cv for Jeffrey Ethan Lee

identity papers, a long poem on a CD performed by Jeffrey Lee, percussionist Toshi Makihara and actress Lori-Nan Engler (Drimala Records, 2002, at www.drimala.com).

[2001]

Strangers in a Homeland (chapbook from Ashland University: Ashland Poetry Press, 2001).

Poems in Literary Journals, Magazines, Reviews, Online Audio Archives etc: (in reverse chronological order)

[2006]

North American Review (March-April 2006) for “After she said ‘You can work around me / somehow he knew,” a finalist in the James Hearst Poetry Prize Competition.

[2005]

North American Review (March-April 2005) for “after a painting by antonio salemme."

PENNsound (digital poetry archive project at the University of Pennsylvania) in the “Series” section, in the“Poetic Brooklyn” web page, “Jeffrey Ethan Lee Interview” (recorded June 6, 2004—archived Summer 2005): Introduction by Susan Brennan (2:07); Sex Ed Blues (1:44); Discussion (2:29); Peace Valley Elementary School During the Vietnam War (5:44); Discussion 2 (27:02); Invisible Sister (4:51); Discussion 3 (3:56); Iris’ Painter Hears the Rain Music Return Off-Broadway (3:52); and Final Discussion (5:28). Full Interview (57:33). http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Poetic-Brooklyn.html

PENNsound (digital poetry archive project at the University of Pennsylvania) “Singles” section, for four live recordings by Jeffrey Loo, (a.k.a. Lee) “Crossing Walt Whitman Bridge,” “Out of the Machine,” “the lambs,” and “Excerpt from Identity Papers” with actress Lori-Nan Engler. http://www.writing.upenn.edu/singles/

[2004]

CakeTrain, #1 Spring-Summer 2004, for “autumnal on a day her mother threatened suicide,” “but they’ll kill you (in bethlehem, pa.),” “lost hotel,” “Hitting Rock Bottom,” and “Brooklyn F Train August Duet (for evangelical ranter and red-faced retiree.)”

Ducts 2004 (http://www.ducts.org) for “funny english lesson.”

Painted Bride Quarterly: Print Annual 2 (Issue 68) for “her blues.”

Drexel Online Journal (http://www.drexel.edu/doj/index.asp) for “Plausibly Deniable Family Poem #1” (2004).

XConnect (http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect) for “NYC leitmotifs,” “Iris’ painter hears the rain music return (off broadway),” and “Iris’ blues for her painter” (March 2004).

Unpleasant Event Schedule ( http://www.unpleasanteventschedule.com/) for “Towards Euphoria” (March 2004).

[2003]

Runes: A Review of Poetry (December 2003) for “his poem (without adjectives)/her blues” [two-voiced poem].

Polyphony, a magazine of contemporary narrative poetry, dramatic poetry, poetic drama, epic, verse novel...(December 2003 at http://geocities.com/polyphonymag/0312/poem4.htm for “identity papers,” the title part of identity papers.

Drexel Online Journal (November, 2003 at http://www.drexel.edu/doj/index.asp) for “Some Temples in Japan” and “Contractually Obligatory Marriage Poem #3” [two-voiced poem].

Painted Bride Quarterly (Issue 68: Spaces/Places, 2003 at http://www.pbq.rutgers.edu/issues/68/poetryindex.html) for “her blues.”

Taikonaut (No. 1, Jan. 2003 at http://www.taikonaut-arts.com) for “what is given,” and the reprints: “air and variations/heretic psalm” [two-voiced poem], “air and sampan and child/the first step” [two-voiced poem], and “A Dance with Hope/she remembers what she was” [two-voiced poem].

[2002]

Can We Have Our Ball Back? (#11, 2002 at http://canwehaveourballback.com/11lee.htm) for “Transcendental Meditation in Mr. Rissinger’s 8th Grade Science Class.”

ducts (at www.ducts.org Summer 2002) for “invitation to a disaster” and “color schemes,” and the audio files and texts of “ER Entries” [two-voiced poem] and “crossing walt whitman bridge,” which are excerpts from the identity papers CD.

Fresh Water (Anthology from Pudding House Press, 2002) for “to the nameless river.”

Improvijazzation Nation (No. 54, 2002 at http://home.attbi.com/~rzzaj/z54poems.htm) for “NYC leitmotifs,” “in a dream Etheridge came to tell me,” and “Some Temples in Japan.”

La Petite Zine (Spring 2002, No.10 at http://www.lapetitezine.org/) for “Contractually Obligatory Marriage Poems, Nos. 1-2.”

Many Mountains Moving (Vol. IV, No. 3, 2002) for “invitation to a disaster,” “the irrevocable awe,” “air and sampan and child / the first step” [two-voiced poem], “a happy death / in this wild cold field” [two-voiced poem], “the lambs,” and “the guard’s reverie.”

Washington Square (No. 9, 2002) “she wanted to be.... / heaven to him” [two-voiced poem].

Xconnect: Writers of the Information Age V (Philadelphia, PA: CrossConnect, Inc., 2002) for reprinting “Love Story Variations in Twenty Words a Pop” [09/05/02].

[2001]

Crab Orchard Review (Vol. 6, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2001) for “the returning.”

Crazy Horse (2001) for “invisible sister” (parts 1-3), “my invisible sister remembers her first time,” “invisible sister fragments” (parts 1-2), “at the all american diner (allentown, pa.),” “monster,” and “Hitting Rock Bottom.”

