Marjorie Herweg Stelmach
mstelmach@sbcglobal.net

 

Education
1984-86: MFA, Washington University Writers’ Program, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
1972-75: MAT, Communication Arts, Webster University, St. Louis, MO
1966-70: AB, English Literature, Washington University, St. Louis, MO

 

Teaching Experience
2001-present: Director of Howard Nemerov Writing Scholars Program, Washington University, St. Louis, MO

1986-2002: Graduate Education Department, Adjunct Professor, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, Curriculum and Instructional Methods

Summer 1998: Washington University Summer Writers Institute, Director of Poetry Workshop

1986-2000: Ladue Horton Watkins High School, Ladue, MO, English Department: Advanced Placement English, Composition I, Creative Writing, Poetry, Modern Drama, Philosophy & Literature, etc. Coordinator of Gifted Education Program. Sponsor of literary magazine and jazz-poetry nights

1978–86: MAT Program, Adjunct Professor, Webster University, Webster Groves, MO.
Workshop in Communication: Writing. Studies in Creativity, Poetry

1970-82: Ladue Junior High School, Ladue, MO. Interdisciplinary 7th Grade Team, Language Arts, Creative Writing

1988-present: Reader for advanced Placement English Literature Exams, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX, Daytona Beach, FL

1980-2000: Regional consultant providing workshops in Writing Theory, Methods for Teaching Creative Writing, etc.

1980-2000: Presentations at local, state, regional, national & international conferences on teaching English

 

Publications
Poetry: Books / Chapbooks
2006 – A History of Disappearance. Tampa University Press, Tampa, FL.

2002 – Presence, a chapbook. Basilisk Press Poetry Series, Denton, TX.

1995 – Night Drawings, winner of 1994 Marianne Moore Prize in Poetry. Helicon Nine Press, Kansas City, MO.

