RESUME
Daniel Zimmerman
1234 Newton Street
North Brunswick, NJ 08902
908.938.3435
[email protected]
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EDUCATION Ph.D., English, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1983.
M.A., Humanities, SUNY/Buffalo, 1975. Teaching Fellowship.
B.A., English, SUNY/Buffalo, 1966.
New York State Regents Scholarship.
Graduate course, Teaching with the Internet, University of
Northern Iowa (online), spring 1997.
Trained with ETS to read GMAT essays online, 1997.
TEACHING Chair, English, Middlesex County College, 2007-2011
Associate Chair, English, Middlesex County College, 2004-2006
Adjunct (online) Professor, Western Governors University, 2004
Professor, English, Middlesex County College, 1999-present
Associate Professor, English, Middlesex County College, Edison, NJ, 1992-99; Assistant Professor, 1984-1992; Instructor, 1979-84. Teaching Composition, Literature, Journalism, Creative Writing.
Adjunct Instructor, Rutgers University: Expository Writing, 2002.
Visiting Professor, Middlesex University, London, England, Summer 1992, '93, '96, '98, '99, '01. Taught Intro. to Shakespeare; Contemporary Theatre (via MCC's Center for International Studies).
Instructor, Empire State College, Buffalo, 1978.
Artist-in-Residence, City of Buffalo Arts Development Services, 1977- 1978. Taught creative writing and newsletter workshops.
Instructor, Veterans Outreach Program, Bryant & Stratton Business Institute, Buffalo, 1975-1976.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Erie Community College, Buffalo, 1972-1975.
Teaching Assistant, SUNY at Buffalo, 1966-1970.
FELLOWSHIP Mid-Career Fellowship, McGraw Center for Teaching
and Learning, Princeton University, fall 2012/spring 2013
Studied Modernist Poetry; Philosophy of Language.
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, CUNY, fall 1990.
Studied Visionary Poetics; Islamic Fundamentalism and Revolution.
MEMBER Modern Language Association
National Council of Teachers of English
Literary Director, Edison Arts Society, 2008-2011
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ACADEMIC
WRITING "The Compleat Angler: A Review of Mathew V. Spano's Hellgrammite."
Middlesex: A Literary Journal. 9. Fall 2015.
"Hyperlocal: A Review of Hank Kalet's Stealing Copper," Middlesex: A Literary Journal. 8. Fall 2015.
"Knowing Jack," Middlesex: A Literary Journal. 7. Fall 2014.
"Uncrumpling the Map: Using E-Prime for Invention and Clarity in Writing,"
Middlesex: A Literary Journal. 6. Fall 2013.
"In the Offing," presented at the Soul in Buffalo Conference, Fall 2010. Rpt. in
Middlesex: A Literary Journal. 6. Fall 2013.
"'The Riddles of Heaven': Nature in Four of Donne's Holy Sonnets,"
Middlesex: A Literary Journal. 5. Fall 2012.
Review of Emanuel di Pasquale's translation of Paolo Ruffilli's Dark Room,
Middlesex: A Literary Journal. 5. Fall 2012.
"Haikuogeny," Middlesex: A Literary Journal. 3. Fall 2010.
"La Vita Nuova," review of Emanuel di Pasquale's translation of Dante's classic, ekleksographia: wave two. October 2009. http://ekleksographia.ahadadabooks.com/ballardini/authors/daniel_zimmerman_reviews.html
"The Elevation of Venus," Middlesex: A Literary Journal. 1. Fall 2008.
"Revising in E-Prime," presented at the New Jersey Writing Alliance,
Georgian Court University, Lakewood Township, NJ, April 4, 2008.
"Writing about Politics and Government," presented at the Two Year College English Association Northeast Conference, Princeton, NJ, October 21, 2005.
"E-Prime as a Revision Strategy," ETC: A Review of General Semantics 58.3 (Fall 2001): 340-347.
"Attacking the Killer BEs, or Doing What Comes Unnaturally," presented at the New Jersey Association for Developmental Education Conference, Princeton, 1996; Edison Arts Society, 2000.
"E-Prime as a Revision Strategy," presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Madison, WI, 1996.
"Praying to the Aliens" (review), intent. 1:4 (Winter 1990).
"The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves," (review), intent. 1:3 (Fall 1989).
"The Twenty Minute Inquisitor," College English Notes 15:1 (Fall 1988).
"Inspiration and Criticism," presented at the New Jersey College English Association Conference, Princeton, Spring 1988.
"Ethics: 'Under every Heaven...,'" College English Notes 14:1 (Fall 1987).
"Writer's Workbench: AT&Tease," NJCUE Newsletter 1:6 (July 1986).
"'What are those golden builders doing?' A Study of Blake's Poetics
of Reception" (Ph.D. dissertation, 1983).
"From Prophecy to Vision: Blake's Track," in Sparks of Fire: Blake in a New Age (Richmond, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1982).
