ABBREVIATED VITA. Cathleen Calbert EDUCATION

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1 ABBREVIATED VITA Cathleen Calbert EDUCATION Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing, University of Houston; Dissertation Advisor: Richard Howard M.A. in English and Creative Writing, Syracuse University; Thesis Advisor: Philip Booth B.A. in English, University of California at Berkeley ACADEMIC POSITIONS Professor, Rhode Island College, present Associate Professor, Rhode Island College, Assistant Professor, Rhode Island College, Visiting Lecturer/Lower Division Teaching Supervisor, University of Houston, Teaching Fellow, University of Houston, Books PUBLICATIONS OF POETRY Chapbooks Sleeping with a Famous Poet, C.W. Books (2007) Bad Judgment, Sarabande Books (1999) Lessons in Space, University Press of Florida (1997) Death Poems, Premier Poets (2005) Another Kind of Beauty, Internal Chapbook in The Ohio Review (1995) My Summer as a Bride, Riverstone Press (1995) In Anthologies Companionate Marriage : Poetic Voices Without Borders (2005) In Praise of my Young Husband : 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (2005) Like : Poetry Daily: 366 Poems from the World s Most Popular Poetry Website (2003) Bad Judgment : The Pushcart Prize 2001 XXV (2001) Listening to the Voices of Medieval Sainted Ladies : A Fine Excess: Fifty Years of the Beloit Poetry Journal reprinted ( ) The Woman Who Loved Things : The Best American Poetry 1995 Fainting : Catholic Girls (1992) 1

2 In Print Periodicals The Problem with Nature : Cimarron Review (2011) Putting the Dead to Bed, Dream Teaching : The Wisconsin Review (2010) The Princess Bride : The Louisville Review (2009) Queen Alice, Sleeping with Famous Pets, Painless Villanelle : The Connecticut Review (2009) My Wife, Destroyer of Dreams, An Orange is Like a Tangerine : The Southampton Review (2009) Ocean State : Green Mountains Review (2009) Death s Daughter : Redivider (2009) Teen Vamp : Pool (2008) Pirating : TriQuarterly (2007) Hypothetical Question, The Older Woman : The Southern Review (2007) Providence reprinted Providence-Journal Bulletin with explanatory note (2007) Bad Girl Attitude : Cimarron Review (2006) After the Tragedy : reprinted with essay Poetry East (2005) Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Fox-Wife : Pool (2005) Death s Girlfriend : Asheville Poetry Review (2005) Death Speaks of the Beauty of Crows : Bryant Literary Review (2005) Confession to the Moon : 88 (2004) The Black Sea : Margie (2004) Black Arts, Jeanne d Arc : Prairie Schooner (2004) Mary Lamb, Why Do Men Love Lesbians? : The Paris Review (2004) Fairy Tale : The Literary Review (2004) Soap Opera Update : Green Mountains Review (2003) The Afflicted Girls : The Women s Review of Books (2003) Stunner, Suicide s Daughter : Hotel Amerika (2003) Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast Museum, At Chawton Cottage, Miss Bishop Has Left the Classroom : Green Mountains Review (2002) Dear Miss Dickinson, Talking Cure : Hotel Amerika ( 2002) The Misses Bronte s Establishment for The Board and Education of a Limited Number of Young Ladies : Michigan Quarterly Review (2002) Listening to my Mother in the Alzheimer s Wing : Poetry (2001) Death Takes a Nap, Midlife, Small Red Dog : Poetry Northwest (2001) Woman Without Children : Poetry International (2001) Mata Hari : North Dakota Quarterly (2001) Afterwards, Rules : PMS (2001) Body Modifications : The Southern Review (2001) Jayne Mansfield and Isadora Duncan, Mrs. Fitzgerald : Green Mountains Review ( ) Phone Call from High School : Western Humanities Review (2000) Frida Kahlo : Poet Lore (2000) Lover of the Golden Lotus : The Chattahoochee Review (2000) Like, Stepmother : Poetry Northwest (2000) 2

