I have been Visiting Professor of American Literature/Creative Writing (one semester) in the French university system since 1990. Also directed advanced writing workshop, Boston area. Have held posts at the University of Paris VII-VIII, the University of Tours, the University of Versailles, and at the Ecole Superieure (Polytechnique). Was a Fulbright Senior Artist/Professor in Creative Writing, France (1993-95). Often read and perform in theatres. my work has been featured at festivals in France and in the U.S. Also work with composers. Song cycles and longer pieces have been performed worldwide. Just won a first prize, Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award 2010, and the Sow's Ear International Poetry Chapbook Award, book just out 2010.
I have received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts; Bunting Institute; Two Radcliffe Institute fellowships; Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities; the Fulbright Commission and others. A Discovery winner, s residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, Ragdale, Karolyi, Byrdcliffe and the American Academy in Rome. An international writing coach, I direct the Advanced Writing Workshop, created through the NEA, an intensive program for professional writers. Have taught in the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Barbados, at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center in its early days, and for the Holland America Line. I've taught at Santa Fe, Taos, Aspen, IWWG : Skidmore Brown and other programs throughout the United States as well as abroad. Member, int. Pen, PSA, Poets House, NE Poetry Club, support the NWU, all kinds of writers retreats and little mags, and many other writing programs and organizations.