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Steven Schroeder

Mailing Address:
5710 S. Kimbark #3
Chicago. IL 60637-1615
County: Cook

Phone:
home: 773-288-5246
work: 312-341-4151

e-mail: steven_schroeder@earthlink.net
webpage: http://home.earthlink.net/~steven_schroeder

Genre: Poetry

Periodical Publications:

"Li Bai's Blanket" (poem), Dim Sum, Volume 9, Autumn 2004.
"Opening" (poem), Dim Sum, Volume 9, Autumn 2004.
"The first time I ordered coffee in Hong Kong" (poem), Dim Sum, Volume 9, Autumn
2004.
"A Mao for Every Human Presence" (poem), Colere, Issue 4, 2004.
"How Can I Keep From Singing?" (poem) Poetry East, Number 52, Spring 2004.
"Aesthetics of Decay" (poem), Writing Macao 2, 2004.
"Atlas" (poem), Writing Macao 2, 2004.
"Guangdonghua, Macao" (poem), Writing Macao 2, 2004.
"Kun Iam" (poem), Writing Macao 2, 2004.
"One Sigh" (poem), Writing Macao 2, 2004.
"Red Guards" (poem), Writing Macao 2, 2004.
"Starting Here" (poem), Writing Macao 2, 2004.
"Sweeping" (poem), Writing Macao 2, 2004.
"The Tree in Guimiao Village" (poem), Writing Macao 2, 2004.
"Three Stones" (poem), Writing Macao 2, 2004.
"Traffic Safety" (poem), Writing Macao 2, 2004.
"Death's As Companionable As A Cat,"  (poem) Rambunctious Review, Volume XX,
2003-2004.
"The End Is,"  (poem) Rambunctious Review, Volume XX, 2003-2004.
"Learning to Bow," (poem) Mid-America Poetry Review, Volume 5, Number 1, Spring
2004.
"A Meditation on Ecclesiastes," (poem) AmarilloBay, Volume 6, Number 1, February
2004.
"A Seminar on Heart Surgery," (poem)  Emily Dickinson Award in Poetry Anthology,
Flagstaff, AZ: Universities West Press, 2003.
"Prophecy," (poem) Mid-America Poetry Review, Volume 4, Number 2, Summer-Autumn
2003.
"Two Tang Poems" (Translated with Liu Yingkai), AmarilloBay, Volume 5, Number 2,
May 2003.
Li Bai, "A Flash of Thought on a Quiet Night"
Liu Fangping, "A Moonlit Night"
"Buddhist Cats," (poem) The Cresset, Volume LXVI, Number 4, March 2003.
"South From Sweetwater," (poem) Valparaiso Poetry Review, Volume IV, Number 2, 2003.
"Krispy Kreme," (poem) Rhino, 2003.
"No Birches," (poem) Rambunctious Review, Volume XIX, 2002-2003.
"Last Days," (poem) The Cresset, Volume LXV, No. 9, December 2002.
"Wilderness," (poem) Mid-America Poetry Review, Volume 3, Number 3, Winter
2002-2003.
"Older Than Mountains," (poem) Texas Review, Volume 23 (1-2), Spring/Summer 2002.
"New World Order," (poem) AmarilloBay, Volume 4, Number 4, November 2002.
"How Thyme Cures Anthrax" (poem) AmarilloBay, Volume 4, Number 2, May 2002.
"Listen to Light" (poem) AmarilloBay, Volume 4, Number 2, May 2002.
"Turning" (poem) AmarilloBay, Volume 4, Number 2, May 2002.
"Icons," (poem) The Cresset, Volume LXV, Nos. 2&3, December 2001.
"To know the sea...," (poem) Rhino, 2001.
"Utah is a map of the world," (poem) Petroglyph, Fall 2000.
"Miami River," (poem) Mother of Invention, Fall 1999.
"Job's Cat," (short story) Mother of Invention, Fall 1999.
"April 1999," (poem) Mother of Invention, Fall 1999.
"Dusk (Allegheny Forest, May 1999)," (poem) Mother of Invention, Fall 1999.
"Dallas," (poem) Halcyon 21, Community in the American West. Reno: Nevada
Humanities Committee, 1999.
"Mockingbird," (poem) Halcyon 21, Community in the American West. Reno: Nevada
Humanities Committee, 1999.
"San Antonio," (poem) Halcyon 21, Community in the American West. Reno: Nevada
Humanities Committee, 1999.
"Elk City Dialogue," (poem) Halcyon 21, Community in the American West. Reno:
Nevada Humanities Committee, 1999.
"Talk Radio," (poem) Detours 2, 1998.
"Transfixed," (poem) Detours 2, 1998.
"nuclear explosion," (poem) Detours 2, 1998.
"Let Sleeping Dogs Lie," (short story) Detours 2, 1998.
"They'll try to tell you...," (poem) Emily Dickinson Award in Poetry Anthology,
Flagstaff, AZ: Universities West Press, 1997.
"weather report," (poem) Georgetown Review, Volume 4, No. 2, Fall 1996. "a story about a man I think in New Jersey," (poem) Rambunctious Review, Volume
XIII, 1996-97.
"Presence of Mind/Body of Thought," (poem) Rambunctious Review, Volume XIII,
1996-97.
"River of My Childhood," (poem) Rambunctious Review, Volume XII, 1995-96.
"Good Faith (One Cannot Be Present Alone),"(poem) Rhino, 1995.
"Why Sarah Laughed," (short story) Rambunctious Review, Volume XI, 1994-95.
"It is Good for My Heart," (poem) Mosaic, Spring 1994.
"On Measuring Coastlines," (poem) Mosaic, Spring 1994.
"Memo Re: God," (poem) Rambunctious Review, Volume X, 1993.

