Ingrid Wendt Mailing Address: 2377 Chamelton Eugene, OR 97405 County: Kane Home Phone: 541-343-5101 Cell Phone: 541-554-8421 e-mail: idwendt@comcast.net Genre: Poetry
"I was born and raised in Aurora, Illinois, and I am beginning to come back now and then for residencies in the Illinois schools-- most recently, all of September, 2003"

Periodical Publications:

• Beloit Poetry Journal (2005)
• Weber Studies (2004)
• The National Poetry Review (2003)
• GSU Review (2003);
• Calapooya (2003)
• Globalization, an anthology edited by David Rothenberg and Wandee J. Pryor. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. 2005.
• Over 200, including: Anthropology & Humanism, Antioch Review, Calapooya Collage, Calliope, Chadakoin Review, Chariton Review, Ellipsis, Firefly Magazine, Fireweed, GSU Review, Hubbub, Many Mountains Moving, Ms., Nimrod, No More Masks! An anthology of 20th-Century Women Poets, Northwest Review, Old Oregon, Painted Hills Review, Petroglyph, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Portlander, Prairie Schooner, Season of Dead Water, The Massachusettes Review, The Texas Observer, The National Poetry Review, Victory Park, Weber Studies, Wilderness, and more
  

Book Publications:

Poetry:

• Surgeonfish. Poems. Winner of the $1000, 2004 Editions Prize from WordTech Editions. 107 pp.
• The Angle of Sharpest Ascending. Poems. Winner of the 2003 Yellowglen Prize. Word Press, 2004. 110 pp.
• Blow the Candle Out. Pecan Grove Press, San Antonio, Texas: March, 2002.  
• Singing the Mozart Requiem, Breitenbush Books, 1987. Available from Far Corner Books, P.O Box 82157, Portland, OR 97282   Online at: http://capa.conncoll.edu/wendt.singing.html 
• Moving the House, selected by William Stafford, BOA Editions, 1980. Order from Ingrid Wendt, 2377 Charnelton, Eugene, OR 97405 Online: http://capa.conncoll.edu/wendt.moving.html
   
  Anthologies:
  
  
• In Her Own Image: Women Working in the Arts, co-edited with Elaine Hedges, The Feminist Press and McGraw-Hill, 1980. Order from The Feminist Press, CUNY, Wingate Bldg., Convent Avenue at 138th St., New York, NY 10031 
• From Here We Speak: An Anthology of Oregon Poetry, co-edited with Primus St. John, Oregon State University Press, 1993. Order from OSU Press, Waldo Hall 101, Corvallis, OR 97331-6407
   
  Teaching Guides: 
  
  
• Starting With Little Things: A Guide to Writing Poetry in the Classroom, Oregon Arts Foundation Publishing,      1983, 1987, 1994, 1996, 2002. Order from Ingrid Wendt, 2377 Charnelton, Eugene, OR 97405
  

Other Publications:

• Poems reprinted in over 25 anthologies, including No More Masks! An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Women Poets, HarperCollins, 1994; Writing Poetry, a textbook/anthology,  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1994; The Sacred Place, University of Utah Press, 1996, more 
• Articles and reviews (over 25) in anthologies and journals, including  The Quarterly, of the National Writing Project; Das Englischmagazin, a publication of Ernst Klett Schulbuchverlag, Stuttgart, Germany; Western American Literature; Belles Lettres; Oregon English Journal, more 
  
• Choral lyrics, in collaboration with Audrey Snyder, composer: “One World,” “To Be Strong,” “Words,Words,Words,” published by Hal Leonard Corporation, 2002, 2003

Forthcoming Publications:

• Poems in Isotope; Jefferson Monthly.
• The Angle of Sharpest Ascending. Poems. 70 pp. Winner of the Yellowglen Prize. Cincinnati: Word Press. Forthcoming Winter 2004

Awards, Fellowships, Grants and Honors (partial list):

• 1st place, Editions Prize, WordTech Editions, 2004, for Surgeonfish, a book of poems.
• 1st place, Yellowglen Award, Word Press (Cincinnati, Ohio), February 2003, for The Angle of Sharpest Ascending, poems.
  
• 1st runner-up, 2003 Rita Dove Poetry Award, Joy Harjo, judge, for “The Blessing.”
  
• Finalist,    2003 Iowa Review Poetry Award, for a group of poems, Marilyn Chin, judge.
  
• Honorable Mention, 2003 Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize, for “Mukilteo Ferry,”  Naomi Shihab Nye, judge.
  
• 3rd place, 2003 GSU Review Writing Contest, for “Mukilteo Ferry,” Kim Addonizio, judge.
  
• 2nd place, In the Beginning Was the Word national competition (Portland, Oregon), September 2002, for “For Mary,” poem.
  
• Pushcart nomination, for “Learning the Mother Tongue,” Prairie Schooner, 2001.
  
• 2nd place, Pecan Grove Press national chapbook competition. 2000, for Blow The Candle Out.
  
• Honorable mention, In the Beginning Was the Word national competition (Portland, Oregon), September 2000, for “Testament.” 
  
