2. English Dept., HU 338, State University of New York at Albany

1400 Washington Avenue/Albany, NY 12222

Phone: (518)442-4066

Email: jej84@mindspring.com

1958:B.A., cum laude, English honors, Barnard Coll.;'58-'59:Columbia Univ.;'54-'55:Radcliffe Coll.

1952-53:Private studies, musical composition with Bernard Wagenaar;'50-'52: with Suzanne Bloch.

1950-52:Juilliard School of Music;'46-'49: Diller-Quaile School of Music.

2003-05: S.U.N.Y. Albany: Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Director of Honors and Presidential Scholar Programs;

1992-present: S.U.N.Y. Albany: Professor of English and Women's Studies;

1995-96, Interim Chair of English Department; 1994-95: Chair of Women's Studies Department

'88-'92: Associate Professor; '81-'87: Assistant Professor

1980-81:SUNY Albany, Visiting Poet; 1980: Wake Forest University, Visiting Poet.

1981-82, 1977-78, 1976-77: The Poetry Center of the 92nd St. Y, NYC, Poetry Instructor.

1977-80: Private Workshop, The Writing and Performance of Poetry.

1975: Katonah Library Association, Poet-in-Residence, Spring.

1974-75: Binghamton School System, Poet-in-Residence, Poet-in-the-Schools Program.

1998-99 Associated Writing Programs, National Conference Chair and Board Advisor

1995-96 Associated Writing Programs: President of the Board; 1994-97 Board Member

1993-present, Founding Editor with Patty Kerr Ross of the Visions and Prophecies Poetry Series, State University of

New York and St. Andrew’s College Press

1993-94: Barnard College Women Poets' Series, Judge;

National Endowment for the Arts: Visiting Poet

1993: Spring, Indiana University, Fort Wayne/Purdue.

1985: Fall, Vermont Council on the Arts

1983-84:Fall-Winter, The Poetry Center of the Philadelphia Y

National Endowment for the Arts: Visiting Fiction Writer

1994: Fall, Indiana University, Fort Wayne/Purdue

1991: St. Andrew's University, Consultant on Development, MFA in Creative Writing Proposal

1990 Spring, Poet-in-Residence; instructor: Poetry and Performance

1981-83 Consultant on Administration and Fund Raising

1979-81 Director, Book Distribution and Library Programs

1975-79: Poets and Writers, Inc.: Consultant.

1975-76: New York State Council on the Arts: Technical Advisor.

1960-61: Arrow Press, New York: Promotion Manager.

1959: Institute for International Education: Research Assistant.

Awards and Honors (selected)

2004: Geraldine McCloud Comendation for Fiction, Nimrod International Journal

1996: Plenary Session Speaker, National Women’s Studies Association Convention

1995: The National Writers’ Voice Project of the WMCA, Poet in Residence, Silver Bay, NY (see below)

1993: Beacon '93 Conference on Scholarship in Two-Year Colleges, Keynote Speaker.

1992: SUNY Albany, Presidential Award for Excellence in Research.

Partners of the Americas Fellowship, Barbados Association of Literary Artists,

March Writer in Residence.

1977: Playboy Award: Best New Contributor of Fiction.

1975: St. Andrews' Review Prize for Poetry.

A. Books (print-based publications)

Cities of Mathematics and Desire, poems 1986-2001, Di Castagnola Prize for Poetry,

Poetry Society of America, judge: Robert Creeley.

Green Moon Rising, short fiction 1972-2001.

Hungry for Light: the Journal of Ethel Schwabacher, ed. Judith E. Johnson and Brenda

S. Webster, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1993

The Ice Lizard: poems, 1977-88, New York: Sheep Meadow Press, 1992

WASTE: poems, Taftsville, Vermont: Countryman Press:

Vol. III, Dead's Good Company, 1979.

Vol. II, Transparencies, 1978.

Vol. I, The Town Scold, 1977.

How the Dead Count: poems. New York: W. W. Norton, 1978.

Literary Agents: A Complete Guide. New York: Poets and Writers, Inc., 1978.

Impossible Buildings: poems. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972.

The Life of Riot: short stories. New York: Atheneum, 1970

Uranium Poems: Yale Series of Younger Poets. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968;

reissued AMS Press, 1982

(These are multiple-voice tape tracks with original musical score and sound assemblage by the

author, parallel rather than identical to the print books of the same titles.)

