I. Personal Data

Education
Ph.D. 1970 Indiana University, English, Comparative Literature; Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1961-62

Dissertation: The Master of the Moment: The Idea of the Gentleman in the

Poetry of E. A. Robinson, directed by Edwin H. Cady.

M.A. 1965 Indiana University, English
B.A. 1961 Miami University (Ohio), English honors

Employment
1967-present, Department of English, Ball State University

Current position: Emeritus Professor of English

Rank: Emeritus Professor

Specialties: Poetry Writing, American Poetry, Archetypal Aesthetics

1965-67, Department of English, George Washington University

 

II. Fellowship

Eli Lilly Endowment, for writing poetry in conjunction with study of archetypal psychology (especially the thought of James Hillman), 1985-86. $25,000.

III. Publications

Poetry: Chapbooks

Rice Paper Sky. Cicada Chapbook Award, 2001.
In Such a Light. Mississinewa Press, 1997. White River Prize, 1995.
To begin with. Barnwood, Press, 1983.
Charms. Barnwood Press, 1983.

Poetry: Periodicals

"In the Camps." Country Feedback, 3 (Fall 2002), .
"The Very Secret Hours of Jean Simeon Chardin." Country Feedback, 2 (Spring 2002).
"Where Labor Is Cheap Life Is Cheap." Humpback Barn Collection: 2001, 20.
"Still Life with Riddle." Visiting Emily, ed. Sheila Coghill and Thom Tammaro. University of Iowa Press, 2001.
"rain all morning." Frogpond, XXIII:9 (Spring 2000), 35.
"You Name It." The Flying Island, VII: 2 (Summer/Fall 1999), 19.
"Married Poem." Humpback Barn Collection: Poetry of the Tenth Annual Humpback Barn Festival of Poetry and Art, October 1999, 9.
"Glide." The Flying Island, VI:1 (Winter/Spring 1998), 20.
"Woman in White Night Gown leaning Out from the Veranda into a Glorious Summer Morning." Milkweed Collection: Poetry of the Ninth Annual Humpback Barn Festival of Poetry and Art, October 1998, np.
"Old Woods." The Eighth Annual Humpback Barn Festival of Poetry and Art, October 1997, n.p.
"Some Kind of Old Man." Flying Island V:2 (Summer/Fall 1997), 9.
"While I am Reading Taking the Path of Zen." Flying Island V:1 (Winter/Spring 1997), 12.
"A Face of Winter." Reprinted in The Seventh Annual Humpback Barn Festival of Poetry and Art, October 1996, n.p.
"Over and Over Again." The Hopewell Review 7 (1996), 102.
"Dawn Prayer to Hermes." Flying Island IV:1 (Fall/Winter 1995), 4.
"Suffer the Little Children." Flying Island IV:1 (Fall/Winter 1995), 4.
"Rhymes for a Social Worker Preparing for an Interview on Blind St. Hopewell Review 6 (1995), 103-104.
"A Starbucks Translation of Fragment A316c." Flying Island III:1 (Fall/Winter 1994), 11.
"The Magician." Flying Island III:1 (Fall/Winter 1994), 11.
"Her Regrets." Flying Island III:2 (Spring/Summer 1994) 19.
"Broken Hearted." Arts Indiana, XV:10 (January 1994) 10.
"Condominium Weinerdog, Well-Kept." Arts Indiana XV:10 (January 1994) 10.
"In your sleep he will bring you." Arts Indiana XV:10 (January 1994) 10.
"Immortal Psyche." Arts Indiana XV:10 (January 1994) 11.
"So It Happen/As It Happen." Arts Indiana XV:10 (January 1994) 11.
"The Long March." Arts Indiana XV:10 (January 1994) 11.
"The Gift." Hopewell Review 5 (1993) 82.
"A Vampire Song." Hopewell Review 5 (1993) 83.
"In Such a Light." Flying Island II:1 (Fall/Winter 1993) 17.
"Far into the Sleeting Night." Free Songs: Indianannual 6 (1992) 96.
"pines gone behind mist." Brussels Sprout IX:1 (January 1992) 35.
