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Dean KostosProfessional Experience: New York University: Gallatin School, New York: Fall Term, 2005 Adjunct Professor—Freud & Surrealism –Responsible for creating and teaching an intensive poetry-writing workshop. –Focused on the influences of master poets from Symbolism to Dada and from Surrealism to the present–-specifically, how Freud’s views on the unconscious influenced Breton’s development of the psychological and philosophical underpinnings of Surrealism. Columbia Scholastic Press Association, New York: 2003 to Present Presenter / Lecturer—Fall and Spring Conferences –Develop and present informative and motivational poetry lectures to more than 150 teachers and their selected “outstanding” high school students from throughout the country. Gotham Writers’ Workshop, New York: 2001 to Present Poetry Instructor –Teach beginning, intermediate, and advanced poetry to classes of up to fourteen students, ranging from young adult to octogenarian, incorporating a proven ability to spread contagious enthusiasm. –Consistently receive top student and administration evaluations for knowledgeable and nurturing approach to poetry fundamentals and for illuminating the work of poetry masters. –Carefully design curriculum to gradually incorporate more technical and complex ideas and styles from prosody (verse’s metrical structures) to fixed forms (sonnet, villanelle, sestina, etc.). Teachers & Writers Collaborative, New York: 2000 to Present Poet-in-Residence / Teaching Artist –Develop and deliver multi-dimensional poetry curricula for public school students (second- through ninth-graders) and their teachers; teaching an eclectic mix of poetry to wary teachers, gifted students, special-needs children, District 75, and everyone in between. –Encourage students to find the extraordinary in the ordinary; actively manage the classroom and engage students on a one-to-one basis to promote confidence and understanding. –Collaborate with language arts teachers, incorporating lesson plans aligning with their curricula. –Compile and edit student poems into published anthologies. –Quote from a former sixth-grade student: “I used to think poetry was dumb and boring. Now I realize it’s a whole world.” Great Lakes Colleges Association: 2000 to Present Adjunct Professor –Lecture on influential literary movements, distilling complex ideas into easy-to-grasp language. Book Publications: –_Pomegranate Seeds_, edited by Dean Kostos, Somerset Hall Press: 2007 –_Last Supper of the Senses_, Spuyten Duyvil Press: 2005 –_Mama’s Boy_, co-edited by Dean Kostos, Painted Leaf Press: 2000 –_The Sentence That Ends with a Comma_, Painted Leaf Press: 1999 –_Celestial Rust_ (chapbook), Red Dust Press: 1994 SELECTED JOURNALS & ANTHOLOGIES (from over 80 publications): –“On the Difficulty of Reading Paul Celan,” Porcupine : forthcoming –“Dusk over Hartford,” The Wallace Stevens Journal: 2006 –“Introducing John L. Sullivan,” Western Humanities Review: 2004 –“Nostalgia for Now,” Cimarron Review: 2004 –“The Heart of the Dauphin,” Big City Lit: 2004 –“Corot’s Red Fleck” & “Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn,” Chelsea: 2003 –“Golden Mouth,” Rattapallax: 2002 –“The Kaisariani Cemetery in October,” Southwest Review: 1999 –“Talis(manic),” Oprah Winfrey’s Web site Oxygen.com: 1999 –“Twilight in Zappio Park,” Boulevard: 1998 –“A Poem Beginning with a Line by Robert Duncan,” Barrow Street: 1998 Theater: –Commissioned to write Dialogue: Angel of Peace, Angel of War, set to music by James Bassi, Voices of Ascension, Church of the Ascension, New York, NY: 2005 –Wrote & directed the choreo-poem Box Triptych, La MaMa, New York, NY: 1991 Honors: –Served as judge for the CSPA Gold Circle Awards, Columbia University: 2006 |
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