Books of Poetry
Alive in Your Skin While You Still Own It, Kelsay Books, Utah, 2022.
Wiping Stars from Your Sleeves, Shanti Arts Books, Maine, 2021.
A Gem of Truth, Main Street Rag Press, NC, 2019.
Nail Yourself into Bliss, Kelsay Books, Utah, 2019.
My Torn Dance Card, FCNI Press, 2015 (finalist in the 2016 Next Generation Indie book award for poetry; 2017 finalist for the Book Excellence Award in poetry).
She Dances Like Mussolini, March Street Press, 2009 (winner of the 2010 Next Generation Indie book award for poetry).
A Heart Out of This World, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1984.
Poetry Chapbooks
Going Down, Friend, Finishing Line Press, KY, 2017.
No Way to Stop the Bleeding, Finishing Line Press, KY, 2014.
Trembling in Someone's Palm, March Street Press, NC, 2007.
I Will Peel This Mask Off, March Street Press, NC, 2004.
I Dance Back, March Street Press, NC, 2002.
Do Not Give Dogs What Is Holy, March Street Press, North Carolina, 1994.
Poetry
Poems in the Iowa Review, Witness, Stand, Poetry East, North American Review, Paris Review, Atlanta Review, Mid-America Poetry Review, South Carolina Review, Wisconsin Review, Poet Lore, Bamboo Ridge, Hieroglyph, Mississippi Crow, Poem, California Quarterly, New York Quarterly, Chiron Review, Quarterly West, Red Hawk Review, The Alembic, Iconoclast, Good Foot, Evansville Review, Southern Indiana Review, Mudfish, Oracle, Lake Effect, Prose Ax, Writer's Journal, Ancient Paths, Bryant Literary Review, Curbside Review, Licking River Review, Boston Literary Review, Thundersandwich, Skylark, Main Street Rag Poetry Journal, Fugue, RE:AL, Sycamore Review, Taproot Literary Review, Midwest Quarterly, Coe Review, Parnassus Literary Journal, American Literary Review, poetry motel, Oyez Review, Puerto Del Sol, Seattle Review, Chattahoochee Review, Feh, Parting Gifts, Montana Review, Denver Quarterly, Verve, Chiron Review, International Poetry Review, Great River Review, Carleton Arts Review, Elk River Review, Sierra Madre Review, Slant, Black River Review, Rag Mag, Rambunctious Review, Tar River Poetry, Mankato Poetry Review, New Mexico Humanities Review, Cimarron Review, Hawaii Review, Pennsylvania Review, Southern Poetry Review, Mid-American Review, CutBank, Mid-Atlantic Review, Red Cedar Review, Kansas Quarterly, Passages North, Lucid Moon, Sou'wester, Unbroken Journal, Louisville Review, Rattle, Jam To-Day, New Letters, Poetry NOW, Ancient Paths, Carolina Quarterly, Hiram Poetry Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Caliban, Centennial Review, Albatross, Cape Rock, Xanadu, Piedmont Literary Review, Pegasus, Northland Quarterly, brix, Without Haloes, Chiron Review, Literary Review, Pikestaff Review, Invitational Education Forum, Poetry Northwest, RiverSedge, RIO: A Journal of the Arts, Willow Review, Midwest Poetry Review, Small Town Rain, Pebble Lake Review, Driftwood Review, Nassau Review, Raving Dove, Common Ground Review, poetryREpairs, Karamu, Sub-Lit, Think Journal, Wild Violet, Abbey, Backstreet, Dos Passos Review, Writer's Journal, Atlantic Pacific Press, Indefinite Space, Collagist, Paddlefish, Aquilar Expression, Scintilla, Riverwind, Monarch Review, Red Ochre Lit, Bluestem, Midwestern Gothic, Cottonwood, Snail Mail Review, Chest Journal, Rockhurst Review, Soundings East, DMQ Review, Kitchen Poet, Connecticut River Review, Deronda Review, CC&D, Peninsula Poets, Homestead Review, Heron Tree, Plainsongs, Down in the Dirt, Blue Collar Review, The Michigan Poet (broadside), Aries, Manhattanville Review, Extract, Trajectory, Pyrokinection, Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Feast, Stepping Stones Magazine, Cold Mountain Review, Front Range Review, Exposition Review, Barking Sycamores, Profane Literary Journal, Backstreet, Stand, Colere, The Poetry Explosion Newsletter, Clark Street Review, Peacock Journal, Third Wednesday, Lost Lake Folk Opera, 3288 Review, Windhover, Caveat Lector, Shemom, Wild Goose, Santa Fe Literary Review, What Rough Beast, Voices Project, Unbroken Journal, BlazeVOX, PPP Ezine, Escape into Life, A Gathering of the Tribes, GNU Journal, Phoenix, Open, Muse Literary Journal, What Rough Beast, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Voices de la Luna Earth, Train River Review, The Bookends Review, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Detroit Lit Magazine, The Poeming Pigeon, Westminster Art Festival, The Antonym, Grand Little Things, After Happy Hour Review, Phenomenal Literature, Verbal Art, Independent Variable, Cloudbank, Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Antonym, Sparks of Calliope, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Border Crossing, Comstock Review, Spank the Carp, New Verse News, Book of Matches, Uppagus, Gyroscope Review, Waymark Literary Magazine and others.
