EDUCATION The New Hampton School 1963
Middlebury College
Bachelor of Arts 1967
State University of New York at Buffalo
Doctor of Philosophy
Counselor Education 1971
Teaching Vocational Development, Creative Writing and Group Dynamics
SUNY at Buffalo
Introduction to Counseling Theory and Practice
State University College at Buffalo 1971
The Psychology and Literature of Sport
Images of the Family
Creative Writing, Poetry
Middlebury College 1971 - present
Imagination, Adolescence, And Writing Poetry
Middlebury College 1989
First Year Seminar:
Beginning College Writing and Reading Poetry
Middlebury College 1990-present
Staff: Bread Loaf Young Writers'
Conference 1986 - present
Staff: Bread Loaf Writers'
Conference 1967-1994
Counseling/Therapy Psychological Clinic
SUNY at Buffalo
Internship 1970
Counseling Psychologist
State University College at Buffalo
Individual and Group
Psychotherapy 1969-1971
Director of the Center for Counseling and Human Relations
Middlebury College
Individual and Group Counseling;
Preventive Mental Health Programming 1972 - present
Papers/Presentations The Use of Metaphor in Therapy
Gestalt Institute
Cleveland, Ohio 1975
Short Term Counseling and Transactional Analysis
The Creamery Mental Health Clinic
Shelburne, Vermont 1975
Vermont Institute for Transactional Analysis Transference and T.A.
Poetry Therapy and T.A. 1975
Life Needs of the Retarded Forum on the Mentally Retarded 1978
Brief Psychotherapy
Addison County Counseling Service 1978
Developmental Issues and Counseling Strategies for
Each of the Four College Years
New England College Health Assoc.
University of Vermont 1981
Student Career Issues from a Psychological Viewpoint
Small College Career Counselors Conference
Middlebury, Vermont 1983
Psychiatric Protocols
New England College Health Association 1984
Alcohol Abuse and Treatment Issues
Vermont Psychological Association 1984
Cocaine and College Students
Middlebury College 1985
Poetry Workshop
Essex Junction High School 1986
Who Does the Choosing--
Adolescence, Soul, and the Career Counselor
Vermont Association of Career Counselors 1986
Developmental Risks and Successes of First Year College Students:
Imagining the Soul
New England College Health Association Annual Meeting 1986
Teaching in the Chemically Dependent Classroom
New England Alcohol Network Conference, Mt. Holyoke 1986
Recognizing, Approaching and Referring Substance Abuse Problems of the College Students
Southern VT. College, Amherst College 1987
Assessment and Treatment of Substance Abuse Problems of
College Students
UMass Counseling Service 1987
Teaching in the Chemically Dependent College Classroom 1987
Alcohol and Drug Emergencies:
Strategies for Students, Staff and Institutions
New England College Alcohol Network 1988
Beyond Me: Fostering Images and Actions Beyond the Self
Four Winds Hospital/Skidmore College 1988
Sophomore Slump: Clinical Issues
Four Winds Hospital 1988
Adolescence, Alcohol, And Drugs
Bristol Rescue Squad 1989
College Psychotherapy
Rutland Area Psychologists 1989
New England College Alcohol Network Conference - Mt. Holyoke
- Assumptions About Addictions
- College Counseling as part of campus alcohol work
- The continuum of treatment on campus 1989
University of Vermont Health Service: Developmental Issues of
First Year Students and Their Psychological Treatment 1989
New England College Health Association: Self-centeredness and the Development of The Deeper Self - Adolescence and Divinity as it pertains to the medical/psychological treatment of college students 1989
Noble and Greenough School
Dedham, Mass
Alcohol and the Developmental Issues of Adolescence
New College of Alcohol Network,
Mt. Holyoke: Alcohol and the Developmental Issues of College Students (Keynote) 1991
New England College Health Association Annual Meeting, Portland, Maine: The Fifteen Minute Hour: How To Get To The Top and Bottom of Things Quickly with College Students
Vermont Counseling and Development
Association: Mountains and Meadows -
Counseling for a Lifetime (Keynote) 1991
Northeast Director of College Counseling Services Conference: Self-centeredness and the Development of The Deeper Self 1990
Brown University: Developmental Issues of College Students and Alcohol, Spring Conferences, 1992, 1994
Northeastern Counseling Center Director's Conference, Portland, Maine: Seeing the Songs: Shamans and the Rain Forest: Implications for College Counseling and Cross-cultural Issue, 1995.
