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Cheryl Clark

Cheryl Clark
Title: 
Assistant Professor, Coordinator of Creative Writing Minor
Department: 
Office: 
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

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

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