¶ Books
Dumuzi • Gaspereau 2020 • link
Unlikeness Is Us: Fourteen from the Exeter Book • Gaspereau 2018 • link
Curious Masonry: Three Translations from the Anglo-Saxon • Gaspereau 2011 • link
Ox • Signal 2007 • link
Jack Pine • Groundwood 2007 • link
¶ Visual & Multimedia Work
Dumuzi [Mud Variations] • Ancient Exchanges [forthcoming]
Red Black & Blues [excerpts] • DIAGRAM 2020 • link
3 asemic poems • Cordite Review 2019 • link
Illogical Operators • The New Post-Literate 2019 • link
Dumuzi Incipit • Asymptote 2018 • link
7 video poems • Bellingham National • Whatcom Museum 2017 • link
3 video poems • Asemic Writing: Offline & in the Gallery • Minnesota Center for
Book Arts 2017 • link
2 asemic texts • Affect and Audience: Translational Poetics • Essay Press 2017 • link
SCRO 6 am • The New Post-Literate 2017 • link
SCRO page 3 • The New Post-Literate 2016 • link
What’s Wrong • Poetry Is Dead 2016
¶ Journals ~ Poetry & Translations
His Message • Asymptote 2017 • link
3 poems • The Maynard 2015 • link
2 poems • Epiphany 2014
Spring Snow • CV2 2014
2 poems • New American Writing 2014
2 poems • Canadian Literature 2013
Pastoral • The Colorado Review 2013
The Watermelon Lion • Arc 2012
2 poems • Versal 2012
3 poems • The Kenyon Review 2011
5 poems • Western Humanities Review 2011
4 poems • Eleven Eleven 2011
Via Negativa (Arjuna) • Capital Verse 2008
The Earthwalker • Western Humanities Review 2007
Weedflower Mind [excerpts] • Western Humanities Review 2007
3 poems • Emergency Almanac 2006
2 poems • The Paris Review 2004
Tammuz. Ishtar • FIELD 2004
Leaf Bee • The Antioch Review 2003
2 poems • Emergency Almanac 2002
6 poems • The Paris Review 2001
3 poems • The Fiddlehead 2000
2 poems • The New Quarterly 2000
7 poems • The Paris Review 1999
3 poems • The Fiddlehead 1999
2 poems • The Fiddlehead 1998
Sestina • The Malahat Review 1997
Freighters • Canadian Literature 1995
3 poems • Poetry Canada Review 1995
¶ Journals ~ Essays & Reviews
The God Dumuzi and the Police Force Inside • ottawa poetry newsletter 2020 • link
Bodhidharma’s Eyebrows • Western Humanities Review 2011
Thought of Matter • Canadian Notes and Queries 2008
The Garrison Revisited • Northern Poetry Review 2006
Journey to the Interior • Books in Canada 2006
Sensuous Analysis • Books in Canada 2005
Post-Modern Eros • Books in Canada 2004
Escaping Lyric Closure • Poetry Canada Review 1995
A Conversation between Robert Hass and Mary Karr [editor] • PSA Newsletter 1994
¶ Collaborations ~ Anthologies & Adaptations &c.
