24 mirrors
hanging from the ceiling in the middle of a room
Custom and Culture New York
May 3
“24 plexiglass [sic] mirrors”, “A collaboration of Michelangelo Pistoletto and Terrill Shepard Soules”, Michelangelo Pistoletto [regarded by some as the father of Italian Pop Art], the Blue Room of the U.S. Custom House on Bowling Green, New York City.
Photocopies of a five-page excerpt from a long poem by me appear on the backs of the mirrors hanging in the air, approximately one fourth of a typescript-page blowup per mirror back, the mirrors being suspended from the ceiling and forming a waist-high rectangle, mirrored surfaces facing inward. Pistoletto was one of the 16 visual artists chosen for the show, out of the 50 who submitted proposals.
“The Bionic Buildings” Six-page story on historic preservation in Georgia.
1980 September
FREELANCE
Esquire New York
Vol. 94, No. 4
“What to think about Gravity’s Rainbow” Four-page humorous (but no less accurate) glossary of the very obscure words in Thomas Pynchon’s novel. A feat of pre-Web research.
1971 October
The Pennsylvania Gazette Alumni Magazine of the University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia
Vol. 70, No. 1
“Of Seals, Newts, Mice, and Men” Six-page cover story on Pennsylvania’s poet in residence Daniel Hoffman [Poet Laureate of the United States,1973-74].
chronology: publication
letters to the editor
1999 Winter
The Threepenny Review Berkeley
80
Vol. 20, No. 4
I praise a poem in the Fall issue by Seamus Heaney.
1999 April
National Geographic Washington, DC
Vol. 195, No. 4
I compliment the aptness of a caption in a story (December 1998) issue on Winslow Homer.
chronology: publication (continued)
letters to the editor
1979 September 25
Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionAtlanta
“Slowpoke Twins” On the similar slowness of Marta and Post Office service. (Not to take credit for both organizations’ current efficiencies, but . . . )
1979 September 20
The Atlanta GazetteAtlanta
“Four months, later, no” I submitted this letter set as verse. It appears as a poem in my Selectric Poems. Its subject is the receiving of a rejection for an editorial position with the word regretfully misspelled. Unfortunately, the point was somewhat lost on the Gazette’s readers, owing to several typos on the part of the Gazette.
1976 December 15
The Atlanta Gazette Atlanta
“Giving It Away” Denunciation of a movie reviewer who revealed not just plot in general, but the ending.
chronology: honors, Awards, recognition
by organizations
2001 ongoing
Listee
A Directory of American Poets
and Fiction Writers Poets & Writers Inc. New York
since
1980 -1981 Edition
2000
Highlighted Performance
MP3.comwww.mp3.com
1999
The performance of a poem of mine by the band I was a member of, the Durians’ “Her Hair a Highway of Fire,” was selected for inclusion on MP3.com 10 Poem Essentials, a link to ten of the best performances of poems on the MP3.com site.
MP3.com is a free service, a website that makes the performances of music, in every conceivable category, by amateurs around the world, universally available. To put this recognition in perspective, MP3.com hosts more than one million audio files, of which 2,950 (as of September 19, 2001) are in the Poetry category. The performance recognized was Number One on the Poetry chart (every category has its chart) for most of December 1999, with Durian performances at one point at 1, 2, and 3. As of September 19, 2001, pieces performed by The Durians had been played or downloaded 8,664 times.
(As of February 7, 2004, mp3.com is quiescent, i.e., shut down after being bought by Vivendi. But not before there had been a total of 9,999 Durian downloads.
You can still find some of our pieces on some Russian and Japanese sites, for some reason.
1998 June 26
Judge
Boys & Girls Club Regional Youth of the Year Atlanta
“Youth of the Year Program, Sponsored by the Reader’s Digest Association, Inc. Boys & Girls Clubs of America Salutes Terrill Soules, Youth of the Year Judge, for assistance rendered in identifying, from more than two million youth, leading contenders for consideration as National Youth of the Year.”
1997 November
Strategist
U.S. Department of
Housing and DevelopmentNeighborhood Networks Washington, DC
Invited to participate in national meeting held to develop three-year strategic plan for HUD Neighborhood Networks.
