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January 13, 2003
JANET HOLMES
Department of English
Boise State University
Boise, ID 83725
Office phone: (208) 426-2195
FAX: (208) 426-4373
Email: jholmes@boisestate.edu
Website: http://english.boisestate.edu/jholmes
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EDUCATION
MFA in Poetry
Warren Wilson College — 1985 — Swannanoa, North
Carolina
Creative Thesis: “Other Longevities: A Manuscript
of Poems”
BA in English
Duke University — 1976 Magna cum laude — Durham, NC
Boise State University Assistant Professor (8/99 to present)
Spring 2003
- Small Press Publishing (Ahsahta Press) (ENGL 507)
- Advanced Poetry Writing (ENGL 406)
- Course release (Editing Ahsahta Press)
- Directed Creative Thesis for MFA Program
Fall 2002
University Study Abroad Consortium (Brighton,
England)
- Travel Writing (3 credits, 400/600 level)
- British Poetry Since 1945 (3 credits, 400/600 level)
- Directed Internship: Ahsahta Press (6 credits)
Summer 2002
- Readings and Conference (ENGL 595): Poems for the Millennium (Rothenberg and Joris)
Spring 2002
- Small Press Publishing (Ahsahta Press) (ENGL 507)
- Advanced Poetry Writing (ENGL 406)
- Course release (Editing Ahsahta Press)
- Directed Creative Thesis for the MA program
Fall 2001
- Introduction to Poetry (ENGL 205)
- British and American Poetry After 1945 (ENGL 486)
- Poetry Writing Workshop (ENGL 525)
- Directed Reading: Porter, MacCullers, O'Connor, and Welty
Spring 2001
- Writing, Editing, and Designing for Professional Advancement (Ahsahta Press) (ENGL 508)
- Poetry Writing Workshop (ENGL 525)
- Course release (Editing Ahsahta Press)
Fall 2000
- Introduction to Poetry (ENGL 205)
- Advanced Poetry Writing (ENGL 406)
- Form and Theory: Poetry (ENGL 526)
Spring 2000
- Introduction to Poetry (ENGL 205)
- Advanced Poetry Writing (ENGL 406)
- Poetry Writing Workshop (ENGL 525)
Fall 1999
- English Composition (ENGL 101)
- Advanced Poetry Writing (ENGL 406)
- Poetry Writing Workshop (ENGL 525)
Additional Teaching Experience
- 8/95-6/98 Macalester College Lecturer
- 8/95-6/98 University of Minnesota Instructor, Affiliated Faculty Appointment
- 1/85 Warren Wilson College Graduate lecturer
Humanophone (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001).
The Green Tuxedo (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998). Winner of the Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry. Selected by John Matthias.
The Physicist at the Mall (Tallahassee, FL: Anhinga Press, 1994). Published as the 1993 Anhinga Prize winner. Selected by Joy Harjo.
Paperback Romance (Pittsford, NY: State Street Press, 1984), winner of the State Street Press chapbook contest. (Published under former name, Janet Holmes Stanford.)
f2f, a hypertext/poetry manuscript.
As-yet-untitled poetry exercises textbook
“Echo Sequence.” Pleiades 23:1. (Winter 2003): 86-94.
“Partch Stations.” Poetry Daily. <http://www.poems.com/> (29 October 2001).
“Mediterranean Cooking for Two.” Poetry Daily. <http://www.poems.com/> (17 October 2001).
“Theremin.” Notre Dame Review 12 (Summer 2001): 72.
“Wrong House.” Notre Dame Review 12 (Summer 2001): 71.
“Prodigy.” Latitudes (January 2001): 6.
“Reading Dante.” American Poetry Review 29.5 (September/October 2000): 19.
“Late-Afternoon Meditation.” Ascent 24.3 (Spring 2000): 50.
“Lake Superior, Summer.” Cider Press Review 1 (2000):88-91.
“Family Story.” Ascent 24.2 (Winter 2000).
“Three Performances.” Notre Dame Review 9 (Winter 2000): 62-63.
“Month After Month.” Idaho Review 2 (1999): 173.