Plays & Fiction
-One-act play “Taking Over Your Life,” produced at the Gallery Players 2023 Black Box New Play Festival, Feb. 2 - 5, 2023, 199 14th St., Brooklyn, NY.
-One-act play “Betty and Jane Decide What's Best,” published in Phenomenal Literature, 2022.
-One-act play “Life by the Horns,” published in Rushing Thru the Dark, 2021.
-One-act play “Crucifying a Feminist or Two,” published in Impspired, 2021.
-One-act play “Chance of a Lifetime,” published in Phenomenal Literature, April 2021.
-One-act play “Between Acts,” staged reading on March 26, 2020, Nantucket Theatre, MA.
-One-act play “After Godot,” a winner in the 27th annual Nantucket Short Play Competition, Nantucket, MA.
-One-act play “three small men” published in Open: Journal of Arts and Letters, 2019.
-One-act play “Make-a-Mate, Inc.” selected for the FAKE Festival in the What's on Tom
Productions, Thomastown, Nov. 8, 9, 10, and Kilkenny, Ireland, Nov. 15, 16, 2018.
-One-act play “Kill Your Husband, Inc.” selected as one of nine winners in the Northern Arizona Playwriting Showcase, performed Sept. 7, 8, and 9, 2018 in Flagstaff, AZ.
-Staged reading of one-act play “Double Date,” March 2018 at the Nantucket Theatre, MA.
-Staged reading of “Make-a-Mate, Inc.” December 16, 2017 at the Nantucket Theatre, MA.
-One-act play “No. Maybe. Depends.” was a finalist in the 12th annual short works festival, THE SEVEN, at the Fusion Theatre Company, New Mexico, 2017.
-Staged reading of “Talk of Suicide Makes Me Hungry,” honorable mention in the ShowOff! International Playwriting Festival, Camino Real Playhouse, California, Jan. 21, 2017.
-Staged reading of four one-act plays, “Kill Your Husband, Inc.,” “Crucifying a Feminist or Two,” “Make-a-Mate, Inc.,” and “Falling Stars,” at the Riverwalk Theatre, Lansing, MI, Oct. 15, 2016.
-“Kill Your Husband, Inc.” published in the Great Lakes Review, 2016.
-“Kill Your Husband, Inc.,” finalist in the Fusion Short Play Festival, New Mexico, 2016.
-Staged reading of “Betty and Jane Decide What's Best,” “Kill Your Husband, Inc.,” “So You Wanna be an Actress?”, “Do This and Life Works,” “Life Lesson,” and “Doubt and Wonder” at 3rd annual New Playwrights' Festival, April 8-11, 2015 at Oakland Community College.
-“Open Door,” finalist in the 23rd annual Nantucket Theatre Short Play Festival, 2014; staged reading produced on March 14, 2015.
-“A Story Problem,” short-short fiction in Extract, July 2014.
-“Kill Your Husband, Inc.,” staged reading by Nantucket Theatre, Nantucket, MA, April 17, 2014.
