CURRICULUM VITAE (ABBREVIATED)
EDUCATION
University of Denver
Ph.D., 1995
English, Creative Writing
Colorado State University
M.F.A., 1989
Creative Writing
Colorado State University
B.A., 1986
English
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Creative Writing (Poetry), Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Poetry, Poetry as a Genre, Postcolonial Literature, Postmodern (Contemporary) World Literature
PRESENT POSITION
2011- Dana Professor of English, Rhetoric, and Writing, Berry College, Mt. Berry, Georgia
2008- 2011 Professor of English, Rhetoric, and Writing, Berry College
2002-2008 Associate Professor of English, Rhetoric, and Writing, Berry College
1996-2002 Assistant Professor of English, Berry College
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008- Poetry Editor, Phi Kappa Phi Forum
2007- Director of the Georgia Poetry Circuit
2006- Co-founding Editor, Ninebark Press
PUBLICATIONS
Books (Authored Poetry)
Still. Persea Books, forthcoming in 2020.
An Ecology of Elsewhere. Persea Books, May 2016.
Road Scatter. Persea Books, September 2012.
Biogeography. Tupelo Press, November 2008. Winner of the 2006 Dorset Prize.
Burn. Elixir Press, January 2005.
Nomadic Foundations. Elixir Press, May 2002.
Book (Edited)
Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad. Rome, Georgia: Ninebark Press,
February 28, 2007. Winner of a 2008 Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal.
Chapbook
The Circumference of Arrival. Minneapolis: Elixir Press, June 2001.
Poetry Publications, Journals and Anthologies
“Permanent Threshold Shift.” Bluestem XXVI (Spring 2016): 120-121.
“Still Life with Scenic Drive: Strix varia georgica (Southern Barred Owl), Bikers, and Boar Hunters.” Witness XXIX:1 Spring 2016): 120-121.
“Acacia erioloba (Camel Thorn).” The Blueshift Journal IV (2016). Available at
http://www.theblueshiftjournal.com/#!sandra-meek/iquz4
“Your Best Exit May Be Behind You.” Bluestem (December 2015). Available at
http://www.bluestemmagazine.com/online/december-2015/your-best-exit-may-be-behind-you/
“Welwitschia mirabilis, Namib Desert” and “Protea lepidocarpodendron (Black-Bearded Protea).” Reprint, Terrain.org. June 2, 2015. Available at http://www.terrain.org/2015/poetry/two-poems-by-sandra-meek/
“Still Life with Turkey Buzzards (Cathartes aura) and Trametes versicolor (Turkey Tail Mushrooms).” The Chattahoochee Review XXXV:1 (Spring 2015): 124.
“Still Life with Wisteria Syndrome and Marula.” The Chattahoochee Review XXXV:1 (Spring 2015): 125-126.
“Still Life with January.” Boston Review. April 13, 2015. For National Poetry Month feature. Available at
http://bostonreview.net/poetry/npm15-sandra-meek-still-life-with-january.
“Orycteropus afer (Antbear), Kalahari.” Winner of the 2015 Lucile Medwick Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America. Available at http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/annual/winners/2015/award/
“Welwitschia mirabilis, Namib Desert.” Atlanta Review XXL:1 (Fall/Winter 2014): 106-110.
“Zion.” Prairie Schooner 88:3 (Fall 2014). 58-60.
“Acedia.” Witness XVII:1 (Spring 2014): 196.
“Neritina virginea.” Witness XVII:1 (Spring 2014): 194-5.
“Protea lepidocarpodendron (Black-Bearded Protea).” Terminus 10 (2013): 85-90.
“The Imaginary Heart.” Terminus 10 (2013): 81-84.
“Still Life with Paperwasp Nest and Lava Flow.” Ecotone 16 (Fall 2013): 40-42.
“Adansonia digitata (Baobab).” Ecotone 16 (Fall 2013): 43.
“Still Life with Adolescent Possum and Midlife Crisis.” Conjunctions 61: Special Issue, "A Menagerie" (Fall 2013). 169-170.
“Flight Cage.” Conjunctions 61: Special Issue, "A Menagerie" (Fall 2013). 162-166.
“River Horse.” Conjunctions 61: Special Issue, "A Menagerie" (Fall 2013). 166-169.
“Jekyll Island Ghazal.” The Pinch 33:2 (Fall 2013): 73.
“Biogeography.” Reprinted in Ecopoetry: A Contemporary American Anthology. Ann Fisher-Worth and Laura-Gray Street, eds. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2013. 398-9.
“Event One.” Reprinted in Ecopoetry: A Contemporary American Anthology. Ann Fisher-Worth and Laura-Gray Street, eds. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2013. 399-400.
“Dead Vlei.” Birmingham Poetry Review 40th Anniversary Issue. 40 (Spring 2013):132-3.
“Why Items Tend to Shift in Flight.” Selected by Arthur Sze for the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day series. Poets.org: January 9, 2013.
“Acacia karroo Hayne (White Thorn).” Reprinted in The Southern Poetry Anthology Vol. V: Georgia. Huntsville, TX: Texas Review Press, 2012. 179.
“Coma.” Reprinted in The Southern Poetry Anthology Vol. V: Georgia. Huntsville, TX: Texas Review Press, 2012. 180-1.
“Tillandsia Usneoides.” Reprinted in The Southern Poetry Anthology Vol. V: Georgia. Huntsville, TX: Texas Review Press, 2012. 182-3.
