Michelle
Marie Detorie
mdetorie@yahoo.com
website:
http://www.daphnomancy.com
Education
Texas State University San
Marcos San
Marcos, TX
M.F.A. in
Creative Writing, Poetry Concentration
Attended August 2001 - May
2004; Degree Awarded May 2004
Thesis: Myomancy,
a collection of poems
Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD
M.A.
in The Writing Seminars, Poetry Concentration
Attended August 1998 - May
1999; Degree Awarded May 1999
Thesis: Mapping Things
Out, a collection of poems
Loyola College in Maryland Baltimore, MD
B.A.
in English Literature with a Minor in Creative Writing
Attended August 1993 - May
1997; Degree Awarded May 1997
Thesis: Icons and
Letters: Methods of Seeing in Early Modern England, a study of 16th
and 17th century English poetry in the context of Reformation
iconoclasm.
Kings College, University
of London London, England
Attended January 1996 - May
1996; Semester Abroad
Academic Positions
Katherine Anne
Porter House and Literary Center Writer-in-Residence (June 2004-June 2006)
Post-MFA Fellowship/Live-in Residency at the Katherine Anne Porter House in
Kyle, Texas, the childhood home of Katherine Anne Porter and a National
Literary Landmark.
Lecturer (Fall
2005) Taught freshman composition class “College Writing 2.”
Teaching Assistant (August
2001 - May 2004) Taught freshman composition classes “College Writing 1,”
“College Writing 2,” and “Developmental Writing.”
The Writing Seminars/The
Lecturer (August 1999 - May
2001) Taught "Introduction to Fiction and Poetry I" and “Introduction
to Fiction and Poetry II.”
Intercession
Lecturer (January 1999)
Designed and taught "The Teenager in Literature: A Study of the Archetype
and a Writing Workshop."
Writing Instructor,
Department of Communication (January 2001 - May 2001)
Taught “Effective Writing,” a course in composition, to undergraduates.
Other Teaching Experience
Mentor Tutor/
Katherine Anne
Porter Young Writers Program “Book Project” Teacher and Editor
(January
2003-January 2004) Responsibilities included designing curriculum for and
overseeing a group of high school students (for the first six months as a “teacher“,
for the second six as an “editor“) who wrote a children’s book about going to
college. This project was commissioned by the Texas
Coordinating Board of Higher Education as part of their “Closing the Gaps”
campaign (a program aimed at enrolling an additional 300,000 Texans into higher
education by 2015). The finished product, a bilingual chapter
book called Wiley’s Way, was published by The University of Texas Press
in the Fall of 2004. Website:
http://www.wileysway.net/.
Katherine Anne
Porter Young Writers Program Instructor / Fellow (June
2002 - December 2003) Taught Creative Writing to High School students enrolled
in outreach writing program.
Center for Talented
Youth/The
Writing
Instructor (Summer 2000 and 2001) Taught “Writing and
Imagination” in residential academic program for academically talented middle
school students. Classes met for two 3 week session, 6 hours a day.
Writing
Tutor (September 1999 - May 2001)
Tutored academically talented international middle and high school students
through Distance Learning Program in "Crafting the Essay,"
"Writing Analysis and Persuasion," and “The Writing Process.”
Teaching
Assistant for "Crafting the Essay" (September
1999 - May 2000) - present) Managed on-line environment for the CD ROM tutorial
at the Center for Distance Education; facilitated web-based writing and
revision workshops.
Summer Programs
Teaching Assistant (Summer, 98)
Assisted academically talented middle school students in "Writing and
Imagination."
The
Additional Professional Experience
Treehouse
Publishing Austin, TX
Writer (October
2006-present) Writing lessons for social
studies text books (grades 7-12).
Katherine Anne
Porter House and Literary Center Curator (June 2004-June
2006) Curatorial duties included giving tours, leading workshops, and
overseeing administrative tasks related to KAP house operations.
Theresa Kayser-Lindsey Lecture Series Assistant (June 2004 - June 2006)
Responsibilities included providing administrative, creative, and technical
support to the University’s Reading Series in the form of writing press
releases, interacting with the public, assisting visiting writers, preparing
and filing contracts for visiting writers, and creating purchase requisitions
and vendor requests in on-line database using SAP ERP software.
