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Matthew C. Brennan

1013 Maple Ave. Terre Haute, IN 47804-2936

(812) 234-9737--Home (812) 237-3277--Office

matthew.brennan@indstate.edu mbrennan@indstate.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D., English, Univ. of Minnesota, June 1984. M.A., English, Univ. of Minnesota, June 1980.

B.A., Grinnell College, May 1977.

TEACHING POSITIONS

Professor, English, Indiana State Univ., 1992-present, and Director of Graduate Studies, Jan. 1994-May 1996, Aug. 1998-May 1999, Aug. 2007-Dec. 2011. Associate Professor, English, Indiana State Univ., 1988-1992. Acting Associate Director of University Honors and Assistant Professor, English, Feb. 1988-May 1988. Assistant Professor, English, Indiana State Univ., 1985-1988. Visiting Assistant Professor, English, Univ. of Minnesota, 1984-85. Teaching Associate, English and Composition, Univ. of Minnesota, Sept. 1979-Dec. 1982. Teaching Assistant, English, Univ. of Minnesota, 1978-79.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

One Life (poems). Beaumont: Lamar University Press, forthcoming 2015. Dana Gioia: A Critical Introduction. West Chester, PA: Story Line Press, 2012.

[Reviewed in South Carolina Review]

The Light of Common Day (chapbook of poems). Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press, 2011. [Reviewed in Green Hills Literary Lantern]

The Poet’s Holy Craft: William Gilmore Simms and Romantic Verse Tradition. Columbia: U of South Carolina Press, 2010. [Reviewed in American Literary Scholarship, Charleston Mercury, Choice, American Literature, Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, Chronicle of Higher Education (weekly book list), Reference and Research Book News, Simms Review]

The House with the Mansard Roof (poems). Omaha: The Backwaters Press, 2009. [Finalist, Best Books of Indiana; The Writer’s Almanac, 12/12/2009: http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2009/12/12. [Reviewed in

www.throughthe3rdeye.com, Concho River Review, Southern Indiana Review]

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The Sea-Crossing of Saint Brendan (A Version in Verse of the Navigatio Sancti Brendani). Delhi, NY: Birch Brook Press, 2008. [Reviewed in The Iconoclast, South Carolina Review]

American Scenes: Poems on WPA Artworks (chapbook). West Plains, MO:

Bliss-Station Publishing, 2001.

The Gothic Psyche: Disintegration and Growth in 19th-Century English Literature. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1997. [Reviewed in London Times Literary Supplement, Choice, Year’s Work in English Studies, Journal of Mind and Behavior, Science Fiction Studies, Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, Modern Language Review, Victorian Studies, Gothic Studies, Nineteenth Century Literature]

The Music of Exile (poems). Bristol, IN: Cloverdale Books, 1994.

[Reviewed in Arts Indiana, Nov. 1995.]

Seeing in the Dark: Poems. Terre Haute, IN: Hawkhead Press, 1993. [Reviewed in Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook 1994, Arts Indiana, Sept. 1993.

Wordsworth, Turner, and Romantic Landscape: A Study of the Traditions of the Picturesque and the Sublime. Columbia, SC:

Camden House, 1987. [Reviewed in Choice, Wordsworth Circle, Nineteenth Century Literature, Humanities Education Abstracts and Reviews, cited in Perkins' Introduction to English Romantic Writers.]

Exhibition Catalog

Is Poetry a Visual Art? Catalog for Exhibit at Indiana State U. Co-editor. Terre Haute, IN: Turman Gallery, 1993.

Edited Collection

“The World in William Gilmore Simms.” Editor of Special issue of Studies in the Literary Imagination 42.1 (Spring 2009). Contributed the introduction and selected and edited eight essays. .

Articles, Essays, and Notes

"'Cartooning with Words': The Comic Verse of William Gilmore Simms." Lamar Journal of the Humanities forthcoming

"An American Case: Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher.'" Short Story Criticism. Ed. Robert C.

Evans. Columbia: Layman Poupard-Cengage Learning, forthcoming. [rpt. of ch. 6 from Gothic Psyche]

"Mary Shelley's Cinematic Progeny: The Fidelity of Young Frankenstein." South Carolina Review forthcoming 2015.