Acknowledgement of philanthropy resulting from my successful writing of a grant. As a Microsoft employee in Field Marketing, I conceived a way to provide funds and free Microsoft software for the Neighborhood Networks—computer centers located in HUD properties—of Florida.
Housing and Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo:
“This new collaboration between HUD and Microsoft Corporation demonstrates how public-private partnerships can work to assure that no one is left behind in the information age.”
From the Bill Gates Personal Website, September 25, 1997:
“To support increased access to technology, Microsoft and the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development have announced a partnership to establish “Neighborhood Networks” learning centers in HUD-subsidized apartment complexes throughout Florida.”
DeKalb Library System
Literature Symposium Avis Williams Library Decatur
“Local Literary Renaissance—Poetry Reading and Discussion of Trends”, on panel of poets. The DeKalb Library System, recognized as first among 150 contesting libraries, won the American Library Association John Cotton Dana Special Award for their yearlong promotion (which included the April 21, 1982 symposium) of local writers, scholars, and publishers.
I selected the winner of an undergraduate art contest, in addition to giving a reading.
1981
Award Winner
Union Internationale
de la Marionette (UNIMA) UNIMA-USA Atlanta
Citation of Excellence for Janie Geiser’s “Sleep . . . “ The “Uni” is the puppeteering equivalent of movies’ Oscar. (I wrote the script.)
1976 December
Prizewinner
San Jose Studies Discover America Poems 1976 San Jose, CA
Volume II
Special Issue
Winner, third prize, National Bicentennial Poetry Awards competition, the anonymous entries being judged by Kathleen Fraser, Robert Hass [Poet Laureate, 1995-1997], and Josephine Miles.
chronology: honors, Awards, recognition
in BOOKS
1991
MENTIONING
MY POETRY
The Artist Observed
28 Interviews Chicago Review Press
with Contemporary Artistsa cappella books Chicago
Book about
Artists
By John Gruen. The “Custom and Culture show is mentioned in the interview with Michelangelo Pistoletto. (Please see Poems by me reaching the public in untraditional ways—1979—June 17: “24 Mirrors”, Page 9.)
1990 June 9
Museum Show Catalog
Stories, Dreams and Voices
The Puppetry of Janie Geiser Center for Puppetry Arts Atlanta
January 12
The catalog devotes a page to Geiser’s shadow-puppet play “Sleep . . . ” and records her recollections of how it came to be:
“Sleep . . . developed out of a desire to do shadow puppets, from a technical desire to learn an aspect of the art form. I was reading poetry to find possible ideas for a piece when my friend Terrill Soules gave me his poem ‘Sleep . . .’ [sic: the poem itself is simply entitled “Sleep,” without the ellipses] to read. It just clicked with the shadow ideas I was having. I worked on storyboards . . . and when Terrill felt that I understood his intentions for the poem he gave me carte blanche. It’s a very different show than most of our work. There’s nothing political, it’s just about beauty and time, just a show that is gentle.”
in articles
1995 February 4
ABOUT ME
Creative LoafingAtlanta
Weekly Tabloid
Metro Beats: “Superior Vowel Movement” On my winning the 25th Annual Orthographic Meet at the Stein Club. (I put the 2001 and 2000 bees, in their interactive entirety, complete with audio pronunciation, on my website: www.tsoules.com/bee.)
1983 December 4
Newspaper
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Atlanta
“Atlanta poet Soules clicks with his ‘Selectric Poems’” By Linda Sherbert.
1983 June 10
Newspaper
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Atlanta
“Operation Switch—How doctors’ husbands cope with reversed roles” By Paula Crouch.
1981 September
Magazine
Atlanta Atlanta
Vol. 21, No. 5
“For Better Or Verse” By Barbara Street. On the marriage of a doctor (Virginia Soules) to a poet (Terrill Shepard Soules).
“Poet Heart Drips Blood of Justice” By Phyllis Lowe. Article, with photo, about my February 6 reading at Georgia State, that week’s reader in the GSU Winter Poetry readings series.
1980 December 16
Newspaper
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Atlanta
By Gita Maritzer Smith. About my reading of December 15 at Seven Stages.