-“Talk of Suicide Makes Me Hungry,” semi-finalist (top 10) in the Nantucket Short Play Festival,
2013. (Staged reading of the play by Nantucket Theatre, Feb. 19, 2014.)
-“Talk of Suicide Makes Me Hungry,” published in Confrontation, winter 2013.
-“Betty and Jane Decide What's Best,” staged reading, Nantucket Theatre, April 10, 2013.
-“Finding the Muse,” staged reading, Nantucket Theatre, Feb. 14, 2012.
-“Betty and Jane Decide What's Best,” “Why Do I Even Talk to You?”: semi-finalists in the 2012 Nantucket Short Play Festival.
-“A Crime of Passion,” one-act play published in the Rockford Review, winter 2012.
-“Kill Your Husband, Inc.,” one-act play produced by Over Our Head Players in “Party on the
Pavement,” Racine, WI, October 1, 2011 (six productions offered to the public).
-“Taking Over Your Life” and “Explain Yourself,” one-acts with staged readings in the Renegade
Theatre Festival by the Riverwalk Theatre troupe, Lansing, MI, August 18, 19, 20, 2011.
-“One Mouth Laughing,” a staged reading of seven one-acts, Riverwalk Theatre, Blackbox, Lansing, MI, June 19, 2011.
-“A Visit with My Son,” staged reading at the University of Michigan-Flint Theatre, April 7, 2011.
-“Crucifying a Feminist or Two,” selected for the North Park Play Festival, produced on Oct. 17, 18, 2008 in San Diego, CA.
-“The Beckett File,” selected for 2nd place in the 2007 Nantucket Short Play Festival. Produced on May 23, 24, 29, 30, 31, 2008 at the Nantucket Theatre, Nantucket, MA.
-“Connections,” five one-act plays produced at Oakland Community College, March, 2007.
-“So You Wanna Be an Actress,” a one-act play (staged reading) at the 1st Great Plains Theatre Conference with Edward Albee, May 28, 2006, Omaha, Nebraska.
-“The Make-Shift Academy Award,” a one-act play, Theatre-Studio, New York, Dec. 14, 16, 2005.
-“The Promise,” “The Break-up,” and “On the Table,” one-act plays published in Parting Gifts, 2005.
-“The Telepath at Lucky's Bar and Grill” and “One Good Life,” both one-acts produced at the Theatre-Studio, New York, off-Broadway on July 10, 11, 2004.
-“The Telepath at Lucky's Bar and Grill,” a one-act play, produced at the Nantucket Theatre, Nantucket, MA on April 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 2004.
-“After Godot,” produced at the Theatre-Studio, New York, Jan. 30, 31, 2004; Aug. 13, 16; Sept. 7, 13, 2003.
-“Finding the Muse,” a one-act, produced at Buckham Alley Theatre in “Through the Years,” a retrospective of the first 20 years of the theatre's history, Sept. 26, 27, 2003.
-“Aftermath” selected and produced in the 9th annual 15-Minute One-Act Play Festival, sponsored by the American Globe Theatre, New York City, off-Broadway, April 22, 2003.
-“Finding the Muse” produced at Bonaparte's Wednesday Night Dinner Club, Grand Blanc, MI, Nov. 20, 2002.
-“Like Ships in the Night,” an ensemble of five one-act plays, selected for Buckham Alley Theatre's Playwright Forum, produced in Flint, MI, September 12, 13, 14, 20, 21, 22, 2002.
-“Finding the Muse” selected and produced in the 8th Annual 15-Minute One-Act Play Festival, sponsored by the American Globe Theatre, New York City, off-Broadway, April 20, 2002.
-“Dead Sleep,” “Aftermath,” and “Life Lesson,” one-act plays published in Parting Gifts.
-Short fiction published in Thundersandwich, Driftwood Review, Extract, Hawaii Review, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Intermissions, Uppagus and Parting Gifts.
Anthologies
-When It Rains, It Pours (anthology), three poems, Kind of a Hurricane Press, 2023.
-Intermissions, “Be Careful” (short fiction), Univ. of Melbourne, Australia, 2021.
