James Plath Mailing Address: Department of English Illinois Wesleyan U. Bloomington, IL  61702-2900 County: McLean E-mail: jplath@titan.iwu.edu Phone: work: 309-556-3352 fax:  309-556-3545 Genre: Poetry/Fiction/Creative Non-Fiction

Periodical Publications:

• Creative Non-Fiction

• "Bull Run: My Hemingway Adventure," Sport Literate IV: 4
• "21 Tweaks to a Better Tale," Writer's Digest Guide to Writing Fiction Today Winter 2001
• "What You Can Learn From Parables, Fables and Fairy Tales," Writer's Digest, Sept. 1998

• Fiction

• "Screened on the Play," (fiction), Salt Hill Journal, Fall 1998
• "Mortified," (fiction), Spelunker Flophouse, Spring 1997
• "Scat," Downstate Story 5 (1996)
• "After Wyeth." Pleides (Spring 1993)
• "Artifacts," Northeast Summer 1991
• "Leeching," Mississippi Valley Review (Spring 1991)
• "Medications," The Writer's Bar-B-Q 6 (Spring 1991)
• "Antlers," Riverwind 13 (1990)
• "Red Clay," Modern Short Stories February 1990
• "Opus 36," Modern Short Stories February 1989

• Poetry

• "Birdwatching: Barbados, 8 a.m.," White Pelican Review (Fall 2000)
• "The Colonizers Return" and "Sweet Fuh Days." The Caribbean Writer 14 (2000)
• "Lost in the Ivy," (poem), Sport Literate, 1999
• "Lady of the Lake," (poem), Lullwater Review IX, Fall 1998
• "A Priori," (poem), National Forum, Summer 1998
• "Ringbang Theory," Panhandler (Spring 1997)
• "Rumshop Woman," Gulf Stream Magazine 11 (1996)
• "Out to Sea," Sunshine Magazine 10 September 1995
• "The Art Institute: Pen & Ink Postcard," Howling Dog 6 (1995)
• "Yellow Ribbons," Innisfree 87 (Fall 1994)
• "Courbet, on the Rocks," Apalachee Quarterly 40/41 (Summer 1994)
• "The Artist Wades for Inspiration," Rhino 1991-92
• "The Barns in Wisconsin" and "The Boy Who Would Be God," The Spoon River Quarterly (Summer/Fall 1991)
• "Whatever Happened to Claudette Colbert?" Bluff City (Fall 1990)
• "Ventriloquism by Mail" and "Untitled," Lucky Star (1989)
• "Night Crawlers." Kansas Quarterly (Spring/Summer 1988)
• "One Picture is Worth 166 Words," Black River Review 4 (1988)
• "Before they closed down Denny's Billiards," Amelia (1988)
• "From this 5th Floor Office Window" and "Refrain," Windless Orchard 49 (1987)
• "Freeways" and "Shades of Gray," Dog River Review (Spring, 1986)
• "Revolutions" and "The Barns in Wisconsin," The Rectangle (Spring 1986)
• "The Hawk," Cream City Review (1985)

• Anthologies

• "Revolutions" (poem), The Sarajevo Anthology. The Writer's Center, ECC, 1993
• "Poetic Leaps & Movements," With Zarina Mullan Plath. The Writer August 2000
• "Standing in the Reception Line at the Wedding of My Ex-Wife," ACM (Another Chicago Magazine) (1985); Men of Our Time: An Anthology of Male Poetry in Contemporary America. Univ. of Georgia Press, 1992
• "Logan Utah, 1971," in Friendly Creature, Kings Estate Press, 1994
• "Getting Started in the Little & Literary Magazines," The Writer October 1992
• "After the Swim-Meet" (poem), Remember That Symphonies Also Take Place In Snails: The Northeast Anthology. Juniper Press, 1989
• "When the Ice Cracks" (poem), Wisconsin Poets' Calendar. Midwestern Publishing House, 1984
• "Tornado Warning," "Thoughts on a Rush-Hour Freeway," "Domestic Problem," "Won't You Please Adopt This Poem," "sanity begins at home" (poems), Gathering Place of the Waters: 30 Milwaukee Poets. Gathering Place Productions, 1983
• "Milwaukee Anthem" (poem), Wisconsin Poets' Calendar. Midwestern Publishing House, 1983

Book Publications:

• Men of Our Time: An Anthology of Male Poetry in Contemporary Poetry, U. of Georgia Press, 1992
• Courbet, On the Rocks, White Eagle Coffee Store Press, 1994
• Remembering Ernest Hemingway, with Frank Simons. The Ketch & Yawl Press, 1999
• Conversation with John Updike, University Press of Mississippi, 1994

Forthcoming Publications:

• Poetry

• "First Light" and "Chameleons." ACM 40 (Fall 2001)
• "Plattdeutsch." The North American Review.
• "Babe Ruth in Key West" and "Cartographic." Spillway 10/11
• "Ringbang Theory," "The Colonizers Return," "Island." Imported Breads: Literature From the Fulbright Experience

• Fiction

• "Water Pressure," Amelia 30.

Awards, Fellowships, Grants and Honors:

• Finalist, 1999 Harry's Bar & American Grill International Imitation Hemingway Competition
• Finalist in the following: 1996 Pearl Poetry Chapbook Contest, 1997 Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, 1997 New Letters Poetry Prize and 1997 U. of Illlinois poetry competition
• 2nd Honorable Mention, Minnesota Voices Project Competition, 1988
• Editor's Award, Council of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP), 1990
• Editor's Award for Non-Fiction, Cream City Review, 1991
• ICPA Meritorious Service Award, Illinois College Press Associtation, Chicago, 1999
• Fulbright Scholar, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados, West Indies (Semester 1 of 1995-96 academic year)
• Finalist, IWU Student Senate Professor of the Year, 1992-93 & 1993-94

Recent Readings, Performances and Productions:

• Reading & emcee, Remembering Ernest Hemingway: A Centennial Tribute & Hemingway Days Festival Toast, Key West, Fla., 19, 21 July 1999
• Poetry Radio (WGLT, Normal, IL, NPR), December 1997
• Babbitt's Books (Normal, IL), 5 May 1995
• "Babe Ruth in Key West" at Hofstra University Poetry Forum (NYC), "Baseball and the Sultan of Swat," 27 April 1995

Recent Workshops:

• Keynote speaker, reading, and teachers' pedagogy session, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Annual High School Creative Writing Festival (600 students and teachers), 23-24 November 1999
• Guest Lecturer, Tarrant County Junior College (Ft. Worth, TX), 1996
• Faculty, Writing Today Conference, Birmington Southern College (AL), April 1996, March 1995 & March 1991
• Fiction Workshop Leader at Hemingway Days Writers' Workshop, Key West, FL., 1998

Present Employment:

• Professor of English, Illinois Wesleyan U.

Preferred Audience:

Willing to travel:

• yes