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Current Position - writer, teacher Education Ph.D., University of Washington, History, 1994 Dissertation: Irena Klepfisz: A Life in Print - The Early Years: 1975-1992 First Intensive Year in Psychoanalytic Theory, Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study, 1992 M.A. Western Washington University, 1981 Thesis: Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party: 1913 - 1919 Forest Park High School, Baltimore, Md., February 1960 Garrison Junior High School, Baltimore, Md., 1957 Louisa May Alcott, PS #59, Baltimore, Md., 1954 Publication History The Homeless One: A Poem in Many Voices. Seattle: Kota Press, 2000 Poems Forthcoming: "Ellen's Good Day, " Real Change, 2005 "ISER, 1899-1994," Maggid: A Journal of Jewish Literature, Sept 2005 "Anna's Last January," in In Pieces: An Anthology of Fragmentary Writing edited by Olivia Dresher, Impassio Press, 2006 "In the Back of the Laundromat," Anthology of Laundromat Literature, Wilda Morris and Cathy Conger, editors, 2006 "From a boy on a dream bed," Poetry Bay.com, Summer 2005 "Spring," Tree Walk Book, Summer 2005 "At the Back of the Laundromat," Real Change: Seattle's Progressive Weekly Community Newspaper, Dec. 16, 2004 "Ellen: When Schizophrenia Visits," Real Change: Seattle's Progressive Weekly Community Newspaper, July 8, 2004 "The Daughters of Dementia," Poetry Bay, Summer 2004 "Face Food Hunger Color Skin;" in Under a Silver Sky, Vol. 1, The Evergreen State College, 2003 "Journal Entry: Spring 1992," Moondance:Celebrating Creative Women, Autumn 2001 "A Poem," Kota Press Poetry Journal, November 2001 "Transference, Or My Analyst Has Curly Brown Hair;" Transference.EU and Beyond, Summer 2001 "Dream," Dakota House Journal, Issue #2, Roots, May-June 2001; reprinted in The Writer's Block, Summer 2001 "Third Wife," KotaPress Poetry Journal, Vol. 1, Issue 4, Summer 2000; reprinted inThe Writer's Haven, Fall 2001 "My Analyst Has Curly Brown Hair;" Chrysanthemum, Vol. IV, No. 3, Summer 2000 "Father's Skull," Chrysanthemum, Vol. IV, No. 3, Summer 2000; reprinted in 9 11 01 (Winter 2002); authorsden.com, May 2001; Transference.EU and Beyond, Summer 2001; The Dakota House Journal Issue #3, Fall 2001 "The Old Woman," Mentress Moon: A Quarterly Online Journal of Writing and Art by Women, April 2000; reprinted in Poets for Peace Anthology, Seattle, 2001 "Erev Yom Kipper, 1999," Chrysanthemum, Vol. IV, No. 2, Winter 1999-2000 "Mouth," KotaPress Poetry Journal, Vol.1, Issue 3, Spring 1999 "Bring Me the Sunset in a Cup," KotaPress Poetry Journal, Vol.1, Issue 2, Winter 1999 "Sister;" PoetsWest Literary Journal, vol. II, No. 1, Spring 1999; reprinted in Mentress Moon: A Quarterly Online Journal of Writing and Art by Women, April 2000; Clariti Magazine, 2000; The Dakota House Journal Issue #3, Fall 2001; Under a Silver Sky, Vol. 1, The Evergreen State College, 2003 "Che," PoetsWest Literary Journal, vol. II, No. 1, Spring 1999; reprinted in Mentress Moon: A Quarterly Online Journal of Writing and Art by Women, April 2000; authorsden.com, May 2001; The Dakota House Journal Issue #3, Fall 2001; Under a Silver Sky, Vol. 1, The Evergreen State College, 2003 "Voice Mail" in Writing Personal Poetry: How to Write Strong Poetry from Personal Experience (Sheila Bender, ed. Writers Digest Books, 1998); reprinted in Day Old Love, 1998 "The Starlings," in Writing Personal Poetry: How to Write Strong Poetry from Personal Experience (Sheila Bender, ed. Writers Digest Books, 1998) "Driving Home from Mother's House," originally published in The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Review Vol. 4, no.3, 1993 (Vancouver Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Society, Vancouver, BC, Katalina Bartok, editor); re-printed in Switched-on-Gutenberg: A Global Poetry Journal, Vol. 1, No.2, (March 1996); KotaPress Poetry Journal, Vol.1, Issue 2, Winter 1999; PoetsWest Literary Journal, vol. II, No. 1, Spring 1999; Identity Theory, Fall 2001 "Guarding Mother," Spindrift, 1996; reprinted in KotaPress Poetry Journal, Vol.1, Issue 2, Winter 1999; amomslove.com, May 2001; The Writer's Haven, Fall 2001 "Miriam," Genesis 2: An Independent Voice for Jewish Renewal, Spring 1988 "Dear Pat," Midway Review 5, 1984; reprinted in She Speaks: Publication of the Seattle Women's Caucus for Art, Autumn 1996; amomslove.com, May 2001 "When I Am Old," Midway Review, No.3, 1982; reprinted in Poetry Seattle, Pacific Magazine, Seattle Times/Post-Intelligencer, 12/7/86; The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Review, Vol. 5, No. 2-3, 1994 Articles Forthcoming: "Irena Klepfisz, Loss and the Poetry of Exile," Journal of Poetry Therapy, Sept. 2005 "Review of Inside the Halo and Beyond: the Anatomy of a Recovery" by Maxine Kumin., Journal of Poetry Therapy, Sept. 2005 "Analytic Entrapment," American Imago, Oct. 2005 Review of "Don't Turn Away: Poems About Breast Cancer" by Patricia Wellingham-Jones, All Things Girl, Dec 2004 -Jan 2005 Pioneers of Child Psychoanalysis: Edith Buxbaum, 1902 - 1982, ACP TODAY: Association for Child Psychoanalysis Newsletter, Winter 2003, pp. 8-9 Buxbaum, Edith (1902-1982), History Link, January 2002; reprinted in