Cathleen Calbert
Curriculum VitaeEducation: Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing University of Houston M.A. in English and Creative Writing Syracuse University B.A. in English University of California at Berkeley Current Position: Professor of English Rhode Island College Courses Taught: Introduction to Creative Writing, Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry, Advanced Workshop in Creative Writing, Graduate Workshop in Creative Writing, Contemporary Poetry, Modern Poetry Selected Publications of Poetry: Books: Sleeping with a Famous Poet, C.W. Books (2007) Bad Judgment, Sarabande Books (1999) Lessons in Space, University Press of Florida (1997) Chapbooks: Death Poems, Premier Poets (2005) Another Kind of Beauty, The Ohio Review (1995) My Summer as a Bride, Riverstone Press (1995) In Anthologies: “In Praise of my Young Husband”: 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (2005) “Companionate Marriage”: Poetic Voices Without Borders (2005) “Like”: Poetry Daily: 366 Poems from the World’s Most Popular Poetry Site (2003) “Bad Judgment”: The Pushcart Prize 2001 XXV (2001) “The Woman Who Loved Things”: The Best American Poetry 1995 “Fainting”: Catholic Girls (1992) In Journals: “Natural Light”: roger (2011) “The Problem with Nature”: Cimarron Review (2011) “Putting the Dead to Bed,” “Dream Teaching”: The Wisconsin Review (2010) “The Princess Bride”: The Louisville Review (2009) "My Wife, Destroyer of Dreams": The Southampton Review (2009) "Death's Daughter": Redivider (2009) "Ocean State": Green Mountains Review (2009) "Pirating": TriQuarterly (2007) "Hypothetical Question": The Southern Review (2007) "Bad Girl Attitude": The Cimarron Review (2006) “Attack of the 50 Foot Woman,” “Fox-Wife”: Pool (2005) “Death Goes Mad”: www.threecandles.org (2005) “Confession to the Moon”: 88 (2004) “Black Arts,” “Jeanne d’Arc”: Prairie Schooner (2004) “Mary Lamb,” “Why Do Men Love Lesbians?”: The Paris Review (2004) “Fairy Tale”: The Literary Review (2004) “Soap Opera Update”: Green Mountains Review (2003) “The Afflicted Girls”: The Women’s Review of Books (2003) “Liar”: PMS (2003) “Stunner,” Suicide’s Daughter”: Hotel Amerika (2003) “Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast Museum,” “Miss Bishop Has Left the Classroom”: Green Mountains Review (2002) “’The Misses Bronte’s Establishment for The Board and Education of a Limited Number of Young Ladies’”: Michigan Quarterly Review (2002) “Listening to my Mother in the Alzheimer’s Wing”: Poetry (2001) “Death Takes a Nap,” “Midlife,” “Small Red Dog”: Poetry Northwest (2001) “Woman Without Children”: Poetry International (2001) “Mata Hari”: North Dakota Quarterly (2001) “Body Modifications”: The Southern Review (2001) “Jayne Mansfield and Isadora Duncan,” “Mrs. Fitzgerald”: (Green Mountains Review (2000 - 2001) “Listening to the Voices of Medieval Sainted Ladies”: A Fine Excess: Fifty Years of the Beloit Poetry Journal (reprinted 2000 - 2001) “Phone Call from High School”: Western Humanities Review (2000) “Frida Kahlo”: Poet Lore (2000) “Lover of the Golden Lotus”: The Chattahoochee Review (2000) “Like,” “Stepmother”: Poetry Northwest (2000) “Motherhood,” “Body Image”: Literature and Psychology (1999) “Nightingale”: The Carolina Quarterly (1999) “Dorothy Wordsworth,” “Mary of Nazareth,” “The Wild Girl of Champagne”: Crazyhorse (1999) “When Forever Began”: Ms. (reprinted 1999) “Listening to the Voices of Medieval Sainted Ladies”: The Beloit Poetry Journal (1998) “The Children of the Poor”: American Literary Review (1998) “Lilith”: Southwest Review (1998) “Effie Ruskin, 1849”: Chelsea (1997) “Dead Debutante,” “My Dead Boyfriend,” “Bad Judgment”: Poetry Northwest (1997) “Summer Solstice, North Georgia”: The Antioch Review (1996) “Silent Men”: The Hudson Review (1996) “In the Beginning is the End,” “The Writer Offers Another His Key”: Seneca Review (1996) “Being Saved”: Gulf Coast (1996) “Blackberry,” “Dark Water”: Western Humanities Review (1995) “A Lady with a Pomeranian,” “My Summer as a Bride”: Poetry Northwest (1995) “Living with Monkeys”: Ploughshares (1995) “The Wonderfully Yellow Umbrella”: The Ohio Review (1995) “Trinity”: TriQuarterly (1994/1995) “Dream Babies,” “Erasing the Music Box”: Feminist Studies (1994) “In Praise of my Young Husband”: The Paris Review (1994) “The Apple Way”: The American Voice (1994) “The Woman Who Loved Things”: Harvard Review (1994) “Schoolyard”: The Nation (1992) “Lunatic Snow”: Poetry East (1992) “When the World Lost Meaning”: Literature and Psychology (1992) “Fainting”: The Nation (1991) “When Nights Were Full of Sex and Churches”: The New Republic (1989) “Babysitting”: The North American Review (1989) Selected Publications of Fiction: Chapbook: The Ten Worst Human Fears, Rooster Hill Press (2012) In Journals: "Dogs Are Good": Barrelhouse (2008) "What the Indians Do": Fiction (2006) "The Seafarer": Feminist Studies (2006) “My Argentine”: Fiction (2004) “Greece”: The Southern Review (2003) “The Museum of Tragedy”: Feminist Studies (2003) “A Blue Afternoon”: Night Train (2002) “Modifications”: Fiction (2001) “The Ten Worst Human Fears”: Other Voices (1999) “MSG”: Women’s Words (1999) “Shark”: Fiction (1998) “Sloth”: Newport Review (1997) Honors Include: Mary Tucker Thorp Professorship, Rhode Island College (2001-2002) Pushcart Prize for “Bad Judgment” (2001) Sheila Motton Book Prize, for Bad Judgment, New England Poetry Club (2000) Bullis-Kizer Prize, Poetry Northwest (1998) Macleod-Grobe Prize, Poetry Northwest (1996) Rhode Island Council for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship Grant (1995) Gordon Barber Memorial Award, The Poetry Society of America (1994) The Nation “Discovery” Prize (1991) |
Cathleen Calbert is the author of one collection of fiction, The Ten Worst Human Fears (Rooster Hill Press, 2012), as well as three books of poetry: Lessons in Space (University of Florida Press, 1997), Bad Judgment (Sarabande Books, 1999), and Sleeping with a Famous Poet (C.W. Books, 2007). Her poetry and prose have appeared in numerous publications, including Feminist Studies, Fiction, The Hudson Review, Ms. Magazine, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, TriQuarterly, and The Women’s Review of Books. She was awarded The Nation Discovery Prize in 1991, the Gordon Barber Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America in 1994, the MacLeod-Grobe in 1996 and the Bullis-Kizer Award in 1998, both from Poetry Northwest, and a Pushcart Prize in 2001. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Houston, where her dissertation advisor was Richard Howard, her M.A. from Syracuse University, where her thesis advisor was Philip Booth, and her B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, where she worked with Josephine Miles. Currently, she is a Professor of English at Rhode Island College. |
