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1996 Certificate, Ancient Greek Literature, Latin-Greek Institute, CUNY
1995 Ph.D., Brandeis University: English and American Literature
1992 Certificate, Ancient Greek Language, Latin-Greek Institute, CUNY
1990 M.A., Brandeis University
1989 B.A., Adelphi University, English
1987-88 Regents College, London
"Paradise and Hell Lost," Afterwords (forthcoming anthology ed. Kurt Brown)
"New York Fresco," Shofar, forthcoming.
"The Round Square" Free Inquiry, Vol 26 No. 6, October / November 2006
"Fido" Block Magazine, Summer 2006
"Zapruder Film Frame 156" Black Warrior Review, Vol. 32, No. 1, Fall 2005
"Zapruder Film Frame 157" Black Warrior Review, Vol. 32, No. 1, Fall 2005
"Zapruder Film Frame 179" Black Warrior Review, Vol. 32, No. 1, Fall 2005
"Zapruder Film Frame 178" River City, Vol. 24, No. 2, Summer 2004
"Night" River City, Vol. 24, No. 1, Winter 2004.
"Zapruder Film Frame 192" Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize Finalist, Waywiser Press
"Exposition of the Contents of a Cab" Tupelo Press Poetry Project (click & scroll)
"Zapruder Film Frame 158" November 3rd Club
"Zapruder Film Frame 163" November 3rd Club
Plato's Symposium: Eros and the Human Predicament , Twayne, Macmillan. 1999
Production by The Porters of Hellsgate, Los Angeles 2008
Role of Eurydice in Sophocles' Antigone
Production by Chashama, New York City 2000
Translation of Antigone produced off Broadway NYC by Chashama November 2000.
"Tragedy, Hamlet, and Luther," Zeitsprunge: Forschungen zur Fruhen Neuzeit, Heft 3/4, 2001
"Scarcity and Compensation in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick," The Massachusetts Review, Vol. XXX, No 1 Spring 1999
"Limitations of Textuality in Thomas More's Confutation of Tyndale's Answer," The Sixteenth Century Journal, January 1996
"Scarcity and Poetic Election in Two Sonnets of John Keats," ELH English Literary History, Vol. 61.1, Johns Hopkins U. P., Spring 1994
"Two Tropes of the Opening Sections of Walt Whitman's Song of Myself," The Cloverdale Review, 1992-1993
Red Hen Press
"Dollar Decline Blues," From the Wilderness, August 25, 2006
"Peak Asphalt, Too?" FTW, August 2, 2006
"Big Brother's Blunt Instrument: Gold Confiscation in a Post-Dollar Collapse," FTW, July 7, 2006
"Twilight in the Corn: the Bulldozing of South Central Farm Begins," FTW, June 16, 2006
"Local Solutions to the Energy Dilemma: New York City Conference, April 27,28,29, 2006," FTW, May 10, 2006
"Biodiversity, GMO, and the Future," FTW, April 20, 2006
"The Future at War with the Past: While South Central L.A.'s Urban Farmers Face Eviction, Peak Oil Threatens Global Food Supply," FTW, March 22, 2006
"The Tempest at the Met: All Over the Place," L.A. Splash.com, March 2006
"Shell Game: DoE Claims Massive CO2 Injection Could Quadruple U.S. Proven Oil Reserves," FTW, March 10, 2006
"Othello at the Met: The Right Kind of Agony," L.A. Splash.com,, February 2006
"Under Strains of Peak Oil and Gas, Ideology Stretches to the Limit," FTW, January 20, 2006
"Ukraine, Russia, Natural Gas: Ideology or Hypothermia?" FTW, January 5, 2006
"Deffeyes at Caltech," FTW, December 7, 2005
"Peak Oil Caucus Formed in U.S. House of Representatives: A New Beginning ad the Clock Runs Down," FTW, November 23, 2005
"Biodefense Program in Galveston, TX Sacrifices Research for Public Safety," FTW, September 22, 2005
"The Dollar, the U.N., and the U.S.: Right Wing Populists Still Fear the Wrong Thing," FTW, August 29, 2005
"The 'Koran Quotation Error' Meme," FTW, July 11, 2005