• 1st place for “The Mary Anderson Center,” essay, national competition sponsored by the Alliance of Artists’ Communities, 1999.
  
• Residency Award, Villa Waldberta, Kulturreferat München, Feldafing, Germany: April 1997
  
• Pushcart nomination for “Questions of Grace," by Many Mountains Moving, 1996.
  
• Finalist, Pablo Neruda Awards, 1996, for “Questions of Grace,” Nimrod.
  
• 1st runner-up, Poetry Society of America: Mary Carolyn Davies Award,1995, for "Prego."
  
• Senior Fulbright Professorship, University of Frankfurt/Main Germany, 1994-95
  
• Mary Anderson Center for the Arts Fellowship in Writing, 1993
  
• 1st prize, Carolyn Kizer Poetry Award, Calapooya Collage, 1993, for “Double Rondeau in December.”
  
• Wurlitzer Foundation Residency Award, 1993
  
• Research Award, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, 1992
  
• Oregon Book Award for Poetry, Oregon Institute of Literary Arts, 1988, for Singing the Mozart Requiem.
  
• D.H. Lawrence Fellowship, University of New Mexico, 1982
  

Recent Readings, Performances and Productions:

• Keynote address: "Poetry in an Age of Anxiety," Oregon Council of Teachers of English, Grants Pass, OR (Oct. 14, 2005)
• Readings in 2005: Willamette University, Salem, OR; Tsunami Books, Eugene, OR; Southwestern Oregon Community College, Coos Bay, OR; University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
• Readings in 2004: Kenyon College, Gambier, OH; Bentley College, MA; Loomis Chaffee School, East Windsor, CT; Connecticut College, New London, CT; Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT; Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, WI
• Midwest Literary Festival, Aurora -- September 13, 2003; Keynote Address, Utah Council of Teachers of English, Salt Lake City, October 2003; Readings in Salt Lake City, Weber University (Utah), Utah State University), October 2003
  
• Over recent years:  Antioch University Los Angeles, Augsburg College, Central Washington University, College of Eastern Utah, College of St. Catherine, College of St. Thomas, Cornell College, Corvallis (Oregon) Public Library, Eastern Oregon State College, Foothill College (Los Altos, California), Iowa State University, Lewis and Clark College, Linfield College, J.W. Goethe Universität (Frankfurt/Main, Germany), Loyola University (Chicago); Mount Hood Community College, Mountain Writers Center (Portland, Oregon), Northeastern Illinois University, Pacific Lutheran University, Portland Poetry Festival, Portland State University, Skagit Valley (Washington) Poetry Festival, Southern Oregon State College, St. Olaf College, Studio Art Centers International (Florence, Italy),  Università Degli Studi di Torino, Università Di Roma "La Sapienza," University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; University of Oregon, University of Portland (Oregon), Utah State University, Weber State University, Western Oregon State University, Willamette University, Wisconsin State University, Eau Claire, Wisconsin State University, Menomonie-Stout
  

Recent Workshops:

• October, November 2004: Poetry residencies -- Kenyon College, Gambier, OH; Old Post Elementary School, Oswego, IL; Greenman Elementary School, Aurora, IL
• 2005, Writing Workshop, "Off in the Left-Hand Corner: Writing Poems of Place," at the NCTE Northwest Regional Conference, Lewis-Clark College, Lewiston, ID
• Poetry workshop for the Oregon Writing Project (part of the National Writing Project), University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
• Sept. 13-16, 2005, Poetry Residency, Greenman Elementary School, Aurora, IL
• September 2003, 4 schools in Aurora:  Greenman Elem., Bardwell Elem., Gates Elem., Cowherd Middle School;  September 13: family workshop as part of the Midwest Literary Festival, Aurora;   October 2003:  two high schools in Salt Lake City and Ogden, Utah;  
  
• Since 1982:  Over 150 school residencies, grades K-12, through Arts-In-Education Programs of the Oregon Arts Commission and regional arts councils of Oregon (Lane Arts Council, Linn-Benton Arts Council, Oregon Coast Council for the Arts, Central Oregon Arts Assn., Umpqua Valley Arts Association, others); Iowa Arts Council; Utah Arts Council.    As an independent contractor: in German high schools in Berlin, Friedrichsdorf, Freigericht-Sonborn, and Karlsruhe (1995, 1999, 2000); in schools in Sandy, Utah; Junction City and Eugene, Oregon, and the Skagit Valley School District, Washington (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003).  Others. 
  
• Workshop Presenter at National Writing Project sites in Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, California  (teacher inservice)
   
  Related Teaching:
  
  
• Antioch University, Los Angeles: Faculty, MFA Program in CreativeWriting; Adjunct Faculty: English Departments of Linfield College, University of Oregon; Women's Studies and Continuing Ed., University of Oregon; Assistant Professor, English Dept., CSU Fresno
  

Present Employment:

• Self-employed writer/teacher/lecturer
  

Preferred Audience:

• All
  

Willing to travel:

• Anywhere