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CAROL POTTER
EDUCATION
University of Massachusetts, Amherst: 1982
M.F.A., Poetry Thesis advisor: James Tate
University of Massachusetts, Amherst: 1978
B.A., Cum Laude Major: English/Journalism
Certificate: Women’s Studies
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS:
What Happens Next is Anyone’s Guess, winner of the 2021 Pacific
Coast Poetry Series, Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA. Forthcoming, Spring 2022
Some Slow Bees, Oberlin College Press, 2015 Winner of the 2014 Field Poetry Prize
Otherwise Obedient, Red Hen Press, October 2007, Finalist for the Lambda Literary
Award for LGBT poetry, 2008
Short History of Pets, Cleveland State University Poetry Center Press, Fall 2000
Winner of the 1999 CSU Poetry Center Prize, and the 2001 Balcones Award for Poetry
Upside Down in the Dark, Alice James Books, April 1995
University of Maine, Farmington
Before We Were Born, Alice James Books, April 1990
University of Maine, Farmington
Journals:
Plume: Lion Cub; Whales, or You Can Be Guilty of Something You are Not Guilty Of
UnBroken: Tickled Pink; When the Archeologists
On the Seawall: Heaven’s Breath; Easter Basket September 2021
Hotel Amerika: I know it was nice of me. 2021
The Los Angeles Review: Walking on Ice. 2020
The Laurel Review: The Requisite Bad Hair 2020
Rattle: In Which I Get out of a Speeding Ticket
FIELD Anaconda, The Hairs on Your Head are Numbered, Fall 2018
Valparaiso: Night-crawler
Bloodroot: Lost Cattle in the Forest
Los Angeles Poetry Review: Stealth or a Bit of Stealing
Field, Déjà vu, or How we Got out of the Swamp; A Common Misperception, May 2017
Poetry Daily: A Common Misperception; May 2017
River Styx: Details and Procedures; Fall 2016
Hotel Amerika: On a Scale of 1-10; Most Know Better
Massachusetts Review: Musac; Fall 2016
Poetry Daily: Good Pink, Bad Pink; February 15, 2016
Verse Daily: Distant Buffaloes, 2015
New England Review: The Good Dark
Poet Lore: One with Others
Hayden’s Ferry: Replacement
Kenyon Review: Nothing but Blue Skies
Green Mountains Review: Good Pink, Bad Pink; What Moves; There Being No Puppies
Volume 28, #2 January 2016
Sinister Wisdom: Falling in Folds
Naugatuck River Review: Kettle Pond
Green Mountains Review: Thanks for the Coke; Never Say You’re Sorry (May 2015)http://greenmountainsreview.com/?p=5516
Ekphrasis: Nsiski, Power Figure, Fall 2015
Calyx, 4th of July
Agni: Ode to Smoke (on-line)
Hanging Loose: Dreaming of Disguise, Seven Girls Driving Around Town, Baby Insomniac, Sugar, Spring 2014
FIELD: The Good Pig, Spring 2014
Bloodroot: Distant Buffaloes, Winter 2013
Blueline: Mercy 2012
Rhino: Twinkies 2012
Otis Review: Blockade, Hecklers, Voodoo April 2012
Field: Silage Fall 2012
Poemelon: The Secret Drinker, 2012
Lambda Literary Review: Zucchini, If Bees Eat, Later 2011
Group 18 anthology Open Field: Plank by Plank, Jury Rigged 2011
Switched-on Gutenberg, Does This White Seem Cold Enough? Fall, 2010
Field: Auction, Fall 2010
Red-Headed Step Child: Zucchini Fall 2009
The Journal: the F word, Fall 2008
The Fourth Quarter: Poems About Retirement, and Beyond: Comfort Zone
Prairie Schooner: It Goes
The New Review of Literature: Where She Came From, Spring 2007
Gay & Lesbian Review, “Many Limbs Later”, November 2006
Agni, on-line: Once in an Insurance Company in Boston, Summer 2006
The Journal: the F word, Cartographer of the Most Serene Republic, Fort Whatever it Takes, Spring, 2006
Field: Sticky Fingers, I Would Be Smoking, Spring 2006
Poetry Miscellany: Green Felt Gowns
Arts & Letters: DNA, Spring 2006
Prairie Schooner: Nobody Go Blue, Rubber Necking, The Blended Family
Maize: Acre by Acre of It
Borderlands: An Essay on Horticulture, Something Errant
Field: M, Dutiful Winter, ‘04
Poet Lore: The Smoking Mother, What They Get Away With
Field : Serenade on Three Strings, Comfort Zone
The Massachusetts Review: The Confusion About What It Means to be Human, Fourth of July on the Deerfield
The Iowa Review: Roger on Guitar, 1969
The Lesbian Review of Books: Ghazal for 50
Blueline Anthology, Spring 2003: A Woman Out on the Lake is Singing
The Journal: If You Could Call it God, Tantrum Girl
The Ontario Review: Moonlight Sonata, The Well-Patted Baby, Gerry-Rigged, She Ate The Treats
Field: It Spring 2002
Pushcart Prize XXVI: Best of the Small Presses: Three Crows December, 2001
Snakeskin: Party Girl Bites Guest
Field Magazine: Translation Problems, Exile Spring, 2001
The Journal Spring/Summer 2001 Who Breaks Pays, Eve of an E-Lover’s Birthday
Poetry Magazine December 2000 The Big Fork, It’s A Free World
The Women’s Review of Books January, 2000 Short History of a Barn
Prairie Schooner Fall 2000 Short History of Love, You Need A Girl With Teeth, A Nice Piece with the Black Notes Missing
Sojourner: A Welter of Forms
The Women’s Review of Books Nothing You Want Anybody to See
The Massachusetts Review: Winter 1999-2000 The Limited Family Kitty