Moondance: Celebrating Creative Women, Autumn 2002; Women's Intellectual Contributions to the Study of Mind and Society, website Created as an Advanced Seminar by Linda M. Woolf, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology at Webster University, 2002. Eating Pavlova by D.M. Thomas: Book Review, Transference. EU & Beyond, Fall 2001; originally published in The American Psychoanalyst, Vol. 30, No. 4., 1996 The Psychiatrist as Poet: A Review Essay, Transference. EU & Beyond, Fall 2001; originally publsihed as "The Psychiatrist as Poet: A Book Review Essay," The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Review, Vol. 5, no.4., 1994; reprinted in The Write Way, June 2001; The Writers Haven, Fall 2001; The Dakota House Journal, Winter 2001/2002, Issue 4 On Poets, Writing & Alcoholism: A Review of Joan Fiset's Now the day is Over, Transference. EU & Beyond, Fall 2001 The Psychoanalytic Experience: Analysands Speak - Editor's Report, The Drunken Boat, Fall 2001, Vol.2, Issue III "I Don't Remember Why I Hated Him," Transference.EU & Beyond, Summer 2001 "If All of Seattle Read the Same Book," in Y.I.P.E. Washington Poet's Association Newsletter, Spring, 2001; re-printed in Seattle Stories, March 2001 "Still (Quaking) in Seattle," Seattle Stories, March 2001 "On Poets and Writing: Joan Fiset's Now the Day is Over," Y.I.P.E. Washington Poets Association Newsletter, Winter 2001 "Dreaming Out Loud: Creative Writing for Kids at Hugo House," ReWrite: A Quarterly Publication of Richard Hugo House, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 2000 "Diary of An Analysis: Hermeneutically Yours - Musings on the Dyad as Text,"The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Review, Vol. 3, No. 3, Winter 1992 "The Psychoanalyst as Mentor," Upstream: A Magazine for Northwest Readers and Writers, Winter 1992 "Jewish Feminism and Identity Politics," Off Our Backs: A Women's News Journal, May 1990 "Review of Lovesong: Becoming a Jew, by Julius Lester, "Religious Studies Review, April 1990 "On Writing," Introduction to Life Cycles: Stories and Poems by Senior Adult Education Program Writers North Seattle Community College (editor), North Seattle Community College, 1990 Introduction, Uphill Battle: From Autobiography to Poetry, Hale S.P.I.C.E. Writers (Seattle Program in Service for the Elderly), October 1988 "After the Conference; The Struggles between Us,"(co-authored with Pat Hurshell) Genesis 2: An Independent Voice for Jewish Renewal, Autumn 1988 "Beth Shalom's Encounter with the Woman Question," Conservative Judaism, Spring 1986 "Judaism is Unique: Needs No Christian Symbols," Seattle Times, December 1984 Editing The Edith Buxbaum Journal, www.edithbuxbaum.com , current Dialogue Among Civilizations Through Poetry Seattle Peace site, 2002 The Psychoanalytic Experience: Analysands Speak, website June 2001 - present September 11, 2001: a journal on the writer's role in society, website Sept.11, 2001 - present It's About Time Writers' Reading Series Newsletter, 1996-1999 Gray Panther's of Seattle Newsletter, (Poetry Editor), 1993 Anonymous Was often A Woman Historical Calendar, Editorial Collective, Western Washington State College, Bellingham, WA., 1973 Selected Poetry Readings Older Women's League (OWL) with Irene Drennan & Diane Westergaard, University House, Sat. Sept 11, 2004 Ravenna Third Place Books, with Diane Westergaard, Irene Drennan, Pesha Gertler & Denise Calvetti Michaels, Sunday, May 2, 2004 Barnes & Noble's Lynnwood, with Gloria Burgess, Michael Dylan Welch & Irene Drennan Friday April 23, 2004 Poets in the Park, Sun. April 4, 2004 Temple Beth Am, January 10, 2004 Lottie Motts, Oct 24, 2003 Ravenna Third Place Books, Aug 21, 2003 Ravenna Third Place Books, , Feb. 25, 2003 Learning Through the Arts: Holocaust Experience Shared, North Seattle Community College, April 18, 2000 Richard Hugo House Faculty Reading, Elliot Bay Book Store, April 8, 2000 Elliot Bay Chamber of Commerce, 2000 After Long Silence Reading Series for Women Poets and Writers, 11/19/99 Hospice of Seattle: A Celebration of Remembrance, Frye Art Museum, Spring 1999 Poets West, Barnes and Noble, Issaquah, Fall 1999 Poets West, Frye Museum, Spring 1999 Wit's End Book Store, Nov. 13, 1999 Seattle Love of Life Poets, Barnes and Noble, U. Village, 1996-1998 It's About time Writers Reading Series, 1989 - 1997 "Ernesto Cardinal," Silenced at the Borders: Banned Books Week, Seattle Public Library, Sept. 25, 1997 "Readings on Themes of Freedom and Light," Tree of Life Judaica & Books, Dec. 3, 1997 Seattle Public Library, Banned Books Reading for Poetry Month, April 1998 Castalia Reading Series, University of Washington, various readings, 1982 - 1990 Papers, Talks, and Panels Panel Moderator: "Writing Women's Biography" with Dorothy Cordova, Mildred Andrews, Susan Starbuck, Elizabeth Salas - PEN Washington, Seattle chapter of PEN International Richard Hugo House, Seattle, Tues. November 16, 2004 "Writing Edith Buxbaum" ProseWest Reading Series, Wit's End Bookstore, Seattle Wed. May 19, 2004 Poetry Panel: "Process and Product" Redmond Association of Spokenword, "Poets in the Park" Weekend, Clise Mansion in Marymoor Park, Redmond, WA. Sun. April 4, 2004 "Dr. Edith