2020

Robert Kelly, Jerome Rothenberg, Paul Blackburn, and the Swerve in Deep Image Poetics, Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY (Winter 2020)

Chair, "Modalities of the Unsayable in the Poetry of Robert Kelly," Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY (Winter 2020)

Invited Speaker and Reader of Poems by Harriet Zinnes, Memorial for Harriet  Zinnes, Poets House, New York City (Spring 2020)

2019

Material Language: How Art Turned Poetry into Art, Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY (Winter 2019)

Invited Lecturer on Art and Poetry in Modernism, St. Johns University, New York City (Spring 2019)

Introductions, Marsh Hawk Press Spring Books Launch, Poets House, New York City (Spring 2019)

Invited Reader of My Poems, St. Johns University, New York City (Spring 2019)

Invited Reader of My Poems, Pioneer Valley Poetry Festival, Amherst College, Amherst, MA (Summer 2019)

Invited Reader of My Poems to Celebrate Publication of Talisman 48, Torn Page Poetry Parlor, New York City (Fall 2019)

2018

Reading of poems at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (Fall 2018)*

Lecture on Primo Levi and the Holocaust, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (Fall 2018)*

Participant in Roundtable on Marsh Hawk Press, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (Fall 2018)*

2017

The End of Language & the Beginning of Conceptualism in the Nineties: Art, Poetry, & the Materiality of Writing, The Poetry and Poetics of the 1990s, National Poetry Foundation Conference, University of Maine, Orono, Maine (Summer 2017)

Holding the Poem at Arms Length: Avant-Garde Feminist Poetics across Three Decades, and the Problem of Language in Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Harryette Mullen, and Nada Gordon," Feminist Reception: Celebrating Thirty Years, Conference of the Reception Studies Society, St. Catherine University, St. Paul, MN (Fall 2017)*

Who is There?: Revisiting Michael Browns Autopsy Report and Reassessing Conceptual Poetry Two Years after Interrupt 3, Annual Conference of the New Jersey College English Association, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ (Spring 2017)

Introduction of Keynote Speaker, John Keene, Annual Conference of the New Jersey College English Association, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ (Spring 2017)

Introduction to a Reading from Capitols: A Poetry Anthology, Poets House, New York City (Winter 2017)

Reading of poems at KGB Bar, New York City (Spring 2017)*

Reading of poems as part of Marsh Hawk Press spring books launch, Poets House, New York City (Spring 2017)*

Reading of poems as part of celebration of Red Wheel Barrow 9, Williams Center for the Arts, Rutherford, New Jersey (Spring 2017)*

Book Signing for Dos Madres Press, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, Washington, DC (Spring 2017) *

Book Launch and Reading for Resist Much, Obey Little anthology, Queens Museum, New York City (Spring 2017) *

Reading of poems as part of celebration of Like Light: 25 Years of Poetry & Prose by Bright Hill Poets & Writers, Poets House, New York City, (Winter 2017) *

2016

Respondent on a panel on the work of Michael Heller, The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucy (Winter 2016)

Art as Poem, Poem as Art, the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky (Winter 2016)

Participant on Roundtable on Conceptual Poetry, Conference of the New Jersey College English Association, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey (Spring 2016)

Reading of poems at memorial ceremony for Claudia Carlson, Book Culture, New York City (Winter 2016)*

Reading of poems at memorial ceremony for Corinne Robins, Ceres Gallery, New York City (Spring 2016)*

Reading of my poems, Opulen Gallery, Los Angeles, California (Spring 2016)

Reading of my poems, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, Los Angeles, California (Spring 2016)*

Book Signings, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, Los Angeles, California (Spring 2016)

Reading of my memoir Colorado Springs, Prose Pros Literary Series, Sidewalk Cafi, New York City (Spring 2016)*

Reading of my poems, Red Wheel Barrow Literary Series, William Carlos Williams Center, Rutherford, New Jersey (Spring 2016)*

Participant on Roundtable on Conceptual Poetry, Conference of the New Jersey College English Association, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey (Spring 2016)

Reading of my poems, Cornelia Street Cafi, New York City (Summer 2016)

Reading of my poems as part of an evening of Eco-Poetry, Green World Rising, Poets House, New York City (Fall 2016)

Reading at the home of Alan Golding, Louisville, KY (Winter 2016),

http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Heatstrings.php#Golding-16

2015    Moderator, "The Influence of Black Mountain College," Association of Writers and Writing Programs 2015 Conference, Minneapolis, MN (Spring 2015)