How the Dead Count: audio poems. Washington, D.C., Watershed Tapes, 1979.

The Town Scold: audio poems. Washington, D.C., Watershed Tapes, 1978.

(Summary of poetry, fiction, criticism, drawings, miscellaneous articles. For full bibliography

please see Appendix A in CV2.)

More than 250 in:

Carolyn Kizer: Perspectives on Her Life & Work,ed. Annie Finch, Johanna Keller & Candace McClelland, Fort Lee, New Jersey, 2001, "Re/Membering the Goddess: Carolyn Kizer and the Poetics of Generosity (reprint of earlier essay)

Gods and Mortals: Contemporary Poetry on Classical Themes,ed. Nina Kossman, London and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, "Body Politic," reprinted from The Ice Lizard.

The Yale Younger Poets Anthology, ed. George Bradley, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998, "To Whom It May Concern," and "Nightpiece," reprinted from Uranium Poems.

Chick-Lit: Postmodern Fiction by Women, ed. Cris Mazza, Chicago: Fiction Collective II, 1995, "Asylum."

One Hundred Great Poems by Women, ed. Carolyn Kizer, New Jersey and Canada: The Ecco Press, 1995, "Sonnet: On Women’s Business," (reprinted from How The Dead Count).

Legacies, ed. Carley Bogarad and Jan Schmidt, New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1994, "Stone Olives."

The Faber Book of Movie Verse, ed. Ken Wlaschin and Philip French, London: Faber and Faber, 1993, "The Earth: To Marilyn" (reprinted from Uranium Poems) and "The Blob Speaks to its Mother: (reprinted from How the Dead Count)

An Answering Music: The Poetry of Carolyn Kizer, ed. David Rigsbee, Boston: Ford, Brown & Company, 1989, "Re/Membering the Goddess: Carolyn Kizer and the Poetics of Generosity," (first publication).

This Sporting Life, ed. Emilie Buchwald, Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1987, reissued 1996, "Argument One: The Lady Shews How She Is Forsaken," (reprinted from The Town Scold.)

Gates to the City, ed. Jeanne Finley et al., Albany: Albany Tricentennial Commission, 1986: "Snow on a Moonless Night," (reprinted from Groundswell)

North Country, ed. Joseph and Carol Bruchac, Greenfield Review Press, 1986: "No-Name's Tale" reprinted from Groundswell; "Taking Stock," "Calling it Right," (first publication)

Strong/Measures: Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional Forms, ed.Philip Dacey, New York: Harper & Row, 1986 "Ballade of the Grindstones," reprinted from The New Yorker, and "The Spoilers and the Spoils," reprinted from Poetry.

The Heath Guide to Literature, ed. Daniel Mark Epstein, Heath,1984, "Dr. Potatohead Talks to Mothers," reprinted from Uranium Poems

The Heath Guide to Poetry, ed. Daniel Mark Epstein, Heath, 1984, "Dr. Potatohead Talks to Mothers," reprinted from Uranium Poems

New York Poems, ed. Howard Moss, Avon, 1982, "The Fabulous Teamsters," reprinted from How the Dead Count

WomanPoet: the East, ed. Marilyn Hacker and Elaine Dallman, Women-in-Literature, Inc., 1981, "Miranda's Birthspell," (first publication)

Text-Sound Texts, ed. Richard Kostelanetz, New York: Morrow, 1980, "Shake" (reprinted from Connections and from The Town Scold)

Genoa-New York Symposium Book, ed. Allen Mandelbaum, Vanni Scheiwiller (Milan) 1980; "Perspectives" (first publication); reprinted in Oovrah (January 1986)

A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now, ed. Willis and Aliki Barnstone, Schocken Books, 1980, "A Gentle Heart: Two," (reprinted from Connections and from The Town Scold)

A Geography of Poets, ed. Edward Field, Bantam, 1979, "The Balance," (reprinted from Some and from Impossible Buildings)

North American Poetry Network Anthology, ed. David Ray, 1978, National Public Radio, "Yours,"

(republished from Black Box)

The Treasury of American Poetry, ed. Nancy Sullivan, Doubleday, 1978, "Rhyme for the Child as a Wet Dog," (reprinted from The Quest and from Impossible Buildings), "The Light Woman's Song," (reprinted from The Canadian Poetry Magazine and from Impossible Buildings), "Just," (reprinted from Impossible Buildings)

