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Terry Ehret
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Petaluma Campus Writing Center PC 690
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TERRY EHRET teaches composition at Santa Rosa Junior College and private creative writing workshops through the Sitting Room in Cotati. Schedule
9:00 am - 12:00 pm Poetry Workshop Sitting Room in Cotati 10:30 am - 12:30 pm English 1A Section 6421 PC 696 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Office Hour PC 690 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM English 1A Section 7682 PC 696 10:30 am - 12:30 pm English 1A Section 6421 PC 696 6:00 PM - 6:50 PM Office Hour PC 690 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm English 1A Section 7682 PC 696 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Poetry Workshop Sitting Room in Cotati
Classes
Section 7682 of ENGL 1A: Reading & Composition -- Spring 2012: January 17, 2012 - May 17, 2012 -- Petaluma Campus |
Biography
Education
MA English: Creative Writing;Honors in MA Orals Thesis: To Cross the Room I Travel A Great Distance (book-length poetry manuscript) 1979-1980 Chapman College Single Subject Credential K-adult: English 1973-77 Stanford University BA Psychology with distinction
Academic Experience
1991-present Santa Rosa Junior College 1995-2005 Literary Program Director for SRJC Arts and Lectures Series 1993-94, 1999-2001 Sonoma State University 2004 Calfornia College of the Arts Graduate Workshop in Poetry 1996-97, 2000 San Francisco State University 1991 Napa Valley College
Work and Consulting Experience
Private Manuscript Consultation: One:one work with writers in developmental editing, manuscript consultation, and publishing recommendations Sixteen Rivers Press: Founder of a nonprofit publishing collective representing poets from the San Francisco Bay watershed. Duties include all aspects of business management, editing, book design, marketing and distribution.
Professional Involvement and Community Service
Academy of American Poets, All Faculty Association of Santa Rosa Junior College, Associated Writing Programs (AWP), California Poets In The Schools (CPITS), Council of Literary Presses and Magazines (CLMP), PEN West, Literary Arts Guild of Sonoma County, Poet Laureate of Sonoma County Selection Committee COMMUNITY SERVICE Sonoma County Literary Update Editor (2004-present) Sonoma County Poet Laureate Selection Committee (2000-present) Emcee and Judge for Poetry Out Loud Competitions for Sonoma County (2006-present) Phoenix Writers Youth Mentor (2005-2007) Poetry on the Bus/Poesia en Vivo Bilingual Poetry Contest, Publication, and County Transit Arts Program (2005) Sonoma County Poet Laureate (2004-2006) SRJC Arts and Lectures and Petaluma Arts Council El Dia de los Muertos Committee (1998-present) Sonoma County Book Festival Poetry Coordinator (1999-2006)
Presentations and Publications
Lucky Break (book-length collection of poems)Sixteen Rivers Press, San Francisco, 2008 Translations From The Human Language (book-length collection of poems)Sixteen Rivers Press, San Francisco, 2001 Travel/How We Go On Living (letter press chapbook) Protean Press, San Francisco, 1995 Lost Body (book-length collection of poems) Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, 1993. National Poetry Series selection Text For Three Voices (collaborative multiple-voice arrangements of poetry) recorded by CoVision, San Francisco, 1991 Suspensions (with Susan Herron Sibbet and Steve Gilmartin) White Mountain Press, San Francisco, 1990
Honors and Awards
Northern California Book Reviewers Nomination for Best Northern California Poetry Book published in 2008 (Lucky Break, Sixteen Rivers Press) Sebastopol Center for the Arts Oustanding Volunteer Service Award (2005) Dan Jaffee Memorial Award (2004)for Outstanding Dedication to Publication of Local Poets Sonoma County Poet Laureate 2004-2006 Soapstone Writing Residency for Women, June 22-July 1, 2002, and July 2005 College of the Redwoods Del Norte Campus, Tumblewords Residency, April 30-May 2, 2002 Poets & Writers’ Writers On Site Residency at the Oakland Museum of California and the Oakland Public Library, January-March 1997. My residency project included arranging and moderating a forum on Poetry and the Visual Arts, teaching writing workshops at the museum and the library, composing a sequence of 14 original poems in response to the art work in the Gallery of California Art, and recording a Poetry Audio Tour featuring work from this sequence as well as poems by participants in the workshops Santa Rosa Junior College Faculty Recognition Award for Publication, 1993, 2002 Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize First Place for “The Thought She Might: Picasso Portraits,” 1995 Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize Finalist for “Translations From The Human Language,” 1997 California Commonwealth Club Book Award for Poetry, 1994 Pushcart Literary Prize nominations, 1990, 1993, 2003 National Poetry Series Winner, 1992 (selected by Carolyn Kizer) for Lost Body. Notre Dame High School Woman of Vision Award, 1995
Links
Visual Projects Samples of Student Visual Projects from 2011 Biogaphical Information Poets & Writers Directory Song: "All of Us Must Have Been Asleep" Lyrics by Terry Ehret, vocal and instrumental performance Caitlin Ehret Moe and Tim Sullivan Poetry Reading YouTube video clip from Sacramento Poetry Center Flash Fiction Sample, "The Head Fields" SmokeLong Quarterly Picasso Portraits Book Review in Sonoma Independent Sixteen Rivers Press S.F. Bay Area Poetry Publishing Collective " Sonoma County's poet laureate is one of the prose" Terry Ehret brings experience and inspiration to job Poet Laureate Information Petaluma's Terry Ehret named poet laureate Night Sky Journey Kelly's Cove Press Website |
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