Union Square • Sustenance • Anvil 2017 [anthology]
For Elise [co-author] • CV2 2015 [tribute to Elise Partridge]
Jack Pine • Vancouver Opera in Schools 2009–2010 [adaptation]
Via Negativa (Pound) • The Companions Series • High Ground 2008 [broadsheets]
Red Rock • Rock Salt • Mother Tongue 2008 [anthology]
Weed Flower Mind [excerpt] • Poetry in Transit [Vancouver] 2008
4 poems • The New Canon • Signal 2005 [anthology]
Weed Flower Mind [excerpt] • Poetics (in)form 1999 [art installation]
Fractal [excerpt] • Nature Rearranged • National Gallery of Canada 1999 [catalogue]
¶ Awards & Honours
American Book Award • Before Columbus Foundation 2019
3⨉ nominated • Ronald Kleinknecht Excellence in Teaching Award • WWU 2015–2018
5⨉ nominated • Pushcart Prize 2004–2018
Graduate Research Award • University of Utah 2011
Craig Arnold Memorial Poetry Prize • U of Utah & Academy of American Poets, 2010
Utah Writer’s Contest • Western Humanities Review 2010
Finalist • Dorothy Livesay Prize for Poetry [BC Book Prizes] 2008
2 Creative Writing Grants • Canada Council for the Arts 1998 & 2002
Bernard F. Conners Prize for Poetry • The Paris Review 2001
¶ Readings & Interviews
A Taste of Western • Portland OR 2019
WWU Faculty Reading Series • 2014 2016 2018 & 2019
Honey Moon Almost Annual Beowulf Marathon • Bellingham 2016 & 2018
Launch for Elise Partridge’s The Exile’s Gallery [host] • Vancouver BC 2015
Speaking of Poets • CKUW Winnipeg 2012
Vancouver 125 Poetry Conference 2011
Montréal Zen Poetry Festival 2011
Writing on Air • KUTE Salt Lake City 2011
Robson Square Bookstore Reading Series • Vancouver 2007 & 2011
City Art Reading Series • Salt Lake City 2008 & 2011
Working Dog Reading Series • U of Utah 2007 2008 2009 & 2010
Arcadia University Reading Series • Philadelphia 2008
Art Bar Reading Series • Toronto 2007
Village Books • Bellingham 2007
September 11 Memorial Reading • Salt Lake City 2006
WWU Lecturer Reading Series 2004 & 2005
Vancouver Poetry Dogs BC Cancer Agency fundraiser • Vancouver 2003 & 2004
Black Sheep Books • Vancouver 1996 1997 & 1999
Oberlin College Reunion Reading • Oberlin OH 1996
Barrow Street Reading Series • New York NY 1996
School of the Arts Reading Series • Columbia University 1995
Columbia University Summer Writers’ Festival 1995
The Cedar Tavern • New York 1995
Galiano Festival of the Arts • Galiano Island BC 1993
¶ Conferences & Symposia
- American Literary Translators Association [ALTA] Conference • Rochester NY 2019 • Alexis Levitin Bilingual Reading Series • [reading] poems from Unlikeness Is Us
- Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs [CCWWP] Conference • Toronto 2018 • [panel] Constructions of Whiteness • [talk] Ancestral White Interiors
- Fair Play : Appropriation and Copyright in Creative Writing • Washington DC 2017
- CCWWP Conference • Toronto 2016 • [panel] Everywhere is Aleatory • [talk] Data Loss on the Ascender
- CCWWP Conference • Vancouver 2014 • [panel] Poems of Ours We Hate • [talk] Dismay : Erasure : Monsterface
- Associated Writers and Writing Programs [AWP] Conference • Seattle 2014 • [panel] Canadian-Cascadian: Four Poets from BC • [reading] poems from Dumuzi
- Associated Writers and Writing Programs [AWP] Conference • Vancouver 2005 • [panel] After Survival: Where is Canadian Poetry? • [talk] The Garrison Revisited
¶ Colonies and Residencies
Djerassi Resident Artists Program 1999 2014 & 2016
Yaddo 1998 2000 2004 & 2006
MacDowell 2004
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts 1997 1998 2001 & 2003
Millay Colony for the Arts 1996
¶ [bonus track] Courses I Teach
Advanced Poetry Workshop : Poetics of the Rhizome • Multi-Genre Workshop : The Art of Compost • Living Writers : Word and/as Image • Editing and Publishing • Advanced Creative Nonfiction Workshop : States of America, Plural • Introduction to Poetry Writing • Introduction to Creative Nonfiction • Introduction to Creative Writing • Major Authors : Pound and Williams • Literature and Culture of the 20th & 21st C : Poetics of Peace & War • Literature and Culture of the 16th & 17th C [seminar] : Other Minds • Literature and Culture of the 16th & 17th C [survey] : The Early Modern Lyric • Mythology & Literature • Texts of North America and Europe : Metamorphosis • Introduction to British Literature • Introduction to Shakespeare • Writing about Literature
the art of compost 