SUSANNA RICH
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Professional

  • Professor of English. Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Teaching.
  • Kean University, Union, NJ. USA. Since 1988.
  • Coordinator of Humanities. Sussex County Community College. Newton, NJ. USA. 1987-8.

Education

  • Post-doctoral work in the M.F.A. Program in Poetry. Warren Wilson College.
  • 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. 1978.
  • B.A. in English Education, with a minor in Theater Arts. Montclair State University. 1974.

Fellowships, Awards and Honors

  • 2008 Featured Poet at Darkling Literary Magazine.
  • Nominated for the 2007 Pushcart Prize in Poetry by Journal of New Jersey Poets
  • Fulbright Research Fellowship in Creative Writing to Hungary: 2004-5.
  • Collegium Budapest Fellowship in Creative Writing: 2005.
  • 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 Chapbook. Georgetown: Finishing Line Press, 2009.
  • Television Daddy. Poetry Chapbook. 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:

Poetry:

Literary Journals:

  • ABZ: “Surfing for Jesus at Christmas”
  • bear creek haiku: “The Morning After I’m Promoted”
  • Beauty/Truth: “Back to you Robin,” “Daydreaming on Serifos,” “Island Coffee Shop: Eleusis” (Reprints)
  • Bellevue Literary Review: “In the Hospital Coffee Shop”
  • Birmingham Poetry Review: “We’re Fringed”
  • Borderlands: “To . . .loneliness@rejects.org”
  • Carquinez Poetry Review: “Christmas Baggage,” “Cordelia Tells Her Story on the Montebank Williams Show Before It’s Too Late”
  • Chiyo’s Corner: “The Street Vendor’s Rack,” in collaboration with Larry Bole, Stanford M. Forrester, Marily Hazelton, Mauree Pendergrast, and Adam Weiner.
  • Cobb Field: A Baseball Documentary. “Baseball is the Body Talking,” “Holy Cow!” “The Groundskeeper,” “The Odds.”
  • College English Notes: “Cordelia Tells Her Story on the Montebank Williams Show Before It’s Too Late” (Reprint), “Fly in the Classroom While Reading ‘I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died,’” “Lady Macbeth Explains End-of-Season Sales,” “Marking Your Paper in the Dentist’s Chair”
  • Confrontation: “Sleepwalker: Budapest”
  • Darkling: “The Buck,” “Dear Anne,” “Hitler’s,” “In the Garden of Grief”
  • Diner: “Extreme Makeover: Another Application,” “Making Returns to the Supermarket After Yet Another Bash”
  • Dovetail: “Passover” (Reprint)
  • Earth’s Daughters: “My Mother’s Last Romance,” “wrong numbers”
  • Eclipse: “The Child Left,” “The Bachelor“
  • Ekphrasis: “Back to you Robin,” “Daydreaming on Serifos,” “Island Coffee Shop: Eleusis”
  • English Journal: “Multiple Seed: To Students Writing in Response to ‘Paterson’,” “Rebecca Speaks”
  • Eureka Literary Magazine: “Coming Out: A Villanelle”
  • The Evansille Review: “Beggar in Hungary”
  • Feminist Studies: “Grandmother Sausages”
  • Film & History: “Home Movies”
  • Findings: “Stop and Go”
  • Future Cycle: “Interview” (Reprint)
  • Folly Magazine: “The Thing.” http://www.follymag.com/files/FOLLY_May-08.pdf
  • Green Prints: “Gathering Flowers Before Frost”
  • Hubbub: “Cinderella Confesses to the Stepmother.” “Cinderella Bestows the Fire upon the Stepmother,” “In the Ever-After, Cinderella Writes Her Stepsister”
  • Journal of New Jersey Poets: “My Mother: The Queen of Kvetch”
  • Kalliope: “Learning by Accident”
  • Kerf: “Kudzu”
  • Lips: “Funeral for My ’84 Mustang”
  • Lullwater Review: “Imagine”
  • Mainewoods: “Backing up the Nag,” “Come to the Dance,” “Dancing With Wide Skirts,” “Eat up the Music,” “Woman Finding a Partner for the Dance”
  • Paterson Literary Review: “Television Daddy,” Editor’s Choice in the 2007 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest; “Late Lunch at the Rusty Scupper,” Finalist for the Allen Ginsberg Award, 1996; “Guardian Angel,” 1988 Contest Finalist; “Frank,” 1983 Contest Finalist.
  • Phoebe (NY): “My Mother's Kitchen is her Pontiac”
  • Phoebe (VA): “possession,” “ventriloquist”
  • Poem: “Walking Holly Down a Wooded Lane.” Winner: Warren County Poetry Contest: 2003.
  • thepoetryreview.com: “Adopt-a-Corpse”
  • PoLísz (Budapest): “Reklámszatyrok.” Trans. of “Shopping Bags” by Éva Tóth. 100 Anniversary issue.
  • Porcupine: “Applause,” “Wrapping Paper”
  • REAL: Regarding Arts & Letters. “The Softness Truth Requires,” “This Marriage”
  • Rio Grande Review: “The Catless,” “Just Testing,” “Self-Flushing”
  • River Oak Review: “Cape May in January”
  • Sanskrit: “The End-All Diet”
  • Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts: “Clothing: Auschwitz,” “Eucharist”
  • The South Carolina Review: “Buying My Father Shoes,” “Pentecost Sunday: Màtyàs Church, Budapest”
  • South Coast Poetry Journal: “The Buck,” Contest Finalist, 1993; “Taking Photographs”
  • Southern California Review: “Meetings”
  • Spillway: “Lungs”
  • Spitball: “Breaking Ball,” “A Play-by-Play From Purgatory,” “Squeeze Play”
  • Sulphur River Literary Review: “Campus at Dawn”
  • terrain.org: “Monument Valley”
  • Terminus: “Scriptoderm CQ: For Coming Down From You”
  • Tiferet: “Signaling No One in the Dark”
  • Tri-Muse: “Centennial: 1994,” “Ocean Grove: 1892,” “The Opposite Shore”
  • Urthona: “Hurry Up Sunrise,” “Requiem for a Terrorist’s Hands”
  • Visions-International: “Shopping Bags,” “Passover”
  • The Vocabula Review: “Admission: Of and To,” “A Poet’s Luck”
  • Willard & Maple: “To Sperm”
  • Willow Review: “Communion Sunday,” “Playgirl”
  • The Women’s Studies Bulletin: “Back to you Robin”
  • Xavier Review: “Blesséd Be J.C. Penney”
  • Zone 3: “Our Lady of the Coupon”

