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STEPHEN CRAMER
[email protected]

EDUCATION:

—City College of New York

—Master of Arts, Creative Writing, 1998

—Lycoming College

—Bachelor of Arts, major in Creative Writing, 1997

—Member of Sigma Tau Delta, International English Honors Society

—Member of the Iruksa Honors Society

—Junior Semester at Westminster College, Oxford, England

EMPLOYMENT:

Lecturer in the University of Vermont’s English Department, 2007-2018

Senior Lecturer from 2018-present

Courses taught:

—Advanced Writing: Poetry

—Introduction to Creative Writing

—Introduction to Poetry

—Responding to Music in Poetry (from Jazz to Hip-Hop)

—Jazz Poetry

—Introduction to Fiction

—Expository Writing/The Art of the Essay

—American Literature

—Types of Literature

—Written Expression

—Faculty advisor to UVM’s student-run literary journal, Vantage Point/The                                         Gist

BOOKS:

—Shiva’s Drum, winner of the National Poetry Series, University of Illinois Press, 2004.

—Tongue & Groove, University of Illinois Press, 2007.

—From the Hip, A Concise History of Hip Hop (in sonnets), Wind Ridge Books, 2014.

—A Little Thyme & A Pinch of Rhyme (A Cookbook in Haiku & Sonnets), Wind Ridge Books, 2015.

—Bone Music, winner of the Louise Bogan Award, Trio House Press, 2016.

—A Jar of Moon Air: Selected Poems of Jaime Sabines, translated by Stephen Cramer and Alejandro Merizalde, Literal Press, 2017.

—Turn It Up! Music in Poetry from Jazz to Hip-Hop, edited, Green Mountains Press and Sundog Poetry, 2020.

—The Hot Sauce Madness Love Burn Suite, Serving House Books, 2020.

—The Disintegration Loops, Serving House Books, 2021. (one of three nominees for the 2022 Vermont Book Award in Poetry)

—City Full of Fireworks and Blues, Shanti Arts, 2024.

—Shakespeare Redacted, Shanti Arts, 2024.

—Shakespeare Unscene: Dialogues that Madeth Not the Final Cut, Deerbrook Editions, 2025.

—OMG, Shakespeare, WTH? (Bardesque Texts), Shanti Arts 2026

—Shakespearean Job Postings: Interview with Characters Profoundly Unfit for their Intended Proffessions, Serving House Books 2026

SELECTED JOURNALS, ANTHOLOGIES, AND FEATURES:

—African American Review (spring 2011)

—The American Journal of Poetry (Spring 2018)

—The American Poetry Review (September/October 2009)

—Antigonish (2022)

—Artful Dodge (issue 48/49)

—Ashville Poetry Review (issue 16, volume 13, #1)

—Atlanta Review (spring/summer, 2003)

—Atticus Review (summer 2017)

—Baltimore Review (summer 2021)

—Barnstorm (winter 2013)

—Barrow Street (summer 2000, summer 2004, summer 2006, summer 2007, summer 2011)

—Blues for Bill (University of Akron Press, 2005)

—Brasilia Review (2020)

—Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz and Literature (summer 1998, winter 1998,
summer 2010, summer 2012, summer 2016, summer 2021)

—The Brooklyn Review (winter 2017)

—Cafe Review (spring 2017)

—Chicago Quarterly Review (2022)

—Chronogram (2020)

—Cimarron Review (winter 2004)

—Comstock Review (fall 2017)

—Confrontation (spring/summer 2002)

—Connotation Press: An Online Artifact (spring 2017)

—Cortland Review (Issue 66)

—Crab Orchard Review (spring/summer 2001)

—Crossways (2021)

—deLuge (2022)

—Diode Poetry Journal (winter 2018)

—Fogged Clarity (summer 2011)

—The Gihon River Review (spring 2010)

—Glint Literary Journal (summer 2022)

—Global City Review (issue 11, 1999)

—Green Mountains Review (volume XIX #2, volume XXII #2)

—The Harvard Review (summer 2011)

—Hayden’s Ferry Review (fall/winter 2004/2005)

—High Plains Literary Review (spring 1997)

—The Journal (autumn/winter 2000)

—The Lake (February, 2017)

—The Laurel Review (winter 2017)

—LIT (winter 2003/2004)

—Literal (spring 2009)

—The Literary Review (summer 2005)

—The Loch Raven Review (2020)

—Main Street Rag (2022)

—Manhattan Review (fall 2017)

—Michigan Quarterly Review (2014)

—Mid-American Review (volume XXIV #1)

—New Ohio Review (fall 2008)

—New York Quarterly (number 64)

—North American Review (September/October 2005)

—Ocean State Review (spring, 2011)

—One Sentence Poems (summer, 2021)

—Offcourse (spring 2017)

—The Pinch (spring 2017)

—poemoftheweek.org (featured poems, “Wheels” and “Curses” February 2011)

—Poetry Daily (featured poem, “The Ark,” 2007)

—Quarterly West (summer 2004)

—Red River Review (2019)

—The Salon (spring 2011)

—Slant (fall 2021)

—South Dakota Review (fall 2002, winter 2002)

—Southern Poetry Review (2020, 2021)

—Southwest Review (volume 90, # 2)

—Statorec.com (fall 2012)

—Sugar House Review (2022)

—Throats to the Sky (2022)

—Tupelo Quarterly (2022)

—Vantage Point (spring 2011)

—Verse-Virtual (spring 2022)

—The Worcester Review (fall 2012)

—Yale Review (2013)

GRANTS AND AWARDS:

—Faculty Development Grant for the Arts (in support ofTurn It Up!), UVM, 2018

–Winner of the Louise Bogan Award, 2015

—Creation Grant from the Vermont Arts Council, Sept. 2007

—Nominated for four Pushcart Prizes

—Finalist, Balcones Poetry Prize for Shiva’s Drum, 2004

–Winner of the National Poetry Series, 2003

—Alice M. Sellers Award from the Academy of American Poets, 1998

—Finalist for the 2021 Vermont Book Award in Poetry

EDITORIAL WORK:

–Green Mountains Review: Assistant Poetry Editor fall 2014-present

–Barrow Street reader: fall 2001-present

–Green Mountains Review reader: volume XX # 1&2, volume XXI #1

–The Lantern contest judge: volume LXXII, issue II

–Poets Out Loud book contest reader, Fordham University Press, 2005

SELECTED FEATURED READINGS:

—Burlington Book Festival, 2008

—Café Sha Sha, NYC 2002

—Clark University 2010

—Cornelia Street Café, NYC 2004

—Elizabethtown College 2009

—Johnson State College 2007

—Lycoming College, 2004

—Macculloch Hall Historical Museum, Morristown, NJ 2004

—The Medicine Show, NYC 2000

—Mount Saint Mary, 2006

—Orange County Community College 2005, 2006

—Telephone Bar, NYC 2007

—University of Rhode Island 2008

—University of Vermont Painted Word Series 2007

—Ursinus College 2008

—Vermont State House 2008

SELECTED GUEST LECTURES:

—Adelphi University

–Champlain College

—Community College of Vermont

—Elizabethtown College

—Fordham University

—New York University

—Orange County Community College

—Polytechnic University

—Ursinus College