The Massachusetts Review No.4 Winter, 98-99: The Housepainter Before Me, Music She Insists, Between A Poem and A Sentence
The American Voice No. 49, 1999 A Spoilt Exquisite Air
Prairie Schooner , Winter 1998: Early Lessons in Electricity
The American Voice, Fall 1998 : The Bright Bulbed Flowers
The Iowa Review, Fall 1998: And She Was Happy
The Journal Spring 1998: Three Crows, Horse Tigers
The American Voice, no.43 Spring 1997: Short History of Pets
Evergreen Chronicles Spring 1996, vol.11/1 Horse
Field: Spring 1997: Nobody Drowned, Four Days of Rain, The Funk of Those Acres
The Massachusetts Review Spring 1996: My Father, Dressed Like Trees
Field Spring 1996 #54: The Market, Dead Baby and Gruff Daddy
The Southern Poetry Review winter 1995 vol. xxv.2: Waiting For Seven Birds To Fly in from Utica
The Journal Fall/winter 1994: Pumpkin Pie, Salt Wind off Truro, Block Island Ferry
Field Spring 1993 #48: Upside Down in the Rafters, Cairns
The Women’s Review of Books, 1993: You Can Go Back Now, The Catskill Game Farm
Sojourner Spring 1992: His Last Temptation
High Plains Literary Review Winter 1991: Looks Like Home
The Journal Fall 1991 vol.15.2: The Hanged Man, Hey Baby, Baby, The Summer After the Spring When Everything Flowered
The Journal Winter 1991 vol.14.2: Trouble Rocking Back and Forth in Her Chair, Pay What You Weigh, Digging to China
Field May 1990, #42: The Man at the Pompidou, They Want Ice Cream the Color of Honeydew Melon
Matrix October 1990: Nightswim
Blueline December 1990: A Woman Out on the Lake is Singing
New Letters 1990 Poetry award, Winter 1990-91 #57: What The Sign Painter Was Thinking, A Round of Faces at the Dining Room Window, Because the Egg Was A Door Nailed Shut, Golden Delicious, The Trouble in The Third Floor Window, From The Campground in North Truro
The Iowa Review Winter1989, Vol.19#1: What We Did With the Chickens, Herding the Chickens
The Massachusetts Review June 1989, vol. xxix,: An Object Falling from Outer Space, All Six of us Suspended Above Blue Seats
Sojourner March 1987: In The Upstairs Window
The Iowa Review Spring 1986,vol.16.2: All The Way Home, It Being a Free Country, Resistance, Bay Mare in a Second Floor Bedroom, Notes From the New World
Sojourner February 1986: The White Hotel
The American Poetry Review Jan/Feb/1986: White Horse on the Corner of Sixth Avenue, Rounding up the Babies, A Hum to Say I’m Missing Your Touch
Field Spring 1986 #34: All The Pretty Babies
The Massachusetts Review Spring 1985,vol.xxvi.1: UnBuckling the Lines
The Missouri Review, Tom McAfee Discovery Award Spring 1985,vol.viii.2: Releasing the Herd, That Not So Certain Feeling, The Children Who Haven’t Stopped
Moving, Tales of a Four-Legged Land, News From The North, Diving The Shoal
The Massachusetts Review Fall 1984,vol.xxiv.2: In the Chair...Root Canal, Day #2,
The Trouble With Chickens, On Water
New Letters 1984 vol.51.2: Land’s End
Bay Windows October 1983:
the minnesota review Fall 1984 #20: Incident at Port, Leaping for the Imaginary Fly
The Louisville Review Fall 1980, #9: By-pass
Anthologies:
The Road Taken, anthology of Vermont poetry: What Moves, Bear Hunting in North America, Spring 2017
Open Field, Spring 2012
White Ink: Cartographer of the Most Serene Republic, October 2007
Anthology of New England Women Writers: North Pond
Fathers ( Reid/Iglesias Shelburne Falls, MA) The Trouble with Horses, The Trouble with Boats, Because There Was Nothing To Do With The Hands, By-Pass April, 2001
National Poetry Competition Winners, 1990 Chester H. Jones Foundation The Cellist
1985 Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry (Beverly Hills, CA) In The Chair…Root Canal #2
1986/1987 Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry ( Beverly Hills, CA) Un-Buckling the Lines, It Being a Free Country
1986 Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry, Poetry Anthology Press, Great Neck, New York It Being A Free Country
Annual Survey of American Poetry
Poetry From Sojourner (Watertown, MA) White Hotel, In the Upstairs Window
My Lover is A Woman , Contemporary Lesbian Love Poems (Ballantine Books,1996) A Hum To Say I’m Missing Your Touch
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do (The Crossing Press, Freedom, CA 1994) The House with the Aqua-Colored Bars
The Time of our Lives Women Write on Sex after 40 (The Crossing Press, Freedom, CA 1993) Rituals
Sexual Harassment: Women Speak Out (The Crossing Press, Freedom, CA 1992) Such Great Knockers
Lovers , Stories by Women (The Crossing Press, Freedom, CA 1992) Herding the Chickens
To Live a Woman: Student work from the Project “Teaching Women’s Literature from a
Regional Perspective 1981 The Modern Language Association
“Good-bye Spooney Sunday. Fanny Fern: The Diary of Helen Ward Brandreth”
HONORS AND AWARDS
Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant, September 2019
Northampton Arts Biennial Poetry contest: “What Moves” October, 2015
2015 Ekphrasis Award for Poetry