“Wordsworth’s Characters.” The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth. Ed. Richard Gravil

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and Daniel Robinson. Oxford: Oxford U P, 2015. 254-67.

"Bryant, Simms, and the Emersonian Worship of Nature." Simms Review 21 (2013): 5-14. [received 6/14]

“Simms, the Civil War, and the Poetry of Trauma.” William Gilmore Simms’s Civil War: The Consequences for a Southern Man of Letters. Ed. David Moltke-Hansen. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2013. 129-148.

“Introduction” to Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative by William Gilmore Simms. 2 vols. 1853. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2013. xxiii-xxxii. Rpt. in Reading Simms: Essays of Introduction to the Author's Canon. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, forthcoming.

“Anti-Romanticism in Mark Strand’s Dark Harbor XXXIV.” The Explicator 70.3 (2012): 209- 12.

“Simms’s Gothic Revival in ‘The Idyll of the Dream: A Psychological Tale.’” Simms Review 18.1&2 (2010): 45-55.

“Keats, Turner, and Claudian Landscape: Re-visioning Lorrain’s The Enchanted Castle.” The

CEA Critic 73.1 (2010): 64-73.

“Introduction” to “The World in William Gilmore Simms.” Special Issue. Studies in the Literary Imagination 42.1 (2009): v-ix.

“A Note on Simms and Neoclassicism.” Simms Review 17.1&2 (2009): 23-25. “The Nature of Simms’s Southern Ecology.” South Carolina Review 39.2 (2007): 52-60. “Simms, Hawthorne, and the ‘Inutile Pursuit’ of ‘The Artist of the Beautiful.’” Simms Review

14.2 (2006): 14-21. “Simms and the Sonnet.” Mississippi Quarterly 59.1 (2005-6): 17-30. “William Gilmore Simms.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry. Ed. Jeffrey Gray. Vol. 5. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. 1474-1476.

“The Landscape of Grief in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” Frankenstein. Ed. Harold Bloom. Major Literary Characters. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2004. 117-27. Rpt. From Studies in the Humanities (1988). “The Landscape of Grief in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” Bloom’s Guides: Mary Shelley’s

Frankenstein. Ed. and Intro. Harold Bloom. New York: Bloom’s Literary Criticism Infobase Pub., 2007. 114-20. Rpt. From Studies in the Humanities (1988).

“Mick Cochrane’s Sport and the Mythic Symbol of Fathers Playing Catch with Sons.” Baseball/Literature/Culture: Selected Essays, 2002-03.

Ed. Peter Carino. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004. 39-48.

“Simms, Wordsworth, and ‘The Mysterious Teachings of the Natural World.’” Southern Quarterly 41.2 (2003): 37-47.

“Dana Gioia: The Poet as Public Intellectual.” South Carolina Review

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35.2 (2003): 167-76.

“Writing as Readers: Communicating through Poetry.” Indiana English 24.2 (2002): 12-15.

“Coleridge, Friedrich, and the ‘Hymn’ to Mountain Glory.” Lamar

Journal of the Humanities 26.2 (2001): 21-38.

“A Book of Ruth: Stone’s Topography and Other Poems.” Paintbrush 27 (2000/2001): 97-100.

"The 'Flow' of the Game: Andre Dubus's 'The Pitcher.'" NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Social Policy Perspectives 8.2 (2000): 114-122.

Introduction to Strange Seas of Thought: Studies in Wordsworth's Philosophy of Man and Nature by Newton Stallknecht, edited by Don Jennermann et al. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 2000. 1-6.

"Mary Shelley's Cautionary Narrative: Frankenstein as Therapy." Lamar Journal of the

Humanities 24.2 (1999): 5-11.

"Wordsworth's 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.'" The Explicator 57.3 (1999): 140-143. "Wordsworth's 'Lines Suggested by a Portrait From the Pencil of F. Stone': 'Visible Quest of Immortality'?" ELN (English Language Notes) 35.2 (1997): 35-46.

“The Transparent Baseball: 'Making Contact' as Visionary Experience." NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Social Policy Perspectives 6.1 (1997): 93-100.

"The Novel as Nightmare: Decentering of the Self in Bram Stoker's Dracula." Journal of the

Fantastic in the Arts 7.4 (1996): 48-59.

“Critical Extracts” [James Emanuel]. Modern American Black Poets and Dramatists. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1995. 101-102. Rpt. from “Memory Affection Knows.” [Cf. “Reviews” below.]