Buxbaum and the Application of Psychoanalytic Pedagogy in Post-World War II Seattle" Pacific Northwest Historian's Guild Museum of History and Industry, Seattle Saturday, Mar. 6, 2004 Talk on The Homeless One: A Poem in Many Voices, Abnormal Psychology class, Cascadia Community College, November 3, 2003 Northwest Bookfest, Spoken Word Panel, October 18, 2003 Reading Shirley Kaufman with Linda Clifton, Emily Warn, Ken Shiovitz & Pesha Gertler, Temple Beth Am, June 15, 2003 Censorship and the Development of A Writing Self, Censorship and the Right to Dissent Panel, PEN Washington, April 15, 2003 Red-Diaper Baby, The Writer and Politics Panel, PEN Washington, Aug. 20, 2002 The Poet's Words. Dialogue Among Civilizations Through Poetry Peace Reading Seattle Public Library, March 2002 Irena Klepfisz and the Poetry of Exile. North Seattle Community College, 1999 Edith Buxbaum, Women's Biography and the Writing Process, University of Washington, Independent Women's Scholar's Group, 1995 Edith Buxbaum, Ph.D., Child Psychoanalyst - The Seattle Years: 1947 - 1982, Oral History Workshop #41: Women in the Early History of American Psychoanalysis, American Psychoanalytic Association, 12/94 Irena Klepfisz's Keeper of Accounts and Cynthia Ozik's `The Shawl,' University of Washington, Women's Studies, 1993 Themes of Home, Exile, Self and Other in Irena Klepfisz's Early 1970's poem, `Death Camp,' University of Washington, Women's Studies, Oct. 1992 Irene Kelpfisz, Jewish Feminism and the Construction of a Social Self: A Psychoanalytic-Feminist Perspective, Judaism, Feminism and Psychology Conference: Creating a Shelter in the Wilderness, Nov. 1, 1992. Jewish Feminism and Identity Politics, National Women's Studies Association, Towson University, Towson, Md., Nov. 1989 Women and Creativity, Panel on Women's Creativity, Women's Studies, University of Washington, 1989 "Midrash on Ruth and Naomi," Torah and Blintzes: Tikun Lail Shavuot Study Vigil, Congregation Beth Shalom, June 8, 1989 Jewish Women's Spirituality, Edmonds Community College, 1980s Women's Clubs, YWCA, 1980s National Council of Jewish Women, Seattle Section, Women's History Conference, University of Washington, 1980s Jewish Women's Spirituality, Conference on Women's Spirituality, Antioch University, Seattle, 1981 Origins of the Seattle Council of Jewish Women: 1900-1910, Early Seattle Panel, Seattle Women's History Week, University of Washington, March 12, 1981 Women's Role at Congregation Beth Shalom, Seattle, Museum of History and Industry, Washington State Women's History Panel, 1980 National Women's Party and the Equal Rights Amendment, Western Washington University, 1972 Women and Judaism Newspaper Column The Road to Judaism: A Convert Speaks Out, Washington Jewish Week, 3/19/87 The Baalat Teshuva, Baltimore Jewish Times, 11/87 The Meaning of the Mikvah, Baltimore Jewish Times, 1/26/87 Rosh Hodesh - The New Moon, 1/30/87 Invoking Female as Well as Male Images of God, New York Jewish Week, 1/2/87 Women in Judaism: God as`She', Baltimore Jewish Times, 2/2/87 Women in Judaism: God as a Female Image, Syracuse Jewish Observer, 1/2/87 The Mikvah's Mystery, Syracuse Jewish Observer, 12/86 God as `She', Washington Jewish Week, 12/3/86 Ima on the Bima: A Refreshing Children's Story, Seattle Jewish Transcript, 11/20/86 The Rebbetzin as Role Model, Baltimore Jewish Times, 9/5/86 My `Gottseelige' Bubbe, Syracuse Jewish Observer, 7/86 Educating Women, Baltimore Jewish Times, 5/2/86 Marta Kosaly, Syracuse Jewish Observer, 4/86 This Purim, Watch Out, Reader!, Seattle Jewish Transcript, 3/20/86 Women in Judaism: Education, Syracuse Jewish Observer, 3/7/86 A Purim Phantasmagoria, Syracuse Jewish Observer, 3/86 Feminist Finds Mikvah Spritually Rewarding, The Arizona Post, 2/14/86 The Mikvah, Detroit News, 1986 Educating Women, London Jewish Chronicle, 1986 Women in Judaism: Ima on the Bima, Syracuse Jewish Observer, 1986 God As a Female Image, Syracuse Jewish Observer, 1986 Tapping the Wellsprings of Purity, London Jewish Chronicle, 1/86 Women in Judaism: Education, Seattle Jewish Transcript, 1/86 Women in Judaism: The Rebbetzin, Syracuse Jewish Observer, 11/29/85 The Rebbetzin, Seattle Jewish Transcript, 9/85 A Few Earlier Articles Budget Cuts: A Plea for Chore Services, Elder Affairs, 3/81 Fremont Chore Services Needs Help, The Source, 2/81 The Journal's the Thing, Fremont Forum, 1/81 In Their Nineties: Couple Helps Each Other Day By Day, Ballard News-Tribune, 11/80 What I Am witnessing is an Interaction Between Friends, Fremont Forum, 9/80 At Home With Chaos, Fremont Forum, 8/80 What Does Spanking Teach Children?, Fremont Forum, 6/79 Peck's Bad Boy or Teacher's Bad Day?, Fremont Forum, 5/79 Gwinyai Tells A Tale: Rabbit Absconds with Child, Seattle Sun, 5/79 Fremont Community Council Urges Citizen Input, Fremont Forum, 4/79 Janice Painter: Murderess or Martyr, Seattle Sun, 3/14/79 Feminist Art: Blatantly Sexual Even With Flab, Seattle Sun, 2/29/79 Factionalization and Feminism: Flappers to `Freedom', Northwest Passage, June 1971 Oral History Television Interviews: Exploring Jewish Feminism, Jewish Studies Program, Jackson School of International Studies, Cable Learn Channel 27, University of