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Don H Bogen
Professor
English - Tenure-Track Faculty
369A McMicken Hall
513-556-0929
donald.bogen@uc.edu
Professional Summary
Don Bogen is the author of four books of poetry, including his most recent book An Algebra, University of Chicago Press (2009). His critical book, A Necessary Order: Theodore Roethke and the Writing Process, was published by Ohio University Press in 1991. Along with his poetry, Bogen has been active as a reviewer and translator, and has collaborated with composers from the U.S. and abroad. Awards for his work include U.C.'s Rieveschl Award for Excellence in Scholarly and Creative Work, The Discovery / The Nation Award, the Emily Dickinson Award of the Poetry Society of America, a Fulbright Senior Lectureship in Spain, and fellowships from the Camargo Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1976 (English).
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1974 (English).
A.B., University of California, Berkeley, 1971 (English).
Foreign study, Georg August University, Gottingen, Germany, 1970.
Positions & Work Experience
2011-2011, Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in Creative Writing, Seamus Heaney Poetry Centre, Queen's University, Belfast, Ireland.
2007-2007, Visiting Poet, University of California, Irive, CA.
2003-2003, Fulbright Senior Lectureship, University of Santiago de Compostela and University of Vigo, Spain.
1997 to Present, Professor, University of Cincinnati, OH.
1984-1985, Associate Member, Darwin College, Cambridge University, UK.
1982-1997, Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati, OH.
1976-1982, Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati, OH.
Research Interests
poetry, translation
Research Support
Witter Bynner Poetry Translator Residency, Santa Fe Arts Institute. Date: 2008
Fulbright Senior Lectureship, Spain. Date: 2003
Taft Competitive Faculty Fellowship, University of Cincinnati. Date: 2002
Ohio Arts Council Individual Artists Fellowship, Date: 1999
Walter E. Dakin Fellowship, Sewanee Writers' Conference. Date: 1997
Summer Residency at Yaddo, Date: 1996
Fellowship at the Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France. Date: 1993
Taft Academic Leave Grant, University of Cincinnati. Date: 1992
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Date: 1989
Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant, Date: 1989
Ohio Arts Council Individual Artists Fellowship, Date: 1985
Taft Academic Leave Grant, University of Cincinnati. Date: 1984
Summer Faculty Fellowship, University of Cincinnati. Date: 1980
Summer Research Council Grant, University of Cincinnati. Date: 1979
Summer Taft Grant, University of Cincinnati. Date: 1978
Summer Research Council Grant, University of Cincinnati. Date: 1977
Peer Reviewed Publications
"What's Gained in Translation: The Question of Poetry," The Writer's Chronicle, March-April, 2005
"Beyond the Workshop: Suggestions for a Process-Oriented Creative Writing Course," Journal of Advanced Composition, 1984
"'Intuition' and 'Craftsmanship': Theodore Roethke at Work," Papers on Language and Literature, Winter, 1982
"From Open House to the Greenhouse: Theodore Roethke's Poetic Breakthrough," ELH, Summer, 1980
"'I' and 'You' in 'Who Learns My Lesson Complete?': Some Aspects of Whitman's Poetic Evolution," Walt Whitman Review, September, 1979
Books
A Necessary Order: Theodore Roethke and the Writing Process. Ohio University Press, 1991.
Book Chapters
"On Josephine Miles' 'The Cage,'" in Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems, Kevin Prufer and Joy Katz, eds.,
"'Faithful to the End': John Haines' Poetry Since 1980," in The Wilderness of Vision: On the Poetry of John Haines, Kevin Bezner and Kevin Walzer, eds., Story Line Press, 1996
Book of Poems
An Algebra. University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Luster. Wesleyan University Press, 2003.
The Known World. Wesleyan University Press, 1997.
After the Splendid Display. Wesleyan University Press, 1986.
Reviews
Unititled review of John Taggart, is music: Selected Poems), On the Seawall (http://www.ronslate.com), November 30, 2010.
"Literary Detritus" (T.S. Eliot, Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917), American Book Review, May-June, 1999
"Muses of History" (James Fenton, Out of Danger and Carolyn Forché, The Angel of History), The Nation, October 24, 1994. Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, 1999;
"Isn't It Romantic?" (Robert Hass, Sun Under Wood), The Kenyon Review, Summer-Fall, 1998
"Heaney's Touch" (Seamus Heaney, The Spirit Level), The Threepenny Review, Winter, 1997
"An Old-Left Adam" (Pablo Neruda, Canto General and Selected Odes), The Nation, January 27, 1992
"Running with the Ball" (Robert Pinsky, The Want Bone), The Nation, December 17, 1990. Reprinted in CD-ROM DISCovering Authors, Gale Research Press, 1996.