The Poetic Persona after Machaut: Chaucer and Gower, Poetry and Patronage, and the Wonderful Parliament of 1386, to be presented at The 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI (Spring 2015)

Invited Featured Reader (of my poems), Cornelia Street Cafi, New York City (Spring 2015)

Invited Featured Reader (of my poems), Bryant Park Reading Series, New York City (Spring 2015)

Introduction to Reading by Michael Heller, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey (Fall 2015)

Invited Featured Reader (of my poems), The Shed, Brooklyn, New York (Fall 2015)

Invited Featured Reader (of my poems), Celebration of Daniel Gioseffi and Ecopoetry, Calandra Italian American Institute, New York City (Fall 2015)

Invited Featured Reader (of my poems), St. Francis College, Brooklyn, New York (Fall 2015)

Invited Featured Reader (of my poems), Poetry Broadside Exhibition at The Shed, Brooklyn, New York (Winter 2015)

Invited Featured Reader (of my poems), James and Mary Laurie Booksellers, Minneapolis, MN (Spring 2015

"The 'Wonderful Parliament' of 1386 and the Perils or Virtues of Patronage in Chaucer and Gower: Machaldian Poetics in Late Medieval England," presented at the Conference of the New Jersey College English Association, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ (Spring 2015)

2014    Invited Featured Reader (of my poems), Sponsored by the Blue Bus Poetry Series at The Lamb, London, UK (Winter 2014)

Invited Featured Reader (of my poems), Sponsored by Itudes en Littirature anglaise et dAmirique du Nord, Universiti Paris Ouest Nanterre La Difense, Paris, France (Spring 2014)

Invited Featured Reader (of my poems), Sponsored by B O D Y Magazine, Anglo American University,  Prague, Czech Republic (Spring 2014)

Invited Featured Reader (of my poems), Geraldine R. Dodge Lunch Poems series, Newark, New Jersey (Fall 2014)

Invited Featured Reader (of my poems), Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, Newark, New Jersey (Fall 2014)

Invited Featured Reader (of my poems), Phoenix Reading Series, Left Bank Books, New York City (Fall 2014)

2013    Literate and Learned 'Je, Christine': The Iconography of Authorship and Authority in the Great Era of Cultural Capital," to be presented at the Forty-Fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (Spring 2013)

Invited Reader (of my poems), Marsh Hawk Press presentation, AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) Conference, (Spring 2013)

Invited Reader (of my poems), video recording for BlazeVOX [books], AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) Conference, (Spring 2013)

Invited Reader (of my poems), Poets of the New America Anthology, Outpost 186, Cambridge, MA (Spring 2013)

Invited Reader (of my poems), Poets of the New America Anthology, Cornelia Street Cafi, New York City (Spring 2013)

Invited Reader (of my poems), Poets in Response to the Ecological Crisis, Poets House, New York City (Spring 2013)

Invited Reader (of my poems), Benefit Reading for Bright Hill Literary Center, Poets House, New York City (Spring 2013)

Invited Reader (of my poems), Lunch Poems Reading Curated by EOAGH for the City University of New York Chapbook Festival, The Graduate Center, New York City (Spring 2013), http://chapbookfestival.org/readings-2013 and http://www.mixcloud.com/CenterfortheHumanities/chapfest-2013-eoagh-reading/

Invited Reader (of my poems), The Shed, New York City (Fall 2013)

Invited Reader (of my poems), St. Johns University, New York City (Fall 2013)

Invited Lecture on Objectivist Poetry and Poetics, St. Johns University, New York City (Fall 2013)

Co-Organizer and Co-Host, William Bronk in New York, Symposium on the Life and Work of William Bronk, New York University and Columbia University, New York City (Spring 2012)

Invited Reader (of my poems), The Shed, Brooklyn, New York (Spring 2012)

The New New England Mind: Perry Miller, F. O. Matthiessen, Henry David Thoreau, William Bronk, Susan Howe, and the Reimagining of Friendship, to be presented at the Poetry & Poetics of the 1980s conference, sponsored by the National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine, Orono, Maine (Summer 2012)

The Emergence of LangPo and NeoObjectivist Poetry and Poetics in the 1980s, , to be presented at the Poetry & Poetics of the 1980s conference, sponsored by the National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine, Orono, Maine (Summer 2012)

Invited Reader (of my poems), Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles, California (Summer 2012)