2014 Field Poetry Prize, Oberlin College Press for Some Slow Bees (March, 2015)
Vermont Arts Council Development Grant, Fall 2014
Finalist: Lambda Literary Awards for GLBT poetry, 2008 Otherwise Obedient
dA Center for the Arts Poetry Award, Pomona CA 2004
Writer in Residence: The Thurber House, Columbus, Ohio April 2003
Balcones Poetry Prize, 2000 for Short History of Pets
Pushcart Prize XXVI: Best of the Small Presses: Three Crows
Cleveland State University Poetry Center Poetry Prize for Short History of Pets: 1999 $1,000. and publication of book
AWP Contest, Finalist for Short History of Pets: 1999
Nomination for Pushcart Prize: 1998
Centrum, Port Townsend, Washington Writer in Residence: Jan-Feb. 1999
Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, California Writer in Residence: Feb-March. 1999
Fundación Valparaíso, Playa Mojácar, Spain Writer in Residence April 1999
MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire Writer in Residence: Oct-Dec.1998
Hedgebrook, Whidbey Island, Washington Accepted for Residency: Nov. 1998
Massachusetts Cultural Council, Professional Development Award: 1999
Massachusetts Cultural Council Award, Finalist 1998
The New Millennium Awards: Honorable Mention 1996
The New England Writers Contest: Honorable Mention 1996
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York Writer in Residence: January, 1995
New Letters Literary Awards: First Place, Poetry 1990
New Letters, University of Missouri, Kansas City
The Chester H. Jones Foundation National Poetry Competition: Honorable Mention, 1990
The Massachusetts Artists Foundation: Finalist 1986
The Massachusetts Artists Foundation: Finalist: 1985
The Tom McAfee Discovery Award from The Missouri Review: 1984
Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, New York Writer in Residence: July 1983
The Cummington Community of the Arts, Writer in Residence, , August 1981
The Joseph Langland Poetry Award: Honorable Mention, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst: 1981
Faculty Union Graduate Scholarship, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: 1981
University Scholarship, 1979 University of Massachusetts, Amherst
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Smith College, Northampton, MA Interterm 2017
The Art and Business of Poetry, PYX 140
Antioch University Los Angeles, MFA Program, July 2002-present
MFA Affiliate faculty
Antioch University BA Program, Culver City, CA 2004-2007
English 490: Multi-Genre Creative Writing Seminar
Lit 339 In The Life: Queer Literature: A Survey
English 322, Poetry Writing
Community College of Vermont, Winooski, VT. 2008-present
Instructor: Creative Writing
Int.1060: Dimensions of Freedom
English Foundations of English
English 2510: Women & Literature
Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, VT. Spring 2008
Visiting Faculty
Creative writing workshop
Champlain College, Burlington, VT. Spring 2008
Intro to Creative Writing
University of Redlands, Redlands, CA Spring 2007 (Visiting Poet)
Creative Writing Workshop
Los Angeles City College, 2004 to 2006
English 1, Introduction to Composition
UCLA Writer’s Extension, 2005-2006
English XL 133A Creative Writing: Poetry (Online)
English X 422.3 Intro to Creative Writing, Poetry On line
English X487.1 Writing the Erotic Poem, A 2 day workshop
Santa Monica College, Fall 2004-2005 (Adjunct)
English 28, English 1 & English 2
Indiana University, Bloomington; September 2003-June 2004; (Visiting Poet)
W680: Theory and Craft of Writing
L381: Contemporary Short Fiction
W614 Graduate Poetry Workshop
W303 Undergraduate Poetry Workshop
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Visiting Faculty; April 2003
Poetry Workshop (two weeks)
Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, MA Professor 1984-2004
English 245: Women & Literature
English 217: Creative Writing, An Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction,
Creative non-fiction, and poetry
English 230 In The Life: Gay & Lesbian Literature
English 102 Introduction to Language and Literature II
English 101 Introduction to Language and Literature I
English 097: Reading Efficiency
COLLEGE SERVICE EXPERIENCE
Antioch University MFA Director Search Committee member, 2007
Carillon Committee (Subcommittee of Faculty Senate Fall 2000)
English Instructor Search Committee: 2000, 1994, 1993
Unit Personnel Practices Committee, 1999-2000
Senator, Faculty Senate, 1988-1990 1991-1992 2000-2002
Affirmative Action Committee, 1993-1994
Advisor: Lambda Center: Library, center for G/L/B/T students/faculty and allies. Helped found the center, creating grant applications, supervising staffing of the center 1996-present
Advisor for Tarah, the college literary magazine 1986-1992
RELATED ACTIVITIES
2010: Guest Editor, Gertrude, Issue 15: The Gay Issue
2004: Judge, the Benjamin Saltman Award, Red Hen Press
1992-1993 “Cost-saving Sabbatical” One year off at half-pay. Spent five months in Mexico, one month in Guatemala, writing, learning language, traveling.
