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Cheryl Clark
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Assistant Professor, Coordinator of Creative Writing Minor
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Tower 525
Bio:
Cheryl Clark Vermeulen is author of the full-length poetry book They Can Take It Out (Word Works, 2022) and chapbooks Dead-Eye Spring and This Paper Lantern. An M.F.A. graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she has published poems, translations, and poetry reviews in Caketrain,The Drunken Boat, Jubilat, Tarpaulin Sky, Third Coast, Two Lines, Interim, DIAGRAM, EOAGH, among others, and the anthology Connecting Lines: New Poetry from Mexico. Beyond teaching at MassArt, where she founded the Creative Writing Minor, she is the Poetry Editor at Pangyrus. Her academic interests include poetry, creative writing, the teaching of writing, literary translation, experimental writing, hybrid texts, artist's writing, and literature across the Americas. She lives in Jamaica Plain with her family.
Education:
MFA - English, Iowa Writers' Workshop, University of Iowa; BA - Spanish, Psychology minor, Knox College
Industry Experience:
- Poetry Editor, Pangyrus
Publications
- 2022 - They Can Take It Out (full-length poetry book), The Word Works
- 2018 - This Paper Lantern (chapbook), Dancing Girl Press
- 2008 - Dead-Eye Spring (chapbook), Cy Gist Press
- 2005 - Papers (artist book), Dispatx Art Collective
Individual Poems and Translations
- 2020 - Poems from "Thyroid and Other Matters," Bombay Gin, Issue 45
- 2020 - Poems "Looseleaf," "The Almost" and by the same title "The Almost," Mantis Issue 16
- 2020 - Poem "Brainchild," Gigantic Sequins, 11.1, May [Nominated for Pushcart Prize]
- 2020 - Poems "Procedure" and "Growing Authority," Heavy Feather Review Vol 10
- 2020 - Poem "Yours Truly, Expansion," American Poetry Journal, Fall
- 2020 - Poem "Moose Spoken Here," Sixth Finch, April
- 2019 - Poems "Writing with Pina Bausch” and “Supplies for theOtherworldly," Boog City, Issue 128
- 2019 - Poems "The Suckling Leading Lady" and "BronchialClutter," Mom Egg Review Vox, June
- 2018 - Poem "What Are Your Metabolic Needs?," Small Po[r]tions, Issue 8
- 2017 - Poem "TheHouseguest," Transom Journal, Issue 11
- 2017 - "After Assertiveness Training," Sixth Finch, Summer
- 2017 - "The Houseguest," Transom Journal, Issue 11
- 2016 - "Neighbors," "Speculations," "Midday," and "Return" (4 translations of poems by Tedi López Mills), Drunken Boat, Issue 23
- 2015 - Sections from the long poem “The Almost,” Solstice Literary Magazine, Spring Issue
- 2014 - Poems “Dear Mother And,” “Presently, Holes” and “Latvian Morose,” Let the Bucket Down, Issue 2, November
- 2014 - Translations: “Meanwhile” and “Through the Window,” TWO LINES online, Issue 21, September
- 2014 - Poem “Ambergris,” Split Rock Review, Issue 3, August
- 2013 - Poems “One Elegy House [An excerpt],” “Adopting Words and Fathers, Ecology to You,” & “Cyclopean,” Caketrain, January
- 2012 - “Grayish-White,” Jubilat, Issue 22, Winter
- 2011 - Poems “I always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific. – Lily Tomlin,” “Mirror Neurons,” and “Alpha & the Mainland,” Thermos blog, September
- 2010 - “Convalescence,” Tedi López Mills, “Contemporary Mexican Poetry,” An Introduction to Poetry, editors X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. Pearson Longman, 12th & 13th editions, 2007
- 2009 - Poems “The Gate,” “Placement,” & “Bricked-in Window” EOAGH, #5
- 2009 - Poem “Complete with Blue Flowers,” Third Coast, Spring
Poetry Readings
- 2019 - Featured Reader, Gloucester Writers Center, Gloucester, MA, May 8, 2019
- 2018 - Performer: Changer/Dancer, Cecilia Vicuña's Living Quipu,, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, October 19, 2018
- 2018 - Reader, Commissioned poem for private party, Boston, MA, September 22, 2018
- 2018 - Reader, Pangyrus Editors reading, Boston, MA, March 22, 2018
- 2017 - Reader, Poem delivered for MassArt President's Inauguration Ceremony, October, 20, 2017
- 2017 - Reader, Boston Poetry Marathon, Cambridge, MA, August 18, 2017
- 2017 - Featured Reader, Unearthed Song & Poetry, Dorchester, MA, June 21, 2017
- 2017 - Panel Member, "The Trauma of the Body," Massachusetts Poetry Festival, may 7, 2017
- 2016 - Reader, Boston Poetry Marathon, Cambridge, MA July 17, 2016
- 2015 - Reader, Boston Poetry Marathon, August 15, 2015
- 2015 - Featured Reader, Collaborative Translation with Antonio Ochoa, Phantom Phantom, Somerville, MA, May 1, 2015.
- 2014 - Reader, Boston Poetry Marathon World Cup, August 9, 2014
- 2013 - Reader, Boston Poetry Marathon, August 16, 2013
- 2012 - Reader, Boston Dog Day Poetry Marathon, Cambridge, MA, August 18, 2012
- 2011 - Reader & Organizer, CCAE, Cambridge, MA, December 2, 2011
- 2011 - Featured Reader, Unaffiliated Reading Series, Cambridge, MA, September 24, 2011
- 2011 - Reader, Boston Poetry Marathon, Cambridge, MA, July 29, 2011
- 2011 - Reader & Organizer, CCAE, Cambridge, MA, June 3, 2011
- 2011 - Featured Reader, Commonwealth Reading Series, Boston, MA, March 19, 2011
- 2011 - Reader, US Poets in Mexico Reading, Tulum, Mexico, January 6, 2011
- 2010 - Reader, Boston Poet Tea Party, Cambridge, MA, August 1, 2010
- 2010 - Featured Reader, EOAGH Reading Series, Brooklyn, NY, April 4, 2010
- 2009 - Featured Reader, Small Animal Project Series, Cambridge, MA, December 14, 2009
- 2009 - Featured Reader, Myopic Books Reading Series, Chicago, IL, August 2, 2009
- 2009 - Reader, Faculty Reading, CCAE, Cambridge, MA, March 6, 2009
Reviews
- 2020 - "What I'm Reading Now" Tarpaulin Sky Magazine, August
- 2019 - Book review of Shira Dentz’s How do I net thee, Interim, Volume 35:5
- 2016 - Book review of Vi Khi Nao’s The Old Philosopher, Tarpaulin Sky Magazine. November
Literary Organizing
- "Writers for Migrant Justice: Poetry Reading & Fundraiser in Boston," Artsake, August 2019. [I have organized 30+ literary events, bringing to Boston (or to university campuses) many writers.]
Talks and Interviews
- 2020 - Chair, Roundtable, “Teaching Documentary Poetics: Why & How,” New England Modern Language Association (NEMLA), March 6
- 2019 - Featured Guest, Interviewed by Antonio Ochoa on Cambridge Community Television (CCTV), Texts for Nothing show, December 10
Organizations
- Academy of American Poets
- Association of Writers & Writing Programs
Awards and Recognitions
- Finalist, Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in Poetry, 2010
- Phi Beta Kappa Scholar
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