Co-Organizer (with Kim Lyons, Vincent Katz, Mitch Highfill, and Martha King) and Conference Moderator, Basils Arc: The Paintings and Poetics of Basil King, held at The Anthology Film Archives, New York City (Fall 2012)

Organizer, New Jersey College English Association, Seton Hall University , South Orange , New Jersey (Spring 2008)

Chair, Satire in Literature and Film, New Jersey College English Association, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey(Spring 2008)

Invited Speaker, Small Press Editors Panel, Manhattan ville Col lege , Purchase, New York (Spring 2008)

Invited reading, Closing Ceremony of Painter and Poet: The Art of Herman Maril / The Poetry of William Bronk exhibition (curated by Sheldon Hurst), Queensbury, New York / Adirondack Community College (Spring 2008)

2007    Invited reading of my poems, Phoenix Reading Series, Bengal Curry, New York (Fall 2007)

Invited reading of my poems, Barnes and Noble Bookstore, Clifton, New Jersey (Fall 2007)

Invited reading of my poems, Watchung Booksellers, Montclair , New Jersey (Fall 2007)

Benefit reading for Home Planet News, Village Bistro, New York City (Fall 2007)

Celebratory reading in honor of Tom Weatherlys 65^th birthday, Pace University, New York City (Fall 2007)

Invited reading of my poems, Morningside Books, New York City (Summer 2007)

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2004   Reading of my poems, Invited Presentation, Flannerys Bar, New York City (Fall 2004)

Reading of my poems, Invited Presentation, Bowery Poetry Club, New York City (Fall 2004)

Chair,Panel entitled Medieval-Postmodern Intersections, presented at the Annual Conference of the New Jersey College English Association  (Spring 2004)

Chair,Panel entitled World Literature, presented at the Annual Conference of the New Jersey College English Association  (Spring 2004)

'Equal, That Is, to the Real Itself': Charles Olson, Quantum Mechanics, Epistemology, Painting, and Avant-Garde Poetics
after the Second World War," presented at the "Poetries of the 1940s, American and International" conference, sponsored by the National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine (Spring 2004)

2003  Reading of my poems, Invited Presentation, St. Johns University (Spring 2003)

 Chair, Panel entitled Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Autobiography, presented at the Annual
 Conference of the New Jersey College English Association (Spring 2003)

 Reading of my poems, Invited Presentation, Watchung Booksellers, Montclair, New Jersey (Spring 2003)

 2002  A Bird That Comes Down Too Easily: Quantum Mechanics and Avant-Garde Poetics
 after the Second World War, a paper that is part of a panel titled When Physicists Go to Literature for Time,
 sponsored by the Society for Literature and Science, presented at the Modern Language Association Convention
(Winter 2002)

 Invited reading of my poems, City University of New York Graduate Center (Fall 2002)

 Participant, "Composition II," Fall Roundtable of the New Jersey College English Association (Fall 2002)

 Chair, Panel entitled Poetry and Fiction, presented at the Annual Conference of the New Jersey College English
 Association  (Spring 2002)

 Reading of my poems, Marsh Hawk Press authors at the Cornelia Street Cafe, New York City (Spring 2002)

  Reading of my poems, Invited Presentation, Art Attack with Tom Kelly, WKCR FM, New York City (Spring 2002)

 Reading of my poems, Invited Presentation at The Ceres Gallery, New York City (Spring 2002)

 2001 Panelist, "Literary Translation: Why is America Tongue-Tied?" (Sponsored by Poets and Writers, Inc.), Housing Works Book Cafi, New York City (Spring 2001)

Reading of my poems and lecture, Columbia High School, Maplewood, New Jersey (Spring 2001)

Quantum Syntax: John Taggart's Discrete Serialism, To Gather Us In: A Symposium on Poetry and Poetics in Honor of John Taggart, Shippensburg University (Spring 2001)

Reading of my poems, Invited Presentation at Cup and Chaucer Bookstore, Montclair, New Jersey (Spring 2001)

Panelist, Gender Socialization and New Media Collaboration, New Media, New Links:
Strategies for Interdisciplinary Collaboration, New Jersey Institute of Technology (Winter 2001)

2000 Chair, Panel entitled Contemporary Spanish, presented at The Biennial Conference for Contemporary Literary Translation: Tyrannies of the Target Language (Fall 2000)

Chair, Panel entitled Translation Theory and Practice, presented at The Biennial Conference for Contemporary Literary Translation: Tyrannies of the Target Language (Fall 2000)