“Denial Machine.” Cerise Press 4:10 (Summer 2012). Republished. Web.
http://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/denial-machine
“Falling Rock.” Cerise Press 4:10 (Summer 2012). Republished. Web.
http://www.cerisepress.com/04/10/falling-rock
“Bryce.” AGNI 75 (Summer 2012): 80-83.
“Quiver Tree (Aloe dichotoma).” Cerise Press 3:9 (Spring 2012). Web.
http://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/quiver-tree-aloe-dichotoma
“Colophospermum mopane.” Cerise Press 3:9 (Spring 2012). Web.
http://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/colophospermum-mopane
“An Elegiac Tone Predominates.”Cerise Press 3:9 (Spring 2012). Web.
http://www.cerisepress.com/03/09/an-elegiac-tone-predominates
“Museum of the Party.” Atlanta Review (Fall/Winter 2011): 21-24. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
“Denial Machine.” Cerise Press 3:8 (Fall 2011). Web.
“Falling Rock.” Cerise Press 3:8 (Fall 2011). Web.
“Cumulative Sentence.” Catch Up (Summer 2011): 50.
“Shadow Portrait.” Connotation Press: An Online Artifact (“A Poetry Congeries with John Hoppenthaler,” May 2011).
“New Year.” Connotation Press: An Online Artifact (“A Poetry Congeries with John Hoppenthaler,” May 2011).
“Postflight Edema.” Connotation Press: An Online Artifact (“A Poetry Congeries with John Hoppenthaler,” May 2011).
“Vessel in the Form of a Fantastical Frog.” Meridian 26 (January 2011): 60-61.
"The Cost of Soaring Food.” Meridian 26 (January 2011): 59.
“Kill.” Guernica: A Magazine of Art & Politics. January 2011. Available online at
http://www.guernicamag.com/poetry/2225/meek_1_1_11/.
“Chemo Session Six.” Prairie Schooner. 84:3 (Fall 2010).
“The History of Air, Part 2.” Prairie Schooner. 84:3 (Fall 2010).
“Round Trip.” Prairie Schooner. 84:3 (Fall 2010).
“Circulation.” Barely South Review. September 2010. Available online at
http://barelysouthreview.digitalodu.com/all-issues/issue-two-2/circulation/.
“In Case, Since You Left, You’ve Been Wondering,” with “Poet on the Poem” prose feature. The American Poetry Review 39:3 (May/June 2010): 42-43.
“Spreading Ash.” The Massachusetts Review LI:1 (2010): 32-33.
“Swimming at the Y.” Poet Lore 105:1-2 (Spring/Summer 2010): 36-38.
“Image Not Available.” Poet Lore 105:1-2 (Spring/Summer 2010): 33-34.
“Still Life with Mouse Torso and Miniature Grand Piano.” Barely South 1 (April 2010). Available
at http://barelysouthreview.digitalodu.com.
“Acacia karroo Hayne (White Thorn).” Ecotone 2010 (Fifth Anniversary Issue): 191. Featured poem for issue on the Ecotone Web site.
“Live Performance.” Crazyhorse 76 (Fall 2009): 109-111.
“Skeleton Coast.” Green Mountains Review XXII:2 (2009): 74-76.
“Night Terror, as Alternate Definitions of Air Bell.” Green Mountains Review XXII:2 (2009): 70-73.
“Air Hunger.” Bellevue Literary Review 9.2 (Fall 2009): 126.
“Last Rites.” The Southern Review 45:3 (Summer 2009): 414-415.
“Fifteen to Twenty.” The Southern Review 45:3 (Summer 2009): 416-418.
“Moth Season.” Subtropics 8 (Spring/Summer 2009): 98-100.
“Clearing the House.” Mid-American Review. XXIX:2 (Spring 2009).
“Trapeze.” Quarterly West 67 (Fall 2008/Winter 2009): 56.
“Wind Event.” Quarterly West 67 (Fall 2008/Winter 2009): 55.
“The History of Air, Part 1.” The Iowa Review 38:3 (Winter 2008/09): 137-138.
“Healing by Secondary Intention.” Web Conjunctions. Posted for New Year’s Poetry Festival, for the month of January 2009, at www.conjunctions.com.
“New Construction.” Web Conjunctions. Posted for New Year’s Poetry Festival, for the month of January 2009, at www.conjunctions.com.
“On Vengeance.” Web Conjunctions. Posted for New Year’s Poetry Festival, for the month of January 2009, at www.conjunctions.com.
“Coma,” “Grounding,” “Courantijn River,” “‘On the Supposed Degeneracy of Animated Nature in America,’” “Reentering Atmosphere,” “Half Life.” Reprinted at The Other Voices International Project Vol. 35 (August 2, 2008):
Available at http://www.othervoicespoetry.org/vol35/meek/index.html
“O.” Green Mountains Review New Series XXI:1 (2008): 53.
“Passage II.” The Caribbean Writer 21 (2007): 62-63.
“Columba livia.” The Southern Review 43:4 (Autumn 2007): 781.
“Mapping the Drift.” The Southern Review 43:4 (Autumn 2007): 782-784.
“Urban Warfare as Design.” Green Mountains Review XX: 1-2 (2007: 20th Anniversary Double Issue): 91-92.
“Still Life, with Fluency.” Third Coast (Spring 2007): 161-164.
“Cloud Cover.” Prairie Schooner 81:1 (Spring 2007): 186-187.
“The Mechanics of Failure.” Prairie Schooner 81:1 (Spring 2007): 184-186.
