Vita and Bibliography
Michael Martone
Vita

 
Michael Martone 
PO Box 21179 
Tuscaloosa, Alabama  35402 
205-344-5059 
mmartone@english.as.ua.edu
Education
  • 1978-79: MA, Fiction Writing, The Writing Seminars, The Johns Hopkins University,
  • Baltimore, Maryland.
  • l976-77: AB, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, Major: English
  • 1973-76: Butler University,Indianapolis, Indiana, Major: English
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    Academic Honors
  • Honorary Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University, 1979-80
  • Teaching Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University, 1978-79
  • Myrtle Armstrong Fiction Award, Indiana University, l977
  • Dean's List, Indiana University, 1976-77, Butler University, 1973-75
  • Indiana State Scholar, Honorary, 1973-75
    		•
    Teaching
  • Professor, University of Alabama, 1996--
  • Associate Professor, English, Syracuse University, 1991-96
  • Graduate Faculty, MFA Program for Writers, Warren Wilson College, 1988-
  • Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor on Fiction, Harvard University, 1989-91
  • Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on Fiction, Harvard University, 1987-89
  • Associate Professor, English, Iowa State University, 1983-87
  • Assistant Professor, English, Iowa State University, 1980-83
  • Graduate Faculty, Iowa State University, 1981-87
  • Instructorships and Fellowships, Johns Hopkins University, 1978-80
    		•
    Classes Taught Fiction, poetry, and nonfiction writing; composition; contemporary literature; agricultural 
    literature, history of publishing and creative writing
    Academic Service
  • Director, Program for Creative Writing, University of Alabama, 1998--
  • Director, The MFA Program in Creative Writing, Syracuse University, 1994-96
  • Contributing Editor, North American Review, 1984-
  • Editor, Poet and Critic magazine, Iowa State University, 1981-86
  • Advisor, Freshman and Graduate Student, Freshman Teaching
  • Advisor, student literary magazine and reading series, Syracuse, Harvard and Iowa State
  • Member, various committees including hiring and promotion and tenure review, salary,
  • curriculum at the department and college levels
    		•
    Grants and Awards
  • Bruno Arcudi Literature Prize, Italian Americana, 1999
  • AWP Book Award, Nonfiction, 1998
  • 32 Pages Chapbook Contest, Honorable Mention, 1998
  • Thin Air Fiction Contest, Second Place, 1998
  • Florida Review Short Story Contest, 1993 Short, Short Story Contest, Story Magazine, 1993
  • Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, 1989
  • The National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, 1988 and 1983
  • Major Grant, Iowa Humanities Board, 1987
  • Margaret Jones Fiction Prize, Black Ice magazine, 1987
  • World's Best Short, Short Story Contest, Florida State University and Sundog
  • Magazine, 1986
  • PEN Syndicated Fiction Project, 1987, 1984, 1983
  • Pushcart Prize, XIV, 1990 Outstanding Writer, Pushcart Prize, V, VIII, X, XI, XII, XIII, XVII, XVIII, XX
  • Mention, Best American Essays, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991
  • Mention, Best American Stories, 1981, 1987
  • The Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for Teaching, Harvard University, 1989
  • Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University, 1987, 1989, and 1990
    		•
    Credentials Complete dossier available from: 
      The Office of Career Counseling and Placement 
      The Johns Hopkins University 
      Baltimore, MD 21218 
      410-516-8000

    Bibliography

     
    Books
    Fiction
  • Seeing Eye. Cambridge: Zoland Books,1995.
  • Pensées: The Thoughts of Dan Quayle. Indianapolis: Broad Ripple Press, 1994.
  • Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler's List. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990, revised 1992.
  • Safety Patrol. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.
  • Alive and Dead in Indiana. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
    		•
    Nonfiction
  • The Flatness and Other Landscapes. Athens:  University of Georgia Press, 2000.
    		•
    Chapbooks
  • The Sex Life of the Fantastic Four.  Tuscaloosa:  Strode Cabin Press, 1999
  • Return to Powers. Fort Wayne: Windless Orchard Press, 1985.
  • At a Loss. Fort Wayne: Windless Orchard Press, 1977.