"Michael Dennis Browne" and "David Wojahn." Oxford Companion to 20th-Century Poetry.

Ed. Ian Hamilton. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1994. 73, 587. Rev. ed. Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry. Ed. Ian Hamilton and Jeremy Noel-Tod. 2013. 77-78, 662.

"Is Poetry a Visual Art? 20th Century Poetry." Is Poetry a Visual Art? Ed. C. McDaniel et al.

Catalog for exhibit at Indiana State U. Terre Haute, IN: Turman Gallery, 1993. 17-19.

"Point of View and Plotting in Chekhov's and Oates' 'Lady with the Pet Dog.'" The Bedford Introduction to Literature. Ed. Michael Meyer. 3rd ed. Boston: St. Martin's, 1993. 176-78; 4th ed. 1996, 184-86; 5th ed. 1999, 213-14; 9th, 2011, 250-53; 10th ed. 2013, 251-54. Compact 5th ed. 2000, 191-92. 6th ed.2002, 214-15. 7th ed. 2004, 240-242. Also Story and Structure. Ed. Thomas Arp. 10th ed. San Diego: Harcourt, 2002. 574-76. The Story and Its Writer. Ed. Ann Charters. 7th ed. Boston: Bedford/ St. Martin’s, 2007. 1655-57; 9th ed., 2014. 1400-02. Literature and Its Writers. Ed. Ann Charters and Samuel Charters. 4th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2007. 661-63; 5th ed., 2010, 664-666.

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Short Story Criticism, vol. 102, ed. Jelena Krstovic, Thomson-Gale, 2007. All the above rpt. from NMAL (1985).

"Repression, Knowledge, and Saving Souls: The Role of the 'New Woman' in Stoker's Dracula

and Murnau's Nosferatu." Studies in the Humanities 19.1 (1992): 1-10. "Melville's Bartleby as an Archetypal Shadow." Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 13.3 & 4

(1992): 318-21. "Romantic Re-membering of the Self: David Wojahn and the Memory-Narrative." New Mexico

Humanities Review 35 (1991): 85-90. "Turnerian Topography: The Paintings of Roderick Usher." Studies in Short Fiction 27.4 (1991):

605-8. "Ted Kooser." American Poets Since World War II, Second Series, Vol. 105 of Dictionary of Literary Biography. Ed. R.S. Gwynn. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli, Clark, Layman, 1991. 143-50. "Wordsworth and 'Art's Bold Privilege': His Iconic Poems as 'Spots of Time.'" Yearbook of

Interdisciplinary Studies in the Fine Arts 2 (1990): 487-99. "Nabokov's Cubist Narrative: Picasso's Portraits and The Real Life of Sebastian Knight." Lamar

Journal of the Humanities 16 (1990): 41-54. "Poe's Gothic Sublimity: Prose Style, Painting, and Mental Boundaries in 'The Fall of the House

of Usher.'" Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 11.3&4 (1990): 353-60. "Monstrous Research: Using Gothic Novels and Horror Films to Teach the Documented Essay."

Kansas English 76.1 (1990): 4-9. Rpt. in Bridging Learning Communities. Ed. Bennett Rafoth and Lea Masiello. Pro. of the 12th Annual East Central Writing Centers Assoc. Conference. 20-21 April 1990. Terre Haute, IN: Indiana State U., 1991. 79-85.

"Can Writing Be Taught?" Mississippi Review 19.1&2 (1990): 295-96. "Keats's 'Cold Pastoral' of Art: The Desire for Ideal Escape and the Duty to See the Real."

Yearbook of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Fine Arts 1 (1989): 85-103. "Context and Form in Robert Bly." U. of South Florida Language Quarterly 26.3 (1988): 25-26. "The Landscape of Grief in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein." Studies in the Humanities 15.1 (1988):

33-44. "The 'Ghastly Figure Moving at My Side': The Discharged Soldier as Wordsworth's Shadow."

Wordsworth Circle 19.1 (1987): 19-23. "Shelley's 'Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills." The Explicator 45.2 (1987): 23-26. "The Wordsworth of Landscape: Constable, or Turner?" South Atlantic Quarterly 85.3 (1986):

252-60. "The Iconography of Angels in Milan Kundera's Book of Laughter and Forgetting." Notes on

Contemporary Literature 16.1 (1986): 6. Co-author.

