Text Box: Employment History 11/00 to 9/07 Rio Tinto Energy America 11/99 to 11/00 Oedekoven Water & Hot Oil 8/98 to 11/99 Self-employed – Internet Representation Firm 8/97 to 7/98 Interim Financial and Operations Director, Western Folklife Center 4/97 to 6/98 Cowboy Poetry Gathering Manager, Western Folklife Center 7/94 to 4/97 Program Coordinator, Western Folklife Center 9/92 to 6/94 Program Assistant, Western Folklife Center 8/87 to 7/92 American Studies Program, University of Wyoming, Honors, Truman Scholar 1984 to 1987 Self-employed with infants 1979 to 1984 Heavy Equip. Operator, Kerr McGee Coal Co., Wyoming State Board of Mines Positions Held Artists Roster for Nevada State Council on the Arts-Artists in Residence Program Tumblewords Roster for Nevada State Council on the Arts & Western States Arts Federation Consultant, Crumrine Gold and Silversmiths, Reno, Nevada – poetry and images for glossy wholesale catalog Writing workshop faculty for the Northern Nevada Writing Project reunion, Reno, NV, March 4, 1994. Consultant, Quarter Star Productions, Charlotte, NC--a project developing a weekly prime-time show set in the contemporary ranch and rodeo west--in which my role is both creative and in ensuring authenticity and realism within the story lines. Member, Board of Advisors, Washington Square Films, The United States of Poetry, a forthcoming six-part PBS series put together by Bob Holman, New York, NY. Also, "Timothy Draw," a poem first published in The Exalted One, Dry Crik Press, 1991, will be a featured poem in the series. Poetry-Writing Workshop faculty for the Fifth Annual Arizona Cowboy Poets Gathering, Prescott, Arizona, August 14- 16, 1992. Staffmember and consultant for the first annual Gem City Jamboree of Cowboy Poetry and Music at the Wyoming Territorial Park, Laramie, Wyoming, July 19-20-1992. Staffmember, 7th Annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Elko, Nevada, January 1991. Judge for the 1991 Wyoming Young Authors Contest. Staffmember and cowboy poetry host at the Wyoming Centennial Folklife Festival, Cheyenne, Wyoming, July 1990. Staffmember, Western Folklife Center's 6th Annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Elko, Nevada, January 1990. Books Authored The Whole Cowboy Catalog: An Entertaining Guide to Everything Western, co-written with Rod McQueary, published by Gibbs Smith Publisher, Layton, Utah, 1995. Surviving the Good Life: A Ranch Woman’s Memories, by Doris Greenough, editing and total project supervision for Hawberry Books, 1994. Another Green Grass Lover, a collection of selected poems, published by Dry Crik Press, Jan, 1994. The Exalted One, a collection of original poetry published by Dry Crik Press, Lemon Cove, California, Dec. 1991. Cathedral Home for Children: Horse Program Manual, compiled and edited a basic horsemanship and safety manual, 1988. Wyoming Surface Coal Mine Foreman's Exam Study Guide, compiled and edited for the Wyoming State Board of Mines, 1984. Poetry and Music Projects Cattle, Horses, Sky and Grass: A Sagebrush Suite, a set of six lyrical poems commissioned by the Northern Nevada Concert Orchestra Association, set to music by commissioned composer, Gary Buchanan, and premiered by the orchestra at their Music of the American West concert April 16, 1994, and again in April of 2005. "Winds," a poem, was incorporated as the opening piece of Between My Heart and Heaven ...Wyoming, an original contemporary suite for string orchestra composed by Mark Schlichenmeyer as a sanctioned Wyoming Centennial Project. It was designed for, and is performed by, Wyoming high school orchestras. 1990. Poetry in Anthologies - Printed and Recorded “Timothy Draw” published in the companion volumn to The United States of Poetry, Blum, Holman, and Pellington, Harry N. Abrams, 1996. "A Thousand Pretty Ponies," "Divination," "Renaissance," "Brighid," and "Cattle, Horses, Grass and Sky" published in Between Earth and Sky: Poet Cowboys edited by Anne Heath-Widmark, Norton, New York, Fall 1994. "Cattle, Horses, Sky and Grass," "War Horse," "Greenough Girls," "Mother Love," "Hancock Compliments,"and "Steady Market" published in Cattle, Horses, Sky and Grass: Cowboy Poetry of the Late Twentieth Century edited by Warren Miller, Northland Press, Flagstaff, Arizona, March 1994. "Coyote Bitch," "Grandpa Lew," "Girl Friends," and "Bunch Quitter" published in Maverick Western Verse edited by John Dofflemyer, Gibbs Smith, Publisher, Layton, Utah, 1994. "Timothy Draw" published in Cowboy Love Poetry