    		•
    Edited
  • The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction. New York:  Simon and Schuster, 2000.
  • Townships: Pieces of the Midwest. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992.
  • A Place of Sense: Essays in Search of the Midwest. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1988.
    		•
    Short fiction
    In Journals
  • "Four for a Quarter."  3rd Bed, 1 (1999), 24-25.
  • "Ten Little Italies."  Italian Americana, 17:2 (1999), 172-177.
  • "The Sexual Tour of the Hoosier State."  Epoch, 47:2&3 (1999), 198-204.
  • "Scenic Waste Disposal and Storage Sites." Epoch, 47:2&3 (1999), 205-209.
  • "Travel Advisories." Epoch, 47:2&3 (1999), 210-215.
  • "Home of the 'Jeffersonville Slapper,' Louisville, Kentucky." Epoch 47:2&3 (1999), 216-217.
  • "Musee de Bob Ross, Muncie."  Epoch, 47:2&3 (1999), 218.
  • "Four Four Square Houses."  Western Humanities Review, 52:4 (1999), 302-303.
  • "Four in Hand."  Western Humanities Review, 52:4 (1999), 304-305.
  • "The Sex Lives of the Fantastic Four."  Bellingham Review, 21:2 (1999), 43-47.
  • "Eli Lilly Land."  Bombay Gin, 6:1 (1998), 39-42.
  • "The Jefferson Proving Ground Gun Club."  Notre Dame Review, 6 (1998), 82-83.
  • "The Production of the First Xerographic Copy." Salt Hill, 5 (1998), 47-49.
  • "The Moon Over Wapakoneta."  Crazyhorse, 54 (1998), 128-   136.
  • "Four Sides of a Triangle: Proof."  Mid-American Review, ,18:2 (1998), 34-36.
  • "Fragments from The Blue Guide to Indiana."  Notre    Dame Review, 5 (1998), 92-97
  • "A Village" and "A Resort."  The Prose Poem, 6 (1997),    49-50.
  • "A Room" and "A Town."  Key Satch(el), 1:3 (1997), 11.
  • "A Geography."  Key Satch(el), 1:3 (1997), 12-13.
  • "Six Entries on Death."  Crab Orchard Review, 2:1 (1996),    73-76.
  • "Zoom Room."  100 Words, 4:3 (1996), 16.
  • "A Blue Guide to Indiana."  Breeze, 2:5 (1996), 28-29.
  • "Four Indiana Towns."  CutBank, 46 (1996), 84-87.
  • "An Indiana Travel Guide."  Breeze, 2:4 (1996), 29.
  • "An Indiana Travel Guide."  Breeze, 2:3 (1996), 27.
  • "Two Stories."  Third Coast, 2:2 (1996), 31-37.
  • "An Indiana Travel Guide." Breeze, 2:1 (1996), 33.
  • "The War of Northern Agression." Icon. 3:33 (1995),14.
  • "Achilles Speaks of His Deception in the Court of Lykomedes." The American Voice, 37
  • (1995), 80-82.
  • "Blue Hair." Colorado Review, 21:2 (1994), 54-57.
  • "Dan Quayle Thinking." Exquisite Corpse, 49 (1994), 10-12.
  • "On Snipe Hunting." Harper's, 289:1723 (1994), 33.
  • "On 911." Iowa Review, 24:1 (1994), 86-88.
  • "On Quayleito." Iowa Review, 24:1 (1994), 84-86.
  • "Guam." Colorado Review, 20:2 (1993), 124-127.
  • "Fidel." The Florida Review, 19:1 (1993), 18-25.
  • "On the Highway of Vice Presidents." 3, 2 (1993), 20-21.
  • "Outside Peru." Epoch, 42:3 (1993), 262-275.
  • "Evaporation." Sycamore Review, 5:1 (1993), 70-73.
  • "The War That Never Ends." High Plains Literary Review, 7:3 (1992), 109-112.
  • "Dan Quayle, Thinking." Story, 3:1 (1992), 38-46.
  • "Turning the Constellation." Colorado Review, 7:2 (1991), 13-20.
