


The Frost Place Writers’ Conference, Franconia, New Hampshireġ991 SUNY-Brockport Writers’ Conference, Brockport, New Yorkġ983 Spectrum Writers’ Conference, University of Washingtonġ980 Creative Writing Workshop for Gifted Students, sponsored by the Tacoma Public Schools, Fort Worden, Washington.Spring 1996 Visiting Professor, Department of English, University ofįall 1995 Visiting Professor, Department of English, Dartmouthįall 1994 Visiting Professor, Department of English, Dartmouth Collegeġ987-1995 Associate Professor of English, Memphis State University,Īnd Editor, River City (formerly Memphis State Review)ġ988-89, Director of Creative Writing, Memphis State Universityġ984-87 Acting Assistant Professor, Department of English,ġ980-83 Acting Instructor and Lecturer, Department of English,ġ977-78 Visiting Assistant Professor, Marlboro CollegeĢ004-07 Rainier Writing Workshop annual residencyġ998 Third Coast Writers’ Conference, Kalamazoo, Michiganġ994 Centrum Writers’ Conference, Port Townsend, Washington October 1996 Poetry Workshop sponsored by Writers at Work, Salt Lake City, Spring 1997 Poetry Faculty, Warren Wilson MFA Program, Warren Wilson Louisġ999-00 Visiting Poet, Ohio University, Athens, Ohioġ998-99 Visiting Poet, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michiganġ997-98 Visiting Poet, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan Visiting Poet, University of Missouri at St. Louisĭistinguished-Writer-in Residence, Wichita State University Spring 2001 Visiting Poet, University of Missouri at St. Spring 2006 Distinguished Poet-in-Residence, Fresno State Universityįall 2005 Poetry faculty, San Diego State UniversityĢ004-2008 Core faculty, Rainier Writers’ Workshop, low-residency MFA basedĪt Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WashingtonĢ003-2004 Visiting Poet, San Diego State Universityįall 2002 Poet-in-Residence, University of North Carolina at Wilmington Spring 2009 Poetry faculty, Fairfield University low-residency MFA Programįall 2009 Visiting Professor of Poetry, University of Connecticut at Storrs Spring 2014 Visiting Poet, Brandeis University, Waltham, MAįall 2012-13 Adjunct faculty, Emerson College, Boston, MAįall 2010-present Poetry faculty, Lesley University low-residency MFA Program These books have been reviewed in a number of publications, including The New York Times Book Review, Poetry, The Boston Globe,The Southern Review, Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal, The Georgia Review, The Seattle Times, The Commercial-Appeal (Memphis), Field, Tar River Poetry, The Salt Lake Tribune, Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Small Press Review, Women’s Review of Books, Kalamazoo Gazette, and Amazon On-Line Booksellers. Salt Air (poems), Wesleyan University Press, 1983 Objects of Affection (poems), Wesleyan University Press, 1987 (ed.) Where We Stand: Women Poets on Literary Tradition, Norton, 1993


(ed., with William Olsen), Planet on the Table: Poets on the Reading Life,įlying Blind (poems), Sarabande Books, 1996 Sharp Stars (poems), BOA Editions, 2009 (awarded the Isabella Gardner 1975-77 MFA in Poetry, Writers’ Workshop, University of Iowaġ966-69 MA in Anthropology, Cornell Universityġ961-65 BA in Philosophy, University of Utah
