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Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

Alice Derry
1862 Deer Park Rd.
Port Angeles, WA 98362
360-452-4998
Peninsula College (Emeritus)
1502 East Lauridsen Blvd.
Port Angeles, WA 98362
360-417-6241

Book Publication

Stages of Twilight, Breitenbush Books, 1986
Getting Used to the Body, Sagittarius Books, 1989
Not As You Once Imagined, Trask House Books, 1993
Clearwater, Blue Begonia Press, June 1997
Strangers to Their Courage, Louisiana State University Press, 2001
Rainer Rilke: Selected New Poems (translations from the German), Pleasure Boat Studio, 2002
Tremolo, Red Hen Prress, forthcoming, 2011

Honors

1986 Raymond Carver chose Stages of Twilight for the King County Arts (Seattle) Publication Award
1988 Washington State Arts Commission Individual Artist Award — $5,000
1989 Poem selected for Clallam County’s contribution to state centennial
1995 NISOD Excellence in Teaching Award
1996 Washington Community and Technical Colleges Humanities Association—Exemplary Status Award for work in poetry
2002 Strangers to their Courage, Finalist, Washington Book Award (of twenty-five books)
2005 Poet in Residence—NAHE national conference
2007 Exceptional Faculty Award for travel with students, Peninsula College
2008

2011

Exceptional Faculty Award for writing, Peninsula College

Artist Trust GAP (Grants for Artists Program) —  $1500

Education

1967-68 Die Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany German
1969 B. A., Rocky Mountain College, Billings, Montana English and German
1970 M.A., The American University, Washington, D. C. American Literature
1972 Secondary Certificate, Lewis-Clark State College Lewiston, Idaho Education
1980 M. F. A., Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont Poetry
1992 Universität, Göttingen, Göttington, Germany Auditor in German
various University of Washington, Seattle, Washington coursework with Richard Kenney
  Northeastern University, Chicago, Illinois coursework
  Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, Washington coursework
1995 Berlin, Germany summer coursework
1998 Chosen for Goethe Institute teacher seminar: “Deutschland im Wandel” coursework in German

Teaching

1972-1980 Waukegan East High School, Waukegan, Illinois 9-12 English and German
1980-2009 Peninsula College, Port Angeles, Washington English and German
1995-1997 Chairperson, English Division  
2003-2007 Chairperson, Faculty Senate  
1980-2009 Co-director and main force, Foothills Writers Series  

Courses taught: German 101-103; German 201-203; Composition I and II (most recently using the curriculum of the Bioregion); American Literature, World Literature, Introduction to Poetry, Creative Writing I and II; Introduction to Shakespeare; Writing and the Creative Process; Poetry and Painting

Learning Community courses: Regions of the Olympics and Ourselves, twice (science, writing, and literature); Understanding Diversity (sociology and writing); Reading the Landscapes of Home (science, writing, literature, art); Poetry and Painting (art); Understanding the Arts: Romantic Revolution (art, music, literature, architecture), with subsequent study class in Europe.

Undergraduate research seminar for 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009: helping students hone work for publication and directing them in their publication efforts. Each class received a grant for work in undergraduate research by Peninsula College. Each class produced a chapbook of work.

Periodical and Anthology Publication; Readings

Poems have appeared in the following periodicals, among others: Poetry, Fine Madness, Seattle Review, Hubbub, Alaska Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Crosscurrents of the Washington Community College Humanities Association, Willow Springs, Dalmo’ma, Raven Chronicles, Apostrophe, Crab Creek Review, Interdisciplinary Humanities, Poetry East.

Poems have appeared in the following anthologies: Seattle 15 Book (1886), Tablets the Rain Inscribes (1988), Island of Rivers (1988), Season of Dead Water (1990), Ravens in Winter (1994), The Spirit Within, A Writers Harvest of Poetry (1996-2005), Long Journey (2006), Beyond Forgetting, (2009), New Poets of the American West (2010), Signs of Life (Facere Jewelry), 2011.

1980 to the present: a wide variety of readings of my work throughout Washington and Oregon.

Conference presentations and papers

May 2000, 2002,
2004, 2006, 2008
Skagit River Poetry Festival: readings and presentations: poetry and painting, wordplay, the political poem, workshops for high school students
February 2002 Associated Writing Programs Conference, New Orleans, LA—LSU poet
October 2003 WCTCHA conference presentation: Poetry and Painting
March 2004 Associated Writing Programs Conference in Chicago, Illinois. Panel presentation on Pulitzer Prize winning Chicago poet, Lisel Mueller
March 2005 Why Poetry?” NAHE conference (National Association of Humanities Educators
May 2005 Featured Poet: Blue Begonia Series in Yakima, reading and lecture: “Why Poetry?”
February 2006 Gallery Show with Linda Larsen: Poetry and Painting
October 2006 WCTCHA conference: paper on Tess Gallagher’s Dear Ghosts: “Urgent Stories”
December 2006 Acceptance of paper “Urgent Stories” in Northwest Review
February 2007 “Learning Community Teaching” NAHE Conference
October 2008 “Teaching Europe, Public Education—Private Journeys” WCCHA conference
April 2009 “For Your Reading Pleasure: Into the Wild” and a reading from Tremolo, H.E.R.A. Conference

Other Grants Received

Peninsula College Foundation grants: securing films of Shakespeare plays for college media center; producing a book from the learning community, “Reading the Landscapes of Home”; securing teaching books and art supplies for “Reading the Landscapes of Home”; taking students to see the Fall 2006 Seattle production, Don Giovanni.

Current efforts: collaborating with a music colleague on a translation of a memoir written about Beethoven’s childhood; collaborating with a biologist on a future book about plants of the Puget Sound region; continued work on various essays; always poetry.

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