ARTS CV

HONORS

2005	Arthur C. Smith Award
2002	Judge, Laureate's Poetry Prize, North Carolina Poetry Association
1998-2001	Board member, Ellen LaFarge Poetry Foundation
1992	Participant, Cloverdale [Writers] Workshop, County Limerick, Ireland
1987	Thompson Visiting Poet, Babson College
1986 & 1989	Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize (Finalist), Northeastern University
1985	John Gardner Short Fiction Prize, SUNY Binghamton
1984	Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction, Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa
1982	Book Award of the Poetry Center, San Francisco State University
1980	Founding Member, Every Other Thursday Poetry Cooperative

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Forthcoming	Signs, Translations (poems) (Salmon Books, Ireland)
1999	Defining Absence (poems) (Salmon Books, Ireland)
1994	One Sleep, One Waking (poems) Enright House (Ireland)/Wyndham Hall Press (out of print)
1989	The Errand of Keeping Alive: Five Irish Writers Harvard University Press
1987	Stubbornness: A Field Guide (stories) State University of New York Press
1983	Thoreau: A Naturalist's Liberty Harvard University Press
1983	Modernism Reconsidered (edited with Robert J. Kiely) Harvard University Press
1981	The Old Chore (poems) Alice James Books, Cambridge [MA]

Other Publications (selected)

Anthologized:

in Witness and Wait, Something Understood, Dear Winter, City River of Voices, Touched by Adoption (Green River Press), A Ghost at Heart's Edge (North Atlantic Books), Finding America (Amsco Publications).

Chapters in Books:

in Education for Judgment (Harvard Business School Press); Thoreau: Modern Critical Perspectives (Chelsea House, New York); The Automobile and American Culture (University of Michigan Press); Modernism Reconsidered (Harvard University Press); Garland Encyclopedia of the History of Science; Seamus Heaney: a Celebration; and Baseball and the Game of Life (Birch Books Press).

Articles and Essays:

on Seamus Heaney in Janus and Massachusetts Review; on William Trevor in Eire-Ireland; on Thoreau in Prose Studies; on Frank O'Connor in Twentieth Century Literature; on William Carlos Williams in Modern Language Studies; on W. H. Auden in Kenyon Review; on Dickens in Dickens Studies Annual; on baseball in New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly; on Ireland in Imported Breads: Literature of Cultural Exchange (University Press of America: forthcoming).

Reviews and Essay-Reviews: frequently in Boston Sunday Globe, Harvard Review, and Religion and the Arts.

Fiction: in American Literary Review, Bostonia, Yankee, Partisan Review, Story Quarterly, New England Review.

Poetry: in Centennial Review, River Anthology, Yankee, Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, and Southern Poetry Review.

Readings and Presentations:

• May 27 -- Invited Particiipant, "A Gathering of Writers: A May Brunch Benefit." RIPEN, Johnston RI
• July 6- 13 Residency, "the Writer's Place, Knockeven, Co. Clare, Ireland
• July 1-5 Bear River Writer's Conference, Petoskey, MI

Series and Readings Organized

Co-founder: Reading Series at the O'Neill Branch Library, Cambridge
Co-founder: Reading Series at the Cambridge Co-Housing
Personal Poetry Series at Porter Square Books, Cambridge

Current Projects

Befuddlements (poems)