Editing Intern (January
2004 -Jun 2004) Responsibilities included reading poetry submissions for Southwestern
American Literature, developing content and designing a website using Dreamweaver software, and writing, editing, and formatting
book reviews.
Womb Poetry: An Online
Journal for Poetry by Women (www.wombpoetry.com)
Founding
Editor and Publisher (April
2006-present). I created and developed the concept of WOMB in
the winter of 2006 and opened the journal for submissions in April. Currently I
manage all aspects of running the journal. I read and solicit submissions, and I also maintain the website. The inaugural issue launched on
January 1, 2007. Issue #2 is scheduled to launch in September.
Hex Presse: A
Micro-press for Poetry by women (hexpresse.blogspot.com)
Founding
Editor and Publisher (April
2006-present). I manage all aspects running the press. I edit
and layout publications, handle the distribution and sales of publications, and
print and produce the publications. In addition to crafting
hand-bound limited edition chapbooks, I’ve designed games and puzzles for Hex Presse also. A number of well-known poets are involved in
Hex Presse publications.
Awards and Honors
2007 National Endowment for
the Arts Literature Fellowship (November 2006)
Nomination for inclusion in
the Best New Poets Anthology (April 2006)
Pushcart Prize Nomination (November
2005) “Three Divinations” nominated by the editors of Blackbird.
Writer-in-Residence (June
2004-June 2006) The Katherine Anne Porter House
Finalist
(June 2005) Diagram/New Michigan Press Chapbook Award
Scholarship Recipient
(December 2004) Project Big Top Poetry Workshop
Finalist
(October 2004) Winnow Press Open Book Award
Official Certificate of
Recognition with the State Seal from Texas Governor Rick Perry (October
1, 2004) Presented in congratulations for participating in the creation of Wiley’s
Way.
The
W. Morgan and Lou Claire Rose Fellowship (August 2001 - May 2004) A
three year fellowship awarded annually to one incoming MFA student at
Texas State University
Teaching Assistantship (August 2001 - May 2004)
Publications
Chapbooks:
“Feral Thing” Tinyside
#9 Big Game Books,
BellumLetters. Dusie Chapbook Kollektiv,
Daphnomancy:
Improvisations. Printed by Cricket Press for
Small Chapbook Project, ed. Peter Ganick, March 2007
A Coincidence
of Wants. Dos Press
Poems:
“Self Portrait as a Female
Martyr,” “Vigil,” “An Overrated Virtue,” “Song for the Sacraments,” and “First
Times” appeared in Chelsea 76, Summer 2004
“An Overrated Virtue” also
appeared in Verse Daily, November 2, 2004
[http://www.versedaily.org/overratedvirtue.shtml]
“Harbor” and “Scarecrow”
appeared in The Potomac Review Issue 38, Fall/Winter 2004-2005
“Trigonometry” appeared in The
Diagram 4.6 January, 2005
[http://the
diagram.com/4_6/detorie.html]
“Lovers in Cursive” appeared
in Poetry East, Number 54, Spring 2005
“Myomancy”
and “Chiaroscuro” appeared in Cranky, Volume 1, Issue 5, May 2005.
“Cradle
Song” appeared in Typo 6 June 24,
2005
[http://www.typomag.com/issue06/detorie.html]
“Cradle Song” was also a
featured title on The Page, June
27, 2005
[http://www.the page.name]
“Orchid Mantis” appeared in
The Diagram 5.5, November, 2005
[http://thediagram.com/5_5/detorie.html]
“Cromniomancy,”
“Belomancy” and “Coscinomancy”
appeared as “Three Divinations” in Blackbird,
Volume 4 Number 2 issue (November 1, 2005)
“Undertow” and “Paperwhites” appeared in Blackbird, Volume 4 Number 2 issue (November 1, 2005)
“Hieromancy,”
“Cyclomancy,” and “Orniscopy”
appeared in La Petite Zine, 18, Winter 2006.