Mad Poets Review (Vol. 16, 2001) for “digression” (2001 version).

XConnect (Vol. VI, June 2001 at http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect) for “night out with my sister’s contact improvisational dance girlfriends.”

[2000]

Barrow Street (Summer 2000) for “digression” (2000 version) and “a far and pure wilderness.”

Green Mountains Review (Vol. xii, No. 2, 1999-2000) for “graying flowers in the smog.”

Inkwell Magazine (No. 11 Winter 2000) for “elation (some variations)” [two-voiced poem].

Knowing Stones: Poems of Exotic Places (Anthology, 2000) for “In Kamakura (Japan).”

Southern Poetry Review (Vol. xl, No. 2, 2000) for “out-of-body travel at thirteen.”

XConnect (Vol. V, Nov. 2000) at http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect) for “Love Story Variations in Twenty Words a Pop” and “Sex Ed Blues.”

[1999]

And What Rough Beast: Poems for the End of the Century (Anthology, Ashland Poetry Press, 1999) “For Etheridge Knight (1933–March 10, 1991)” reprint.

Southern Poetry Review (Vol. xxxix, No. 1, 1999) for “nostalgia for nowhere.”

[1998]

Crab Orchard Review (Vol. 3, No. 2, Spring/Summer 1998) for “clashing color schemes: white fire stolen from the gods.”

DIS-orient (Vol. 6, 1998) for “clashing color schemes: white fire stolen from the gods” (reprint), “The Recognition of Dean McBerger,” and “They’re Trying to Kill Us, Part 3....”

The Philadelphia Inquirer (04/19/1998, H4) “The Falling Sky,” (05/17/1998, H4) “The Falling Sky” (second excerpt), and (07/26/1998, H4) “A Dance with Hope” (reprint).

Rampike (Vol. 9, No. 2, 1998) for “A Dance with Hope/...she remembers what she was” [two-voicedpoem].

Rampike (Vol. 10, No. 1, 1998) for “The Sylf: the genii-ology of the heart/mind” [two-voiced poem].

[1997]

Colors (Vol. 6, No. 3, 1997) for an early version of identity papers (“ax of violence” and “to love this darkness: post-traumatic stress disorder.”

DIS-orient (Vol. 5, 1997) for “A Secretary Complains” and “Late American Empire Blues or ‘America’s Going Out of Empire Sale – Last Days to Save.”

Many Mountains Moving (Vol. III, No. 2, 1997) for “the accident of our illusions (her side) / let the sky fall far through me (his side)” [two-voiced poem].

Palanquin Press Pamphlet Series (Vol. 10, No. 2, March, 1997) for“she remembers what she was,” “A Dance with Hope,” “meditation on the nameless river” and “midfall improvisation.”

Prayers to Protest (Pudding House Press Anthology, 1997) for reprinting “East and West” [two-voiced poem].

Rio: A Journal of the Arts (No. 3, 1997, E-zine) for “the healing rhythm of blood” [two-voiced poem].

Southern Poetry Review (Vol. xxxvii, No. 2, 1997) for “the christ machine: a fugue of afterthoughts” [two-voiced poem]

XConnect (Vol. II No. 3, 1997 at http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect/v2/i3/contents.shtml) for “The Sylf.”

[alphabetical listing of earlier publications]

Poems in Literary Journals, Magazines, Reviews etc:

Abiko Quarterly: with James Joyce and Finnegans Wake Studies (Japan, 1996) for an Editor’s Choice for “for Samuel Beckett (04/13/06–12/22/89) parts I-III, and “Meditation: Air and Variations/Heretic Psalm” [two-voiced poem].

African-American Review (Vol. 28, No. 4, 1994) for “Acts/Ax of Love,” “Death Says,” “For Etheridge Knight (1933– March 10, 1991), “The Hand That Forgets,” and “The Driven Who Ride Anyway.”

American Poetry Review (May-June, 1985) for “Rejoice!”

The Atavist (No. 3, 1984) for “transience #3.”

The Cape Rock (Vol. 28, No. 1, Spring 1993) for “Death Says.”

City Paper (Writing Awards Issue – 01/06/95) for “ex machina.”

Connecticut River Review (Vol. 10 No. 1, 10^th Anniversary issue,1988) for “Air and Sampan and Child.”

Crosscurrents (Vol. IV, No. 4, 1985) for “whited out.”

Crosscurrents (Vol. VII, No. 4, 1988) for “Breath.”

DIS-orient (Vol. 2, No. 1, 1994) “What Was Always Real” and “whole melting moon / rivers in heaven” [two-voiced poem].

Footwork: The Paterson Literary Review No. 24-25 (1995) for “Returning home.”

Fresh Water (Anthology from Pudding House Press, 2002) for “to the nameless river.”

Green Mountains Review (Vol. xii, No. 2, 1999-2000) for “graying flowers in the smog.”

Half the Other (chapbook anthology by the Asian Arts Initiative, 1996) for “strangers in a homeland.”

Hayden’s Ferry Review (No. 11, 1992) for “A Year Without Sky.”

Metis: a feminist quarterly (No. 5) for “the moon blowing our house away.”

Metis: a women’s literary quarterly (No. 8) for “a dancing meditation.”

Mildred (Vol. II, No. 1, 1988) for “dream of everything human in me.”

Mildred (Vol. III, No. 2, 1989) for “The Power.”

