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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.

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

• Featured Reader, Knox Is Lit: An Alumni Reading, Galesburg, Illinois, October 28, 2023
• Featured Reader, with Enzo Silon Surin, Trident Booksellars, Boston, Massachusetts,
• October 1, 2023
• Featured Reader, with Kevin McLellan, Cole Swensen, Riffraff Books, Providence, Rhode
• Island, September 16, 2023
• Featured Reader, with Quintin Collins, Anna V.Q. Ross, Timothy Liu, and Ewa Chrusciel,
• PopUp Poetry, Remnant Brewery, Somerville, MA, July 25, 2023
• Featured Reader, Body States: Reading with Enzo Silon Surin and Kevin McLellan,
• Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Salem, MA, May 7, 2023
• Featured Reader, with Tom Daley and Rebecca Kaiser Gibson, Chapter & Verse, Jamaica
• Plain, MA, May 2023.
• Host, Pangyrus Poetry Reading, Massachusetts Poetry Festival, Salem, MA, May 6, 2023
• Reader, Boston Poetry Marathon, Boston, MA, August 6, 2022
• Featured Reader, Boston Public Library – Connolly Branch, Boston, MA, July 18, 2022
• Featured Reader, with Cynthia Newberry Martin, East End Books, Provincetown, MA, July
• 14, 2022
• Reader, with Joan Naviyuk Kane, J F K Randhawa, and Melissa Studdard, Grolier Book
• Shop, Cambridge, MA. Grolier Poetry Bookshop, June 2, 2022 (recorded).
• Featured Reader, with Cynthia Bargar and Artress Bethany White, Women’s National Book
• Association– Boston, Online reading, April 13, 2022
• Reader, with Enzo Silon Surin, MassArt, Boston, MA, December 6, 2021
• Reader, Boston Poetry Marathon, Boston, MA, August 7, 2021
• Host, Pangyrus Launch of What Tells You Ripeness: Black Poets on Nature, with Nikki
• Wallschlaeger, August 22, 2021
• Reader, Boston Poetry Marathon, Online reading, August 8, 2020
• Reader, Boston Poetry Marathon, The Community Church of Boston, MA, August 18, 2019
• 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