"Bright Bird." Blue Unicorn XV:1 (October 1991) 23.
"brushing your hair, you turn." Cicada 17 (1991) 6.
"my window." Brussels Sprout IX:1 (January 1991) 15.
"The Smell of Our Sex." Arts Indiana Literary Supplement 1991, 17.
"A Charm After Dying." Painted Bride Quarterly 40/41 (1990), 136.
"A Charm To Be Spoken To One with Cancer." Painted Bride Quarterly 40/41 (1990) 136.
"A Charm To Fall Asleep." Painted Bride Quarterly 40/41 (1990) 136.
"Etheridge." Arts Indiana Literary Supplement 1990. Indianapolis: Public Press, 1990. 24.
"Large and Floppy." Writing from the Center: Indiannual 5. Writers' Center Press (1990), 69.
"On the Dark Bed." Writing from the Center: Indiannual 5. Writers' Center Press (1990), 70.
"Hanging Loose." The Black Fly Review, 11 (1990), 44.
"Mon coeur qui bat." Birmingham Poetry Review 3 (1989), 21.
"Form Is Emptiness." Painted Bride Quarterly 34 (Fall 1988), 9.
"Waves Coming In." Painted Bride Quarterly 34 (Fall 1988), 9.
"A Little Evening Air." Indiannual 4. Writers' Center Press (1988) 73-74.
"Etheridge." Painted Bride Quarterly 32/33 Spring-Summer 1988), 70.
"Socrates Beside the River." Cicada. 9 (Spring 1988),n.p.
"What Larks!" Mankato Poetry Review (December 1987), 28-29.
"A Winter's Tale." Indiannual 3. Writers' Center Press (1987), 76.
"Portrait of the Artist as Aspiring Young Virgin." Asylum III: 3 (Fall 1987), 17-18.
"Two Hounds in Fresh Snow." The Spoon River Quarterly, XII: 2 (Spring 1987), 34.
"April 1." The Spoon River Quarterly, XII: 2 (Spring 1987), 35.
"To Will One Thing." The Windless Orchard, 48 (Spring 1987), 15.
"Family Portrait: Summer 1945." The Spoon River Quarterly, XI: 4 (Fall 1986), 15.
"Beginner's Mind." Frogpond, IX, 2 (May 1986), 22.
"Currr." Indiannual. Writers' Center Press, 1985. 53-55.
"Departure". M, XIII (Fall 1984), 19.
"Fast Talking." M, XIII (Fall 1984), 19.
"Live Oak." M, XIII (Fall 1984), 50.
"A Christmas Bombing, 1945." The Windless Orchard, XLIV (Summer/Fall 1984), 21.
"Awake unto Me." The Windless Orchard, XLIV (Summer/Fall 1984).
"Just Sitting Here." The Spoon River Quarterly, IX, 2 (Spring 1984), 4.
"Backroads by Moonlight." The Spoon River Quarterly, IX, 2 (Spring 1984), 4.
"Sitting Empty." The Spoon River Quarterly, IX, 2 (Spring 1984), 4.
"Leonard Blue Fox Talks about the Return of Blackfoot." Windfall, VI (Spring 1984), 43.
"Skiagraphia." Windfall, VI (Spring 1984), 41.
"Alba." High/Coo (Spring-Summer 1980), 30.
"Harvest Home." Sackbut Review, II, 5 (Fall 1979), 16.
"Every River Has Two Banks." Sackbut Review, I, 3 (Spring 1979), 16.
"Being is Becoming." High/Coo, III, 9 (August 1978), n.p.
"Report of An Expedition." Indiana Writes, II, 3 (Spring 1978), 38.
"Turnabout Is Fair." High/Coo, I (Spring 1976), 1.
"July Beside the Supermarket." High/Coo, I (Spring 1976), 1.
"Wolf, a Dog." Forum, XV (Autumn 1974), 64-65.

Poetry: Radio
"A Vampire Song" reading and brief interview. "Hopewell Weekly" on WBST October 28 and 30, 1996, and on other public radio stations in Indiana.

Essays
"Oh No, Not Poetry!" Indiana English, 7:1 (Fall 1983), 3-5.
"The Living Word." Small Press Review, XII, 10 (October 1980), 35. Special issue on the state of the art of poetry.
"Self-Evidence." GW Forum (The George Washington University), 11 (spring 1976), 10-13. Bicentennial issue.

Reference Articles
Masterplots II: Short Story, Supplement (Salem Press), forthcoming 1996, on:

Arna Bontemps, "A Summer Tragedy."

