. 2006): 13.

 

---. Reprinted Mainewoods 68.4 (Winter 2007).

 

“Adopt-a-Corpse.”  www.thepoetryreview.com April 2006.

 

“Breaking Ball.”  Spitball 62 Spring (2006): 7.

 

“Woman Finding a Partner for the Dance.”  Mainewoods 61. 3 (16 Aug 2005).

 

---.  Folk Dance Council of Delaware Valley Fall 2005.

 

“The Opposite Shore.”  A Poetry Sampler.  Ocean Grove:  Tri-Muse, 2005. 2.

 

“Ocean Grove: 1892.” A Poetry Sampler.  Ocean Grove:  Tri-Muse, 2005. 4.

 

“Centennial: 1994.” A Poetry Sampler.  Ocean Grove:  Tri-Muse, 2005. 6.

 

“Monument Valley.”  www.terrain.org. March 2005.

 

“Kudzu.”  Kerf  (College of the Red Banks) May 2004: 10.

 

“A Play-by-Play From Purgatory.”  Spitball 58 Spring 2004: 29

 

“wrong numbers.”  Earth’s Daughters 64 (2004): 34-5.

 

“Frosting.”  Chocolate Lovers.  Ocean Grove:  Tri-Muse, 2004.

 

“My Mother’s Last Romance.”  Earth’s Daughters 63 (2003): 19.

 

“Come to the Dance.”  Poems of Ecstasy.  Ed. Don Moores. Forthcoming.

 

---. Mainewoods. 54.3. 2003.

 

“My Mother’s Kitchen is her Pontiac.”  Phoebe: A Journal of Feminist Scholarship and

Aesthetics.  (SUNY-Oneonta) 15.1/2 Spring/Fall (2003): 167.

 

“The Morning After I’m Promoted.”  bear creek haiku 22 (Fall 2002): 9.

 

“Back to you Robin.” Ekphrasis 2.5 Spring/Summer (2002): 26.

 

“Daydreaming on Serifos.” Ekphrasis  2.5 Spring/Summer (2002): 28.

 

“Island Coffee Shop: Eleusis” Ekphrasis.  2.5 Spring/Summer (2002): 27.

 

“What She Wore.”  Sharon Spencer.  Merida: Lioness, 2002.  24-5.

 

“Backing up the Nag.”  Mainewoods 2002.

 

“Grandmother Sausages.”  Feminist Studies.  28.2 (2002): 416-7.

 

---.  Writers at the Water’s Edge.  Ocean Grove:  Tri-Muse, 2003.

 

---.  Hymns to the Outrageous.  Johnstown:  Pudding House P, forthcoming.

 

“Squeeze Play.”  Leadoff hitter in Spitball:  The Literary Baseball Magazine. Fall  53

     (2001): 5-6.

 

---. www.sportsfanmagazine 30 March 2004.

 

“Her Turn.”  Through a Child’s Eyes: Poems and Stories About War.  Eds. Victor

     Klimoski and Samuel Torvend.  Austin:  Plain View, 2001.

 

“The Street Vendor’s Rack,” in collaboration with Larry Bole, Stanford

M. Forrester, Marily Hazelton, Mauree Pendergrast, and Adam Weiner.

Chiyo’s Corner II.4 Spring (2001):  22-23.

 

“Clothing.” Finalist.  The Dance Poetry Festival. San Francisco, CA. 24 September 2000. 

     

“possession.”  Phoebe (George Mason U-VA) 28.2 (1999): 48

 

“ventriloquist.”  Phoebe (George Mason U-VA) 28.2 (1999):  12.

 

“Passover.”  qarrtisiluni. http://qarrtsiluni.com/category/chapbook-finalists-2009 “ashes,ashes: Poetry in Response

to the Shoah”: Finalist in chapbook contest. Including podcast.

 

              Audio recording posted 4 September 2009.

 

---. Dovetail:  A Journal By and For Jewish/Christian Families.  11.5 May/June

(2003). 

