Professional Experience:

• The City University of New York (2006 to present); adjunct professor
• Berkeley College (2006 to present); adjunct professor
• New York University: Gallatin School (Fall term, 2005): adjunct professor—Freud & Surrealism
• Columbia Scholastic Press Association (2003 to present): presenter / lecturer—Fall and Spring Conferences
• Gotham Writers’ Workshop (2001 to present): poetry instructor
• Teachers & Writers Collaborative (2000 to present): poet-in-residence / teaching artist working with both general education and District 75; works primarily with middle school
• Great Lakes Colleges Association (2000 to present): adjunct professor

Book Publications:

• Rivering (Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2012)
• 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 (Red Dust Press, 1994)

Selected Journals and Anthologies (from more than 80 publications):

• Adirondack Review: “Standing Knife, Pinon, and Morning Glory” (2011)
• Bayou Magazine: “Tower of the Moment” (2011)
• Big City Lit: “How the Blue Intrudes,” “Chamberlain of Tars,” “Person Walking through Enormous Dark House,” “Have the Dead Washed One Hand?” (2011)
• Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review: “Phlegethon-River of Fire” (2011)
• The Cincinnati Review: “Myself to Myself: A Retrieved Photograph at Age Seven,” “Photograph of Myself, Age Four, Asleep in My Father’s Arms” (2010)
• Confrontation: “Her Lists” (2010)
• The Direct Goat: “Written in Hair,” “Miss Havisham” (the latter poem subsequently appeared in the anthology Divining Divas) (2009)
• Ekphrasis: “Dwarf Pushing Pram” (this poem was subsequently nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the editors) (2009)
• Porcupine: “On the Difficulty of Reading Paul Celan” (2007)
• The Wallace Stevens Journal: “Dusk Over Hartford” (2006)
• The Cimarron Review: “Nostalgia for Now” (2004)
• Western Humanities Review: “Introducing John L. Sullivan” (2004)
• Big City Lit: “The Heart of the Dauphin” (2004)
• Chelsea: “Corot’s Red Fleck” and “Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn” (2003)
• Rattapallax: “Golden Mouth” (2002)
• Southwest Review: “The Kaisariani Cemetery in October” (1999)
• Oxygen.com: “Talis(manic)” (1999)
• Boulevard: “Twilight in Zappio Park” (1998)
• Barrow Street: “A Poem Beginning with a Line by Robert Duncan” (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 (2005)
• Wrote & directed the choreo-poem Box Triptych, La MaMa, New York (1991)

Honors:

• Organized a celebration of Greek poetry (from Sappho to Elytis) for the Rockefeller Foundation (2011
• Served as judge for the CSPA Gold Circle Awards, Columbia University (2006)
• Served as judge for the CSPA Gold Crown Awards, Columbia University (2005)
• Lyric Recovery Contest Finalist at Carnegie Hall (2004)
• Yaddo Fellowship Recipient (2001)
• Sensations magazine’s Sestina Competition Winner (1995)
• In Our Own Write Poetry Competition Winner (1994)