SHEILA E MURPHY:
LITERARY AND ARTISTIC RESUME
Sheila E. Murphy
3701 E. Monterosa
Street #3
(602) 954-7132
“Reccollage, Drawings, and
Digital Word Art: 72 Pieces by Sheila E. Murphy.” East Monterosa Gallery.. John Jeffrey,
Curator. Phoenix, Arizona. January 26 – February 28, 2007
Visual poetry etched on 20-feet Glass Wall, included in
Rondo Community Library and Housing Project. Minneapolis, MN (Harriet Bart, Installation
Artist). 2006.
“Visitexts:
Visual Poetry of Sheila E. Murphy.” GB Galleries. Exhibition in Phoenix,
Arizona, July 30 – October 1, 2006.
“Blends and Bridges: A Survey of Contemporary International Visual Poetry & Related Art.” John Byrum, Bob Grumman, Wendy Colin Sorin. Exhibition in Cleveland, Ohio USA April 1-30. http://www.generatorpress.com/pages/14/index.htm
“Still Life with Words: an International Exhibition.”
Harriet Bart, Phillip Gallo, Scott Helmes, Curators. Gallery 308, Minneapolis, MN. May 7 – August 6,
2005.
“SoundVision/VisionSound III: an International
Exhibition of Verbo-Visual Artwork and Performance.” Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA. July 7 – August
6, 2005. http://www.artsomerville.org/nave/2005/soundvision.html
“Infinity.” Dudley House. Harvard University. March 3, 2005 – May 5, 2005.
Vispo at Durban Segnini Gallery. Carlos M. Luis,
Curator. March
5 – March 26, 2005. Miami, Florida.
“Murphybed Huthache.” Exhibition of Visual Poetry
(Vispo) by Geof Huth and Sheila E. Murphy. Chris Fritton, Curator. 107 Neville Gallery. The University of Maine at
Orono. October 29-December 3, 2004.
I, Foreign Eye: A Show of Concrete &
Visual Poetry. Will Napoli, Curator. Neopolis: A Gallery of Fine & Folk Art 1900 Superior Avenue #101
Cleveland, Ohio 44114 earthmans@yahoo.com (216) 215-0350. October 29, 2004.
BOOKS
The Case of the Lost Objective (Case). Otoliths Press. 2007. 84 pp.
Continuations (with Douglas Barbour). The University of Alberta Press. 2006. 106 pp.
Incessant Seeds. Pavement Saw Press. 2005. 85 pp.
Proof of Silhouettes. Stride Press. UK 2004. 111 pp.
Concentricity. Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press. 2004. 79
pp.
Green Tea with Ginger. Potes & Poets Press. 2003. 88 pp.
Letters to Unfinished J. Green Integer Press, 2003. 100 pp.
The Stuttering of Wings. Stride Press. U.K. 2002. 131 pp.
The Indelible Occasion. Potes & Poets
Press. Elmwood, CT. 2000. 100 pp.
Falling in Love Falling in Love With You Syntax:
Selected and New Poems.
Potes & Poets Press.
Elmwood, CT. 1997. 209 pp.
A Clove of Gender. Stride
Press, U.K. 1995. 158 pp.
Pure Mental Breath. Gesture
Press, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 1994. 81 pp.
Tommy and Neil. Sun/Gemini
Press, Tucson, Arizona. 1993. 90 pp.
Teth. Chax Press, Tucson, Arizona.
1991. 91 pp.
Sad Isn't the Color of the Dream. Stride Press, U.K. 1991. 100 pp.
With House Silence. Stride Press, U.K. 1987. 64 pp.
SELECTED CHAPBOOKS
Skinny Buddha. Dusie Chaps. Switzerland. (Susana Gardner, Editor).
2007.
Full-Figured Rhapsody. Dusie Chaps. Switzerland. (Susana Gardner, Editor)
2006.
22 pp.
A Younger Presence in the House. Small Chapbook Series. (Peter Ganick, Editor). 2005.
Separation Theory. Writers Forum. UK. May, 2005. 24 pp.
