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Contact Information:
(631) 805-5051 (C)
carolus@optimum.net

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

Position:
Creator & Director, Distinguished Speakers Program, SUNY Farmingdale (2001-2007)

Creator & Director, Program in the Arts, SUNY Farmingdale (1987-1990)

Creator & Director, Visiting Writers Program, SUNY Farmingdale (1979-1997)

Education:
SUNY Albany: D.A. Creative Writing (1982)

Honors: President’s Award for Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation
Concentrations: Contemporary American Poetry and Poetry Writing, Holocaust Poetry

SUNY Stony Brook: M.A.-level course work, English Literature & 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

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

Fellowship, U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, July 2001

George M. Estabrook Distinguished Service Award – Hofstra University (2000)

Appointed Distinguished Service Professor, State University of New York (1989)

NEH reviewer for Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (1985)

SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching (1985)

Farmingdale Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching (1985)

NEH Post-doctoral fellowship: Yale University (1982)

NEH Fellowships: University of California, San Diego (1978), Boston University (1974)

Literary Honors:
2007 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence

2006 Long Island School of Poetry Award – Walt Whitman Birthplace

Finalist, 2005 Paterson Poetry Prize, for Country of Memory

Finalist, Green Rose Award, New Letters (1999)

Finalist, Pablo Neruda Award, Nimrod (1998)

Ann Stanford Poetry Prize, Southern California Anthology (1996)

1995 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry

Finalist, 1994 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award, Poetry Society of America

Finalist, 1993 New Letters Award for Poetry

Finalist, 1991 Carnegie Mellon Poetry Award

The Death Mazurka, 1989 ALA/Choice Outstanding Book of the Year

The Death Mazurka, 1990 nomination for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry

1987 Gertrude B. Claytor Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America

Booklength Collections:
Water under Water (Casa De Snapdragon, 2009)

Chopin’s Piano (Time Being Books, 2006)

Country of Memory (Uccelli Press, 2004)

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)

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Other Books:
Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust, ed. (Time Being Books, 2007) [Rev. Second Edition]

Catlives {translated from Sarah Kirsch's Katzenleben by Marina Roscher with Charles Fishman} (Texas Tech, 1991)

An Index to Women’s Magazines & Presses (Seagull Publications, 1977)

Appearances in Books:
PAUMANOK: Poems and Pictures of Long Island (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2009)

The Sorrow Psalms: A Book of Twentieth Century Elegy (Iowa, 2006)

The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp (Wisconsin, 2004)

Bittersweet Legacy: Creative Responses to the Holocaust (U. Presses of America, 2001)

Poetry Comes Up Where It Can (Utah, 2000)

Beyond Lament: Poets of the World Bearing Witness to the Holocaust (Northwestern, 1998)

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)

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, 1989)

Carrying the Darkness: The Poetry of the Vietnam War (Avon, 1985)

Appearances in Journals & Reviews:
Poems, translations, articles, and reviews in more than 350 periodicals, including Abiko Quarterly (Japan), Beloit Poetry Journal, Colorado Quarterly, The Contemporary Poetry (Korea), Georgia Review, Hawai'i Review, International Quarterly, The Jerusalem Review (Israel), Malahat Review (Canada), Midstream, Mississippi Review, New England Review, New Letters, The New York Times, Nimrod, Poetry International, Poetry Now, Salmagundi, Seventh Quarry (Wales), 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)

Creator & Coordinator, Paumanok Poetry Award International Competition (1990-1997)

Eckerd College, Student & Alumni Poetry Awards (1991)

Editor:
Poetry Editor, PRISM: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators (2008- )

Guest-Editor, Shirim, Fall 2008

Guest-Editor, The Pedestal Magazine, October 2005

Associate Editor, The Drunken Boat (1999-2005)

Poetry Editor, New Works Review (2003-2008), Cistercian Studies Quarterly {following Denise Levertov} (1998- 2000), The Journal of Genocide Research (1997-1999), Gaia (1993-99)

Poetry Consultant, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC (1991- )

Series Editor, Water Mark Poets of North America (1980-83)
Founding Editor, Xanadu (1975-78)

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Readings:
Bar-Ilan University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Brigham Young University, Columbia University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Bronfman Center of the 92nd Street Y, PEN American Center, Poetry Society of America, Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies — City University of New York, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Tel Aviv University, University of Georgia, University of Haifa, University of Judaism (Los Angeles), University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of Washington, Wayne State University, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Wesleyan University, and more than 400 other venues

Papers & Talks:
“Walt Whitman at the Center of Space and Time,” reading & lecture for visiting Chinese students from Sichuan Province, Farmingdale State College, September 2008

“Poetry’s Essential Role in Teaching about Genocide,” Landmark Center, St. Paul, MN, November 2006

“Raising the Bar in Editing,” Associated Writing Programs, New Orleans, March 2002

“Problems in Representing the Holocaust in Poetry,” University of Alabama- Huntsville, 1998

“Some Cautions on the Use of Dramatic Monologue in Poetry on the Holocaust," Associated Writing Programs, 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 College, 1994

“American Poetry and the Holocaust," The Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, 1993

Criticism:
Review of Passionate Renewal: Jewish Poetry in Britain Since 1945, in American Book Review, Vol. 23, Issue 2, January/February 2002.

Review of The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Writing, ed. Hilda

Raz, H-Judaic, 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)

Festivals, Conferences & Residencies:
Bengali Poetry Festival, Astoria, New York, June 14, 2008

AWP Annual Conference, NY Hilton, 2008

Association of Holocaust Organizations, Vanderbilt University, June 1994

Poetry Alive! Asheville, North Carolina, June 1994

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: June 1997, September 2003, December 2004, November 2008

Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, Wyoming, August 1993, October 1997

Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Jerusalem, January 1992

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

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