"A Student of Desire" (Robert Hass, Human Wishes), The Nation, December 11, 1989. Reprinted in Poetry Criticism, Gale Research Press, 1996.
"Art and Disaster" (Czeslaw Milosz, Collected Poems), The Nation, December 19, 1988
"Reverie Unraveled" (Herbert Morris,
"The Poem Machine" (C.K. Williams, Flesh and Blood), The Nation, May 30, 1987. Reprinted in
"Perfection of the Work" (Robert Lowell, Collected Prose), The Nation, April 11, 1987
"The Fundamental Skeptic" (Louise Glück, The Triumph of Achilles), The Nation, January 18, 1986. Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Roger Matuz, ed., Gale Research Press, 1988.
"The Way We Are" (Alfred Corn, Notes from a Child of
"American Elegies" (Richard Hugo, Collected Poems), The Nation, March 17, 1984. Reprinted in CD-ROM DISCovering Authors, Gale Research Press, 1996.
"Poems of Two Cities" (James McMichael, Four Good Things and C.K. Williams, Tar), Urban Resources, Spring, 1984
"Guilt-Edged Poems" (Frank Bidart, The Sacrifice), The Nation, December 10, 1983
"Energy and Control" (Thom Gunn, The Occasions of Poetry and The Passages of Joy), The Threepenny Review, Fall, 1983
"César Vallejo: Latin American Modernist" (César Vallejo, The Complete PosthumousPoetry), University Publishing, Winter, 1981
Untitled Review of Seamus Heaney, North and Philip Levine, The Names of the Lost, Hyperion, Spring, 1978
Poems
"Stage" from An Algebra in IOU: New Writing on Money, Ron Slate, Ed., Concord Free Press. 2010.
"Flags, Maps, Towers, Icons" (12-poem sequence). Consequences. 2010.
"To the Celto-Ligurians," Boston Review. 2010.
"Mesoamerican Song." Tikkun. 2010.
"In Altadena." Smartish Place. 2010.
"Maker's Song," "Stair Song," and "Six Ghost Songs" (6-poem sequence). Hampden-Sydney Review. 2010.
"Sick Song." The Yale Review. 2009.
"Listen Song" and "Smart Song." Shenandoah. 2009.
"Care Song" and "Moving Song." Margie. 2008.
"Decisions." Electronic Poetry Review (Internet). 2008.
"In the Rain" and "Street, Window." Stand (UK). 2008.
"A Citizen." State of the Union: 50 Political Poems. 2008.
"Thoroughbreds." Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration of Horses. 2008.
"In the Rain." Stand. U.K. 2007.
"Street, Window." Stand. U.K. 2007.
"Pedestrian Song." Parnassus Literary Review. 2007.
"Thoroughbreds." Parnassus Literary Review. 2007.
"Bagatelles." Ploughshares. 2006.
"Blowtorch." The Torch. 2006.
"A Citizen." The Yale Review. 2006.
"House." Slate. 2006.
"Sky." Colorado Review. 2006.
"Who." Colorado Review. 2006.
"June Song." onearth. 2006.
"Vaporizer." Field. 2006.
"Barcarole." Electronic Poetry Review. 2005.
"Edge." Electronic Poetry Review. 2005.
"Have To." Electronic Poetry Review. 2005.
"Slash." Electronic Poetry Review. 2005.
"Elegies." The Paris Review. 2005.
"Promise Song." The Paris Review. 2005.
"Flowers." The New Republic. 2005.
"For the Makers." Agni. 2005.
"The Planets." The Journal. 2005.
"Wanted To." Boulevard. 2005.
"New Father." Family Matters: Poems of Our Families. 2005.
"Good Golly." The Paradelle: An Anthology. 2005.
"An Algebra." The Southeast Review. 2004.
"Engraving: Abraham and Isaac." Washington Square. 2004.
"Hauptstadt." The Blue Writer. 2004.
"A Ghost." Mid-American Review. 2003.
"A Ghost." Mid-American Review. 2003.
"A Ghost." Mid-American Review. 2003.
