Thomas
James Chandler
Education:
M.F.A.
Creative Writing, 1986, Brown University
B.A. English, 1983, University of New Hampshire,
Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Honors:
Poet Laureate
of Rhode Island, 2000 - 2005
Judge, New Hampshire State Council on the Arts Literary Fellowship,
2004
Inaugural Poet, Providence Mayoral Inauguration, 2003
Featured Poet, Robert Frost Homestead, 2003
Judge, New Hampshire Literary Awards, 2003
The American Poetry & Literacy Project anthology, 2003
Four Way Books National Book Competition Finalist, 2001
Bryant College merit award, 2001
Warwick Veterans Memorial H.S. Distinguished Alumnus Award, 2001
Brown University Phi Beta Kappa Poet, 1998
Pushcart Prize nomination, 1998
Competition Judge, The Providence Journal annual poetry
contest, 1998
Blue Mountain Center for the Arts Writing Fellowship, 1997
Pushcart Prize nomination, 1996
Salmon Run Press National Book Competition Top Five Award, 1996
Avisson Press National Book Competition Finalist, 1996
University of Wisconsin Press National Book Competition Finalist,
1996
University of Pittsburgh Press National Book Competition Finalist,
1996
Competition Judge, Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize, 1996
Yaddo Writing Fellowships, 1991, 1995
Competition Judge, Galway Kinnell Poetry Prize, 1994
Galway Kinnell Poetry Prize, 1993
RI School of Design Faculty Development Grants, 1988, 1992
Millay Colony for the Arts Writing Fellowship, 1991
Brown University Scholarship, 1986
Brown University Teaching Fellowship, 1985
Brown University Writing Fellowships, 1984, 1985
University of New Hampshire Creative Writing Award, 1983
Academic
Experience:
1997
to present
Bryant University, Smithfield, RI
Associate Professor of Creative Writing (tenure-track)
Teach Poetry
Writing, Fiction Writing, and Introduction to Literary Studies.
1987
to 1997
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing (permanent status)
Taught Poetry
Writing, Contemporary American Poetry,
Introduction to Literature, and Composition.
1985
to 1987
Brown University, Providence, RI
Teaching Fellow, Learning Community Instructor.
Taught Poetry
Writing, and Contemporary American Poetry.
2000,
2001
Universidad de Leon, Leon, Spain
Visiting Professor
Taught Contemporary
American Poetry/Poetry Writing.
2001
to present
The Providence Journal
Columnist
Write The
Laureate's Choice monthly in the Sunday Arts section.
1999
to present
Bryant Literary Review
Founder & Editor
A national
literary journal of poetry, fiction, art, & photography.
1988
to present
Bryant University, Smithfield, RI
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Visiting Writers Coordinator
Produced
and hosted public readings by Charles Simic,
Philip Levine, Galway Kinnell, Marge Piercy, Michael Harper, Andrew
Hudgins, Rodney Jones, Lex Williford, David Jauss, Steven Cramer,
Ann Harleman, C.D. Wright, Russell Edson, Cathleen Calbert, Peter
Johnson, Baron Wormser, Denise Duhamel.
Publications:
Books
Sad Jazz
2003, Hardcover, Table Rock Books
ISBN 0-9726869-0-8
Wingbones
1998, Hardcover, Signal Books
ISBN 0-933095-08-1
One
Tree Forest
1992, The Poet's Press
ISBN 0-922558-01-0
The
Sound The Moon Makes As It Watches
1988, The Poet's Press
ISBN 0-922558-00-0
2nd printing, 1991
Anthologies
Across State Lines
2003, The American Poetry & Literacy Project
ISBN 0-486-42859-1
Poets
Against The War
2003, Nation Books,
ISBN 1-56025-539-0
Literary
Journals
"Heartleaf Popple", "Night Books"
Mipoesias.com (forthcoming)
"Everybody", "Persistence of memory", "Sidekicks",
"The Greatest Day in the World", "Aftermath"
Helix (forthcoming)
"Curriculum Vitae", "Burning Leaves" Cumberland
Poetry Review (forthcoming)
"Crank Calls", "Pregnant Girls in High School"Yalobusha
Review (forthcoming)
"Reckless Gestures"Connecticut Review
(forthcoming)
"Progress Reports", Crab Creek Review (Spring
2003)
"Chamosa and the Stork (short story), Eclipse (Fall
2003)
"The Government of Shadow", California Quarterly
(Spring 2003)
"Nyack, New York", The Potomac Review (Summer
2003)
"Tom Chandler", "Anniversary Poem", Gulf
Stream (Fall 2003)
"Alone in Leon Cathedral at 7am", "The War",
Spoon River Poetry Review (Fall 2002)
"Private Alamo", "The Lobsters", The Adirondack
Review (Winter 2002)
"A Biography of My Cat", South Dakota Review
(Summer 2002)
"Winter Whale", The Yalobusha Review (Summer
