University of Nebraska at Omaha

Faculty Member, MFA Creative Writing

Paul W. and Clarice Reynolds Endowed Chair in English (Poetry & Writing)

Fine Arts

About

Current Courses:

MFA Courses in Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Environmental Writing, Critical Theory, Verse-Play/Script

Other Courses include:

Beginning Poetry                   
Advanced & Graduate  Poetry                                    Prosody
Performance of Poetry & Prose
Advanced & Graduate Nonfiction
Intermediate & Advanced Fiction
Creative Writing for Educators
and Courses in Literature



BOOKS AUTHORED                                                                                                                       

1. Blood Run, Earthworks Series, Salt Publishing. Cambridge, England. November 2007. Wordcraft Circle Writer of the Year Award. 2006-2007, conferred 2008. US Edition 2007.  [Poetry/Verse-Play.] [Published.]

2. Off-Season City Pipe, Coffee House Press. Minneapolis, MN. April 2005. Wordcraft Circle Writer of the Year Award. 2005. [Poetry.]  [Published.]

3. Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer. The University of Nebraska Bison Books: Lincoln, Nebraska. May 2004. AIROS Book-of-the-Month. [Memoir.]  [Published.]

4. Dog Road Woman, Coffee House Press. Minneapolis, MN. April 1997. Winner, American Book Award 1998. First Finalist, Paterson Poetry Prize. [Poetry.]  [Published.]

5. The Year of the Rat, Grimes. Ventura, CA. January 1996. [Chapbook. Poetry.] [Published.]

                                                         

BOOKS EDITED

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1. Sing: Poetry of the Indigenous Americas. University of Arizona. US. 2011. [Poetry.] [Published.]

1. Effigies.  Editor, Salt Publications. UK. 2009.  [Poetry.] [Published.]

2. To Topos. Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry. Theme Indigenous Americas, Indigenous poetry from the Arctic Circle Inuit to the Mapuche in Chile. 2006. Published 2007. Guest Editor, Oregon State University’s International Journal. Wordcraft Circle Journal Issue of the Year 2006-2007, conferred 2008.  [Poetry.] [Published.]

3. They Wanted Children, Editor, Sioux Falls School District Press. Sioux Falls, SD. An anthology of coping, from American Indian, Sudanese, Latino, African American and other students of color and diverse experience attending Lincoln High School. 2003. [Poetry.] [Published.]

4. Coming to Life, Editor, Sioux Falls School District Press. Sioux Falls, SD. An anthology of writing providing meditative field in the aftermath of the 9-11 events, from the four Sioux Falls high schools. Sioux Falls, SD. 2002. [Poetry.] [Published.]

5. Voices of Thunder, Co-Editor, Institute for the American Indian Arts. Santa Fe, NM. 1993. Anthology. [Poetry/Prose.] [Published.]

6. It’s Not Quiet Anymore, Senior Editor, Institute for the American Indian Arts: Santa Fe, NM. 1992. Anthology. [Poetry/Prose.] [Published.]

INTERESTS:

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Poetry; Prose; Literary Art; American and Indigenous Literary Movements; Oratory, Oral Traditions and Traditional and Transformative Educative Processes; Abstract and Critical Reasoning and Thinking; Indigenous, First Nations, and Multicultural Literatures; Ancient and Recent Indigenous Mound Cities; Indigenous Astronomy and Sciences; Indigenous Pictographs and Traditional Arts; Indigenous Cultural Knowledge; Peace Theory; Peacemaking; Possibilities of Peace through Poetry and Performance; Human Condition—Frailty; Cultivating Pan-American Indigenous Exchange; Philosophy; Art; the Affect of Parental Mental Illness upon Creative Process; Creative Process; Imagination and Possibility; Societal Conditioning Resulting in Apathy and Criminal Behavior; Mentorship for the Insane and Incarcerated; Working-Class and Labor Writing; Working-Class and Labor Concerns; Fieldworkers; Cultural Philosophy through the Arts and Literature; Pluralism; Effective Teaching; Theater; Film; Scriptwriting; Painting; Sculpture, Song; the Natural World; Environmental Dilemma; Sustainability and the Arts; Coupling the Beautiful, the Horrendous, and Historical Knowledge to Recreate Life Experience and Coping through Writing; Linguistics; Healing Domestic and Societal Violence; and Uniting/Reuniting Indigenous Peoples Despite Oppressive Measures; North Carolina; Quebec; Woodlands.

Other experience includes: Cultural, community, hemispheric, and global activism, peacemaking, negotiations and mediation, organizing, sharecropping tobacco, traditional agriculture, commercial fishing and bass angling, construction work (carpentry, heavy equipment operation), landscaping, literary arts, performing arts, singing, theater, dance, photography, filmmaking, painting and sculpture (recent shows include works in the Paterson Museum, Paterson, New Jersey and in Primitive Edge Gallery of the Institute of American Indian Arts).

*Speaking/Performing Engagements may be booked through Speakers for a New America.
(800)691-6888 or email info@speakersforanewamerica.com

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