Moonrabbit Review (Vol. 1, No. 2, 1996) for “East and West” [two-voiced poem], “ex machina” and “her answer.”

Negative Capability (Vol. VI, No. 4, 1986) for “a man against a wall.”

Negative Capability (Vol. XII, No. 3, 1992) for “the ax of love.”

Ohio Poetry Review (Vol. I, No. 2, 1994) for “The Miscarriage.”

Pacific Review (1992) for “Air and Variations.”

POET Magazine (Vol. IV, No. 1, 1992) for the 1992 version of “air and sampan and child.”

POET Magazine (Vol. IV, No. 2, 1992) for “Early Morning Light.”

Rant (No. 4, 1992) for “Surreal Soul in the USA.”

Rant (No. 5, 1995) for “to pornography (and/or the critics who prescribe against the pathetic fallacy).”

Raven Chronicles (1992 Vol. 1, No. 3) for “twelve-penny common nails.”

Raven Chronicles (Vol 4, No. 2, 1995) for “Kamakura.”

Reed Magazine (1996) for “Aubade and Early Morning Light’s answer” [two-voiced poem].

Slate (Vol. II, No. 1, 1996) for “those lies of memories” [two-voiced poem].

Slipstream (No. 14, 1994) for “the angel of pain.”

Southern Poetry Review (Vol. xxxvi, No. 2, 1996) for the 1996 version of “crossing walt whitman bridge.”

Swift Kick (No. 5/6) for “Breaths.”

Synaesthetic (No. 3) “the accident of our illusions/let the sky fall far through me” [two-voiced poem].

This (Vol. 1, 1994) for the 1994 version of “Late American Empire Blues.”

Unitarian Universalist Poets: A Contemporary American Survey (Anthology from Pudding House Press, 1996) for “the path / writing to save my life” [two-voiced poem].

Forthcoming poetry publications: Many Mountains Moving Online 2006 and Many Mountains Moving 2006, and Poetic Brooklyn Audio CD Compilation.

Poems in Public Art:
Mural Arts Program of Philadelphia: “the accident of our illusions/let the sky fall far through me” is excerpted on the 12th and Vine Street Chinatown Mural; the whole poem is on a plaque at pedestrian-level.

The University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Henderson Building, University of Colorado Main Campus at Boulder as part of the Exhibit, “Object Conversations,” (March 15, 2005—February 1, 2006): “900-year-old winter moccasins/reflections after the facts” [two-voiced poem].

Fiction:

ProjectedLetters (Issue #3, February 2005) for chapters 1-6 of The Autobiography of Somebody Else (a novel).

Many Mountains Moving (Vol. V, No. 2, 2003) for “out-of-body travel at thirteen” (short story).

Many Mountains Moving (Vol. IV, No. 3, 2002) for “Dr. S” (short story).

ducts at www.ducts.org (December, 2001) for “Catastrophic Loss” (short story).

The Autobiography of Somebody Else (a novel), winner of the 2001 Tupelo Press fiction competition.

Creative Nonfiction:

A Reading of Philip Larkin’s “Homage to a Government” (essay) in Drexel Online Journal (Dec. 2003) at http://www.drexel.edu/doj/index.asp.

“Letter from Greeley, CO” (feature) in Drexel Online Journal (Nov. 2003) at http://www.drexel.edu/doj/index.asp.

“Drowning in the Same Neighborhood,” (essay) in The Writing Self (Vol. 3, No. 4, 1994).

“A Little Hopeful” (essay) in Pass/Fail, an anthology on teaching (Kleidon Publishing, 2001).

Scholarly/Pedagogical Publications:

Forthcoming in Philosophy and Cultural Encounters, Ed. Jin Y. Park, “Dorothy Wordsworth’s “To my Niece Dora” (DCMS 122), an Unpublished Variant: Exploring a Poetics of Caring.”

“Redistributing Authority in the Creative Writing Workshop” Pedagogy Papers 2004 (a publication of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Annual Conference, March 2004.)

Co-authored with Emilie Harting “Redistributing Authority in the Creative Writing Workshop,” an article in Michigan Community College Journal, Fall 2000.

Online at: http://www.schoolcraft.cc.mi.us/pdfs/cce/00HartingLoo.pdf

Literary Reviews / Columns:

Forthcoming Review of The Far Mosque by Kazim Ali (Alice James Books, 2005) The Painted Bride Quarterly, 2006.

Review of The Broken World by Marcus Cafagña (University of Illinois Press, 1996) and Likely by Lisa Coffman (Kent State University Press, 1996) The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 28, 1997, Q3.

Review of The Summer of Black Widows by Sherman Alexie (Hanging Loose Press, 1996) in The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 29, 1996, Q3.

Review of The Gangster of Love by Jessica Hagedorn (Houghton Mifflin, 1996) in The Philadelphia Inquirer October 13, 1996 Q5.

“Regional Report” on the Philadelphia literary, performance, and choreography scene in ExplanAsian: The Asian American Writers Workshop Publication, Summer 1996.

Review of Damages, a volume of poems by Elaine Terranova (Copper Canyon Press, 1996) in The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 18, 1996, K4.

Review of WE No. 14, an audiomagazine in Home Planet News, Spring 1992.

Review of APOSTROPHE, an audiomagazine of Poetry in Home Planet News, Fall 1992.

REVIEWS OF JEFFREY ETHAN LEE'S WORKS:

* Brief Review by Vince Gotera of invisible sister in North American Review, May-June 2005.

