Lecture, complete with Old English recordings and generous samples of Lauryn Hill, showing how much in common Lauryn Hill had with the Beowulf poet.
I had been reading Beowulf and was looking forward to teaching in the fall. This was the summer of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. So I put the two together.
(consolidated from overall work chronology, with the addition of teaching i volunteered.)
chronology: teaching (continued)
VOlunteer
1993 December
TEACHING
Georgia Area Radio Reading Service (GARRS) Atlanta
I volunteered (and passed the reading audition) to record a book for the blind. A chapter at a time, I recorded an anthology of short stories over the course of three months.
1993 September
TEACHING
The Schenck Schoolwww.schenck.org Atlanta
When my wife was teaching fourth and fifth graders, she asked to me to give her class an overview of poetry.
I covered an amazing amount of ground in thirty minutes, from epic to haiku, translation to unrhymed. Well received. Great fun.
1986 April
TEACHING
The Paideia Schoolwww.paideiaschool.org Atlanta
I agreed to teach a weeklong intersession class on the old Microsoft spreadsheet Multiplan.
1974
TEACHING
The University of Maine Augusta, ME
Dr. Henry Pfifferling, a friend, asks me to fill in for him one night as teacher of his anthropology class at the University of Maine.
1965 June
TEACHING
Escola Natanael Cortez Crato, Ceará, Brazil
1964 September
The year between high school and college I returned to Brazil and lived with my parents, missionaries in Brazil’s northeastern interior. My Portuguese is fluent to this day. I was asked to teach a once-a-week English class at the Church school. There were some fifteen students in the class.
chronology: publication
poetry
1995 May 20 and
BOOKS
The Durians Open The Durians Atlanta
1995 April 29
Published by The Durians, a band of friends comprised of three improvising multi-instrumental musicians (Stuart Hoffmann, Mark Morse, and Steve Powell) and me. As I read or recited my poems, the band improvised accompaniment. The bound books contained the text of the poems performed, as well as the names of the jazz classics performed between poems, on Saturday, April 29, 1995 at King Plow Arts Center (The Durians’ first performance in public) and The Globe, in Athens, on Saturday, May 20, 1995.
1991
Earth Dreams self-published Atlanta
1986
1984
Successive variously re-named self-published versions of a series of nine (originally thirteen) 100-line poems.
1983
The Selectric Poems Pynyon Press Atlanta
Fifteen years’ work distilled to 66 pages. The Atlanta-Fulton County Public Library made the book a part of its Georgia Collection.
poetry
1982
MAGAZINES
Red Hand Book III Atlanta
“Two Poems Set in Brazil” (“Amazon Tributary” and “The Borrowed Jangada and the Planet Overhead”)
1981 May 1
Atlanta Journal-Constitution [in the discontinued Sunday magazine] Atlanta
“Looking for Something to Eat after a Divorce” [first appearance: Occasional Reader,1979]
1981
Bad Henry Review Brooklyn
“Over Carta Blancas at the Big Deeper Night Club”, “Poem”
San Jose Studies Discover America Poems 1976 San Jose, CA
Volume II
Special Issue
“Massachusetts Fantasy: The Doberman in the Dune Buggy”
[Winner, third prize, National Bicentennial Poetry Awards competition, the anonymous entries being judged by Kathleen Fraser, Robert Hass, and Josephine Miles]
poetry
1999
ANTHOLOGIES
which include
poems by me
Live at Eyedrum a compilation Eyedrum GalleryAtlanta
An audio CD. A selection of performances at Eyedrum during the first eight months of 1999. Track 10 is The Durians’ August 21, 1999 performance of my poem “Her Hair a Highway of Fire.”
1996
The Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania
The Philomathean Society Anthology
of Poetry in Honor of Daniel Hoffman Philadelphia
“Water” It was a considerable honor to be invited to contribute a poem to this book. All contributors had read their work at Penn. As an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, I was fortunate to be a part, for two broadening semesters, of Daniel Hoffman’s Craft of Verse classes. A poem I wrote for that class won second prize in an undergraduate contest.
The anthology’s pantheon of contributors includes three Nobel laureates; several former United States Poets Laureate (Hoffman himself served as Poet Laureate 1973-74); David Bottoms, Georgia Poet Laureate; ten winners of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, and four poets who then went on to win—contributors Charles Wright, Mark Strand, C.K. Williams, and Stephen Dunn won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001, respectively.
1988
Charles Burden, Valerie Mock, co-editors
Business Publishing Division, College of Business Administration
Georgia State University
Business in Literature, 2nd edition Atlanta
“Life in the Ashtray” (In the Organization as a Determinant of Styles of Life section.) This book has been a Georgia State University College of Business Administration textbook.
