CURRICULUM VITA

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Benjamin Vogt ---- University of Nebraska--Lincoln ---- enfrancais@att.net ---- http://enfrancais.home.att.net

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Poetry / Creative Nonfiction / Environmental Literature, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, May 2009 (ABD 1/16/07)
-- Committee Members: Grace Bauer (chair), Hilda Raz, Ted Kooser, John Janovy
Dissertation #1 (Memoir) – Morning Glory: A Story of Family and Culture in the Garden
Dissertation #2 (Poetry) – Afterimage: Poems
-- Read brief overviews of both dissertation projects
-- See my poetry and nonfiction comprehensive exam reading lists

M.F.A., Poetry, The Ohio State University, June 2003
-- Committee Members: David Citino (chair), Andrew Hudgins

B.F.A., Creative Writing and Literature, French Minor, University of Evansville, 1999

Study Abroad, Harlaxton College, England, 1997

BOOK PUBLICATIONS

Indelible Marks: Poems. Columbus: Pudding House, 2004.

ANTHOLOGY PUBLICATIONS

Selected Interview. The "Backwards" Research Guide for Creative Nonfiction Writers: Using Your Life for Reflection, Connection, and Inspiration. Ed. Sonya Huber. Equinox: forthcoming (2009).

"Japanese Garden" (prose poem). Breathe: 101 Contemporary Odes. Eds. Chad Prevost & Ryan Van Cleave. C&R Press: forthcoming (2008).

"Compatible," and "Flat Tire" (poems). Diagram: The Second Print Anthology. Ed. Ander Monson. Del Sol Press, 2006.

“July, Just Outside of Columbus” (poem). FlatCity: An Anthology. Eds. Adam Cole, Kelly McGuinness, and Betsy Wheeler. Columbus: FlatCity Press, 2005.

“Family Reunion—1962” (poem). Farming Poems. Eds. Jennifer Bosveld and Doug Swisher. Pudding House: forthcoming.

“Portraiture at Blanks’ Photography,” “Rural Kiss—Oklahoma, 1944,” “July Just Outside of Columbus,” and “Section 117, Plot 21” (poems). Anthology One. Ed. Jaimes Alsop. Delaware: Alsop Review Press, 2004.

"Uncle with Landscape—Kansas, 1954" (poem). Red, White, and Blues: Poets on the Promise of America. Eds. Virgil Suarez and Ryan G. Van Cleave. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004.

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

"A Geologist's Love" (poem). Subtropics (#11, 2010): forthcoming.

"The Lion's Tooth" (nonfiction). ISLE: Interdiscliplinary Studies in Environment and Literature (2009 / 2010): forthcoming.

"Grandpa Vogt's--1959" (poem). American Life in Poetry (2010): forthcoming.

"Photograph of Chevy Axle and Wheels--1946" (poem). Permafrost (2009): forthcoming.

"Her Garden" (nonfiction). Sou'wester (Spring 2009): forthcoming.

"The Bumbling Gardener" (nonfiction). Amoskeag (2009): forthcoming.

"Little Deep Creek--Oklahoma, 1984" (poem). Hayden's Ferry Review (#42, Spring / Summer 2008): 27.

“Wichita, 1938” and “Family Reunion—Photograph, 1962” (poems). Quiddity (2008): forthcoming.

"Portraiture at Blanks Photography—Weatherford 1978" and "Rural Kiss" (poems). Poemeleon (Summer 2007).

"De-incarnation of a Back Page Story" (poem). Fugue (#31, Summer / Fall 2006): 27.

"Planting" (poem). Rock River Times (2006).

"The Deep Middle" (nonfiction). Crab Orchard Review (Volume 11, #1, Winter / Spring 2006): 195-203.

"Suddenly Autumn" (poem). Puerto del Sol (Volume 41, #1, Spring 2006): 52.

"Loving Apparitions on High Street" and "Miscarriage" (poems). Ellipsis (Volume 42, Spring 2006): 69, 93.

"Hammer" (poem). M Review (2006): http://www.marylhurst.edu/mreview/.

"How We Came to Be Here" (poem). Anthropology and Humanism (Volume 31, #2, December 2006): 211.

