DENISE DUHAMEL
(305) 919-4812
sedna61@aol.com 

EDUCATION 

Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY.  MFA, May 1987.
Emerson College, Boston, MA.  BFA, May 1984, Magna Cum Laude.
Trinity College, Carmarthen, Wales.  Spring 1981. 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE 

Florida International University, Miami, FL. Fall 1999-present
Assistant Professor.  Poetry workshops for MFA students and undergraduates and literature courses. 

Iowa Writers Workshop, Iowa City, IA.  Summer 2000.
Poetry workshop. 

Gemini Ink, San Antonio, TX.  Summer 2000.
Poetry workshop. 

The Governor's School, The College of Ewing, Trenton, NJ.  Summers, 1997 - 2000
Poetry workshops for summer high school program. (Co-director as of 1999).

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.  Spring 2000.
Poet-In-Residence.  Poetry workshop and literature course for MFA students. 

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.   Spring 1999.
Creative Writing workshops. 

The Hudson Valley Writers Center, Tarrytown, NY.  Fall 1998.
Poetry workshops for adults. 

The Writers' Voice (West Side Y,) New York, NY.  1996 - present and 1990 - 1992.
Poetry workshops for adults. 

Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA.  Summer 1998.
Poetry workshop for Stadler Younger Poets scholarship (undergraduate) winners. 

Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, CA. Summer 1998.
Poetry workshop for adults. 

New York Public Library, Allerton Branch.  Spring 1999 and Spring 1997.
Poetry workshops for adults. 

Center for Ethical Culture, Riverdale, NY.  Spring 1997. 
Poetry workshops for adults. 

The Poets Theater, NYC. Fall 1996.
Poetry and fiction workshops for adults. 

Bennington College, Bennington, VT.  Summer 1996.
Poetry workshops for summer high school program. 

Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA. 1994-1995  Assistant professor--
Creative Writing (poetry and fiction), Composition, 20th Century Poetry, Form and Theory

The American University, Washington, DC.  Fall 1993
Writer-in-Residence-- Graduate Poetry Writing workshop, undergraduate Creative Writing (poetry and fiction) and Literature. 

Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA.  Summer 1994 and 1993
Poetry and fiction workshops for summer high school program. 

Baruch College, New York, NY.  1986 - 1992.
Literature, Expository Writing, and Remedial Writing classes. 

Hunter High School, New York, NY.  1992.
Visiting poet for middle-schoolers. 

Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA.  1989.
Poet-In-Residence. 

Empire State College, New York, NY.  1986 - 1990.
Expository Writing classes. 

Hackley School, Tarrytown, New York.  Spring, 1989, 1988, and 1987.
Visiting poet for first-graders. 

North Tarrytown Elementary School, New York.  Spring 1989 and 1988.
Visiting poet for fourth-graders. 

Educational Center for the Arts, New Haven, CT.  Spring 1987.
Visiting poet for high school seniors.   

American Language Institute, New York University, New York, NY.  1987.
English as a Second Language classes. 

LaGuardia Community College, LIC, NY.  1987.
English as a Second Language classes. 

CBS Education on Location, New York, NY.  1986 - 1987.
Writing tutor for the child actors on the set of "Kate and Allie." 

PUBLISHING HISTORY 

Books of Poetry: 

Queen for a Day: New and Selected Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001)

The Star-Spangled Banner (Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, IL 1999)

Kinky (Orchises Press, Alexandria, VA, 1997)

How the Sky Fell (chapbook, Pearl Editions, Long Beach, CA, 1996)

Girl Soldier (Garden Street Press, Truro, MA, 1996)

The Woman with Two Vaginas (Salmon Run Press, Anchorage, AK, 1995)

Smile! (Warm Spring Press, Harrisburg, PA, 1993)

It's My Body (chapbook, Egg in Hand Press, Chicago, IL. 1992)

Skirted Issues (chapbook, Stop Light Press, Bronxville, NY, 1990)

Heaven and Heck (chapbook, Cortland Press, Cortland, NY, 1988) 

Co-authored Books of Poetry: 

Little Novels (with Maureen Seaton, chapbook, Pearl Editions, Long Beach, CA, 2002)

Oyl (with Maureen Seaton, chapbook, Pearl Editions, Long Beach, CA, 2000)

Exquisite Politics (with Maureen Seaton, Tia Chucha Press, Chicago, IL, 1997)

Inclusion in Anthologies: 

The Poets' Grimm: Twentieth Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales(Story Line Press,2003)

