Charles Hartman CV

Charles O. Hartman — Curriculum Vitae

Background

Born August 1, 1949, Iowa City, Iowa
Education:

Washington University: Ph.D. 1976, diss. "Principles of Free Verse"; M.A. with Creative Thesis 1972
Harvard University: A.B. magna cum laude 1971; Senior Thesis on Bob Dylan

Teaching:

Connecticut College: Lucy Marsh Haskell '19 Professor of English (2011-), Chair of the English Department (2008-2011), Professor of English (1991-), Poet in Residence and Co-Director of Creative Writing. Faculty Parliamentarian (2002-). Visiting Associate Professor (1984-1990), Associate Professor (1990-1991). Advanced and beginning courses in the writing of poetry; modern poetry, contemporary poetry, science fiction, poetry and music.
College Year in Athens, Director Connecticut College SATA-Greece, Fall 1997; Visiting Professor, Fall 2002.
Moscow State Linguistic University, exchange professor of poetry and language, Spring 1993.
Pfizer Pharmaceutical Company, Connecticut College Summer Course, "Poetry and Music," 1991.
Northeastern University (Spring 1985). Graduate course in technical writing.
University of Washington: Assistant Professor (1979-1982), Associate Professor (1982-84). Graduate and undergraduate courses in modern and contemporary British and American poetry and fiction; writing of poetry; prosodic history; science fiction; composition; theory of metaphor.
Northwestern University: Lecturer (1976-1979). Courses in writing of poetry; seminars on Eliot and Williams, prosody, poetry and song, metaphor.
Washington University: Teaching Assistant (1972-1975). Freshman courses in poetry and song, novels of the sixties, composition.

Books and Media

Verse: An Introduction to Prosody, Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
New & Selected Poems, Ahsahta Press, 2008.
Beside the Point (compact disc), 2008.
Crete (photos and text), 2007.
Island (poems), Ahsahta Press, 2004.
Plumb (compact disc), 2002.
The Long View (poems), Wesleyan University Press, 1999.
Virtual Muse: Experiments in Computer Poetry, Wesleyan University Press, 1996.
Glass Enclosure (poems), Wesleyan University Press, 1995.
Sentences (poem "with computer interventions"), with Hugh Kenner, Sun & Moon Press, 1995.
Jazz Text: Voice and Improvisation in Poetry, Jazz, and Song, Princeton University Press, 1991.
English Metrics: Hypertext Tutorial and Reference (Macintosh and DOS versions), 1992, 1996, 2005, 2015.
Glass Enclosure (poem, limited edition), with Bryn Manly, December 1992.
True North (poems), Copper Beech, July 1990.
Gravitation (poem, limited edition), Sea Pen Press, 1982.
The Pigfoot Rebellion (poems), David R. Godine, 1982.
Free Verse: An Essay on Prosody, Princeton University Press, 1981; paperback 1986.
Free Verse, second paperback edition, Northwestern University Press, 1996.
What We Once Knew: Five Poems with Music (for contralto and string trio), completed.
Beauties (play), completed.

