Charles Fishman - Curriculum Vitae

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Address
56 Wood Acres Rd – E. Patchogue, NY 11772

phone
(631) 776-2752 (H); (631) 805-5051 (C)

E-mail
carolus@optonline.net

Rank:
Distinguished Service Professor (Emeritus) – State University of New York

Position:
Director, Distinguished Speakers Program, SUNY Farmingdale (2001-2007)
Director, Visiting Writers Program, SUNY Farmingdale (1979-1997)
Director, Program in the Arts, SUNY Farmingdale (1987-1990)

Education:
SUNY Albany D.A. Creative Writing (1982)
Honors: President’s Award for Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation
Concentration: Contemporary American Poetry and Poetry Writing
Additional Focus: Holocaust Poetry, Jewish-American Writers, Romantic
     Poetry
SUNY Stony Brook: M.A.-level course work in English & Hebrew (1975-79)
Hofstra University B.A. and M.A. English Literature
M.A. Thesis: An Inquiry into Yeats’s Method of Ordering His Poetry

Academic Honors:
Applaud an Educator Award, The Harvard Graduate School of Education (2005)

Honors:
Fellowship, U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, July 2001
George M. Estabrook Distinguished Service Award – Hofstra University (2000)
Poetry Consultant,, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (1995- )
New York State/United University Professions Excellence Award (1990)
Appointed Distinguished Service Professor, SUNY (1989)
NEH reviewer for Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (1985)
SUNY Chancellor's Award: Excellence in Teaching (1985)
Farmingdale Foundation Award: Excellence in Teaching (1985)
NEH Post-doctoral fellowship: Yale University (1982)
NEH Fellowships: UCSD (1978), Boston University (1974)

Literary Honors:
Paterson Award for Literary Excellence (2007)
Elected to Trustee Board of the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association (2007)
Long Island Poet of the Year – Walt Whitman Birthplace (2006)
Finalist, 2005 Paterson Poetry Prize, for Country of Memory
Finalist, Green Rose Award for Poetry, New Issues Poetry Series (1999)
Eve of St. Agnes Poetry Award, Negative Capability (1999)
Finalist, Pablo Neruda Award, Nimrod (1998)
Ann Stanford Poetry Prize, Southern California Anthology (1996)
Fellowship in Poetry, New York Foundation for the Arts (1995)
Finalist, Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award, Poetry Society of America (1994)
Finalist, New Letters Award for Poetry (1993)
Finalist, Carnegie Mellon Poetry Award (1991)
The Death Mazurka, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry (1990)
Gertrude B. Claytor Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America (1987)

Booklength Collections:
Chopin’s Piano (Time Being Books, 2006)
Country of Memory (Uccelli Press, 2004)
The Firewalkers (Avisson Press, 1996: limited edition)
The Death Mazurka (Timberline Pres, 1987; Texas Tech, 1989)
Mortal Companions (Pleasure Dome Press, 1977)

Chapbooks:
5,000 Bells (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2004)
Time Travel Reports (Timberline Press, 2002)
An Aztec Memory (Anabiosis Press, 1997)
Nineteenth-Century Rain (Whistle Press, 1994)
As the Sun Goes Down in Fire (Anabiosis Press, 1992)
Zoom (Singular Speech Press, 1990)
Warm-Blooded Animals (Juniper Books, 1977)
Aurora (Tree Books, 1974)

Other Books:
Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust (editor, Time Being
     Books, 2007) [Rev. Second Edition of original Texas Tech edition (1991)]
An Index to Women’s Magazines & Presses (Seagull Publications, 1977)
Catlives {translated from Sarah Kirsch's Katzenleben by Marina Roscher with
     Charles Fishman} (Texas Tech, 1990)

Appearances in Books:
The Sorrow Psalms: A Book ofTwentieth Century Elegy (Iowa, 2006)
The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp (Wisconsin, 2004)
Bittersweet Legacy: Creative Responses to the Holocaust (Univ. Presses of America, 2001)
Poetry Comes Up Where It Can (University of Utah Press, 2000)
Beyond Lament: Poets of the World Bearing Witness to the Holocaust (Northwestern, 1998)
Fathers (St. Martin’s Press, 1997)
Images from the Holocaust (NTC Publishing Group, 1996)
Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry (Monitor
     Publishing Co., 1996; also 1981, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1996)
Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust (Texas Tech, 1991)
80 on the 80s: A Decade's History in Verse (Ashland Poetry Press, 1990)
Ghosts of the Holocaust (Wayne State University, 1989)
Lessons of the Vietnam War (Center for Social Studies Education, 1988)
Carrying the Darkness: The Poetry of the Vietnam War (Avon, 1985)