Washington, 1988 - 1992 Blu Greenberg, author, 2/11/88 Rabbi Vicki Hollander, 4/88 Cantor Mailyn Ladin, 5/9/88 Rabbi Marna Sapsowitz, 9/16/88 Pat Cullen Hurshell, Holocaust Scholar, 6/2/88 Rabbi Ira Stone, 6/14/88 Blu Greenberg and Rabbi Irving Greenberg, 6/20/88 Dr. Kayla Weiner, Feminist Therapist, 7/6/88 Gail Simon, Lesbian Feminist Activist, 9/1/88 Cantor Celia Gartenberg, 10/4/88 Rabbi Dov Gartenberg, 12/15/88 Pesha Gertler, poet, & Esther Little Dove, peace activist, 2/10/89 Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, 8/13/89 Irena Klepfisz, Holocaust Poet, lesbian feminist activist, 11/16/90 Paula Hyman, Historian, Yale University, 1992 Writing Workshops & Classes Poeming the Silence: for Memory, Healing & Art's Sake, Summer, Fall, 2004 -present Cancer Lifeline Women's Writing Workshops, 2004 -2006 Lifetime Learning Center, Winter 2004, 6-week Writing Critique Workshop Orion Homeless Youth Shelter, under the auspices of FamilyWorks 2 hour workshop on Hunger, June 25, 2003 North Seattle Community College: Writing Oral History, 6-week class, Winter 2003 Dream Journaling, 6-week class, Winter 2003 Writing the Body, 5-week class, Spring 2002 Dream Writing , 2-hour workshop, Temple Beth Am, June 9, 2002 Richard Hugo House Center for the Literary Arts, Cultural Inquiry Program, 1999 - 2001 Classes Taught: Dream Writing: Stories from Your Unconscious, Spring 2001 Writing the Body, Winter 2001 Anne Sexton and the Transformation of Fairy Tales, Fall 2000 Disappearances and Displacement: Writing on Marginality and Exile, Fall 2000 Dream Writing: for Memory and Art's Sake, Summer 2000 Shelter and the Writing Process, Part II: Beyond the Self, Spring 2000 Shelter and the Writing Process, Part I: Language as Haven,Winter 2000 Shelter Workshops, Fall 1999 Richard Hugo House, Mentorship Program for Teens, mentor, 6 months, 2001 Jewish Family Service, Shalom House, a home for adults with schizophrenia (one on one), weekly for 6 months, 2000 Denny Youth Shelter, 2 hour workshop, Seattle Public Library, University Branch Fred Lind Manor Retirement Home, 1 hour workshop, July 6, 1995 Seattle Women's Caucus for Art Teen Mentorship Program 6-week 2 hour journal writing workshops Ulpani Amit Junior High School, Beersheva, Israel 2 hour workshop, Jan.1997 Washington State Women's Correctional Center at Purdy, 2 hour workshop, May 13, 1995 Writing Classes and Workshops, 1994 - 1998 Poetry Workshops, private Life Story Writing, Ravenna-Bryant Senior Center Autobiographical Writing, Seattle Parks and Recreation Writing the Female Self Writing the Yiddish Self, Kadima Writing the Yiddish Self, Mama Loshn Northwest Write for Life classes, Other Voices Bookstore, May 24, 31, June 7, 14 1995 North Seattle Community College, 1987 - 1994 Senior Adult Education Program - Classes Taught Write Your Life Story; Poetry workshops United Cerebral Palsy (one on one) once a week for a year, 1993 South Seattle Community College, 1989 *Write Your Life Story - Intergenerational Classroom, with Nathan Hale High School students and S.P.I.C.E. (Seattle Program in Service for the Elderly) Selected Workshops - 1980s *Council House Retirement Home: Once a week 2 hour class, 1985 - 1987 *Write Your Life Story class, Northend Jewish Community Center *Journal Writing, Pacific Northwest Women's Cultural Celebration , August 1984 *Women's Spirituality, Pacific Northwest Women's Cultural Celebration , August 1984 *Write Your Life Story , Washington State Jewish Historical Society *Journal Writing in Ethnic Communities, Washington Women's Heritage Project, University of Washington, Spring 1982 *Wriiting Jewish Women's History, Sharing Our Heritage: Washington Women's Heritage *Journal Writing Project, University of Washington, Winter 1982 *Writing Jewish Women's History: A Journal Writing Workshop, Washington Women's Heritage Journal Writing Project, University of Washington,March 16 & 18, 1982 *Seattle Central Community College Women's Programs, Journal Writing Workshops, May 5, 12, 19, 26 1979 Teaching History, Literature, Women's Studies, 1972-1979 1978, Seattle Central Community College, Social Sciences - American Women's History: Colonial Period to the Present 1978, University of Washington, Women's Studies Program - American Women's History: Colonial Period to the Present 1976 -1978, University of Washington, History Department, Teaching Assistant in American History Summer 1975, Western Washington State College, History Department - American Women: The 1920s, After the Vote Summers 1972 and 1973, Upward Bound, Western Washington University - Classes Taught: *Contemporary Women's Literature Multicultural Perspectives *Sex and Racial Stereotyping in Children's Literature *Women, Society and Culture *Northwest History Miscellaneous Letter to the New Yorker, June 28, 2004 It's About Time Writers Reading Series, Founder/Coordinator 1989 - Present Organizer, Dialogue Among Civilizations Through Poetry Peace Reading Seattle, March 2002 Pacific Northwest Writers Conference, Poetry Contest, Reader, 1995 Children of the Holocaust, Judge, Jewish Federation of Seattle, Spring 1986 Coordinator 4-day Women's Symposium, Western Washington State College, Bellingham October 26-29, 1971 |