“Pyromania.” Idaho Review 2 (1999): 174.
“Urban Studies.” Idaho Review 2 (1999): 176.
“The Happy Woman.” Ascent 24.1 (Fall 1999):104.
“Lauds.” Poetry International 3 (1999): 62.
“Partch Stations.” The Beloit Poetry Journal 49.2 (Winter 1998-1999):28-40.
“Birding.” Quarterly West 47 (Winter 1998-1999):74.
“Glissando.” Quarterly West 47 (Winter 1998-1999):75.
“The Love of the Flesh.“ Tar River Poetry 38:1 (Twentieth Anniversary Edition): 86.
“Kumquats.” The Laurel Review 32:2 (1998):24-25.
“Trappings.” The Laurel Review 32:2 (1998):22-24.
“Drive Shaft.” “The Writer's Almanac,” Public Radio International (November 21, 1998).
“Beyond Kumquats.” Fish Stories, Collective V (1998):70-71.
“Fantasie Metropolitan.” Fish Stories, Collective V (1998):72.
“Mediterranean Cooking for Two.” Boulevard 40-41 (1998):89.
“Departures.”
“Prodigy.” Tar River Poetry 38.2 (1998): 35.
“The Blue World.“ The Beloit Poetry Journal 48.1 (1997): 6-7.
“Celebration on the Planet Mars.” Nimrod 41.1 (1997): 23.
“Humanophone.” Nimrod 41.1 (1997): 15.
“Whistle.” Nimrod 41.1 (1997): 20.
“Departures.” The Georgia Review 51.2 (1997): 246.
“The Bachelor's House.” Notre Dame Review 4 (Summer 1997): 99-102.
“Depressive Episode.” Prairie Schooner 71.2 (1997): 74.
“Still Life with Bad Dog.”
“My Mother's Clown.”
“Florida 1985.”
“Your Bird.”
“At Tea with the Epistemologist.” Notre Dame Review 3 (1996-1997): 25.
“Yellow Period.” Notre Dame Review 3 (1996-1997): 26-29.
“The Aquarium.” The Seneca Review 26.2 (1996):45.
“The Duck at Midlife.” Michigan Quarterly Review 35.3 (1996): 473.
“The Green Tuxedo.” Carolina Quarterly 48.1 (1995): 38-40.
“The Erotics of Detail,” Poetry 165 (1995): 263-264.
“Post-Solstice.” Passages North 15.2 (1994): 32.
“Against the Literal.“ The Georgia Review 48:2 (1994): 314.
“Neons.” Shenandoah 43.2 (1993): 22-24.
“The Love of the Flesh.“ Tar River Poetry 32.2 (1993): 12-13.
“The Dog Season.” Poetry Northwest 32.4 (1991-1992): 23.
“Nocturne in a Western Landscape.” The Fireweed Journal 1.4 (1991): 15.
“September, Yukon.” The Fireweed Journal 1.4 (1991): 15.
“Tarantulas, in Autumn, Seek Their Mates.” The Fireweed Journal 1.4 (1991): 16.
“Seven Lyrics of Autumn.” Prairie Schooner 63.2 (1989): 82-84.
“Hibiscus.” Hayden's Ferry Review 3 (1988): 81.
“Chez Persephone.” Hayden's Ferry Review 3 (1988): 82.
“Pieces for Non-Cooperative Ensemble.” New Letters 53.3 (1987): 100-101.
“The Fence.” Puerto del Sol 22.2 (1987): 106.*
“Editorial.” The Little Magazine 14.4 (1985): 49.*
“Charleston.” The Agni Review 21 (1984): 88-89.*
“Aviary.” Antaeus 52 (1984): 84.*
“Stars. Wild Land.” Puerto del Sol 18 (1983): 18.
“Sestina Lente.” The Little Magazine 13.3-4 (1982): 95.*
*Published under former name, Janet Holmes Stanford.
“The Green Tuxedo.” Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America. Eds. Ryan G. Van Cleave and Virgil Suarez. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2002, 92-94.
“Depressive Episode,” “Fantasie Metropolitan,” and “Whistle.” The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women. Eds. Susan Aizenberg and Erin Belieu. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001, 169-172.