Stand Up Poetry:  for the Page and for the Stage (University of Iowa Press, 2002)

Contemporary American Poetry: Behind the Scenes (Longman Publishers, 2002)

Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America (University of Iowa Press, 2002)

A Different Sense of Power (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002)

Micro: An Anthology of Really Short Stories (White Pines Press, 2002)

Screaming Monkeys (Coffee House Press, 2002)

The Living Poem: American Poetry Now (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002)

Writing Your Rhythm: Using Nature, Culture, Form, and Myth (Story Line Press, 2002)

Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam (Random House, 2001)

American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement (University of Iowa Press, 2001)

Jahrbuch der Lyrik 2001 (Verlag Beck, Munich, 2000)

The Best American Poetry (Scribners, 2000)

American Poetry: Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2000)

New Young American Poets (Southern Illinois University Press, 2000)

The KGB Bar Book of Poems (William Morrow & Co, 2000)

Bearing Life: Women's Writings on Childlessness (The Feminist Press, 2000)

Turnings: Writing on Women's Transformations (Friends of Women's Studies, 2000)

The Barbie Chronicles:  A Real Doll Turns Forty (Touchtone/Scribners, 1999)

Boomer Girls: American Women Poets Come of Age (University of Iowa Press, 1999)

Power Lines: A Decade of Poetry from Chicago's Guild Complex (Tia Chucha Press, 1999)

The Second Word Thursday Anthology (Bright Hill Press, 1999)

Blood & Tears: Poems for Matthew Shepard (Painted Leaf Press, 1999)

Real Things: An Anthology of Popular Culture in American Poetry (Indiana University Press, 1999)

Identity Lessons: Learning American Style: An Anthology of Contemporary Writing

(Penguin Books, 1999) 

Getting it On: A Condom Reader (Soho Press, 1999)

The Best American Poetry 1998 (Scribners, 1998)

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Eleventh Annual Collection  (St. Martin's Press, 1998)

Verse & Universe: Poems about Science and Mathematics  (Milkweed, 1998)

A More Perfect Union: Poems and Stories on the Modern Wedding  (St. Martin's, 1998)

Poetry Nation (Véhicule Press, Canada, 1998)

Crimes of the Beats  (Autonomedia Press, 1997)

Getting By: Narratives of Working Lives (Bottom Dog Press, 1997)

Open Door: A Poet Lore Anthology 1980-1996 (Poet Lore, 1997)

The World's Best Poetry (Roth Publishing, 1997)

Between the Cracks--the Daedalus Anthology of Kinky Verse (Daedalus Press, 1997)

I Feel A Little Jumpy Around You (Simon & Schuster, 1996)

Things Shaped in Passing: More 'Poets for Life' Writing from the AIDS Pandemic (Persea Books, 1996)

The Anthology of New England Writers (New England Press, 1995)

A Loving Testimony: Remembering Loved Ones to AIDS (Crossing Press, 1995) 

The Unbearables (Autonomedia Press, 1995)

The Best American Poetry 1994 (Scribners, 1994)

Literature Around the Globe (Kendall/Hunt, 1994)

Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café  (Henry Holt, 1994)

Stand Up Poetry  (CSU/Long Beach Press, 1994)

What's Become of Eden: Poems of Family at Century's End (Slapering Hol Press, 1994)

More Than Animals (Redtail Books, 1994)

The Best American Poetry 1993             (Scribners, 1993)

Eating Our Hearts Out  (Crossing Press, 1993)

Mondo Barbie  (St. Martin's Press, 1993)

What's A Nice Girl Like You Doing In A Relationship Like This? (Crossing Press, 1992)        

Literary Magazines (Poetry):