"Spider," "Mound City, IA," and "Photo of Grandpa and 155mm Howitzer—Korea, 1953" (poems). The Litchfield Review (Volume 3, #1,Winter 2006): 25-28.

“The Whale” (poem). Ginger Hill (Volume 42, 2005): 45.

"An Evening Porch" (poem). Diagram (Issue 5.3, Summer 2005).

“Compatible” and “Flat Tire” (poems). Diagram (Issue 4.5, Fall 2004). <http://www.thediagram.com>.

“Section 117, Plot 21” (poem). Verse Daily (January 25, 2004). <http://www.versedaily.org/section117plot21.shtml>.

“A Suburban Affair” (poem). The Cream City Review (Volume 28.1): 143.

“Boy’s Quartet—1949” (poem). The Alsop Review (Winter 2004). <http://www.alsopreview.com>.

"Sundays--Clinton, OK" (poem). Southern Indiana Review (Winter 2004): 9.

"Dreaming Ill" (poem). Poetry Midwest (Number 9, Winter 2004). <http://www.poetrymidwest.org>.

"Section 117, Plot 21" (poem). Wind Magazine (Fall 2003): 41.

"Uncle with Landscape--Kansas, 1954" (poem). Valparaiso Poetry Review (Volume 5, Number 1, Fall / Winter 2003-2004). <http://www.valpo.edu/english/vpr>.

"Still Life Refracted" (poem). Portland Review (50.2, 2003): 60

"Indelible Marks" and "Pre-Elegy to My Mother" (poems). The Adirondack Review (Summer 2003). <http://www.adirondackreview.org>.

“My Father Visits the Homeplace” (poem). Diagram (Issue 3.2, 2003). <http://www.thediagram.com>.

"After a Night Class at OSU" (poem). Oyez Review (2003): 35.

"Ode to Car Barbie" (poem). Hooked (2003). <http://www.readhooked.com>.

“Rising Up from Mulberry Street”, “Unemployed on a Summer Porch in Marysville, OH”, “A Call to Arms” (poems). Segue (Fall 2002). <http://www.mid.muohio.edu/segue>.

"All That Was Said About the Korean War" (poem). Harpur Palate (Volume 2.2): 70.

"Between Failed Drafts, I Pray" (poem). Front Range Review (Spring 2002): 77.

"Neighbors in 2368" (poem). The Comstock Review (Volume 15.2, 2001): 54.

"Crazy Cattle" and "Grocery Store Cashier" (poems). Small Spiral Notebook
(November, 2001). <http://www.smallspiralnotebook.com>.

"Why I Hate Bagels" (poem). Front Range Review (Spring 2001): 41-42.

"Coming Up With Excuses" (poem). The Evansville Review (Volume 11, 2001): 48.

"Self Portrait" and "Falling Asleep" (poems). The Evansville Review (Volume 9, 1999): 35, 111.

"The Painting of Memory: Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse" (essay). SLJ (Volume 18, 1999): 32.

"Indian Man" (poem). Allegheny Review (Volume 16, 1998): 7.

AWARDS 

UNL Graduate Studies Fellowship, 2008-2009.

Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund poetry grant, 2009.

Frederick A. Stuff Memorial Dissertation Fellowship, UNL English Dept, 2007-08.
(Awarded to Ph.D. candidates for excellence in scholarship, one of four recipients.)

Frank and Marie Wheeler Fellowship, UNL Graduate Studies, 2007-2008.

Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund poetry grant, 2006.

Louise VanSickle Fellowship in creative writing, UNL English Dept, 2005-06.
(Awarded annually to one poet in the Ph.D. program.)

Wilbur and Elizabeth Gaffney Travel Fellowship, UNL English Dept, 2004 and 2006.

Weldon Kees Scholarship, Nebraska Summer Writers’ Conference, 2005.

Gaffney-Academy of American Poets Award, UNL English Dept, 2nd place, 2005.

Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize, Wind Magazine, 1st place, 2003.

National Looking Glass chapbook contest, Pudding House, 2nd place, 2003.

English Departmental Travel Fellowship, Ohio State University, 2002 and 2003.

English Departmental Scholarship, University of Evansville, 1995-1999.