Digital Media Integration into a Course on Technological and Cultural Change, presented at the Second Annual Best Practices Showcase, New Jersey Higher Education Network (Fall 2000)

Reading of my poems, Invited Presentation on KGB Bar Reading Series, New York City (Fall 2000)

Participant, Fall Chat Room, New Jersey College English Association, Union County College (Fall 2000)

Reading of my poems, Invited Presentation at Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan New Jersey (Fall 2000)

"From Black Mountain College to St. Marks Church: The Cityscape Poetics of Blackburn, Di Prima, and Oppenheimer," The Opening of the Field: A Conference on North American Poetry in the 1960s, National Poetry Foundation (Spring 2000)

"Morning at the Pond," a poem and painting collaboration with Fred Caruso, Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibit (Spring 2000)

Reading of my poems, Invited Presentation at The Cup and Chaucer Bookstore, Montclair, New Jersey (Spring 2000)

The Trope of Reading in the Fourteenth Century, presented at the Thirty-Fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies (Spring 2000)

Chair, Panel entitled Tracking Owners and Readers: Provenance and Related Perplexities, presented at the Thirty-Fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies (Spring 2000)

Reading of my poems, Invited presentation at A New Language: Russian and American Poetry Today, a conference held at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey (Spring 2000)

Dramatic reading of my poems by the What Exit? Theatre Company of Arts Maplewood (invited submission), Burgdorff Cultural Center, Maplewood, New Jersey (Spring 2000)

The Internet, Selfhood, and the (Re)textualizing of Experience, Meeting on Literacy and Identity, 23rd Annual Spring Conference of The New Jersey College English Association (Spring 2000)

1999  Art As a Way: Toward a Philosophy of Aesthetics in The Correspondence between Robert Meyer and William Bronk, William Bronk Symposium, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey (Fall 1999)

Teaching Writing and Research on the Internet, NJIT/CSLA Career Day, Newark, NJ (Fall 1999)

Text and Selfhood in Medieval and Postmodern Worlds, Conference entitled Intersections: Medieval and Postmodern Forms, Theory, and Semiotics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario (Spring 1999)

Roundtable Participant, Developing Grant Projects in Environmental Studies/Sciences, Lehman College, CUNY (Invited Presentation, Spring 1999)

Readings in Celebration of Armand Schwerner (readings from his works), Teachers & Writers Collaborative, New York City (Winter 1999)

1998  "George Oppen and the Black Mountain School: The Uncertainty of Ellipsis, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, San Francisco (1998)

Chair and Introduction, Roundtable entitled Armand Schwerner: The Poet as TranslatorThe Translator as Poet, Translation: Priorities, Theory, Practice, Stevens Institute of Technology (1998)

1997  Roundtable Participant, Many Cultures, One Environment: A Conference on Environmental Education, Queens College, CUNY

"Workshop on Communication Skills" (with Michael Kerley), First Regional Conference on Innovations in Teaching and Learning, New Jersey Institute of Technology (1997)

"The Problematics of Presence: William Bronk's Anti-Epistemology," Nineteenth Conference of the International Movement for the Interdisciplinary Study of Estrangement, Oxford, UK (Summer 1997) (Invited Presentation)

Reading of my poems, Invited presentation at The Three Cups, London, UK (Summer 1997)

Chair of Panel entitled "Lesser-Known Collections in Public Institutions: A Round Table Discussion," sponsored by the Early Book Society, presented at the Thirty-Second International Congress on Medieval Studies (Spring 1997)

Organizer and Moderator of Panel entitled "Round Table on Diversity in Avant-Garde Publishing," presented at the Conference on Poetry and the Public Sphere, Rutgers University (Spring 1997)

"Wrot or Tolde": Chaucer's Writerly Revision of the Prologue to the Legend of Good Women," presented at the Society for Textual Scholarship Bi-Annual Conference (Spring 1997)

"'Thanne mote we to bokes': Moving toward Writing in the Prologue to the Legend of Good Women," presented at "The Medieval World in Motion," annual Conference of the Medieval Club of New York (Spring 1997)

1996  "Self-Portrait," a collaboration of poetry and painting, installed in an exhibit, Keep Breathing / Keep Shouting, Artists and Writers Collaborating, at the 450 Gallery, New York City (Fall 1996, Karen Marston, Curator), Collaborator with Fred Caruso

"The World(lessness) of William Bronk and George Oppen," presented at "American Poetry of the 1950s" presented at the Conference of the National Poetry Foundation (Spring 1996)