“Partch Stations.” A Fine Excess: Fifty Years of the Beloit Poetry Journal. Ed. Marion K. Stocking. Lamoine, ME: Beloit Poetry Journal Foundation, Inc., 2000, 361-373.
“Against the Literal,” “The
Erotics of Detail,” “My Mother's Clown,”
and “Paperback Romance.”
“Depressive Episode.” Outsiders. Ed. Laure-Anne Bosselaar. St. Paul: Milkweed Editions, 1999, 122.
“Chez Persephone.” Orpheus and Company. Ed. Deborah de Nicola. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1999, 154.
“Cinquains for Rocky.” Poetry: A Longman Pocket Anthology. 2nd ed. Ed. R.S. Gwynn. New York: Longman, 1998, 339.
“The Pattern.“ Verse and Universe. Ed. Kurt Brown. St. Paul: Milkweed Editions, 1998, 280.
“The Bachelor's House,” “The Blue World,” “Florida 1985,” “My Mother's Clown,” and “Why.” Gravity's Loophole. St. Paul: The Loft, 1997, 44-52.
“Against the Literal.“ The Best American Poetry 1995. Ed. Richard Howard and David Lehman. New York: Scribner, 1995, 103.
“A Love Song from the Chimayó Landfill (Una Canción Amor Desde el Basurero de Chimayó),” “The Miracle As I See It (El Milagro Como Yo Lo Veo),” “Walking the Dogs on Horse Mesa (Paseando los Perros en la Mesa Caballo),” “Instinct (Instinto),” and “Stars. Wild Land (Estrellas. Tierra Salvaje).” ¡Saludos!: Poemas de Nuevo Mexico/Poems of New Mexico, Ed. Jeanie C. Williams and Victor di Suvero, trans. ed. Consuelo Luz. Santa Fe, NM: Pennywhistle Press, 1995, 142-153.
“The Love of the Flesh.“ The Best American Poetry 1994. Ed. A.R. Ammons and David Lehman. New York: Scribner, 1994, 83-85.
“Pastoral.” The Forgotten Language. Ed. Christopher Merrill. Salt Lake City, UT: Peregrine Smith Books, 1991, 77.
“A Love Song from the Chimayó Landfill.” Chester H. Jones Foundation National Poetry Competition Winners 1991. Ed. Madeline DeFrees, William Stafford, and Diane Wakoski. Cleveland: Chester H. Jones Foundation, 1991, 9.
“Aviary at Oaxaca.” The State Street Reader. Ed. Judith Kitchen. Pittsford, NY: State Street Press, 1990, 42.
“Aviary.” The Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry 1985.
“ForeSight Poetry: Delight and Instruct [a composite review of Muse, by Susan Aizenberg; The Self as Constellation, by Jeanine Hathaway; Commons, by Myung Mi Kim; A Visit to Civilization, by Sandra McPherson; The Caged Owl: New and Selected Poems, by Gregory Orr; The High Sierra of California, by Gary Snyder and Tom Killion; and Spirit Cabinet, by David Wojahn].” ForeWord 5:3 (May-June 2002): 34.
“Spar.” Rev. of Spar by Karen Volkman. ForeWord 5:3, p. 59.
“Bearing Witness: Poetry by Teachers About Teaching.” Rev. of Bearing Witness: Poetry by Teachers About Teaching, ed. Margaret Hatcher. ForeWord 5:1 (January-February 2002): 44.
“In the Spotlight: New Poetry Series [a composite review of Air, Waters, Places, by Bin Ramke; Such Rich Hour by Cole Swensen; and The Keep, by Emily Wilson].” ForeWord 4:6 (November-December 2001): 35.
“Unsleeping.” Rev. of Unsleeping by Michael Burkard. ForeWord 4:6 (November-December 2001): 46.
“The Salt Hour.” Rev. of The Salt Hour by J.P. White. ForeWord 4:5 (September-October 2001): 55.