Cyrus Colter, "The Beach Unbrella."

William Melvyn Kelley, "The Only Man on Liberty Street."

Masterplots II: African American Literature (Salem Press) 1994, on:

Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. 569-74.

Ed Bullins, In the Wine Time. 587-91.

Albert Murray, Train Whistle Guitar. 1446-51.

John A. Williams, The Man Who Cried I Am. 759-74.

August Wilson, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. 736-44.

Richard Wright, The Outsider. 911-17.

Anthology, Edited
The View from the Top of the Mountain, with Thom Tammaro. Barnwood Press, 1981. 126 pages. Forty contemporary poets.

Reviews
"To the Wreakers of Havoc." (Poems by Michael Heffernan.) Barnwood, III, 2 (Fall 1984), 11-12.
"Household Tales of Moon and Water." (Poems by Nancy Willard.) Barnwood, III, 1 (Fall 1983), 8-9.
"Selected Poems of Galway Kinnell." Barnwood, II, 2 (Winter 1982), 8-9.
"Born of a Woman: New and Selected Poems of Etheridge Knight." Barnwood I, 4 (Summer 1981), 8-9.
"This Tree Will Be Here for a Thousand Years." (Poems by Robert Bly.) Barnwood, I, 1 (April 1980), 8-9.
"Late Harvest: Plains and Prairie Poets." Ed. Robert Killoren. The Old Northwest, 4 (March 1978), 75-77.
"The Black Hawk Songs." (Poems by Michael Borich.) The Old Northwest, 2 (June 1976), 185-86.

Editorial
The Barnwood Press, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief:

Magazine: Barnwood (poems, short essays, reviews), 1980-84.

Books:

Mildred Raynolds Trivers, Woman Weeping Where the Wall Will Be, 2001.
Barbara Crooker, The White Poems, 2001
Peter Davis, A Star Behind a Star, 1995.
Alice Friman, Driving for Johnny Wonderland, 1992.
Donald W. Baker, The Day Before, 1989.
Richard Lyons, A Wilderness of Faith and Love, 1988.
Roger Pfingston, Something Iridescent, 1987.
Thomas Thornburg, Ancient Letters, 1987.
Marcia Blumenthal, In the Heart of Town, Still Digging, 1986.
Patricia Goedicke, Listen, Love, 1986.
John Haislip, Seal Rock, 1986.
Walter Pavlich, Ongoing Portraits, 1986.
Donald W. Baker, Unposted Letters, 1985.
Jared Carter, Fugue State, 1984.
Alice Friman, Reporting from Corinth, 1984.
Mildred Trivers, Winter Moon, 1984.
Robert Bly, Four Ramages, 1983.
Nick Bozanic, Wood Birds Water Stones, 1983.
Lois Hayna and Angela Peckenpaugh, A Book of Charms, 1983.
Judson Jerome, Partita in Nothing Flat, 1983.
Leonard Wallace Robinson, In the Whale, 1983.
Robert Ronnow, Janie Huzzie Bows, 1983.
William Stafford, Roving Across Fields, an interview with poems, 1983.
Donald W. Baker, Formal Application: Selected Poems 1960-1980, 1982.
The View from the Top of the Mountain: Poems After Sixty, 1981.
Bonnie Maurer. Old 37: The Mason Cows, 1981.
Mildred Trivers, If You Want a Modern Mother, 1980.
Robert Carothers, John Calvin's Favorite Son, 1980.
Dorothy Hamilton, Daniel Forbes, A Pioneer Boy, 1980 (children's novel).
Jared Carter, Early Warning, 1979.
Dorothy Hamilton, Christmas at Metamora, 1978 (children's novel).
Mildred Trivers, 2 + 7, 1978.
Thom Tammaro, Evocations, 1978.
Michael Tate, Bareback Morning, 1977. Butcher Paper, 1977.
Gary Hines, Foreign Influences on Old English, 1976.

Ball State University

Associate Poetry Editor, Ball State University Forum.
Winter Guests, selected poems by Grace Butcher, Cyral Dostal, and Michael Heffernan,

with Thom Tammaro, 1979.
Founding Editor, BSU Cardinal Writers Series (poetry books):

CWS #1 John Garmon, Mornings After the Nativity, 1977.

#2 Mildred Trivers, Flowers for Frill, 1977.