 

---.   Writers at the Water’s Edge.  Ocean Grove:  Tri-Muse, 2003. 

 

---.  Visions: International 59 (1999): Illustrated centerfold.

 

“Learning by Accident.”  Kalliope 13.3 (1996): 27.

 

“Late Lunch at the Rusty Scupper.”  Finalist.  Allen Ginsberg Award.  1996.

 

---.  Writers at the Water’s Edge.  Ocean Grove:  Tri-Muse,  2003.

 

---.  Paterson Literary Review 27 (1997): 432.

 

---.  Women’s Studies Program News Kean University.  March 2001.

 

“Sand Castle Contest: Belmar.”  Writers at the Water’s Edge.  Ocean Grove:

              Tri-Muse, 2003.

 

---.  Under a Gull's Wing: Poems and Photographs of the Jersey Shore.  Eds. Richard

Youmans and Frank Finale.  Bayville, NJ: Down the Shore, 1996.

 

 “Taking Photographs.”  South Coast Poetry Journal 18 (1995): 44.

 

“Interview.”  Administration & Management 11.3 September (1995): 1.

 

 ---. If I Had a Hammer: Women At Work.  Ed. Sandra Martz.  Watsonville: Papier

          Maché, 1990. 

 

“The Smoker's Prayer.”  Cigarettes, Lips, These Fingertips.  G. Marie, 1993.

 

“Seashell.” American Poetry Annual.  Amherst Society, 1990.

 

“Stop and Go.”  Findings 9 (1989): 36-7.

 

“Guardian Angel.”  Honorable mention.  Poetry Center 1988 Anthology Spring (1988).

 

“Yellow Paprikas.”  Ailanthus 1.3 (1989): 45.

 

“Frank.” Honorable mention.  The Passaic County Community College Poetry Center.

              Spring (1983): 33-4.

 

 

 Essays:

 

“A Romance with Doctoring.” Passager. (2010): Forthcoming.

 

Nun Flying Through Walls.” Women’s Studies Bulletin 2008-2009. 18-26.

 

“Hungarian is Hungarian is: The Backward and Inside Out.”  Pilvax (Budapest) 5 (2008):

              11-16.

 

---.  Also appearing in School Connections.  18.2 Fall (2007):  15-19.

 

“Slapped:with;liGhtninG: Poetry and Punctuation.”  In Mentor and Muse.

              Ed. Blas Falconer.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2009.  Forthcoming.

 

“Shadow Fingers Across the Page: Revising ‘The Buck’.”  Poem, Revised.  Ed. Robert Hartwell Fiske.

              Rockport:  Marion Street P., 2008.

 

“[Confess] Caress the Dragon:  [Writhing] Writing Memoir.”  Fugue (U of Idaho) 

29 Summer (2005): 142-6.  From the manuscript of Still Hungary: A Memoir.

 

---. Reprinted in Folly Magazine @ http://www.follymag.com/files/FOLLY_May-08.pdf

 

“My Trianon: A Palimpsest.”  Nimrod International Journal (U of Tulsa).

46.2 Spring/Summer (2003): 194-203.  From the manuscript of Still Hungary: A

Memoir.

 

“Sleepwalking.” Proteus: A Journal of Ideas (Shippensburg U) Forthcoming

           in October (2003): 55-61 .  From the manuscript of Still Hungary: A Memoir.

 

“The Last Gate.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies (Washington State

U) 24.1 (2003): 154-161.  From the manuscript of Still Hungary: A Memoir.

 

“Lullaby” won the 2003 Personal Essay Contest, judged by Scott Russell

Sanders at Fugue (U of Idaho) 25 Summer (2003): 12-22.  From the manuscript

of Still Hungary: A Memoir.

 

“De Undarum Natura: Lucretius and Woolf in The Waves.  Journal of Modern

Literature  Winter (2000): 249-58.

 

“After Great Pain: A Chill Translation of Emily Dickinson.” Emily Dickinson

Journal Winter (1997): 109‑113.