HONORS

Nominated by Hayden's Ferry Review for the Pushcart Prize, 2010.

Spring Garden Press chapbook contest, finalist, 2009.

Black River / Black Lawrence Press chapbook contest, semifinalist, 2009.

Midnight Sun poetry chapbook contest, finalist, 2009.

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Arts and Sciences Student Advisory Board (UNL), nomination, 2009.

The Journal Flash Prose Writing Contest (creative nonfiction), semifinalist, 2009.

Nominated for the Pushcart Prize, poetry, 2008 & 2009.

Nominated by poemeleon for the anthology Best New Poets (Meridian), 2008.

Spring Garden Press Robert Watson Poetry Chapbook Award, finalist, 2008.

The Journal Flash Prose Writing Contest (creative nonfiction), runner up, 2008.

Nominated for the Pushcart Prize, creative nonfiction and poetry, 2007.

Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, semifinalist, 2007 & 2008.

Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund, finalist, 2007.

Poetry manuscript Afterimage top 30 / 1,000 in Tupelo Press's annual July open reading period, 2006.

7^th Annual Poetry First Book Award, Tupelo Press, honorable mention, 2006.

Don Russ Poetry Prize, Kennesaw Review, finalist, 2006.

Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Prize, semi-finalist, 2005.

Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry, Nimrod / Hardman Awards, semi-finalist, 2005.

Nominated for the John W. Robinson Prize for best graduate student scholarly essay, UNL, 2005.

Elizabeth Curry Poetry Contest, Ginger Hill, finalist, 2005.

Nominated in creative nonfiction for the AWP Intro Journals Project, UNL, 2005.

Fineline competition for prose poems, Mid-American Review, semi-finalist, 2004.

James Wright Poetry Award, Mid-American Review, semi-finalist, 2004.

Stadler Fellowship, Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University, finalist, 2003.

New Michigan Press / Diagram mixed-genre (poetry / nonfiction) chapbook contest, finalist, 2003.

Elixir Press annual poetry chapbook contest, honorable mention, 2003.

Concrete Wolf annual poetry chapbook contest, honorable mention, 2003.

Academy of American Poets Award, Ohio State, honorable mention, 2003.

Poetry 2002, Atlanta Review, finalist, 2002.

Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Prize, The Comstock Review, finalist, 2001.

Poets Under 25, Beloit Poetry Journal, finalist, 2001.

Alligator Juniper annual competition, finalist and semi-finalist, 2001 / 2002.

Vandewater Poetry Prize, Ohio State, honorable mention, 2001 / 2002.

Dean's List, University of Evansville, 1996 and 1999.

Inducted to Sigma Tau Delta, English Honorary Society, 1998.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE (all courses indepedently designed and taught)

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lecturer, 2010-
English 254 -- Writing and Communities
An introductory composition course for non-major upperclassman.

English 453 -- Poetry Writing
Advanced poetry writing experimenting with various received and nonce forms, with a focus on looking at the literary marketplace
via literary journals, creative readings, conferences, fellowships, grad school, and instructor diatribes.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Graduate Teaching Assistant, 2005-2009
English 101 -- Writing from Literature (3 courses)
A freshman composition course taught as writing creative nonfiction, while reading the works of poets, novelists, and essayists as examples for student writing.

English 150 -- Writing Rhetoric (2 courses)
Course on writing academic essays and creative nonfiction, using the works of published novelists and essayists as models.

English 180 -- Introduction to Literature (2 courses)
Survey on various forms of literature for non English majors. "Literature" is defined as poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, films, music, local art galleries, and natural history museums.

English 250 -- Introduction to Creative Writing (2 courses)
Writing poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction, with small group and class workshops.

English 253 -- Writing Poetry
Workshop with special emphasis placed on using form in student writing and learning prosodic terminology (including a midterm on such), while looking at a broad range of poets as examples.

English 254 -- Writing and Communities
Upper level composition course for non majors, taught as place-based / environmental course, writing creative nonfiction essays while looking at several collections by published authors.

English 302A -- Poets Since 1945
Survey of post war American poetry schools, including highlighted work from Whitman and Modernism to the Beats, New York School, Deep Imagists, Avant Garde, New Formalists, and others. Includes craft essays by key writers from each school, as well as criticism and theory.