New England College Health Association,
Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Responding to Sudden Loss on Campus
Northeastern Counseling Center Director's Conference, Sturbridge, Mass: Responding to Sudden Loss on Campus; A Counselor's Book of Days Presentation.
Choate Rosemary Hall: The Transition to College
Salisbury School: The Transition to College.
New Hampton School: 1997 Commencement Address.
New England College Health Association, Providence, Rhode Island: Creating Bouquets of Self-Esteem and Boxes for Grieving. 1998
Freedom from Chemical Dependency, Dedham, Mass:
Developmental Issues of College Students and Substance
Use and Abuse.
Clinical Publications "Whip Your Ass"
Black clients and white counselors
COUNSELOR EDUCATION AND SUPERVISION
"Pupil Personnel Services: Where Are We? Where Are We Going?
U.S. Office of Education Report
"Taking It All Off"
The use of sensitivity techniques in the classroom: its dangers
COLLEGE ENGLISH
"Unslumping Our Sophomores, Clinical Observations and Strategies"
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN COLLEGE HEALTH ASSOCIATION
Vol. 25, December, 1976
"Becoming Close: Intimate Relations Among College Students"
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN COLLEGE HEALTH ASSOCIATION
Vol. 27, December, 1978
"Learning to Leave: Problems of Graduating-Clinical
Observations and Strategies"
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN COLLEGE HEALTH ASSOCIATION
Vol. 28, June, 1980
"Moving Away: Perspectives on Counseling Anxious Freshmen"
ADOLESCENCE
Vol. XVI, No. 63, Fall, 1981
"The Real World"
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN COLLEGE HEALTH ASSOCIATION
Vol. 29, June, 1981
"Counseling the Invisible Client"
TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS JOURNAL
Vol. 9, No. 4, October, 1979
"Remembering Reality: Alcohol and Drugs-What Are We Really Asking Students to Know and To Do?
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN COLLEGE HEALTH ASSOCIATION, 1986
"Practicing the Ethical Heart"
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE HEALTH ASSOCIATION, Vol. 35, November, 1986
"Developmental Opportunities"
chapter in COLLEGE PSYCHOTHERAPY, Paul Grayson, Editor, 1988
Book Review: "Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in a College Context" Robert May, Editor. JOURNAL OF COLLEGE PSYCHOTHERAPY, 1988
"Beyond Me: Fostering Images And Actions Beyond the Self"
JOURNAL OF COLLEGE PSYCHOTHERAPY
Vol. 4 #2, 1989
"Teaching in the Chemically Impaired Classroom"
Journal of College Student Psychotherapy.
"Earlier Intervention"
Journal of College Student Psychotherapy.
"Sixteen Things I've Learned for Now In Twenty-five Years of College Counseling"
Journal of College Student Psychotherapy.
"Including the Excludable, Excluding the Includable: A Commentary" Journal of College Student Psychotherapy.
"Late Drops, Deadlines and Depression"
Journal of College Student Psychotherapy
Interviews PSYCHOLOGY TODAY did news pieces on my
work in poetry therapy and problems of graduation
LADIES HOME JOURNAL - Alcohol and Drug Use of College Students
BOSTON GLOBE - Rape Prevention on Campus. Freshmen Adjustments.