Pressure on the Spine Her Spine Your Spine My Spine.
Blazevox. www.blazevox.org
2004. 26 pp.
The Temperature of Recall. (with Rupert Loydell). Stridge Publications.
2003. (Available through Stride Publications, UK)
Ample Safe and Missing Roads. xPress(ed).
2003. Finland. Available through: www.http://www.xpressed.org (print version
of 2002 online chapbook)
The Cause of Daylight. Lingua Blanca Chapbook, Finland. 2003.
Available through http://members.surfeu.fi/exp/
The Temperature of Recall (with Rupert M. Loydell). Trombone Presss. 2002.
Heresiarch. Xtant/Anabasis. 2002. 66 pp.
Luminarias, Familiar Hinges. Wild Honey Press, Ireland. 2001. 24 pp.
Chances with the Willow. Melquiades/BooksOut Press. 2000. 50 pp.
Three-Part Inventions. Potes & Poets Press. 2000. 35 pp.
Arbitrariums.
Broken Boulder
Press. 2000. 31 pp.
Immersion Tones. Luna
Bisonte Prods Press. 2000. 33 pp.
Neutralysis / The Glass Half. Vapor Strains Press. 1999. 25 pp.
Volumetrics. Backwoods
Broadsides Chaplet Series. Number
45. 1999. 6 pp.
Montana Grille+.
Potepoetext. (collaboration with Peter Ganick). 1999.
Saw Leaking Trees. Potes
& Poets Press. (collaboration with
John M. Bennett).
1999. 45 pp.
Leaflets.
Instress. 1998. 17 pp.
Many Wishbones.
Maquette. 1998.
10 pp.
-ocracy:
parts 1 - 4.
(collaboration with Peter Ganick) Texture Press, 1997. 44pp.
-ocracy:
parts 5 - 7.
(collaboration with Peter Ganick) Runaway Spoon Press, 1997. 29pp.
-ocracy:
parts 8-9. (collaboration
with Peter Ganick) Nominative Press Collective, 1997. 10 pp.
A Little Syncopy. Marshall
Creek Press, P.O. Box 305, Ben Lomond,
CA 95005. 1996. 28 pp.
Three Works in Way #2. Edited by Tom Beckett. 131 North Pearl Street. Kent, Ohio. 44240.
1996. 32 pp.
Since We Last Met.
Raunchland
Publications, Transition Series Number 6.
Scotland. 1996. 10
pp.
Between Pipelines NinthLab Electronic Chaps. 1996.
8 pp.
The Ghost of Parmenides (collaboration with John M.
Bennett). Anabasis
Electronic
Chaps. 1996. 18 pp.
Virgule. Burning Llama Press, 1995. 24 pp.
Wind Topography. Standing
Stones Press, 1992. 11 pp.
Thoughtsongs. Tin Wreath
Press, 1992. 6 pp.
Literal Ponds. Potes
& Poets Press, 1992. 20 pp.
The Dessert Cart of Synecdoche.
Trombone Press, U.K. 1992. 20 pp.
18/81. (excerpt from the book Pure Mental Breath, prior to publication by
Gesture Press, Canada). 1991. 24 pp.
Criteria for Being Touched.
Experimental Press, Tucson, Arizona.
1991. 6 pp.
A Rich Timetable and Appendices. Luna
Bisonte Prods Press, Columbus, Ohio. 1991.
12 pp.
Obeli: 21
Contemplations. Pygmy Forest Press. Albion, California. 1990.
21 pp.
Lens Rolled in a Heart. (collaboration
with John M. Bennett) Etymon Press, Australia. 1991.
15 pp.
Loss Prevention Photograph, Some Pencils and a
Memory Elastic. Tape Books, Scotland. 1988.
36 pp.
The Truth Right Now. Bakhtin's
Wife Publications. San Diego,
California. 1988. 30
pp.
This Stem Much Stronger Than Your Spine.
M.A.F. Press. Portlandville, New
York. 1987. 28 pp.
Memory Transposed into the Key of C.