Amaranth, American Letters & Commentary, The American Poetry Review, The American Voice,  Artful Dodge, Asian Pacific American Journal, Atlanta Review, Bad Henry Review, Bamboo Ridge, Barrow Street, Bender Magazine, Birmingham Poetry Review, Blue Unicorn, Boston Book Review, Boston Review, The Bridge, Brooklyn Review, Chelsea, The Charlotte Poetry Review, Chatttahoochee Review, Chicago Review, Chiron Review, Cincinnati Poetry Review, Columbia:  A Magazine of Poetry & Prose, Compost, Confrontation , Connecticut Review, Controlled Burn, The Cortland Review (on line), Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse, Cut Bank, Daily Planet News, Descant, Denver Quarterly, Downtown, Dreh Punkt (Switzerland), Ducts (www.ducts.org), Eckerd College Review, El Signo del Gorrion (Spain), Ellipsis, Emerson Review, Exquisite Corpse, 5 AM, Flipside, Folio, Footwork, 420, Free Lunch, Gansters in Concrete, Gargoyle, A Gathering of the Tribes, Georgetown Review, Global City Review, Green Mountains Review, Hanging Loose, HEArt, Herman Review, Hamline Review,  Harrisburg Review, Harvard Review,  Hayden's Ferry, Hyper Age Magazine, Icarus, Indiana Review, Inkshed (England), Instant Classics (on line), Jack and Jill, Jacket (on line), JackLeg, Jehat (on line), Journal of  Progressive Human Social Services, Key Satch(el), Kumquat Meringue, Lips, LIT, The Literary Review, Lizze Borden's Ax, Long Shot, Lullwater Review, Lusty Mover, The Meridian, Magma (England), Massachusetts Review, membrane, Mid-American Review, The Midland Review, Minimus, Minnesota Review, Mississippi Mud, miller's pond, Mochila Review, Montserrat Review, Mudfish, National Poetry Magazine of the Lower East Side, nerve (on line), New American Zine (on line), North Dakota Quarterly, One Meadway, One Trick Pony, Ontario Review, The Ophelia Chance, Oxford Magazine, Oval, Owen Wister Review, Oyster Boy, Painted Bride Quarterly, Partisan Review, Pequod, Permafrost, Phatitude, Phoebe, Plainsongs, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Plum Review, Poet Lore, Poetry Digest, Poetry East,  Poetry Flash, Poetry Kanto (Japan), Poetry New York, Potomac Review, Public Illumination (Italy), Prairie Fire (Canada), Prairie Schooner, Private, Quarterly West, Rain City Review, River Oak Review, Salt Hill Journal, Sarah Lawrence Review, Shattered Wig Review, Sheila-Na-Gig, Southern Poetry Review, Steam Ticket: A Third Coast Review, Silverfish Review, Slipstream, Sojourner, Solo, Spinning Jenny, Sundog, Sunstroke (on line), Synaesthesia, Spoon River Quarterly, Sycamore Review,  The Night Skye Intuitive Journal, Third Coast,  This is Not Art, The Tributary, Triquarterly, two girls review, Urbanus, Wake Up Heavy, webdelsol (on line), West Branch, West Coast Magazine (Scotland), Western Humanities Review, White Wall Review (Canada),Widener Review, Willow Springs, Wooden Head Review, Wooster Review, Word Wrights, Wormwood Review, ZipZap (on line), and Zone 3

Literary Magazines (Fiction): 

Apalachee Quarterly, Exquisite Corpse, Global City Review, The Journal, KYEzine, Mangrove, Ontario Review, Open City, Pearl, Rain City Review, Silverfish Review, Slur, Salonika, spelunker flophouse, West Coast Magazine (Scotland), and Whiskey Island Magazine

Literary Magazines (Nonfiction): 

The American Book Review, Boston Review, Calapooya Collage, Chiron Review,  City of Dis, Cover, Mid-America Review, St. Mark's Poetry Project Newsletter, Quarter After Eight, and Silverfish Review

PLAYS PRODUCED 

Oyl (written with Maureen Seaton)  The Culture Project, NYC.  Directed by Emily Rems. March-April 2001

Why She Would Not (a collaboration with ten other writers, "finishing" an unfinished Bernard Shaw play) The Medicine Show, NYC.  Directed by Barbara Vann.  April-May 2001

The Five Who Borrowed Time (a children's play)

Colgate University, Hamilton, NY.  Directed by Barbara Vann.  March 1998

How the Sky Fell

The Medicine Show, NYC.  Directed by Andy Leech, March 1998

Poets Theater, NYC. Directed by Gary San Angel, March 1997

American Doll

The Nuyorican Poets Café, New York, NY.  Directed by Emily Rems, August 1999

DCAC, Washington, DC.  Directed by Emily Rems, May 1999

Alfred University, Alfred, NY.  Directed by Becky Prophet, February 1997

Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA. Directed by David Downing, November 1993

Confessions of an American Doll

Den of Cin, NYC, Becque Olson's one-woman show, November 1999

The Duplex, NYC.  Becque Olson's one-woman show, February and March 1992

Guises and Dolls

The Medicine Show, NYC.  Directed by Barbara Vann, March 1991

WRITING HONORS AND AWARDS 

--          Yaddo residency. Summer 2002, Fall 1995, Spring 1995, Spring 1994 and Summer 1990.