“Apantomancy” and “Rookery”
appeared in Caketrain: A Journal of
Writing, Issue 3. Spring 2006
“Bibliomancy” and “Daphnomancy” appeared in The Notre Dame Review, Issue
22, July 2006
“Mistress Box” and “Wilfred’s Needle” appeared in HOW2 Vol. 2 Issue 4 Spring-Summer 2006
[http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/current/feature/detorie.html]
“Anchoress in the Crèche,”
“Corpus Luteum,” and “Doll House” appeared in The
Southern Poetry Review.
“Frisson” appeared in POOL, Volume 5, Summer 2006
“Immaculate Sluts,” “Ovas in the Hum,” “Elegy for a Sleepwalker,” “Song for the
Unborn Brother,” and “Flintheart, Planchette”
appeared in Dusie 5
“Chrysalis”
is forthcoming in Pindeldyboz, Issue 7,
Summer 2006
“The Nurse’s Song” appeared in Confrontation Fall 2007
“Catoxtromancy” appeared in The
Tiny, Spring 2007
“Oracle” and “Songing” appeared in Bird
Dog, Winter 2008
“Preemption,” “All the
King’s Horses,” and “Some Types of Fearful Symmetry” appeared in Jacket # 35, Early 2008.
“Sweatshop,” “Ode to
Industry,” “Hothouse,” “Of the Tallow Trade,” and “On Tape” are forthcoming in Kadar Koli.
Visual/Media
Art Publications and Exhibitions
Our Clean Heart. A
collection of visual poems published as a FOURSQUARE special edition, Outside
Voices,
“Hem”
appeared in FOURSQUARE 1.3, August 2006
Cleromacny Poetry Game
#1: Emily Dickisnon. Poetry dice
game. Exhibited at Kirjasto 10 Library,
“As from a Wife.” Visual poem published in PHOEBE. Winter 2008.
“Tiny
Flux” appeared in The Tiny, Spring 2007.
Bellum Letters
Hypertext poems exhibited as part of an interactive display for Zaoem, a
festival of contemporary poetry to be held in
Anthologies:
“Honey
Suck Carousel” appeared in The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel, 2007
“Elegy
for a Sleepwalker” appeared in Letters to
the World, 2008.
Articles:
“Responding to ‘Numbers Trouble’ by Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young as published in the CHICAGO
REVIEW (53:2/3)” Dim Sum, Delirious Hem. February 2008.
“The Inspired Life of a
Punk-Pixie: Weetzie Bat” appeared in Kitchen Sink No. 9, Winter 2004/2005
“Divine
Intervention: Michelle Detorie and Kurt Newman’s Daphnomancy”
Kitchen Sink. No. 12, Winter 2006/2007.
Curriculum:
“A
Twelve-Week Semester Course and a Summer One Month Writing Intensive. (or How To Get 12 High School Students to Write a Book about
Going to College).” Developed a complete curriculum with
another graduate student for high school collaborative writing project. Includes lesson plans and procedures. Fall 2004. Available for viewing at [http://www.wileysway.net/teachers/teachers.cfm]
and [http://www.wileysway.net/teachers/syllabus.cfm]
“Prewriting
for Poetry.” Lesson five in The Writing Process, a
correspondence course for academically talented middle school students offered
by the Center for Talented Youth at
Reviews:
“Responding to Elizabeth Treadwell’s Birds and Fancies.” Galatea Resurrects #7, October 2007
“A
Review of Monica Youn’s Barter” Texas Books in Review, Volume XXIV, Nos. 2 & 3 , Summer/Fall 2004
“A Review of Fanny Howe’s The
Wedding Dress” Verse Magazine Online, November 2004
Interviews
“Women of the World Wide Poetry Web: Michelle
Detorie” conducted by Didi Menedez.
Women of the World Wide
Poetry Web. September, 2007.
Blogs / On-line Carnivals:
“Celebrity
Gossip and Feminism: An Abstract and Link-a-thon” Carnival of Feminists, Vol.
8.
February 7, 2006. Hosted by
Gendergeek. [http://www.gendergeek.org/?p=126]
“Mind
Your Own Damn ‘
Hosted by Femministe.