Bear Crossings, New South Company, 1978, "First Dance: God Who Walks Like a Bear," (reprinted from Painted Bride Quarterly and from How the Dead Count

North American Poetry Network Anthology, ed. David Ray, National Public Radio, 1977, "The Alarm," (republished from Black Box)

Eating Poetry, ed. Barbara Abercrombie, Harper & Row, 1977, "The Frame," (reprinted from New York Quarterly)

Modern Poems, ed. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, W.W. Norton, 1976, "Dr. Potatohead Talks to Mothers," (reprinted from Uranium Poems)

American Women Poets, ed. Charles Guenther, WEID, 1976, "Sonnet," (reprinted from The Antioch Review), "The Ghost That Walks," (reprinted from The Midwest Quarterly), "The Frame," (reprinted from New York Quarterly) "The Blob Speaks to its Mother," (reprinted from Some)

Self-Portrait: Book People Draw Themselves, ed. Burt Britten, Random House, 1975, "Self-Portrait" (first publication)

The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, ed. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, W.W. Norton, 1975, "Dr. Potatohead Talks to Mothers," "What Maisie Know, She Don't Want No/Anger Game in Shinkolobwe," "Construction #13," (reprinted from Uranium Poems), and "Eat 'Em Up Smith Tells All in South Africa," (reprinted from The New England Review and from Uranium Poems)

We Become New, ed. Lucille Iverson and Kathryn Ruby, Bantam, 1975, "The Earth: to Marilyn," and "Lights, Flowers," (reprinted from Uranium Poems), and "Nightpiece," (reprinted from Poetry Northwest and from Uranium Poems)

The Stonewall Book of Short Fictions, ed. Robert Coover and Kent Dixon, Stonewall, 1973, "The Machinery of Response," (reprinted from The Life of Riot)

The Poets for Peace Anthology, St. Mark's Poetry Project Editorial Collective, New York, 1967,"The Weapons Were Men,"(first publication).

Oovrah, "Perspectives," reprinted from the Genoa-New York Symposium Book, 1986

MS., "A Gentle Heart: One," (reprinted from The Town Scold) and "A Gentle Heart: Two" (reprinted from Connections and from The Town Scold),February, 1978

2001: reading of "Trifles," a one-act play by Glaspell, Beijing Conference on American literature, role of sheriff.

1993: "How to Love your Lobster," performance fiction, Brown Univ. Conference on Weird Fiction.

"In the Beginning," performance poem, W. Virginia State College; repeated as part of "Samhain Ritual," Borders Bookstore, Albany; repeated as part of "Reading in Celebration

of the Paintings of Thomas Cole, Albany League of the Arts Exhibit.

"Pavla, Queen of the Gypsies," performance fiction, Indiana U. Fort Wayne-Purdue;

repeated at S.U.N.Y. New Paltz, at The Little Magazine Writers' Conference, at PEN West, San

Francisco, at AWP National Conference 2000 as part of a presentation on metafiction and politics (see conference presentations, below) and at about 12 other locations.

1991: Director of staged reading of Unfinished Women Cry in No Man's Land, While a Bird Dies

in a Gilded Cage, by Aisha Rahman, Barbados National Cultural Foundation, BWI.

1988: "Cities of Mathematics and Desire," staged reading of performance poem, with live

performers, taped soundtrack and art work, Jawbone Series, SUNY Albany,; repeated

Nov. 1988 with taped performers at PEN American Center West Coast Branch, Berkeley,

CA.; repeated March 1989 at St. Andrews College, North Carolina.

1986 Friedrich Liebermann: American Artist, theater piece with live performers, conceptual art

exhibition and taped soundtrack, art work and set conceived by Judith Johnson and

constructed by Linda Burgess, directed by Judith Johnson, Capital Region Center

Institute for the Arts in Education; repeated S.U.N.Y. Writers' Conference, Binghamton,

N.Y., 1987; repeated at Albany Public Library, June 1988.

1982: "The Liebermann Catalog", performance poem and conceptual art exhibition with taped

soundtrack and live performers, in the series, Piano Trap Operas, Central Hall Artists, New

York City, assembled by Coco Gordan; repeated in the Jawbone Series, SUNY Albany, 1983.

