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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.