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Paulann Petersen



Literary Magazine Publications

Poetry, The New Republic, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, Willow Springs, Calyx, Seattle Review, The Alembic, Pearl, Blue Unicorn, Clearwater Journal, Calapooya Collage, Hubbub, CutBank, Sequoia, Florilegia, Weber Studies, Wilderness Magazine, Portlander, From Here We Speak: an Anthology of Oregon Poetry, Claiming the Spirit Within (an anthology of women poets from Beacon Press), The Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry (1997 Edition), O Poetry! Oh Poesia! Poems of Oregon and Peru, Wildsong (University of Georgia Press), Nortwest Poets and Artists 1989 Calendar, POETRY IN MOTION (places poems on TriMet buses and lightrail cars in the Portland area.

Online Publications

Three appearances in Poetry Daily (www.poems.com).

Chapbooks

Full-Length Books

Awards

Readings

Willamette University; University of Portland, Marylhurst University; Lewis and Clark College; Linfield College; American Studies Research Center, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India; Reed College; Portland State University; Mountain Writers Series, Mount Hood Community College; Peninsula College, Port Angeles, Washington; Clark College, Vancouver, Washington; Eastern Oregon State College, La Grande, Oregon; Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, Oregon; Stanford University, Palo Alto, California; Oregon Institute of Technology, Klamath Falls, Oregon; Lower Columbia College, Longview, Washington.

Elliott Bay Bookstore, Seattle, Washington; Powell's Bookstore, Portland, Oregon; International Women's Day, Portland, Oregon; Looking Glass Bookstore, Portland, Oregon; Borders Bookstore; Oregon State Poetry Association Fall Keynote Address and Reading; Broadway Books, Portland, Oregon; Westwind Review Series, Ashland, Oregon; Lane Literary Guild, Eugene, Oregon; Portland Poetry Festival; KBOO Radio, Portland, Oregon; Rendezvous Reading Series, Seattle, Washington; Santa Barbara Writers' Conference, Santa Barbara, California; Rattlesnake Mountain Writers' Workshop, Richland, Washington; Kepler's Bookstore, Menlo Park, California; KSOR Radio, "Talk Story," Ashland, Oregon.

Education & Experience

Pomona College; Southern Oregon University (B.S. and M.S. in Humanities, Fine and Performing Arts--graduating Summa Cum Laude, Outstanding Graduate Student of 1984); Stanford University (graduate work as a Stegner Fellow in Poetry).

Teacher of English, West Linn High School, West Linn, Oregon, and Mazama High School, Klamath Falls, Oregon

Teacher of Poetry, various workshops for colleges and writers' conferences, including: Oregon Writers' Workshop, Portland (Northwest College of Art, Portland Art Museum); Mountain Writers; Oregon State Poetry Association; and The Creative Arts Community at Menucha.