"Grandpa Johnson and Blind River Blues," performance poem with dance, taped soundtrack,

and live performers, in Piano Trap Operas, above.

Untitled collage of Chinese poems and scenes from Chinese-American life, as part of an

untitled happening by Carol Bergé, in Piano Trap Operas, above.

1979: Geometries, spoken and danced opera with book by Judith Johnson, music by David

Tcimpidis, sculpture and set by Louise McCagg, choreography by Dalienne Majors, directed

by Judith Johnson and Dalienne Majors, the Minor Latham Theater, Barnard College, New

York City, as part of Reunion Program.

1978: Uranium Poems, staged reading, Poets at the Public, The New York Shakespeare Festival,

with music by David Tcimpidis.

1971: Waste: an InterMedia, St. Mary's at Paddington, London, with music by Michael Nyman,

silent poetry reading by Marilyn Hacker, throw-away poems by Anne-Sue Hirshorn, film

activity by Barbara Schwartz, medical activity by the resident staff of Paddington Hospital,

directed and created by Judith Johnson.

Jackpot: a one-act play, Innocents Abroad, Brussels.

Untitled InterMedia event, The American Library, U.S.I.S., Brussels, with Anne-Sue

Hirshorn, Robert Anthony Park, Peter Liashkov, The Circle Musicians, The Water and Air

Light Show, directed by Judith Johnson.

Untitled InterMedia event, The American Library, U.S.I.S., Brussels, with Anne-Sue

Hirshorn and Carl Weiss.

1967: New Theatre Workshop, the Aspen Writers' Workshop, assistant director, and role of

Madwoman in Marat/Sade.

1966-67: Theater Genesis, St. Mark's Theater Project, New York City, member of company.

1966: Professional Theater Wing, Mitzi Newhouse Theater, Lincoln Center, assistant stage

manager.

1961: En Avant, Coco: a play, The Phase Two, New York City.

1959: Belisa's Love: a play, The First Born, New York City.

1982: "Liebermann Artifacts," conceptual art exhibited at Central Hall Artists during the

one-month run of Piano Trap Operas, see above.

"Grandpa Johnson's Missing..." conceptual art exhibited in Piano Trap Operas, see above.

1979: "La Chaîne Variée," concrete poem in Io & Gli Altri, ed. Betty Danon, Galleria Apollinaire, Milan.

1975: "Poem to be Thrown Away Before Reading," performance/conceptual poem in Women Poets

in Radio City, a series of events and exhibits for the International Women's Year Committee,

ed. Judith Johnson, New York City, ; poem shown again in Beyond the Page, an exhibit of

concrete and visual poetry, ed. Anne-Sue Hirshorn, The Poetry Center of the Philadelphia Y,

1975; shown again in visual poetry and conceptual art exhibit ed. Anne-Sue Hirshorn, The

Hardart Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1975.

1971: "Le Chien est Revenu à son Propre Vomissement," "Les Autres Montagnes de

Lautréamont," "Maladorous Shanties," and "La Nature Morte de Samuel Beckett,"

concrete/conceptual poems and collages, Les Aubadiers (group show), Gallerie Le

Néant/Moins, Gent.

1994: "Fiction Reading," Indiana Arts Council

1993: "Who will speak these times," talk and performance poem, Beacon '93 Conference (see

above, honors).

"Poetry Reading," Indiana Arts Council.

1991: Poetry Motel, ed. Charlie Rossiter for Bethelehem Public Library TV Channel 31.

Director of staged reading of Unfinished Women Cry in No Man's Land, While a Bird Dies in a Gilded

Cage, by Aisha Rahman, Barbados National Cultural Foundation. (recording of live performance, see

above, under 1. InterMedia and Play Productions)

Untitled group readingr, Barbados. Recording of live performance.

1990: Untitled reading with music and live performers, Shaker Museum, Old Chatham, New York.

1986-92: "Poets Against the End of the World," videotapes of annual group readings, Albany.

1989: Untitled nightclub reading with music, taped by Tom Natell for the Albany Social Justice Council.

"Conceptual Art as Paradox:" talk in conjunction with showing of Friedrich Liebermann: American Artist,

SUNYA Center for the Humanities, Work in Progress Series; taped by Donald Byrd.

1988: "The Art and Journals of Ethel Schwabacher," interviewed by Judith Fetterley, pilot videotape for SUNYA

Women's Studies Program series.