#3 Ronald Smits, Mourning Dove, 1979.

V. Grants

Indiana Arts Commission. Individual Artist's Grant to Tom Koontz, to assist with purchase of a computer for use in writing poems and editing for Barnwood Press. 2000-2001. $1000.

Indiana Arts Commission. To Barnwood Press, for publication of a book of poems. 2000-2001. $2800.

Ball State University. Faculty Summer Creative Arts Grant, for writing poems. 1994. $9734.

Indiana Arts Commission. To Barnwood Press, for publication of a book of poems. 1992-93. $900.

Indiana Arts Commission. To Barnwood Press, for publication of books of poetry. 1990-91. $3500.

Ball State University. Faculty Summer Arts, for writing poems. 1987. $7171.

Indiana Arts Commission. To Barnwood Press, for publication of books of poetry. 1988-89. $3500.

Indiana Arts Commission. To Barnwood Press, for publication of books of poetry. 1985-86. $10,000.

Ball State University. Faculty Artist, for writing poems and consulting with Patricia Berry and others on the nature of the image in poetry and archetypal psychology. 1984-85. $800.

Indiana Arts Commission. To Barnwood Press, for publication of books of poetry. 1984-85. $4,000.

Indiana Arts Commission. To Ball State University, for support of a program of readings and workshops by Patricia Goedicke and Leonard Robinson. Spring, 1984. $250.

Indiana Arts Commission. To Barnwood Press, for publication of books of poetry. 1983-84. $7,000.

United States International Communications Agency. To Ball State University, for a faculty exchange program with the University of Yaounde, Cameroon. $50,000. 1982-85. (Proposal writer.)

National Endowment for the Arts. To Barnwood Press, for publication of books of poetry. 1982-83. $12,500.

Indiana Arts Commission. To Barnwood Press, for publication of books and a catalog. 1982-83. $5,000.

Ball State University. Faculty Artist, for completion of "Charms," a manuscript of poems. 1982-83. $625.

Indiana Arts Commission. To Barnwood Press, for publication of a national anthology of contemporary poetry. 1980-81. $4,000.

Indiana Arts Commission. To Barnwood Press, for publication of a children's novel. 1980. $1,800.

Indiana Arts Commission. To Barnwood Press, for publication of books of poetry. 1979-80. $1,975.

Indiana Arts Commission. To Ball State University, for a poetry festival. 1979. $900.

Indiana Arts Commission. To Ball State University, for a poetry festival. 1978. $600.

Ball State University. Eli Lilly Faculty Associateship for research on the nature of the creative process in the arts. 1978. Released time.

Indiana Arts Commission. To Ball State University, for Midwest Writers' Workshop. 1976. $2,000.

Indiana Arts Commission. To Ball State University, for Midwest Writers' Workshop Weekend Seminar. 1976. $400.

Ball State University. Sabbatical (one quarter) for research on the meaning and significance of "home" in American literature and folklore. 1976.

Ball State University. Faculty Artist, for work on a sequence of poems entitled "Photo Reconnaissance" and a related theory of poetry. 1974-75. Released time.

Ball State University. Faculty Research, for bibliographical search and preliminary reading on the meaning and significance of "home" in American literature and folklore. 1973-74. Released time.

National Endowment for the Humanities. To Ball State University, for "An Humanities-Centered, Interdisciplinary and Community- Involved General Studies Curriculum." 1972-73. $20,000.

Indiana Committee for The Humanities. To Ball State University: "Humanities for the Community, I and II," "We're All in This Together." November and January 1972-73, March 1973. $2,200.

Ball State University. Faculty Research, for study of the idea of prophecy in the poetry of E. A. Robinson. 1971-72. Released time.

Ball State University. Faculty Creative Teaching, for audiovisual collection and classroom presentation of American folklore (material collected on tapes and slides). 1970-71. $420.