--            National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, 2001

--            Fundación Valparaíso (Almeria, Spain) residency.  Summers 2001 and 1995.

--          The MacDowell Colony residency.  Summers 2000, 1990, and 1989.

--          Prairie Schooner's "Strousse Award" for poems published in winter 1999 issue

--            Brooklyn Brewery, Coaster Poem Contest, first place, 1999

--            Whiskey Island Magazine, first place in annual short fiction contest, 1998

--          La Château de Lavigny, Maison d'ecrivains. (Lausanne, Switzerland)   residency. Summer 1998.

---        Crab Orchard Award Series for Poetry.  For full length book.  1998.

--          Villa Montalvo (Saratoga, CA) residency.  Summer 1998.

--            Ludwig Vogelstein Award in Poetry.  Winter 1997.

--          Graffiti Rag magazine poetry contest prizewinner.  Spring 1996.

--            Hackney Literary Award, prizewinner.  Spring 1996.

--          Puffin Foundation Grant.  (for collaboration with painter Susan

            Shatter)  Spring 1996.

--            Winner of Pearl Editions Chapbook Contest. Winter 1995.

--            Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc. Grant (Fiction)  Winter 1995.

--          Robert Penn Warren Award prizewinner. (for free verse poetry, judged by David Kirby)  Summer 1995.

--            Salmon Run Poetry Prize.  For full length book.  Spring 1995.

--          Poets and Writers, Writers Exchange Program winner. (judged by

            David Trinidad) Spring 1993.

--             Downtown Magazine.  "Poet of the Year" prizewinner. Spring 1992.

--             Castillo Center for the Arts 1990 "Last Poet" contest.  First place winner.  Poem made into poetry video by Darran Sampson

--            Wesleyan Writers Conference Fellowship (awarded by Story Line Press) Summer 1990.

--             Ellipsis: Journal of Literary Arts.  Poetry contest winner.  (judged by Edward Hirsh) Spring 1990.

--          New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 1989.

--          Poet-in-Residence, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, 1989.

--          The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation residency.  Summer, 1988.

--            Academy of American Poets' Annual University Competition. (judged by Carolyn Kizer) Prizewinner, 1986.

--            Chester H. Jones Foundation. Prizewinner, 1985. 

FEATURED READINGS AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS 

--            Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.  (Winter 2001)

--            University of Arkansas at Little Rock (Fall 2001)

--          Miami International Bookfair (Fall 2001)

--          The Seaside Conference, Seaside, FL (Fall 2001)

--            Warehaus 57, Hollywood, FL (Fall 2001)

--          Books and Books, Goral Gables, FL (Spring 2001)

--            Haverford College, Haverford, PA (Spring 2001)

--            Associated Writing Program Annual Conference (Palm Springs, CA)

            “The Role of the Teacher/ Writer outside of Academia" panel and Pearl  Editions reading (Spring 2001)

--            Richard Stockton College, Pomona, NJ (Spring 2001)

--          Butler University, Indianapolis, IN (Spring 2001)

--            Converse College, Spartanburg, SC  (Fall 2000)

--          Penn State, Altoona, “Barbie 2000: An Interdisciplany Examination” (Fall 2000)

--          The Seaside Conference, Seaside, FL (Fall 2000)

--            Florida Center for the Book, Fort Lauderdale, FL (Fall 2000)

--          Books and Books, Coral Gables, FL (Fall 2000)

--            Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL  (Fall 2000)

--          New Jersey Public Television (Spring 2000)

--          Utica College, Utica, NY (Spring 2000)

--            Associated Writing Program Annual Conference (Kansas City, MO)

            Boomer Girls and American Poetry: Next Generation readings(Spring 2000)

--          Los Angeles Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (Spring 2000)

--            Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY (Spring 2000)

--            Columbia College, Chicago, IL (Spring 2000)

--            Allegheny  College, Allegheny, PA (Spring 2000)

--          Mercy College, Erie, PA (Spring 2000)

--            Hemingway's Café, Pittsburgh, PA (Spring 2000)

--            Seaside Writers Conference, Seaside, FL (Fall 1999)

--            Wearhaus 57, Hollywood, FL (Fall 1999)

--            Florida International University's Art Museum, Miami, FL (Fall 1999)

--            Fooling with Words (with Bill Moyers), PBS (Fall 1999)

--          Word Thursday Series, Delhi, NY (Spring 1999)

--          Lexus Gallery, NYC (Spring 1999)