1987: Voyaging: The Stanley Kunitz Celebration, Albany, N.Y., 1987, co-moderator of panel; reader.

1986: Friedrich Liebermann: American Artist, videotape of CRC presentation.

1985: Untitled reading with jazz trumpet accompanist at Montpelier, Vermont Public Television (recorded

performance).

1982: "Granda Johnson and Blind River Blues," studio tape of performance poem, ed. Coco Gordon.

"The Liebermann Catalog," studio tape of performance poem, ed. Coco Gordon.

1979: Geometries, Minor Latham Playhouse (tape of live performance).

1978: "Rhetoric and Richard Brautigan," (videotape of talk). Festival of British and American

Poets, SUNY Stony Brook.

"Yours," (videotape of live reading of performance poem), Festival of British and American

Poets, SUNY Stony Brook.

1976: Untitled solo reading at Rockland Community College.

1973: Untitled solo reading at Massachusetts College of Art.

1972: "Three-Man Blues," (videotape of performance poem in Central Park, New York City) Cable Arts.

1993: Indiana Public Television, Indiana: Poetry Reading at Purdue. (see above)

1992: reading and interview in radio series, "Women's Genius," Pacifica radio, hosted by Maggie Switzer.

The National Public Radio Book Show, half hour interview and reading hosted by Tom Smith.

1991: Poetry Motel, solo reading and interview , ed. Charles Rossiter. Studio tape made for arts channel

broadcast, .(see above under videotapes).

Untitled solo reading at library, Barbados, BWI. Recording of live performance (see above).

"Mike Richards' Radio Show," with Mike Richards and Winston Farrell. Radio tape made for Barbados

talk show, Barbados, BWI.

1988: Albany PBS, "The Art and Journals of Ethel Schwabacher:" videotape broadcast August, Sept., November

(see above under videotapes)

ABC-TV, "StraightTalk," (talk show), interview and performance of "Yours" (with Allen Ginsberg).

WXXI Radio, New York State, multi-track studio audiotape for broadcast.

WBAI, New York City, studiotape of reading of Uranium Poems; rebroadcast by KPFA in California.

WFUV, New York City, reading and interview.

WNYC, New York City; panel discussion and reading with Stephen Spender and Quincy Troupe.

WXPN, Philadelphia, reading and interview.

WFDD (studio tape made in New York City, mailed to station)

Wake Forest University Radio Station, "Arrangement for Voices," multi-track audio-tape for adult

and child, with music by Mozart.

5. Poetry Readings (selected; not included in this list are most university and college readings, writers' conferences; coffeehouse, nightclub, and local library and bookstore readings)

Beijing University; The New York State Museum, Albany, N.Y.; The Hyde Gallery, Glens Falls, N.Y.; The Poetry Center of the 92nd St. Y, New York City; The Poetry Center of the Philadelphia Y; The Academy of American Poets; The International Poetry Forum, Pittsburgh; The Smithsonian Institute; The Poetry Project, St. Mark's, New York City; The Folger Shakespeare Library; The New York Shakespeare Festival; The 42nd St. Library, New York City; U.S. Embassy, London; The American Library, U.S.I.S., Brussels; The Struga Poetry Festival, Yugoslavia; The Skopje Translation Conference, Yugoslavia; Barbados National Cultural Foundation; Virginia and Vermont Councils on the Arts Tours; Shakespeare & Company, Paris; City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco..

1989, Poetry Society of America, judge of Gordon Barber Memorial Award

1987-88, S.U.N.Y. Programs in the Arts, Thayer Award Committee, chair; 1986-87 member

1986-89, Writers Institute of New York, Walt Whitman Award, consultant

1986, Ohio Council on the Arts, outside evaluators panel

1979-81, Poets of the West Side Reading Series, New York City

1980-81, Books & Company Reading Series, New York City

1979-80, Illinois Council on the Arts, judge of fiction award

1978, New York City Board of Education, High School Poetry Contest, judge

1976-77, Walt Whitman Poetry Center, New Jersey, advisory board

1976-80, Rukeyser Reading Series, Brooklyn, New York City, advisory board

1976-79, Clyde, Inc. (performance poetry group), New York City, consultant

1976, Creative Artists' Public Service literature award panel, New York State Council on the Arts, panelist;

1975, screener.