  • "Seeing Eye." Arts Indiana Literary Supplement, 3 (1991), 24-26.
  • "It's Time." North American Review, 276:1 (1991), 43-44.
  • "Species." Yellow Silk: Journal of Erotic Arts, 27 (1988), 21.
  • "The Safety Patrol." The Crescent Review, 6:1 (1988), 20-34.
  • "Chatty-Cathy Falls into the Wrong Hands." The Laurel Review, 22:1 (1988), 62.
  • "Lice." The Florida Review, 15:1 (1987), 28-29.
  • "Four Men in Uniform." Indiana Review, 10:1 and 2 (1987), 73-83.
  • "Parting." Denver Quarterly, 21:4 (1987), 128-138.
  • "The Mayor of the Sister City Speaks to the Chamber of Commerce in Klamath Falls,
  • Oregon." Sun Dog, 7:2 (1986), 70.
  • "Greek Letter in the Bed." Madison Review, 8:2 (1986), 16-22.
  • "An Accident." Northwest Review, 24:3 (1986), 22-28.
  • "The King of Safety." The Crescent Review, 4:2 (1986),23-32.
  • "Limited." Indiana Review, 9:2 (1986), 54-55.
  • "Lost." The Denver Quarterly, 19:3 (1985), 58-68.
  • "Three Tales of the Sister City." Telescope, 1 (1985), 50-54.
  • "Return to Powers." Luna Tack, 5 (1984), 55.
  • "Whistler's Father." Shenandoah, 34:2 (1983), 83-97.
  • "Muncie." and "Santa Claus." Seems, 17 (1983), 42-44.
  • "Dear John." Antaeus, 49/50 (1983), 158-168.
  • "French Lick." The Antioch Review, 40:4 (1982), 440.
  • "Highlights." Indiana Review, 5:1, (1982), 10-19.
  • "Plays." Pig Iron, 9 (1982), 22-24.
  • "The Life You Save May Be Mine." Shenandoah, 32:3 (1982), 69-76.
  • "The Spirit of St Louis." Ascent, 7:2 (1982), 14-17.
  • "Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler's List." Minnesota Review, 16 (1981), 85-94.
  • "Carbonation." Benzene, 1:2 (1981), 12-13.
  • "Third Days of Trials." Mississippi Valley Review, 10:1 (1981), 30-39.
  • "Nein." Northwest Review, 18:3 (1980),50-61.
  • "Alfred Kinsey, Alone After an Interview, Dreams of Indiana." Iowa Review, 10:1
  • (1979), 33-37.
  • "Elkhart, There, at the End of the World." Indiana Writes, 3:2 (1979), 44.
  • "Story Problems." Mississippi Valley Review,8:1 (1978), 18-23.
  • "Miners." Aura, 4:2 (1978), 125.
  • "Kissing on Johnny Appleseed's Grave." Indiana Writes, 2:2 (1978), 19.
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    In Books
  • "Achilles Speaks of His Deception in the Court od    Lykomedes."  Chick for a Day.  Ed. Fiona Giles, New    York:  Simon and Schuster. 2000.
  • "Blue Hair."  Sudden Fiction (Continued).  Eds. Robert    Shepard and James Thomas, New York:  W.W. Norton,    1996.
  • "The Mayor of the Sister City Speaks to the Chamber of    Commerce in Klamath Falls, Oregon, on a Night in December in 1976."  Micro Fiction.  Ed. Jerome Stern,    New York:  W.W. Norton, 1996.
  • "Everybody Watching and the Time Passing Like That."     Mondo James Dean.  Ed.  Richard Peabody and Lucinda    Ebersole, New York:  St. Martin's Press. 1996.
  • "The Mayor of the Sister City Speaks to the Chamber of    Commerce in Klamath Falls, Oregon."  Writing Fiction,    3rd Edition.  Ed. Janet Burroway, New York:  Harper    Collins, 1992.
  • "It's Time." A Contemporary Reader for Creative Writing.