Current Position - writer, teacher Education Ph.D., University of Washington, History, 1994 Dissertation: Irena Klepfisz: A Life in Print - The Early Years: 1975-1992 First Intensive Year in Psychoanalytic Theory, Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study, 1992 M.A. Western Washington University, 1981 Thesis: Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party: 1913 - 1919 Forest Park High School, Baltimore, Md., February 1960 Garrison Junior High School, Baltimore, Md., 1957 Louisa May Alcott, PS #59, Baltimore, Md., 1954 Publication History The Homeless One: A Poem in Many Voices. Seattle: Kota Press, 2000 Poems Forthcoming: "Ellen's Good Day, " Real Change, 2005 "ISER, 1899-1994," Maggid: A Journal of Jewish Literature, Sept 2005 "Anna's Last January," in In Pieces: An Anthology of Fragmentary Writing edited by Olivia Dresher, Impassio Press, 2006 "In the Back of the Laundromat," Anthology of Laundromat Literature, Wilda Morris and Cathy Conger, editors, 2006 "From a boy on a dream bed," Poetry Bay.com, Summer 2005 "Spring," Tree Walk Book, Summer 2005 "At the Back of the Laundromat," Real Change: Seattle's Progressive Weekly Community Newspaper, Dec. 16, 2004 "Ellen: When Schizophrenia Visits," Real Change: Seattle's Progressive Weekly Community Newspaper, July 8, 2004 "The Daughters of Dementia," Poetry Bay, Summer 2004 "Face Food Hunger Color Skin;" in Under a Silver Sky, Vol. 1, The Evergreen State College, 2003 "Journal Entry: Spring 1992," Moondance:Celebrating Creative Women, Autumn 2001 "A Poem," Kota Press Poetry Journal, November 2001 "Transference, Or My Analyst Has Curly Brown Hair;" Transference.EU and Beyond, Summer 2001 "Dream," Dakota House Journal, Issue #2, Roots, May-June 2001; reprinted in The Writer's Block, Summer 2001 "Third Wife," KotaPress Poetry Journal, Vol. 1, Issue 4, Summer 2000; reprinted inThe Writer's Haven, Fall 2001 "My Analyst Has Curly Brown Hair;" Chrysanthemum, Vol. IV, No. 3, Summer 2000 "Father's Skull," Chrysanthemum, Vol. IV, No. 3, Summer 2000; reprinted in 9 11 01 (Winter 2002); authorsden.com, May 2001; Transference.EU and Beyond, Summer 2001; The Dakota House Journal Issue #3, Fall 2001 "The Old Woman," Mentress Moon: A Quarterly Online Journal of Writing and Art by Women, April 2000; reprinted in Poets for Peace Anthology, Seattle, 2001 "Erev Yom Kipper, 1999," Chrysanthemum, Vol. IV, No. 2, Winter 1999-2000 "Mouth," KotaPress Poetry Journal, Vol.1, Issue 3, Spring 1999 "Bring Me the Sunset in a Cup," KotaPress Poetry Journal, Vol.1, Issue 2, Winter 1999 "Sister;" PoetsWest Literary Journal, vol. II, No. 1, Spring 1999; reprinted in Mentress Moon: A Quarterly Online Journal of Writing and Art by Women, April 2000; Clariti Magazine, 2000; The Dakota House Journal Issue #3, Fall 2001; Under a Silver Sky, Vol. 1, The Evergreen State College, 2003 "Che," PoetsWest Literary Journal, vol. II, No. 1, Spring 1999; reprinted in Mentress Moon: A Quarterly Online Journal of Writing and Art by Women, April 2000; authorsden.com, May 2001; The Dakota House Journal Issue #3, Fall 2001; Under a Silver Sky, Vol. 1, The Evergreen State College, 2003 "Voice Mail" in Writing Personal Poetry: How to Write Strong Poetry from Personal Experience (Sheila Bender, ed. Writers Digest Books, 1998); reprinted in Day Old Love, 1998 "The Starlings," in Writing Personal Poetry: How to Write Strong Poetry from Personal Experience (Sheila Bender, ed. Writers Digest Books, 1998) "Driving Home from Mother's House," originally published in The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Review Vol. 4, no.3, 1993 (Vancouver Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Society, Vancouver, BC, Katalina Bartok, editor); re-printed in Switched-on-Gutenberg: A Global Poetry Journal, Vol. 1, No.2, (March 1996); KotaPress Poetry Journal, Vol.1, Issue 2, Winter 1999; PoetsWest Literary Journal, vol. II, No. 1, Spring 1999; Identity Theory, Fall 2001 "Guarding Mother," Spindrift, 1996; reprinted in KotaPress Poetry Journal, Vol.1, Issue 2, Winter 1999; amomslove.com, May 2001; The Writer's Haven, Fall 2001 "Miriam," Genesis 2: An Independent Voice for Jewish Renewal, Spring 1988 "Dear Pat," Midway Review 5, 1984; reprinted in She Speaks: Publication of the Seattle Women's Caucus for Art, Autumn 1996; amomslove.com, May 2001 "When I Am Old," Midway Review, No.3, 1982; reprinted in Poetry Seattle, Pacific Magazine, Seattle Times/Post-Intelligencer, 12/7/86; The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Review, Vol. 5, No. 2-3, 1994 Articles Forthcoming: "Irena Klepfisz, Loss and the Poetry of Exile," Journal of Poetry Therapy, Sept. 2005 "Review of Inside the Halo and Beyond: the Anatomy of a Recovery" by Maxine Kumin., Journal of Poetry Therapy, Sept. 2005 "Analytic Entrapment," American Imago, Oct. 2005 Review of "Don't Turn Away: Poems About Breast Cancer" by Patricia Wellingham-Jones, All Things Girl, Dec 2004 -Jan 2005 Pioneers of Child Psychoanalysis: Edith Buxbaum, 1902 - 1982, ACP TODAY: Association for Child Psychoanalysis Newsletter, Winter 2003, pp. 8-9 Buxbaum, Edith (1902-1982), History Link, January 2002; reprinted in Moondance: Celebrating Creative Women, Autumn 2002; Women's