1975, Discovery-The Nation Poetry Contest, The Poetry Center of the 92nd St. Y, New York City, judge

1973-79, The Brook Reading Series, New York City, organizing committee

1973, Barnard College Poetry Contest, judge

1972-73, Discovery Contest, The Poetry Center of the 92nd St. Y, New York City, screener

1967-68, West End Collegiate Church Reading Series, organizer and director

1993-present, founding editor with Patty Kerr Ross, Visions and Prophecies Poetry Series, S.U.N.Y. and St.

Andrews College Press (see above)

1989-present, president, publisher, and advisory editor, The Little Magazine (at present edited by

students of the SUNY Albany graduate writing program and partially funded by SUNYA)

1986-present, president, publisher, and editor-in-chief, 13th Moon (magazine at present partially

funded by SUNYA); 1982-85--advisory board

Reader, Presses: 1997-99, Longman; 1998, SUNY Press; 1987, Ithaca House; 1985, SUNY; 1983-85, Wesleyan

Univ. Press.

1973-74, Kirkus Review Service--reviewer; 1972-73, Aphra (magazine)--advisory board

1967-68, Book-of-the-Month Club--reader; 1966-67, Sterling Lord Literary Agency--reader

1981, SUNY Stony Brook; 1978, University of Maryland at Baltimore; 1977, University of Indiana

at Bloomington

2001, Beijing University-SUNYA Conference on American Literature:

1. Plenary session presentation "Changing the American Canon: the Poetry of Dickinson, Rukeyser, Kizer, and Clifton;" 2, co-chair, various sessions;3. poetry reading (also listed above, under "poetry readings"); 4. role in reading of "Trifles" (see above, under "multimedia and play performances").

1983, International Conference on the Fantastic, Boca Raton, Florida; paper: "The Beast Within."

1980, Struga Poetry Festival, Yugoslavia; paper: "The Poem as Act," poetry reading, reading tour.

1980, Skopje Conference on Translation, Yugoslavia: delegate.

1980, America-Italy Poetry Congress, Genoa, Italy; panel presentations:

1."The Stature of Muriel Rukeyser"

2. "An Innocent Eye: The Poet Returns to Her Own Work as Critic."

1978, Festival of British and American Poets, SUNY Stony Brook; lecture: "The Anti-Rhetorical Stance in

American Poetry," (revised text published as "Rhetoric and Anti-Rhetoric: the Poetry of Richard

Brautigan," St. Andrews Review, above); poetry reading, videotape.

1970, International Poetry Biennial, Knocke-le-Zoute, Belgium; protest presentation, with Carolyn

Kizer: "Segregating Women's Poetry."

Other Professional Activities

2000: H.P.Lovecraft Conference, S.U.N.Y. New Paltz, paper: "They Were Scientists and Men: Lovecraft 's Racial Alterities as Reciprocal and Resistant Structures"

2000: AWP National Conference, interactive presentation: "Metafiction as a Form of Radical Social Resistance," with performance of "Paula, Queen of the Gypsies."

1999: National Conference Chair, AWP Conference, Albany.

Providence College, R.I.: invited lecture, Women’s Studies Department: "Alterity and Art in the Age of Angst;" poetry reading.

1998: H.P. Lovecraft Conference, S.U.N.Y. New Paltz, paper: "Eldritch Fungoids: the destabilizing poetry of

Lovecraft’s language"

1997: MLA Conference, Toronto, paper: "Theorizing A Poetics of Generosity."

H.P. Lovecraft Conference, S.U.N.Y. New Paltz, paper: "Seeing New Englandly: Lovecraft and Dickinson

As New England Gothics"

1995:CCCC Conference, Washington, D.C., panel presentation, "Creative Writing and Composition:

Pushing the Boundaries"

Writers' Institute of New York, Conference on "Women, Multiculturalism, and the Avant

-Garde," organizer and reader.

The Little Magazine Conference on Writing in the Next Century: interactive fiction

performance (repetition of "Pavla, Queen of the Gypsies"---see above)

H.P. Lovecraft Conference, S.U.N.Y. New Paltz, paper: "The Lost Son and the Messiah:

Lovecraftian Redemption and the Horrific Transubstantiation"

The National Writers' Voice Project, Writer in Residence, Silver Bay, NY (see above, honors)

1994: Indiana University, Fort Wayne-Purdue: fiction reading, creativity and fiction workshops

Indiana University, South Bend: poetry reading, creativity and fiction workshops

Writers' Institute of NY, Conference: "The Word, The World, and The Future," moderator

of poetry panel.