"The Making of Belief: Faith and Writing in Langland and Chaucer," presented at the Thirty-First International Congress on Medieval Studies (Spring 1996)

Reading of my poems, Invited presentation at Word Thursdays and Speaking the Words Reading Series (Summer 1996)

1995  "Worldlessness, Virtual Reality, and the Limits of Technology," Presented at the National Association of Science, Technology and Society Annual Conference (Spring 1995)

 "Buffoonery, Eloquence and Authorship: The Defense of Silence in the Prologue to the Legend of Good Women," Presented at the Thirtieth International Congress on Medieval Studies (Spring 1995)

"Recollections of Robert O. Payne," Invited presentation at "A Colloquium on Robert O. Payne," City University of New York (Spring 1995)

Reading of my poems and lecture on poetry, Invited presentation at St. John's University (Spring 1995)

Organizer of poetry reading by contributors to Poetry New York, held at The Knitting Factory, New York City (Spring 1995)

1994  "Pollution Prevention Curricula at Technological Universities," Presented at the Ninth Annual Meeting of the National Association of Science, Technology and Society, Technological Literacy Conference (Spring 1994); Co-Authored and Co-Presented with Nancy Coppola and Eric Katz

Reading of my poems, Invited presentation at "The New Freedoms: Contemporary Russian and American Poetry," Stevens Institute of Technology (Spring 1994)

Reading of my poems, Invited presentation at Biblio's Cafe and Bookstore, New York City (Spring 1994)

Organizer of poetry reading by contributors to Poetry New York, held at The Cedar Tavern, New York City (Spring 1994)

1993  "An Integrated Environmental Initiative: Common Ground for the Humanities, Social Sciences and Engineering," Presented at the First Annual Gateway Engineering Education Initiative Conference (Winter 1993)

"The Language of the Text: Authorship and Textuality in Piers Plowman," presented at the Twenty-Eighth International Congress on Medieval Studies (Spring 1993)

"The Subjectivity of Objectivism and the Search for Truth Values: The Case of Lorine Niedecker," presented at the National Poetry Foundation Conference on American Poetry of the 1930s (Spring 1993)

1992  "Thomist Epistemology in Purgatorio XVII and Paradiso XXX," presented at the Twenty-Seventh International Congress on Medieval Studies (Spring 1992)

Organizer and Chair of Panel on "Poststructuralism and Medieval Thought," a session of the Twenty-Seventh International Congress on Medieval Studies (Spring 1992)

"Ezra Pound and the Contemporary American Avant-Garde," presented at the New Jersey Institute of Technology Humanities Symposium (Winter 1992)

1990  "A Graceful Vision: The Thomist Epistemological Paradigm in The Divine Comedy," presented at the City University of New York Medieval Study (Winter 1990)

1989  Organizer and Chair, sessions on "Dante" held at the Twenty-Fourth International Congress on Medieval Studies (Spring 1989)

"Ezra Pound's Medievalism," presented at the City University of New York Medieval Study (Winter 1989)

1988  "Reinventing the Miraculous: Christian Ideal in the Allegoroesis of the Anglo-Saxon `Phoenix', the Roman de la rose, and Shakespeare's `Phoenix and the Turtle'," presented at the Twenty-Third International Congress on Medieval Studies (Spring 1988)

1987  "Lyric Voice as Icon of Limitation: Earlier European Courtly Antecedents of the Chaucerian Persona," presented at the Mid-Hudson Modern Language Association Conference (Winter 1987)

Organizer and Chair of session on "Literature and History" held at the Mid-Hudson Modern Language Association Conference (Winter 1987)

"Notes toward a Subservient Fiction: Objectivity and Modern Poetry's Search for Truth Values," presented at the New York Graduate Students' Philosophy Conference (Spring 1987)

1986  "The Heart of the Journeyman: Edmund Gosse and the Problem of Truth in Father and Son," presented at the Mid-Hudson Modern Language Association Conference (Winter 1986)

"Centrality in a Discrete Universe: William Bronk's Poetry and Philosophy in Relation to Wallace Stevens," presented at the Jubilation of Poets Contemporary Poetry Conference, Cleveland State University, (Winter 1986)

"Meter or Madness?: The Meaning of Meaning in the Poetics of Louis Zukofsky," presented at the City University of New York English Forum (Spring 1986)

"Reading a World Text: Fact and Figure, Realism and Surrealism, Allegory and Dream in Chaucer's Prologue to the Legend of Good Women," presented at the City University of New York Medieval Study (Spring 1986)

