Gemin, Pamela
Office: Radford 225
Phone: 920-424-2260
Email: geminp@uwosh.edu
On Leave Spring 2013
Personal Statement:
My research interests include the role of music in the creative process of making poetry, but I am first and foremost a writer, a practicing poet.
Recommended Reading:
- Deepstep Come Shining, C.D. Wright
- Ariel, Sylvia Plath
- Housekeeping in a Dream, Laura Kasischke
- Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
Degrees
- MFA, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Poetry
- MA, Eastern Michigan University
- BS, Eastern Michigan University
Courses Taught:
- First-Year Honors Seminar: The Truth about Fiction (Interdisciplinary Studies 175)
- Theme-Based Inquiry Seminar: Altered States: Sensation, Color, and Creativity, Joy to the World: A History of Collective Joy, and A Natural History of the Senses (English 188)
- The Creative Process (Student Artists in Residence Program, Interdisciplinary Studies 104)
- Introduction to Creative Writing (English 204)
- Modern American Literature: Coming of Age in America (English 226)
- Women in Literature: Her Kind – Plath, Sexton, and the New Confessionals (English and Women’s Studies 224)
- Poetry Workshops I & II (English 305/505, 306/506)
- Advanced Composition for Secondary Education (English 307)
- Midwest by Southwest: Writing in Place (English 305/505, Taos and Santa Fe, New Mexico)
- New Landscapes, Sylvia and Ted: Two Poets of Cambridge, Writing in Place (English 224, 302, 305)
- Cambridge, UK Study Tour English
- WS 357/359: Portrait of the Artist as a Woman
- Creative Writing 405: Writing Memoir and Poetry: Person, Place, and Voice
- Graduate Seminars: Containing Multitudes: The Confessional Poem and the Collective First Person and Person, Place, and Voice (English 709)
Selected Publications and/or Activities:
- Another Creature (poems), University of Arkansas Press, 2010
- Sweeping Beauty (anthology), University of Iowa Press, 2005
- Are You Experienced (anthology), University of Iowa Press, 2003
- Boomer Girls (anthology, with Paula Sergi), University of Iowa Press, 1999
- Vendettas, Charms, and Prayers (poems), New Rivers Press, 1999
- Writer-in- Residence, The Chautauqua Institution, 2005 and 2009
- Ragdale Literary Fellowships
- D.H. Lawrence Fellowship
- Wisconsin Arts Board Grant