Intellectual Contributions to the Study of Mind and Society, website Created as an Advanced Seminar by Linda M. Woolf, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology at Webster University, 2002. Eating Pavlova by D.M. Thomas: Book Review, Transference. EU & Beyond, Fall 2001; originally published in The American Psychoanalyst, Vol. 30, No. 4., 1996 The Psychiatrist as Poet: A Review Essay, Transference. EU & Beyond, Fall 2001; originally publsihed as "The Psychiatrist as Poet: A Book Review Essay," The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Review, Vol. 5, no.4., 1994; reprinted in The Write Way, June 2001; The Writers Haven, Fall 2001; The Dakota House Journal, Winter 2001/2002, Issue 4 On Poets, Writing & Alcoholism: A Review of Joan Fiset's Now the day is Over, Transference. EU & Beyond, Fall 2001 The Psychoanalytic Experience: Analysands Speak - Editor's Report, The Drunken Boat, Fall 2001, Vol.2, Issue III "I Don't Remember Why I Hated Him," Transference.EU & Beyond, Summer 2001 "If All of Seattle Read the Same Book," in Y.I.P.E. Washington Poet's Association Newsletter, Spring, 2001; re-printed in Seattle Stories, March 2001 "Still (Quaking) in Seattle," Seattle Stories, March 2001 "On Poets and Writing: Joan Fiset's Now the Day is Over," Y.I.P.E. Washington Poets Association Newsletter, Winter 2001 "Dreaming Out Loud: Creative Writing for Kids at Hugo House," ReWrite: A Quarterly Publication of Richard Hugo House, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 2000 "Diary of An Analysis: Hermeneutically Yours - Musings on the Dyad as Text,"The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Review, Vol. 3, No. 3, Winter 1992 "The Psychoanalyst as Mentor," Upstream: A Magazine for Northwest Readers and Writers, Winter 1992 "Jewish Feminism and Identity Politics," Off Our Backs: A Women's News Journal, May 1990 "Review of Lovesong: Becoming a Jew, by Julius Lester, "Religious Studies Review, April 1990 "On Writing," Introduction to Life Cycles: Stories and Poems by Senior Adult Education Program Writers North Seattle Community College (editor), North Seattle Community College, 1990 Introduction, Uphill Battle: From Autobiography to Poetry, Hale S.P.I.C.E. Writers (Seattle Program in Service for the Elderly), October 1988 "After the Conference; The Struggles between Us,"(co-authored with Pat Hurshell) Genesis 2: An Independent Voice for Jewish Renewal, Autumn 1988 "Beth Shalom's Encounter with the Woman Question," Conservative Judaism, Spring 1986 "Judaism is Unique: Needs No Christian Symbols," Seattle Times, December 1984 Editing The Edith Buxbaum Journal, www.edithbuxbaum.com , current Dialogue Among Civilizations Through Poetry Seattle Peace site, 2002 The Psychoanalytic Experience: Analysands Speak, website June 2001 - present September 11, 2001: a journal on the writer's role in society, website Sept.11, 2001 - present It's About Time Writers' Reading Series Newsletter, 1996-1999 Gray Panther's of Seattle Newsletter, (Poetry Editor), 1993 Anonymous Was often A Woman Historical Calendar, Editorial Collective, Western Washington State College, Bellingham, WA., 1973 Selected Poetry Readings Older Women's League (OWL) with Irene Drennan & Diane Westergaard, University House, Sat. Sept 11, 2004 Ravenna Third Place Books, with Diane Westergaard, Irene Drennan, Pesha Gertler & Denise Calvetti Michaels, Sunday, May 2, 2004 Barnes & Noble's Lynnwood, with Gloria Burgess, Michael Dylan Welch & Irene Drennan Friday April 23, 2004 Poets in the Park, Sun. April 4, 2004 Temple Beth Am, January 10, 2004 Lottie Motts, Oct 24, 2003 Ravenna Third Place Books, Aug 21, 2003 Ravenna Third Place Books, , Feb. 25, 2003 Learning Through the Arts: Holocaust Experience Shared, North Seattle Community College, April 18, 2000 Richard Hugo House Faculty Reading, Elliot Bay Book Store, April 8, 2000 Elliot Bay Chamber of Commerce, 2000 After Long Silence Reading Series for Women Poets and Writers, 11/19/99 Hospice of Seattle: A Celebration of Remembrance, Frye Art Museum, Spring 1999 Poets West, Barnes and Noble, Issaquah, Fall 1999 Poets West, Frye Museum, Spring 1999 Wit's End Book Store, Nov. 13, 1999 Seattle Love of Life Poets, Barnes and Noble, U. Village, 1996-1998 It's About time Writers Reading Series, 1989 - 1997 "Ernesto Cardinal," Silenced at the Borders: Banned Books Week, Seattle Public Library, Sept. 25, 1997 "Readings on Themes of Freedom and Light," Tree of Life Judaica & Books, Dec. 3, 1997 Seattle Public Library, Banned Books Reading for Poetry Month, April 1998 Castalia Reading Series, University of Washington, various readings, 1982 - 1990 Papers, Talks, and Panels Panel Moderator: "Writing Women's Biography" with Dorothy Cordova, Mildred Andrews, Susan Starbuck, Elizabeth Salas - PEN Washington, Seattle chapter of PEN International Richard Hugo House, Seattle, Tues. November 16, 2004 "Writing Edith Buxbaum" ProseWest Reading Series, Wit's End Bookstore, Seattle Wed. May 19, 2004 Poetry Panel: "Process and Product" Redmond Association of Spokenword, "Poets in the Park" Weekend, Clise Mansion in Marymoor Park, Redmond, WA. Sun. April 4, 2004 "Dr. Edith Buxbaum and the Application of Psychoanalytic