Organizer and Chair of session on "Old and Middle English" held at the Mid-Hudson Modern Language Association Conference (Winter 1986)

1985"The Fyrst Age: A Childgered Arthur as Paradigm for Gawain in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," presented at the Mid-Hudson Modern Language Association Conference (Winter 1985)
 

Proposals and Grants

1.     Federal, State, University etc.

Investigator, Open and Affordable Textbook Initiative, New Jersey Institute of Technology, awarded Fall 2017 ($1,000)

Principal Investigator, Fulbright Fellowship, Ghent, Belgium, Spring 2014, awarded 2013 ($21,500)

Principal Investigator, NJ I-Tower IT Education Grant, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2001 ($4,000)

Principal Investigator, Provost's Challenge Grant for Using Technology in Teaching and Learning, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1999 ($4,500)

Principal Investigator, Grants to Publish Poetry New York: A Journal of Poetry and Translation, New York State Council on the Arts, 1992 - 94, 1994 - 96 ($4,000)

Co-Principal Investigator, Gateway Coalition, Humanities and Social Science Joint Curriculum, National Science Foundation, 1993-94 ($43,000; $25,800 - NSF, $17,500 - NJIT match)

Investigator, From Virtual Classroom) to Virtual University: Institutionalizing of Asynchronous Learning Networks at New Jersey Institute of Technology (Grant #998246), The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1997-2000 ($450,000)
         Created lectures for Distance Learning courses in World Literature:
    * Modernist American Poetry
    * American Poetry since World War Two
    * Roundtable Discussion of American Poetry (with Nancy Steffen-Fluhr and Norbert Elliot)
    * Twentieth Century Poetry of the British Isles
    * "Patriotism" by Yukio Mishima
    * "The Homecoming" by Ngugi Wa Th'iongo

Investigator, Science, Technology and Society Curriculum Modification, Integrated Pollution Prevention Initiative, Environmental Protection Agency, September 1992 through September 1994 ($144,000) (see "Comprehensive Manufacturing Education Proposals," below)

Editor/Writer, Comprehensive Manufacturing Education Proposals to Assist the State of New Jersey Speed the Transition from Defense to Civilian Related Industries, Gary Thomas, Principal Contact Person, a Narrative to Introduce Five Proposals to the Technology Reinvestment Project, United States Advanced Research Projects Agency, 1993 (two of which were awarded):
    * New Jersey Manufacturing Extension Partnership
    * Engineering Education in Manufacturing across the Curriculum
    * Practice-Oriented Master's Degree Program
    * Supplement to NSF I/UCRC Integrated Pollution Prevention Initiative in Engineering Education
    * Manufacturing Experts in the Classroom

Editor, Design and Development of Computer-Based Clean Manufacturing: A Decision Tool for Industrial and Academic Use, Technology Reinvestment Project, sponsored by the United States Departments of Defense, Commerce, and Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Science Foundation, 1994-95 (see "Comprehensive Manufacturing Education Proposals," below, "Comprehensive Manufacturing Education Proposals")

Consultant, Exploring Poetry Through Interactive Computer Programs, Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, 1994-95

Editor/Writer, Collaborative for Excellence in Teacher Preparation, National Science Foundation, ($50,000 awarded for refinement of goals), 1993

Consultant, "Developing Environmental Studies Programs for the 21st Century," City University of New York Research Foundation, 1998-2000

Co-Principal Investigator, Digital Newark: Telecommunications and the City's Future, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1999 (Presented to Provosts and Deans from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Rutgers-Newark, and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, as well as the Executive Staff of New Jersey Network, resulting in the formation of "Network Newark," a consortium to include other cultural and scientific institutions in the greater Newark area); this effort is ongoing (see the Network Newark website: http://www.networknewark.org/)

Principal Investigator, Support of Poetry Writing Project, New Jersey Council on the Arts, 2006 ($6,000)

Principal Investigator, Grant to write poetry, National Endowment for the Arts, 2006 ($20,000)

Principal Investigator, The Language and Epistemology of Mid-Century Avant-Garde Poetry and Physics in America, a critical book, American Council of Learned Societies, 2005 ($40,000)

Principal Investigator, Poetry, Physics, and Knowledge: The Mid Twentieth-Century American Avant-Garde, a critical book, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2005 ($40,000)

Principal Investigator, Support of Poetry Writing Project, Simon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2005 ($40,000)

Other Grant Activity

Service Activities