“Fracture and Regelation Theory.” The Kenyon Review New Series XXIX:1 (Winter 2007): 28
-29.
“Doolahin.” The Chattahoochee Review 26:4 (Summer 2006): 101.
“Road Scatter.” American Letters & Commentary (2006): 140.
“Zimmer Pans My Chapbook.” American Letters & Commentary (2006): 138-139.
“Extinction.” Web Conjunctions (posted August 23, 2006: available at
http://www.conjunctions.com/webconj.htm).
“Colony of Ice.” Web Conjunctions (posted August 23, 2006: available at
http://www.conjunctions.com/webconj.htm).
“Marble Figure, Descending Panorama.” Web Conjunctions (posted August 23, 2006:
available at http://www.conjunctions.com/webconj.htm).
“Idolum Naturae Magnum: A Meditation.” Denver Quarterly 40:4 (2006): 93.
“Paralleling the Subject.” Mid-American Review XXVI:2 (2006): 121.
“Anniversary.” Green Mountains Review XVIII:2 (2005): 98.
“Courantijn River.” Green Mountains Review XVIII:2 (2005): 99-101.
“Departing Flight.” Green Mountains Review XVIII:2 (2005): 102-103.
“Fort Zeelandia.” Divide 3 (2005): 14-15.
“Grounding.” Agni 61 (Spring 2005): 66-67.
“Windowseat.” On the Wing: American Poems of Air and Space Flight. Karen Yelena Olsen, ed. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2005. 59.
“Passage.” River City 25:1 (Spring 2005): 13-14.
“The Ties That Bind Us.” Web Conjunctions (posted December 2004: available at
http://www.conjunctions.com/webconj.htm).
“Camera Obscura.” Web Conjunctions (posted December 2004: available at
http://www.conjunctions.com/webconj.htm).
“Ice Storm.” Mid-American Review XXV:1 (2004, 25th Anniversary Issue): 105-106.
“Before De-icing.” Mid-American Review XXV:1 (2004, 25th Anniversary Issue): 103-104.
“Millennium.” Third Coast (Fall 2004): 32-33.
“Doctrine of Signatures.” Third Coast (Fall 2004): 30-31.
“Astraphobia.” Third Coast. (Fall 2004): 28-29.
“Parade.” Washington Square13 (Winter 2004): 69-70.
“Biogeography.” Elixir 4:2 (2004): 1-2.
“Negotiating Versions of Forever.” Prairie Schooner 77:4 (Winter 2003): 178-179.
“Balancing Acts.” Web Agni (posted 2003: available at http://www.bu.edu/agni/).
“Coma.” Poetry CLXXXII:3 (June 2003): 137-138.
“Epitaph, in Process.” Indiana Review 25:1 (2003, Special Issue, “Celebrating 25 Years”): 189-190.
“A Short History of Flight.” Elixir 3 (2003): 106-121.
“On the Modifications of Clouds.” Mid-American Review XXIII:2 (2003): 88-90. Awarded Editors’ Choice for the James Wright Award in Poetry.
“‘The Supposed Degeneracy of Animated Nature in America.’” Shenandoah 52:4 (Winter 2002): 124-125.
“Reentering Atmosphere.” The Kenyon Review XXIV:3/4 (Summer/Fall 2002): 182-183.
“Wreck.” Free Verse (Spring 2002).
“Stay 1/1/00.” Elixir 2 (2002): 55-56.
“Eschatology.” Elixir 2 (2002): 54.
“Tillandsia Usneoides.” Prairie Schooner 75:3 (Fall 2001: Special 75th Anniversary Issue): 156-157.
“Addiction Unit.” Prairie Schooner 75:3 (Fall 2001: Special 75th Anniversary Issue): 158-159. Nominated for a 2001 Pushcart Prize.
“Toward Gestures.” Elixir 1 (2001): 10-16.
“Reconfigurings.” The Sonora Review 40 (Spring 2001): 61-62.
“A Progress.” Conjunctions 36 (Spring 2001): 317-319.
“Twelve Days.” Conjunctions 36 (Spring 2001): 315-316. Featured poem for Conjunctions 36 Web page.
"The Love One Has for the Dark.” Conjunctions 36 (Spring 2001): 320-321.
“Halo Effect.” Indiana Review 23:1 (Spring 2001): 99-100.
“The Road To.” Reed Magazine 54 (2001): 122.
“The Fiction of Memory.” The Journal of African Travel Writing 8/9 (2001): 49-50.
“The Library.” The Journal of African Travel Writing 8/9 (2001): 51-52.
“The Shape of Night.” The Journal of African Travel Writing 8/9 (2001): 45-46.
“In Translation.” The Journal of African Travel Writing 8/9 (2001): 47-48.
“Aftermath.” Atlanta Review VII:1 (Fall/Winter 2000): 104-105.
“Agoraphobia.” Denver Quarterly 35:1 (Spring 2000): 27.
“Possession.” Mid-American Review XX:1-2 (Spring/Summer 2000): 177-178.
“Cape Point.” Mid-American Review XX:1-2 (Spring/Summer 2000): 179-180.
“How to Build a Fallout Shelter.” Indiana Review 22:1 (Spring 2000): 3. Nominated for a
2000 Pushcart Prize.
“Termites.” Louisiana Literature 17:1 (Spring 2000): 67.
“Bones.” Louisiana Literature 17:1 (Spring 2000): 66.
“The #12.” The Spoon River Poetry Review XXV:1 (Winter/Spring 2000): 103-104.