 

Book Publications:

Revolutionary Patience (poems). Virtual Artists Collective,2004.
Theory of Cats (poems). Johnstown, OH: Pudding House Press, 2003.
Forthcoming Publications: "All She Has" (poem), Moon City Review, forthcoming.
"An Arc in the Flood" (poem), Moon City Review, forthcoming.
"Bend it Like Yao" (poem), Moon City Review, forthcoming.
"Cheshire Cat" (poem), Moon City Review, forthcoming.
"Cities of Conversation" (poem), Moon City Review, forthcoming.
"Containment" (poem),  Moon City Review, forthcoming.
"Elegance" (poem), Moon City Review, forthcoming.
"Floating on Summer Heat" (poem), Moon City Review, forthcoming.
"Gone" (poem), Moon City Review, forthcoming.
"Hong Kong Harbor" (poem), Moon City Review, forthcoming.
"Infinite Names" (poem), Moon City Review, forthcoming.
"Parable" (poem), Moon City Review, forthcoming.
"Pear River, Sunrise" (poem), Moon City Review, forthcoming.
"Tall Enough" (poem), Moon City Review, forthcoming.
"They Fly" (poem), Moon City Review, forthcoming.
"Today's Catch" (poem), Moon City Review, forthcoming.
"Ten Thousand Blessed Virgin Marys," (poem) Karamu, forthcoming.
"Still," (poem) Mid-America Poetry Review, forthcoming.


Awards, Fellowships, Grants and Honors:

Rambunctious Review (Chicago) Poetry
Contest, Third Prize (2004).
Samuel Ostrowsky Humanities Award, Roosevelt University (2003)
Emily Dickinson Poetry Award (Universities West Press), Semifinalist (2002).
Emily Dickinson Poetry Award (Universities West Press), Semifinalist (1996).
Georgetown Review Poetry Award, Finalist (1996).
Rambunctious Review (Chicago) Poetry Contest, First Prize (1996).
Samuel Ostrowsky Humanities Award, Roosevelt University (1995)
Rambunctious Review (Chicago) Fiction Contest, First Prize (1993).

Recent Readings, Performances and Productions:

Poetry reading, West Texas A&M
University, Canyon, Texas, October 2004.
Poetry reading, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, Texas, October 2004.
Rambunctious Review reading, Chicago, October 2004.
Rhino "get out the vote" reading, Evanston, Illinois, September 2004.
"An American Poet in Shenzhen," seminar/reading, University of Macau, September
2004.
 "They Fly Into One's Head Like Birds: Organization of Sound in John Cage and
Gary Snyder," "Beat Meets East: An International, Interdisciplinary  Conference
on the Age of Spontaneity," Sichuan University, Chengdu, People's Republic of
China, June 2004.
"'Tres Ritos' and Other Poems," Angelo State University Writers' Conference, San
Angelo, Texas, February 2004. 
Myopic Books, Chicago, September 2003.
Around the Coyote Fall Arts Festival 2003 Poetry Program (Part of the Poetry
Center of Chicago's Discovery Reading Series), September 2003.

Recent Workshops:

Present Employment:

  • Roosevelt University (Chicago) and Shenzhen University (People's Republic of China)

Willing to travel:

  • Anywhere
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