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Education:

New College of California, BA/MA,  (Poetics) S.F., CA 1987  

Rudolf Steiner College, Certificate Waldorf Education, Sacramento, CA 1972

Chouinard Art Institute (California Inst. Arts), Ceramics) L.A., CA 1969


Books & Chapbooks:

Corresponding Flowers, Vernacular Editions, Sacramento, 1985

The Delta Poem, Vernacular Editions, Sacramento, 1987

Making the Good, Tooth of Time Press, Santa Fe, 1988

A Canto for the Birds, Tule Press, Sacramento, 1995

Gradual Map, Tangram Press, Berkeley, 1999

x-ing the Acheron, Poet’s Corner Press, Stockton, CA 2002

Chrysanthemum, Arcturus Press, Sacramento, Poets Corner Press, 2006

Oar, Rattlesnake Press, Pollock Pines, CA 2009

Auricle, (Letterpress) Ltd Ed, Commonlife Press, Burnsville, N.C.

 

Anthologies:

Landing Signals: An Anthology of Sacramento Poets,1985

With My Heart in my Mouth, ed. Paul Matthews, Bristol, England, 1995

Hot Flashes, Women Writers On the Change of Life, (Essay) ed. Lynne Taeztsch, Faber & Faber, 1996

One Hundred Poems: The Sacramento Anthology, Sacramento Poet Laureate Program, 2002

We Beg To Differ: An Anthology for Peace, Sacramento Poets Against the War, 2003

Best Poetry, Poet’s Corner Press, Stockton, CA, 2004

Cloud View Poets Anthology, ed. David St. John, Arcos Press, Sausalito, CA, 2005 

The Ecopoetry Anthology, ed. Ann Fisher Wirth & Laura-Gray Street, Trinity University Press, 2013

 

Essays & Talks:

The Rose of Hermetic Definition; A Look at H.D.'s Last Poem, The Taos Review, New Mexico, 1990

A Plea for Vision and the New Romanticism in Poetry, crftwrk, Sacramento, CA, 2009

Retinal Studies, TMWC, Reno, Nevada, 2007

Making Place; Three Strategies of Composition, Our Lives Stories, Sacramento, 2009

Dime Store Alchemy, Surprise Valley Writers Workshop, Cedarville, CA , 2010

Painting & The Language of Place, Surprise Valley Plein Air Painters Conference, Cedarville CA, 2012

Robert Duncan; Poet-Maker, Sacramento Poetry Center, Sacramento, CA 2012

Deep Listening, M.C.Richards: The Studio Crafts as Language Art, Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center, Asheville, N.C., 2013

On the Edge: Ecopoetry, Surprise Valley Writers Workshop, Cedarville, CA, 2014

Living A Making; Source in the Writing of M.C. Richards, Black Mountain College Museum +Art Center, Asheville, N.C., 2014

 

Plays: 

SHUT DOWN, a performance piece for incarcerated men, conceived & executed with high security inmates, performed in collaboration with theater artist, James C. Anderson, Mule Creek State Prison, Ione, 1996

SHATTERPROOF; A Performance Piece for 14 Women, written, compiled, edited and performed in collaboration with theater artist, Myrtle J. Stephens and the women of The Voices Project, Celebration Arts,

Aug.-Sept. 1999

 

Publications: (the following is a selection of periodicals in which writing has appeared) NOTICE, 1981 (San Francisco); FOLIO, 1982 (Sacramento); QUERCUS 1981/84 (Sacramento); PINCHPENNY 1982/83 (Sacramento); ERGO 1986 (Seattle); TYUONYI (Santa Fe); THE TAOS REVIEW (Taos); THE TULE REVIEW 1994/00 (Sacramento); Poetry Now 1990/92 (Sacramento); POETNEWS 1994/95 (Sacramento); NO EXIT 1988 (Boulder); BOMBAY GIN 1988/90 (Boulder); SHAMBHALA SUN 92 (Boulder); THE LITERARY RENAISSANCE 1991 (Louisville); FIRST INTENSITY 1994/96 (New York); NEW AMERICAN WRITING 1995 (Chicago); ROOMS 1994/95/96/97/98/99/00/01/02 (San Francisco); SKANKY POSSUM,2000 (AUSTIN TX); CaFE Review 2001 (Maine); PERIHELION 2001 (Sacramento);  RUNES 2001 (San Francisco); PATERSON LITERARY REVIEW, 2003 (New Jersey); Runes 2004 (San Francisco)