Pedagogy in Post-World War II Seattle" Pacific Northwest Historian's Guild Museum of History and Industry, Seattle Saturday, Mar. 6, 2004 Talk on The Homeless One: A Poem in Many Voices, Abnormal Psychology class, Cascadia Community College, November 3, 2003 Northwest Bookfest, Spoken Word Panel, October 18, 2003 Reading Shirley Kaufman with Linda Clifton, Emily Warn, Ken Shiovitz & Pesha Gertler, Temple Beth Am, June 15, 2003 Censorship and the Development of A Writing Self, Censorship and the Right to Dissent Panel, PEN Washington, April 15, 2003 Red-Diaper Baby, The Writer and Politics Panel, PEN Washington, Aug. 20, 2002 The Poet's Words. Dialogue Among Civilizations Through Poetry Peace Reading Seattle Public Library, March 2002 Irena Klepfisz and the Poetry of Exile. North Seattle Community College, 1999 Edith Buxbaum, Women's Biography and the Writing Process, University of Washington, Independent Women's Scholar's Group, 1995 Edith Buxbaum, Ph.D., Child Psychoanalyst - The Seattle Years: 1947 - 1982, Oral History Workshop #41: Women in the Early History of American Psychoanalysis, American Psychoanalytic Association, 12/94 Irena Klepfisz's Keeper of Accounts and Cynthia Ozik's `The Shawl,' University of Washington, Women's Studies, 1993 Themes of Home, Exile, Self and Other in Irena Klepfisz's Early 1970's poem, `Death Camp,' University of Washington, Women's Studies, Oct. 1992 Irene Kelpfisz, Jewish Feminism and the Construction of a Social Self: A Psychoanalytic-Feminist Perspective, Judaism, Feminism and Psychology Conference: Creating a Shelter in the Wilderness, Nov. 1, 1992. Jewish Feminism and Identity Politics, National Women's Studies Association, Towson University, Towson, Md., Nov. 1989 Women and Creativity, Panel on Women's Creativity, Women's Studies, University of Washington, 1989 "Midrash on Ruth and Naomi," Torah and Blintzes: Tikun Lail Shavuot Study Vigil, Congregation Beth Shalom, June 8, 1989 Jewish Women's Spirituality, Edmonds Community College, 1980s Women's Clubs, YWCA, 1980s National Council of Jewish Women, Seattle Section, Women's History Conference, University of Washington, 1980s Jewish Women's Spirituality, Conference on Women's Spirituality, Antioch University, Seattle, 1981 Origins of the Seattle Council of Jewish Women: 1900-1910, Early Seattle Panel, Seattle Women's History Week, University of Washington, March 12, 1981 Women's Role at Congregation Beth Shalom, Seattle, Museum of History and Industry, Washington State Women's History Panel, 1980 National Women's Party and the Equal Rights Amendment, Western Washington University, 1972 Women and Judaism Newspaper Column The Road to Judaism: A Convert Speaks Out, Washington Jewish Week, 3/19/87 The Baalat Teshuva, Baltimore Jewish Times, 11/87 The Meaning of the Mikvah, Baltimore Jewish Times, 1/26/87 Rosh Hodesh - The New Moon, 1/30/87 Invoking Female as Well as Male Images of God, New York Jewish Week, 1/2/87 Women in Judaism: God as`She', Baltimore Jewish Times, 2/2/87 Women in Judaism: God as a Female Image, Syracuse Jewish Observer, 1/2/87 The Mikvah's Mystery, Syracuse Jewish Observer, 12/86 God as `She', Washington Jewish Week, 12/3/86 Ima on the Bima: A Refreshing Children's Story, Seattle Jewish Transcript, 11/20/86 The Rebbetzin as Role Model, Baltimore Jewish Times, 9/5/86 My `Gottseelige' Bubbe, Syracuse Jewish Observer, 7/86 Educating Women, Baltimore Jewish Times, 5/2/86 Marta Kosaly, Syracuse Jewish Observer, 4/86 This Purim, Watch Out, Reader!, Seattle Jewish Transcript, 3/20/86 Women in Judaism: Education, Syracuse Jewish Observer, 3/7/86 A Purim Phantasmagoria, Syracuse Jewish Observer, 3/86 Feminist Finds Mikvah Spritually Rewarding, The Arizona Post, 2/14/86 The Mikvah, Detroit News, 1986 Educating Women, London Jewish Chronicle, 1986 Women in Judaism: Ima on the Bima, Syracuse Jewish Observer, 1986 God As a Female Image, Syracuse Jewish Observer, 1986 Tapping the Wellsprings of Purity, London Jewish Chronicle, 1/86 Women in Judaism: Education, Seattle Jewish Transcript, 1/86 Women in Judaism: The Rebbetzin, Syracuse Jewish Observer, 11/29/85 The Rebbetzin, Seattle Jewish Transcript, 9/85 A Few Earlier Articles Budget Cuts: A Plea for Chore Services, Elder Affairs, 3/81 Fremont Chore Services Needs Help, The Source, 2/81 The Journal's the Thing, Fremont Forum, 1/81 In Their Nineties: Couple Helps Each Other Day By Day, Ballard News-Tribune, 11/80 What I Am witnessing is an Interaction Between Friends, Fremont Forum, 9/80 At Home With Chaos, Fremont Forum, 8/80 What Does Spanking Teach Children?, Fremont Forum, 6/79 Peck's Bad Boy or Teacher's Bad Day?, Fremont Forum, 5/79 Gwinyai Tells A Tale: Rabbit Absconds with Child, Seattle Sun, 5/79 Fremont Community Council Urges Citizen Input, Fremont Forum, 4/79 Janice Painter: Murderess or Martyr, Seattle Sun, 3/14/79 Feminist Art: Blatantly Sexual Even With Flab, Seattle Sun, 2/29/79 Factionalization and Feminism: Flappers to `Freedom', Northwest Passage, June 1971 Oral History Television Interviews: Exploring Jewish Feminism, Jewish Studies Program, Jackson School of International Studies, Cable Learn Channel 27, University of Washington, 1988 - 1992 Blu Greenberg, author, 2/11/88 