Mockersatz Press. Sterling,
Virginia, 1986. 8 pp.
Appropriate Behavior. Abbey
Press. Columbia, Maryland, 1986. 13 pp.
Late Summer.
Pierian Press,
Canada. 1984. 12 pp.
Virtuoso Bird. Brushfire
Press, Phoenix, Arizona. 1981. 24 pp.
RECORDINGS
Radio Interview with
Leonard Swartz. Crosscultural Poetics. 2006. Available on PennSound.
http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/groups/XCP/XCP_97_Murphy_1-15-06.mp3
Milky Floor. Audio
Cassette Tape featuring Sheila E. Murphy and John M.
Bennett reading collaborations, their own and each
other's poems. Luna Bisonte Prods. 1996.
The Weight and Feel of Harps. Audio
Cassette Tape featuring the poetry of
Sheila E.
Murphy and the Celtic harp of Megha Morganfield. Top of the Day Productions.
1994.
ANTHOLOGIES IN WHICH WORK HAS APPEARED
Jean Vengua & Mark Young. The First Hay(na)ku Anthology. Meritage Press. 2005.
Kempher, Ruth Moon. To Life! Occasions of Praise. Kings Estate Press. 2001.
Kempher, Ruth
Moon. Always the Beautiful Answer: A Prose Poem Primer.
Kings
Estate Press. 1999.
Jungermann, Eva
Schlein. Focus on Poetry. Danger: Poets at Play.
International Friends of Transformative Art. 1998.
Wright, Leilani and
Cervantes, James, Editors. Fever Dreams: Contemporary Arizona
Poetry. Forward by Carolyn
Forche. The University of Arizona Press.
1997.
Messerli, Douglas,
Editor. The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry. 1994
- 1995. Sun & Moon Press. 1996.
Schwartz, Leonard;
Donahue, Joseph; and Foster, Edward, Editors.
Primary Trouble: an Anthology
of Contemporary American Poetry.
Talisman House Press. 1996.
Loydell, Rupert and
Miller, David, Editors. A Curious Architecture: A Selection
of Contemporary Prose Poems. Stride Publications. 1996.
Messerli, Douglas,
Editor. The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry 1993
- 1994. Sun & Moon Press. 1995.
Ganick, Peter and
Barone, Dennis, Editors. The Art of Practice: 45
Contemporary Poets. Potes
& Poets Press. 1994.
Loydell, Rupert M.,
Editor. Ladder to the Next Floor.
University of Salzburg.
1993.
David Miller and Rupert
Loydell, Editors. How the Net is Gripped: A Selection of Contemporary
American Poetry. Stride Press,
U.K. 1992.
Elinor Benedict,
Editor. Passages North Anthology.
Milkweed Editions. Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1990.
ONLINE COLLECTIONS
A Motion Come to Silk, xpress(ed).org (finland). 2003. 25 pp.
Ample Safe and Missing Roads
.
xpress(ed).org (finland). 2002. 20 pp.
Moderato Morning. palm pilot site. 2000. 20 pp.
A Cappella. www.mightywords.com. 2000.
66 pp.
A Sound the Mobile Makes in Wind: 50 American
Haibun. Mudlark #8.
www.unf.edu/mudlark. 1998.
A Sequence of Devotions in Your Absence. www.mightywords.com. 2000. 7 pp.
COMPETITION
Gertrude Stein Award,
Sun & Moon Press. 2001. Letters to
Unfinished J., selected as
the winning manuscript by Dennis Phillips.
INCLUSION IN ANTHOLOGY OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS
Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Volume 26. Gale Publishing,
Detroit, Michigan.
1997. Autobiographical Essay on
the Life of Sheila E. Murphy. pp. 215 - 230.