TIME Magazine - Problems of fraternity hazing
CBS & ABC Radio News and United Press International - Problems of Graduation. Intimacy Among Students
WFAD Radio - College Students and Their Parents
Poetry Publications
"Rearrangement for the Brain"
"Keep it Under Your Hat"
THE NEW ORLEANS REVIEW
"In the Greenhouse"
THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR
"Injunction II"
TRI-QUARTERLY
"Preserves"
THE FALCON
"Artificial Fruit Eclipse"
"T.B. Test"
BONES AND SAND
"His Wish Undergoes Training"
"Finding the Season Right"
THE POETRY MISCELLANY
"Consider Yourself"
THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR
"Between the Mountain and the Brook"
EPOCH
"Stoking the Hothouse"
"Night Sounds and Visions"
JAM TODAY
17 poems
AUDIT
"I Appraise the Probability of Improving"
CONCERNING POETRY
"Impatiens"
PRAIRIE SCHOONER
"I Order Steak for the Architect"
"The Gourmet Minces His Words"
THE POETRY MISCELLANY
"Communiqué on Cork"
"Driving into a Field"
THE CHARLTON REVIEW
"Case Study with Cream"
"Annanda's Talk with Buddha"
"Reaching the Border"
"The President's Impeached"
THE BERKSHIRE REVIEW
"Mother Visits Her Mother"
POETRY NORTHWEST
"The Ring"
"Hitching Home I Strike a Mountain Underseas"
COLLEGE ENGLISH
"On the Eve of Our Wedding"
"The Decision"
"Vermont, The Planetarium, Perhaps"
THE BACK DOOR
"The Carver"
VIRGINIA QUARTERLY
"The Wind"
YANKEE MAGAZINE
"The Baker"
MINNESOTA REVIEW
"The Wandering Jew"
"Reflecting"
SKULLPOLISH
"Notes Toward an Almanac"
COLLEGE ENGLISH
"The Jeweler"
"A Portrait or a Book of Matches"
POETRY NORTHWEST
"The Doctor's Quarantine"
THE ANTIOCH REVIEW
"The Stroke"
"Three Scenes"
"Bearing Children"
THE MIDWEST REVIEW
"Planting Asparagus"
COLLEGE REVIEW
"The Visit"
POETRY
"Burning Back the Field"
POETRY NOW
"Sound Carries"
"Passions of the Flowering Crab"
"My Dear Helen"
THE NEW ENGLAND REVIEW
"His Ice House"
BLACK WARRIOR REVIEW
"The Stable"
CONCERNING POETRY
"Address"
POETRY NOW
"Room Ready to Erase Its Darkness"
THE POET POPE ANTHOLOGY
"Meeting the Train of Saint Francis"
SKYLINE
"The Book of Nova Scotia
THE CHOWDER REVIEW
"California"
THE MINNESOTA REVIEW
"Across the Grain"
PRAIRIE SCHOONER
"August"
THE GEORGIA REVIEW
"Beethoven's Polish Birthday"
TENDRIL
"The Sitter Moves"
COLLEGE ENGLISH
"Town Meeting"
POETRY
"Exchanging Prisoners"
CROTON REVIEW
"Falling Awake"
POETRY NORTHWEST
"Boy Cove"
YANKEE
"Her Apprehension"
TENDRIL
"Waiting at the Office of Magritte"
NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW
"Inside", "Between Us", "Dancing
at Bread Loaf"
PRAIRIE SCHOONER
"It's Something", "Borne Away", "When Your Shadow Gives Away Your Hand"
COLLEGE ENGLISH
"In Vermont, In November",
"Positively Blue", "What to Forget"
"The Way Out"
LOUISVILLE REVIEW
"Moon of Another Childhood"
CRAZY HORSE
"Beyond Resembling"
AMERICAN SCHOLAR
"This January"
LUBLOLLY
"Having Watched the Day After"
"If You Asked"
"Away from Any Uniform"
"Pearl of the Moon", "Knock Back"
THE DENVER QUARTERLY
"Using the Air"
THE ANTIGONISH REVIEW
"Crescent Beach, Florida"
THE OHIO REVIEW
"Cocaine, Sex or Food"
NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW
"Happy"
CRAZY HORSE
"For the Woman Looking for the Eating Disorder Workshop Who Found a Poetry Reading Instead"
POETRY NORTHWEST
"All the Night's Air"
YANKEE Magazine
"After Working Hours", "It's Time",
"July's March",
CALOOPA Magazine
"Angels and the Jews","Nothing More",
"Autumn Bees on Broccoli Blossoms",
"Most Likely", "Road Lulau"
PRAIRIE SCHOONER
"Shrewsbury's Moose",
RUTLAND HERALD
"The Groves of Argos", POETRY
"Sweet Mercuries"
NORTH BY NORTHEAST
"Like Fireflies", "Between Us",
CRAZY HORSE
"Burning Bush of Basketball"
MIDDLEBURY MAGAZINE
"Like Some Nation Who's Been Slighted"
"Did You Bring Me Anything", POETRY
"Reclaiming Bonkers", 'Baby Jessica"
RUTLAND HERALD
"First Green Heron", WITNESS;
AMERICAN SPORTS ANTHOLOGY
"Where No Candle Can Stay Lit"
"Still Before"
"You Don't Have To Say A Word"
POETRY NORTHWEST
"Names To Faces"
"Behind The Bingham School"
THREE RIVERS POETRY JOURNAL
"Dinner's End"
THE ANTIGONISH REVIEW
"Shovel and Rake"
SENECA REVIEW
"Breaker 19"
Pennsylvania Review
"For a Stable of Horses"
"A Shadow of a Nest"
POETRY NORHWEST
"Your Birds"
YANKEE MAGAZINE
"The Flare"
GREEN MOUNTAINS REVIEW
"Another Tall Day"
"To A Student Swept Up"
PRAIRIE SCHOONER
"Poem for My Daughter and Not
for Bob Dylan"
SEATTLE REVIEW
"Grouse's Wing"
DALHOUSIE REVIEW
"Lakefront"
"Beauty"
ATLANTA REVIEW
Many more recent magazine, newspaper and internet publications.