1998-1999 Regular sabbatical. Traveled to Italy, France September-October, Residency at MacDowell, Peterborough, N.H.: October-December 1998: Residency at Centrum, Port Townsend, Washington January- February 1999 :Residency at Villa Montalvo in Saratoga, California February-March 1999: Residency at Fundaciòn Valparaíso in Mojácar, Spain April 1999, lived/traveled in Spain until end of July 1999 with two week stay in Freiburg, Germany
1990-1994: Member of the Alice James Books publishing cooperative: Duties included book production, editorial work, fundraising, book promotion and marketing, and other general editorial/administrative duties.
1978-79: Coordinator of Women’s Studies Colloquium Series, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1982: Coordinator of Cummington Community of the Arts Reading Series at the Jones Library, Amherst, MA
1971-76: Founding member of the Mudpie Childcare Co-op, Springfield, MA. As a member of the Mudpie Co-op, I participated in finding the site for the center, hiring a teacher, getting the center accredited, teaching, fund-raising, and general duties of running a day-care center.
BOOK REVIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
Review by Trish Crapo, Greenfield Recorder (Greenfield, MA May 15, 2015) http://www.recorder.com/home/16915315-95/poets-of-franklin-county-carol-potter
Review by Julia Shipley, Seven Days (Burlington, VT July 15,2015) http://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/book-review-some-slow-bees-by-carol-potter/Content?oid=2737301
Review by Chuck Zerby: Amherst in Print Amherst Bulletin, (Amherst, MA February 29, 1984)
Book Review by Lynne Yagamuchi Fletcher: Witness, Wildness, Vision, Prayer Sojourner: The Women’s Forum (Jamaica Plain, MA August 1991 )
Book Review/Interview by Bruce Watson, Translating Childhood Memories Into Poetry The Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA April 1990
Book Review/Interview by Brett Martin: Two Poets Search For State of Grace in the World” The Daily Hampshire Gazette Northampton, MA Wednesday, May 17, 1995
Book Review by David Walker: Self Consciousness in Field Spring 1986
Review of poem published in Field by Jeff Rawlings in Small Press Review (January/February 1998)
Interview/Book Review with Nancy Pick: A Little of this, a little of that Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA Wednesday, April 15, 1998)
Article by Nancy H. Gonter Two HCC professors awarded poetry honors Union News (Springfield, MA October 11, 1999)
READINGS (highlights)
Bloom, NYC April 2019
Bread Euphoria, Haydenville, MA April 2019
Poem Town, Randolph, VT April 2019
Poem City, Montpelier, April 2019
Bloom Reading Series, NYC, October 2018
Charleston Poetry Society, Charleston, South Carolina, Feb. 2016
Bookstock, Woodstock Vermont, July 2015
Associated Writing Programs Conference, April 2015
The Bowery Poetry Club, April 2015
Burlington Book Festival, September, 2008
AWP, NYC: January, 2008
UCLA Writer’s Extension, Skirball Center, LA June 2006
Gneiss Poetry Series, Palm Desert, CA April 2006
Palm Springs Book Festival, April 2005
Associated Writing Programs, Chicago, March 2004
Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles March 2002
Prairie Schooner Conference, Lincoln, NE October, 2001
The AWP Conference, Palm Springs, CA April 2001
The Odyssey Book Shop, South Hadley, MA December 2000
Fundacìon Valparaìso, Playa Mojácar, Spain 1999
The MacDowell Colony for the Arts, 1998
Northampton Center for the Arts, 1998
The Loud Music Festival, Northampton, MA (1996)
Camilla’s, New York City (1996)
Boswell Books, Shelburne Falls, MA (1996)
Borders Books, Framingham, MA (1996)
The Third Wave, Northampton, MA (1996)
The Book Cellar, Cambridge, MA (1996)
Associated Writing Programs Conference, Pittsburg (1995)
Barnes & Noble, New York City (1995)
University of Maine, Farmington (1995)
Northampton Center for the Arts (1995)
The Amherst Club, Amherst, MA (1994)
Holyoke Community College, (1994)
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1993)
Bellas Artes, San Miguel des Allende, México (1992)
New Words Books, Cambridge, MA (1992)
EDUCATION
University of Massachusetts, Amherst: 1982
M.F.A., Poetry Thesis advisor: James Tate
University of Massachusetts, Amherst: 1978
B.A., Cum Laude Major: English/Journalism
Certificate: Women’s Studies
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS:
What Happens Next is Anyone’s Guess, winner of the 2021 Pacific
Coast Poetry Series, Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA. Forthcoming, Spring 2022
Some Slow Bees, Oberlin College Press, 2015 Winner of the 2014 Field Poetry Prize
Otherwise Obedient, Red Hen Press, October 2007, Finalist for the Lambda Literary
Award for LGBT poetry, 2008