 

“A Rhetoric of Fitness: Persuasion and Perspiration. “ ETC.: A Review of General

Semantics 53.3 (1996): 266‑274.

 

“A Rhetoric of Forgiveness: James Dickey's 'The Firebombing. The Explicator

54.2 (1996): 110‑113.

 

“Test Me, Test Me Not: Portfolio Assessment for Basic Writers. Portfolio

          Assessment:Applications of Portfolio Analysis. Eds. Michael Knight and

          Denise Gallaro, Lanham: University Park, 1994. 47‑63.

 

“Vita Interrupta in Mrs. Dalloway. “ The Explicator Spring (1989): 45‑46.

 

Charlotte Mandel's The Life of Mary. West Branch 25 (1989): 129‑13 1.

 

“Ridicule and Rut Reactions: Some Problems with Henri Bergson's Laughter.

Humor: International Journal of Humor Research 2‑3 (1989): 257‑263.

 

“Skin of Words: Lesley Dill's Poem Sculptures.” Bulletin: Emily Dickinson  

 International Society 5.2 (1993): 4‑5, 15.

 

“Friday the 12‑1/2. “ West Essex Tribune 12 April 1990.

 

“Wedding Rituals: Lessons In Sanity” The Woman's Newspaper June 1987.

 

“Media as Praxis: The Care and Feeding of Pac Man.” ETC.: A Review of General

Semantics 42.1 (1985): 54‑62.

 

 

Short Story:

 

“St. Jude’s I.C.U.”  "Staying Alive: Maneuvering the Black Holes in the Health Care

     System."  Newberg:  Propell. Forthcoming.

 

 

Exhibitions: 

 

    “Of Course You Can!” Photograph. Juried exhibition.  Bridging Cultures Through Art.  

Morroccan Fulbright Alumni Association Exhibit.  Morocco.  November 2006.

 

    ashes, ashes: An Artist and a Poet Respond to the Shoah.   With Jo Jochnowitz.

         Rider University: Lawrenceville, NJ.  8 November 1995 to 10 December 1995 held

         over to 31 December 1995.  Included the installation of 20 poems displayed 20X30.

         This is a project in which I, as a lapsed Catholic female poet, and Jo, as Jewish

         male artist with family lost in the Holocaust, show how the arts enable us to bridge   

         differences to find our common humanity.  Catalog endorsement by Sister Rose

         Thering.

 

    ---.  Premiere Opening of the Baird Gallery at South Orange.  With artist Jo   

         Jochnowitz. 22 May 1994 to 26 June 1994.  Included a continuous running of

         Videotaped reading.

 

 

Presentations and Performances

 

Poetry Performances:

 

     The Drive Home: A One-Woman, Audience-Interactive Poetry Performance.

 

       ---. Opening Nights.  Kean University.  12 and 14 April 2010.

 

      Television Daddy:  A One-Woman, Audience-Interactive Poetry Performance.

 

      ---.  2010 NEW JERSEY WRITING ALLIANCE CONFERENCE:

             Me & We: Inspiring Students' Voices in Multiple Communities

               New Brunswick: Rutgers University 25 May 2010.

 

       ---.  William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative.  12 May 2010.

     

       ---.  Empire State Book Festival.  10 April 2010.

 

       ---.  A Sampler.  Morristown Library.  8 April 2010

 

       ---.  Englewood Library.  12 November 2009.

 

       ---.  Ocean County College.  20 October 2009.

 

       ---.  The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.  11 September 2009.

 

       ---.  Ridgewood Public Library.  4 June 2009.

 

       ---.  Poetry-in-the-Round Series.  11 and 12 November 2008.

 

        ---. Catherine Dickson Hofman Library.  25 October 2008

 

        ---.  Kean University.  10 and 11 March, 2008.

 

Poetry Readings:

 

  Poety Reading Series at the South Brunswick Library.  Featured

              with Carole Stone.  17 October 2010.

 

  “The Immigrant Experience.” Jefferson Museum.  With David Messineo

et al. 18 April 2010.

 

  Montclair Adult School.  With Carole Stone.  28 March 2010.