* Review by Marj Hahne of invisible sister in Rain Taxi Review of Books Online or http://www.raintaxi.com, 2005.

* Review by Denise Duhamel of invisible sister in American Book Review July—August 2005.

* Review by Thaddeus Rutkowski of invisible sister published in Gathering of the Tribes (online) Spring 2005.

* Review by Thaddeus Rutkowski of invisible sister published in Small Press Review Nov.-Dec. 2004.

* Review by Jennifer Chapis of invisible sister published in Polyphony September 2004 at http://www.geocities.com/polyphonymag/

* Review by Francis Alix of The Sylf published in Small Press Review Sept.-Oct. 2003.

* Review Rotcod Zzaj of identity papers (audio recording) published in Improvijazzation Nation 2002.

AWARDS & HONORS: (selected)

* Finalist for the 2005 North American Review Hearst Poetry Prize (publication March-April 2006).

* Finalist for the 2004 North American Review Hearst Poetry Prize (published March-April 2005).

* Sow’s Ear Poetry Press Chapbook Award (2002, published April 2003).

* Tupelo Press Literary Fiction Award (2001) for a novel.

* Finalist in the 2000 Inkwell Magazine Poetry Competition (publication Winter 2000).

* Nominated for the Ruth Lilly Fellowship by the New York University Creative Writing Program, 1999.

* Won the Palanquin Press Pamphlet Competition (publication 1997)

* Editor’s Choice Award from Abiko Quarterly 1994 (publication 1996).

* Won the 10th Annual City Paper Writing Award, 1994 (publication 1995).

* Nominated by The Writing Self for a Pushcart Prize in prose, 1994 (publication 1994).

* Third Prize (1992) and an Honorable Mention (1994) in the Allen Ginsberg Awards at Passaic County Community College (publication 1995).

GRANTS:

* FRPB (Faculty Research and Publication Board) Award for the project, "Producing an Audio Recording of Original Poems with Voices in Counterpoint"

at University of Northern Colorado, 10/29/2003.

* PT3 Grant recipient at University of Northern Colorado (Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to use Technology) Spring 2003.

* Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance Grant (2001) for seven performances of identity papers, 2001-2002.

* PA Council on the Arts award (December 2000): SOS (Special Opportunity Stipend) to record identity papers, a poetry-music collaboration distributed by Drimala Records (2002).

* Recipient of an Asian Arts Initiative Grant to perform identity papers with percussionist Toshi Makihara, presented in 1997.

* Co-recipient with playwright Joseph Sorrentino and Frank X of a New Forms Regional Grant via the Painted Bride Art Center to write/perform a new work (1997).

* Recipient, PA Arts Council Grant to coordinate the Open Space Gallery poetry series, 1988.

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE:

Book layout/design editor and webmaster for Many Mountains Moving and Many Mountains Moving Press, (Fall 2005—current).

Poetry Editor for Many Mountains Moving (Spring 2005—current).

Associate Poetry Editor for Many Mountains Moving (Fall 2004-Spring 2005).

Contributing Editor for Many Mountains Moving (2003).

Poetry Editor for Northeast Corridor (1993-1995).

Editorial staff for the Painted Bride Quarterly (1992).

CONFERENCE PAPERS/PRESENTATIONS: (selected)

* Presented “Dorothy Wordsworth’s ‘To my Niece Dora’ (DCMS 122), an Unpublished Variant: Exploring a Poetics of Caring,” an essay prepared for the Invited Symposium at the International Association for Philosophy and Literature (IAPL) on May, 2004, Syracuse, NY.

* Presented a talk on Online Pedagogy as part of an Innovative Curricula Panel at the Associated Writing Programs (AWP) in 03/01/03 in Baltimore, MD.

* Presented a talk on Asian-American writers at the International Association for Philosophy and Literature (IAPL) as part of the East and West Encounters panel on 05/06/01 at Spelman College, Atlanta, GA.

* Presented a talk on a Pedagogy Panel at the Associated Writing Programs (AWP) 04/01 in Palm Springs, CA.

* Presented “Reinventing ‘Authority’ in the Creative Writing Workshop: Practical Methods for Large Classes of Nontraditional Students” for the panel on Empowering Student Response at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) 04/08/00 in Buffalo, N.Y.

* Co-presenter at the Associated Writing Programs (AWP) on creative writing at two-year colleges, 2000 in Kansas City, MO.

* Chaired a session on British Women Romantic poets’ intertextual relations for the Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA), 04/16/99 in Pittsburgh.

* “‘Tintern Abbey’ as ‘hidden dialogue’: ‘imitating’ Dorothy Wordsworth’s 1798 Alfoxden Journal.” Presented on the “Collaborative Crossings” panel of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), 11/15/96

* “William and Dorothy Wordsworth’s ‘hidden dialogue’” for the NEMLA Bakhtin panel 04/19-20/96.

* “Dorothy Wordsworth’s ‘To my Niece Dora’ (DCMS122) as a Response to William Wordsworth” at the American Conference on Romanticism (09/21-24/95).

TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:

University of Northern Colorado: Tenure-track Assistant Professor (2002-2005)

ENG 639: Poetry Seminar & Workshop (S 2004)

ENG 497: Poetry/Poetics Senior Seminar (S 2005)

ENG 497: Poetry/Poetics Senior Seminar Online (SU 2005, F 2005)

ENG 441: Modernist/Postmodernist Poetry (F 2005)

ENG 422: Directed Studies in lieu of an Internship at Many Mountains Moving (S 2005)

ENG 422: Directed Studies in lieu of ENG 440: literary magazine practicum (S 2005, S 2003)

ENG 340: Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry (S 2006, F 2005, S 2005, F 2004, S 2004, F 2003, S 2003, F 2002)

ENG 340 Online: Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry (S 2005, SU 2004, F 2005)

ENG 340 Online: Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry (Extended Studies) (S 2005)

ENG 240: Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry (F 2004, F 2003, F 2002)

ENG 236: Asian American Literature (S 2006)

ENG 131: Introduction to Literature (F 2005, S 2005, F 2004, S 2004, F 2003, F 2002)

Life of the Mind 288: Contemporary Arts Connections (S 2006)

Temple University (2001-2002)

Fiction Writing: English 108 (S 02)

Advanced Fiction Writing: English 202 (F 01)

Community College of Philadelphia: Tenured Assistant Professor (1997-2002)

English 205 online: Creative Writing (S 02, Summer 01)

English 210: Advanced Creative Writing (S 01, S 00)

English 205: Creative Writing (S 02, F 01, F 00, F 99, S 98, F 97)

Humanities 101: Ancient to Renaissance (F 00, 01)

Humanities 102: Renaissance to the present (S 01, S 00)

English 102: Research Paper (F 99)

English 100/101: College Writing / College Reading (S 99, F 97)

English 098/108: Fundamentals of Writing /Reading Across the Disciplines (S 02, F 01)

English 098/099: Remedial Writing /Reading (F 98)

English 241: Shakespeare (S 98)

English 104: Advanced Writing and Revision (S 98, F 97)

English 101: College Composition (S 98)

Director of the Teaching Center: (F 98-S 01)

Facilitating intellectual, cultural and professional development programs for the faculty.

Franklin & Marshall College: Full-time Visiting Assistant Professor

English 272 Contemporary Asian American Literature (S 97)

English 382 Creative Writing Poetry: Seminar (S 97)

English 491 William and Dorothy Wordsworth in Dialogue: Seminar (S 97)

English 101 Introduction to Literature (two sections) (F 96)

Camden County College: Full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor

Women’s Literature (Middle Ages to the present) (F 95-S 96)

Contemporary Literature (Beckett, Camus, Kundera) (S 96)

World Literature (Homer & Aeschylus to Shakespeare) (S 96)

Composition II (two sections) (S 96)

Composition I & Composition II (three sections) (F 95)

Beaver College: Creative Writing

Studies in Reading and Writing Poetry, EN 345/219 (S 94 & S 95)

Writing Fiction and Poetry, EN 212 (F 93)

Writing and Understanding Poetry, EN 345 (like EN 345/219 above) (S 93)

Beaver College: Director, Learning Resources Center, 3/4 time. (F 92-S 95)

Tutorial Coordinar and College Academic Achievement Program Director.

Rutgers University (New Brunswick): Part-Time Lecturer and Professional Tutor.

English 100: Basic Writing (two sections) (F 91-S 92)

English 101 (two sections) & English 098: Remedial (F 90-S 91)

PRIMARY TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Creative Writing/Contemporary Poetics/Pedagogy.

British Romantic poetry/prose and Bakhtin.

Modernism/Postmodernism (M.A. Thesis on the Eliots, Joyce and Pound) and Asian-American Literature.

LANGUAGES: French.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

Associated Writing Programs, Modern Language Association, International Association of Philosophy and Literature.

EDUCATIONAL SERVICE & ACTIVITIES:

[2005-2006]

* Administrative Fees-Institutional Planning Committee for the University of Northern Colorado.

* Thesis Advisor for Damien Kortum, M.A. candidate Fall 2005.

* The Neal Cross Committee, arranging to bring National Poetry Series Winner Marcus Cafagña and novelist Thaddeus Rutkowski (forthcoming 2006).

* Writing Committee.

* Curriculum Committee.

* Writers’ Conference Committee, sponsoring literary events for the university and region.

* Taiwanese Student Association Advisor.

[2004-2005]

* Faculty Advisor for the University of Northern Colorado literary/arts magazine, online and in print, Fall 2004-Spring 2005.

* Directed Study Advisor for Damien Kortum, M.A. candidate Spring 2005.

* M.A. Thesis reader for Lorae Blum (April 2005).

* Directed Study Advisor for Carolyn Whitten, B.A. candidate, during an inernship at Many Mountains Moving.

* The Neal Cross Committee, arranging to bring poet Kathryn Winograd and fiction writer Naomi Horii.

* Curriculum Committee.

* Writers’ Conference Committee, sponsoring literary events for the university and region.

* Taiwanese Student Association Advisor.

[2003-2004]

* Faculty Advisor for the University of Northern Colorado literary/arts magazine, online and in print, Fall 2003-Summer 2004.

* Curriculum Committee.

* Neal Cross Committee, sponsoring literary events for the English Department, including bringing poet Ken Waldman.

* Writers’ Conference Committee, sponsoring literary events for the university and region.

* Writing Minor Committee.

* Taiwanese Student Association Advisor.

[2002-2003]

* Faculty Advisor for the University of Northern Colorado literary/arts magazine, online and in print, Fall 2002-Summer 2003.

* Neal Cross Committee, sponsoring literary events for the English Department.

* Writing Minor Committee.

* Directed Study Advisor for Laura Carver, Jade Cody, Heath Howes, James Kerley and Erik Nilsen in English 422 (in lieu of English 440: literary magazine).