“Spring Poetry Books [a composite review of Carver: A Life in Poems, by Marilyn Nelson; The Tormented Mirror, by Russell Edson; Misery Prefigured, by J. Allyn Rosser; Radio, Radio: Poems, by Ben Doyle; Saving Lives: Poems, by Albert Goldbarth; Shiny Pencils at the Edge of Things: New and Selected, by Dick Gallup; Queen for a Day, by DeniseDuhamel; Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems, by Yusef Komunyakaa; The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women, ed. Susan Aizenberg and ErinBelieu; and American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement, ed. Virgil Suarez and Ryan G. Van Cleave].” ForeWord 4:3 (March 2001): 22-27.
“Echolocations.” Rev. of Echolocations by Diane Thiel. ForeWord 3:11 (November 2000): 51.
“Brace's Cove..” Rev. of Brace's Cove by Joseph Featherstone. ForeWord 3:10 (October 2000): 56.
“Wild Sweet Notes.” Rev. of Wild Sweet Notes, ed. Barbara Smith and Kirk Judd. ForeWord 3:9 (September 2000): 67.
“Tell Me.” Rev. of Tell Me by Kim Addonizio. ForeWord 3:7 (July 2000): 41.
“The Selected Poems of Janet Lewis.” Rev. of The Selected Poems of Janet Lewis, ed. R.L. Barth, ForeWord 3:6 (June 2000): 73.
“Cowboy Poetry Matters.” Rev. of Cowboy Poetry Matters: From Abilene to the Mainstream, ed. Robert McDowell. ForeWord 3:5 (May 2000): 73.
“The Dumbbell Nebula.” Rev. of The Dumbbell Nebula by Steve Kowit. ForeWord 3:4 (April 2000): 48-49.
“Protocol for Touch.” Rev. of Protocol for Touch by Constance Merritt. ForeWord 3:2 (February 2000): 65-66.
“David
Wojahn's The Falling Hour.”
“Wendy
Battin's Little Apocalypse.“
“(divine)(s)electeds.” Rev. of il cuore: the heart: New and Selected Poems by Kathleen Fraser, An Octave Above Thunder by Carol Muske, and Roots in the Air by Shirley Kaufman. Hungry Mind Review 44 (1997): 36.
“Praise Song.” Rev. of With a Moon in Transit by Jacqueline Osherow and Music Minus One by Jane Shore. Hungry Mind Review 41 (1997): 38.
“How the Light Gets In.” Rev. of The Crack in Everything, by Alicia Ostriker. Hungry Mind Review 39 (1996): 28.
“Probing the Cloud of the Nuclear Threat.” Rev. of Writing in a Nuclear Age, ed. Jim Schley, and Nuke-Rebuke, ed. Morty Sklar. New Letters Review of Books 1.1 (1987): 6-7.
“Flash, Tenderness & Pop.” Rev. of Flash Paper by Theresa Pappas, Ongoing Portraits by Walter Pavlich, and Death of the Plankton Bar & Grill, by Kathryn Nocerino. New Letters Review of Books 2.1 (1988): 10.
“Read Me This Way: Poetic Sequence and Consequence.“ Marlboro Review (Summer/Fall 1997): 23-37.
Strickland, Stephanie and Janet Holmes.
“The
Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot.”
Strickland, Stephanie. “Seven
League Boots: Poetry, Science and Hypertext.”
“Where the Hands Go, the Eyes Follow.” Collaborative performance with Ranee Ramaswamy (choreographer), Howard Levy (composer/musician), Coleman Barks, Robert Bly, Mary Easter, Jane Hirshfield, Janet Holmes, and Jim Moore (poets). Commissioned by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, and performed May 16-18, 1998, at the Walker Art Center, and again May 30, 1998, at Carleton College, Northfield, MN.
Paper Presentations at Professional Meetings
“Poetry as Artmaking.” Pedagogical talk, Warren Wilson Alumni Writers' Conference, Asheville, NC. 29 June 2001.
“Getting Carried Away: Research and Obsession in the Poetic Sequence.” Associated Writing Programs Conference, Palm Springs, CA. 21 April 2001.
“Differing Digital Strategies in Hypertext Writing” (Panel chair). Associated Writing Programs Conference, Kansas City, MO. 1 April 2000.