“Windowseat.” The Spoon River Poetry Review XXV:1 (Winter/Spring 2000): 102.
“Birds of America.” The Iowa Review 29:2 (Fall 1999): 47-49.
“Foundations for Fire.” Prairie Schooner 73:2 (Summer 1999): 138-139.
“Seventh Year.” Quarterly West 48 (Spring/Summer 1999): 48-49.
“Flood Coverage.” Mid-American Review XIX:2 (Spring 1999): 36-39.
“Evolution.” The Kenyon Review XX:2 (Spring 1998: 80. Reprinted in The Louisiana
Review: 1:1 (Summer 1999): 58.
“Amputations.” Colorado Review XXIV:2 (Fall 1997): 174-175. Reprinted in The Louisiana
Review 1:1 (Summer 1999) 63.
“The Way We Used to Believe.” Prairie Schooner 71:2 (Summer 1997): 124-125.
Reprinted in The Louisiana Review 1:1 (Summer 1999): 59-60.
“Reply Without Gazelles.” The Iowa Review 26:3 (Fall 1996): 63-64. Reprinted in
in The Louisiana Review 1:1 (Summer 1999): 61-62.
“Half Life.” Denver Quarterly 31:2 (Fall 1996): 40-41. Reprinted in The Louisiana Review
1:1 (Summer 1999): 65.
“Driving the Desert.” Black Warrior Review XXII:2 (Spring/Summer 1996): 20-21.
Reprinted in The Louisiana Review 1:1 (Summer 1999): 66.
“Dune #7.” Pequod 39 (1995): 104. Reprinted in New Voicees: Poetry and Fiction from
Colorado State University (1994): 86-87, and in The Louisiana Review 1:1
(Summer 1999): 64.
“Chameleon.” The Georgia Review XLVIII:4 (Winter 1994): 665.
“Citizenship, Bophuthatswana.” New Voices (1994): 84-85.
“Refugee.” The Massachusetts Review XXXIV:3 (Fall 1993): 431-432. Reprinted in New
Voices (1994): 83-84.
“Dust to Dust.” Mid-American Review X111:2 (1992): 17-18. Reprinted in New Voices
1994): 85-86.
“Ghosts.” Berkeley Poetry Review 25 (1991-1992): 107-108.
“At the Ferry Park.” Cottonwood 44 (1991): 10.
“After Viewing the Body.” Cottonwood 44 (1991): 8-9.
“Journal of a Lie.” Southern Poetry Review XXIX:2 (Fall 1989): 52-53.
“Reeling.” Calypso 1 (1989): 5-7.
“Raising the Wells.” Calypso 1 (1989): 8-9.
“Dry Well.” Caesura VII (Spring 1989): 40-43.
"The Dream Web.” Blue Buildings 11 (1989): 49-52.
"The White Lie.” Poem 59 (1988): 52-53.
“A Dream After Avoiding a Fight Through Silence.” Poem 59 (1988): 50-51.
“To the Peacock.” Colorado-North Review XXII:3 (Spring 1983): 4-5.
“Winter Closings.” Colorado-North Review XXII:1 (Fall 1982): 26-27.
Poetry Publications, Journals and Anthologies, In Press
“Still Life with Damnosa Hereditas and Dark Constellations.” Terrain.org.
“Wind Event” (reprint). Inspired Georgia. Eds. Judson Mitcham, Michael David Murphy, and Karen L. Paty. Athens: UGA Press, 2016.
Book Chapters
“A Bookshop, a Fishing Boat, a Trek Through the Andes: A Roundtable of Poets Who've Lived Abroad.” Contributor. The Strangest of Theatres: Poets Writing Across Borders. Eds. Jared Hawkley, Susan Rich, and Brian Turner. Chicago/San Francisco: The Poetry Foundation and McSweeney's Publishing, 2013.
“The Politics of Poetics: Creative Writing Programs and the Double Canon of Contemporary Poetry.” In Canon Vs. Culture: Reflections on the Current Debate. Ed. Jan Gorak. New York: Garland, 2001. 81-102.
Interviews
“Making and Meaning: An Interview with Bin Ramke.” The Association of Writers & Writing Programs, The Writer’s Chronicle 36:4 (February 2004). 32-40.
Refereed Articles
“‘The Penitential Island’: The Question of Liberation in Earl Lovelace’s Salt.” Journal of Caribbean Studies 15:3 (Winter 2000 & Spring 2001): 273-297.
“Evolution of a New World: Bessie Head’s Maru as Communal Bildungsroman.” Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies 6:2 (Fall 1999): 87-105.
“The Military and the (Re)Making of African Postcolonial Identity in Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Sozaboy and Manuel Rui’s Yes, Comrade!.” Journal of Third World Studies XVI:2 (Fall 1999): 141-161.
Review Essays
“Poetry from Alice James.” Arts & Letters: Journal of Contemporary Culture 8 (Fall 2002): 155-162.
“Poetry from Pitt.” Arts & Letters: Journal of Contemporary Culture 5 (Spring 2001): 205-216.
“Discordant Grace: Metaphysical Postmodern Poetry.” Arts & Letters: Journal of Contemporary Culture 2 (Fall 1999): 181-189.
“‘Who Can Resist the Stories?’ Narrative and Witness in the Cross-Cultural Poetry of Laurence Lieberman.” Denver Quarterly 31:3 (Winter 1997): 132-136.