* Directed Study Advisor and Thesis Advisor for Dale Bridges, M.A. candidate Fall 2002.

[1997-2002]

* Faculty Advisor for Limited Editions 1998-2002, the Community College of Philadelphia literary magazine.

* Director of the 4th and 5th Annual Poets and Writers’ Series at the Community College of Philadelphia, Spring 1998, 1999; Co-director of the 6th Poets and Writers’ Series, Spring 2000.

* Director of the Teaching Center, Fall 1998-Summer 2001.

* English Department Hiring Committee, 1998-1999.

* Judge for the Judith Stark Creative Writing Contests, 1997-1998.

* College-wide Hiring Committee for the Director of Orientation and Retention, 1997-1998.

* Faculty Professional Development Committee, Autumn 1998-Spring 2000, Spring 2001.

COMMUNITY ARTS SERVICE & ACTIVITIES:

* Poetry Editor, webmaster and layout/design editor for Many Mountains Moving (2005-current); Associate Poetry Editor (2004); Contributing Editor (Summer 2003).

* Represented the persona of Lawrence Ferlinghetti for the Beat Poetry Reading at the Greeley Chautauqua, August 5, 2005.

* Board Chair (1999-2001), Personnel Committee Chair (1997-2002), and Board Member (1995-2002) for the Asian Arts Initiative of Philadelphia [www.asianartsinitiative.org].

* Co-director of the NotCoffeehouse Poets & Performers Series at the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia (1995-2002). See some of the poets, writers and performers.

* Coordinator of Loose Canon Writers’ Collective (1995-2001).

* Panelist for the “Dialogue on Race: In Search of Common Ground” on 02/17/98 at WHYY Television Forum Studios; and panelist and facilitator for the

“Dialogue on Race and Education” at CCP on 4/4/98 sponsored by the Philadelphia Martin Luther King, Jr. Association for Nonviolence, Inc.

* Coordinator of the Cafe 90 Series (1991-94), free series for poets, writers, musicians, artists, performers.

LITERARY CONTEST JUDGING:

* Poetry contest judge for The Arapahoe Community College Writers Studio Annual Literary Contest for The Progenitor, Spring 2005.

* Creative Writing Contest Judge for the Otero Arts Festival in Colorado, Spring 2005 and Spring 2006.

COMMUNITY-BASED CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS:

* Led a creative writing workshop on “Starting from Scratches, Part 4” at Many Mountains Moving in Boulder, Colorado, 12/04/05.

* Led a creative writing workshop on “Starting from Scratches, Part 3” at Many Mountains Moving in Boulder, Colorado, 11/13/05.

* Led a creative writing workshop on “Starting from Scratches, Part 2” at Many Mountains Moving in Boulder, Colorado, 10/09/05.

* Led a creative writing workshop on “Starting from Scratches, Part 1” at Many Mountains Moving in Boulder, Colorado, 09/11/05.

* Led a creative writing workshop on “Transformations of the Inner Voice, Part 5” at Many Mountains Moving in Boulder, Colorado, 07/17/05.

* Led a creative writing workshop on "Transformations of the Inner Voice, Part 4" at Many Mountains Moving in Boulder, Colorado, 06/05/2005.

* Led a creative writing workshop on "Transformations of the Inner Voice, Part 3" at Many Mountains Moving in Boulder, Colorado, 05/15/2005.

* Led a creative writing workshop on "Transformations of the Inner Voice, Part 2" at Many Mountains Moving in Boulder, Colorado, 04/17/2005.

* Led a creative writing workshop on "Transformations of the Inner Voice, Part 1" at Many Mountains Moving in Boulder, Colorado, 03/20/2005.

* Led a creative writing workshop on "Public Dreaming, Part 4" at Many Mountains Moving in Boulder, Colorado, 02/20/05.

* Led a creative writing workshop on "Public Dreaming, Part 3" at Many Mountains Moving in Boulder, Colorado, 01/09/05.

* Led a creative writing workshop on "Public Dreaming, Part 2" at Many Mountains Moving in Boulder, Colorado, 12/05/04.

* Led a creative writing workshop on "Public Dreaming, Part 1" at Many Mountains Moving in Boulder, Colorado, 11/07/04.

* Led a creative writing workshop on "The spontaneous voice returns" at Many Mountains Moving in Boulder, Colorado, 10/03/04.

* Led a creative writing workshop on “The spontaneous voice in language poetry/poetics” (part 5) at Many Mountains Moving in Boulder, 03/06/04.

* Led a creative writing workshop on “The spontaneous voice” (part 4) at Many Mountains Moving in Boulder, 02/07/04.

* Led a creative writing workshop on “The spontaneous voice” (part 3) at Many Mountains Moving in Boulder, 12/06/04.

* Led a creative writing workshop on “The spontaneous voice within” (part 2) at Many Mountains Moving in Boulder, Colorado, 11/01/2003.

* Led a creative writing workshop on “Freeing the spontaneous voice within” at The Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder, Colorado, thanks to Many Mountains Moving, 09/20/2003.

Featured Readings & Benefits/Other Performances: (selected)

* Featured poet with fiction writer Anthonia Kalu at the University of Northern Colorado 11/02/05.

* Featured Poet on Fall Radio Poetique, hosted by Susan Brennan, at www.brooklynheightsradio.com webcast Sunday, Oct. 9 & Wednesday, Oct. 12. This series is archived at the University of Pennsylvania PENNsound project at http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Poetic-Brooklyn.html.