-Poets Speaking to Poets, “Ten Days After Russell Edson Died” and “After Watching Leaves Fall like Rain from the Maples,” ArsOmni Press, 2021.
-Poetry Society of Michigan Anthology, “A Day Like This,” Fall 2021.
-Train River: Covid-19 Anthology, “Nothing to Laugh About” and “Covid-19 and Me,” 2021.
-2020 Mizmor Poetry Anthology, “My Sacred Scroll,” Winter 2020.
-Universal Oneness: An Anthology of Magnum Opus Poems from around the World, 2019.
-Pushcart Prize nomination: Pushcart Press, 2018, “No Amount of Time.”
-RESPECT: Poems about Detroit Music, MSU Press, Fall 2019.
-Emergence, Kind of a Hurricane Press anthology, “Fourteen Pounds,” 2017.
-Tranquility, Kind of a Hurricane Press anthology, “A Place Like Us,” 2016.
-Shattered, Kind of a Hurricane Press anthology, “My Lousy Future,” 2016.
-Water Music: The Great Lakes State Poetry Anthology, Poetry Society of Michigan, 2016.
-The Michigan Poet: Collected Poems 2010-2015, CreateSpace Press, “Falling,” 2016.
-The 2016 Literary Date Book Anthology, Scar Publications, one poem, 2015.
-Storm Cycle, Kind of a Hurricane Press, Best of 2014 Anthology, one poem, 2015.
-Life is a Roller Coaster, Kind of a Hurricane Press, two poems, Winter, 2014.
-The Great American Poetry Show, “Eavesdropping on the Cosmos,” one poem, vol. 3, 2014.
-Something's Brewing, Kind of a Hurricane Press, Spring 2014.
-Mistletoe Madness, Kind of a Hurricane Press, Fall 2013.
-Poetry in Michigan/Michigan in Poetry, New Issues Press, Kalamazoo, MI, Sept. 2013.
-Child of My Child, Gelles-Cole Literary Enterprises, Sept. 2010.
-Christmas Celebration 2, July Literary Press, 2009.
-In Other Words, Western Reading Services, Denver, CO, 2008.
-Immortal Verses, International Library of Poetry, 2008.
-Great Poems of the Western World, Famous Poets Society, Talent, OR, 2004.
-Wellsprings, American Poets Society, Baltimore, MD, 2002.
-In Other Words, Western Reading Services, Denver, CO, 2000, 2005.
-Anthology of Magazine Verse, Monitor Books, California, 1996.
-Edge of Twilight, National Library of Poetry, Owings Mills, MD, 1994.
-Looking For My Name: An Anthology of Contemporary Poems, Orchard Books, NY, 1993.
-Carnegie Mellon Anthology of Poetry, Carnegie Mellon University, 1993.
-Chiron Review Anthology, Chiron Press, 1992.
-Passages North Anthology, Milkweed Press, 1990.
-The Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Poets, Wayne State University, 1977, 1988.
-Anthology of Magazine Verse, Monitor Books, 1979, 1980, 1983-86.
-Michigan: A State Anthology, BC Research, 1983.
-Vagabond Anthology, Vagabond Press, 1978.
Articles/Essays
-“Landscape Worked its Way into Poems on Clare Sabbatical,” Irish Echo, NYC, March, 2022.
-“Why Poetry Matters,” Superstition Review, online blog, Fall 2021.
-“Common Sense Advice for Creative Writing Teachers,” Fiction Southeast, October 2020.
-“Navigating the Muddy Waters between Censorship and Literature,” Community College Enterprise, Winter 2019.
-“The Minor Benefits of Obscurity,” Vine Leaves Press, theartistunleashed.com, June 2017.
-“A Trail of No,” a literary essay on rejection, Fiction Southeast, 2017.
-“Keeping the Light On,” non-fiction, STAND magazine, Jan. 2016.
-“My Life in Higher Education's Lower Class,” Community College Week, Summer 2014.
-“Advice,” a poem in Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Fall 2014.
-“Nature Trumps All: Review of Robert Haight's Feeding Wild Birds,” Poets' Quarterly, July 2014.
-“The Resurrection of Form in Poetry,” revised, reprinted in dversepoets.com, Jan. 17, 2013.
