Appearances
2010 Appearances
June 24-27, 2010: POETRY FACULTY – Jackson Hole Writers Conference, Center for the Arts, Jackson Hole WY.
March 17, 2010: POETRY READING, with Jay Hopler – City Art Reading Series, Salt Lake City Main Library, 7:00 pm.
February 9, 2010: POETRY READING, with Jay Hopler – The University of San Francisco.
2009 Appearances
December 30, 2009: SCHOLARLY PAPER: “John Donne and Ugliness” – MLA Conference, Philadelphia PA, 1:30 pm.
October 27, 2009: POETRY READING, with Jay Hopler – Prairie State College, Chicago IL, 9:30 am.
October 26, 2009: POETRY READING, with Jay Hopler – Kankakee Community College, Kankakee IL, 7:00 pm.
July 7-12, 2009: POETRY FACULTY – Imagination Conference, Cleveland State University.
May 14, 2009: POETRY READING – Hammer Museum Reading Series, UCLA, 7:00 pm.
May 6, 2009: POETRY READING – Kankakee Community College, Kankakee IL, 10:00 am.
April 15, 2009: LECTURE: “The Aesthetics of Knowledge” – Humanities Institute, University of South Florida, 6:30 to 8:00 pm.
April 3, 2009: SCHOLARLY PAPER: “George Herbert: Voluptuary of Figuration” – Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association conference, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ, 10:00 am.
April 1, 2009: POETRY READING, with Lisa Russ Spaar – Center for Literary Arts, The University of Missouri at Columbia, Reynolds Alumni Center, 7:30 pm.
March 12, 2009: POETRY READING, with Liz Robbins – The First Annual University of South Florida Symposium on Poetry and Poetics, USF Graphicstudio, 6:00 pm.
March 11, 2009: PANEL: “Meditations on the Poetic Process,” with Denise Duhamel, Liz Robbins, Nadine Meyer and Jay Hopler – The First Annual University of South Florida Symposium on Poetry and Poetics, Grace Allen Room, USF Library, 2:00 to 3:30 pm.
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— The Yale Review
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