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Distinguished Professor, English
Professional Service
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Met with group of students at English language library, YALI school, Changsha, Hunan Povince, China.
2107 - present
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Entity: University of North Texas Wrote promotion letter for Jehanne Dubrow for Distinguished Professor.
2020 - 2020
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Entity: University of North Texas Wrote promotion letter for Jehanne Dubrow for Distinguished Professor.
2020 - 2020
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Entity: Many publishers Wrote a number of blurbs -- at least five.
2020 - 2020
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Entity: University of Georgia Press Evaluated Proposal for Anthology of Contemporary Elegy for Publication.
2019 - 2020
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Entity: University of Utah English Department Role: Read and Evaluate Files of Applicants for PhD in English Graduate Committee.
2019 - 2020
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Entity: Harvard Selection of Harvard-Cambridge Scholars First Reader -- read and evaluated sixty files Final Interviews -- interviewed and deliberated upon 12 finalists.
2019 - 2020
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Role: Read And Evaluate Files Of Nominees For Distinguished Professor.
Entity: University of Utah Distinguish Professor Selection Committee.
2019 - 2020
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Entity: University of Southern California reviewed poet Anna Journey for Tenure.
2019 - 2019
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Entity: Utah Valley University Outside Reviewer for Brock Jones' Third Year Review.
2019 - 2019
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Role: Director.
Entity: University of Utah Have founded, Raised Funds for, Organized and Run the yearly 10-day Graduate Student Artists' Colony at the Taft-Nicholson Center (receive no cfinancial ompensation for this).
2019 - 2019
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Entity: Jewish Federation of Utah Judge Holocaust Poetry Contest for middle school and high school.
2019 - 2019
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Entity: LSU Press evaluated three manuscripts for publication this year Judith Hall's PROSPECTS, Elizabeth Powell's ATOMIZER, Jehanne Dubrow's WILD KINGDOM.
2019 - 2019
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Entity: University of North Texas Role: Wrote Promotion letter Reviewed Jeheanne Dubrow, Candidate for Full Professor.
2018 - present
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Role: Member.
Entity: University of Utah Department of English Graduate Committee.
2018 - 2019
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Entity: University of Utah Role: member (read and evaluate files) Distinguished Professors Nomination and Selection Committe.
2018 - 2021
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Congregation Kol Ami "Spotlight on the Community" read works in progress from Berlin.
2017 - present
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Governance Committee and Selection Committee Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships.
2017 - 2018
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Jewish Federation -- teach monthly Bible class to women's grouop.
2017 - 2017
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Entity: Cornell University Reviewed Ishion Hutchinson for tenure.
2017 - 2017
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Entity: University of Utah Served as Internal Reviewer for the School of Music.
2016 - 2016
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SLC Jewish Community Center after school program taught poetry to five and six year olds.
2016 - present
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Entity: Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships On Board of Directors, Served as First Read, on Selection Committee.
2016 - 2016
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Entity: Sterling Scholarships Final Judge for Sterling Scholarships in English -- read portfolios and interviewed 15 applications.
2015 - 2015
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Entity: English Dept Outreach Committee Seminar for Teachers, multiple visits to classrooms at local high schools.
2014 - 2016
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Entity: Taft Nicholson Center Organized, found Funding and Ran 10-day writers colony for CW Graduate Students.
2014 - 2014
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Entity: National Endowment for the Arts Reader of Fellowship Applications in Poetry.
2014 - 2014
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Entity: Utah Jewish Federation Teach monthly Biblie Class in Park City.
2014 - 2014
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Entity: Congration Kol Ami Chant and often given talks about Bible in synagogue services.
2014 - 2014
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Entity: Taft-Nicholson Center WRiters Conference Organized, got funding for and ran for 13 graduate students in creative writing.
2013 - 2103
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Entity: Princeton University College of the Humanities Reviewed Tracy K Smith for tenure and promotion.
2013 - present
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Entity: Jewish Federation of Utah Lead Lunch and Learn Series for Jewish Federation.
2009 - present
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Entity: Jewish Federation of Utah Teach in Lunch and Learn series (once a month).
2009 - 2014
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Entity: Harvard-Cambrdige Scholarships Selection Committee Chair.
2008 - 2013
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Entity: Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships Governance Committee, first reader, double interviewer.
2005 - 2015
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Role: Member.
Entity: Harvard-Cambridge Scholarships Governance Committee/ Selection Committee.
2002 - 2019
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Entity: Congregation Kol Ami Chant and Lead Torah Discussion.
1989 - present
Internal Service
- Selection Committee Distinguished Professors.
2017 - 2018.
service.
- Role: Member Curriculum Committee.
2015 - 2015.
service.
- Role: Member Outreach Committee.
2015 - 2015.
service.
- Role: Member Selection Committee Distinguished Professors.
2015 - 2015.
service.
- Distinguished Professors' Selection Committee.
On Small Committee To Appoint Distinguished Professors,
2014 - 2016.
service.
- Curriculum Committee.
Member,
2014 - 2016.
service.
- Distinguished Professors Nominating Committee.
2011 - present.
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- Search Committee: Fiction Writer.
2011 - 2012.
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- Distinguished Professors Selection.
2011 - present.
service.
Honors & Awards
- Research Assignment to write Essays on the Bible (it's not "Sponsored Research" -- as it's not a monetary gift, so I decided to put it under honors and awards).
University of Utah College of the Humanities ,
2019
- Winner of 2019 Phillabaum Poetry Award (for best book of poetry to be published in 2019).
LSU Press,
2018
- Residency at Artists' Colony in Evoramonte, Portugal.
Las Obras, Portugal ,
2017
- George Edwards and Rachel Hadas Fellowship (all costs covered for my residency at VCCA).
Virginia Center of Creative Arts ,
2017
- One-month residency, living expenses paid.
Jentel Artist Residency ,
2017
- Selected as one of four poets to be featured on poster series for 2012.
Pennsylvania Center for the Book Public Poetry Project ,
2011
- 2010 Elizabeth Matchett Stover Memorial Award for "At Peter Behren's House" as best poem published in Southwest Review in 2010.
Soutwest Review ,
2011
In the Media
- Review of MY LOOKALIKE AT THE KRISHNA TEMPLE
in ANTIOCH REVIEW . 2019.
- Radio West Interview for National Poetry Month . 2019.
https://radiowest.kuer.org/post/two-utah-poets
- Poem quoted in review of Best America Poetry, WASHINGTON POST . 2019.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books...
- BBC Cultural Frontline Interview . 2018.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswp71
- Interview with Doug Fabrizio reaired on RADIO WEST. 2017.
- Doug Fabrizio is planning to make a short film of my "Dusk in January: Salt Lake City" to be aired on the Radio West website. I recorded the poem, but film has yet to be made. 2016.
- Radio West Interview with Doug Fabrizio . 2015.
- Adam Kirsch, in TABLET MAGAZINE, said, Jacqueline Osherow, who writes about American Jewish experience better than any poet at work today. 2015.