* Featured poet at Moxie Java, Fort Collins, CO., North Colorado Poetry Series, 05/17/2005.

* Poet representing Many Mountains Moving at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Small Press Festival, as part of the Magazine Reading, 04/23/2005.

* Featured poet sponsored by the Loveland Museum and by the Poets Cooperative, 04/07/2005.

* Featured poet for the Poets & Writers Series at the Community College of Philadelphia sponsored by the Office of Student Life, 03/17/2005.

* Featured poet sponsored by the Colorado Center for the Book, the Colorado Endowment for the Humanities, The Copper Nickel, and The Lighthouse Writers’ Series in Denver, 03/12/2005.

* Featured with Robert King and Donna Salemink on the Poetry Show on KRFC 88.9 FM in Fort Collins, CO., 01/16/2005.

* Featured poet with poet/novelist Kazim Ali at Robin’s Bookstore in center city Philadelphia, 12/28/2004.

* Featured poet at The Sugar Shack at 910 9th Ave. , Greeley, CO. (970) 346-0416, www.sugarshack.biz. 12/08/04.

* Featured poet at “Truth is the First Casualty of War,” an event with music, poetry, and news and information sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Church of Greeley, 10/24/04.

* Featured poet at the Many Mountains Moving Salon at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, sponsored by Many Mountains Moving, the Boulder Arts Commission, the Boulder County Arts Alliance, and the SCFD, 08/18/04.

* Featured poet at “AN EVENING OF POETRY AT THE HOPKINS HOUSE,” Camden County Cultural & Heritage Commission, Haddon Twp., sponsored by the NJ Council on the Arts, 06/10/04.

* Featured with poet David Moolten and novelist Simone Zelitch at the Philadelphia City Institute (Philadelphia Free Library on Rittenhouse Square at Locust St.) in center city Philadelphia 06/07/04.

* Featured reader at Robin’s Bookstore in center city Philadelphia 06/02/04.

* Featured in the Asian Arts Initiative 10th Anniversary Show in center city Philadelphia, sponsored by the Asian Arts Initiative of Philadelphia, 05/21/04.

* Featured Poet on The Poetry Show on FM 88.9 KRFC 05/14/04.

* Featured by the Denver Poetry Festival in the Tivoli Building at University of Colorado at Denver, sponsored by the English Department of University of Colorado at Denver, 04/23/04.

* Poetry reading with Robert King for The Crucible Literary/Arts Magazine at Margie’s Java Joint, 10/22/03.

* Poetry reading with Robert King at Margie’s Java Joint, 06/13/03.

* Poetry reading for the “Works in Progress” series for the UNC English Dept and students, 04/25/03.

* Featured Poet on The Poetry Show on FM 88.9 KRFC 04/11/03.

* Poetry reading with Robert King at Margie’s Java Joint, 12/05/02.

* Featured in a fiction reading sponsored by Sigma Tau Delta (English Honor Society) at UNC with Mark Leichliter and Connie Willis, 11/14/02.

* Poetry reading for the “Works in Progress” series for the UNC English Dept and graduate students, 10/02.

* Featured at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art cosponsored by Many Mountains Moving and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art 09/18/02. * Featured at Robin’s Bookstore (encore farewell) with Lori-Nan Engler, sponsored by the GPCA 04/07/02

* Featured at Robin’s Bookstore, with Lori-Nan Engler and Makihara, sponsored by the GPCA, 05/01/02.

* Featured at the Asian Arts Initiative Rap Series in April 19, 2002, with Lori-Nan Engler and Toshi Makihara, and with novelists Thaddeus Rutkowski and Ed Lin, co-sponsored by the GPCA and AAI.

* Featured at the NYU Creative Writing Program Alumni Series with Luis Cabalquinto, Danielle Georges, and Dana Levin 04/15/02, sponsored by NYU.

Featured at KGB with J. J. Cox and Jeff Gargliano, thanks to ducts magazine (NYC) 04/13/02.* Featured at The NotCoffeeHouse with Lori-Nan Engler and Makihara, sponsored by the GPCA 04/07/02.

* Featured at Chester County Books with Lori-Nan Engler and A. V. Chrisie, sponsored by the GPCA 03/12/02.

* Featured at the Teaching Center of Community College of Philadelphia performing excerpts of identity papers with actress Lori-Nan Engler, sponsored by the GPCA 03/01/02.

* Featured at Kelly Writers’ House performing excerpts of identity papers with actress Lori-Nan Engler and percussionist Makihara, sponsored by the GPCA 02/05/02.

* Featured at theWashington Square literary magazine benefit/launch at The Violet (NYC) 12/15/02.

* Featured by The NotCoffeeHouse with J. C. Todd at the First Unitarian Church of Phila., 11/11/01.

* Featured by the Cronica Reading Series with Thaddeus Rutkowski at the Good World (NYC) 11/04/01.

* Featured at Robin’s Books reading from strangers in a homeland (poetry chapbook), 04/27/01.

* Performed excerpts of identity papers with actress Lori-Nan Engler and percussionist Makihara on 88.5 FM WXPN as part of a show, “Live from Writer’s House,” 3/25/01.

* Performed all of identity papers for Cafe for the Mind at the Free Library of Philadelphia with Makihara and Lori-Nan Engler, 3/20/2001.

* Featured by Cafe for the Mind with Makihara and actress Lori-Nan Engler, 10/10/00.