1988 – Gardening the Skies, a publication of the five winners

Poetry: Individual Poems

• Natural Bridge – Spring 2006. “A Woman’s Body in the Clearing”
• Reprinted in Chance of a Ghost: An Anthology of Contemporary Ghost Poems. Gloria Vando & Philip Miller, eds. Helicon Nine Editions. 005. “Doorways: In Other People’s Dreams”
• The Iowa Review – Volume 36, Number 3, December, 2006. “From the Wilderness Papers”
• Nimrod International Journal -- Spring / Summer, 2006. “Camber” & “Voices”
• Tampa Review -- upcoming. “Misaligned” & “As If the Dark Were a Wind,” originally printed in The Sow’s Ear Review under the title, “Wind at the Glass.”
• The William & Mary Review: upcoming. “. . . and are heavy laden.”
• Bayou – 2005, Issue 45. “Argument Against the Doctrine of Election.”
• Reprinted in Shadow & Light: Literature and the Life of Faith. Darryl Tippens, Stephen Weathers, Jeanne Murray Walker, eds. A.C.U. Press. 2005. “Manna”
• Poetry Daily – www. Poems.com. 12/28/04. “Sand”
• Sou’Wester – upcoming “Last Prayers of the Mother Superior”
• Mid-American Review – upcoming. “Sand”
• The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review -- Fall 2004. “Wind at the Glass” & “Autumnal”
• Palo Alto Review – upcoming. “Easter”
• The Cape Rock – Fall 2004. “My Words”
• Wavelength – Fall / Winter, 2004. “Faithful”
• StringTown – #7, Fall 2004. “Argument Against the Inner World,” “Argument Against an Ars Poetica,” & “Argument Against Telepathy”
• Lullwater Review – Winter 2003. “Confessional”
• Elixir – upcoming. “In this shot”
• The Iowa Review – Volume 34, Number 1, April 2004. “Tourist”
• The Beloit Poetry Journal – Fall, 2003. “Triptych Without Angels”
• Natural Bridge – Spring 2003. “Flesh & Blood” & “At Mistaken Point”
• Prairie Schooner – Spring, 2003. “Poem in Which Krishna Appears As a Heron”
• River Styx – #62-63, Winter 2002-03. “Rule # 6” & “Faith and the Heavy Machinery”
• American Literary Review – Fall 2002. “Good Friday on the Irish Coast”
• New Orleans Review – Summer 2002. “Insurgence”
• The Iowa Review – Spring 2002. “Argument Against Our Temporal Agoraphobia”
• Spoon River Review – Winter/Spring 2002. “bent upon light” & “Sunburn Song”
• Ascent – Winter 2002. “The Organ Tuner of Passau”
• Kestral – Fall 2001 (Issue #18, published 2005). “Speculation,” Angels? Furies?” & “Chestnuts”
• Chariton Review – Fall 2001. “Cloud Cover,” Ground Muse,” “Another Argument from Design” “A heart,” & “These Hands Only”
• Poetry Daily – www. Poems.com. 8/26/01. “Ascension.”
• River Styx – #61, 2001. “Diseases of the Night”
• Epoch – Vol. 50 #1, 2001. “Ascension”
• The Beloit Poetry Journal – Fall 2001. “light”
• Mid-American Review – Vol. XXI, No. 2 (Spring 2001). “Three Entries in an Encyclopedia of Tigers”
• Cape Rock – Fall 2001. “Miniature: On the Irish Ferry”
• Poet Lore – Summer 2000. “Dream of a Summer Night”
• The Florida Review – Winter 1999. “Manna” – reprinted in Spirit and Shadow, . . .Sou’wester – Fall 2000. “L I G H T”
• Bellingham Review – Winter 2000. “Baptism”
• wordvirtual.com - Spring 2000. “Cats’ Feet” & “Shirt”
• The Midwest Quarterly – Summer 1999. “Spills”
• Spoon River Poetry Review – Winter / Spring 1999. “Two from Gertrude Stein”
• Natural Bridge – Spring 1999. “Splendor”
• The Lullwater Review – Fall 1999. “Graduation”
• Poet Lore – Fall 1998. “Autumn”
• Southern Poetry Review – Winter 1998. “In a Finite Atmosphere”
• Sou’wester – Fall 1998. “St. Theresa’s Small Wrist”
• The Tampa Review – Spring / Summer 1998. “The Art of Joy” (now, “Radium”)
• New Letters – Winter 1997. “What Cannot Be Summoned” & “Two Widow Songs”
• River Styx – Spring 1997. “From Inside As Always” & “Deathbed Confessions”
• The Tampa Review – Fall / Winter 1997. “Circumstantial Evidence”
• Ascent – Winter 1997. “The Falling Out”
• The Journal – Fall 1996. “Prayer”
• The Devil’s Millhopper – 1996. “Translating a Tree.”
• Chelsea – Summer 1996. “Berlin Equinox” & “At the Czech Border”
• The Kenyon Review – Winter 1996. “This Third Light” & “Sacred Waters”
• Kalliope – May 1995. “Working the Reversal” (now, “In the Hard Garden”)
• Malahat Review – Fall 1995. “The Tower”
• Elk River Review – Spring / Summer 1994. “Like Salt”
• Cumberland Poetry Review – Fall 1994. “Yesterday’s Story,” “Why She Stays,” & “Draft of an Answer”
• The Cape Rock – Fall 1994. “Preservation”
• Ascent – Winter 1994. “How to Walk on Water”
• Tampa Review – Winter 1994. “The Middle Spaces”
• The Malahat Review – Winter 1992. “Doorways”
• Billee Murray Denny Awards Anthology – February 1993. “Night Drawings”
• Southern Poetry Review – Spring 1991. “Ahead of All Partings”
• Union Street Review – Summer 1991. “Subtitled,” “Imagining Angels,” “Walking,” “For the Heart,” “Nothing is Lost,” “What Passed for Love,” & “Small Comfort”
• Ascent – Winter 1991. “After Her Death”
• Ascent – Fall 1990. “The Hanged Man’s Dilemma”
• Southern Poetry Review – Fall 1990. “A Simple Weather”
• The Malahat Review – Winter 1990. “Dürer for Children”
• Chelsea – Summer 1989. “Confirmation,” “To Yourself,” Self-Portrait Under a Portrait of the Moon,” “Pentecost,” & “Ghazals for the Color Gold” (now, “Couplets for the Color Gold”)
• River Styx – May 1989. “Here Be Dragons”
• Billee Murray Denny Awards Anthology – February 1989. “Playing the Long Joke” & “In Those Days”
• The Cape Rock – Fall 1987. “Love in Winter,” “I Miss Old Novels,” & “Fire”
• The Malahat Review – Fall 1987. “This Is a Note” & “My Calling”
• Chester H. Jones Foundation National Poetry Competition Winners – October 1987. “The Fisherman’s Gift on Father’s Day”
• River Styx – May 1987. “Life Saving,” “Listen” & “Almost Every Sunday”
• Ascent – February 1987. “Ghost Story” & “Drought”
• The Cape Rock – Fall 1985. “Grace Notes” & “Halley’s Coming”
• West Branch – Spring 1985. “The Shapes We Make To Protect Us”
• Anthology of Magazine Verse Yearbook of American Poetry – 1985 edition. “Mocking” (reprint)
• Yankee – August 1984. “Mocking”
• Webster Review – spring 1984. “Flies,” “Elizabeth Bishop’s Poems,” & At the Kirkwood Clock Shop.”
• The Cape Rock 20th Anniversary Edition – November 1984. “This Clean Clutter” (reprint)
• Bloodroot – winter 1981. “The Murder in Our Park”
• The Cape Rock – Winter 1979. “This Clean Clutter”

Essays:

• River Styx – Winter 1997. “To the Island”
• Arizona Literary Magazine – 1984. “Our Names Become Us” & “Being Good”

Educational:
1990: Shane: The Teacher’s Companion & To Kill a Mockingbird: The
Teacher’s Companion, Milliken Publishing company.