"Immediate Song." The New Republic. 2003.
"A World." Sou'Wester. 2003.
"Learning to Clam." O Taste and See: Food Poems. 2003.
"Air." Colorado Review. 2002.
"Epistle to Dr. Venturo." Literary Imagination. 2002.
"Etudes." Prairie Schooner. 2002.
"L'isle joyeuse." Pleiades. 2002.
"Rilke in Paris." The Journal. 2002.
"The Objects." Colorado Review. 2001.
"Proteus." Ploughshares. 2001.
"Run." The New Republic. 2001.
"All Shook Up." All Shook Up: Twentieth-Century Poets on a Cultural Icon. 2001.
"Chair." Ohio Art. 2000.
"Could Not Speak." Partisan Review. 2000.
"Give It Back." Partisan Review. 2000.
"No Friend." The Yale Review. 2000.
"Coleridge at Midnight." Colorado Review. 1999.
"Olive." Western Humanities Review. 1999.
"One Morning." Shenandoah. 1999.
"Three Variations on Elegiac Themes." Poetry. 1999.
"Among Appliances." And What Rough Beast: Poems at the End of the Century. 1999.
"The Pond." 1986-1988 Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry. 1988.
"Cardinals." Grand Street. 1998.
"Meditation on a Line from Whitman." Slate. 1998.
"Notes for an Autobiography." Crab Orchard Review. 1998.
"Pedestrian Song." The Southern California Anthology. 1998.
"A Row of Heads." The Journal. 1998.
"Blowtorch." The Cortland Review. 1998.
"Only Music." The Cortland Review. 1998.
"Stucco." The Cortland Review. 1998.
"Look Out for My Love." Salmagundi. 1997.
"Bouquinistes." Partisan Review. 1996.
"Doors." Southwest Review. 1996.
"In the Middle of Europe." Stand. U.K. 1996.
"The Trains." DoubleTake. 1996.
"Card Catalog." Western Humanities Review. 1995.
"Among Appliances." The Paris Review. 1994.
"Slum Corner." Broken Images. 1994.
"La Clairière." Poetry. 1993.
"Musée." Poetry. 1993.
"The House Destroyed by Fire." The Wesleyan Tradition: Four Decades of American Poetry. 1993.
"The Last Installment." After the Splendid Display in The Wesleyan Tradition: Four Decades of American Poetry. 1993.
"The Nudes." Salmagundi. 1992.
"Snowfall." The Journal. 1992.
"Another Orphan." The Licking River Review. 1991.
"The Case of the Doddering Doctor." The Licking River Review. 1991.
"Lunch on the Grass." The Licking River Review. 1991.
"The Palace at Granada." Western Humanities Review. 1991.
"A Waiting Room in Vienna." Western Humanities Review. 1991.
"Salver." The New Republic. 1991.
"Thoroughbreds." The Paris Review. 1991.
"A Luddite Lullaby." Poetry. 1990.
"A Muse." The Yale Review. 1990.
"Slum Corner." The New Republic. 1990.
"The Machines." The New Republic. 1989.
"Necklace." The New Republic. 1989.
"Nine Reflections." Art / Life. 1989.
"Pools." Art / Life. 1989.
"Three Cradle Songs." Partisan Review. 1989.
"Examination." Cincinnati Poetry Review. 1988.
"The Moon in the Water." Cincinnati Poetry Review. 1988.
"Rain Forest." The Nation. 1988.
"This Far." Stand. U.K. 1988.
"Bullhorn." DoubleTake. 1998.
"The Freedom of the Press." The Missouri Review. 1987.
"The Known World." Shenandoah. 1987.
"Literacy." The Missouri Review. 1987.
"The Pageant." Poetry. 1986.
"The Pond." Poetry. 1986.
"Romanesque." Poetry. 1986.
"Pasadena." The American Poetry Review. 1984.
"Pedlar." The American Poetry Review. 1984.
"Policies." Indiana Review. 1984.
"A Priest of Aphrodisias." Stand. U.K. 1984.
"Winter House." Stand. U.K. 1984.
"Reggae Music." Sidewinder. 1984.
"A Scholar Gazing at a Flight of Birds." Ploughshares. 1984.
"Swan Song." Ploughshares. 1984.
"Bay Window in a Rented House." Correspondances. Switzerland 1983.
"The Last Installment." The Kenyon Review. 1983.
"Net." The Kenyon Review. 1983.