POETRY Isotopes2 (Chicago: http://www.beardofbees.com , 2007).
Post-Avant (Columbus, OH: Pavement Saw Press, 2002; intro. by
Robert Creeley). Editor's Choice, 2000 Transcontinental Poetry
Award.
Isotopes (London, England: frAme publications, 2001).
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Blue Horitals [John Clarke / Daniel Zimmerman] (Amman,
Jordan: Oasii, 1997).
Our English (Oasii Broadside #22, Ra'anana, Israel, 1995).
3 Poems (Oasii Broadside #1, Ra'anana, Israel, 1994).
Indian Rope Trick (House Organ #9, Lakewood, OH, 1994).
Tattoos for Proteus (:that: #18, Peacham, VT, 1994).
At That (Buffalo, NY: Western Gate, 1978).
See All The People (a livre deluxe, illus. by Richard Sturm; intro. by
Robert Creeley). Toronto: Open Studio/Scarborough College, 1976.
Perspective (Canton, NY: Institute of Further Studies, 1974). Fascicle # 20 in the curriculum of the soul series.
Royal Jelly (issue of Mouth magazine, Buffalo, 1974).
Deja Vu (Buffalo: The Broadway Press, 1967).
Mandala (Buffalo: The Broadway Press, 1964).
Poetry readings and workshops in many different venues, 1964-present
IN MAGAZINES
& ANTHOLOGIES Mother, Anonym, Exquisite Corpse, Move (UK), Solstice (UK), himma, intent., New York Quarterly, On Turtle's Back, Abiko Quarterly (Japan), Assembling, House Organ, :that:, The Downtown Review, Paunch, Io, Institute of Further Studies Magazine, kenning, Chain, Tinfish, Transom, Pacific Northwest Spiritual Poetry, NMFG (Canada), Dirt, Lynx, The Idiom, Origami Condom, Middlesex; Nor'easter, NOON (Japan), Snapshots, Chelsea, Snakeskin (UK),
http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~simmers/second.htm,
Deluxe Rubber Chicken, http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/ezines/deluxe/five/,
Poet's Corner,
http://www.fieralingue.it/poetcorner/modules.php?name=Content (Italy),
The Ghazal Page,
http://www.ghazalpage.net/2003/2003_g.html.
Dispatchespoetry.com (Canada), Palisades, Parkways & Pinelands: An Anthology of Contemporary New Jersey Poets, ed Emanuel di Pasquale & Gregg G. Brown. Cliffwood, NJ: Blast Press, 2015.The Poets of New Jersey: From Colonial to Contemporary, ed. Emanuel di Pasquale, Frank Finale, Sander Zulauf. Bay Head, NJ: Jersey Shore Pub., 2005. An Outriders Anthology: Poetry in Buffalo 1969-1979 and After, ed. Max Wickert (Buffalo, 2013), This Broken Shore
In 1997, I invented a new, anagrammatical poetic form, Isotopes.
Examples appear in An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art, edited by Annie Finch and Kathrine Varnes (Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2002); A Poet's Craft: The Making and Shaping of Poems, ed. Annie Finch (Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2012); A Poet's Ear: A Handbook of Meter and Form, ed. Annie Finch (Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2013).
EDITING Managing Editor, Middlesex: A Literary Journal, 2012 – 2014.
Editor, College English Notes, the NJCEA newsletter, 1996-2001.
Associate Editor, Anonym 4, 1971; first published Ezra Pound's last Canto.
Editor/publisher, The Western Gate (1970) and Brittannia (1971).
Poetry Editor, New Student Review, SUNY/Buffalo, 1963-1965.
BUSINESS Web page design for a client of theindigo.com, 1998.
WRITING For theindigo.com, web page proposal for The Amazing Kreskin,
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and Web page design for David Wendell, D.C., 1997.
For Jack Morton Productions, NYC, speechwriting for The Hartford;
product descriptions for Reckitt-Coleman; a corporate prospectus and
biographies, as well as two video scripts to publicize startup companies trading OTC, 1987-1991.
For Princeton Creative Consultants, editing, 1990-1991.
For Warner-Lambert, a video script for their sales force, 1988.
For General Electric, Princeton, editing and design for a newsletter, INTERactivities, announcing Digital Video Interactive technology, July, 1987.
For Visual Education Corp., Princeton, a chapter on "Data Communications Systems and Networks" for a college computer science text, summer 1986.
For Huss/Michaels Associates, NYC, a corporate prospectus and biographies, 1985.
For RCA Labs, Princeton, a TV/film script, 1985.
Chief reporter, The Valley Reporter, Waitsfield, VT, 1978-1979.
For filmmakers Martha Sandlin and Phyllis Chinlund, successful grants to complete works in progress, 1979.
Founding CEO and grant writer, Niagara-Erie Writers, Buffalo, NY, 1978. This consortium coordinated the activities of more than
200 writers and 25 small presses in two counties.
