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When writing essays for peer-reviewed journals, Rich’s interests include a global concern for the humanities. His critical essays have appeared in The International Journal of the Humanities; Journal of Ecocriticism; Reconfigurations: A Journal for Poetics Poetry / Literature and Culture; New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing; and others.

Industry Experience

• 37 years of teaching writing and literature

Publications and Presentations

Books

• 2023 – “Footholds” a book-length collection of poems due out later in 2023 by Cyberwit, Allahabad, India
  2023 – First Aid, a book-length collection of poems by Wipf and Stock
  2022 – Meme Measure, a book-length collection of poems by Wipf and Stock
  2021 – Space Craft, a book-length collection of poems by Wipf and Stock
  2021 – The Left Behind, Press Americana Poetry Prize Winner, a book-length collection of poems by Press Americana
  2020 – Prophetic Voice Now, a collection of essays on modern and postmodern poetry and poetics, published by Common Ground Research Network
  2020 – Practitioner Joy, a book-length collection of poems to be published by Wipf and Stock Publishers
  2018 – Asylum Seeker a book-length collection of poems, the third part of a trilogy, will be published by Press Americana, a publisher dedicated to education and believes in the power of American Studies scholarship and creative writing to enact positive social change
  2017 – Body Politic (Prolific Press)
  2013 – Americana (Press Americana, Americana Prize)
  2009 – Voyeur (Gival Press Poetry Prize)
  2007 – The Apple in the Monkey Tree (Codhill Press)

Chapbooks

• Paideia (Aldrich Press)
• Family Secret (Finishing Line Press)
• Hunting and Pecking (Ahadada Books)
• Phoems for Mobile Vices (BlazeVox)
• Rescue Lines (Right Hand Pointing)
• Great Grandfather (Pudding House Publications

Papers

• 2022 – Essay – “Carl Jung and Education:” English Language Teaching and Linguistics Studies 2022 vol 4, no 2

Presentations

• 2019 – Virtual Poster for New Directions in the Humanities Conference, Granada, Spain
• 2017 – “Reading vs Performing Poetry: Literature and Capitalism” at the New Directions in the Humanities Conference at Imperial College, London
• 2016 – “Vexed to Nightmare by a Rocking Cradle:’ Ginsberg’s Performativity,” 4th Annual Meeting of the European Beat Studies Network, Brussels, Belgium
• 2016 – “The Hopkins Path to Postmodern Poetry,” at the Gerard Manley Hopkins Festival at Newbridge, Ireland

Awards and Honors

• 2019 – “Practitioner Joy” semi-finalist in the 2019 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition
• 2016 – “Minds of Europe: A Genealogy to the Fat Man,” was a short-listed finalist in the Beverly Prize in the UK
• 2016 – “Storage Shed” was a finalist in the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Contest
• 2013 – Americana, winner in the Prize Americana by The Institute for American Studies and Creative Writing
• 2008 – Voyeur, Gival Press Poetry Award winner

Professional Affiliations and Organizations

• Associate at the Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) at Bard College. The Institute is a fellowship of professors whose professional focus is pedagogy

Connect

• richinkworkshop.com