Education
Ph.D., English, University of California, Davis, September, 1995.
M.A., English, University of California, Davis, 1990.
B.A., English, San Jose State University, 1988.
Music Fellowship for one year of graduate study, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, 1983-84. (Left musical career because of injury to hand.)
B.A., Music, San Jose State University, 1982.
Academic Appointments
Department of Languages and Literature, NSU
Professor, Humanities (2009-2022)
Department of Music and Humanities, NSU
Associate Professor, Humanities (2002-2009)
Assistant Professor, Humanities, (1996-2002)
Department of English, UC Davis
Instructor, Literature and Composition (1988-96)
Johannes-Gutenberg Universitat Mainz, Germany
Lektor in English, (1991-92)
Publications (Tennis and the Visual Arts)
All works in this section from Tennis Players as Works of Art, National Men’s Tennis Association
“David Hall’s Golden Socks,” Co-Written with David Hall, Art by Nial Smith, Aug. 5, 2021
“Hiding Inside the Baseline: The Story of Bobby Blair,” July 5, 2021
“Toupie’s Ghost,” Art from the Wimbledon Museum, May 31, 2021
Suzanne Lenglen and Watteau’s Pilgrimage to Cythera, Art from Brooke Hunter, April 15, 2021
“Guga’s Hair, 1997,” Art by Cristiano Siquiera , March 12, 2021
“Cliff Richey and the Belly of the Whale,” Art by Jeffrey Sparr, Jan. 28, 2021
“Maria Sharapova,” Art by Tom Lohner, Dec. 4, 2020
“Jana Novotna and Kafka’s ‘Metamorphosis,’” Art by Stephen Gulbis, Oct. 19, 2020
“Justine Henin’s Backhand: Music of the Spheres,” Art by Brooke Hunter Sept. 28, 2020
“Jimmy Connors,” Art by Leonardo Luque and Joel Drucker, Aug. 31, 2020
“Boris Becker,” Art by Miki De Goodaboom, Aug. 15, 2020
“Arthur Ashe,” Art by Justin Bua, July 30, 2020
“Andy Murray: The Pressure of Wimbledon,” Art by Bam, July 15, 2020
“Andy Roddick’s Serve,” Art by Jeffrey Sparr, June 26, 2020
“Venus Williams,” Art by Brian Estill, June 11, 2020
“In Memoriam: Vitas Gerulaitis,” Art by Joan LeMay, May 27, 2020
“Li Na,” Art by Debra Di Blasi, May 9, 2020
“The John McEnroe Challenge,” Art by Leonardo Luque, April 9, 2020
“Roger Federer and Myron’s The Discus Thrower,” Art by Hazel Soan, March 25, 2020
“Thomas Muster,” Art by Tom Lohner, March 10, 2020
“Michael Chang, Tiananmen Square, and God,” Art by Leonardo Luque, Feb. 21, 2020
“Gladys Heldman,” Commentary from Julie Heldman, Feb. 3, 2020
“Ivan Lendl and the Cold War,” Art by Jota Leal, Jan. 24, 2020
“Pete Sampras and Nirvana,” Art by Leonardo Luque, Jan. 7, 2020
“Monica Seles,” Dec. 9, 2020
“Bjorn Borg,” Art by Leonardo Luque, Nov. 22, 2019
“Ken Rosewall’s Backhand,” Art by Leonardo Luque, Oct. 14, 2019
Creative Nonfiction (Tennis and Art)
“Ah, Arthur is Here,” Another Chicago Magazine, V. 56, August 2019.
“Roger Federer and Myron’s Discus Thrower,” Cagibi, Issue 3, Sept. 9, 2018
“Rafael Nadal and the Lascaux Cave Paintings,” Cagibi, Issue 3, Sept. 8, 2018
“Althea Gibson and Basquiat’s Boxers,” Cagibi, Issue 3, Sept. 7, 2018
“Steffi Graf and Mark Rothko,” Cagibi, Issue 3, Sept. 6, 2018
“Suzanne Lenglen and Antoine Watteau,” Cagibi, Issue 3, Sept. 5, 2018
“Monica Seles,” “Chris Evert,” “Serena Williams,” Mulberry Fork Review, February 2017
Publications (Academic and Creative)
Poetry Books
Bed of Light, Finishing Line Press, 2014.
War Stories, Pudding House Publications, 2006.
Poetry Journals
“Birth,” Oklahoma Humanities Magazine, Spring/Summer 2017
“Near the Coast,” The Cafe Review, Winter 2016
“Silicon Valley,” Verse Daily, Nov. 2014
“Mrs. Azzarello,” Oyez Review, V. 41, Spring 2014
“SAT Scores,” Wild Violet Magazine, Oct. 2013.
“Section Eight,” Over the Transom, No 22, 2012.
“Bed of Light” and “Dream” in The Monongahela Review, No 7, 2012.
“Track Homes,” Iodine Poetry Journal (Fall/Winter 2010/2011)
“In the Outfield,” “Virgin of the Rocks,” and “Pantoum for Septuagenarian
Tennis Players,” The Listening Eye (2010).
“Day Care,” Art Times, 26:4 (January/February 2010)
“Hummingbirds,” Nerve Cowboy 27 (Fall 2008)
“Mandorla,” Blue Unicorn, 32:1 (October, 2008)
“Winos,” Slipstream 28 (2008)
“Between Two Lines of a Stevens’ Poem,” The Wallace Stevens Journal, 31:2
(Fall 2007)
“Turning Eighty,” Poetry Depth Quarterly (2007)
“Paganini’s Fingers” and “History Lesson From the High School Bleachers,” Cape
Rock (Spring 2007)
“Bus Trip,” Sulphur River Literary Review (Spring 2007)
“After Fifty Years” and “Waiting for a Tune-Up” in REAL, 30:2 (Fall/Winter 2005)
“Childhood,” Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Vol. 25 (Fall/Winter 2005)
“At the Monterey Bay Aquarium,” Cider Press Review, Vol. 6 (2005)
“Across the Street” and “Searching” in The Bitter Oleander, 9:2 (Fall 2003)
“Song for Father’s Day,” The Wallace Stevens Journal, 27:2 (Fall 2003)
“Birth,” Potpourri, 15:2 (Spring 2003)
“Great Sports Moments,” The Melic Review, (June 2002)
“Aunt Wava’s 90th,” The Mid-America Poetry Review, 2:3 (Winter 2001-2002)
Refereed Articles
“Introducing Wallace Stevens as ‘Peter Quince at the Clavier’: A Debut Performance of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring,” Ars LYRICA. Vol IX (1999): 96-122.
“On Hearing Modern Music in Stevens’ Poetry,” The Wallace Stevens Journal. 22:1 (Spring 1998): 57-71.
“’Orchestrating’ Stravinsky: Petrushka’s Ghost and Stevens’ ‘Comedian as the Letter C,’” The Wallace Stevens Journal. 19:1 (Spring 1995): 71-87.