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Dr Bryan Walpert

Position: Senior Lecturer
Qualifications: BA Brown; MFA Maryland; PhD Denver
Contact Details:
Room: SGP4.10, Sir Geoffrey Peren Building, Turitea Site, Manawatu Campus, Palmerston North
Telephone Extension: 2732
Email: B.Walpert@massey.ac.nz
Blog/website: http://bryanwalpert.com
Expertise

Bryan teaches creative writing, with an emphasis on poetry and poetics. The author of two collections of poetry and a collection of short stories, his poems and/or stories have appeared in journals and anthologies in New Zealand, Canada, the UK and the United States. Most recently, his work has won the New Zealand Poetry Society International Poetry Competition, the James Wright Poetry Prize (U.S.) from the Mid-American Review, and the Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing-Fiction.

He is the author as well of a scholarly monograph on science and poetry and has published essays on the contemporary elegy, on the pleasures of opacity in poetry, and on narrative poetry, among others. Bryan is a recipient of both a Vice Chancellor’s Award for Sustained Excellence in Teaching and a national Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award from the New Zealand Qualifications Authority.

Bryan and his wife, Nancy, came to New Zealand from Colorado in 2004. For more information, visit http://bryanwalpert.com

Teaching
139.123 Creative Writing
139.229 Writing Poetry: Love, Loss and Looking Around
139.760 Writing Lyric Poetry: Blurring the Boundaries
Possible Supervision
20th century American poetry; poetics; creative writing.
Recent and Forthcoming Publications
Books
A History of Glass: Poems. Stephen F. Austin State University Press (2011)
Etymology: Poems. Cinnamon Press (2009) www.cinnamonpress.com 
Ephraim's Eyes: Stories. Pewter Rose Press (2009) www.pewter-rose-press.com
Resistance to Science in Contemporary American Poetry. Routledge (Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature, 2011)
Poetry
Individual poems published or forthcoming in the journals AGNI, The Baltimore Review, Bravado, Bryant Literary Review, Baltimore City Paper, Buckle & Crab Orchard Review, divide, The Drunken Boat, Gulf Coast, Hayden’s Ferry Review, In Posse Review, JAAM, The Listener, The Lyric, The Maryland Poetry Review, The Metropolitan Review, Michigan Avenue Review, MississippiReview Online, The Modern Review, Off The Coast, Poet Lore, Rattle, Runes, Rock & Sling, Segue, Slant, Tar River Poetry.
Individual poems published or forthcoming in the anthologies The Infinity We Swim In (NZ Poetry Society, 2007), Only Connect (Cinnamon Press, 2007), Poems for Mountains (Salt Marsh Pottery Press, 2005), 2001: A Science Fiction Poetry Anthology (Anamnesis Press, 2001) and Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English (Wesleyan University Press, 2000).
Fiction
"Fracture." Fiction Weekly. www.fictionweekly.com
"Staggers." Takahe 67. Forthcoming, August 2009.
"Grifola frondosa." XX Eccentric: Stories about the Eccentricities of Women. Main Street Rag, 2009. 309-324.
"16 Planets." The Listener. 5-11 January, 2008.
Essays and Pedagogy Papers
"Sincerity and the Lyric Poet." Segue 8. August 2009.
"Talk Poem: Interruption to a Journey." A Fine Line: The Magazine of the New Zealand Poetry Society. September 2007. 19-20.
"Victor Must Die." you are here: the journal of creative geography 9 (Summer, 2007), 28-33.
"AIDS and the Postmodern Subject: Joan Retallack’s Critique of Science." Poetics Today 27.4 (2006): 693-710.
"Talk Poem: Late Autumn Wasp." A Fine Line: The Magazine of the New Zealand Poetry Society. August 2006. 19-20.
"The Art of Paying Attention: Nature, Poetry, and the Nature of Poetry." Campus Review. November, 2004. Unpaginated Dialogica Awards supplement.
"Say What You Mean: Donald Revell, William Shakespeare and the Pleasures of Opacity." Poetry NZ 29 (2004): 99-104.
"A Darkness Pulled Out of Us: Stanley Plumly and the Elegy of Relationship." Papers on Language and Literature 38 (2002): 227-43.
"Edward Hirsch." A Companion to Twentieth Century American Poetry, Facts on File, 2005: 215-16.
"William Matthews." A Companion to Twentieth Century American Poetry, Facts on File, 2005: 302-03.
"Narrative Poetry." Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century. Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001: 490-93.
"It’s All in the Delivery: An Approach to Teaching the Music of Language." 2003 Creative Writing/Creative Teaching: Pedagogy Forum Handbook. Associated Writing Programs. Feb. 2003.
"Flesh, Blood, and the Language of Science." 2001 Creative Writing/Creative Teaching: Pedagogy Forum Handbook. Associated Writing Programs. April 2001: 81.

 

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