The Writer's Voice, Silver Bay, NY, March: workshop

S.U.N.Y. Buffalo,Conference on Fiction and the Avant-Garde, April: reading and panelist

Tulsa Arts Festival, Poet-in-Residence.

Guild Hall, Easthampton, NY: David Ignatow 80th Birthday Festival: reader.

Russell Sage College: visiting poet, spring.

CCCC conference, Nashville: panel co-chair.

Yale University Women's Center: reading and workshop.

1993 H.P. Lovecraft Conference, S.U.N.Y.New Paltz, paper: "Ritual Cannibalism."

Brown University Conference on Women and Experimental Fiction: performance and symposium

discussion.

W. Virginia State College:

1. Talk, "Doing it With and Without Mirrors: Women Artists Paint the Body;"

2. Performance Art lecture-demonstration.

Southern Minnesota Univ., Creative Process Workshop.

Indiana Univ. at Fort Wayne-Purdue: lecture: "Women Artists , the Gaze and the Body."

CUNY Graduate Center Conference on Life-Writing, paper, with Brenda Webster, on

"Ethel Schwabacher: the Multiple Journals of the Artist."

The Writer's Voice, Silver Bay, New York, reading and workshop.

1992: National Writers Union Conference at University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Panelist: breaking into

Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, The Naropa Institute of Buddhist Studies, Summer Writers'

SUNY New Paltz: Conference on H.P. Lovecraft, paper: "Glossolalia and Dark Speech: Summoning the

PEN American Center, San Francisco Branch: talk, "Writing the Wild Zone: Feminist Poetics in Motion."

1991: Poetry Society of America: featured reader, presenter and introducer of two younger poets, Mark Nepo and

S.U.N.Y Writers'Conference, Albany. Organizing Committee member, workshop instructor, featured

St. Andrews' College, North Carolina, panelist: The Future of Publishing.

SUNY New Paltz: Conference on H.P.Lovecraft, paper: "Protoplasmic Slime, Gender, and the Fear of the

1990: St. Andrews' College, North Carolina, talk and illustrated lecture: "The Underground Trickster in the

1989: Irish-American Library, The John Montague Celebration, New York City; speaker

Hudson Valley Writers' Guild, Panel on Censorship and the Arts, at the Market Theater, Albany; panelist

Syracuse University; Panel on Literary Magazines; panelist

St. Andrews' College, North Carolina, March visitng poet; instructor, reading, repeat performance of

871 Fine Arts Gallery: "Ethel Schwabacher's Abstract Works," San Francisco; opening and closing

1988: Things of Beauty Gallery, Albany: "The Art and Journals of Ethel Schwabacher," talk.

St. Andrews' College, North Carolina, Writers' Conference, instructor and visiting poet.

The Mind of a Woman Artist: The Art and Journals of Ethel Schwabacher, Conference: SUNY Albany, in

papers: 1. "Doing it with Mirrors: Ethel Schwabacher's Revisionary Strategies," and

2. "Eurydice Discards her Mask: the Artist's Search for Entitlement."

871 Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, Opening of first Ethel Schwabacher show: "The Task of Sisyphus:

Mills College, California: Panel on the Work of Ethel K. Schwabacher: "Of Orpheus, Eurydice, and the

1987: S.U.N.Y. Writers Conference, Binghamton. Panel member, Conceptual Art Presentation and

consultant to planning committee.

1986: Modern Language Association Convention, New York City, paper: "Muriel Rukeyser, Myths for

Mini-Conference on Women and the Grotesque, St. Andrews' College, North Carolina; keynote speaker

1985: Adirondack Community College Writers' Conference; lecture: "The Art of Revision."

1984: S.U.N.Y. Writers' Conference, Albany (fiction reading, workshop leader, organizing committee)

1983: Open Stages, S.U.N.Y. Albany, New York Humanities Council-sponsored festival of women's

theater (organized reading series for new scripts)

1981: New Virginia Review and Virginia Arts Council, panel presentation: "What Can Poetry Do?"

and reading/workshop tour.