  • Ed. Robert DeMaria and Ellen Hope Meyer.Orlando: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994
  • "The Mayor of the Sister City Speaks to the Chamber of Commerce in Klammath Falls,
  • Oregon." Violence to Non-Violence: Individual Perspectives, Communal Voices.
  • Ed. William Kelly, Chur, Switzerland: Harwood, 1994
  • "Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler's List." Understanding Literatures. Ed. James Hurt,
  • New York: Macmillian, 1994.
  • "Outside Peru." The Company of Animals. Ed. Michael J. Rosen, New York: Doubleday, 1993.
  • "Achilles Speaks of His Deception in the Court of Lykomedes." Sarajevo. Ed. John Babbitt,
  • Carolyn Feucht, and Andie Stabler, Elgin, Illinois: Elgin Community College, 1993.
  • "Dish Night." Flash Fiction. Ed. James Thomas, Denise Thomas, and Tom Hazuka,
  • New York: W.W. Norton, 1992.
  • "It's Time." Voices Louder Than Words. Ed. William Shore, New York: Vintage Books, 1991.
  • "Parting." Vital Lines. Ed. Jon Mukand, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.
  • "Seeing Eye." The Company of Dogs. Ed. Michael J. Rosen, New York: Doubleday,1990.
  • "Everybody Watching and the Time Passing Like That." New Territory. Ed. Michael
  • Wilkerson and Deborah Galyan, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.
  • "The Mayor of the Sister City Speaks to the Chamber of Commerce in Klamath Falls, Oregon."
  • American Short Stories, 5th Edition. Ed. Eugene Current-Garcia and Bert Hitchcock,
  • Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Co., 1989.
  • "Biograph." The Norton Book of American Short Stories. Ed. Peter S. Prescott, New York:
  • W.W. Norton, 1988.
  • "Lucky One in America." Black Ice 3. Ed. Dale Shank, Salem, OR: Black Ice Press, 1987.
  • "Three Postcards from Indiana: Santa Claus, French Lick, Muncie." IndiAnnual II. Ed. Jim
  • Powell, Indianapolis: Writer's Center Press, 1985.
  • "March of Dimes." The Available Press/PEN Short Story Collection. Ed. The PEN
  • Syndicated Fiction Project, New York: Available Press/Ballantine Books, 1985.
  • "Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler's List." Stories About How Things Fall Apart and
  • What's Left When They Do. Ed. Allen Woodman, Tallahassee: Word Beat Press, 1985.
  • "Schliemann in Indianapolis." Fiction 84. Ed Richard Peobody and Gretchen Johnsen,
  • Washington: Paycock Press, 1984.
  • "WOWO" and "Racing the Sun from Ohio." The Land Locked Heart. Ed. F. Richard Thomas,
  • Bloomington: Centering Press,1980.
    		•
    Essays
    In Journals
  • "My Situation."  American Literary History, 11:2 (1999),    307-311.
  • "A Wire Story."  Harper's, 298:1788 (1999), 34-36.
  • "Manufacturing Place: Fort Wayne, the Switchroom, and    Wire."  Northwest Review, 37:1 (1999), 115-119.
  • "What I Want to Tell:  A Sequence of Rooms."  Michigan    Quarterly Review, 38:1 (1999), 105-118.
  • "Stories We Tell Ourselves." High Plains Literary Review,    8:1 (1998), 35-50.
  • "Living Downtown."  Big Important Town, #1 (1996), 14-24.
  • The Night Shift: On Becoming a Poet in Fort Wayne, Indiana." Flyway, 1:2
  • (1995), 8-14
  • "Space Dome." Syracuse University Magazine, 11:3 (1995), 62-67.
  • "Correctionville, Iowa." North American Review, 276:4 (1991), 4-9.
  • "Living Downtown." North American Review, 275:1 (1990), 70-72.
  • "The Other Houses in Eldon." Boderline, 3 (l989), 24-27.
  • "The Flatness." Iowa Review, 18:2 (1988), 46-49.
  • "Why the Windmill?" North American Review, 273:3 (1987), 4-6.
  • "The Proper Levels of Vacuum." North American Review, 271:4 (1986), 55-57.
  • "Future Tense." North American Review, 271:2 (1986), 4-5.