"After the Splendid Display." The American Poetry Review. 1982.
"At the Concert." The Threepenny Review. 1982.
"The All-Night Rumba." Southern Poetry Review. 1981.
"Family Album." The North American Review. 1981.
"The House Destroyed by Fire." The New Republic. 1981.
"Pioneer Square." The Nation. 1980.
"Glass Music." The New Republic. 1979.
"Listening to Election Returns at Midnight." Cincinnati Poetry Review. 1978.
"On the Retirement of a Secretary of State." Kayak. 1978.
"To All the Tired Children." Kayak. 1978.
"A Postcard from St. Petersburg." The Paris Review. 1978.
"The Road from Willets to the Coast." The Chowder Review / Abraxas. 1977.
"First Morning at Boulder Creek." Texas Quarterly. 1977.
"After Reading Ojibwa Poetry." South Dakota Review. 1976.
"Lithia Park." South Dakota Review. 1976.
"Crawling Home." The Paris Review. 1976.
"Learning to Clam." The Paris Review. 1976.
Creative Translations
"The Eternal Cavalry," "I Only Want to Go Back to the Trenches," "On Nature" and "Victim and Executioner" (from Julio Martínez Mesanza), Stand (
"The Black Streets," "The Condemned" and "Preferences" (from Julio Martinez Mesanza), Parthenon West Review, 2010.
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"The Spring Campaigns" (from Julio Martínez Mesanza), Boston Review, 2009.
"Ceremony," "Horses Die in
"Against Utopia II" and "The Prisoners" (from Julio Martínez Mesanza), Poetry International, 2008.
"De Amicitia" and "On Nature II" (from Julio Martínez Mesanza), Poetry Northwest, Spring, 2008. Featured on Poetry Daily website (www.poems.com). 2008.
"City of
Clotho: The Life of Camille Claudel (translation of opera libretto by Dagmar Birke and four poems from Baudelaire), with composers Mara Helmuth and Allen Otte, for soprano, percussion and tape. First performed September 8, 2000.
"Memorial for a Fisherman" and "The Wood House over the Wilia" (from Johannes Bobrowski), Antaeus, Summer-Autumn, 1978. Reprinted in The Antaeus Anthology, Bantam, 1986.
"Return" (from Johannes Bobrowski), The Chowder Review, Fall-Winter, 1977
Poems in Exile (16 poems by Bertolt Brecht), Hyperion, Summer, 1976
"Convalescence" (from Juan Ramon Jiménez),
Other Publications
"Break Into Light" with composer Garth Hangartner, for soprano, oboe, French horn and piano. First performed April 27, 2006 at Randolf-Macon Women's College,
"Remembrance," with composer Marta Ptaszynska, for mezzo soprano and string quartet. First performed December 10, 1995. Broadcast on WQXR,
"As an Algebra," with composer Allen Otte, for spoken voice and mbira. First performed December 6, 1994. Included on CD Implements of Actuation (Electronic Music Foundation, 2000).
"This Unsought Dominion," with composer Jennifer Stasack, for percussion, double bass and soprano. First performed March 31, 1988.
"This," with composers Fred Bianchi and Allen Otte, for percussion, spoken voice and tape. First performed March 7, 1987. Included in 17th Annual Festival of New Music,
Invited Presentations
(11/17/2010). Xavier University. Cincinnati, OH.
(11/12/2010). Allegheny College. Meadville, PA.
(11/11/2010). Point Park University. Pittsburgh, PA.
(11/10/2010). Chatham University. Pittsburgh, PA.
(10/22/2010). Moonstone Arts Center. Philadelphia, PA.
(10/20/2010). American Literary Translators Association Annual Conference. Philadelphia, PA.
(09/19/2010). Festival of the Book. Washington, DC.
(09/10/2010). Syracuse "Y" Writer's Center. NY.
(09/08/2010). Utica College. NY.
(08/30/2010). Sarabande Press Reading Series. Louisville, KY.
(06/09/2010). Indiana University Writer's Conference. IN.
(05/05/2010). Principia College. St. Louis, MO.
(05/04/2010). Left Bank Books. St. Louis, MO.
(04/16/2010). Southern Kentucky Book Festival. Bowling Green, KY.
(04/12/2010). The Blacksmith House. Cambridge, MA.
(03/29/2010). Columbus College of Art and Design. OH.
(09/18/2008). Santa Fe Arts Institute. NM.
