Alexander Long
alexanderlong@comcast.net

Education
Ph. D. in English, University of Delaware, 2006
M.A. The Writing Seminars (Poetry Writing), The Johns Hopkins University, 2001
M.F.A. (Creative Writing/Poetry), Western Michigan University, 2000
B.A. in English, West Chester University (PA), 1994

Employment
Visiting Assistant Professor, West Chester University, 2005-2007

Honors and Awards
Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Delaware, 2005
Residency, Vermont Studio Center, March-April 2005
Academy of American Poets Prize, University of Delaware, 2003-2006
Fellowship, Prague Summer Seminars, summer 2003
Ella Wollaeger Gregory Poetry Prize, University of Delaware, spring 2003-2006
Featured Poet in Pleiades Emerging Writers Series, spring 2003
Dissertation Fellowship, Department of English, University of Delaware, 2004-2005
Three-year Teaching Assistantship, University of Delaware, 2002-2005
Teaching and Research Assistantship, The Johns Hopkins University, 2000-2001
Three-year Teaching Assistantship, Western Michigan University, 1997-2000
Norma Van Rheenan Distinguished Teaching Award, Western Michigan University, 1999
John Woods Memorial Prize in Poetry, Western Michigan University, 1999
The 1996 Cream City Review's Open Poetry Competition

Publications
Books
Vigil. (poems) Kalamazoo, MI: New Issues Press Poetry Series, autumn 2006. pp. 87.
Noise. (memoir/prose-poetry) Madrid, NM: RockWay Press, autumn 2006. pp.65.
Six Prose Poems. (chapbook) Santa Cruz, CA: Brandenburg Press, 2004. pp. 12.
Co-ed. (with Christopher Buckley). A Condition of the Spirit: The Life and Work of Larry Levis. Spokane,
        WA: Eastern Washington University Press, 2004. pp. 661.

Essays
“Matthews, Masterful.” Poetry International 10. Forthcoming, summer 2006.
“William Stafford.” American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies Ser. Ed. Jay Parini. Supplement
        X. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003. 311-32.
“William Matthews.” American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies Ser. Ed. Jay Parini. Supplement
       IX. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2002. 151-70.
“Larry Levis’s Translations of Kijima Hajima.” A Condition of the Spirit: The Life and Work of Larry Levis.
       Spokane: Eastern Washington University Press, 2004. 355-58.
"Image, History, and After-Image in the Poems of Larry Levis." Quarterly West 53 (2002): 217-28.
       Rpt. in A Condition of the Spirit: The Life and Work of Larry Levis. Spokane: Eastern Washington
       University Press, 2004. 379-94.

Poems
“Finishing Joyce’s Ulysses on the Bus, I Want to Bask in My Sin One More Time.” Third Coast.
        Forthcoming, autumn 2006.
“Reading Whitman.” Boxcar Poetry Review. Forthcoming, autumn 2006.
“Again.” Boxcar Poetry Review 2, summer 2006.
“Still Life with Abraham Lincoln, Twenty-Three Years Before the South Shot Him, A Hundred Years
       Before the Nazis Tried to Prove Him Wrong.” Zone 3. Forthcoming, autumn 2006.
“Elegy for a Love Poem I Meant to Write.” Askew 1, spring 2006, 7.
“Ode to Bombs.” Askew 1, spring 2006, 8.
“Unfinished Love Poem.” Philadelphia Stories, online issue, spring 2006.
“Night Sky.” Poetry International 11. Forthcoming summer 2006. Rpt. in Homage to Vallejo, Greenhouse
        Review Press, 59-61.
“Love, Song.” Paragraph 9 (2005): 10.
“The Gazing Eye Falls Through the World.” Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts, vol.3, no. 2.
“Regrets Only, Not Much.” Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts, vol. 3, no. 2.
“Berryman.” Snake Nation Review. Forthcoming spring 2005.
“Composed Upon Brooklyn Bridge, September 3, 2003.” Included in “Poems in Newark,” a multi-media
       exhibit. April-August 2004.
“After Andrew Wyeth’s Whale Rib.” 580 Split 5 (2003): 65-67. (Nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
“Over the Orchards of Selma.” Pleiades 23.2 (2003): 37-38.
“Photograph: Anne Sexton on the Dust Jacket of her Complete Poems.” Pleiades 23.2 (2003): 34-36.
“After Meeting Muhammad Ali at Martini‘s Pizza Shop, Kalamazoo, Michigan, February 1998.”
       Caesura 23 (2003): 87-88. Also in Snake Nation Review, winter 2005.
“Against Confessionalism.” Caesura 23 (2003): 15.
“Still Life: Eggs in Linen.” Caesura 23 (2003): 63.
“Vigil.” Caesura 23 (2003): 24-28.
"So What." Montserrat Review 5 (2002): 55.
"St. John's Extract." Montserrat Review 5 (2002): 51.
“In Memory of William Matthews.” 5 AM 17 (2002): 25.
"Meditation on Preparatory Depression." Quarterly West 54 (2001): 5.
"Meditation on Acceptance." Montserrat Review 4 (2001): 46-7.
"Note to Self." Quarter After Eight 7 (2001): 138-39.
"Objective-Subjective Exercise: I." Quarter After Eight 7 (2001): 140-41.
"Objective-Subjective Exercise II." Quarter After Eight 7 (2001): 142.
"Noise." Third Coast (autumn 2001): 16.
"The Undertaker Preparing his Mother." Whirligig 1 (2000): 103.
"Another Poem About Loss: July 17, 1996." Third Stream: Writing Across Boundaries Between Poetry and Prose
       (winter 2000): 79.
"Inevitable." Third Stream: Writing Across the Boundaries Between Poetry and Prose (winter 2000): 80.
"To the Girl Smelling of Patchouli in the Bar Car." Slipstream 20 (2000): 99.
"Meditation on a Suicide." The Prose Poem: An International Journal 8 (1999): 48-9.
"Dr. Kevorkian's Statement to Michigan's Superior Court as Prepared by Democratic Gubernatorial
        Candidate Geoffrey Fieger." The Madison Review 20.2 (1999): 76-7.
"Meditation on the Corner of Coates and Sharon." Troubadour II.2 (1999): 41.
"August Images of a Funeral from a Tall Hill." The Cream City Review 21.2 (1996): 86-7.
"Because Everything is Temporary." The Cream City Review 21.2 (1996): 88-9.
"My Father, Two Women and a Bottle of Gin." The Cream City Review 21.2 (1996): 90-1.
"Lifelines, Late January." The Cream City Review 21.2 (1996): 92-3.
"On the Porch I Smell Autumn's First Winds." The Cream City Review 21.2 (1996): 94.
"Angry Water." The Black Water Review (autumn 1996): 26-7.