“The trAce Workshop Experience: The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot.” Digital Arts and Culture '99, Atlanta, GA. 29 Oct. 1999.
“The Writer-Ghost in the Machine.” Associated Writing Programs Conference, Albany, NY. 17 Apr. 1999.
Editor, Ahsahta Press, Fall 2000-present.
- "Forbidden City" by Peggy Hamilton, Pompano Beach, FL, in process.
- "Spell" by Dan Beachy-Quick, Chicago, IL, in process.
- Dear, Read by Lisa Fishman, Beloit, WI, November 2002.
- Drinking Girls and Their Dresses by Heather Sellers, Holland, MI, November 2002.
- Welkin by Aaron McCollough, Ann Arbor, MI, September 2002.
- Corpus Socius by Lance Phillips, Charlotte, NC, May 2002.
- Esse by David Mutschlecner, Los Alamos, NM, February 2002.
- Fictional Teeth by Linda Dyer, San Francisco, CA, May 2001.
- [redesigned reprint] Chopstix Numbers by Craig Cotter, Los Angeles, CA
- [redesigned reprint] The Widow's Coat by Miriam Sagan, Santa Fe, NM
Associate editor, Crania (online literary magazine), Summer 1997-Spring 2001.
Judge, Writing Panel, National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Arts Recognition and Talent Search (ARTS) scholarships, Madison, WI, 2001, 2002.
Judge, Davenport Awards in Poetry, Knox College, Galesburg, IL, May 2001.
Judge, Tupelo Press Poetry Prize, September 2000.
Judge, Penumbra Poetry Contest, July 2000.
Judge, Poetry Book of the Year, ForeWord, February 2000.
Judge, Weisman Museum/University of Minnesota Poetry Competition, 1998.
Judge, University of Minnesota Academy of American Poets Prize, 1995.
The Ruminator Bookshop, St. Paul, MN, 3 July 2002.
The Log Cabin Literary Center, Boise, ID 6 May 2002.
The Ruminator Bookshop, St. Paul, MN, 26 April 2002.
Poetry Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 26 February 2002.
Books and Books, Miami, FL, 21 February 2002.
“Forewords & Afterwords: Readings to Commemorate 9/11/01,” Fulton Street Theater, Boise, ID, 11 January 2002.
Northwest BookFest, Seattle, WA, 20 October 2001.
Writers and Readers Rendezvous, Riggins, ID, 28 September 2001.
Log Cabin Book Fest, Boise, ID, 15 September 2001.
Warren Wilson Alumni Writers' Conference, Asheville, NC, 30 June 2001.
Ear Inn Poetry Series, New York, NY, 16 June 2001.
Knox College, Galesburg, IL, 16 May 2001.
National Council of Teachers of English Conference, Boise, ID, 26 April 2001.
KGB Bar Monday Night Series, New York, NY, 9 April 2001.
Drake University, Des Moines, IA, 12 February 2001.
Writers and Readers Rendezvous, Riggins, ID, 14 October 2000.
Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, Kansas City, MO, 1 April 2000.
Indiana Purdue University-Ft. Wayne, Ft. Wayne, IN, 28 February 2000.
Ars Poetica Reading Series, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR, 7 February 2000.
Idaho Review Reading, Boise, ID, 28 January 2000.
Log Cabin Literary Center, Boise, ID, 14 Oct. 1999.
Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy, 7 July 1999.
Mill City Café, Minneapolis, MN, 4 May 1999.
Quarter Note Café, Minneapolis, MN, 28 Apr. 1999.
Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, Anhinga Press Reading, Albany, NY, 17 Apr. 1999.
Books and Books, Coral Gables, FL, 30 Mar. 1999.
Center for the Book, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 29 Mar. 1999.
Mosswood Books, Lakeland, FL, 28 Mar. 1999.
Anhinga Press 25th Anniversary Conference, Wakulla Springs, FL, 26 Mar. 1999.
CCS Reading Series, New York, NY, 21 Feb. 1999.
Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Red Wing, MN, 17 Feb. 1999.