Short History of Pets, Cleveland State University Poetry Center Press, Fall 2000
Winner of the 1999 CSU Poetry Center Prize, and the 2001 Balcones Award for Poetry
Upside Down in the Dark, Alice James Books, April 1995
University of Maine, Farmington
Before We Were Born, Alice James Books, April 1990
University of Maine, Farmington
Journals:
Plume: Lion Cub; Whales, or You Can Be Guilty of Something You are Not Guilty Of
UnBroken: Tickled Pink; When the Archeologists
On the Seawall: Heaven’s Breath; Easter Basket September 2021
Hotel Amerika: I know it was nice of me. 2021
The Los Angeles Review: Walking on Ice. 2020
The Laurel Review: The Requisite Bad Hair 2020
Rattle: In Which I Get out of a Speeding Ticket
FIELD Anaconda, The Hairs on Your Head are Numbered, Fall 2018
Valparaiso: Night-crawler
Bloodroot: Lost Cattle in the Forest
Los Angeles Poetry Review: Stealth or a Bit of Stealing
Field, Déjà vu, or How we Got out of the Swamp; A Common Misperception, May 2017
Poetry Daily: A Common Misperception; May 2017
River Styx: Details and Procedures; Fall 2016
Hotel Amerika: On a Scale of 1-10; Most Know Better
Massachusetts Review: Musac; Fall 2016
Poetry Daily: Good Pink, Bad Pink; February 15, 2016
Verse Daily: Distant Buffaloes, 2015
New England Review: The Good Dark
Poet Lore: One with Others
Hayden’s Ferry: Replacement
Kenyon Review: Nothing but Blue Skies
Green Mountains Review: Good Pink, Bad Pink; What Moves; There Being No Puppies
Volume 28, #2 January 2016
Sinister Wisdom: Falling in Folds
Naugatuck River Review: Kettle Pond
Green Mountains Review: Thanks for the Coke; Never Say You’re Sorry (May 2015)http://greenmountainsreview.com/?p=5516
Ekphrasis: Nsiski, Power Figure, Fall 2015
Calyx, 4th of July
Agni: Ode to Smoke (on-line)
Hanging Loose: Dreaming of Disguise, Seven Girls Driving Around Town, Baby Insomniac, Sugar, Spring 2014
FIELD: The Good Pig, Spring 2014
Bloodroot: Distant Buffaloes, Winter 2013
Blueline: Mercy 2012
Rhino: Twinkies 2012
Otis Review: Blockade, Hecklers, Voodoo April 2012
Field: Silage Fall 2012
Poemelon: The Secret Drinker, 2012
Lambda Literary Review: Zucchini, If Bees Eat, Later 2011
Group 18 anthology Open Field: Plank by Plank, Jury Rigged 2011
Switched-on Gutenberg, Does This White Seem Cold Enough? Fall, 2010
Field: Auction, Fall 2010
Red-Headed Step Child: Zucchini Fall 2009
The Journal: the F word, Fall 2008
The Fourth Quarter: Poems About Retirement, and Beyond: Comfort Zone
Prairie Schooner: It Goes
The New Review of Literature: Where She Came From, Spring 2007
Gay & Lesbian Review, “Many Limbs Later”, November 2006
Agni, on-line: Once in an Insurance Company in Boston, Summer 2006
The Journal: the F word, Cartographer of the Most Serene Republic, Fort Whatever it Takes, Spring, 2006
Field: Sticky Fingers, I Would Be Smoking, Spring 2006
Poetry Miscellany: Green Felt Gowns
Arts & Letters: DNA, Spring 2006
Prairie Schooner: Nobody Go Blue, Rubber Necking, The Blended Family
Maize: Acre by Acre of It
Borderlands: An Essay on Horticulture, Something Errant
Field: M, Dutiful Winter, ‘04
Poet Lore: The Smoking Mother, What They Get Away With
Field : Serenade on Three Strings, Comfort Zone
The Massachusetts Review: The Confusion About What It Means to be Human, Fourth of July on the Deerfield
The Iowa Review: Roger on Guitar, 1969
The Lesbian Review of Books: Ghazal for 50
Blueline Anthology, Spring 2003: A Woman Out on the Lake is Singing
The Journal: If You Could Call it God, Tantrum Girl
The Ontario Review: Moonlight Sonata, The Well-Patted Baby, Gerry-Rigged, She Ate The Treats
Field: It Spring 2002
Pushcart Prize XXVI: Best of the Small Presses: Three Crows December, 2001
Snakeskin: Party Girl Bites Guest
Field Magazine: Translation Problems, Exile Spring, 2001
The Journal Spring/Summer 2001 Who Breaks Pays, Eve of an E-Lover’s Birthday
Poetry Magazine December 2000 The Big Fork, It’s A Free World
The Women’s Review of Books January, 2000 Short History of a Barn
Prairie Schooner Fall 2000 Short History of Love, You Need A Girl With Teeth, A Nice Piece with the Black Notes Missing
Sojourner: A Welter of Forms
The Women’s Review of Books Nothing You Want Anybody to See
The Massachusetts Review: Winter 1999-2000 The Limited Family Kitty
The Massachusetts Review No.4 Winter, 98-99: The Housepainter Before Me, Music She Insists, Between A Poem and A Sentence
The American Voice No. 49, 1999 A Spoilt Exquisite Air
Prairie Schooner , Winter 1998: Early Lessons in Electricity
The American Voice, Fall 1998 : The Bright Bulbed Flowers
The Iowa Review, Fall 1998: And She Was Happy
The Journal Spring 1998: Three Crows, Horse Tigers
The American Voice, no.43 Spring 1997: Short History of Pets
Evergreen Chronicles Spring 1996, vol.11/1 Horse