Book Reviews
“Should We Be So Lucky: a Review of Three Prize Winning Poets.” Rivendell 3 (2004): 298-312.
“'What Was Left After the Light of Burning Phosphor Falling from the Sky:' Robert Pesich's Burned Kilim.”
       Montserrat Review 5 (2002): 203-11.
“'Everything Shrouded in a Halo of Meaning:' Christopher Buckley's Fall From Grace.” Montserrat
        Review 4 (2001): 128-31.
“'The Strange Root That Is His Heart:' Philip Levine's Unselected Poems.” Solo 3 (1999): 144-50.

Teaching Interests
Creative Writing
Romantic, Modern, & Contemporary Poetry
Modern and Contemporary Fiction & Drama
Composition

Teaching Experience
West Chester University (2004, 2005-2007)
English 604 – Graduate Seminar, Exploring the Extended Poetic Sequence
Creative Writing 601 – Graduate Seminar, Poetic Forms
Creative Writing 202/203 – Writing From Experience: Poetry & Creative Non-Fiction
Creative Writing 201 – Introduction to Creative Writing
English 165 – Approaches to Literature
English 120 – Effective Writing I
English 020 – Basic Writing
English 121 – Effective Writing II

University of Delaware (2002-2006)
English 404/604 – Advanced Poetry Workshop, spring 2004 & spring 2006
English 207 – Introduction to Poetry, spring 2003 & autumn 2004
English 200 – Approaches to Literature, summer 2004 & winter 2005
English 167 – The Poetics of Memory: Listening, Writing, and Speaking, spring 2004
English 110 – Critical Reading and Writing, autumn 2002 & spring 2003
The Graduate Student Poets in the Schools Program, 2003-2004

Immaculata University (2001-2003)
English 241 – Principles and Practices of Research, winter 2001 & summer 2003
English 240 – Forms of Professional Writing, winter 2004
English 107 – English Composition II, summer 2002 & summer 2003

The Johns Hopkins University (2001)
Teaching Assistant (for John Irwin), Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir,
spring 2001
Exploring the Forms of Prose Poetry, winter 2001

Western Michigan University (1997-2000)
English 105 – Thought and Writing, 1997-2000
Honors English 105 – Thought and Writing, autumn 1998 & autumn 1999

Presentations
"Teaching, and Getting Carried Away with, Imagery." University of Delaware Writing Project, Conference
       on the Teaching of Writing, October 2004.
"Gorgeous Nonsense: A Nabokovian Reading of Lolita." University of Delaware Twentieth-Century
       Literature Colloquium, March 2004.
"A Day with Cornelius Eady's Brutal Imagination." University of Delaware Multicultural Colloquium,
       March 2004.
"'You All Get an A. Be Sure to Check Your Ego at the Door:' The Creative Writing Workshop Method
       in the Freshman Composition Classroom," Conference on College Composition and Communication,
       Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 2000.
"Teaching Revision: Creative Writing Workshop Methods in the Freshman Composition Classroom," Graduate Teaching Assistant Orientation, Western Michigan University, August 1999.
"One Way to Tackle Peer Editing," Graduate Teaching Assistant Orientation, Western Michigan University,
       August 1998.

Readings
West Chester University, spring 2006
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont, spring 2005
Prague Summer Seminars, Czech Republic, summer 2003
Caesura Awards Ceremony, University of Delaware, spring 2003, spring 2005
The Johns Hopkins University, autumn 2000, spring 2001
Western Michigan University, autumn 1998, winter 1999, spring 2000

Related Experience
Technical Writer and Editor – Siemens Health Services Corporation, June 2001-August 2002
Poetry Editor – Third Coast, Western Michigan University, 1999-2000
Director – Third Coast Reading Series, Western Michigan University, 1999-2000.
       Organized twice-monthly readings of graduate student writers, including promoting, advertising,
       and introducing readers
Assistant to the Editor – New Issues Press, editor Herbert Scott, summers 1998 and 1999
Assistant Poetry Editor – Third Coast magazine, 1997-1999
Assistant Editor – New Issues Press Poetry Series, Western Michigan University, 1997-2000
Staff Writer – The Daily Local News, West Chester, Pennsylvania, June 1995-August 1997

References
Available on request.