-“The Resurrection of Form in Poetry,” reprinted in Rattle online, Dec. 28, 2012.
-“Circling the Wagons: A Defense of the Writing Workshop,” Community College Enterprise, Dec. 2012.
-“What's Going on Here?” a book review of two new books, Gently Read Literature, May 2010.
-“These Are No Temporary Stars,” a book review of If the World Becomes So Bright by Keith Taylor, Gently Read Literature (online), April 2010.
-“A Long Time Coming,” a book review of Vengeful Hymns by Marc Sheehan, Gently Read Literature (online), Jan. 2010.
-“Winning Touch,” book review of Losing Season by Jack Ridl, Chariton Review, Sum. 2010.
-“Evaluation and Creative Writing,” Community College Enterprise, Spring 2008.
-“Surfacing at Random: Brief Rants on Teaching and Writing,” Spring 2008, poetryREpairs.com.
-“The Resurrection of Form in Poetry,” Rattle online, Spring 2008.
-“Are Four Minds Better Than One? A Study on the Efficacy of Group Work,” College and University, 2005.
-“Providing Evidence of Learning,” College and University, Spring 2004 issue.
-“A Need for Humor in Online Courses,” College Teaching, Fall/Winter 2004 issue.
-“A Short Take on Teaching Creative Writing: A Leap of Faith,” Community College Enterprise, Fall 2003 issue.
-“Bringing Back an Old Technology: How and Why I Use Music in Class,” Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Fall 2003.
-“Another Voice in the Wind: A Brief Rant on the Difference Between Prose Poems and Short-Shorts,” Sentence, Fall 2003.
-“Letter to All the Young Poets,” Midwest Quarterly, Summer 2003 issue.
-“Writing on the Run,” forward to the Driftwood Review, Winter 2003 issue.
-“Will Testing Solve Our Schools' Problems?” Journal of College Admission, Summer 2002 issue.
-“How to Sabotage Change,” Community College Enterprise, Spring 2002 issue.
-“Split a Gut and Learn,” ERIC Clearinghouse, document ED458671, Spring 2002.
-“Maybe I'm Out of Touch,” book review published in Rattle, Fall 2001.
-“Why Students Can't Be Customers in the Classroom,” College and University, AACRAO, 2001.
-“Diamonds in the Rough,” College and University, AACRAO, Summer 2001.
-“To Change or Not to Change?” College and University, AACRAO, Summer 2000.
-“The Cue: An Imaginary Graduation Speech,” Journal of College Admission, NACAC, 2000.
-“The Poet of Our Dreams: The Real Meaning of Education,” Adult Learning, American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 1999.
-“Why We Can't Break Out of the Box,” College and University, AACRAO, Spring, 1998.
-“Teachers and Leaders,” Journal of Leadership Studies, Baker College, Fall, 1997.
-“The Futility of Blame,” NACAC Bulletin, Fall, 1997.
-“School Reform and Its Misguided Prerogative,” Journal of College Admission, NACAC, 1995.
-“Follow the Leader: Some Thoughts on Leadership,” Journal of Leadership Studies, Baker College, June, 1994.
-“Attitude and Adults: Recruiting the New Wave,” Journal of College Admission, NACAC, 1994.
-“Poetry and What's Right,” Poet Magazine, 1994.
-“The Pressures of Admission,” Journal of College Admission, NACAC, 1993.
-Written interview on Linda Sienkiewicz's blog: http://lindaksienkiewicz.com/what-why-how-david-james/
-Interviewed on the Rattle podcast, Nov. 14, 2022 by Tim Green, Rattle editor.
-First place winner in Westminster Art Festival poetry contest, 2022, for “A Little Relief.”
-Elected president of the Poetry Society of Michigan, 2022-2024.
-Poem “Blueprint” reprinted in Escape into Life's Labor Day feature, Sept. 2022.
-Review of Wiping Stars from Your Sleeves in Escape into Life by Kathleen Kirk, Jan. 12, 2022.
-Poem, “A Loop Head Blessing,” accepted for an audio reading in A Flow of Words for a
Poetry Day Ireland Programme, Clare County, Scariff Bay Radio, April 25, 2021.