edited by Jack Lamb, Angel City Press, Santa Monica, CA, 1994. "Coyote Bitch," "Timothy Draw," "Lead Mare," "To the Gauchas of Salta," and "Mama Lessons," published in Graining the Mare: The Poetry of Ranch Women edited by Teresa Jordan, Gibbs Smith, Publisher, Layton Utah, 1994. "Whoop it Up" recitation of traditional piece included on The Best of the Cowboy Poetry Gathering 1993 CD and cassette, Rhinos Records, 1994. "Waiting on the Wind," "Storming Summer Thunder," and "The Big Lonely" published in The Eagle Spirit, edited by Sonya Anne Monsen, Peoples Voice Press, Allentown, New Jersey, 1993. "War Horse," "Coyote Bitch," and "Cattle, Horses, Sky and Grass" has been included in The Spoken Word Archive and Recording Project, Women's Action Coalition of San Francisco, 1993. Television Appearances Featured along with Rod McQueary and Jack Walthers on a Turner Broadcasting piece on ranching and the environment as a poet. The poem “Timothy Draw” dramatized in the “Sex and Love” segment of the PBS series – The United States of Poetry Part of a PBS special aired through KUED-TV Salt Lake City and syndicated nationally as well as marketed as a home video on the 1994 Cowboy Poetry Gathering. . One of several poets, reciters, and craftspeople featured in CNN news clips aired during the 1994 Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Jan. 1994. Featured poet along with Waddie Mitchell, Wallace McRae, and Larry Schutte in a segment of EDGE a PBS Television show covering the 1992 Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada, which aired on April 1, 1992. Cultural guest on "Wyoming Signatures" a monthly talk show produced by UWTV Cable Television, aired June 23, 1992. Publications “Hancock Compliments,” and “Lead Mare” published as poetry along with the central essay “The Spirit of the Cowgirl” to be published in Cowgirls , a coffee table photography book by Stoecklein Publishing, Ketchum, ID 1999. “The Tradition of Cowboy Poetry,” an essay as part of a scholarly compilation edited by Dave Stanley and Elaine Thatcher, forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press. “A Thousand Pretty Ponies,” and “Systems and Signs,” poetry published in The Western Horse, a photography book published by Stoecklein, Ketchum, ID, 1998. "No Step for a Stepper" published in The Cascade Horseman Vol VII, No. IV, Oct. 1993. "Cattle, Horses, Sky and Grass" and "Renaissance" were published in Artifacts Vol XV, No. 5, Sept./Oct.,1993, North Tahoe Fine Arts Council. "The Ones We Recognize," poem published in Cascade Horseman Vol VI, No. XII, May, 1993 along with a review of The Exalted One. "Renaissance," poem published in Cascade Cattleman Vol. VI, No. IV, April 6, 1993. "Lead Mare" and "Girlfriends," poems published in The Cowgirl Companion by Gail Gilcriest, Hyperion Press, Warner Books, New York, NY, 1993. "Keeper of the Winds" and "Tin Roof Symphony," poems published in the Fall 92-Winter 93 issue of Dry Crik Review. "Throw Back the Gates," an adaption of the Honors Project was published as an essay in the Summer 1992 Dry Crik Review. "Jenny Jo," a poem published in the Spring 1992 Dry Crik Review. "Triage," a poem, and a review of Vess Quinlan's poetry collection, The Trouble With Dreams, published in the Fall 1992 issue of The Owen Wister Review. "Hancock Compliments," a poem published in the White Cloud Review: Some Stories, No. 5, Wind Vein Press, Ketchum, Idaho, 1992. "Gatherings," a poem published in the Winter 1992 issue of Dry Crik Review. "Good Clean Land Still Wild," "Keeping Her Free," and "A Hundred Thousand Hungry Wolves," poems in the Fall 1991 Environmental Issue of the Dry Crik Review. "Optimism," a poem published in the Summer 1991 issue of the Dry Crik Review. "Grandpa Lew," a poem, and "Deseamos," a short-story, published in the Spring 1991 issue of the Dry Crik Review of contemporary cowboy poetry. "The Kid Horse," an essay published in the Spring 1991 issue of Cowboy Magazine. "The Spiritual Voyage of Cabeza de Vaca: From Conquistador to Savior," Journal of the National Undergraduate Literature Conference, 1989. Presentations Featured speaker at the Nevada Commission on Tourism’s Rural Roundup, April, 1999 in regards to tourism and the Internet. Numerous poetry and folk arts presentations in relationship to Western Folklife Center employment. Performer on "Real Women Buck Bales" evening show hosted by Teresa Jordan at Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Elko, Nevada, Jan. 1994. Panelist for "Tumblewords" Workshop