Print Journals:
Poems, translations, articles, and reviews in more than 350 periodicals,
including Abiko Quarterly (Japan), American Book Review, Beloit Poetry
Journal, College English, Colorado Quarterly, Confrontation, The Contemporary
Poetry (Korea), European Judaism, Georgia Review, Hawai'i Review, International
Quarterly, The Jerusalem Review (Israel), Malahat Review (Canada), Midstream,
Mississippi Review, New England Review, New Letters, New York Quarterly,
The New York Times, Nimrod, Poetry Now, Poetry International, Salmagundi,
Small Press Review, and Southern Poetry Review.

Judge:
Capricorn Book Award, Writer’s Voice (1998)
Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award for Poems on the Jewish Experience (1998)
Coordinator, Paumanok Poetry Award International Competition (1990-1997)
Eckerd College, Student & Alumni Poetry Awards (1991)

Editor:
Poetry Editor, New Works Review (2003- ), Cistercian Studies Quarterly
{following Denise Levertov} (1998- 2000), The Journal of Genocide Research
(1997-1999), Gaia (1993-99), Series Editor, Water Mark Poets of North
America (1980-83), Founding Editor, Xanadu (1975-78)
Associate Editor, The Drunken Boat (1999-2005)

Festivals & Residencies:
Jack Kerouac Writer-in-Residence, Orlando, Florida, January-February, 2002
The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, New York (December 1999)
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, Virginia (6/97, 9/03, 12/04)
Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, Wyoming (August 1993 & October 1997)
Poetry Alive! festival, Asheville, North Carolina (June 1994)
Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Jerusalem (January 1992)

Readings & Talks:
Ben-Gurion University, Brigham Young University, Carnegie Mellon University,
Claremont McKenna College, Columbia University, Georgia Tech, Haifa University,
Hebrew University, Louisiana State University, PEN American Center, Rosenthal
Institute for Holocaust Studies, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Tel Aviv University,
University of Georgia, University of Judaism, University of Michigan,
University of Minnesota, Vanderbilt University, University of Judaism,
University of Washington, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Walt
Whitman Birthplace, Wesleyan University, and more than 400 other venues

Criticism:
Review of Passionate Renewal: Jewish Poetry in Britain Since 1945, in
     American Book Review, Vol. 23, Issue 2, January/February 2002.
The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American
     Writing, ed. Hilda Raz, H-Judaic review, September 1999
"Death's Shining Body: A Reconsideration of Kinnell's Book of Nightmares,"
     Asheville Poetry Review, Fall 1994
"Through the Sharpness of Distance: American Poets on the Holocaust," Poetry
     Pilot (Academy of American Poets), May 1990
"I Didn't Say Goodbye: Child Survivors of the Holocaust," American Book
     Review (March/April 1986)
"A. R. Ammons: The One Place to Dwell," The Hollins Critic, 1982
"William Pillin: A Certain Music," critical introduction to Pillin's collected poems,
     To the End of Time (Papa Bach Editions, 1980)

Papers & Talks:
“Poetry’s Essential Role in Teaching about Genocide,” Landmark Center, St.
     Paul, MN, November 9, 2006
“Raising the Bar in Editing,” AWP, New Orleans, March 2002
“Problems in Representing the Holocaust in Poetry,” Univ. of Alabama-
     Huntsville, 1998
“Some Cautions on the Use of Dramatic Monologue in Poetry on the Holocaust"
     AWP, 1996
“Poetry as Testimony: Some Key Texts," Tampa Bay Holocaust Museum, 1996
“Poems of Liberation and Reconciliation," Brigham Young University, 1995
“The Riddle of Responsibility: Poems on the Murder of Europe’s Jews,” Rider
     Coll., 1994
“American Poetry and the Holocaust, " The Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust
     Studies, 1993

Perspectives on My Work:
Austin, William James. “Charles Fishman,” in Contemporary Jewish-American Dramatists
     and Poets: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook (Greenwood, 1999)