--            Northern Westchester Center for the Arts, Mt. Kisco, NY (Spring 1999)

--            Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL (Spring 1999)

--            Rhodes College, Memphis, TN (Spring 1999)

--          Left Bank Books, St. Louis, MO (Spring 1999)

--          Mad River Poetry Festival, Northwestern Community College, Winsted, CT  (Spring 1999)

--          New York Public Library/Amsterdam Branch (Spring 1999)

--            Posman's Books, NYC (Spring 1999)

--          The Medicine Show (Spring 1999)

            The New School for Social Research, NYC (Winter 1999)

--          Rising Café, Brooklyn, NY (Fall 1998)

--          New York Public Library, Brooklyn, NY (Fall 1998)

--            Florida International University, Miami, FL (Fall 1998)

--          New York University,  NYC  The Journal reading.  (Fall 1998)

--            Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, MA (Fall 1998)

--          The Dodge Poetry Festival, Waterloo, NJ (Fall 1998)

--          Barnes & Noble, Paramus, NJ. (Fall 1998)

--            WKCR's "Composed on the Tongue" radio show, NYC.  (Fall 1998)

--            Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA (Summer 1998)

--          Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, CA (Summer 1998)

--          Blue Rock Shoot, Saratoga, CA (Summer 1998)

--            Cody's Bookstore, Berkeley, CA (Summer 1998)

--          "Alert: The 1998 New York Radio Arts Festival" WKCR 89.9 FM (Spring 1998)

--          Ceres Gallery, "Poets for Choice," NYC (Spring 1998)

--          The Art Institute of Chicago (Spring 1998)

--            College of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ (Spring 1998)

--          Smith College, Northampton, MA (Winter 1997)

--          A Different Light Bookstore, NYC (Winter 1997)

--          Mid-Island YMCA, Hicksville, NY (Fall 1997)

--          An Beal Bocht Café, NYC (Fall 1997)

--          Barnes & Noble, Paramus, NJ (Fall 1997)

--            University of Wyoming's Women's Studies Regional Conference,

            Laramie, WY (Fall 1997)

--            Saginaw Valley University, Saginaw, MI (Fall 1997)

--            Kirtland Community College, Roscommon, MI (Fall 1997)

--          The Guild Complex, Chicago, IL (Fall 1997)

--            National Public Radio, "All Things Considered"  (Summer 1997)

--          The Governor's School, Trenton, NJ (Summer 1997)

--            Bennington College, Bennington, VT (Summer 1997)

--          Mills College, Oakland, CA (Spring 1997)

--            Beyond Baroque, Venice Beach, CA (Spring 1997)

--            University of California/Long Beach (Spring 1997)

--          Barnes & Noble, Santa Monica, CA (Spring 1997)

--            Fordham University, NYC (Spring 1997)

--            Associated Writing Program Annual Conference (Washington, DC)

            "Writing from the Hungry Body: 'Barbie,' 'Venus Hottentot,' 'Red

            Virgin' " Panelist (Spring 1997)

--          KGB Bar, NYC (Spring 1997)

--          New England School of Photography, Boston, MA (Spring 1997)

--          The International Bookshop, NYC (Winter 1997)

--          The John Harms Center for the Arts, Englewood, NJ (Winter 1996)

--            Hudson Grill, NYC (Fall 1996)

--          The Picnic Place, NYC (Fall 1996)

--          The Poets Theater, NYC (Fall 1996)

--          Sarah Lawrence College, "Alumni Homecoming Reading," Bronxville, NY (Fall 1996)

--            Wheaton College, MA (Fall 1996)

--          Old Dominion University's "Forbidden Text Literary Festival,"

            Norfolk, VA (Fall 1996)

--          The Medicine Show, NYC (Summer 1996)

--            Brown University Faculty Club, Providence, RI  (Spring 1996)

--          The Coffee Shop, NYC (Spring 1996)

--            Associated Writing Program Annual Conference (Atlanta, GA) "Women       

            Writers and Censorship"  Panel Chair (Spring 1996)

--            Associated Writing Program Annual Conference (Atlanta, GA) "Humor, Wit, and the Comic in Contemporary Poetry"  Panelist  (Spring 1996)

--          Charis Books, Atlanta, GA (Spring 1996)

--             Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA (Spring 1996)

--          La Mama's, NYC (Spring 1996)

--          New York University.  Icarus reading (Spring 1996)

--          Como Coco Café, CSV Cultural Center, NYC (Spring 1996)