  • "Pulling Things Back to Earth." North American Review, 270:2 (1985), 118-125.
    		•
    In Books
  • "Some Exercises."  Creating Fiction.  Ed. Julie     Checkoway, Cincinnati, OH:  Story Press, 282-283,    1999.
  • "Iconography: Scenes of Indianapolis and Elsewhere."     Falling Toward Grace: Images of Religion and Culture    from the Heartland.  Eds. J. Kent Calder and Susan    Neville, Bloomington, IN:  Indiana University Press,    130-136, 1998.
  • "Stories We Tell Ourselves."  Narration as Knowledge:    Tales of the Teaching Life.  Ed. Joseph F. Trimmer,    Portsmouth, NH:  Heinemann, 1-11, 1997.
  • "Walking Beans." Iowa: A Celebration of Land, People, and Purpose. Ed. Craig
  • Canine, Des Moines, IA: Meredith Publications, 1995.
  • "The Flyover." Imagining Home: Writing from the Midwest. Ed. Mark Vinz and Thom
  • Tammaro, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
  • "Correctionville, Iowa." Magazine Feature Writing. Rick Wilber, New York, NY:
  • St. Martin's Press, 1995.
  • "The Night Shift." A Bicentennial Selection of Poems. Sally M. Ade, et.al., Fort Wayne, IN:
  • POETS Press, 1994.
  • "The Other Houses in Eldon, Iowa." Inheriting the Land: Contemporary Voices from the
  • Midwest. Ed. Mark Vinz and Thom Tammaro, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota
  • Press, 1993.
  • "Pulling Things Back to Earth." Our Times: Readings from Recent Periodicals. Ed.
  • Robert Atwan, New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1989.
  • "Living Downtown." Where We Live Now: Essays about Indiana. Ed. David Hoppe,
  • Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1989.
    		•
    Articles
    In Journals
  • "Notes on the Viral Story."  AWP Chronicle, 29:6 (1997), 14-15.
  • "Ruining a Story." Southern Indiana Review,1:1 (1994), 95-105.
  • "The War in the Forest: The Prose and Poetry of James B. Hall." Northwest Review, 31:1
  • (1993), 122-127.
  • "The Grolier Bookshop." Poets & Writers, 19:6 (1991),9-11.
  • "And Now a Word from Molly and Ned." The Iowa English Bulletin, 35:1 (1987), 7-10.
  • "Below Below the Fold: A Note on T. Coraghessan Boyle."
  • High Plains Literary Review, 1:1 (1986), 62-64.
  • "Selling Stories Short." Mississippi Review, 40/41 (1985), 58-61.
  • "Believe It: Stanley Elkin and the Out-Jesusing of Fiction." Denver Quarterly, 20:1 (1985),
  • 118-125.
  • "From Nein." Northwest Review, 20:2&3 (1983), 235-237.
  • "Dear Mr. Kern." Life, Fall, 1978.
    		•
    Book Reviews In Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune, Literary Magazine Review, High Plains 
    Literary Review, Erato.
    Interviews
  • "Adventures on the Cultural Landscape."  Delicious    Imaginations:  Conversations with Contemporary    Writers.  Eds. Sarah Griffiths and Kevin J. Kehrwald,    West Lafayette, IN:  Purdue University Press, 173-193, 1998.
  • "An Interview with Michael Martone."  Oxford Review, 11:2    (1998), 52-55.
  • "Interview with Michael Martone."  Wabash Review, 43:1    (1997), 27-32.
  • "Adventures on the Cultural Landscape:  An Epistolary    Interview with Michael Martone."  Sycamore Review,9:2    (1997), 94-115.
  • "Indiana Mon Amour: An Interview with Michael Martone." Gargoyle, 32/33 (1987), 220-256.