2002)
"Paraplegic Student", The Louisville Review
(Summer 2002))
"Lightning Bugs", The Christian Science Monitor
(August 2002)
"The Baby of Yourself" Worcester Review (forthcoming)
"He Smashed His Guitar" Maryland Poetry Review
(forthcoming)
"To the Woman at the Red Edge Motel", 88 (Winter
2002)
"Dirty Jokes" Confrontation (Winter 2002)
"The Ashes of Liars", Sulphur River Literary Review
(Fall 2001)
"My Parents' Graves" Poet Lore (Fall 2001)
"Still Lifes" The Amherst Review (Spring 2001)
"Memere Piquette", "God Sighting on Route 95"
Tulane Review (Spring 2001)
"My Prom Date Hits Middle Age" Brooklyn Review
(Spring 2001)
"1903", "People", ForPoetry.com (Fall
2000)
"Sensible Shoes", "Ulmer", Vermont Literary
Review (Summer/Fall 2000)
"The Cicadas", Potomac Review (Summer 2000)
"A woman in Florida is buried in her Cadillac", The
Rockford Review (Winter 2000)
"Ten Degrees", "Wife Poem", "High School",
"Work Ethic", ForPoetry.com (Winter 2000)
"Theories of Flight", "The Arguments of Crows",
South Dakota Review (Fall 1999)
"At 12, my father shoots himself ... ", "Phyllis",
International Poetry Review (Fall 1999)
"Shopping For a Teakettle", Southern Poetry Review
(Fall 1999)
"So Much Depends Upon", Hawaii Pacific Review
(Fall 1999)
"Poem", The Larcom Review (Summer 1999)
"The Light Sisters Dance Naked in Market Square", Wisconsin
Review (Summer 1999)
"Sunabeech", Baltimore Review (Summer 1999)
"Cat-Shaped Cloud", "Bear 114", American
Poets & Poetry (March 1999)
"My Parents' War", Poet Lore (Fall 1998)
"Toy Firing Squad", Atlanta Review (Fall 1998)
"Doxology", Cumberland Poetry Review (Fall
1998)
"The Census Taker Describes His Art", JackLeg
(Summer, 1998)
"Last Glass", The Maguffin (Spring 1998)
"Peasant Wedding", The New York Quarterly (Fall
1997)
"Golomkis", The Literary Review (Fall 1997)
"Still Life With Mannequin, Day Moon", South Dakota
Review (Fall 1997)
"Aunt Hazel's Mink Stole", Writer's Forum (Fall
1997)
"Drinking From The Lake", "Common Shapes Of Ordinary
Lives", Sulphur River Literary Review (Spring 1997)
"Wingbones Of Angels", "What Happened Next",Verve
(Fall 1996)
"Grandfather Courts Gramma Ruby", "Gramma Ruby's
Parrot", "Quadriplegic", Ontario Review
(Summer 1996)
"The Wasp", Southern Poetry Review (Summer
1996)
"Small Words Like Wings", "Glass O' Nothing",
Boulevard (Spring 1996)
"Tracks In The Snow", Wisconsin Review (Spring
1996)
"Sepia Postcard", The Berkeley Poetry Review
(Winter 1996)
| "Gravity", Atlanta Review (Fall 1995)
"Night Hike On Ballston Beach", The Florida Review
(Fall 1995)
"Average Masterpiece", "Selling Door To Door",
Poetry (August 1995)
"Last Pictures Of You", National Forum (Summer
1995)
"Heart Transplant Patient", Roanoke Review
(Summer 1995)
"Florida", The Bellingham Review (Spring 1995)
"My Grandfather's Closet", Oxford Magazine
(Spring 1995)
"Tales Of The Temporary Dead", The Literary Review
(Winter 1995)
"State Of The Union", "Slim Miracles", "The
Thief Of Flowers", Dominion Review (Spring 1995)
"The Lumper" Poet Lore (Winter 1995)
"Disgruntled Postal Employee" Windsor Review
(Fall 1994)
"1943 Steel Penny", "The University Of When",
"Alcyone", Brooklyn Review (1994)
"Think Of The Lizard ...", The Spoon River Poetry
Review (Fall 1994)
"The Big Four O", Spectrum (Summer 1994)
"Painting The Burbs" The Seattle Review (Winter
1994)
"Shoveling Coal", Pembroke Magazine (Fall 1993)
"Nolan Ryan" Graham House Review (Fall 1993)
"My Uncle Hands Me A Beer", New Mexico Humanities
Review (Fall 1993)
"Evening Flight", The Seattle Review (Summer
1993)
"The Bear Roast", "Little Tiny Ironies", "Churchill,
Manitoba", "A Current Affair", Interim
(Winter 1993)
"Mazilli's Breakfast", Sycamore Review (Winter
1993)
"My Father, Carving" Dalhousie Review (Fall
1992)
"We Are Burning", "My Significant Other",
"Guitars Of The Stars", "One Tree Forest",
Portland Review (Summer 1992)
"The Ants", "Drownproofing", "At The
William Stafford Reading", "The Trees", Poetry
East (Spring 1992)
"The Water Moccasin", Piedmont Literary Review
(Fall 1991)
"My Soldiers", Oyez Review (Fall 1991)
"Artemus Bailey", "For No Reason" Hawaii
Review (Spring 1991)
"James Madison Chandler, 1862", "Watching The Wings",
The Cape Rock (Spring 1991)
"Smuttynose Island", The Hiram Poetry Review
(Winter 1991)
"Reading Thoreau In The Car", Wisconsin Review
(Fall 1990)
"The Flies", "So Suave", "Memere Soczia",
