Publications & awards

Some publications, exhibitions, awards &c.

Books

Horsetail Rhizome Palimpsest Press 2027 [forthcoming]
Dumuzi • Gaspereau Press 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 Editions 2007 • link
Jack Pine • Groundwood Books 2007

Chapbooks

Inanna Scient • Anstruther Press 2023
Glitch Apple • above/ground press 2022

Visual & Multimedia

Undone [excerpts] • Arts Itoya • Takeo Japan 2024
Kanzeon • Dark Mountain 2022
Siri Falls Among the Things of the World [excerpt] • Ancient Exchanges 2022 • link
The Sirens • Bellingham Review 2021 • link
Dumuzi (Mud Variations) • Ancient Exchanges 2020 • link
Red Black & Blues [excerpts] • DIAGRAM 2020 • link
Dumuzi Incipit • Asymptote 2018 • link
7 video poems • Bellingham National • Whatcom Museum 2017
3 video poems • Asemic Writing: Offline & in the Gallery • Minnesota Center for
           Book Arts 2017
2 asemic texts • Affect and Audience: Translational Poetics • Essay Press 2017  

Journals & periodicals

Poetry

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
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

Translations

Glitch Apple • where is the river 27 2022) • link
His Message • Asymptote 2017 • link
The Earthwalker • Western Humanities Review 2007

Essays & reviews

On “Glitch Apple” • periodicities 2023 • link
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

Anthologies & one-offs

3 from Inanna Scient • Anstruther Reader • Palimpsest 2024 [anthology]
Union Square • Sustenance • Anvil 2017 [anthology]
Jack Pine • Vancouver Opera in Schools 2009–2010 [adaptation]
Via Negativa (Pound) • The Companions Series High Ground 2008 [broadsheet]
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]

Collaborations

Fast-Vanishing Speech • with du Plessis & Johnstone • Gaspereau 2024 [book] • link
Does Your Book Need Repair? • with Hughes & Taylor • BSA 2024 [editor] • link
Slipsheets: A Conversation • with Steeves & Williams • DA 2023 [interview]
An Incidental Printing of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Pied Beauty” on Slipsheets
          with Steeves • Gaspereau 2023 [book]
For Elise • with Bolster & Nickel • CV2 2015 [tribute to Elise Partridge]
Fractal [excerpt] • Nature Rearranged •  National Gallery of Canada 1999 [catalogue]
Weed Flower Mind [excerpt] • with Thomas • Poetics (in)form 1999 [installation]
A Conversation between Robert Hass and Mary Karr • PSA Newsletter 1994 [editor]

Exhibitions

Typographia [digital] • Centre for Renaissance & Reformation Studies 2025 • link
Box 15 [palaeography] • Massey College Library 2023 • link
Typographia [physical] • Centre for Renaissance & Reformation Studies 2022
To Those Whose Eyes Wander [visual poetry] • Bellingham Review 2021 • link

Awards & fellowships

Junior Fellow • Massey College 2022–23
American Book Award • Before Columbus Foundation 2019
3X nominated • Kleinknecht Excellence in Teaching Award • WWU 2015–2018
5X nominated • Pushcart Prize 2004–2018
Steffensen Cannon Fellow • University of Utah 2010–11
Graduate Research Award • University of Utah 2011
Craig Arnold Memorial Poetry Prize • Academy of American Poets 2010
Utah Writer’s Contest • Western Humanities Review 2010
Vice-Presidential Fellow • University of Utah 2006–08
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
Phi Beta Kappa • Oberlin College 1991

Readings & Interviews

Atlantic Canada Reading Tour • Montreal Halifax LaHave Moncton 2023
Knife Fork Book • Toronto 2023
Fertile Festival • Toronto 2022
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

Douglas Lochhead Book Arts Lecture • Gaspereau Press Wayzgoose 2023
Early Modern Interdisciplinary Graduate Forum • University of Toronto 2023
The Material Fantasy of the Book • BHPC Graduate Student Colloquium 2022
The Book Out of Order • BHPC Graduate Student Colloquium 2021
Appropriation & Copyright in Creative Writing • Washington DC 2017
American Literary Translators Association Conference • Rochester NY 2019
Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs Conference • Toronto 2018
Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs Conference • Toronto 2016
Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs Conference • Vancouver 2014
Associated Writers and Writing Programs Conference • Seattle 2014
Associated Writers and Writing Programs Conference • Vancouver 2005

Residencies

Arts Itoya • Takeo Japan 2024
4X Djerassi Resident Artists Program • Woodside CA 1999–2024
4X Yaddo • Saratoga Springs NY 1998–2006
MacDowell • Peterborough NH 2004
4X Virginia Center for the Creative Arts • Sweet Briar VA 1997–2003
Millay Arts • Austerlitz NY 1996

[bonus track] Some courses I’ve Taught

University of Saint Michael’s College

History of the Book • Elements of Bibliography & Print Culture
History of Reading • Readers, Readerships, Reception

Western Washington University

Advanced Poetry Workshop • Poetics of the Rhizome
Multi-Genre Workshop • The Art of Com­post
Living Writers • Word and/as Image
Living Writers • Poets of the Left Coast
Advanced Cre­ative Nonfiction Workshop • States of America, Plural
Introduction to Poetry Writing
Introduction to Creative Nonfiction
Introduction to Creative Writing
Editing & Publishing
Major Authors • Pound & Williams
Literature & Culture of the 20th & 21st C • Poetics of Peace & War
Literature & Culture of the 16th & 17th C • Other Minds
Literature & Culture of the 16th & 17th C • The Early Modern Lyric
Texts of North America and Europe • Metamorphosis
Mythology & Literature
Introduction to British Litera­ture
Introduction to Shakespeare
Writing about Literature • Fabulous Origins

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