Lynn Wagner
1361 Vine St. Denver, CO 80206; lynn.wagner@yahoo.com
Lynn's CV (PDF)
Published Poetry
"Little Black Dress," in Eating Her Wedding Dress, Red Sky Press. Buy it here.
“98 Degrees,” The Progenitor, forthcoming. First prize in the Writers Studio Spring Literary Festival, 2009 (Mark Irwin, judge)
“Note,” Country Dog Review, Vol. 1
"Aesthetic Principle," Syracuse Cultural Workers 2008 Women Artists Datebook, Sept. 29.
"Urban Haiku, Neruda,"Poemeleon, Volume II, issue 1 (Summer 2007).
"Woman Blowing Soap Bubbles," Valparaiso Poetry Review, Volume VIII, Number 2 (Spring/Summer 2007).
“The Thinker: First Female Study,” Subtropics, issue 3, Winter/Spring 2007.
“Steps We Take to Ise Shima,” The Fourth River, Fall 2006, 56-57.
“Complaint to Memphis Minnie,” 5AM, Fall 2006.
“What the Blues Harpy Said,” Shenandoah, Fall 2006, 93.
"That Kind of Blue," Pittsburgh Post Gazette, 7.1.06.
"Neruda,"Chautauqua Literary Review, Spring 2006, 7. Republished in Poemeleon.
“Glass Box No. 35,” RHINO 2006.
“Gratitude,” “Doubt,” Ariel XXIV, 17, 24.
“On Optimism,” “The Four Elements of Fun,” Orphan Leaf Review /the Single Line Quarterly, Issue 4, November 2005.
“For Ethel,” So to Speak, Summer/Fall 2005, 46.
“Teaching Ghazal,” The Bulletin, April 2005, 1.
“Three Windows,” Pittsburgh Post Gazette, 2.25.05.
“Loomed Potholder,” Pittsburgh City Paper, issue 39, 9.29.04, 64.
“Ode to Refrigerator Magnets,” Edison Literary Review, Fall 2004, 40-41.
“The Beaufort Scale of Love,” Lullwater Review, Winter 2002, 34-36.
“My ex-lover comes back into my life,” Two Rivers Review 3, Summer 2000, 26-27. Included in the anthology, The Breath of Parted Lips vol. 2, CavenKerry Press, 2004.
“Why,” Steam Ticket, A Third Coast Review 2, Fall 1996, 7.
“White Blues,” Painted Bride Quarterly 53/54, 1994, 102.
Awards and Honors
Center for Book Arts, Letterpress Printing & Fine Press Publishing Seminar for Emerging Writers, with master printer Barbara Henry, November 2006.
Vira I. Heinz Foundation, Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, December 2004-January 2005, May 2007.
Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, 2004.
Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, December 2003.
Academy of American Poets Prize, 2002, (Mary Ruefle, judge).
Ropewalk, partial scholarship to 2004, 2006 conferences.
A Room of Her Own foundation, partial scholarship to 2003 writer’s retreat.
Judith Siegel Pearson Award, 2002, (3rd place, Terry Blackhawk, judge).
In a number of different reading series in Eastern and Western PA and now Denver CO, plus New Jersey and New York City. 1995-present.
Prosody, WYEP 91.7FM, Pittsburgh, September 2004.
Teaching & Professional Activities
Presenter, National Writing Project Urban Sites Network Conference. April 2008. Workshop session: Reading and Writing the Blues: Entry to Understanding and Change.
Presenter, Bowling Green State University's 2006 Winter Wheat festival of Writing. Using Computers Efficiently.
Fellow, Summer Institute for Teachers 2003. Part of the Western Pennsylvania Writing Project WPWP. Member of the publications committee. Final teaching demonstration project: Transformational Thinking: Computers in the Writing Process.
Instructor: Allegheny Intermediate Unit, teaching a poetry apprenticeship to gifted students, grades 10-12. Fall/Spring 2003/04. New class with online component, Fall 2004.
Teacher / Visiting Writer of 5th and 6th graders in WPWP Young Writer's Institute. June 2003, July 2004. Visiting writer with grades 3, 4, 5, 7 & 8. July 2002, 2005, 2006, High school Poetry Intensive, July 2007.
Managing Editor, nidus: online journal of contemporary art and literature. Fall/Spring 2002/03, issues #3 and #4. Art Editor, 2003/04, issues 5, 6, 7.
Reader: First round reader/recommender for creative writing portfolios, Allegheny county, sent to Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts. 2004, 2005.
Curator of Pittsburgh Poetry Calendar 2002-2007
Published Articles
“Heart of the Matter: Why Learn Poems by Heart,” AWP Pedagogy Forum, Feb. 2009, Chicago.
Review: Meg Kearney’s The Secret of Me, Spring issue CLAS: Colorado Language Art Society, p. 38.
Review: Diane Lockward’s What Feeds Us in Rattle, online at rattle.com.
“Filling in the Blank to Genius: MadLibs as a Tool for Introducing Diction and Form” for AWP Pedagogy Forum: Jan. 2008, New York City.
“The Solidness in Change: Teaching the Ghazal,” The Bulletin of the Western Pennsylvania Writing Project, April 2005, p.35.
“Tuning to a Good Ear: Sound Exercises in Poetry,” in The Pedagogy Papers 2004, p. 192. Presented at AWP Pedagogy Forum: March 2004, Chicago.
“Poems: Best Order, the Perfect Line & Organizing Principles-Learning from the Masters,” in The Pedagogy Papers 2003, p. 56. Presented at AWP Pedagogy Forum: March 2003, Baltimore, MD.
Inclusion in Anthologies
Eating her Wedding Dress: Poems on Clothing, Ragged Sky Press, 2009.
Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-Po listserv, Red Hen, 2008.
Along These Rivers: Poetry and Photography from Pittsburgh, 2008.
The Breath of Parted Lips, vol. 2, CavenKerry Press, 2004.
Study
MFA, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh, 2004
BA Liberal Arts, General Arts and Science, Penn State, 1987
. . Concentration in non-fiction writing and graphic design.
. . Study Abroad: Rome Italy. Temple University / Tyler School of Art in Rome. National Merit Scholar
1998: Squaw Valley Community of Writers
1997 - 2000: study with Baron Wormser
1993 - 2000: The Frost Place Festival of Poetry. Participant: 1993, 1995; Auditor: 1997, 1999
. . Visitor: alternate years. The Frost Place Seminar, Participant: 2000
1998: 92nd St. Y, Master Class, Spring semester. Molly Peacock
1995: 68th St. Y, Master Class, Fall semester. Patricia Smith
1991-1995: Northampton Community College, Reading course in Modern American Poetry followed by four semesters of workshops led by Len Roberts
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