VI. Academic Duties, 1967-Present.

Courses taught, English

103 Composition (including honors sections)

104 Composition and Literature: poetry and drama (incl. honors)

105 Advanced Composition for Elementary Education majors

114 Composition and Literature for Honors students

205 Introduction to World Literature: fiction

206 Introduction to Western Literature, for English majors

207 Introduction to Literature: American fiction

240 Survey of American Literature, Beginning to 1860

286 Introduction to Creative Writing: Prose

288 Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry

305 Advanced Composition

306 Advanced Composition for English majors

306 The Personal Essay

308 Poetry Writing Workshop I

321 Introduction to Linguistics

340 Survey of American Literature, 1860-1945

347 and 647 Twentieth Century American Novel

348 and 648 Twentieth Century American Drama

349 and 649 Twentieth Century American Poetry

354 and 654 Literature of Black America

390 University Honors Colloquium (seminar). Topics have been "Inscapes of the City in Western Literature," and "Masculinity and Femininity as Represented in American Novels," "Beauty and the Beast: An Archetypal Study of the Nature of Beauty."

408 and 508 Poetry Writing Workshop II

435 and 635 American Folklore

445 Survey of American Literature, 1945-Present

488 Independent Creative Writing

489 Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing

496 and 696 Modern Continental Novel

499 Honors Thesis

602 Graduate Seminar in American Literature, Special Topic: "'The Science of the Grave': The Poetry and Poetics of Emily Dickinson, An Archetypal Reading."

604 Independent Study in American Literature

610 Poetics

613 Workshop in Poetry Writing

614 Practicum in Literary Editing and Publishing

641 Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman

649 Modernism and American Poetry

653 Studies in American Authors

690 Teaching Poetry: Philosophy and Methods

RES 698 Master's Thesis

DISS 700 Doctoral Dissertation

University courses taught

GEN ED 200 Colloquium in the Humanities, "Film."

GEN ED 240 Colloquium in The Arts, "The Nature of the Creative Process in the Arts."

HON 499 Honors Thesis

Instructor (American poetry, folklore) in Master's level interdisciplinary workshop (five weeks) for high school teachers, Summer, 1976.

Administrative

Designed Graduate Creative Writing Program, 1999-2000.

Chair, Department of English, 1995-1998.

Designed Undergraduate Creative Writing Program, 1992-93.

Director of Creative Writing Program, 1993-present.

Director of M.A. Programs in English, 1981-83.

College of Sciences and Humanities Liaison with University Office of Research. Major duties were to assist faculty in identifying sources of funding and writing proposals.

Committees (English Department)

American Literature Faculty (Chair, Secretary)

Promotion and Tenure (Chair, Secretary)

Salary (Chair, Secretary)

Graduate Studies (Chair)

Curriculum and Policy

Creative Writing Program Planning (Chair)

Undergraduate Programs (Chair)

Writing Program

Recruitment of English Majors (Chair)

Visiting Poets (Chair)

Continuing Education in English

Temporary Faculty (Advisor)

Various Ad Hoc

Review Panels for undergraduate, graduate, and high school student creative writing competitions

Committees (College)

Dean's Advisory Council

Promotion and Tenure

Curriculum

Research Grants Advisory and Review

Afro-American Studies

Urban and Regional Studies

Committees (University)

Freshman Year Experience

Honors Program

Lilly Faculty Fellowship Internal Screening

Minority Student Affairs

Task Force for Faculty Development (Chair of subcommittee on instructional dimensions)

Women's Studies

Residential Instruction Project
For four years was a member of the faculty of this experimental project for 800 freshmen and sophomores. Emphasis was placed on innovative instruction of the "living-learning" type. Duties, in addition to teaching, included membership on the steering committee; meetings with University administrators; planning by total faculty and English faculty; design, application, and evaluation (with report) of innovative course structures; design, administration, and evaluation of early-dismissal, pass/fail freshman composition; and out-of-class instructional and extracurricular work with project students.

Faculty Advisor

Student literary and arts magazine (various names)

Carmichael Repertory Theatre Company

Arrangements and introductions for readings by visiting poets at Ball State University, sponsored by English, Honors, Afro-American Studies, Residential Instruction Project: Donald Baker, Willis Barnstone, Robert Bly, Grace Butcher, Jared Carter, Robert Creeley, Cyral Dostal, Darlene Eddy, Peter Fallon, Alice Friman, Gary Gildner, Patricia Goedicke, Michael Heffernan, Etheridge Knight, John Knoepfle, Richard Kostelanetz, Haki Madhabuti, Angela Peckinpaugh, Roger Pfingston, Leonard Robinson, Gary Snyder, W. D. Snodgrass, William Stafford, Tomas Transtromer, and others.

