Publications and Presentations
Poetry Juked, The Greensboro Review, Slow Trains, Free Lunch, Broadsided, Birmingham Poetry Review, Chronogram, Iris, Appalachian Journal, Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine, All Around Us Books/Book Chapters Breathing the Same Air: An East Tennessee Anthology Co-edited with Doris Ivie. Knoxville, Tennessee: Celtic Cat Press/Knoxville Writers Guild, 2000. “A Dictionary Makes the Difference: How Gryphon’s Gave Knoxville a New Poetic Lexicon,” in Cumberland Avenue Revisited, ed. Jack Rentfro, Cardinal Publishing: Knoxville, Tennessee, 2003.
Articles and Reviews “College Orientation.” Dance Teacher Magazine January 2007. “Thesis Statement.” Dance Teacher Magazine May 2005. “Mix and Match.” Dance Teacher Magazine December 2004. “Growing Better Writers: UT Martin’s West Tennessee Writing Project Benefits Community, State.” The Tennessee Writer winter 2004. “Homegrown in Tennessee.” Dance Teacher Magazine October 2004. “Goodbye to Now and Then?” The Tennessee Writer fall 2003. “Making Discoveries through Writing at the Governor’s School for the Humanities.” The Tennessee Writer fall 2003. “Geraniums” in “Readers Write: Visiting Relatives,” The Sun January 2002. “The Gifts and Thefts”, book review, poetry by David Stoudt, Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine, winter 2001.
Recent Presentations “Yoga Memoir as Romance, Confession and Upanishad.” Presented at the College English Association annual conference, St. Louis, Missouri, March 2008. “Beyond the Ekphrastic: A First Draft Alternative.” Presented at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference Pedagogy Forum, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2007. “Picturing Literacy.” Co-presented with Tim Hacker at the Wiregrass Literacy and Literature Festival of the Deep South, Valdosta, Georgia, September 2006. “Teaching Creative Writing Inspired by North American Indian Literature.” Invited Lecture, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki, Japan, October 2005. “Native Identities: Images of North American Indians in Literature, Film, Popular Culture.” Invited Lecture, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki, Japan, October 2005. “Momaday, Kowit, and the Prose Poem.” Presented at the, Association of Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference Pedagogy Forum, Vancouver, B.C., March, 2005. "'Til the Bridge You Need Be Formed': Self Portrait of a Writing Community." Co-presented with Anna Clark, and the UTM Writers Guilder at the Seventeenth Rhetoric and Composition Colloquium, Murray State University, Murray, KY, April 2004. “Rocks With Wings: Making Creative Connections with Film Documentary.” Presented at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference, Pedagogy Forum, Chicago, March 2004. “The Power of One: How a One-Person Audience Silenced a New Generation of Witnesses to the Shoah Legacy." Presented at the Sixteenth Rhetoric and Composition Colloquium, Murray State University, Murray, KY, April 2003. “The Pop Cultural Literacy Artist.” Presented at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference, Baltimore, February 2003. “Mapping Sense Memory in Poetry.” Invited lecture and writing workshop, Appalachian Writers Association Annual Conference, Cumberland College, Williamsburg, Kentucky, July 2002. “JustUs: Appalachian Teen Poetry Performance and Social Change.” Co-presented with Deborah Bahr and the JustUs Poetry Performance Troupe, Appalachian Studies Association Annual Conference, Helen, Georgia, March 2002. “Clicking Your Way to Better English? College ESL Students’ Perceptions of Internet Language Learning Resources.” Presented at the Tennessee Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Conference, Memphis, Tennessee, April 2000. |