Literary Publications
"Philip Booth - American Poet",DICTIONARY
OF LITERARY BIOGRAPHY, 1993
Books THE DAY WE STILL STAND HERE
University of Georgia Press, 1983
FALLING AWAKE
University of Georgia Press, 1986
FIRE IN THE ORCHARD,
Autumn House Press, 2002
Work in Progress
"Seeing the Songs: Shamans and the
Rainforest" non-fiction book.
"A Counselor's Book of Days: Clinical Meditations"
"Counseling Our College Students: A Guide for Counselors, Administrators,
Parents and Students"(accepted for publication:Charles Thomas Publisher
"Proof of the Possible", book of poems
"Translation of the Heart-101 Responses to the Cold Mountain Poems of Han Shan"
"Through a Bluer Lake" a book of shorter poems
AWARDS
Resident, The Millay Colony for the Arts, September 1976
Finalist: The University of Massachusetts Juniper Prize, 1977, 1978
Finalist: The American Academy of Poets Walt Whitman Award, '77, '78
Finalist: The Emily Balch Poetry Award, Virginia Quarterly Review,'76
Vermont Council on the Arts Creative Writing Grant, 1979-80
Robert Frost Fellow, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 1982
Sam Dietzel Award for Mental Health Practice in Vermont, St. Michael's College, 2002
Arthur Vining Davis Fellow, 2002-2003
NOMINATIONS
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 2003
Tufts-Kinglsey Award, 2003
Griffin Prize(Canada), 2003
OTHER POSITIONS
Editorial Board-Bread Loaf Writers' Conference; Administrative
Assistant, 1968-1990's
Staff, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference 1993, 94.
Suncoast Florida Writers' Conference, 1995.
Associate Editor, THE POETRY MISCELLANY
Staff, UVM Writers' Conference
Staff, Bread Loaf Young Writers' Conference
Editorial Advisory Board, NEW ENGLAND REVIEW/BREAD LOAF QUARTERLY
Admissions Committee, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
POETRY READINGS
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
The Buxton School, Williamstown, MA
The New Hampton School, New Hampton, NH
Stone Soup Gallery, Boston, MA
Frog Hollow, Vt. State Craft Center
Plymouth State College of New Hampshire
University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Newton, Massachusetts Public Library
St. Michael's College
Middlebury College
Cornwall, Vermont Library
University of Michigan, Dearborn
University School, Cleveland, Ohio
New England College Health Association
First Night, Burlington, Vermont
Northeast Directors of College and University
Counseling Centers
Stoughton, Massachusetts High School
First Night, Burlington, Vermont
The Putney School, Putney, Vermont
Borders Bookstore,Burlington,VT, Plattsburgh, NY,
Laguna Hills, CA, Pittburgh, PA
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
Board of Directors, Addison County Association for Retarded Citizens
Board of Directors, Porter Hospital, Quality Co-ordinating Committee Chairperson
Board of Directors, Porter Medical Center, Porter Hospital
Executive Committee, 1984, Vermont Psychological Association
Member, Vermont Touring Artists
President, New England College Health Association,
Executive Board, Middlebury Ski Club
Coach, Little League, Cornwall, Vermont
Cornwall Volunteer Fire Department
Justice of the Peace, Cornwall, Vermont,
REFERENCES
Robert Jimmerson, M.D., Medical Director
Counseling Service of Addison County
Middlebury, VT 05753
(802) 388-6751
Peter Lebenbaum Ph.D.
Counseling Servcie of Addison County
Middlebury, VT 05753
802-388-6751
Robert Rossel Ph.D.
Burlington, VT
802-863-9079