3 Online Black Jellies, Eggs, and the Pearling of Ovaries, Fair Trade : Bryant Literary Review (2000) Nightingale : The Carolina Quarterly (1999) Dorothy Wordsworth, Mary of Nazareth, The Wild Girl of Champagne : Crazyhorse (1999) When Forever Began : Ms. reprinted (1999) Listening to the Voices of Medieval Sainted Ladies : The Beloit Poetry Journal (1998) The Children of the Poor : American Literary Review (1998) Lilith : Southwest Review (1998) Effie Ruskin, 1849 : Chelsea (1997) Dead Debutante, My Dead Boyfriend, Bad Judgment : Poetry Northwest (1997) Summer Solstice, North Georgia : The Antioch Review (1996) Silent Men : The Hudson Review (1996) In the Beginning is the End, The Writer Offers Another His Key : Seneca Review (1996) Being Saved : Gulf Coast (1996) Blackberry, Dark Water : Western Humanities Review (1995) A Lady with a Pomeranian, My Summer as a Bride : Poetry Northwest (1995) Living with Monkeys : Ploughshares (1995) The Wonderfully Yellow Umbrella : The Ohio Review (1995) Trinity : TriQuarterly (1994/1995) Dream Babies, Erasing the Music Box : Feminist Studies (1994) In Praise of my Young Husband : The Paris Review (1994) The Apple Way : The American Voice (1994) The Woman Who Loved Things : Harvard Review (1994) Schoolyard : The Nation (1992) Lunatic Snow : Poetry East (1992) When the World Lost Meaning : Literature and Psychology (1992) Fainting : The Nation (1991) When Nights Were Full of Sex and Churches : The New Republic (1989) Babysitting : The North American Review (1989) Floating : Western Humanities Review (1989) Sleeping with a Famous Poet : Gulf Coast (1989) Dad, Garden Grove, Lessons in Space, Losing his Mother, Mysterious Weather, When Forever Began : Nimrod (1988) Cajun Wings and Loaded Skins : Shenandoah (1988) On Mowing : Tar River Poetry (1988) The Limits of Mercy, A Train is Going to Germany : Poetry Northwest (1988) Love with Cats : Gulf Coast ( ) For Darwin, The Vampire Baby : Poetry Northwest (1987) Exercise : Shenandoah (1987) Closet : The Prose Poem Project (2010) Nightingale, The Talking Cure : poemleon (reprinted with note 2009) 3

4 Variations in Red : TLRWEB (2003) Talking Cure : Poetry Daily reprinted (2003) Like : Poetry Daily reprinted (2000) PUBLICATIONS OF FICTION Books The Ten Worst Human Fears (Rooster Hill Press) forthcoming In Print Periodicals Online Dogs Are Good : Barrelhouse (2008) Greece : Tartts 2 (reprinted 2006) What the Indians Do : Fiction (2006) The Seafarer : Feminist Studies (2006) My Argentine : Fiction (2004) Greece : The Southern Review (2003) The Museum of Tragedy : Feminist Studies (2003) A Blue Afternoon : Night Train (2002) Modifications : Fiction (2001) The Ten Worst Human Fears : Other Voices (1999) Shark : Fiction (1998) Clay : SN Review (2008) In Print Periodicals PUBLICATIONS OF CREATIVE NONFICTION Forget the Men. Pick a Guy : Modern Love Column, The New York Times (2009) Houston : Under the Sun (1998) In Anthologies Taking Care of Charlie : Dutiful Daughters (1999) Online REVIEWS Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within by Kim Addonizio: Jacket Magazine (2010) The Mind-Body Problem by Katha Pollitt: Rattle (2009) 4

5 HONORS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS Second place, Sheila Motton Book Prize, for Sleeping with a Famous Poet, New England Poetry Club (2008) Mary Tucker Thorp Professorship, Rhode Island College ( ) Pushcart Prize for Bad Judgment (2001) First place, Sheila Motton Book Prize, for Bad Judgment, New England Poetry Club (2000) Bullis-Kizer Prize, Poetry Northwest (1998) Jean Garrigue Residency at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York (summer 1997) Macleod-Grobe Prize, Poetry Northwest (1996) Rhode Island Council for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship Grant (1995) Riverstone Press Annual Chapbook Competition winner (1995) Gordon Barber Memorial Award; sponsored by The Poetry Society of America (1994) Discovery Prize; co-sponsored by The Nation and the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y (1991) Second place, Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry; sponsored by Nimrod (1988) COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS, LECTURES, & DISCUSSIONS Poetry Workshop at York Correctional Institution, Connecticut, 2008 Expanding your Poetic Repertoire, The Loft, Minneapolis, 2005 Expanding your Poetic Repertoire, New Hampshire Writers Project, 2005 OTHER COMMUNITY SERVICE Judge for Writing Across Rhode Island Poetry Contest: One Prompt, One Poem, One State, 2011 Judge for the Oklahoma State University English Department Academy of American Poets Prize, 2006 Judge for the Rhode Island Young Writers Award, 2006 Guest speaker for annual student writing awards ceremony, Council of Rhode Island Teacher Awards, Rhode Island College, May 2000 and May 1999 Preliminary judge for the Philbrick Poetry Prize, The Providence Athenaeum, fall 1999, fall 2000 PARTIAL LIST OF READINGS Stonehill College, Easton, MA Blacksmith House, Cambridge, MA Yale University Bookstore, New Haven, CT Adams House, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Bryant College, Smithfield, RI University of Connecticut at Avery Point, Groton, CT Katherine Lee Bates Poetry Festival, Falmouth, MA Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, Stanhope, NJ Perimeter College, Atlanta, GA 5

6 Cody s Bookstore, Berkeley, CA Posman s Books, Portland, OR Community College of Rhode Island, Lincoln, RI The 92nd Street Y, New York 6