 

  NJCEA Conference.  Seton Hall. 27 March 2010.

 

   “Poets Wednesday.” “Bodyshop: A Poetry Workshop” followed by

Featured Solo. 10 March 2010.

 

  “Sensations Magazine.”  With David Messineo et al.  9 January 2010.

 

   “Dancing on the Page.”  With Joan Cusack Handler and Julia Maloney. Mid-Manhattan

              Library.  New York Public Library.  2 November 2009.

 

   River Read Series.  Featured with Linda Radice.  11 October 2009.

 

   Fourth Thursday.  With Peter Murphy and Christine Redman-Waldeyer. 1 October 2009.

 

   Visions International 30th Anniversary Celebration.  NYC: The Players Club,

22 September 2009.

 

   The Grist Mill.  Featured Poet.  7 July 2009.

 

   Books New Jersey.  Paramus Public Library. 14 June 2009.

  

   North Jersey Literary Society.  Classic Quiche Café. 30 May 2009.

              Featured reading with Joel Allegretti.

 

    Lips.  Reading to celebrate issue 30/31.  Barnes & Noble.  14 May 2009.

 

    Cavan Kerry Afternoon.  3 May 2009.

 

    Sensations Magazine Group Reading.  Fort Lee Public Library 18 April 2009.

 

    Watchung Booksellers.  Featured Reader. 16 April 2009.

 

    Fishing Line: A Poisson D’Avril Poetry Reading. New Jersey Finishing Line Press

              Poets.  1 April 2009.  Event organizer and reader.  Kean University.

 

              Amanda Berry

              Jessica de Koninck

              Shawn R. Jones

              Adele Kenny

              Carolina Morales

              Kathe Palka

              Susanna Rich

              Carole Stone

 

    Poetry Reading. Kean University Research Day.  25 March 2008.

 

    Tribute to Carole Shaffer-Koros.  25 March 2008.

 

    New Jersey College English Association.  21 March 2008.

 

    A Poetic Tribute to Charles Addams.  Westfield Library.  30 October 2008.

 

   Carriage House.  “Gothic Poetry.” Fanwood, NJ.  25 April 2008.

 

   Aroma Thyme Café.  Ellenville, NY.  4 April 2008.

 

   North Jersey Poetry Series. Il Trapezio—two sets.  Nutley, NJ.  28 March 2008.

 

   Girl Talk.  West Caldwell Library.  West Caldwell, NJ. 15 March 2008.

 

   Poet’s Wednesday.  With Adele Kenny.  Barron Arts Center.  Woodbridge, NJ. 12 March 2008

 

   Television Daddy: A One-Woman, Audience-Interactive Poetry Performance.

              Kean University.  10-11 March 2008.  6 March 2008 Preview

              Performance.

 

   Focus the Nation:  Global Warming Solutions for America. 31 January 2008.

 

   Poetry-in-the-Round. Seton Hall University.  Featured reader. 9 October 2007.

 

   Warren County Poetry Festival. 29 September 2007.  Featured reader and panelist.

             

   2007 Allen Ginsberg Winners’ Poetry Reading and Award Ceremony.  Paterson, NJ. 

1 November 2007.

 

   Poetry-in-the-Round. Seton Hall University.  South Orange, NJ. 9 October 2007. 

 

   Warren County Poetry Festival. 29 September 2007.  Featured reader and workshop

              leader.

 

   “Multiple Seed: A Reading of Teaching Poems.”  Teaching Literature Institute. Kean

University. 27 April 2007. 

 

    Socratic Athletica. Montclair State University. May 2007.

 

   Carriage House Reading Series. 13 March 2007.  Fanwood, NJ

 

   “Some of That.” With Adele Kenny. Women’s Studies Program.  Kean University.

              21 March 2007.

 

   “Baseball Poetry” Yogi Berra Stadium.  Montclair State University.  6 April 2006.

 

    “Women and Sports.”  Yogi Berra Stadium.  Montclair State University.