PARTIAL LIST OF MAGAZINES IN WHICH WORK HAS
APPEARED
Facture
A.BACUS
Talisman
Chelsea
Another Chicago Magazine
Aerial
Raddle Moon
American Letters & Commentary
The New York Quarterly
Bombay Gin
Paintbrush
Interstate
Sequoia
Paper Air
O.Ars
Prism International
Puerto del Sol
Cabaret Vert
Avec
Abacus
Caliban
Generator
HOW(ever)
Tyuonyi
Blue Mesa Review
Passages North
EDITORIAL APPOINTMENTS
Associate Editor, Potes
& Poets Press (Appointed by Publisher/Editor Peter
Ganick, whose Press has established itself as a
premier publisher of contemporary innovative poetry). 1997 – 2001.
Editorial Advisor, poethia.
(Appointed by Editorial Collective). 2001- 2003.
PUBLICATIONS EDITED
>2: An Anthology of New Collaborative Poetry. (with M.L. Weber). Sugar Mule
Press. 2007. 222 pp.
Potes & Poets New
Chapbook Series: Women in Innovative Writing:
Ten Chapbooks by Contemporary Women Writers Selected
for Inclusion 2001.
New Poetry Series:
Potes & Poets Press. 10 Chapbooks by Contemporary Women
Poets Writing in English. 2001-2002.
POG ONE: Anthology of Poets Presenting
for the Poetry Group of Tucson,
Arizona. (with members of the Poetry Group
Collective, Tucson,
Arizona). Chax Press. 1999.
The Literature of Work: Short Stories, Essays and
Poems by Men and Women of Business. (with John G. Sperling and John D. Murphy). The University
of
Phoenix Press. Phoenix, Arizona. 1991.
326 pp.
RESIDENCIES
The Arvon Foundation at
Totleigh-Barton, Devon. (with Rupert
Loydell).
April, 2000.
The Chax Press
Residency. (with Leslie Scalapino, Gil
Ott, and Karen Kelley). Tucson, Arizona. October, 1990.
PARTIAL LIST OF POETRY PERFORMANCES
Prescott College. with
Be Blank Consort (John M. Bennett, K.S. Ernst, Scott Helmes). 2006.
Mama Java’s Spoken
Words Series. with Nico Vassilakis.
February 13, 2006.
The University of
Arizona Poetry Series. National Poetry Month. April 13, 2004.
The University of Notre
Dame &Now Conference, April 5-6, 2004.
The Renaissance Society
at the University of Chicago (solo poetry reading in association with Laura
Letinsky Photographic Exhibition, March 28, 2004)
Changing Hands Books, Tempe,
Arizona (book signing for Concentricity,
January 2, 2004)
The Ohio State
University Libraries. Columbus, Ohio. July, 2002.
Lit City. New Orleans,
LA. February 22, 2001.
Boston Poetry Festival
(3rd Annual). July 21-23, 2000.
Cultural Exchange Gallery.
Scottsdale, Arizona. June 28, 2000.
The Arvon Foundation at
Totleigh-Barton, Devon. April, 2000.
Scottsdale Center for
the Arts. February 10, 2000.
Brisbane Writers
Festival. Queensland, Australia. October 14-17, 1999.
Language Festival, Cabaret Vert Magazine, Toronto,
Ontario. October, 1994.
The Ear Inn Poetry
Series, New York City. 1990.
St. Mark's Poetry
Project, New York City. 1990.
Tucson Poetry Festival,
Tucson, Arizona
Tangents Reading
Series, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Cochise Fine Arts
Poetry Center, Bisbee, Arizona
Bisbee Poetry Festival,
Bisbee, Arizona
The Loft Reading
Series, Sedona, Arizona
Phoenix Arts Museum,
Phoenix, Arizona
Venus Coffeehouse,
Tempe, Arizona
Divergent Arts Poetry
Series, Phoenix, Arizona
Encanto Park Reading
Series, Phoenix, Arizona
LECTURES
Art Center College of Design. Pasadena, California. Delivered facilitated discussion, lecture, and reading to students
enrolled in a course taught by Dennis Phillips. February 25, 1997.
Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles,
California. Delivered facilitated discussion and poetry reading to students
enrolled in a course taught by
Paul Vangelisti. February 26, 1997.
Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Board of Directors. "Directions in
Contemporary
Innovative Literature." October
14, 1994.