Reviews
Review of Mosquito Operas: New and Selected Short Poems, by Philip Dacey (Rain Mountain
Press). Peace Corps Writers (September 8, 2010): available at http://peacecorpsworldwide.org/pc-writers/2010/09/08/review-mosquito-operas/
Review of What Kills What Kills Us, by Kurt S. Olsson (Silverfish Review Press, 2007), Peace
Corps Writers (July 2008): available at http://www.peacecorpswriters.org/pages/2008/0807/807rv-whatkills.html.
Review of The Mystery of Max Schmitt: Poems on the Life and Work of Thomas Eakins, by Philip
Dacey (Turning Point Press, 2004). Peace Corps Writers (May 2005): available at
http://www.peacecorpswriters.org /pages/2005/0505/505rvmysterymax.html.
Review of Negritude and Literary Criticism: The History and Theory of “Negro-African” Literature in French, by Belinda Elizabeth Jack. Journal of Third World Studies XVII:1 (Spring 2000): 262-266.
Review of Where the World Is, by Janet Kauffman. Colorado Review XV:2 (Fall/Winter 1989).
AUTHORED PUBLICATIONS REVIEWED
An Ecology of Elsewhere (2016):
Starred review in Library Journal (April 2016).
Road Scatter (2012):
Reviewed in Colorado Review and The Center for Literary Publishing (September 2013), by Christopher Kondrich
Reviewed in Mid-American Review XXXIII:2 (2013), by LewEllyn Hallett.
Reviewed in Peace Corps Worldwide (February 12, 2013), by Ann Neelon.
Reviewed in Rain Taxi 17:4 (Winter 2012/13) by Lightsey Darst.
Reviewed in Oxford American (November 26, 2012), by William Wright:
http://www.oxfordamerican.org/articles/2012/nov/26/poetry-review-sandra-meek
Reviewed in Midwest Book Review/Wisconsin Bookwatch 7:10 (October 2012).
Reviewed in Library Journal (September 2012).
Biogeography (2008):
Reviewed in Colorado Review (Fall 2009).
Reviewed in Asheville Poetry Review 16:1 (2009).
Briefly reviewed by Kelly Cherry in “Twenty-four Poets Name Some Favorites to Celebrate
National Poetry Month.” On the Seawall (April 2009); http://www.ronslate.com.
Reviewed in Mid-American Review XXIX:2 (Spring 2009).
Reviewed in Meridian 23 (May 2009).
Reviewed on Peace Corps Worldwide (March 10, 2009): available at
http://peacecorpsworldwide.org/?s=biogeography
Burn (2005):
Reviewed in Prairie Schooner (Spring 2007).
Reviewed in The Chattahoochee Review (Fall 2005).
Reviewed in Mid-American Review XXVI (Fall 2005).
Reviewed in Arts & Letters: Journal of Contemporary Culture 14 (Fall 2005).
Reviewed in Peace Corps Writers (March 2005): available at
http://www.peacecorpswriters.org/pages/2005/0503/503rvburn.html.
Nomadic Foundations (2002):
Recommended pick in Dennis Loy Johnson’s syndicated column, “Winter Poetry,” which
appeared December 2002 in The Athens Banner-Herald, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
and other newspapers. Available online at http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/
120102/boo_20021201002.shtml.
Reviewed in Colorado Review XXX:2 (June 2003).
Reviewed in Peace Corps Writers (March 2003): available at
http://www.peacecorpswriters.org/ pages/2003/0303/303rvnomad.html.
The Circumference of Arrival (2001):
Reviewed in The Georgia Review LVII:3 (Fall 2003).
Reviewed in Peace Corps Writers (2001): available at
http://www.peacecorpswriters.org/pages/2002/0201/201rvpoetry.html.
SELECTED RECOGNITIONS
Awarded Georgia Author of the Year for Poetry, 2017, for An Ecology of Elsewhere (Persea 2016).
“Welwitschia mirabilis, Namib Desert,” selected for the 2015 Best of the Net Anthology: Sundress Publications, 2016. (http://www.sundresspublications.com/bestof/meek.htm.) Nominated by the editors of Terrain.org.
2015 Mary S. and Samuel Poe Carden Award for Outstanding Teaching, Scholarship and Service (Berry College).
2015 Lucile Medwick Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America.
Pushcart Prize Nomination for 2014, by Dan Albergotti.
“Falling Rock,” November 2012, nominated by the editors of Cerise Press for a Pushcart Prize
(XXXVIII).
“Denial Machine,” Verse Daily Web Weekly Feature for July 2, 2012 (http://versedaily.org).
“An Elegiac Tone Predominates,” Verse Daily Web Weekly Feature for April 16, 2012 (http://versedaily.org).
“Museum of the Party,” November 2011, nominated by the editors of Atlanta Review for a Pushcart Prize.
Named Dana Professor of English, Rhetoric and Writing, Berry College, 2011.
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry for 2011.
Sabbatical awarded for Fall 2011, Berry College.
Road Scatter, authored book-length manuscript of poetry, finalist for the 2010 Sawtooth Poetry Prize, Ahsahta Press.
“Idolum Naturae Magnum: A Meditation” and Biogeography featured on Verse Daily
(http://versedaily.org), March 27, 2009.
“Fracture and Regelation Theory,” from Biogeography, nominated by Tupelo Press for a 2008
Pushcart Prize.
Edited book, Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad, awarded a 2008
Independent Publisher Book Award Gold Medal.
Awarded Berry College Faculty Summer Cultural Immersion & Professional Growth Grant for
travel to Botswana and South Africa, summer 2008.
