Recent Periodical Publications:
Poetry has appeared in Many Mountains Moving, Nimrod, Willow Review, The Southern Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Rhino, Poetry and Letters,
Another Chicago Magazine, Pikestaff Review, Clockwatch Review, others.
Recent Book Publications:
Intensive Care, New Rivers Press, 1993, 1995
No One Taught This Filly to Dance, Pikestaff Press, 1989
Bottleships: For Daughters, Aquila Press (Isle of Skye, Scotland), 1996
Teeth Mother Letters, Moonsquilt Press, 1984, 1992
Georg Trakl: Poems (translations), Ohio University Press, 1973
Forthcoming Publications:
Four poems in Bayou (University of New Orleans), 2001
Included in Twentieth Century Illinois Poets, eds. Kevin Stein and G.E. Murray, U of Illinois Press
Awards & Fellowships:
1994 Illinois Author of the Year
1995 Governor’s Award for the Arts
NEA. Creative Writing Fellowship
Illinois Arts Council Poetry Fellowships (four)
Fulbright Scholarship (Germany)
Pablo Neruda Prize, 1999
Many others
Recent Readings:
Illinois Humanities Council Teacher Seminar of Illinois Writers, Starved Rock State Park, 2001
Literatur Haus, Salzburg, Austria, 2000
Jagellonian University, Krakow, Poland, 2000
University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 1998
Writers Live at the Library Poetry Reading in Lisle (IL), 1996
Many others
Recent Workshops:
Decatur School for At-Risk Youth, 2001
Nimrod Awards Conference, University of Tulsa, 1999
University of Arizona Poetry Center, 1998
Poet in Residence, Armstrong School, Peoria, 1996
Master’s classes and workshops at many colleges, secondary schools, and elementary schools, in many states and foreign countries
Available June through April for readings, lectures, master classes, and workshops across the state.
Fees:
Performances: $400 to $1,000
Performances plus educational activities: $500 to $1,200
Technical requirements: I need sound system in large rooms, not in small.
Preferred audience: All audiences