Rabbi Vicki Hollander, 4/88 Cantor Mailyn Ladin, 5/9/88 Rabbi Marna Sapsowitz, 9/16/88 Pat Cullen Hurshell, Holocaust Scholar, 6/2/88 Rabbi Ira Stone, 6/14/88 Blu Greenberg and Rabbi Irving Greenberg, 6/20/88 Dr. Kayla Weiner, Feminist Therapist, 7/6/88 Gail Simon, Lesbian Feminist Activist, 9/1/88 Cantor Celia Gartenberg, 10/4/88 Rabbi Dov Gartenberg, 12/15/88 Pesha Gertler, poet, & Esther Little Dove, peace activist, 2/10/89 Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, 8/13/89 Irena Klepfisz, Holocaust Poet, lesbian feminist activist, 11/16/90 Paula Hyman, Historian, Yale University, 1992 Writing Workshops & Classes Poeming the Silence: for Memory, Healing & Art's Sake, Summer, Fall, 2004 -present Cancer Lifeline Women's Writing Workshops, 2004 -2006 Lifetime Learning Center, Winter 2004, 6-week Writing Critique Workshop Orion Homeless Youth Shelter, under the auspices of FamilyWorks 2 hour workshop on Hunger, June 25, 2003 North Seattle Community College: Writing Oral History, 6-week class, Winter 2003 Dream Journaling, 6-week class, Winter 2003 Writing the Body, 5-week class, Spring 2002 Dream Writing , 2-hour workshop, Temple Beth Am, June 9, 2002 Richard Hugo House Center for the Literary Arts, Cultural Inquiry Program, 1999 - 2001 Classes Taught: Dream Writing: Stories from Your Unconscious, Spring 2001 Writing the Body, Winter 2001 Anne Sexton and the Transformation of Fairy Tales, Fall 2000 Disappearances and Displacement: Writing on Marginality and Exile, Fall 2000 Dream Writing: for Memory and Art's Sake, Summer 2000 Shelter and the Writing Process, Part II: Beyond the Self, Spring 2000 Shelter and the Writing Process, Part I: Language as Haven,Winter 2000 Shelter Workshops, Fall 1999 Richard Hugo House, Mentorship Program for Teens, mentor, 6 months, 2001 Jewish Family Service, Shalom House, a home for adults with schizophrenia (one on one), weekly for 6 months, 2000 Denny Youth Shelter, 2 hour workshop, Seattle Public Library, University Branch Fred Lind Manor Retirement Home, 1 hour workshop, July 6, 1995 Seattle Women's Caucus for Art Teen Mentorship Program 6-week 2 hour journal writing workshops Ulpani Amit Junior High School, Beersheva, Israel 2 hour workshop, Jan.1997 Washington State Women's Correctional Center at Purdy, 2 hour workshop, May 13, 1995 Writing Classes and Workshops, 1994 - 1998 Poetry Workshops, private Life Story Writing, Ravenna-Bryant Senior Center Autobiographical Writing, Seattle Parks and Recreation Writing the Female Self Writing the Yiddish Self, Kadima Writing the Yiddish Self, Mama Loshn Northwest Write for Life classes, Other Voices Bookstore, May 24, 31, June 7, 14 1995 North Seattle Community College, 1987 - 1994 Senior Adult Education Program - Classes Taught Write Your Life Story; Poetry workshops United Cerebral Palsy (one on one) once a week for a year, 1993 South Seattle Community College, 1989 *Write Your Life Story - Intergenerational Classroom, with Nathan Hale High School students and S.P.I.C.E. (Seattle Program in Service for the Elderly) Selected Workshops - 1980s *Council House Retirement Home: Once a week 2 hour class, 1985 - 1987 *Write Your Life Story class, Northend Jewish Community Center *Journal Writing, Pacific Northwest Women's Cultural Celebration , August 1984 *Women's Spirituality, Pacific Northwest Women's Cultural Celebration , August 1984 *Write Your Life Story , Washington State Jewish Historical Society *Journal Writing in Ethnic Communities, Washington Women's Heritage Project, University of Washington, Spring 1982 *Wriiting Jewish Women's History, Sharing Our Heritage: Washington Women's Heritage *Journal Writing Project, University of Washington, Winter 1982 *Writing Jewish Women's History: A Journal Writing Workshop, Washington Women's Heritage Journal Writing Project, University of Washington,March 16 & 18, 1982 *Seattle Central Community College Women's Programs, Journal Writing Workshops, May 5, 12, 19, 26 1979 Teaching History, Literature, Women's Studies, 1972-1979 1978, Seattle Central Community College, Social Sciences - American Women's History: Colonial Period to the Present 1978, University of Washington, Women's Studies Program - American Women's History: Colonial Period to the Present 1976 -1978, University of Washington, History Department, Teaching Assistant in American History Summer 1975, Western Washington State College, History Department - American Women: The 1920s, After the Vote Summers 1972 and 1973, Upward Bound, Western Washington University - Classes Taught: *Contemporary Women's Literature Multicultural Perspectives *Sex and Racial Stereotyping in Children's Literature *Women, Society and Culture *Northwest History Miscellaneous Letter to the New Yorker, June 28, 2004 It's About Time Writers Reading Series, Founder/Coordinator 1989 - Present Organizer, Dialogue Among Civilizations Through Poetry Peace Reading Seattle, March 2002 Pacific Northwest Writers Conference, Poetry Contest, Reader, 1995 Children of the Holocaust, Judge, Jewish Federation of Seattle, Spring 1986 Coordinator 4-day Women's Symposium, Western Washington State College, Bellingham October 26-29, 1971 |
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