Artist of the Year, 2007-8, named by the Rome Area Council for the Arts.
Biogeography, winner of the 2006 Tupelo Press Dorset Award.
“Road Scatter” featured on Poetry Daily (http://www.poems.com), February 16, 2007.
“Chronographia” finalist for the 2007 Third Coast Poetry Award.
2006 Georgia Author of the Year Award, Poetry (for Burn).
Biogeography, authored book-length manuscript of poetry, finalist for the 2007 Pleiades
PressLena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series Award (declined); finalist for the 2007
University of Wisconsin Press’s Brittingham Prize and Felix Pollack Prize competition;
finalist, 2006 Tupelo Press Open Reading; finalist for the 2006 Sawtooth Poetry
Prize (Ahsahta Press, Boise State University); finalist for the 2006 Dorset Prize, Tupelo
Press, awarded Honorable Mention; finalist for the 2006 University of Wisconsin Press’s
Brittingham Prize and Felix Pollack Prize competition; finalist for the 2006 Philip
Levine Prize in Poetry, California State University at Fresno; semifinalist for the
2005 Beatrice Hawley Award, Alice James Books; semifinalist for the 2005 Sawtooth Poetry
Prize, Ahsahta Press.
“Tillandsia Usneoides” and Burn featured on Verse Daily (http://www.versedaily.org), July 16,
2005.
Received Summer Stipend, Berry College, 2005.
Centrum Residency, Port Townsend, Washington, Fall 2004.
Sabbatical awarded for Fall 2004, Berry College.
Burn, authored book-length manuscript of poetry, finalist for the Dorset Prize, Tupelo Press,
2004.
Nominated for a 2003 Pushcart Prize (author nomination, by contributing editor Gary Gildner).
2003 Peace Corps Writers Award, Poetry (for Nomadic Foundations).
2003 Georgia Author of the Year Award, Poetry (for Nomadic Foundations).
Received Faculty and Development Grant, Berry College, 2003.
Editors’ Choice, 2002 James Wright Poetry Award, Mid-American Review, for “On the
Modifications of Clouds.”
Nominated for a 2002 Pushcart Prize (“Half Life,” Nomadic Foundations; nominated by Elixir
Press).
Received Faculty and Development Grant, Berry College, 2002.
Received Summer Stipend, Berry College, 2002.
“Foundations for Fire” and Nomadic Foundations featured on Verse Daily
(http://www.versedaily.org), August 16, 2002.
Nominated for Georgia Author of the Year, Poetry, 2001 (for The Circumference of Arrival).
“Twelve Days” (poem), the featured selection for Conjunctions 36 Web page. Available at
http://www.conjunctions.com/conj36.htm.
Nominated for a 2001 Pushcart Prize (“Addiction Unit,” Prairie Schooner; nominated by Jim
Simmerman).
Nominated for a 2001 Pushcart Prize (“Amputations,” The Circumference of Arrival;
nominated by Elixir Press).
“Evolution” and The Circumference of Arrival featured on Poetry Daily
(http://www.poems.com), September 1, 2001.
Nominated for a 2000 Pushcart Prize (“How to Build a Fallout Shelter,” Indiana Review 22:1;
nominated by the editors, Indiana Review).
Featured Poet of the Month, January 2001, Poetry Net. Available
at http://members.aol.com/poetrynet/first.html
Academy of American Poets Award, 1994 and 1995
Colorado State University Poetry Fellow, 1988-89
Colorado State University English Department Academic Fellowship, 1988
First Place, Poetry, Colorado State University Creative Arts Symposium, 1987
Colorado Fellowship, 1986-87
Westfall Memorial Scholarship, Colorado State University, 1985-86
President's Scholarship, Colorado State University, 1984-85, 1985-86
Performing and Creative Arts Creative Writing Scholarship, Colorado State University, 1983-84
University of Northern Colorado Music Scholarship (viola), 1981-82, 1982-83
Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Kappa Phi
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS AND SERVICE
Craft Class and Lecture, “Robyn Schiff's A Woman of Property: Syntax, Line, and the Associative Swerve.” Etowah Valley Writers Institute MFA 2016 Summer Residency, Reinhardt University, Waleska, Georgia, July 14, 2016.
Moderator and Panel Member, “Tendrils & Roots: Place-ing the Personal in the Contemporary Eco-elegy. ” Association of Writers & Writing Programs National Conference, Los Angeles, March 31, 2016. With Brenda Hillman, Marcella Durand, Sherwin Bitsui, and Laura-Gray Street.
Panel Member: “Publishing--the Problems and the Promise” (with Ryan Rivas, Burrows Press, and Richard Mathews, University of Tampa Press). Blank Pages Creative Writing Symposium, University of South Florida, Tampa, Feb. 25, 2016.
Judge, with Ninebark Co-editors, Rome and Floyd County Elementary and High School Essay Contests, for “One Book, Many Voices” Community Read of George Ella Lyon’s Voices from the March on Washington. October 2015.
“Ecotone at Ten: Celebrating a Decade of Place-based Writing.” Panel reading. Notes from the Underground: The Depths of Environmental Arts, Culture and Justice: The 11th Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. The University of Idaho, June 26, 2015.
Judge, Peace Corps Poetry Award, 2015.
“Poetry and the Environment.” Panel reading. Words and Worlds: The 29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities. The University of West Georgia, October 31, 2014.
Judge, with Ninebark Co-editors, Rome and Floyd County High School and College Writing Contests, for “One Book, Many Voices” Community Read of Ruta Sepetys’ Between Shades of Gray. September 2014.