--            Biblio's, Mad Alexander Arts Foundation, NYC (Spring 1996)

--          The Living Planet, Long Beach, CA. (Spring 1996)

--            Nuyorican Poets Café, NYC. Best American Poetry Slam. (Winter 1995)

--            Encore Books, Mechanicsburg, PA (Winter 1995)

--             Grolier Bookstore, Cambridge, MA (Fall 1995)

--          St. Mark's Poetry Project, NYC (Fall 1995)

--          An Beal Bocht Café, NYC (Fall 1995)

--            Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL (Fall 1995)

--          North Star Bar, Philadelphia, PA (Spring 1995)

--             Women and Children First Bookstore, Chicago, IL (Spring 1995)

--            Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY (Spring 1995)

--          The Writer's Center, Bethesda, MD (Fall 1994)

--            Warner Library, Tarrytown, NY (Fall 1994)

--          XYZ,  WITF (PA's PBS affiliate) televised reading (Fall 1994)

--          Big Chicks'Salon, Chicago, IL (Summer 1994)

--            Emerson College, Boston, MA; Alumni Reading (Spring 1994)

--                University of Illinois at Chicago (Spring 1994)

--            Columbia College, Chicago (Spring 1994)

--            Encore Books, Mechanicsburg, PA (Spring 1994)

--            Borders Books, Springfield, PA (Spring 1994)

--            Gloucester County College, Sewell, NJ (Spring 1994)

--          The Writer's Center, Bethesda, MD; Poet Lore reading (Fall 1993)

--            Bucknell University; West Branch Festival (Fall 1993)

--          Miami International Book Fair;  Mondo Barbie (Fall 1993)

--            Academy of American Poets, NYC; Best American Poetry (Fall 1993)

--          The Writer's Voice, 63rd St. Y, NYC; Mondo Barbie (Fall 1993)  

--          Perry Council Arts Festival (Fall 1993)

--            Booksmith, San Antonio, TX (Summer 1993)

--            Harrisburg Arts Festival, Harrisburg, PA (Summer 1993)

--            Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL (Summer 1993)

--          Barnes and Noble Bookstore, Evanston, IL (Summer 1993)

--            George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (Spring 1993)

--            Borders Books, Lancaster, PA (Spring 1993)

--          The Art Barn, Salt Lake City, Utah (Spring 1993)

--          Poetry Society of America, NYC (Spring 1993)

--          Watch This Space, WITF (PA's PBS affiliate) televised reading (Fall 1992)

--          Paper Sword, Harrisburg, PA (Fall 1992)

--            Rutgers University, Douglas, NJ (Fall 1992)

--          Ward-Nasse Gallery, NYC (Fall 1992)

--          Poet's Circle, Channel 16, Manhattan Cable TV (Spring 1992)

--            American University, Washington, DC (Spring 1992)

--            Women's Studio Workshop, Roslendale, NY (Spring 1992)

--            Harrisburg Area Community College, Harrisburg, PA (Spring 1992)

--          The Knitting Factory, NYC (Spring 1992)

--            CBGB's, NYC (Spring 1992)

--            Nuyorican Poets Café, NYC (Spring 1992) 

--          Kyber Pass, Philadelphia, PA (Spring 1992)

--            Warner Library, Tarrytown, NY (Fall, 1991)

--          The Knitting Factory, NYC (Spring 1991)

--            Jefferson Library, NYC (Spring 1991)

--          Paper Sword, Harrisburg, PA (Winter 1991)

--            Muhlenburg Libary, NYC (Fall 1990)

--            Verbatim, National Public Radio (Spring 1990)

--          Sarah Lawrence College Alumni Reading (Spring 1990)

--          The Garden, NYC (Summer 1990)

--            Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA (Spring 1989)

--            Bloomsburg University, PA (Spring 1989)

--            Tompkin Square Library, NYC (Spring 1989)

RELATED EXPERIENCE 

Judge, The Scholastic Writing Awards of 2002, category: dramatic script

Judge, "Urban Blend" Young Writers Contest (sponsored by The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers and The Starbucks Foundation), 2001

Judge, The Scholastic Writing Awards of 2001, category: dramatic script

Judge, Villa Montalvo's Biennial Poetry Competition, 1999

Judge, Indiana Review chapbook contest, 1999

Judge, Villa Montalvo residency program, 1997-2000

Judge, Pearl chapbook contest, 1997

Judge, New York Foundation for the Arts, Poetry Panel.  1997

Judge, Sarah Lawrence Review annual poetry contest, 1997