Royal Air Force (UK): Flight Lieutenant, reconnaissance pilot (17 Squadron) serving in Germany with NATO's 2nd Allied Tactical Air Force, 1964-67
Ph.D, Case Western Reserve University 1974; Assoc. Prof & Chair of English Dept, University of Akron, OH, 1973-1997, 1997-2000
Editor and Co-Founder (with Robert Wallace), Bits Press, Cleveland, 1974. Bits Press published Bits, a magazine of short poetry, from 1975 till 1981. We hand set and hand printed books, chapbooks, special editions of poetry and anthologies of light verse. I personally set and/or printed Pulitzer Prize winner Mary Oliver's The Night Traveler, Elton Glaser's Peripheral Vision, Herb Scott's She Dreams of Milk, Mark Irwin's Umbrellas in the Snow, and Gavin Ewart's Nine New Poems.
POEMS (selections)
Track Made Good (Cleveland: Bits Press, 1977). A chapbook of poems published with the aid of an award of $750 from the Cleveland Area Arts Council.
"Advice to Young Poets" in Everyman '79; "Summer Sublet" in The Spoon River Quarterly, (No.1), Winter 1977; "Love Poem" in Poetry I, 1976; "In Class Theme" in The Mississippi Review, 5, No.2 (1976); "My Witch" in Twigs, 13 (No.1), Fall 1976; "Geometry" in The Spoon River Quarterly (No.2), Spring 1976; "Eunice has a mouth that kills" and "Who gave you those bruises?" in The Barataria Review, No.2 (1976); "To My Daughter" in The Mississippi Review, 5, No.1 (1976);"Poetaster" and "Van" in The Lake Superior Review, 6 (No.3), “Shaker Lakes” in Mangrove Review 16, (2019)
POETRY ACTIVITIES (selections)
Poetry Workshop Leader, Shell Point Writers' Guild, Fort Myers, 2021-22
Featured Speaker/Judge: Ohio Poetry Day, Akron Area Chapter workshop, November 1977
Poetry Workshop Leader: Medina Writers' Workshop, October 1977
Poetry Judge: Manuscript Club of Akron Annual Workshop, May 1977
Green High School, 5 day Visiting Poet residence, Spring 1977 paid for by Ohio Arts
Council
John Hay High School, Cleveland. 5 day Visiting Poet residence, Spring 1977 paid by the Ohio Arts Council
Cleveland Area Arts Council Bicentennial Poem Commission, 2nd prize: "A Poem for
America's Two Hundredth Birthday," May 1976
Workshop Leader. CAAC City Pride Bicentennial Poetry Project, May 1976
Poetry Reading, Coventry Village Library, Cleveland Heights, sponsored by the Cleveland Area
Arts Council, December 1975
Poetry Reading, Cleveland Public Library, August 1975 (Honorarium)
Poetry Reading, Case Western Reserve University, English Department, October 1975
(Honorarium)
Case Western Reserve University FM Station WRUW: Interview by C.A. Smith, and reading of
my poetry, broadcast, June 23, 1975.