VII. Readings, Papers, Lectures, Panels, Workshops Given, 1973-94

Readings of my poems in Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Seattle, and other cities. Since 1978.

"Teaching Creative Writing: Philosophy to Techniques." With Margaret Dimoplon.

Indiana Teachers of Writing annual conference. Indianapolis, September 23, 1994.

Poetry Writing Instructor: Midwest Writers' Workshop. Muncie, Indiana, August 16-20, 1989.

"Body and Soul: Teaching Composition from A Creative Writing Perspective." Plenary session of Indiana Teachers of Writing annual conference, Indianapolis, September 23, 1988.

"Poetry in the Composition Classroom." Panel Presentation at NCTE-CCCC Convention, March 13, 1986.

Consultant on interdisciplinary general studies for Daytona Beach Community College, November 11-16, 1985 and October 20-24, 1986. Discussions with administrators, faculty, and students, plus a three-hour teaching session in a course combining literature, psychology, and composition.

Poetry writing workshop, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, at invitation of William Stafford. November 15, 1985.

Reading of my poetry, and a poetry writing workshop. Indiana University-Kokomo, October 19-20, 1984.

"The Science of the Grave: Re-Visioning the Poetry of Emily Dickinson." Indiana College English Association, Indianapolis, September 1984.

Radio interview and reading, as one in a series, "The Writer's Voice." WAJC-FM, Butler University, July 22, 1984.

"Visionary Poetry" (keynote address), "The Apparition of Death in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson: An Archetypal Approach" (lecture) and a reading of my poems Whitewater Poetry Festival, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, April 1984.

"A Barnwood Sampler." A reading of poems by contemporary Indiana poets, at public libraries in Indianapolis, Huntington, Logansport, and Tipton, Indiana, 1982-84.

"Robert Frost, A Poetic Chronicle," for the Friends of the Alexander Bracken Library, Ball State University, October 1982.

"Multinational Corporations, the Publishing Industry, and the Art of Poetry," Indiana College English Association, October 1982.

Workshop on creative writing in one's later years, Manchester College Chatauqua, October 1982.

Position paper on the definition and structure of liberal education, with a design for an interdisciplinary component of a liberal arts common curriculum, presented to the faculty of Ball State University, at the invitation of the University Committee on General Studies, April 1982.

Two workshop sessions and two panels for a state-wide conference on "Creative Publishing: The Small Press and the Campus Literary Magazine," Franklin College, February 1982.

"Getting Published: Editor's Views," Midwest Literature Festival, Indianapolis, 1980.

"Midwest Poetry: What's Going On Around Here?" BSU Spring Poetry Festival, May 1978.

"Some Folk Roots for a Black Aesthetic," BSU Parameters of English Series, May 1974.

"Literature and the City" and "Walden and City Life," BSU Urban Studies Institute, Octo-ber and November 1973.

"Teaching Literature in an Interdisciplinary Course," Indiana College English Association, October 1973.

"To See Things as They Really Are: The Idea of Prophecy in the Poetry of E. A. Robinson," BSU English Lecture Series, March 1973.

VIII. Professional Service

National

Associate Poetry Editor and reader of scholarly articles for Ball State University Forum.

National Endowment for the Humanities, Education Programs Division: National Review Panel, 1978, 1979.

Regional

Regional Advisory Board of Thurber Country: A Book Center for Midwestern Writers and Presses, Thurber House, Columbus, Ohio, 1984-1989.

State and Local

Member of Individual Artists Committee, Indiana Arts Commission.

Judge (of three) for Indianapolis Poetry on the Buses competition, June 1985, 1988.

Review panelist for Indiana Arts Commission Summer Fellowships (nine arts categories), April 30-May 1, 1985.

Indiana Arts Commission: Literature Advisory Committee, 1980-83; Chair, 1981-83.

Founded and directed BSU Midwest Poetry Festival, 1978, 1979; the event was then moved to Indianapolis, where it evolved into the Midwest Literature Festival.

Midwest Writers' Workshop: member of steering committee, lecturer, member of panels.

Delaware County Council for The Arts: Founding member and member of Board of Directors, Vice-President.

"Freedom to Freedom: The Black Experience in America." Interdisciplinary community education program sponsored by Muncie O. I. C. and BSU Afro-American Studies, funded by grants from the Indiana Committee for the Humanities and the Ball Foundation. Six special lectures on the black American experience as represented in Afro-American literature and folklore.