(09/17/2008). Collected Works Bookstore. Santa Fe, NM.
(04/18/2007). California State University. Northridge.
(03/28/2007). Casa Romantica. San Clemente, CA.
(02/10/2007). International Festival of Poetry. Granada, Nicaragua.
(10/29/2006). Oberlin College. OH.
(10/26/2006). Georgia State University. GA.
(10/18/2006). Open Books. Seattle, WA.
(12/02/2005). Miami University. Oxford, OH.
(11/09/2005). Taylor University. IN.
(05/26/2005). Ohio State University. OH.
(04/11/2005). Xavier University. OH.
(03/21/2005). The Blacksmith House. Cambridge, MA.
(02/22/2005). Southern Illinois University. Edwardsville, IL.
(10/14/2004). Miami University. Oxford, OH.
(09/23/2004). Bridgewater State University. MA.
(09/22/2004). Southern Connecticut State University. CT.
(09/21/2004). Trinity College. Hartford, CT.
(09/20/2004). The College of Staten Island. NY.
(09/16/2004). St. Joseph's University. Philadelphia, PA.
(04/03/2004). Montevallo Literary Festival featured poet. Montevallo, AL.
(04/01/2004). Mississippi State University. MS.
(12/17/2003). Wheaton College. MA.
(12/01/2003). University of Vigo. Spain.
(09/18/2003). Pine Manor College. MA.
(09/16/2003). Boston University. MA.
(04/10/2003). Spanish Association of American Studies Biennial Conference. Vitoria, Spain.
(12/01/2002). University of Córdoba. Spain.
(04/14/2000). Kent State University. OH.
(04/13/2000). Ashland University. OH.
(04/17/1999). Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference. Albany, NY.
(02/17/1999). Ohio State University. OH.
(12/22/1998). University of Southern California. CA.
(04/19/1998). Morehead State University. KY.
(04/08/1998). Central Missouri State University. MO.
(04/07/1998). The Writer's Place. Kansas City, MO.
(03/25/1998). Bowling Green State University. OH.
(03/12/1998). University of Michigan. MI.
(03/04/1998). Wright State University. OH.
(02/25/1998). Ohio Wesleyan University. OH.
(10/30/1997). Marshall University. WV.
(10/23/1997). Truman State University. MO.
(10/22/1997). Lincoln University. MO.
(10/21/1997). Fontbonne College. MO.
(09/15/1997). Elon College. NC.
(06/23/1997). Sewanee Writers' Conference. TN.
(04/19/1997). University of Toledo. OH.
(04/16/1997). Illinois State University. IL.
(11/07/1996). Leeds University. UK.
(06/16/1996). Yaddo. NY.
(05/03/1993). The Camargo Foundation. Cassis, France.
(04/11/1989). The Poetry Center of the 92nd St. "Y". NY.
(02/23/1989). University of California, Los Angeles. CA.
(02/22/1989). University of Southern California. SC.
(03/05/1988). University of Kentucky. KY.
(10/08/1987). University of Evansville. IN.
(03/25/1987). Ohio Arts Council. Columbus, OH.
(08/06/1986). The Thurber House. Columbus, OH.
(02/23/1983). University of Louisville. KY.
(12/10/1981). The Folger Library. Washington, DC.
(05/19/1980). The Poetry Center of the 92nd St. "Y". New York.
Lectures
(06/10/2010). Publishing Poetry. Indiana Writers' Conference, IN.
(12/26/2006). Publishing Poetry. New South Writing Workshop Conference on Literary Publishing, Georgia State University.
(12/07/2003). "Cult of the Breakthrough": The Poetic Career of Theodore Roethke. University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
(11/30/2003). "Cult of the Breakthrough": The Poetic Career of Theodore Roethke. University of Salamanca, Spain.
(12/01/2002). "Cult of the Breakthrough": The Poetic Career of Theodore Roethke. University of Córdoba, Spain.
(11/30/2002). What's Gained in Translation: The Question of Poetry. Plenary Lecture, Annual Conference of English Studies, University of Jaén, Spain.
(02/25/1998). Looking, Singing, Thinking: Theodore Roethke's Writing Methods. Ohio Wesleyan University, OH.
(09/15/1997). Looking, Singing, Thinking: Theodore Roethke's Writing Methods. Elon College, NC.
Paper Presentations
Outer Form and Inner Voice: A Chiasmic Paradigm. American Literary Translators Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA. 10/21/2010.