[http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/01/18/carnival-of-the-feminists-7-3]
“The Beasts of 2005”
Carnival of Feminists, Vol. 6. January 4, 2006
Hosted by Reappropriate.
[http://www.reappropriate.com/2006/01/carnival-of-feminists-issue-6.html]
“Tracking the It Girl”
Carnival of Feminists, Vol. 5. December
20, 2005.
Hosted by Scribbling
Woman.
[http://www.unbsj.ca/arts/english/jones/mt/archives/2005/12/feminist_carnival_v.html]
Presentations,
Presented
“Interactive Poetry” at First Thursday in Downtown
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Reading at the Fall Café in
Poetry
Reading (DAPHNOMNACY), East Austin Art Complex;
Presented
“The Making of Wiley’s Way” Hill Country Librarians Annual Conference;
Poetry
Reading, Project Big Top Poetry Workshop; Marfa, TX (December 27, 2004 -
January 4, 2005)
Poetry
Reading, Texas State University; San Marcos, TX (April 22, 2004)
Presented
“Women and the Confessional Mode in Medieval Pilgrimage Literature: An
Exploration of Margery Kempe and Chaucer‘s Wife of
Bath” Texas Medieval Association Annual Conference; Waco, TX (October, 2003)
Presented
“Women as Weavers, Women as Singers: The Wife’s Lament and Beowulf” Texas
Medieval Association Annual Conference;
Performance/ Time-based Art
DAPHNOMANCY. An improvised music and text project
with guitarist Kurt Newman.
Courses Taught
College Courses
College
Writing I
College
Writing II
Developmental
Writing
Effective
Writing
Introduction
to Fiction and Poetry I
Introduction
to Fiction and Poetry II
The
Teenager in Literature: An Exploration of the Archetype and a Writing Workshop
Other Courses
Writing
Analysis and Persuasion
Crafting
the Essay
Writing
and Imagination
The
Writing Process
Creative
Writing Workshop
A Twelve-Week Semester
Course and a Summer One Month Writing Intensive. (or How To Get 12 High School Students to Write a Book
about Going to College)
Media/Press
“The Words Go Round and Round and they Come out Here.” by
Katie Haegel. The
“
“FY 2007 Grant Awards: Literature Fellowships in Poetry”
[http://www.nea.gov/grants/recent/07grants/Lit.html]
“Katherine Anne Porter
Literary Center News” Newsletter of the Katherine Anne Porter Society. Volume
12; November 2005. [http://www.lib.umd.edu/Guests/KAP/12/Center.html]
“KAP Young Writers’ Book Forthcoming” Newsletter of the Katherine Anne Porter Society. Volume 11; October 2004. [http://www.lib.umd.edu/Guests/KAP/11/Young%20Writers.html]
“Katherine Anne Porter
House Young Writers project” by Jayme Blaschke.
Hillviews,
Summer 2005, Volume 34.
“The
Mice Aren’t Really Blind: KAP Poet-Resident Hip to Animals” By Kate Harrington,
The Free Press (Hays Country), September 9, 2004.
Volume 101, Number 22.
The Making of Wiley’s Way:
A 20-minute Documentary. Directed by David Day for College for
Texans. [www.collegefortexans.com]
“Wiley’s Way is Now a Reality.”
[http://www.hayscisd.net/schools/AAH/students.htm]
“Higher learning: Student
scribes author pro-college children’s book” By Jayme Blaschke Hillviews, Summer
2003, Volume 33.
[http://www.mrp.txstate.edu/mrp/publications/hillviews/2003/spring/page20.html]
“Milo and the Book Class:
13 High-Schoolers start an adventure to publish a
book that will inspire more Texas kids to go to college.” By Sharyn Wizda Vane,
Professional Memberships
Associated
Writing Programs
Modern
Language Association
Poetry
Society of America
Skills
Writing,
editing and proof-reading skills
Graphic
design and layout skills
Familiarity
with Windows and Macintosh-based platforms and applications including Word,
Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, InDesign, Powerpoint, and Excel
Familiarity
with SAP-ERP database-management software
Leadership
and Management skills
Teaching
and classroom-management skills
Public
Speaking skills
Administrative
Skills
References
Available
upon request