Judge, with Ninebark Co-editors, Rome and Floyd County High School and College Writing Contests, for “One Book, Many Voices” Community Read of Clyde Edgerton’s Night Train. September 2013.
West Virginia Writers Workshop, West Virginia University. Led three-day poetry workshop and gave public lecture on “The Elegy.” July 18-21, 2013.
Presenter, “Never Empty: How Reading Poetry Can End Writer's Block and Guide Revision.” Red Clay Writing Conference, Kennesaw State University, May 18, 2013.
Moderator, “Bringing Home the Best: A Celebration of the Georgia Poetry Circuit.” The Association of Writers & Writing Programs National Conference, Boston, March 8, 2013.
Panel Member, “Taking Back the Creative Capstone.” The Association of Writers & Writing Programs National Conference, Boston, March 9, 2013.
Moderator and panel member, “Getting Published.” Southern Women Writers Conference, Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia, September 22, 2012.
Judge, Southern Women Writers Conference Emerging Writers Contest in Poetry, Berry College, 2012.
Judge, with Ninebark Co-editors, Rome and Floyd County High School and College Writing Contests,
for “One Book, Many Voices” Community Read of Kelsey Timmerman’s Where Am I Wearing: A Global
Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People That Make Our Clothes. September 2012.
Screening judge (for Arthur Sze), AWP Award Series: the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry.
Association of Writers and Writing Programs, 2012.
Panel member, “The Poetic Possibilities of Deep Travel.” The Association of Writers & Writing
Programs National Conference, Chicago, March 3, 2012.
“Bringing Africa Home Through Poetry.” Panel organizer and participant. “Peace Corps and
Africa: Honoring 50 Years” conference at the University of Wisconsin, March 26, 2011.
Inaugural Professorial Lecture Series, Berry College. “Towards a Poetics of Place: A Poetry
Reading.” February 15, 2011.
Panel member, “Broadening the Poet’s Vision Through the Peace Corps Experience.” The
Association of Writers & Writing Programs National Conference, Washington D.C.,
February 3, 2011.
Judge, Poetry Society of South Carolina Carrie Allen McCray, Constance Pultz, and Kinloch
Rivers Memorial Poetry Prizes, January 2011.
“The Life You Save May Be Your Own: On Literary Service.” Paper presented as part of panel,
“Poets as Legislators: Bearing Visions in Private and in Public,” at the Association of
Writers & Writing Programs National Conference, Denver, Colorado, April 9, 2010.
Editorial Board Member, Southern Women’s Literary Review, 2008-.
Judge, The Pinch Literary Awards in Poetry, 2008.
Judge, Bowling Green State University Devine Graduate Fellowships in Poetry, 2008.
Director of the Georgia Poetry Circuit, 2007-.
Featured speaker, “The Poetry of Deep Travel.” The Martha Berry Museum at Oak Hill, Berry
College, Mount Berry, Georgia, June 21, 2007.
Chair and presenter, “Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad: A Reading.”
The Association of Writers & Writing Programs National Conference, Atlanta,
Georgia, March 1, 2007.
Chair, “A Celebration of Southern Women Writers: A Reading.” The Association of
Writers & Writing Programs National Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, March 1, 2007.
Co-Founding Editor, Ninebark Press, 2006-.
Judge, Russ MacDonald Poetry Contest (graduate student writing competition), West Virginia
University, 2006.
Judge, Southern Literary Festival (Rhodes College), Literary Journal Competition, 2006.
Literary Panelist for the Georgia Council for the Arts, 2005-8.
Judge, Brenau College Literary Contest, 2005.
Judge, 2003 Elixir Press Poetry Chapbook Competition.
ADDITIONAL POETRY READINGS
Etowah Valley Writers Institute, Reinhardt University, Waleska, Georgia, July 14, 2016.
SHORE: Acworth Creative Reading Series, Acworth, GA, May 2, 2016. With Amy Pence and Lynn Pedersen.
Berry College, April 7, 2016. Reading and Book Launch of An Ecology of Elsewhere.
Blank Pages Creative Writing Symposium, University of South Florida, Tampa, Feb. 25, 2016. Keynote Reader.
Flannery O'Connor and Other Southern Women Writers Conference, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, Sept. 18, 2015. With Laura Newbern.
The Georgia Center for the Book, August 24, 2015. With Anya Silver.
“Ecotone at 10,” Book People, Moscow, Idaho, June 25, 2015. Participating poet.
Persea Books and Fourway Press Authors reading, Minneapolis, April 9, 2015. Participating poet.
Southern Literary Festival, University of North Georgia, Dahlonega, March 27, 2015. Featured poet.
Georgia Perimeter College: Newton, Dunwoody, Clarkston, and Decatur campuses, Sept. 22-23, 2014. Featured poet.
Seat in the Shade Reading Series, The University of Georgia, Athens, June 20, 2014. Featured poet.
Poetry@Tech (Georgia Tech University), Atlanta, Feb. 6, 2014. Featured poet.
Callenwolde Fine Arts Center, Atlanta, Oct. 9, 2013. Featured poet.
West Virginia Writers Workshop, West Virginia University, July 18, 2013. With Mark Brazaitis.
“An Evening with Southern Poets.” With fellow contributors to The Southern Poetry Anthology Vol. V: Georgia. Georgia Center for the Book, Decatur, Georgia, April 30, 2013.