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    Readings
    2000
  • IUPUFW, Fort Wayne, IN, 2/23/00
  • Montevallo University, Montevallo, AL, 2/17/00
    		•
    1999
  • Milliken University, Decatur, IL
  • Moorhead State University, Moorhead, MN
  • Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
  • Ropewalk Writers Conference, New Harmony, IN
  • Georgetown University, Washington, DC
  • University of Georgia, Athens, GA
    		•
    1998
  • DePauw University, Greencastle, IN, 4/22/98
  • Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, 4/21/98 $150
  • IUSB, South Bend, IN, 4/18/98
  • Ball State University, Muncie, IN
  • Arch, Fort Wayne, IN
  • Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
  • Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH

    •  
    1997
  • Trinity College, Hartford CT
  • AWP Convention, Washington, DC
  • Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN 
  • Tuscaloosa Public Library, Books Sandwiched In, Tuscaloosa, AL
  • Webster University, St. Louis, MO
    		•
    1996
  • Ohio University, Athens, OH
  • Alumni of Central New York, Syracuse, NY
  • University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
  • University of Utah, Salt Lake City UT
  • George Washington University, Washington, DC
  • South Bend Writers Conference, IUSB, South Bend, IN
  • Butler University, Indianapolis,IN
    		•
    1995
  • IPFW, Fort Wayne, 1995
  • Cazinovia College, Cazenovia, NY, 1995
  • Mount St. Mercy, Cedar Rapids, IA,
  • Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, 1995
  • Tufts University, Medford, MA 1995
  • Waterstone's Bookstore, Boston, MA
  • Bentley College, Waltham, MA 1995
  • Marion County Library, Indianapolis, IN, 1995
  • Lakeland College, Sheboygon, WI, 1995
  • Mount Holyoke Writers Conference, South
  • Hadley, MA, 1995
  • Franklin College, Franklin, IN, 1995
    		•
    1994
  • Great Lakes Booksellers Association Convention, Chicago, IL, 1994
  • LeMoyne College, Syracuse, NY, 1994
  • Raymond Carver Reading Series, Syracuse
  • University, Syracuse, NY, 1994
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1994
  • Indiana Institute of Technology, Fort Wayne,
  • Big Table Bookstore, Ames, IA, 1994
  • Iowa Summer Writing Festival, Iowa City, IA
  • Rope Walk Writers Retreat, New Harmony, IN,
  • Indiana Writers Conference, Bloomington, IN,
  • Great Lakes Booksellers Association Convention, Fort Wayne, IN, 1993
  • Wordstruck Literary Festival, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN, 1993 
  • C.W.Post Campus of Long Island University
    		•
    1993
  • Port Townsend Writing Conference, 1993
  • University of Cincinnatti, 1993
  • Otterbein College, 1993
  • Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 1992
  • Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL, 1992
  • Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
    		•
    1992
  • Rope Walk Writer's Retreat, New Harmony, IN,
  • Warren Wison College, Swannanoa, NC, 1992
  • Raymond Carver Reading Series, Syracuse
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    1991-90
  • University, Syracuse, NY, 1991
  • College of the Redwoods, Ft. Bragg, CA, 1990.
  • Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 1990.
  • Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1990.
  • Butler University, Indianapolis, IN, 1990.
  • Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 1990.
  • St. Anselms College, Manchester, NH, 1990.
  • Dolphin Moon Series, Cambridge, MA,
    		•
    1989
  • Andover Academy, Andover, MA, 1989.
  • Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City, IA, 1988
  • Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1988.
  • Washington College, Chestertown, MD, 1988.
  • Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 1987.
  • Rocky Mountain MLA, Denver, CO, 1986.
  • Valparaiso University, Valpariso, IN, 1986.
  • Drake University, Des Moines, IA, 1986.
  • Hanover College, Hanover, IN, 1986.
  • University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE, 1985.
  • Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1985.
  • University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA,
    		•
    1985
  • Denver University, Denver, CO, 1985.
  • Ohio Weslyeyan University, Delaware, OH,
  • Otterbein College, Westerville, OH, 1985.
  • Bowling Green State University, Bowling
  • The Thurber House, Columbus, OH, 1985.
  • Indiana State University, Evansville, IN,
  • Butler University, Indianapolis, IN, 1985.
  • Poetry 1, Fort Wayne, IN, 1985.
  • The Writers' Center, Indianapolis, IN, 1984.
  • University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1984.
  • Drake University, Des Moines, IA, 1984.
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