Literati (Spring 1990)
"Puukohola", South Coast Poetry Journal (Spring
1990)
"A Planetary Directory", The Midwest Quarterly
(Spring 1990)
"Owl", The Northern Review (Winter 1990)
"How To Make A Ship In A Bottle", The New York Quarterly
(Fall 1989)
"Still Life With Fitness Fanatic", Northeast Journal
(Fall 1989)
"36th Birthday", Alabama Literary Review (Spring
1989)
"Book Burning", Cumberland Poetry Review (Spring
1989)
"Climbing Through The Night", "Photos Of The Dead",
"And Even The Dead Shall See", International Poetry
Review (Spring 1989)
"World's Saddest Song" Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review
(Winter 1989)
"Clownliness", "Lisa Through A Window", The
Newport Review (Fall 1988)
"Philippe Petit Walks A Wire", The Contemporary
Review (Summer 1988)
"Buffalo In The Basement", "Potato", West
Branch (Spring 1988)
"Hey Diddle Diddle", "Harry Lindstrom", Maryland
Poetry Review (Winter 1987)
"Andrew Maksimuk", Carolina Quarterly (Fall
1986)
"Feet" Connecticut River Review (Winter 1986)
"Bright Days", Bitterroot (Summer 1986)
"As If", Brown/RISD Journal of the Arts (Spring
1985)
Other
Publications
Essay excerpt, "Rhode Island Is a Poetic Kind of State",
and poem, "Jerimoth Hill", published on website of The
Academy of American Poets
Readings:
University
of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
Green Mountain College, Poultney, VT
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
Bryant College, Smithfield, RI
Community College of Rhode Island, Lincoln, RI
Writer's Harvest National Reading (Bryant College)
The Poetry Show, KABF radio (NPR affiliate station)
The 1998 Phi Beta Kappa Reading, Brown University, Providence,
RI
Universidad de Leon, Leon, Spain
Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH
Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
Rhodes Elementary School, Cranston, RI
Rhode Island Statehouse, Providence, RI
The Providence Athenaeum, Providence, RI
The Jamestown Library, Jamestown, RI
The English Speaking Union, Barrington, RI
Warwick Veterans Memorial High School, Warwick, RI
New England Artists Trust Congress, Woodstock, VT
Westerly Library, Westerly, RI
North Kingstown Library, North Kingstown, RI
Warwick Library, Warwick, RI
The Writer's Circle, Brown University
Women of Brown, Brown University, Providence, RI
Mayoral Inauguration, City Hall, Providence, RI
University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
Coventry High School, Coventry, RI
Fitch High School, Mystic, CT
Mystic Arts Cafe, Mystic, CT
Providence College, :Providence, RI
Johnson & Wales University, Providence, RI
Nathaniel Greene Middle School, Providence, RI
Nashua Library, Nashua, NH
Toadstool Bookshop, Milford, NH
Beaver Brook Nature Center, Hollis, NH
The Robert Frost homestead, Franconia, NH
Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Association, Hope Valley, RI
Island Bound Bookstore, Block Island, RI
Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA
Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT
William Hall Library, Cranston, RI
Block Island Poetry Project, Block Island, RI
Collaborations:
Original
poems "World's Saddest Song" and "So Suave"
scored for chorus and orchestration by Professor David Rakowski,
Dept. of Music, Columbia University
Original
poems "Nocturne" and "Shopping For a Teakettle"scored
for chorus and orchestration by Professor Elizabeth Wiemann, Dept.
of Music, Holy Cross College
Professional
Memberships:
Academy
of American Poets
American Federation of Teachers
Associated Writing Programs
Listed in the Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers
Endorsements:
Vineyard
Poets, an anthology of Martha's Vineyard writers
Merlyn's Pen, a national magazine of teen writers
Friends Poetry Prize, a state-wide contest sponsored
by the Barrington Library
The Comedy of Memory, a collection of poems by Mitchell
LesCarbeau
Board
& Committee Memberships:
Steering
Committee
Rhode Island Poetry Festival, 2001
Board of
Directors
Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities, 2000, 2001
(appointed by Gov. Lincoln Almond)
Presentations:
Providence
Public Schools
Lecture on teaching poetry to Providence high school &
middle school teachers
Robert
Frost homestead
Lecture on teaching poetry to high school teachers from several
states
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