Lost from Translation: The Poetry of Johannes Bobrowski. American Literary Translators Association Annual Conference, Pasadena, CA. 11/12/2009.
Losing a Vocie or How to Avoid Claire's Excellent Poetry Workshop. Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, Chicago. 02/13/2009.
Co-organizer and Host. The Cincinnati Review Fifth Anniversary Reading. Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, Chicago. 02/12/2009.
Poems of Julio Martínez Mesanza (translations). American Literary Translators Association Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN. 10/17/2008.
Translating Poetic Form, organizer and moderator for panel. American Literary Translators Association Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN. 10/16/2008.
Playing the Music: What Translation Gives a Poet. Department of Romance Languages and Taft Resarch Center Colloquim on Translation, University of Cincinnati, OH. 05/02/2008.
Poems of Julio Martínez Mesanza (translations). American Literary Translators Association Annual Conference, Dallas, TX. 11/08/2007.
Poems of Julio Martínez Mesanza (translations). American Literary Translators Association Annual Conference, Bellevue, WA. 10/20/2006.
A Clutch of Shards: Etymology and Its Uses. Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, Austin, TX. 03/10/2006.
Poems of Julio Martínez Mesanza (translations). American Literary Translators Association Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada. 11/04/2005.
Reading like a Writer: Published Texts in the Undergraduate Creative Writing Course. Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, Miami, FL. 04/04/1991.
Playing Games in the Writing Class: How Exercises Work. MLA Convention, Los Angeles, CA. 12/27/1982.
Beyond the Workshop: Some Alternatives for the Undergraduate Creative Writing Class. MLA Convention, New York. 12/29/1981.
Theodore Roethke: The Teaching Poet, organizer and moderator for panel. MLA Convention, San Francisco, CA. 12/28/1979.
'Je Me Trouve': W.B. Yeats at Work. MLA Convention, New York. 12/28/1976.
Honors & Awards
Fulbright Distinguished Scholarship, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2011.
University Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring Award, University of Cincinnati, 2010.
Fellow of the Graduate School, University of Cincinnati, 2009.
Witter Bynner Poetry Translator Residency, Santa Fe Arts Institute, 2008.
Fulbright Senior Lectureship, Spain, 2003.
Taft Competitive Faculty Fellowship, University of Cincinnati, 2002.
Ohio Arts Council Individual Artists Fellowship, 1999.
George Rieveschl, Jr. Award for Excellence in Scholarly or Creative Works, University of Cincinnati, 1998.
Walter E. Dakin Fellowship, Sewanee Writers' Conference, 1997.
Poetry Society of America The Writer / Emily Dickinson Award, 1997.
University of Southern California Ann Stanford Poetry Competition, Second Prize , 1997.
Stand (U.K.) International Poetry Competition, Second Prize , 1996.
Summer Residency at Yaddo, 1996.
Fellowship at the Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France, 1993.
Taft Academic Leave Grant, University of Cincinnati, 1992.
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1989.
Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant, 1989.
Poets House Translation Award, Honorable Mention, 1988.
Ohio Arts Council Individual Artists Fellowship, 1985.
Poetry Society of America / Wesleyan University Press Translation Award, Honorable Mention, 1984.
York (U.K.) Poetry Competition, Honorable Mention, 1984.
Taft Academic Leave Grant, University of Cincinnati, 1984.
Associated Writing Programs Anniversary Awards, Grand Prize, 1982.
Department of English William C. Boyce Teaching Award, University of Cincinnati, 1982.
Discovery / The Nation Award, 1980.
Summer Faculty Fellowship, University of Cincinnati, 1980.
Summer Research Council Grant, University of Cincinnati, 1979.
Summer Taft Grant, University of Cincinnati, 1978.
Summer Research Council Grant, University of Cincinnati, 1977.
Eugene V. Debs Foundation Edwin Markham Award (for the poem "Lamento"), 1976.
Service
Judge for student poetry awards: California State University, Northridge, 2010.
Judging Committee for College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Awards, 2009.
Judging Committee for University Distinguished Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2009.
Taft Planning Committee, 2008 to Present.
Promotion reviews for English Departments: University of California, Irvine, 2007.
Mentor for Yates Fellow, 2006 to 2007.
Taft Student Awards Committee (Chair 2007-2008), 2005 to 2008.
Promotion reviews for English Departments: Florida State University, 2005.