S.U.N.Y. Writers' Conference, Oswego (poetry reading, workshop leader)

1978: New York City Association of Teachers of English, "Multimedia Approaches to the Teaching of Poetry,"

1977: National Council of Teachers of English, "The Poetry of Carolyn Kizer," (lecture)

Fayetteville Library, North Carolina, "Tolkien and the Epic Imagination," (lecture)

1969: Yale University, "A Celebration for Dudley Fitts," (panel member; poetry reading)

1974-85: Guest teaching at writer's conferences, brief residencies, workshops, etc. (selected):

St.Andrews' College, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, at Greensboro

and at Charlotte; University of Illinois at Normal; Poetry Center of the Philadelphia Y.

1982, "A Program on Parody," reading and talk

1978, William Carlos Williams Celebration; talk: "Poetry and Praise," text printed in Poetry Society of America

Bulletin

1976, The Poetry of H.D.; panel originator and moderator; talk: "H.D.: a Women's Mythology," text printed in

Poetry Society of America Bulletin; Remarks on "Early Reactions to Dickinson, Whitman, and Melville,"

"Ideas of Decorum in Poetry," "Poetry and the 'Destructive Element,'" Delivered as keynote addresses at

the annual awards programs, and published in The Poetry Society of America Bulletin, May 1975, 1976,

1977.

1979-81, Folger Shakespeare Library (1979-81), in conjunction with the Poetry Society of America and the Poetry Center of the Philadelphia Y:

1981, Women in Translation Symposium: panel moderator;

1979, "A Conference on Poetics and Prosody, (lecture "The Prosody of Whitman and Dickinson," and moderator).

1979, CUNY Graduate Center, in conjunction with the Poetry Society of America, "The Edifice of Wallace

Stevens: a Centennial Celebration" (New York Humanities Council Program; program originator, with

Allen Mandelbaum, panel moderator, panel presentation: "Wallace Stevens: an Appreciation," published

in the Poetry Society of America Bulletin, Winter, 1980).

Associated Writing Programs: President 1995-96; Board Member, 1994-97; Member, 1980- .

Poetry Society of America: Life Member, 1986, Member, 1964-85. Member of Governing Board, 1973-75,

1978-84. President (two two-year terms) 1975 and 1976, 1977 and 1978.

National Women’s Studies Association, Life Member, 1996-

P.E.N. American Center: Member 1970-

The Author's Guild: Member, 1971- . Member, Nominating Committee 1976, 1979.

NCTE: Member, 1992-

Modern Language Association: Member, 1983- .

Phi Beta Kappa: elected, 1958.

Hudson Valley Writers' Guild: Member 1985-, Board member 1991--, Vice President 1993-

Professional Directory Listings (selected; some under the name Judith Johnson Sherwin):

Contemporary Poets, St. Martin's Press, 1980 and 1995

The Encyclopedia of Short Fiction

Who's Who in America

Who's Who of American Women

A Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers

International Who's Who of Poetry

Interviews and Special Focus Issues of Periodicals: (Newspapers not included)

1991, Caprice, Spring-Fall Issue, critical essay by Brenda S. Webster("Art as Salavage: Salvage as Art: The Poetry

of Judith Johnson," pp. 32-53), two long poems.

1989, Boundary 2, Volume XV, No. 3, Spring / Fall 1988, Giovanna Covi, "Words of Poetry, Words of Theory: at

Breakfast with Don Byrd, Robert Creeley, Douglas Gunn, Judith Johnson, Pierre Joris, Charles Stein, and

William Spanos, pp. 73-96

Capital: The Magazine of New York's Capital Region, "Design: A Look Inside the Workshops of Writers at

Work," Jeremy Bloom: profile.

1986, Groundswell: special focus issue, Winter 1986. "Judith Johnson and the Writer as Woman: Dragon, Scold

or Prophet," Jean Anaporte Easton, pp. 27-44.

"An Interview: Judith Johnson," Susan Shafarzek, pp.45-73.

1979, The Helen Review, "An Interview with Judith Johnson Sherwin," Carol Polcovar,

Vol. I #2, pp. 16-30.

(Key to Appendices (in following section) Appendix A: Bibliography of periodical publications;

Appendix B: Biographical and critical attention; Appendix C: Grant-funded projects;

Appendix D: University teaching and service; Appendix E: Work forthcoming, under consideration, or in progress