-Workshop presenter, Poetry Society of Michigan, Oct. 2020, “Resurrection of Form in Poetry.”
-Poem, “Lessons,” reprinted in the 100th edition of Poetry East, DePaul University, 2021.
-First place in the prose poem category, “A Man and His Game,” Poetry Society of Michigan Contest, 2020.
-Poem included in Alpena Library Poetry Walk, July 19 - Aug. 1, 2020 in Island Park, Alpena, MI.
-Awarded a ten-month sabbatical, Sept. 2018 - June 2019, Oakland Community College.
-Poetry judge for the Poetry Society of Michigan, Nature category, Aug. 2018.
-Workshop presenter, “Humor in Writing,” Poetry Society of Michigan, Saginaw, April 7, 2018.
-Workshop presenter, “Poetry of Poverty,” OCC, April 2018.
-Workshop presenter, “Split a Gut and Create: Humor in Writing,” Detroit Working Writers' conference, Sept. 16, 2017, Troy, MI.
-Workshop presenter, “Poetry of the Immigrant Experience,” OCC, April, 2017.
-My Torn Dance Card, finalist in 2016 Next Generation Book Award.
-Workshop presenter, “Juan Felipe Herrera: Poet Laureate,” OCC, April, 2016.
-Workshop presenter, “Teaching in Higher Education's ‘Lower Class,'” Associated Writing Programs Conference, Feb. 26 - Mar. 1, 2014, Seattle WA.
-Presented “Bringing Back an Old Technology” at the Technology Management Committee Showcase, Jan. 31, 2014, Oakland Community College.
-My poem “Breaking” was selected as the weekly featured poem for Verse Daily, Oct. 7, 2013.
-Workshop presenter, “Natasha Trethewey: Poet Laureate,” OCC, April, 2012.
-Workshop presenter, “Absurdity and Humor in Poetry: Can an Elephant Weep Rocks?” at the National Federation of Poetry Societies' conference, June 17 - 20, 2011, Dearborn, MI.
-She Dances Like Mussolini, first place poetry book prize, 2010 Next Generation Indie Award.
-Keynote address, “Playwriting 101: Tips from an Insider,” OCC and EMU Performance Studies and Writing Festival, Feb. 19, 2010 at Oakland Community College.
-Book feature, Trembling in Someone's Palm, in Rattle online, Fall 2008.
-Workshop presenter, “Becoming a Reflective Educator: Action Research,” at the League for Innovation 2008, March 2-5, Denver, CO.
-Two poems nominated for Pushcart Prizes: “Against Abstraction” in Southern Indiana Review, and “How to Make Amends” in Mississippi Crow, 2007.
-Selected as Outstanding Faculty of the Year at Oakland Community College, Orchard Ridge Campus, 2005-2006.
-Poem selected for inclusion in the “Best of Rattle” magazine, 25th issue, June, 2006.
-Workshop presenter, “Becoming a Reflective Educator: Using Action Research to Refine Practice,” Galileo Institute Conference at Oakland University, Aug. 9, 2005.
-Poet-in-Residence, Cranbrook Writers' Conference, August 4-6, 2005, Cranbrook Schools, MI.
-Workshop presenter, “Can You Prove to Me Your Students Are Learning?” League for Innovation 2005, March 6-9, New York City.
-Selected for inclusion in the 8th and 9th editions of Who's Who Among America's Teachers, Austin, Texas, 2004, 2005.
-Invited Poet at the Ludington Poetry Festival, May 20-22, 2004, Ludington, MI.
-Workshop presenter, “Encouraging the Creative Process,” Witness and Writing Conference, OCC, March 19, 20, 2004.
-Workshop presenter, “What Humor Can Do in a Classroom,” League for Innovation 2004, San Francisco, Feb. 29-Mar. 3, 2004.
-Workshop presenter, “Teaching Creative Writing,” Michigan College English Assn. Conference, Henry Ford C.C., Oct. 24, 2003.
-Awarded $6,715 in new initiative dollars from Oakland Community College to sponsor a writing conference in collaboration with Witness magazine, 2004.
-Selected as a Galileo member for 2003-2005, a two-year teacher-leader training consortium.
