Curriculum Vitae
Alice Derry 1862 Deer Park Rd. Port Angeles, WA 98362 360-477-2306 email Alice |
Peninsula College (Emeritus) 1502 East Lauridsen Blvd. Port Angeles, WA 98362 360-417-6241 |
Book Publication
Asking, MoonPath Press, Fall, 2022
Hunger, MoonPath Press, January, 2018
Tremolo, Red Hen Press, September 1, 2012
Rainer Rilke: Selected New Poems (translations from the German), Pleasure Boat Studio, 2002
Strangers to Their Courage, Louisiana State University Press, 2001
Clearwater, Blue Begonia Press, June, 1997
Not As You Once Imagined, Trask House Books, 1993
Getting Used to the Body, Sagittarius Books, 1989
Stages of Twilight, Breitenbush Books, 1986
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 | Exceptional Faculty Award for writing, Peninsula College |
2011 | Washington Community College Humanities Association-Exemplary Status Award for “Outstanding Contributions to the Humanities” |
2011 | GAP award from Artist Trust – $1,500 |
2020 | Nominated for Pushcart Prize by Cirque. |
2020 | Vi Gale Award from Hubbub Magazine. |
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, Windfall, Geo-spatial Project, Floating Bridge Review, Plume, Flint Hills Review, Great River Review, Catamaran
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), Claiming The Spirit Within (1996), A Writers Harvest of Poetry (1996-2008), A Fierce Brightness; Twenty-five Years of Women’s Poetry (2002), Long Journey (2006), Beyond Forgetting, (2009), New Poets of the American West (2010), Facèré: Signs of Life (2011); Take a Stand Against Hate (2020); Keep a Green Bough (2021)
1980 to the present: a wide variety of readings of my work throughout Washington, Oregon and beyond.
A sampling of readings: Peninsula College (Port Angeles); Port Book and News (Port Angeles); Northwind (Port Townsend); Fourth Fridays (Sequim); Elliott Bay; Third Place Books; Open Books (Seattle); Bellevue Community College (Bellevue); Central Washington University (Ellensburg), three times as featured writer; Yakima Community College (Yakima); bookstores in Yakima; Lower Columbia College, twice as featured writer (Longview); Reed College (Portland); Mountain Writers Center (Portland); Linfield College (Linfield, OR); Orcas Island; Anacortes; Skagit River Poetry Festival (2000-2008) (LaConnor); conferences in Richmond, VA and Chicago, IL.
Book tour for Tremolo, Fall, Winter, and Spring 2012-2013, included more than fifteen events, among them readings in Seattle, Portland, Salem, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Book tour for Hunger, 2018-2019, included about ten events, among them readings in Seattle, Portland, Chimicum, Anacortes, Roslyn, McMinnville, Port Townsend.
Poems appeared on KUOW/NPR, Nov. 19, 2012, February 13, 2013. Poems appeared on KPTZ, 2016, with Sheila Bender.
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: I helped students hone work for publication and assisted 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.
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 |
April 2009 | Featured poet for Orcas Island Library; day-long workshop on poetry and revision |
March 2010 | Week-long poetry workshop in Anacortes High School for four classes of ninth graders |
March 2011 | “I Began in Laughter and Ended in Love: Comments on Translating the Fischer Memoir of Beethoven,” H.E.R.A. Conference |
September 2011 | With other colleagues and in conjunction with the Elwha Klallam Tribe, produced a reading and chapbook and composed a poem of many voices for the Celebrate Elwha! Festival in Port Angeles at the beginning of dam removal and river restoration. The reading was repeated, again to good audience, in June, 2012, for the PC Library’s River Story. |
January 2012 | Presented a workshop, based on William Stafford’s Writing the Australian Crawl, to students and community members at Lower Columbia College in Longview, Washington. |
May 2013 | With Tess Gallagher and others, organized and executed a month-long Raymond Carver 75th Birthday Celebration and gave the keynote address: “Raymond Carver, A Personal Remembrance.” |
September 2013 | Faculty member at LiTFUSE!, Tieton, Washington. |
April 2017 | Writer-in-Residence, Peninsula College, Port Angeles, Washington. |
October 2019 | With Tess Gallagher. 8-day reading and teaching tour in Michigan to honor the poetry of Theodore Roethke. |
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 Work
- Collaborating with a music colleague on a translation of a memoir written about Beethoven’s childhood
- Collaborating with a colleague, providing writing workshops for local Native peoples
- Continued work on various essays, including texts to accompany plates of native Washington plants, and the beginnings of a memoir
- Always, poetry.