              7 April 2005.

 

   “HIV/AIDS Symposium.”  Kean University.  15 October 2004.

 

    “Bunts, Bards, and Bingles: Baseball Poetry.”  Yogi Berra Stadium.  Montclair State

University.  7 April 2004.

 

    Café Con Leche.  Women’s Studies Program.  Kean University.   23 March 2005.

 

    “Mystery of Hungarian Ballads.”   Translation.  The American Hungarian Museum.

              Passaic, NJ.  18 March 2005.

 

    “ashes, ashes: An Artist and a Poet Respond to the Holocaust.”   With Jo Jochnowitz.

              The 30th Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches.  St.

            Joseph's University.  Philadelphia.  4-7 March 2000.

 

     ---. Ongoing presentations under the auspices of the New Jersey School of the Arts 

                including the following New Jersey sites: 

 

  • North Bergen HS.  West New York: 19 February 1999.
  • Lakewood HS.  23 April 1999.
  • Union City HS.  2 March 1999.
  • Red Bank Regional HS.  20 November 1998.
  • Jersey City HS.  Faculty Development.  10 November 1998.
  • Edison HS.  Faculty Development.  3 November 1998.
  • Edison Development Center.  Holocaust Workshop for Teachers and Super­visors.  8 July 1999.
  • East Brunswick HS.  27 February 1998.
  • Elizabeth HS.  17 May 1996.
  • Vineland HS.  17 April 1997.
  • Passaic County Vocational Technical HS.  26 March 1997.

 

    ---.  Presentations at Kean for the following organizations and classes: English Depart-

          ment Convocation, Holocaust Resource Center, English Department Faculty

          Series, classes of Phyllis Kafka, Terri Warmbrand, and Bernard Weinstein.

 

    Café Con Leche.  Kean University.  14 March 2000.

 

     “Would the Photograph Speak.”  Commissioned poem for Walter Rosenblum: A Life

          in Photography.  Opening Reception.  Kean University. 9 November 1999.

 

     Women's Studies Fall Open House.  Kean University.  20 October 1999.

 

     “interstate.”  Commissioned poem for Sites/Sights of Passage: Art of the New Jersey    

         Turnpike.  Opening Reception.  Kean University.  5 October 1999.

 

     “Forwarding Slip.”  Commissioned poem for Ed Weil's retirement.  Kean University.   

          15 September 1999.

 

     “Original Sins.”  Featured reading.  Union County Library.  13 April 1999.

 

     “Writing and Revising Poetry.”  Terri Warmbrand's section of ESL 1300.  Kean

          University.  1 April 1999.

 

     “Feast.”  Commissioned poem for Dimensions of Diversity: Gender.  The Third

         Presidential Symposium. Kean University.  24 March 1999.

 

     First Night.  Ridgewood, NJ.  31 December 1998.

 

     Distinguished Poets Series.  The Poetry Center.  Paterson, NJ.  5 December 1998.

 

     Inaugural Women's Studies Advisory Induction.  October 1998.

 

     Poetry of the Shore.  Toms River Branch of the Ocean Count Library.  1 August 1998.

 

    Café Con Leche.  Kean University. 26 March 1998.

 

    “Campus at Dawn.”  Poem written for the inauguration of Dr. Ronald L. Applbaum as

         president of Kean College of New Jersey.  7 April 1997.

 

     “Young Hungarian Artists.”  Passaic: American-Hungarian Museum.  23 February

          1997.

 

     Recitation of Yevtushenko's “Baba Yaar.”  Commissioned for an Evening with Daniel

         Jonah Goldhagen. Kean College of New Jersey.  2 December 1996.

 

     Featured Kristallnacht speaker.  Lambertville, NJ: Rider University.   8 November 

          1995.

 

     Reading in translation for Yevgeny Yevtushenko.  Kean College.  8 April 1996. 

 

     Café Con Leche.  Women's Studies month.  Kean College of NJ.  March 1998.  March

           1995.

 

     Livingston: Barnes & Noble.  July 1995.