Poems

"Too far — he said —," Poetry Daily, Jan. 21, 2009.
"Maybe So," Quarterly West, Summer 2008.
"Ticket," Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac, NPR, Nov. 18, 2007.
"The Strange," Poetry Magazine, December 2006.
"Petting Zoo," Poetry Magazine, February 2006.
"Sorites," Pleiades, 2004.
Three poems from "Morning Noon and Night," Field, 2004.
"Tambourine," New World Writing, 2002.
"Russian Lessons," Yale Review, 1998 (winner of Small Prize for best poem of year).
"Common Prayer," Ascent, 1996.
"The Long View," Common Knowledge, 1996.
"B & B," "Honeydew," Orpheus (Bulgarian translation), 1995.
"Seventy-Six Assertions and Sixty-Three Questions," Grist On-Line, 1995.
"Tuxedo," TriQuarterly, 1994.
"Limpet," Southwest Review, Spring 1994.
"Anthem," "Analogue," "Extraordinary Instruments," TriQuarterly, 1990.
"Dance Text #1," commissioned by Manfred Fischbeck, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, April 1989, and Connecticut College, November 1991.
"Glass Enclosure," Temblor, Fall 1988.
"Monologues of Soul and Body," Tyuonyi, Spring 1988.
"Love Song: Accidental Species," Ploughshares, Spring 1988.
"After Kuo Hsi," Yale Review, Spring 1987.
"The Done Without," "A Succession of Acts," Pequod 22, 1986.
"The Difference Engine," Poet Lore, Spring 1986.
"Colloquy," Quarterly West, Spring 1986.
"Harm's Way," "The Fire that Feeds," Prairie Schooner, Winter 1985.
"An Early Riser," Ironwood, Spring 1985.
"Incentive," Ploughshares, Winter 1984.
"The Burden of the Desert of the Sea," "On My Mother's Birthday," Agni Review, Spring1984.
"Snapshot of That," Antioch Review, Fall 1983.
"True North," The New Yorker, Jan. 31, 1983.
"Pal is a Romany Word," "New Hampshire," "Digging In," Poetry, April 1983.
"Limb from Limb," "Lion & Hawk," Song, Spring 1982.
"Things to Attend To," The Southern Review, Summer 1982.
"The Nation Semaphores Its Intentions," "Moving House," "All I Survey," Perspective, Spring 1982 (Dedicatory Issue for Jarvis Thurston).
"Homage to Jay Silverheels," Carolina Quarterly, Spring 1982.
"Plain Grass," kayak, Fall 1981.
"In the Mean Time," The New Yorker, Feb. 15, 1982.
"Terzanelle," "Not Oscar Wilde in Duluth," Poetry, August 1981.
"Gravitation," Carolina Quarterly, Summer 1981.
"Come Down to That," Seattle Review, Spring 1981 (special poetry issue, ed. by Jane Shore).
"Catching a Ray," Ploughshares, Winter 1981.
"Trading Chicago," "Theme and Variations," "The Soul is Corrigible by Sleep," "The Fruit," Carolina Quarterly, Spring/Summer 1979.
"Over a Cup of Tea," "Two Poems About Grass," Poetry, December 1979.
"Minnesota," Carolina Quarterly, Autumn 1978.
"Double Mock Sonnet," "Daddy Long-legs," Poetry, June 1978.
"The Cambridge Quakers," "The Days," Poetry Now, Spring 1978.
"The Essayist," "Stars: Flat, Blue, Large Stars. Nothing," Poetry, November 1977.
"The Stone Lions," "Fire in the Library," Poetry, August 1976.
"bonecat," "Homage to Jay Silverheels," Griffin, 1975.
"Mastodon," "To My Student Gone to Israel," Poetry Northwest, Autumn 1975.
"Before My Father Before Me," "Milkweed," "To A and B, My Friends Who Are Not in Books," "Inflation," "3:OO," Poetry, February 1975.
"To Shadow," "A Little Song," "lying awake 8/24/72," Poetry, June 1973.
"Wir alle fallen," "Dancing to Guitars," "Mandrill," Crossroads, May 1973.
"A Prayer for Violets," "The sky / was huge," "Neighborhood," Descant, January 1973.
"Moira," Crossroads, November 1972.
"Theseus," The Harvard Crimson, August 14, 197O.
Anthologies:
"Puddle System," In Like Company: The Salt River Review & Porch Anthology, ed. James Cervantes (Asheville, N.C.: MadHat Press, 2015).
"Petting Zoo," Penned: Animals in Zoos, Véhicule Press, Montreal, 2009.
"Ticket," Across the Threshold, Into the Questions, ed. Caren Goldman and Gted Voorhees, Morehouse Publishing, 2008.
"Ticket," Garrison Keillor, The Writer’s Almanac, November 18, 2008.
"Tambourine" (part), Kindled Terraces: American Poets in Greece, ed. Don Schofield (Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State Univ. Press, 2004).
"The Clearing," The Sacred Place, ed. Scott Cairns and Scott Olsen, 1996.
"A Little Song," "Double Mock Sonnet," Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional Forms, ed. Philip Dacey and David Jauss (New York, 1986).
"Trading Chicago," 198O Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry.
"Inflation," The Poetry Anthology: 1912-1977, ed. Daryl Hine and Joseph Parisi (Boston, 1978).
"A Prayer for Violets," "To Shadow," "Before My Father Before Me," "Milkweed," "Mastodon," The Ardis Anthology of New American Poetry, ed. David Rigsbee and Ellendea Proffer (Ann Arbor, 1977).