* Featured in the Asian Arts Initiative Rap Series Program, “Love, Sex and Transgression,” 7/21/2000.

* Featured at Yunomi Coffeehouse (West Philly) reading from towards euphoria (poetry ms.), 5/19/00.

* Featured in the Asian Arts Initiative Friend-Raiser Program accompanied by Lori-Nan Engler, Spring 2000.

* Featured at Liquids (in the East Village in NYC) reading from invisible sister (poetry ms.), 4/16/00.

* Featured with Makihara for Asian Awareness Day at the Kimberton Waldorf School, 4/14/00.

* Featured at Robin’s Books for the Moonstone Series, 5/99.

* Performed identity papers with Makihara and Engler at the Painted Bride Arts Center, 3/14/99.

* Featured by Poets and Prophets at Borders Books in center city Philadelphia, 8/24/98.

* Featured in the Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Poetry Panel in Baltimore 4/19/98.

* Performance of a poem, “the lambs,” on 88.5 FM WXPN on “Live from Writer’s House,” 10/11/97.

* Performed identity papers with Makihara at the Community Education Center sponsored by the Asian Arts Initiative of Philadelphia, 9/27-28/97.

* Staged Reading of Collateral Damage (play) at The NotCoffeehouse at the First Unitarian Church of Phila., 7/13/97, funded by a New Forms Regional Grant via the Painted Bride Art Center.

* Performed identity papers with Makihara at Swarthmore College, sponsored by A Magazine, 4/6/97.

*Performed identity papers with Makihara at University of Pennsylvania, sponsored by A Magazine, 4/3/97.

* Performed excerpts of identity papers with Makihara on 88.5 FM WXPN as part of a show, “Live from Writer’s House,” 3/23/97.

* Performance with Makihara at The NotCoffeeHouse at the First Unitarian Church of Phila., 1/19/97.

* Reading for “Half the Other/Fly to Freedom,” Exhibit Opening at the Fleischer Gallery in Phila., 5/31/96.

* Poetry Reading at the Asian Pacific American Writers’ Conference at Hunter College (NYC), 11/11-12/94 (thanks to disOrient journalzine).

* For the “Notable Writers and Poets Series” with Al Young at the Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center in Camden under the auspices of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, 10/8/95.

* The Painted Bride Art Center “Poetryfest,” 05/14/95, nominated by City Paper.

* For the City Paper Writing Awards Poetry Contest 1994 at Borders Books, Phila., 1/18/95.

* For the Allen Ginsberg Awards at the Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ, 12/3/94.

* “New York Stories” at The Sidewalk Cafe in the East Village, 5/12/94, last words in the series.

* Godfrey Daniels Coffeehouse Series under the auspices of the PA. Arts Council, 1983-92.

* Featured co-composer, with Donna Knudson, of “Sigil,” a poem set for chamber ensemble, at the H.D. A Centennial Symposium at Moravian College, 09/13/86.

DISSERTATION in British Romanticism: awarded with Distinction, 1995.

ABSTRACT

Jeffrey Lee (formerly Jeffrey Loo, 1995)

Advisor, Paul Magnuson

“William and Dorothy Wordsworth in Dialogue” closely reads the journals of Dorothy and her brother William’s poetry to show how they affect (and effect) each other primarily during their early years, 1792-1807. “Dialogue” for Bakhtin is intrinsic to language so that responding is integral to utterance, speech is always socialized, and meaning is impossible without others to understand. A dialogics informed by feminist studies more fairly interrelates these two across genres and genders, for deeply ingrained assumptions in the poetics of genre, the politics of gender and the philosophy of language obscure how both are invigorated. They collaboratively renovate literary images of woman with more authentic female subjects; meanwhile, scandalized critics reveal how they radically sympathized with women within their socio-cultural context.

The Wordsworths and Coleridge redefine poetry as partially therapeutic with a pragmatic aesthetics seeking healthily balanced sympathies. Seeking a sustainable aesthetics in which the sublime is incarnated, felt physically, and ultimately healing, with physician-like authority they diagnose ills of the social body and of actual people. Dorothy’s Alfoxden Journal especially evolves shared landscape visions in prose that enable his sublime in: “A Night-Piece,” “There is creation in the eye,” The Ruined Cottage, The Pedlar, “Tintern Abbey,” etc. Even before Coleridge, she helps create in The Pedlar the sympathetic visionary prototype of a sustainable creative self.

“Tintern Abbey” is especially dialogic — its opening landscape engages in “hidden dialogue” with Dorothy’s prose, which is his most significant source for this vision. Her voice pervades his so that, as Bakhtin writes, “we sense that this is a conversation, although only one person is speaking, and it is a conversation of the most intense kind, for each present, uttered word responds to and reacts with its every fiber to the invisible speaker,... to the unspoken words of another person.” After their shared vision, William increasingly depends upon Dorothy’s self in e.g. his Lucy poems.

Finally, Dorothy’s strongest poems (1828-32) are read in dialogue with William’s and their poetics compared. This research includes some of Dorothy’s unpublished variant poems and new information about the Coleorton Commonplace Book.

REFERENCES:

Poet Sharon Olds, New York University Creative Writing Program thesis advisor.

Novelist Simone Zelitch.

Marcus Cafagña, Professor of Creative Writing at Missouri State University.

Senior Editor John Gregg Kulka, Yale University Press.

Professor Paul Magnuson, New York University, dissertation advisor.

CREDENTIALS: Complete dossier available on request.