Writers in the Sun Reading Series. Featured Poet. University of Central Florida, Orlando, April 2, 2013.
Charis Books, Atlanta, Georgia, January 17, 2013.
8th Annual Voices Carry reading, Georgia Center for the Book, Decatur, Georgia. Co-sponsored by Poetry Atlanta and the Georgia Center for the Book. With Jericho Brown,Theresa Davis, and Cecilia Woloch. October 27, 2012.
Berry Creative Writing Faculty Reading, Berry College. With Abigail Greenbaum. October 2, 2012.
Poetry Society of Georgia Reading Series, featured poet. Jepson Center Auditorium, Savannah, Georgia.
April 21, 2011.
Plenary poet at “Talking Peace Corps” keynote presentation, with Director of Peace Corps Aaron Williams, and poets Susan Rich, Derick Burleson, and Ann Neelon. "Peace Corps and Africa" conference at the University of Wisconsin, March 26, 2011.
Shorter University, featured reader, Rome, Georgia, October 28, 2010.
University of Denver Ph.D. Program Alumni Reading. Panel at Association of Writers & Writing Programs National Conference, Denver, Colorado, April 8, 2010.
A Reading by Tupelo Poets, 10th Anniversary Celebration of Tupelo Press, Denver, Colorado, April 8th, 2010.
Meacham Writers’ Workshop, featured reader, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, March 26, 2010. Also conducted poetry workshop for UTC students and Chattanooga community members, March 28, 2010.
University of West Georgia, featured reader, Carrollton, February 24, 2010. Also met with Advanced Creative Writing, Poetry, class.
Sarabande Reading Series, featured reader, Louisville, Kentucky, January 25, 2010. With Kristi Maxwell.
South Atlantic Modern Language Association 81st Convention, Atlanta, November 6, 2009: Special Session: Peace Corps Poets and the Modern World.
Georgia Literary Festival, featured reader, Rome, Georgia, October 17, 2009.
RAEIN-Africa (Regional Agricultural and Environment Initiatives Network) International Conference: Innovation Systems for Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Livelihoods Development in SADC Countries Programme Launch, Windhoek, Namibia, June 24, 2009. Read with Namibian Poet Christie Warner.
University of Namibia, featured poet, June 23, 2009. Also conducted poetry workshop.
A Cappella Books, Atlanta, Georgia, February 27, 2009. With Karen Salyer McElmurray.
Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Rome, Georgia, December 6, 2008. Reading for the debut of Biogeography.
South Carolina Poetry Society, featured poet, Charleston, April 11, 2008.
Wheaton College (MA), featured reader, March 24. Also spoke on editing and anthologies in “Public Poetry, Private Poetry” literature class; met with advanced student poets in workshop.
Berry College Memorial Library, October 12, 2005, with novelist Michael Mejia. Sponsored by Memorial Library and International Programs.
Southern Women Writers Conference, Berry College, featured reader, September 23, 2005
The Association of Writers & Writing Programs International Conference, Vancouver, Canada. “Mid-American Review’s 25th Anniversary: A Reading.” Invited reader. April 1, 2005. With Alvin Greenberg, Mary Ann Samyn, Alex Parsons, and Roy Jacobstein.
University of Memphis, with River City featured authors, March 18, 2005.
Colorado State University, featured poet, February 2, 2005. Also met with graduate creative writing, poetry, class.
The Association of Writers & Writing Programs National Conference, Chicago; “An Elixir Press Reading,” March 26, 2004.
Augusta State University Winter Gathering of Writers, featured poet, January 28, 2004.
Southern Women Writers Conference, Berry College, featured reader, October 17, 2003.
Georgia Tech, Barnes & Noble, featured reader, October 10, 2003.
Rome Area Council for the Arts, “College Poetry Night,” September 25, 2003. With Berry students, and with students and faculty from Floyd and Shorter colleges.
Special Session of the PCA/ACA, with poet Bill Tremblay, sponsored by The Louisiana Review. Popular Culture/American Culture Association National Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2003.
Floyd College Book Forum, discussing February selection, Nomadic Foundations; featured reader, February 19, 2003; also met with creative writing poetry class at Floyd College (now Georgia Highlands College).
Mercer University, featured reader, November 6, 2002.
National Conference of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, Washington D.C., June 2002.
Rome Area Council for the Arts, “Women’s Voices,” May 31, 2002.
Callenwolde Fine Arts Center, featured reader, May 9, 2002.
Kennesaw State University, featured reader, April 11, 2002; also led graduate poetry workshop.
Berry College, featured reader (sponsored by Ramifications), April 10, 2002.
Chattanooga Writers’ Guild, at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, featured reader, April 8, 2002.
Reading of The Circumference of Arrival. Popular Culture Association National Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 2001.
Georgia Poetry Society, at Morehouse College, Atlanta, featured reader, January 26, 2002.
Meachum Writers’ Workshop, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, November 15-17, 2001; also met with student poets in conference.
Prairie Schooner 75th Anniversary Celebration, October 13, 2001.
Featured reader for “Poetry Monday,” University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, October 8, 2001.
Mercer University, October 4, 2001.
Rome Area Council for the Arts, “School Night: A Poetry Reading,” with Berry students as well as professors and students from Shorter College and Floyd College, September 27, 2001.
Georgia Book & Arts Festival, September 15, 2001.
Martha Berry Museum, September 2000.
Berry College, March 2000 (with June Spence and Scott Huler).
Louisiana State University at Eunice, featured reader, March 1999.
University of Denver, 1995.