Charles O. Hartman

Washington University: Ph.D. 1976, diss. "Principles of Free Verse"; M.A. with Creative Thesis 1972
Harvard University: A.B. magna cum laude 1971; Senior Thesis on Bob Dylan

Connecticut College: Professor of English (1991-), Poet in Residence and Co-Director of Creative Writing. Faculty Parliamentarian (2002-). Visiting Associate Professor (1984-1990), Associate Professor (1990-1991). Advanced and beginning courses in the writing of poetry; modern poetry, contemporary poetry, science fiction, poetry and music.

College Year in Athens, Director Connecticut College SATA-Greece, Fall 1997.

Moscow State Linguistic University, exchange professor of poetry and language, Spring 1993.

Pfizer Pharmaceutical Company, Connecticut College Summer Course, "Poetry and Music," 1991.

Northeastern University (Spring 1985). Graduate course in technical writing.

University of Washington: Assistant Professor (1979-1982), Associate Professor (1982-84). Graduate and undergraduate courses in modern and contemporary British and American poetry and fiction; writing of poetry; prosodic history; science fiction; composition; theory of metaphor.

Northwestern University: Lecturer (1976-1979). Courses in writing of poetry; seminars on Eliot and Williams, prosody, poetry and song, metaphor.

Washington University: Teaching Assistant (1972-1975). Freshman courses in poetry and song, novels of the sixties, composition.

Anthologies:

"‘Wrong Together’: Structures, Norms, and Standards" Annual Review of Jazz Studies, forthcoming 2006.
"Line," "Free Verse," entries in Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry, 2006.
"Where Am I," Southwest Review, 2004.
"On Becoming a Greek Poet," Southwest Review, 1998.
"Flowing, and Flown: Elizabeth Bishop's Sentences," completed.
"Meter in English," Meter in English, Univ. of Arkansas Press,1995.
"How to Distinguish Notes on Poetry from Notes on My Poetry," Tyuonyi, summer 1990.
"Poetry from PROSE: Use of a Text Generator," New England Computer Arts Association
Symposium on The Computer and the Creative Process, May 1989.
With Hugh Kenner, reading and discussion of Sentences, Harvard Library, October 12, 1989.
"Poetry, Jazz, Song: Toward Speaking For," Southwest Review, Spring 1988.
"Essay Ending with Six Reasons to Read Jackson Mac Low," Prairie Schooner, Spring 1988.
"Always Talking", 1984 MLA Special Session on Robert Creeley.
"Verse and Voice," Ironwood, Winter 1984. Reprinted in Conversant Essays: Contemporary
Poets on Poetry, ed. James McCorkle, Wayne State Univ. Press, 1990.
"Laura Jensen: 'The Light of the Heart'," Indiana Review, October 1984.
Review, Marjorie Perloff, Poetics of Indeterminacy, Modern Literature Quarterly, March 1982.
"Free in Whatever Form," lecture in the Grolier Poetry Series, November 1983.
"Array Capabilities in dBASE II," Byte, November 1983.
"On the Border" (contemporary free and metrical verse), The Ohio Review, Summer 1982.
"Cognitive Metaphor," New Literary History, XIII, 2 (Winter 1982).
"Contemporary Sentences," Seattle Review, IV, 2 (Fall 1981). Special issue on poetry and poetics, ed. Stanley Plumly.
"John Ashbery and Postmodernist Prosody," MLA Special Session on contemporary prosody, 1979.
"Some Notes on Poetic Value" (Ezra Pound's and Witter Bynner's translations of Li Po), Contemporary Poetry, II, 3 (Winter 1977).
"Analysis of a Song: Joni Mitchell's 'Michael from Mountains,'" Centennial Review, Fall 1977.
"Condensation: The Critical Vocabulary of Pound and Eliot," College English, October 1977.
"The Criticism of Song," Centennial Review, XIX, 2 (Spring 1975).