Niagara Falls
Poetry Project
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Jan Conn Literary Curriculum Vitae
January 2005
Home: 14 Butternut Drive Great Barrington MA 01230, USA email: janconn@vgernet.net; webpage: http://www.janconn.com/ Citizenship: Canadian
Academic History: Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, SUNY-Albany, 2003- Research Scientist, The Wadsworth Center, Albany NY 2002- Associate Professor, University of Vermont, 2000-2002 Assistant Professor, University of Vermont, 1994-2000 Postdoctoral Researcher and Co-Principal Investigator of National Institutes of Health Grant at University of Florida, 1990-1994.
Postdoctoral Associate, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Ph.D. Genetics, University of Toronto, Ontario, 1987. M.Sc. Entomology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. 1981. B.Sc. Biology (cum laude), Concordia University, Montréal, 1977. CEGEP, General Arts, Loyola College, Montréal, 1972.
Poetry Focus: lyrical and narrative poetry
Books (poetry) Jaguar Rain. The Margaret Mee Poems. Brick Books. Forthcoming 2006. Beauties on Mad River. New and Selected Poems, Véhicule Press, Montréal, 2000. ISBN 1-55065-140-4
What Dante Did With Loss,
Véhicule Press, Montréal, 1994.
South of the Tudo Bem Café,
Véhicule Press, Montréal, 1990.
The Fabulous Disguise of
Ourselves,
Véhicule Press, Montréal, 1986. Red Shoes in the Rain, Fiddlehead Press, New Brunswick, 1982. ISBN 0-86492-025-3
Work in Progress
Awards: 2nd prize, CBC Literary Awards (Poetry), 2003. South of the Tudo Bem Cafe, Shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award, 1990. Prizewinner, The Canadian Poetry Contest, 1987.
Poems in Anthologies: Sightlines 8, Prentice Hall Literature, 1998 We All Begin in a Little Magazine, eds. J. Barton, R. Donovan, M. Feuerstack, S. Hawkins, H. Humphreys, C. Sutherland, Carleton University Press, Ottawa, 1998 Turning Points, eds. J. Barry, C. McClymont and G. Huser. Nelson Canada, Ontario, 1993 Compañeros, An Anthology of Writings about Latin America, eds. H. Hazelton, G. Geddes. Cormorant Books. The Signal Editions Anthology, ed. M. Harris, Véhicule Press, Montreal, 1993.
The Fourth Morningside Papers,
P. Gzowski, McClelland & Stewart Inc. Celebrating Canadian Women, ed. G. Hofmann Nemiroff, Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1989 Poetry by Canadian Women, ed. R. Sullivan,Oxford University Press, 1989 The Dry Wells of India, ed. G. McWhirter, 1988 Women & Words The Anthology/Les femmes et les Mots Une Anthologie, eds. West Coast Editorial Collective, Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd. 1984 Anything is Possible, ed. M. di Michele, Mosaic Press, 1984 The Toronto Collection, Manoeuvres Press, 1982 Anti-War Poems, Vesta Publications, Toronto, 1982
Poems in Literary Journals: 1978-82 Cross Canada Writer’s Quarterly, Event, Germination, Moosehead Review, Poetry Canada Review, Poetry Toronto, Prism International, Room of One’s Own, Sepia (England), This Magazine 1983-87 The Body Politic, The Canadian Forum, Event, Germination, Moosehead Review, Poetry Canada Review, Prairie Fire, Poetry Toronto, Quarry, This Magazine 1988-92 Arc Magazine, Books in Canada, Canadian Women’s Studies/Les Cahiers de la Femme, The Moosehead Anthology, Poetry Canada Review, Prairie Fire, Prism International, The Malahat Review, Quarry, Room of One’s Own, This Magazine 1993-97 Arc Magazine, The Antigonish Review, Event, The Malahat Review, Matrix, Prairie Fire, Prism International, Quarry, Room of One’s Own, The University of Windsor Review 1998-2002 The Antigonish Review, Arc Magazine, Delirium Press (limited edition broadside), The Fiddlehead , Literary Review, The Malahat Review, The Massachusetts Review, Matrix, New Quarterly, Prism International, The Queen's Feminist Review and Somewhere Across the Border. 2003-2004 Arc, The Antigonish Review, enRoute Magazine, Event, The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, The Massachusetts Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Prairie Fire, The Queen's Feminist Review, Room of One’s Own, Vallum
Radio Broadcasts (Interviews and Poetry Readings): CBC Radio One Between the Covers, 2004 CBC All in a Weekend, 2004 CBC Art Talk, 2004 Queen’s Feminist Review interview, Queen’s University Radio, Kingston, ON, 2004 CBC, Montreal, 1995; Toronto, 1991 KGNU Radio, Boulder, Colorado, 1992, 1988 Radio Centreville, Montréal, Québec, 1989 Vancouver CO-OP Radio, 1987
Writing Grants: 2001, Canada Council Senior Writing Grant: Margaret Mee Project.
2000, Women’s Studies Program, Univ. Vermont, to travel to London to work
on 1990, Canada Council Short Term Writing Grant: travel through Bolivia, Chile and Venezuela 1987, Canada Council Short Term Writing Grant: travel through Brazil 1982, Canada Council Short Term Writing Grant: travel through Japan
Reviews of Beauties on Mad River 2004 Journal of Canadian Poetry; 2002 The Antigonish Review; Books in Canada; Concordia University Alumni Magazine; The Danforth Review; 2001 Monday Magazine
Readings: (since 2000) 2005 Ecological Society of America literary evening, Montreal 2004 English Department, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario English Department, Concordia University, Montreal 2003 English Department, Concordia University, Montreal Humanities and Arts Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA Department of English/Canadian Studies, University of Vermont Book House, Albany, NY Bookpeople, Moscow, Idaho Amherst Books, Amherst MA 2002 Doublehook Bookstore, Montreal, Que. IV Lounge Reading Series, Toronto Delirium Press launch, Zeke's Gallery, Montreal, Que. 2001 Jeffrey Amherst Bookstore, Amherst, MA Black Sheep Books, Vancouver, B.C. Orlando Books, Edmonton, Alberta James Bay Inn, Victoria, B.C. Department of English, University of Vermont University of Vermont Regional Center, Montpelier, Vermont Women's Studies Dept., University of Vermont Barnes and Noble Bookstore, Burlington, Vermont Doublehook Bookstore, Montreal, Que. Canadian Studies, University of Vermont 2000 John Dewey Honors Seminar, University of Vermont Modern Fuel Gallery, Kingston, Ontario Collected Works Bookstore, Brattleboro, Vermont
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