English 353 -- Advanced Poetry Writing
Upper level workshop with special focus placed on formal experimentation and knowledge of prosodic terminology (with midterm on such).

Doane College, Adjunct Professor of English, 2004-2005
English 101 -- Writing Seminar (2 courses)
Freshman composition taught as intro to creative nonfiction.

English 202 -- Introduction to Writing Poetry
Beginning workshop with focus on learning formal / prosodic terminology.


The Ohio State University, Graduate Teaching Associate, Department of English, 2000-2003
English 110 -- First Year Composition (3 courses)
Freshman composition taught as intro to creative nonfiction writing workshop.

English 110L -- FYC Literature Emphasis (3 courses)
Freshman composition taught as intro to creative nonfiction writing while reading novels / essay collections by published authors.

English 266 -- Writing Poetry I
Introductory course to writing poetry with emphasis placed on reading collections by published poets, reviewing literary journals, and attending local readings.

English 367.01 -- Second Year Composition, The U.S. Experience (2 courses)
Upperclass composition course taught thematically:
--Tourists in a Native Land (travel writing)
--In Country: Vietnam and Contemporary Violence in American Writing

ADMINISTRATIVE / EDITORIAL / WEB / MARKETING EXPERIENCE

Literary Contest Coordinator, Department of English, University of Nebraska--Lincoln, 2010.
Run annual literary and scholarly writing awards. Advertise and gather undergraduate and graduate student entries, set up judging, organize winner reading and awards ceremony.

Graduate Associate, Student Involvement, University of Nebraska—Lincoln, 2003-2005
Work in Information Strategies department as an assistant art director managing staff of six undergraduate web designers, graphic designers, and administrators creating marketing strategies and promotional material for campus and university-affiliated student events. Write copy and edit web / print designs. Give presentations on SI’s programs to incoming freshman and to upperclassmen. Oversee complete website redesign in 2005. Win regional marketing award from IABC (International Association of Business Communicators). Click here for web and here, here, here, and here, for hardcopy design samples.

Graduate Administrative Associate, Professor David Citino, Ohio State University, 2002-2003
Coordinate manuscript reading for the Ohio State Press / The Journal book award in poetry. Emcee and run the graduate student / faculty creative reading series. Facilitate authors on the Ohio Poetry Circuit.

Editor-in-Chief, Senior Literary Journal, University of Evansville, 1998-1999
Redesign and edit annual English department publication. Select and coordinate staff of four editors. Obtain funding from university committees.

Poetry Editor, The Evansville Review, University of Evansville, 1997-1998
Select and edit work for the national literary journal and oversee reading staff. Solicit work from authors and write contributors section.

Intern, New Rivers Press, Minneapolis, MN, 1997
Prepare promotional mailings, fulfill book orders, arrange national author readings, write grant proposals.

ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

"Variations: "Minority" Poets Rewriting Identity Through Received Forms." Midwest Modern Language Association. Minneapolis, MN. November 13-16, 2008.

"Ecofeminism and Ceremony in Linda Hogan’s Dwellings—To Heal the Bodies Earth." Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association. Boston, MA. April 4-7, 2007.

"Literature in the College Composition Classroom: Pleasure, Community, Process, Efficacy." Midwest Modern Language Association. Chicago, IL. November 9-12, 2006.

"Language as Sacred Land in the Midst of Ecological Diaspora: Vine Deloria Jr. and N. Scott Momaday." College English Association. San Antonio, TX. April 6-8, 2006.

Forum and panel discussion on post-undergraduate options for English majors. University of Evansville. Evansville, Indiana. November 2002.

SELECTED CREATIVE READINGS / INTERVIEWS

No Name Reading Series. Creative nonfiction reading. University of Nebraska-Lincoln. September 29, 2006 and November 4, 2005.

2005 Nebraska Book Festival. Invited poetry reading. Nebraska Wesleyan University. Lincoln, Nebraska. October 8, 2005.

University of Kansas. “The American Family.” Poetry reading and session moderator, 2005 New Literacies Conference: Writing, Teaching, Performing America. March 3-5, 2005.