Field: Spring 1997: Nobody Drowned, Four Days of Rain, The Funk of Those Acres
The Massachusetts Review Spring 1996: My Father, Dressed Like Trees
Field Spring 1996 #54: The Market, Dead Baby and Gruff Daddy
The Southern Poetry Review winter 1995 vol. xxv.2: Waiting For Seven Birds To Fly in from Utica
The Journal Fall/winter 1994: Pumpkin Pie, Salt Wind off Truro, Block Island Ferry
Field Spring 1993 #48: Upside Down in the Rafters, Cairns
The Women’s Review of Books, 1993: You Can Go Back Now, The Catskill Game Farm
Sojourner Spring 1992: His Last Temptation
High Plains Literary Review Winter 1991: Looks Like Home
The Journal Fall 1991 vol.15.2: The Hanged Man, Hey Baby, Baby, The Summer After the Spring When Everything Flowered
The Journal Winter 1991 vol.14.2: Trouble Rocking Back and Forth in Her Chair, Pay What You Weigh, Digging to China
Field May 1990, #42: The Man at the Pompidou, They Want Ice Cream the Color of Honeydew Melon
Matrix October 1990: Nightswim
Blueline December 1990: A Woman Out on the Lake is Singing
New Letters 1990 Poetry award, Winter 1990-91 #57: What The Sign Painter Was Thinking, A Round of Faces at the Dining Room Window, Because the Egg Was A Door Nailed Shut, Golden Delicious, The Trouble in The Third Floor Window, From The Campground in North Truro
The Iowa Review Winter1989, Vol.19#1: What We Did With the Chickens, Herding the Chickens
The Massachusetts Review June 1989, vol. xxix,: An Object Falling from Outer Space, All Six of us Suspended Above Blue Seats
Sojourner March 1987: In The Upstairs Window
The Iowa Review Spring 1986,vol.16.2: All The Way Home, It Being a Free Country, Resistance, Bay Mare in a Second Floor Bedroom, Notes From the New World
Sojourner February 1986: The White Hotel
The American Poetry Review Jan/Feb/1986: White Horse on the Corner of Sixth Avenue, Rounding up the Babies, A Hum to Say I’m Missing Your Touch
Field Spring 1986 #34: All The Pretty Babies
The Massachusetts Review Spring 1985,vol.xxvi.1: UnBuckling the Lines
The Missouri Review, Tom McAfee Discovery Award Spring 1985,vol.viii.2: Releasing the Herd, That Not So Certain Feeling, The Children Who Haven’t Stopped
Moving, Tales of a Four-Legged Land, News From The North, Diving The Shoal
The Massachusetts Review Fall 1984,vol.xxiv.2: In the Chair...Root Canal, Day #2,
The Trouble With Chickens, On Water
New Letters 1984 vol.51.2: Land’s End
Bay Windows October 1983:
the minnesota review Fall 1984 #20: Incident at Port, Leaping for the Imaginary Fly
The Louisville Review Fall 1980, #9: By-pass
Anthologies:
The Road Taken, anthology of Vermont poetry: What Moves, Bear Hunting in North America, Spring 2017
Open Field, Spring 2012
White Ink: Cartographer of the Most Serene Republic, October 2007
Anthology of New England Women Writers: North Pond
Fathers ( Reid/Iglesias Shelburne Falls, MA) The Trouble with Horses, The Trouble with Boats, Because There Was Nothing To Do With The Hands, By-Pass April, 2001
National Poetry Competition Winners, 1990 Chester H. Jones Foundation The Cellist
1985 Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry (Beverly Hills, CA) In The Chair…Root Canal #2
1986/1987 Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry ( Beverly Hills, CA) Un-Buckling the Lines, It Being a Free Country
1986 Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry, Poetry Anthology Press, Great Neck, New York It Being A Free Country
Annual Survey of American Poetry
Poetry From Sojourner (Watertown, MA) White Hotel, In the Upstairs Window
My Lover is A Woman , Contemporary Lesbian Love Poems (Ballantine Books,1996) A Hum To Say I’m Missing Your Touch
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do (The Crossing Press, Freedom, CA 1994) The House with the Aqua-Colored Bars
The Time of our Lives Women Write on Sex after 40 (The Crossing Press, Freedom, CA 1993) Rituals
Sexual Harassment: Women Speak Out (The Crossing Press, Freedom, CA 1992) Such Great Knockers
Lovers , Stories by Women (The Crossing Press, Freedom, CA 1992) Herding the Chickens
To Live a Woman: Student work from the Project “Teaching Women’s Literature from a
Regional Perspective 1981 The Modern Language Association
“Good-bye Spooney Sunday. Fanny Fern: The Diary of Helen Ward Brandreth”
HONORS AND AWARDS
Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant, September 2019
Northampton Arts Biennial Poetry contest: “What Moves” October, 2015
2015 Ekphrasis Award for Poetry
2014 Field Poetry Prize, Oberlin College Press for Some Slow Bees (March, 2015)
Vermont Arts Council Development Grant, Fall 2014
Finalist: Lambda Literary Awards for GLBT poetry, 2008 Otherwise Obedient
dA Center for the Arts Poetry Award, Pomona CA 2004