"The Rove Remarks," FTW, June 23, 2005
"ASPO in Lisbon: the 2005 Conference of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas," FTW, June 16, 2005
"Japan and China: A U.S. Strategic Outlook for the Next Two Minutes," FTW, April 20, 2005'
"PTECH, 9/11, and US-SAUDI TERROR," FTW, 20 January 2005
"Taking the Fiscal Train Wreck to the Poverty Draft," FTW, 4 January 2005
"Heeding the Music: Complete Poems of Basil Bunting," American Book Review, September / October 2004, Vol. 25 No 6
"Christine Krol's Sherman Boxes," NY Arts Magazine, July / August 2004, Vol. 9 No 7.8
"Last Chance: Ilya Sachar's Mortal Colors," NY Arts Magazine, July / August 2004, Vol. 9 No 7.8
"Richard Clarke's Orchestra: Maestro Plays Simple Waltz; Shackled Media Manage To Dance Along," FTW, April 5, 2004
"Failure and Crime Are Not The Same: 9-11's Limited Hangouts," FTW, 22 November 2003
"Zvi Lachman's Sculptures: The Earliness of Strength and the Pain of Lateness," NY Arts Magazine, September 2003
web version at www.nyartsmagazine.com/bbs4/messages/518.html
"Returner," Independent Film Quarterly, August 2003
"Bad Faith Again: An Open Letter to the Nation Magazine," Media Monitors Network, May 12, 2003
"Chairman of the Sandwichboard," The Progressive Populist, Spring 2003
"The First Kiss of Coleman Hummel," Fiction, Sundry, forthcoming
Introduction to the Electronic Edition of the Oxford book of English Verse, 1250-1950 Barnes & Noble.com February 2002
"Ford and The Agency," Counterpunch.org, October 18, 2001
"Poetry Lite: The House of Blue Light by David Kirby," American Book Review, July / August 2001
"Cow's Leap, New Poems of Tom Smith," American Book Review, May 2000
"Charles Wright's Black Zodiac and Mark Jarman's Questions for Ecclesiastes," American Book Review, October 1998
"Hardware," Fiction, The Sycamore Review, Volume 10, No.2, Summer 1998
"The Jean Cocteau Repertory Theatre Company's Production of Seamus Heaney's The Cure At Troy: A Version of
Sophocles' Philoctetes," Poetry Calendar NYC, February 1998
"Depths of the Mirror: The Last Poems of Yannis Ritsos," review essay in American Book Review, November 1997
"Ha Jin's Facing Shadows," review in Poetry Calendar NYC, November 1996
"Charlie Smith's Cheap Ticket to Heaven," review in Poetry Calendar NYC, December 1996
"Beaumarchais' Barber of Seville: Genre and Innovation," Playgoer's Supplement of The Pearl Theatre NYC, October 1996
1993 Robert Preyer Award
1992 Mellon Award, Brandeis University, for Latin-Greek Institute
1991-92 Bluestein Award
1990-91 Ross Fellowship and Assistantship
1996 Floyd Moreland Scholarship, Latin-Greek Institute
2002 Speakers' Bureau, New York Council for the Humanties: Sophocles As Educator
2005 Someone Would Have Talked: What We Know After Forty Years About the Assassination of President Kennedy, by Larry Hancock. JFK Lancer Publications.
2003-2006 Assistant Managing Editor / Senior Staff Writer at www.fromthewilderness.com
2004 Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil, by Michael C. Ruppert, New Society Press
2003 April to August Managing Editor, NY ARTS MAGAZINE.
1991 - 2006 As professor, I've coached thousands of student essays.
John Burt, English Department, Brandeis University
Allen Grossman, English Department, The Johns Hopkins University
Langdon Hammer, Yale University, English Department
Norbert Elliot, Humanities and Social Sciences, The New Jersey Institute of Technology Dennis Shramek, Castleton State College, Vermont
Ira Bloomgarden, John Jay College CUNY
Paula Berggren, Baruch College, CUNY