Promotion reviews for English Departments: University of Alabama, Birmingham, 2005.
Promotion reviews for English Departments: University of Alabama, Birmingham, 2005.
Promotion reviews for English Departments: University of Alabama, Birmingham, 2005.
Promotion reviews for English Departments: University of Alabama, Birmingham, 2005.
Judge for student poetry awards: Emerson College, 2005 to 2006.
Judge (2nd level, French) for Translation Award of the American Literary Translators' Association, 2005.
Judge (2nd level, French) for Translation Award of the American Literary Translators' Association, 2005.
Judge (2nd level, French) for Translation Award of the American Literary Translators' Association, 2005.
Judge for student poetry awards: Southern Connecticut State University, 2004.
Rieveschl Award Committee (Chair 2006), 2004 to 2006.
Taft Planning Committee, 2004 to 2005.
Taft Faculty Executive Board, 2004 to 2008.
Poetry Editor, The Cincinnati Review, 2004 to Present.
Taft Chair Search Committee, 2003.
Promotion reviews for English Departments: Georgia State University, 2003.
Promotion reviews for English Departments: Ohio State University, 2001.
Screener for poetry manuscripts, Wick Poetry Prize, Kent State University Press, 2001.
Screener for poetry manuscripts, Wick Poetry Prize, Kent State University Press, 2001.
Judge for Overture Awards Regional Competition in Creative Writing, 2001 to 2002.
Mentor for New Faculty Member in Department of English and Comparative Literature, 2001 to 2002.
Mentor for New Faculty Member in Department of Romance Languages, 1999 to 2000.
Judge for student poetry awards: Ohio State University, 1999.
Screener for poetry manuscripts, Associated Writing Programs Award Series, 1998.
Screener for poetry manuscripts, Bead Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Awards, 1998.
Screener for poetry manuscripts, Bead Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Awards, 1998.
Steering Committee, 1998 to 2000.
Graduate Curriculum Committee, 1998 to 1999.
Manuscript reviewer in creative writing, HarperCollins, 1995.
Camargo Foundation Creative Writing Selection Committee (Chair, 1996-2001), 1994 to 2001.
Workload Implementation Committee, 1994 to 1995.
Elliston Poet Search Committee (Chair, 1994-2002), 1994 to Present.
Boyce Award Committee Chair, 1994.
Graduate Admissions and Awards Committee, 1993 to 1994.
Search Committee for Chair of Taft Faculty Executive Board, 1993 to 1994.
M.A. Exam Committee, 1992.
Undergraduate Awards Committee, 1991.
Taft Planning Committee, 1990 to 1992.
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 1989 to 1990.
Taft Chair Review Committee, 1988.
Taft Faculty Executive Board, 1987 to 1992.
Steering Committee, 1986 to 1988.
Boyce Award Committee, 1984.
M.A. Exam Committee, 1983.
Boyce Award Committee Chair, 1983.
College Review Committee for Russian Program, 1983.
University Child Care Committee, 1982.
Founding Member, U-Kids Day Care Cooperative, 1982.
English 103 Syllabus Committee, 1982.
Judge for student poetry awards: Miami University, 1982.
Taft Committee on Graduate Fellowships (Chair 1987-1992), 1981 to 1992.
Special Events Committee (Chair 1982-1984, 1985-1987), 1976 to Present.
Courses Taught
Creative Writing: Poetry.
Major American Writers.
Major American Writers.
Major British Writers.
Shakespeare's Plays.
Topics in Literature.
World Literature.
Freshman Composition.
Honors Freshman English.
Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry.
Contemporary American Novel.
Contemporary American Poetry (University of Vigo, Spain).
Contemporary British Poetry.
Introduction to Comparative Literature: Modernism.
Modern British Poetry.
Modern Fiction.
Modern Poetry: Comparative Literature.
Seminar: D.H. Lawrence.
Seminar: D.H. Lawrence.
Seminar: Modern Poetry: International Influences.
Seminar: The Movement and Beyond.
Senior Writing Seminar: Poetry.
Contemporary American Poetry (University of Santiago, Spain).
Contemporary Poetry.
Poetry Workshop.
Literary Translation.
Modern Poetry: Comparative Literature.
Seminar: The American Epic Poem.
Seminar: Confessional Poetry.
Seminar: The Middle Generation.
Seminar: Robert Lowell.
Seminar: Schools of Contemporary Poetry.