 

     First Night Ridgewood.  Ridgewood, NJ.  31 December 1994.

 

     Livingston: Barnes & Noble.  July 30, 1994.

 

     Trenton State Writers Conference.  Trenton, NJ.  19 April 1994.

 

     Poets' Wednesday.  Featured Solo.  The Barrons Art Center.  Woodbridge, NJ.  13

         April 1994.

 

     “Here and Then.”  Wayne: Borders BookStore.  April 4, 1994.

 

     Women's Studies month.  Panel on artists and writers.  Kean College of NJ.  March

          1994.

 

     “The Poetry of Love.”  With Morton D. Rich.  Alms House Press.  Nanuet: Barnes &

          Noble.  17 February 1994.

 

     The South Mountain Poetry Festival.  Millburn, NJ.  13 November 1993.

    

     West Orange: Jewish Community Center Poets' Forum. 12 October 1993.

    

     “Home Sick.”  Montclair State University.  4 May 1992.  By invitation of Professor

         Theodore Price.

 

     (W)rites of Spring.  By invitation of Kean College Writing Emphasis Committee. 

          Kean College.  8 April 1992.

 

     “Home Sick.”  New Jersey College English Association.  Middlesex County College.

          14 March 1992.

 

     “Interview.”  Poetry Reading.  New Jersey College English Association.  Middlesex

          County College.  20 April 1991.

 

     “Going Home.”  Drew University.  Madison, NJ 7 April 1991.

 

     “A Poem a Day.”  Morristown Library.  Morristown, NJ.  23 April 1990.

 

 

Presentations:

 

     “Teaching Dracula.”  NJCEA.  South Orange: Seton Hall University, 27 March 2010.

 

    “Wild Nights, Wild Nights: Sex and Violence in Emily Dickinson.  Oradell

Public Library.  March 2010.

 

     “Nun Flying Through Walls: Statues of Women in Budapest.”  American Hungarian Educators’

              Association Conference.  Pittsburgh: Duquesnes U, 8-10 May 2008.

 

     “Hungarian is Hungarian is: The Backward and Inside Out.”  American

              Hungarian Educator’s Association.  New York: St. John’s University

20 April 2007.

 

    “Sound in Poetry.”  Creative People.  Ridgewood Library.  20 November 2006.

              Currently negotiating a grant-based series of programs in creative writing

              and poetry for the public.

 

    “Hungarian Literature in Translation.”  New Jersey Festival of Hungarian Culture.

              24 September 2005.

 

    “Still Hungary: A Memoir.”  Collegium Budapest.  Fellow Seminar.  6 July 2005.

 

     “Still Hungary: Writing International Memoir.”  AHEA (American Hungarian

              Educators Association) Conference.  College of Europe.  Budapest: 2-4 June

2005.

 

     “Still Hungary: A Memoir.” English Department Faculty Colloquium in conjunction

with the Women’s Studies Collateral.”  21 March 05.  Kean University.

 

     “Emily Dickinson.”  Jeanne Stevenson’s Kindergarten Class. Frelinghuysen Schools.

 May 2004.

 

     “Wild Nights: An Evening with Emily Dickinson.” Blair Women’s Club.  17 February

04.

 

     ---. Catherine Hofman Dikson Library.  10 December 03.

 

          “Sound Painting.”  A One Day Poetry Workshop.  Burlington County College.  23

         October 1999.

 

     “De Undarum Natura: Lucretius and Woolf in The Waves.  Virginia Woolf: Turning

          the Centuries.  Ninth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference.  U of Delaware.  10 June

         1999.

 

 

Community Service Related to Professional Field

 

     Peer Reviewer for the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars. Fulbright

              Commission—Creative Writing.

 

     Associate Poetry Editor.  Future Cycle.   Online and print literary journal. 

 

      Associate Contest Judge for The Saturday Press.

 

     Contest Judge for Kean University American Academy of Poets prize. 

 

     Contest Judge for in the Reading of Poetry. Kean University. 

 

     Contest Judge for The South Mountain Poetry Festival.