About Clive Matson

Clive Matson — Resumé

EDUCATION	M.F.A. Poetry, School of the Arts, Columbia University, 1989. Undergraduate work, University of Chicago, 1958-59
POSITIONS	*Instructor:* University of California Extension, Berkeley, California, 1985-present John F. Kennedy University, Orinda, California, 1993-1995 Creative writing workshops taught more than 1000 since 1983, including Private workshops, 1983 - present Woodstock Art Guild, Woodstock, New York, spring 1989 Soledad Prison, California, spring 1983 Reading Coordinator Poetry & Pizza, San Francisco, 1999-present Cody's Books, Berkeley, California, 1979-81
PUBLICATIONS	*Volumes of Poetry:* SQUISH BOOTS (Broken Shadow Publications, Oakland, 2002) 69pp HOURGLASS (Seagull Press, Oakland, California: 1987) 53pp EQUAL IN DESIRE (ManRoot, So. San Francisco, California: 1983) 25pp ON THE INSIDE (Cherry Valley Editions, New York: 1982) 70pp HEROIN (Neon Sun, Berkeley, California: 1972) 35pp SPACE AGE (Croton Press, New York: 1969) 73pp MAINLINE TO THE HEART (Poets Press, Kerhonkson, NY: 1966) 29pp *Poems featured in a dozen anthologies, including* PASSIONATE HEARTS (New World Library, Novato, California:1997) HANG TOGETHER (Hanging Loose, Brooklyn: 1987) LOVES, ETC. (Doubleday, NY: 1973) 31 NEW AMERICAN POETS (Hill & Wang, NY: 1969.) *Poems published in more than 100 journals, including* BERKELEY POETRY REVIEW BLUE UNICORN DALMO'MA EXQUISITE CORPSE FACTOR (Mexico City) HAWAII REVIEW INTREPID JEOPARDY NIMROD NORTHERN CONTOURS POETRYMAGAZINE.COM RATTLE SILVER THE CENTENNIAL REVIEW YELLOW SILK *Chapbooks* TOWERS DOWN poems by Diane di Prima and Clive Matson (Eidolon Editions, SF: 2002) 26pp SHAVED AT DAWN poems by John Oliver Simon and Clive Matson (Aldebaran Review / Neon Sun, Berkeley and Oakland, CA: 1986) 15 pp *Fiction: "Search" in SOUNDINGS EAST (Salem State College, Mass: fall 2000) Essays, including* "Remembering John Wieners" (forthcoming in Montserrat Review number 7, editor Calder Lowe) Introduction to AN EYE FOR AN EYE MAKES THE WHOLE WORLD BLIND — POETS on 9/11 (Regent Press, Oakland: 2002) "Membrane Porous," (THE SPIRIT OF WRITING, ed. Waldman Tarcher, 2001) "Going Public" (Poets & Writers vol. 25 no. 2, New York, March/April 1997) "Robert Duncan and His Audience" (Exquisite Corpse #57, Baton Rouge, 1996) "Mapplethorpe: The Censorship of the Senses" (Culture Concrete, S.F., 1992) "Breath of Inspiration" (Presumptions, Berkeley, 1987) 15pp *Nonfiction Volume* LET THE CRAZY CHILD WRITE! Finding Your Creative Writing Voice (New World Library, Novato, California, 1998) 257 pp.
READINGS	More than 1,000 poetry readings given, 1964-present, including 30 with musicians
DRAMA	NOBODY'S BUSINESS, full-length, Marin Theatre Co., workshop production July 1996 SPIKES, one act drama, Marin Theatre Co., workshop production October 1995 CACTUS, full-length comedy, The Nat Horne Theater, workshop production Sept.1989
EDITORIAL	*Co-editor* AN EYE FOR AN EYE MAKES THE WHOLE WORLD BLIND — POETS ON 9/11 (with Allen Cohne, Regent Press, Oakland, CA: 2002) *Developmental work* on more than a dozen volumes, including CHINA DREAMS, Isabell Maynard (University of Iowa: 1997) GOD'S CARESS, Charles Cohen (Oxford University Press, New York: 1986) LAMI, Alden Van Buskirk (Auerhahn Press, San Francisco: 1964)
CONFERENCES	Presented at these conferences, among others: NORTHCOAST REDWOODS WRITERS CONFERENCE Crescent City, California, September 2002 WRITE ON THE SOUND Edmonds, Washington, October 2002 JACK LONDON WRITERS CONFERENCE San Francisco, March 2000 and 2001
AWARDS	Best Writing Teacher, Best of the East Bay 2006 - Arts & Culture (East Bay Express, May 3 - 9, 2006, p. 34) 2003 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles National Literary Award (with the late Allen Cohen) for the anthology AN EYE FOR AN EYE. Columbia University Graduate Writing Fellowship, 1987-88