Anthologies:

  • “The Buck.” Reprinted in Writers at the Water’s Edge. Ocean Grove: Tri-Muse, 2003.
  • ---. Reprinted in For She is The Tree of Life. Ed. Valerie Kack-Brice. Berkeley, CA: Conari, 1995.
  • “Clothing.” Finalist. The Dance Poetry Festival. San Francisco, CA. 24 September 2000.
  • “Frosting.” Chocolate Lovers. Ocean Grove: Tri-Muse, 2004.
  • “Grandmother Sausages.” Reprinted in Writers at the Water’s Edge. Ocean Grove: Tri-Muse, 2003.
  • ---. Hymns to the Outrageous. Johnstown: Pudding House P, forthcoming.
  • “Her Turn.” Through a Child’s Eyes: Poems and Stories About War. Eds. Victor Klimoski and Samuel Torvend. Austin: Plain View, 2001.
  • “Interview.” If I Had a Hammer: Women At Work. Ed. Sandra Martz. Watsonville: Papier Machè. 1990.
  • ---. Reviewed in Administration & Management 11.3 September (1995): 1.
  • ---. Reprinted in Future Cycle (2007).
  • “The Smoker’s Prayer.” Cigarettes, Lips, These Fingertips. G. Marie, 1993.
  • “What She Wore.” Sharon Spencer. Merida: Lioness, 2002. 24-5.
  • “Squeeze Play.” Reprinted in sportsfanmagazine.com 30 March 2004.

Essays:

  • “Hungarian is Hungarian is: The Backward and Inside Out.” Pilvax. Budapest. 5 (2008): 11-16
  • “Slapped:with;liGhtninG: Poetry and Punctuation.” In The Elements of Poetry.
  • Ed. Blas Falconer. Clarksville: Zone 3. Forthcoming.
  • “Shadow Fingers Across the Page: Revising ‘The Buck’.” Poem, Revised. Ed. Robert Hartwell Fiske. Rockport: Marion Street P., 2008.
  • Rockport: Marion Street P. Forthcoming.
  • “[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.

Television:

  • Commissioned to write and voice-over baseball poetry for PBS documentary: Cobb Field, produced by Emmy Award Winning Craig Lindvahl.Callan Films, 2008: “The Groundskeeper,” “The Odds,” ”Baseball is the Body Talking,” “Holy Cow!”
  • Gothic: 10 Anniversary Celebration of the Carriage House Poetry Series—   Founding and Current Director, Adele Kenny. With poets Robert Carnevale, Cat Doty, Adele Kenny, Diane Lockward, Alex Pinto, and Tom Plante, April 25, 2008. Fanwood, NJ. Program aired April 30, 2008.
  • International Folkdancing: Directed 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:

  • I am founding host and producer of Poets on Air, an educational radio series webcast at Poets on Air
  • Interviewed by Elekes Ìrèn on Civil Radio 26 August 2005.
  • Interview bt Filippinyi Èva on Kossuth Ràdio July 28, rebroadcast on Bàrtok Ràdio 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.
  • ---. Poets on Air 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.
  • ---. Poets on Air 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.

Exhibitions:

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

Community Service Related to Professional Field

  • Reviewer for the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars. Fulbright Commission.
  • Associate 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.