Poetry Harbor Reading Series, Duluth, MN, 26 Jan. 1999.
Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH, 2 Dec. 1998.
Miami University, Oxford, OH, 1 Dec. 1998.
Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, 30 Nov. 1998.
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 24 Nov. 1998.
Hudson Valley Writers' Center, Sleepy Hollow, NY, 8 Nov. 1998.
Wells College, Aurora, NY, 5 Nov. 1998.
University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 3 Nov. 1998.
New England Poetry Club, Cambridge, MA, 26 Oct. 1998.
Holy Cross College, Worcester, MA, “A Literary Octoberfest,” 23 Oct. 1998.
Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN, 14 Oct. 1998.
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 13 Oct. 1998.
Duke University, Durham, NC, 8 Oct. 1998.
University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Borders Bookstore, Greensboro, NC, 7 Oct.1998.
Chapman College, Orange, CA, 1 Oct. 1998.
San Diego State University, “Living Writers Series,” San Diego, CA, 29 Sept. 1998.
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 24 Sept. 1998.
St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM, 23 Sept. 1998.
R Books, Los Alamos, NM, 22 Sept. 1998.
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 17 Sept. 1998.
Weber State University, Ogden, UT, 17 Sept. 1998.
Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT, 15 Sept. 1998.
Warren Wilson Alumni Writers' Conference, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, 2 July 1998.
Duke Writers' Workshop, Trinity Center, Salter Path, NC, 9 June 1998.
Gazelle Poets Series, Idao Gallery, Chicago, IL, 22 May 1998.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 21 May 1998.
University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI, “Pike River Poetry Reading Series,” 20 Apr. 1998.
The Hungry Mind, St. Paul, MN, 17 Apr. 1998.
Concordia College, Moorhead, MN, 15 Apr. 1998.
University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 2 Apr. 1998.
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 30 Mar. 1998.
Second Derriére Guard Festival, The Graham Foundation, Chicago, IL, 21 Mar.1998.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 26 Feb. 1998.
Nimrod/Hardman Awards prize reading, Tulsa, OK, 20 Oct. 1997.
SASE Reading, Mill City Café, Minneapolis, MN, 20 Mar. 1997.
University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, WI, 27 Feb. 1997.
Writers' Harvest Reading, St. Paul, MN, 14 Nov. 1996.
State University of New York-Brockport, Brockport, NY, 23 Oct. 1996.
Split Rock Artists' Community, Duluth, MN, 16 July 1996.
Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, NC, 5 July 1996.
York Street Poetry Reading Series, Newport, KY, 24 June 1996.
SASE Reading, Café Zev, Minneapolis, MN, 2 Apr. 1996.
The Artist's Quarter, “St. Paul Calls” Reading Series, St. Paul, MN, 10 Feb. 1996.
The Loft “Works In Progress” Reading Series, St. Paul, MN, 15 Sept. 1995.
University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, 21 June 1995.
College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN, 18 Apr. 1995.
Minnesota Book Awards, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, 9 Apr. 1995.
Lamar University, Beaumont, TX, 22 Mar. 1995.
Silver Bay Public Library, Silver Bay, MN, 3 Mar. 1995.
The Loft, St. Paul, MN, 7 Jan. 1995.
The Hungry Mind Bookstore, St. Paul, MN, Mar. 1994.
Florida State University, Spring Festival of Writers, Tallahassee, FL, Jan. 1994.
“Organizing Your Life: Making Writing a Priority.” Panel with Alvin Greenberg, Alyson Hagy, and Clay Morgan, Writers and Readers Rendezvous, Riggins, Idaho, 30 September 2001.
“Experimental Poetry.” Panel discussion with Martin Corless-Smith and Norm Weinstein, Log Cabin Literary Fesstival, Boise, Idaho, 15 September 2001.
Poetry Craft Sessions, Writers and Readers Rendezvous, Riggins, Idaho, 14-15 October 2000.
“Fear of Poetry.” Panel discussion with Henry Taylor and Diane Raptosh, Log Cabin Literary Festival, Boise, Idaho, 16 September 2000.