Writer in Residence: The Thurber House, Columbus, Ohio April 2003
Balcones Poetry Prize, 2000 for Short History of Pets
Pushcart Prize XXVI: Best of the Small Presses: Three Crows
Cleveland State University Poetry Center Poetry Prize for Short History of Pets: 1999 $1,000. and publication of book
AWP Contest, Finalist for Short History of Pets: 1999
Nomination for Pushcart Prize: 1998
Centrum, Port Townsend, Washington Writer in Residence: Jan-Feb. 1999
Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, California Writer in Residence: Feb-March. 1999
Fundación Valparaíso, Playa Mojácar, Spain Writer in Residence April 1999
MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire Writer in Residence: Oct-Dec.1998
Hedgebrook, Whidbey Island, Washington Accepted for Residency: Nov. 1998
Massachusetts Cultural Council, Professional Development Award: 1999
Massachusetts Cultural Council Award, Finalist 1998
The New Millennium Awards: Honorable Mention 1996
The New England Writers Contest: Honorable Mention 1996
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York Writer in Residence: January, 1995
New Letters Literary Awards: First Place, Poetry 1990
New Letters, University of Missouri, Kansas City
The Chester H. Jones Foundation National Poetry Competition: Honorable Mention, 1990
The Massachusetts Artists Foundation: Finalist 1986
The Massachusetts Artists Foundation: Finalist: 1985
The Tom McAfee Discovery Award from The Missouri Review: 1984
Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, New York Writer in Residence: July 1983
The Cummington Community of the Arts, Writer in Residence, , August 1981
The Joseph Langland Poetry Award: Honorable Mention, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst: 1981
Faculty Union Graduate Scholarship, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: 1981
University Scholarship, 1979 University of Massachusetts, Amherst
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Smith College, Northampton, MA Interterm 2017
The Art and Business of Poetry, PYX 140
Antioch University Los Angeles, MFA Program, July 2002-present
MFA Affiliate faculty
Antioch University BA Program, Culver City, CA 2004-2007
English 490: Multi-Genre Creative Writing Seminar
Lit 339 In The Life: Queer Literature: A Survey
English 322, Poetry Writing
Community College of Vermont, Winooski, VT. 2008-present
Instructor: Creative Writing
Int.1060: Dimensions of Freedom
English Foundations of English
English 2510: Women & Literature
Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, VT. Spring 2008
Visiting Faculty
Creative writing workshop
Champlain College, Burlington, VT. Spring 2008
Intro to Creative Writing
University of Redlands, Redlands, CA Spring 2007 (Visiting Poet)
Creative Writing Workshop
Los Angeles City College, 2004 to 2006
English 1, Introduction to Composition
UCLA Writer’s Extension, 2005-2006
English XL 133A Creative Writing: Poetry (Online)
English X 422.3 Intro to Creative Writing, Poetry On line
English X487.1 Writing the Erotic Poem, A 2 day workshop
Santa Monica College, Fall 2004-2005 (Adjunct)
English 28, English 1 & English 2
Indiana University, Bloomington; September 2003-June 2004; (Visiting Poet)
W680: Theory and Craft of Writing
L381: Contemporary Short Fiction
W614 Graduate Poetry Workshop
W303 Undergraduate Poetry Workshop
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Visiting Faculty; April 2003
Poetry Workshop (two weeks)
Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, MA Professor 1984-2004
English 245: Women & Literature
English 217: Creative Writing, An Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction,
Creative non-fiction, and poetry
English 230 In The Life: Gay & Lesbian Literature
English 102 Introduction to Language and Literature II
English 101 Introduction to Language and Literature I
English 097: Reading Efficiency
COLLEGE SERVICE EXPERIENCE
Antioch University MFA Director Search Committee member, 2007
Carillon Committee (Subcommittee of Faculty Senate Fall 2000)
English Instructor Search Committee: 2000, 1994, 1993
Unit Personnel Practices Committee, 1999-2000
Senator, Faculty Senate, 1988-1990 1991-1992 2000-2002
Affirmative Action Committee, 1993-1994
Advisor: Lambda Center: Library, center for G/L/B/T students/faculty and allies. Helped found the center, creating grant applications, supervising staffing of the center 1996-present
Advisor for Tarah, the college literary magazine 1986-1992
RELATED ACTIVITIES
2010: Guest Editor, Gertrude, Issue 15: The Gay Issue
2004: Judge, the Benjamin Saltman Award, Red Hen Press
1992-1993 “Cost-saving Sabbatical” One year off at half-pay. Spent five months in Mexico, one month in Guatemala, writing, learning language, traveling.