“This anthology of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction focuses on the organization person and organized life in literature.” Other poems in the “Styles of Life” section are by such familiar names as e e cummings, Robert Frost, Dorothy Parker, Richard Wilbur and William Wordsworth.
chronology: publication (continued)
poetry
1978
ANTHOLOGIES
which include
poems by me
Finished Product
An Anthology of Atlanta Poets The Poetry Factory Atlanta
“Life in the Ashtray” (First appearance in print was in The Little Five Points Pub Readings, 1977.)
1977 October
The Little Five Points Pub Readings—
Costello, McNeary, Soules Ali Baba Press Atlanta
“Jo3n and Wife at Table”, “Life in the Ashtray”, “Twenty Questions Minus Nineteen”, “The Housewives’ Holiday”
1970
The Writing Program,
Department of English,
New Poets 1970 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia
“A Good Marriage”, “Christmas Sonnet” Daniel Hoffman, editor.
poetry
1999 November
POEMS
by me
reaching the public
in untraditional ways
Wingbars
Newsletter of the Atlanta Audubon Society Atlanta
Atlanta Audubon newsletter
“In Memoriam Anselm Atkins (1934—1999)” My dear friend had edited Wingbars for many years. (I was the Wingbars editor before he took over the job.)
1985 October 19
Shadow Puppets
“Sleep . . . ”Jottay Theatre Atlanta
October 18
Presented as part of “Blue Night and other Works for Puppets,” by Janie Geiser, at the Center for Puppetry Arts. The most recent, and perhaps final, performances of “Sleep . . .”
My 100-line poem “Sleep” became the entire script for the play for shadow puppets created in 1981 by puppeteer and filmmaker Janie Geiser and presented by her seven-person troupe, The Jottay Theatre, of puppeteers and musicians “recognized nationally and internationally as an innovative fusion of visual art, puppetry, music and text” (Walton Harris, curator of “Stories, Dreams and Voices The Puppetry of Janie Geiser,” Center for Puppetry Arts Museum, January 12—June 9, 1990, in his introduction to the retrospective’s catalog). An immediate hit,
“Sleep . . . ” was performed, and revived, several times.
1984 August 21
Shadow Puppets
Dresden, [East] Germany
“Sleep . . . ”Jottay Theatre and Poland
Janie Geiser’s Jottay Theatre troupe performed “Sleep / Schlaf / Sommeil” (the poem had been translated into German and French prior to the performance) at the 14th Festival and Congress of the International Union of Marionettes (UNIMA).
The Citation of Merit “Sleep” received is puppeteering’s Academy Award. Returning from Europe, the troupe performed “Sleep . . . “ and other Geiser works for puppets from New York to San Francisco.
1983 June 25
Shadow Puppets
“Sleep . . . ”Jottay Theatre Atlanta
June 24
June 23
June 18
June 17
June 16
June 15
Presented as part of Janie Geiser’s “The Glass Dream Works for Puppets” (a production supported in part by the Atlanta Public Schools and the Henson Foundation).
1981 November
Nursing-Home Periodical
The Duplex Planet Brookline, MA
Issue 30
“Sleep” quoted from, with permission, on cover The Duplex Planet, a magazine of interviews with the residents of the Duplex Nursing Home in Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts. The poem inspired the theme for the issue’s interviews.
1981 November 4
Shadow Puppets
“Sleep . . . ”Jottay Theatre Atlanta
November 5
November 6
November 7
November 8
Presented as part of “Sleep . . . and Other Works for Puppets [by Janie Geiser],” at the Center for Puppetry Arts. The original performances.
chronology: publication (continued)
poetry
1980 May
Record Album
Other Music
Prime Numbers Nth Records, a subsidiary of Dumb Records San Francisco
“Blue” 5:52 by [my brother] Dale Soules
Other Music, an 11-member avant-garde gamelan playing instruments they designed and made, recorded Prime Numbers live at The Complex in May 1980 in San Francisco. Notes describe “Blue” (originally a nursery rhyme for my baby sister) as “a poem of the same name by Terrill Shepard Soules, which Dale describes as ‘jocular jeremiad regarding the intrinsic burdens of being a social creature.’ The . . . introduction, three verses and three choruses [are] derived from a twenty-eight-tone melody which is, in turn, derived from the twenty-eight Blues of the poem’s refrain. “Blue,” in addition to being the only vocal piece on this record, is the only one which utilizes all fourteen tones of the OMJ14 [a form of just intonation with fourteen unequal intervals per octave scale].”