Poetry Workshop, Anhinga Press 25th Anniversary Writers' Conference, Wakulla Springs, Florida, 25-26 March 1999.
“Conversation, Interruption, Argument, Asides: Using Voice in Poetry.” Poetry workshop, Duke University Writers' Workshop, Salter Path, North Carolina, 5-10 June 1998.
“Writing from the Senses.” The Loft, Minneapolis, MN, 4 February-11 March 1998.
“Advanced Poetry Workshop.” Private classes. 8 September-17 November 1997.
Poetry Workshop, Nimrod/Tulsa Writers' Festival, 20-22 October 1997.
Visiting Poet, University of Wisconsin-Stout, 27 February 1997.
“Intermediate Poetry: Formal Verse.” The Loft, Minneapolis, MN, February-April 1997.
“The Chapbook Manuscript.” The Loft, Minneapolis, MN, September-November 1996.
“Intermediate Poetry: Free Verse.” The Loft, Minneapolis, MN, September-November 1996.
“Finding Your Way Home: Poetry Writing about Origins.” Poetry Workshop, Split Rock Arts Program, University of Minnesota-Duluth, 14-20 July 1996.
“Your First Poetry Manuscript.” The Loft, Minneapolis, MN, 13 July 1996.
“Free Verse: Crafting with Formal Techniques.” The Loft, Minneapolis, MN, February-April 1996.
“Intermediate Poetry: Crafting in Form.” The Loft, Minneapolis, MN, September-November 1995.
Visiting Poet, University of South Dakota-Vermillion, 21 June 1995.
“Crafting the Poetic Sequence.” The Loft, Minneapolis, MN, February-April 1995.
Poetry Workshops, Spring Festival of Writers, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, January 1995.
Poetry Workshop, Silver Bay Public Library Writer's Workshop, Silver Bay, MN, 3 March 1995.
“Formal Elements in Free Verse.” The Loft, Minneapolis, MN, July-August 1994.
Academy of American Poets
Associated Writing Programs
Technology Committee, 1999-2000.
Council of Literary Magazines and Small Presses
Modern Language Association
Poetry Society of America
McKnight Artist Fellowship for Writers (Loft Award in Poetry), 1997. $10,000. For support of creative projects, including manuscript-in-progress “Humanophone.”
Loft Minnesota Writers Career Initiative Grant (poetry), Jerome Foundation, 1997. $8,000. This grant made possible a year-long reading tour to colleges and universities across the country that would not otherwise have been able to pay travel costs.
Minnesota State Arts Board Grant, 1996. $6,000. For support of creative projects, including manuscript-in-progress “Humanophone.”
Bush Foundation Artist's Fellowship (poetry), 1993. $24,000. For support of creative projects, including manuscript-in-progress “The Green Tuxedo.” Also $7,000 for purchase of technical equipment (computer, printer, and peripherals).
Minnesota State Arts Board Grant, 1992. $6,000. For support of creative projects, including manuscript-in-progress “The Green Tuxedo.”
“Humanophone,” Pushcart Prize XXVI: Best of the Small Presses nomination, Donald Revell, 2001.
“Lake Superior, Summer,” Pushcart Prize XXV: Best of the Small Presses nomination, Cider Press Review, 2000.
“Partch Stations,” Chad Walsh Poetry Prize, Beloit Poetry Journal, 1999.
The Green Tuxedo, Minnesota Book Award, 1999.
The Green Tuxedo, Poetry Book of the Year, ForeWord Magazine, 1998.
“Humanophone,” “Whistle,” and “Celebration on the Planet Mars,” first place, the Pablo Neruda Awards, Nimrod magazine, selected by W.S. Merwin, 1997.
The Green Tuxedo, Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry, University of Notre Dame Press, selected by John Matthias, 1996.
“Against the Literal“ selected for Best American Poetry 1995, editor Richard Howard.
The Physicist at the Mall finalist, Minnesota Book Award, 1995.
“The Love of the Flesh“ selected for Best American Poetry 1994, editor A.R. Ammons.
The Physicist at the Mall, Anhinga Prize, Anhinga Press, selected by Joy Harjo, 1993.