1998-1999 Regular sabbatical. Traveled to Italy, France September-October, Residency at MacDowell, Peterborough, N.H.: October-December 1998: Residency at Centrum, Port Townsend, Washington January- February 1999 :Residency at Villa Montalvo in Saratoga, California February-March 1999: Residency at Fundaciòn Valparaíso in Mojácar, Spain April 1999, lived/traveled in Spain until end of July 1999 with two week stay in Freiburg, Germany
1990-1994: Member of the Alice James Books publishing cooperative: Duties included book production, editorial work, fundraising, book promotion and marketing, and other general editorial/administrative duties.
1978-79: Coordinator of Women’s Studies Colloquium Series, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1982: Coordinator of Cummington Community of the Arts Reading Series at the Jones Library, Amherst, MA
1971-76: Founding member of the Mudpie Childcare Co-op, Springfield, MA. As a member of the Mudpie Co-op, I participated in finding the site for the center, hiring a teacher, getting the center accredited, teaching, fund-raising, and general duties of running a day-care center.
BOOK REVIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
Review by Trish Crapo, Greenfield Recorder (Greenfield, MA May 15, 2015) http://www.recorder.com/home/16915315-95/poets-of-franklin-county-carol-potter
Review by Julia Shipley, Seven Days (Burlington, VT July 15,2015) http://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/book-review-some-slow-bees-by-carol-potter/Content?oid=2737301
Review by Chuck Zerby: Amherst in Print Amherst Bulletin, (Amherst, MA February 29, 1984)
Book Review by Lynne Yagamuchi Fletcher: Witness, Wildness, Vision, Prayer Sojourner: The Women’s Forum (Jamaica Plain, MA August 1991 )
Book Review/Interview by Bruce Watson, Translating Childhood Memories Into Poetry The Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA April 1990
Book Review/Interview by Brett Martin: Two Poets Search For State of Grace in the World” The Daily Hampshire Gazette Northampton, MA Wednesday, May 17, 1995
Book Review by David Walker: Self Consciousness in Field Spring 1986
Review of poem published in Field by Jeff Rawlings in Small Press Review (January/February 1998)
Interview/Book Review with Nancy Pick: A Little of this, a little of that Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA Wednesday, April 15, 1998)
Article by Nancy H. Gonter Two HCC professors awarded poetry honors Union News (Springfield, MA October 11, 1999)
READINGS (highlights)
Bloom, NYC April 2019
Bread Euphoria, Haydenville, MA April 2019
Poem Town, Randolph, VT April 2019
Poem City, Montpelier, April 2019
Bloom Reading Series, NYC, October 2018
Charleston Poetry Society, Charleston, South Carolina, Feb. 2016
Bookstock, Woodstock Vermont, July 2015
Associated Writing Programs Conference, April 2015
The Bowery Poetry Club, April 2015
Burlington Book Festival, September, 2008
AWP, NYC: January, 2008
UCLA Writer’s Extension, Skirball Center, LA June 2006
Gneiss Poetry Series, Palm Desert, CA April 2006
Palm Springs Book Festival, April 2005
Associated Writing Programs, Chicago, March 2004
Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles March 2002
Prairie Schooner Conference, Lincoln, NE October, 2001
The AWP Conference, Palm Springs, CA April 2001
The Odyssey Book Shop, South Hadley, MA December 2000
Fundacìon Valparaìso, Playa Mojácar, Spain 1999
The MacDowell Colony for the Arts, 1998
Northampton Center for the Arts, 1998
The Loud Music Festival, Northampton, MA (1996)
Camilla’s, New York City (1996)
Boswell Books, Shelburne Falls, MA (1996)
Borders Books, Framingham, MA (1996)
The Third Wave, Northampton, MA (1996)
The Book Cellar, Cambridge, MA (1996)
Associated Writing Programs Conference, Pittsburg (1995)
Barnes & Noble, New York City (1995)
University of Maine, Farmington (1995)
Northampton Center for the Arts (1995)
The Amherst Club, Amherst, MA (1994)
Holyoke Community College, (1994)
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1993)
Bellas Artes, San Miguel des Allende, México (1992)
New Words Books, Cambridge, MA (1992)