to discuss community issues and artist concerns associated with a collaborative project between Western States Arts Federation and the Nevada Arts Council to bring poets and writers to isolated communities, Carson City, NV, Dec. 3, 1993. Guest participant and featured speaker at the Center for Holistic Resource Management's Summer Gathering at Snowbird, Utah, Aug 3-7, 1993. Special guest poet at the San Francisco Poetry Slam, Brain Wash Cafe, San Francisco, July 17, 1993. Presented cowboy poetry at Small Press Traffic Bookstore, San Francisco, July 16, 1993. Night show performer, Salinas Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Salinas, California, July 15, 1993. Featured poet at the Grand Junction Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Grand Junction, Colorado, April 23-24, 1993. Night Show performer at Visalia Cowboy Gathering, Visalia, California, April 2-3, 1993. Night Show performer at Praire Bluestem Poetry Gathering, Augusta, Kansas, Febuary 26-27, 1993. Performer on "Buck Ramsey and Friends" evening show at Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Elko, Nevada, Jan. 1993. Night show performer at the Colorado Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Arvada, Colorado, Jan. 15-17, 1993. Night show performer at the Wyoming Cowboy Roundup in Riverton, Wyoming, Oct. 16-17, 1992. Invited poet at the Lincoln County Cowboy Symposium, Ruidoso, New Mexico, Oct. 8-11, 1992. Night Show performer at the Durango, Colorado, Cowboy Gathering, Oct. 1-3, 1992. "Memories, Classics, and Families: The Tradition of Cowboy Poetry," and "Throw Back the Gates: Contemporary Cowboy Poetry," Senior Research project for the University of Wyoming Honors Program in two essays. Kenn Lee, cowboy musician, and I performed at the Fall Kick-Off Event at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Aug. 27, 1992. Night show performer at the Fifth Annual Arizona Cowboy Poets Gathering, Prescott, Arizona, August 14-16, 1992. Poetry and entertainment at the Laramie Jubilee Days Luncheon for past and present rodeo queens, including Miss Rodeo America, Stacey Talbott, July 11, 1992. Evening show host and performer for the Second Annual Gem City Jamboree Cowboy Poetry and Music Weekend at the Wyoming Territorial Park, Laramie, Wy. June 26-27, 1992. Featured poet at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in conjunction with Beef Empire Days in Garden City, Kansas, June 5-6, 1992. Featured poet at Aims Community College Cowboy Roundup in Greeley, Colorado, May 15, 1992. Featured poet and evening performer at the Eighth Annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Elko, Nevada, Jan. 28-Feb. 2, 1992. Invited poet to the Third Annual Colorado Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Arvada, Colorado, Jan. 9-12, 1992. Featured poet at the Third Annual Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Durango, Colorado, Oct. 3-6, 1991. "Cowboy Poetry From the Cowboy Side of the Fence," a public educational presentation as part of the Gem City Jamboree of Cowboy Poetry and Music at the Wyoming Territorial Park, Laramie, Wyo., July 1991. "Shoptalk," presentation on the "What Did I Learn About Writing and Teaching Writing From Working in a Middle School/Junior High Writing Center?" panel at the Wyoming Conference on English, Laramie, Wyo., June 1991. Also chaired a panel titled "Reading and Readers." Invited poet at the Old West Cowboy Roundup put on by the Cowboy Poetry and Song Hall of Fame in Newcastle, Wyoming, June 1991. "Balancing Environmental Concerns with Economic Consequences," panel at the Truman Scholarship Leadership Week, Liberty, Missouri, May 1991. "Crossings," a short-story, "Margaret Atwood's `Spelling:' The Magic and Power of Daughters and Words," literary criticism, and "Mamie," "Grandpa Lew," and "Girlfriends," all original poetry, were all selected for presentation at the 1991 National Undergraduate Literature Conference, Ogden, Utah. "Blitz," and "Dinner Parties," short-stories, "Powder River," a creative essay, and "The Higher Education Visions of Ursula LeQuin in The Dispossessed," an academic paper, all presented at the National Undergraduate Literature Conference, Ogden, Utah, April 1990. "The Spiritual Voyage of Cabeza de Vaca: From Conquistador to Savior," National Undergraduate Literature Conference, Ogden, Utah, April 1989. Published in the Journal of the National Undergraduate Literature Conference. ##END##



 

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