 

Awards & Honors:

New Works in Performance (Corresponding Flowers), Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, 1985

New Works in Performance, (The Delta Poem), Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, 1987

New Works in Performance, (A Canto for the Birds), Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, 1994-95

Associate Artist, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, 1994

Fellow/Artist-in-Residence, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL, 1995

Naropa Institute, Poet In Residence, summer 1996

Commissioners Award for Literature (Fellowship), Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, 1996

California Arts Council, Artist-in-Residence, 1996-99

California Arts Council Literary Fellowship (Poetry), 1997

New Works in Performance, Haibun, a commissioned work for Sacramento Taiko Dan, Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, 1999-2000

California Arts Council, Multi-Residency (for the profoundly disabled), 2000-2003

Emerson College, Sussex, England, Poet-in-Residence, Summer 2001

Fellow/Artist-in-Residence, Centrum Foundation, Port Townsend, WA  2002 Fellow/Artist-in-Residence, The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, Taos, N.M., 2004

Presenter, Nat’l Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, Baltimore, Maryland, 2005  

Fellow/Artists-in-Residence, Center for Arts & Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA, 2005

Sacramento Poet Laureate, 2005-2009

Pushcart Nomination, 2011

 

Boards and Affiliations:

Sacramento Poetry Center, Board Member 1982-2005

Founding Co-editor, Tule Review (a quarterly), Sacramento, 1996-1998

Panelist, S.M.A.C., Cultural Awards, 1988  

MATRIX Center for the Arts, Sacramento, Honorary Board Member, 1996-2000

Panelist. C.A.C., Small Press Awards, 2000

Pennsylvania Council for the Humanities, Humanities Scholar, The Fire Within, a documentary film on the life and work of M.C. Richards, 2000-2002

Literary Executor to the Estate of Mary Caroline (M.C.) Richards

Founding Member Panama Artists Collective, 2012

 

Exhibitions:

Book Arts, Haystack School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine 1981

Student Exhibition, New College of CA, S.F., 1983

"Clay & Words", Rudolf Steiner College, Fair Oaks, 1988

"Clay & Words", Nathan Mayhew Institute, Vineyard Haven MA, 1987

"Constructions & Clay", Women Artists Today, Women's Building, S.F., 1989
"Death and Transformation", Phantom Galleries, Sacramento, 1994


"Inside Out", Arts Council Gallery, Sutter Creek, CA, 1994

"Rebirth", Phantom Galleries, Sacramento, 1995

"Night of 101 Cups", Garth Clark Gallery, New York, 1996

"Rooms With Many Voices", American River College Gallery, 1997

"Watermarks", Center or Contemporary Arts, 1997

"Voices: An Installation", Matrix Gallery 1997

"Voices: An Installation", American River College Gallery, 1998

 The Matrix Members Show, 1997, 1998

 Poets & Painters Series, The French Quarter, Rohnert Park, 1997

 Lioness Books, New Paintings, Sacramento, 1998

 Poets & Painters Series, Doubletree Inn, Rohnert Part, 1999

 Poets & Painters Series, North Light Books,  Cotati, CA, 2004 and 2005

“Shelf Life: Pots and Paintings”, Poet’s Gallery, Sacramento, CA 2012

Panama Artist’s Gallery, Panama Pottery, Sacramento, 2015

'Birds Of A Feather', ClayArtStudio814, Sacramento, 2015


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