"One Hundred Hoosier Houses." Participating humanist in community education program sponsored by the BSU College of Architecture and funded by the Indiana Committee for the Humanities.

"Employment and Unemployment." Participating humanist in community education program sponsored by the Marion, Indiana Urban League and funded by the Indiana Committee for the Humanities.

Two appearances on WPBS-TV on subject of Afro-American heroes in literature and folklore.

Poetry writing instructor for workshop for high school students, sponsored by Chamber of Commerce of Rush County, Indiana. Two summers.

Presentation on grant proposal writing, for a community conference sponsored by BSU Minnestrista Center (community education).

Lectures on small press, commercial, and vanity publishing; copyright law; creative process in poetry; for Midwest Writers' Workshop, Muncie Career Center, and Muncie Community Schools.

IX. Professional Improvement, 1968-86

"A Jubilation of Poets" celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center, Cleveland, Ohio. October 23-26, 1986. Included readings by Gwendolyn Brooks, Jared Carter, Galway Kinnell, Denise Levertov, William Stafford, and Nancy Willard and talks by Norman O. Brown and Hugh Kenner.

Research: Depth Psychology and the Poetic Image, sponsored by BSU Department of English, with released time, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986.

Three lectures on psychopathologies and the imagination, by James Hillman. Antioch University at Seattle, November 25-26, 1985.

"Words Alive! Awakening the Language of Soul." Conference on language and imagination, with James Hillman, Robert Bly, Gary Snyder, and Ursula LeGuin. C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. November 24, 1985.

Poetry Writing Workshop conducted by Ruth Stone, Indianapolis, September 22, 1984.

Conference on Archetypal Psychology and Contemporary Poetry, featuring workshops and reading by Robert Bly, Wabash College, March 12-14, 1984.

Seminar on "Archetypal Interpretation of Fairy Tales" with James Hillman, C. G. Jung Institute, Chicago, March 3, 1984.

Associated Writing Programs, annual meeting, St. Louis, Spring 1983.

Indiana College English Association, annual meeting, BSU, Fall 1982.

Seminar on "Healing Fictions" with James Hillman, C. G. Jung Institute, Chicago, Spring 1982.

Graduate course on thought of C. G. Jung, BSU, Spring Quarter 1982.

Poetry reading and lectures on Afro-American literature, by Houston Baker, Wabash College, Fall 1982.

Midwest Literature Festival, Indianapolis, 1980-86.

Conference on College Composition and Communication annual meeting, Dallas, Spring 1981.

James Wright Memorial Conference, Martin's Ferry, Fall 1981.

Workshop on Long-range Planning in the Arts, sponsored by the Indiana Arts Commission, BSU, Spring 1981.

Poetry readings by Robert Bly, Allen Ginsberg, Michael Harper, Michael Heffernan, David Ignatow, Galway Kinnell, Kenneth Koch, Denise Levertov, W. W. Merwin, Lisel Mueller, Dudley Randall, William Stafford, and Constance Urdang, and others, in various cities.

Conference on C. G. Jung and Contemporary Culture, Miami University, May 1-2, 1980.

Midwest Poetry Festival, BSU, 1979, 78. Workshops by Robert Bly, Etheridge Knight, John Knoepfle, William Stafford.

Workshop on the Liberal Arts, sponsored by the Eli Lilly Endowment, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Summer 1981. Seminars with Dr. Herbert Sinaiko ("The Arts in the Liberal Arts") and Dr. Elizabeth Minnich ("Women's Studies").

Western Literature Association annual meeting, Sioux Falls, S.D., 1977.

NCTE annual meeting, plus interview with poet, William Stafford, Chicago, 1976.

Symposium on Values in Higher Education, BSU, 1976.

Faculty Seminars on Integrative and Interdisciplinary Instruction, BSU, 1975-76.

Interdisciplinary faculty study group on the American city, BSU, 1973-74.

International Comparative Literature Conference on Politics and Literature, Indiana Univers-ity, 1972.

AAHE Conference on New Approaches to Undergraduate Education, Dayton, Ohio, 1972.

National Conference on Experimental Undergraduate Programs, University of Nebraska, 1971.

Living-Learning Symposium, BSU, 1970.

American Folklore Society annual meeting, Indiana University, 1968.