Articles and Presentations

"Dylan's Bridges," New Literary History, Autumn 2015.
"On Being Plagiarised," London Review of Books blog June 6, 2013.
"Dylan's Covers," with Janet Gezari, Southwest Review, 2010.
Lecture on metrics, music, and formal structure, University of Virginia, April 2008; and consultation with Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at U.Va. toward a new version of English Metrics.
Presentation on meter in poems and song lyrics, panel at AWP Conference, New York, February 2008.
"Contrafactum: Career of a Tune" (from Hans Leo Hassler to Paul Simon), Yale Review, 2007.
"What Comes Next?" Jazz performance, presentation on memory and structure in jazz and poetry, and reading, University of Louisville Festival of Poetry and Music, April 2007.
"‘Wrong Together’: Structures, Norms, and Standards" Annual Review of Jazz Studies, 2007.
"Line," "Free Verse," entries in Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry, 2006.
"Where Am I," Southwest Review, 2004.
"On Becoming a Greek Poet," Southwest Review, 1998.
"Flowing, and Flown: Elizabeth Bishop's Sentences," completed.
"Meter in English," Meter in English, Univ. of Arkansas Press,1995.
"How to Distinguish Notes on Poetry from Notes on My Poetry," Tyuonyi, summer 1990.
"Poetry from PROSE: Use of a Text Generator," New England Computer Arts Association Symposium on The Computer and the Creative Process, May 1989.
With Hugh Kenner, reading and discussion of Sentences, Harvard Library, October 12, 1989.
"Poetry, Jazz, Song: Toward Speaking For," Southwest Review, Spring 1988.
"Essay Ending with Six Reasons to Read Jackson Mac Low," Prairie Schooner, Spring 1988.
"Always Talking", 1984 MLA Special Session on Robert Creeley.
"Verse and Voice," Ironwood, Winter 1984. Reprinted in Conversant Essays: Contemporary Poets on Poetry, ed. James McCorkle, Wayne State Univ. Press, 1990.
"Laura Jensen: 'The Light of the Heart'," Indiana Review, October 1984.
Review, Marjorie Perloff, Poetics of Indeterminacy, Modern Literature Quarterly, March 1982.
"Free in Whatever Form," lecture in the Grolier Poetry Series, November 1983.
"Array Capabilities in dBASE II," Byte, November 1983.
"On the Border" (contemporary free and metrical verse), The Ohio Review, Summer 1982.
"Cognitive Metaphor," New Literary History, XIII, 2 (Winter 1982).
"Contemporary Sentences," Seattle Review, IV, 2 (Fall 1981). Special issue on poetry and poetics, ed. Stanley Plumly.
"John Ashbery and Postmodernist Prosody," MLA Special Session on contemporary prosody, 1979.
"Some Notes on Poetic Value" (Ezra Pound's and Witter Bynner's translations of Li Po), Contemporary Poetry, II, 3 (Winter 1977).
"Analysis of a Song: Joni Mitchell's ‘Michael from Mountains,’ " Centennial Review, Fall 1977.
"Condensation: The Critical Vocabulary of Pound and Eliot," College English, October 1977.
"The Criticism of Song," Centennial Review, XIX, 2 (Spring 1975).

Charles O. Hartman

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