Doane College. Invited poetry reading. Crete, Nebraska. February 23, 2005.

No Name Reading Series. Poetry and creative nonfiction reading. University of Nebraska—Lincoln. December 3, 2004.

Lincoln High School. Invited poetry reading and craft discussion. Lincoln, NE. April 22, 2004.

Miami University of Ohio—Middleton / Segue. Online Q&A sessions with creative writing students. http://www.mid.muohio.edu/segue/wow. February-March, 2004.

Chanhassen Villager. Interview. “Poet from Chanhassen Writes About Roots.” February 12, 2004: 17.

The Ohio State University. Creative nonfiction and poetry reading. Columbus, Ohio. May 2003.

Barley’s Brewery and Restaurant. Poetry reading. Columbus, Ohio. April 2003, October 2002.

The Ohio State University. Poetry reading. Columbus, Ohio. April 2002.

SERVICE

Search Committee, 20th Century Poetry / Criticism, UNL English Dept, 2008-2009.

Volunteer, Prairie Schooner, The Association of Writers and Writing Programs 2009 Conference in Chicago.

Volunteer, Prairie Schooner, The Association of Writers and Writing Programs 2008 Conference in NYC.

Volunteer, Nebraska Summer Writers Conference, 2006 and 2007.

Volunteer, University of Nebraska Press Hurt Book Sale, 2004-2006.

Reader, Prairie Schooner Book Prize Series in Poetry, 2005-present. (Forwarded eventual winner, Taste of Cherry by Kara Candito, on to judges, 2008).

Editorial Assistant, Prairie Schooner (poetry), UNL, 2003-present.

Reader, Ohio State Press / The Journal Book Award in Poetry, 2001-2003.

Reader, The Journal (poetry), Ohio State, 2000-2001.

Treasurer, Sigma Tau Delta, Alpha Delta Tau chapter,1998-1999.

TEACHING / ACADEMIC INTERESTS

Comprehensive exam essays:
"The Fields of Blank Verse: Form and the Midwest" and "Mind, Body, and Spirit: The New Environmental Essay"

Modern, postmodern, and contemporary American poetry

New formalism / expansive poetry

Creative nonfiction: travelogue, memoir, personal essay

Garden literature

Native American literature

Ecocriticism and literature

The "greening" of global religions

Midwest / Plains literature

Germans from Russia immigration to Great Plains

Literary translation

Vietnam War literature and film

FOREIGN LANGUAGES         

Conversational and reading proficiency in French

Reading proficiency in German

Introductory coursework in Italian

MEMBERSHIPS

American Culture Association (ACA)

The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)

Midwest Modern Langauge Association (M/MLA)

Modern Langauge Association (MLA)

The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)

WORKSHOPS

Naomi Shihab Nye, essayist / poet, 2009

Marjorie Sandor, essayist, 2006.

Stephen Dunn, poet, 2005.

David St. John, poet, 2003.

Dick Davis, translator / poet, 2001.

Carl Phillips, poet, 2001.

Julia Kasdorf, poet, 1999.

SELECTED GRADUATE COURSEWORK

The Ohio State University

English 662 – Literary Publishing

English 763 – Graduate Poetry Workshop

English 765 – Graduate Fiction Workshop (emphasis on pedagogy)

English 767 – American Literature: 1945-Present

English 768 – Graduate Literary Nonfiction Workshop

English 781 – Teaching College Composition

English 870 – Seminar: African American Folklore, 20th Century Literature

English 871 – Seminar: Forms in Literature (writing poetry in traditional forms)

Comparative Studies 792 – Studies in the Practice of Literary Translation 

University of Nebraska--Lincoln

English 845 -- 20th Century Native American Literature

English 852 -- Nature Writing (creative nonfiction)

English 853 -- Graduate Poetry Workshop

English 905 -- Seminar: Postmodern American Fiction

English 919 -- Seminar: Interdisciplinary Approaches to 19th Century Literature (U.S., U.K., Europe)

English 953 -- Seminar: Poetic Forms

English 953 -- Poetry and Creative Nonfiction Tutorial

English 957 -- Composition Theory and Practice

English 997 -- Independent Study: 20th Century American Poetry

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