Commendation, Chester H. Jones Foundation, National Poetry Competition 1991.
Fellow, MacDowell Artists' Colony, March-April 1989.
Fellow, Yaddo Artists' Colony, November-December 1986.
Paperback Romance, State Street Press Chapbook Award, 1984.
“Poetic Patchworks [an essay-review of Humanophone by Janet Holmes, The Paintings of Our Lives by Grace Schulman, and Alluvial by Katherine Soniat].” The Women's Review of Books 14.2 (November 2001): 11-13.
Johnson, Halvard. “Janet Holmes: The Green Tuxedo.” Valpariso Review 2.2 (Spring 2001): http://www.valpo.edu/english/vpr/johnsonreviewholmes.html.
Brown, Janelle. “Holmes: Poet Finds Inspiration in Everyday Life.” Focus Magazine 25.4 (Summer 2000): 22.
Flagg, Marianne. “Links of living poetry: Poetry professor uses language to make us reach beyond our borders.” The Asheville Citizen-Times 5 December 1999, 12. (reprint of Idaho Statesman article)
Flagg, Marianne. “Writing Life: New BSU poetry professor uses language to make links where no links exist.” The Idaho Statesman 13 October 1999, sec. E:1.
Odell, Jere. “The Green Tuxedo.“ Samizdat (Winter 1999): 15-16.
Figg, Melanie. “What Lies Beneath.” Quarterly West 47 (1998-1999): 186-192.
Rawson, Josie. “The Green Tuxedo.” Rain Taxi (April 1998): 33.
Grover, J. Z. “Waxing Boolean.” Twin Cities Reader 22.35 (1996): 21.
Howe, Susan Elizabeth. “Deflecting Desire.” Tar River Poetry 34.1 (1994): 50.
Kitchen, Judith. “Inner Worlds [an essay-review of Do Not Peel the Birches, by Fleda Brown Jackson; The Physicist at the Mall, by Janet Holmes; Before Our Eyes, by Lawrence Joseph; The City of Women, A Sequence of Poems and Prose, by Sherod Santos; and Moss Burning, by Marianne Boruch].” The Georgia Review 48 (1994): 584.
Cook, Devan. “•The Physicist at the Mall': The poetry of everyday life.” The Tallahassee Democrat 6 November 1994, sec. E: 9.
McFee, Michael. “The Physicist at the Mall.” Duke Magazine 81.1 (1994): 50-51.
Grossman, Mary Ann. “Ordinary experiences are the stuff of poetry.” Saint Paul Pioneer Press 20 March 1994, sec. E: 7.
University Service
Department Level: Faculty Affairs Committee, 2000-2003.
Search Committee, poetry position, 1999-2000.
Search Committee, Visiting Writer, 1999-2000.
Creative Writing Subcommittee, 1999-2002.
University Level: Curriculum Committee, Arts and Sciences representative, 2003-2006.
Distinguished Lecture Series Committee, faculty representative, 2000-2002.
Writers and Readers Rendezvous Planning Committee, Boise State University Extended Studies, 2000-2001.
Publications Board, 2000-2002.
Graduate Catalog Committee, 2000-2002.
Core Curriculum Committee, 2000-2002.
Graduate Council member, Spring 2000.
Professionally Related Community Service
Board member, Log Cabin Literary Center, 2003-2006.
BookFest Planning Committee, Log Cabin Literary Center, 2000-2001.
Board representative, Log Cabin Literary Center, winter-spring 2000.
Fifth Annual Celebration of Women in the Arts (benefit for the Women and Children's Alliance Crisis Center), Boise, ID, 2 December 1999.
Poetry reading, Log Cabin Literary Center, Boise, ID, 14 October 1999.
Judge, AAUW Poetry Competition, St. Paul, MN, May 1999.
Judge, Weisman Museum/University of Minnesota Poetry Competition, 1998.
Judge, University of Minnesota Academy of American Poets Prize, 1995.
Poetry panelist, Minnesota State Arts Board, St. Paul, MN, 1995.
Section Leader, Literary Forum, CompuServe Information Service, 1994-1996.