-Workshop presenter of “Using Music in the Classroom,” League for Innovation 2003, Phoenix, AZ, March 19, 2003.
-Workshop presenter, “Split a Gut and Learn,” NISOD, Austin, TX, May 27-30, 2001.
-Workshop co-presenter of “Dealing with the Unexpected,” AACRAO 87th Conference, Seattle, WA, April 22-25, 2001.
-Workshop co-presenter of "Dealing with the Unexpected," MACRAO joint conference, Toledo, OH, Nov. 1-3, 2000.
-Workshop co-presenter of "Creating an Academic Master Plan," Learning Paradigm Conference, San Diego, March 15-18, 2000.
-Workshop co-presenter of “How to Survive the Unexpected in Higher Education,” ACT Regional Conference, Mt. Pleasant, MI, February 25, 2000.
-Workshop co-presenter of “My Daddy Got Resigned,” MACRAO Conference, Nov. 3-5, 1999, Shanty Creek, MI.
-Workshop presenter of “Humor in the Classroom: Theory, Research, Practice,” at League for Innovation 1999, New Orleans, LA, June 20-23, 1999.
-Workshop presenter of “Why We Can't Break Out of the Box,” 3rd annual Learning Communities and Collaboration conference, November 13-14, 1997, Frankenmuth, MI.
-Presenter, College Board's “Recruiting and Serving Adult Students in Transition,” Oct. 1994, D.C.
-Presenter, MACAC conference, May 1994, “The Poetry of Education,” Frankenmuth, MI.
POETRY READINGS
Poetry readings given at Carnegie Mellon University, Michigan State University, Kalamazoo College, Hope College, Adrian College, Alma College, Interlochen Arts Academy, Oakland University, Saginaw Valley State University, Western Michigan University, Mid-Michigan Community College, Kalamazoo Community College, Kellogg Community College, Riverwalk Theatre, Central Michigan University, Cranbrook Institute of Arts, Delta College, Bowling Green State University, Schuler's Bookstore, Henry Ford Community College, Siena Heights University, University of Michigan in Dearborn, Birmingham-Bloomfield Art Association, Kalamazoo Public Library, Oakland Community College, Border's Bookstore, Shaman Drum Bookstore, Scarab Club in Detroit, Plymouth Coffee Bean Company, Oakland University, Creole Gallery in Lansing, Grafted Root Eatery, Crazy Wisdom Bookstore, Waterford Public Library, Alpena Art in the Loft, Riverwalk Theatre, Great Lakes Commonwealth of Letters, Arkansas State University, Aretha's Jazz Café in Detroit, Royal Oak Public Library, Kickstart Wed. Night Session, St. Clair Shores LIT Walk online, Detroit Writers' Guild and others.
EDUCATION
Doctorate of Education, WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY
Major: Curriculum & Instruction, 1998
(Dissertation: “Humorous Content Material and Student Attitude toward Poetry”)
Master of Arts, CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
Major: English--Creative Writing, 1979
Bachelor of Arts, WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
Major: English. Minors: Business, Graphic Arts, 1977
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
English Professor (served as department chair, 2007-2012)
Orchard Ridge Campus, Oakland Community College
August 2001 - December 2022 (retired)
Dean of Academic and Student Services
Highland Lakes Campus, Oakland Community College
August 1996 - August 2001
Director of Admissions
The University of Michigan-Flint
1986 - 1996
Director of Admissions and Interim Registrar
The University of Michigan-Flint
1989 - 1990
Director of Admissions
Siena Heights College, Adrian, Michigan
1982 - 1986
Coordinator of Program Promotion
Siena Heights College, Southfield Center
1980 - 1982
Oakland Community College (1998 - present, but full-time since 2001): English Composition I and II; Creative Writing; Advanced Creative Writing; Introduction to Poetry and Drama; Introduction to Playwriting and Screenwriting; Advanced Screenwriting (also created these last two courses).
Siena Heights College (1980 - 1987): Adult Proseminar, English Composition, 20th Century American Literature, Creative Writing, and Business in Literature.
St. Clair County Community College (1979 - 1980): English Composition; Introduction to Literature.
Central Michigan University (1977 - 1979): English Composition; Creative Writing.