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"Plotting Against Chekhov: Joyce Carol Oates and 'The Lady With the Dog.'" NMAL: Notes on Modern American Literature 9.3 (1985): item 13.

"Wordsworth's 'A Night-Piece.'" The Explicator 42.4 (1984): 17-18. "The Light of Wordsworth's Desire for Darkness in The Prelude." Romanticism Past & Present

7.2 (1983): 27-40. "Yeats's Revisions of 'Leda and the Swan.'" Notes on Contemporary Literature 13.3 (1983): 5-7. "Mark Strand's 'For Her.'" Notes on Contemporary Literature 13.1 (1983): 11-12.

Poems "Evening Shadows." Backwaters Press 20th Anniversary Anthology forthcoming "Two April Mornings." Backwaters Press 20th Anniversary Anthology forthcoming "Revisiting Vietnam." Blue Unicorn 38.2 (2015): 8. "Le Grande Perch de Terre Haute." Blue Unicorn 38.2 (2015): 5. "Vanity of Wishes." South Carolina Review forthcoming "Wheel of Fortune." South Carolina Review forthcoming "View from Union Hospital, New Year's." South Carolina Review forthcoming "Instow, Morning." Heartland Review (2014): 8. "Flash Flood." Heartland Review (2014): 11. "The Love Shack." Paterson Literary Review 42 (2014-15): 67. "The Hofbräuhaus." Paterson Literary Review 42 (2014-15): 68. "October Surprise." Concho River Review 28.1 (2014): 92. “Dumped.” Elder Mountain: The Journal of Ozark Studies 5 (2013): 63. [8/14] “Yard Sale.” Elder Mountain: The Journal of Ozark Studies 5 (2013): 61. [8/14] "Souvenir of Germany." Poem 110 (2013): 21. "Picnic in Iowa." Poetry Ireland Review 111 (2013): 69. Rpt. Indiana Humanities Council

website (selected by poet-laureate George Kalamaras), April 30, 2015. http://www.indianahumanities.org/think-read-talk/picnic-iowa/

"Hazlitt in Love." Trinacria 10 (2013): 31. "Hazlitt Unbound." Westview 30.1 (2013): 85. "At the Churchill Hotel, Ambleside." Westview 30.1 (2013): 86. "Saint Brigid's Day." Westview 30.1 (2013): 87.

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"A Fall Retreat on the Beara Peninsula." Westview 30.1 (2013): 88. “Changeable Weather, on My Birthday.” The Aurorean 38.2 (Fall/Winter 2013-14): 36. “The Tigris River.” War, Literature and the Arts 25 (2013): 243-44. "Quincey (In memoriam, 1996-2007)." Blue Unicorn 36.3 (2013): 33. “Abandonment.” Tipton Poetry Journal 25 (2013): 58. “Deliverance.” Tipton Poetry Journal 25 (2013): 59. “The Sublime.” Monkscript Two: Surprising Saints, Literature, Arts & Spirituality. Ed. Paul

Quenon and Michael Bever. Louisville: Fons Vitae, 2012. 60. [received 2013; rpt. from The Merton Seasonal]

“The Lake, Petworth, Sunset.” Monkscript Two: Surprising Saints, Literature, Arts & Spirituality.

Ed. Paul Quenon and Michael Bever. Louisville: Fons Vitae, 2012. 61. [received 2013; rpt. from The MacGuffin]

“Jam Session.” San Pedro River Review 5.1 (2013): 39. “After a Nine-Inch Rainfall, Over the Labor-Day Weekend.” The Aurorean 18.1 (Spring/Summer

2013): 37.

“Burlesque.” Trinacria 9 (2013): 12.

“View of Lake Louise.” South Carolina Review 45.2 (2013): 64. “The Nightingales.” South Dakota Review 50.2 (2012): 70. “Epiphany.” South Dakota Review 50.2 (2012): 69. “Awakening Next to an Open Window.” Blue Unicorn 35.3 (2012): 8. “Land Aplenty.” Poem 107 (May 2012): 20. “One Life.” Commonweal Feb. 24, 2012: 10. “Home Movie.” Concho River Review 25.2 (2011): 72. “The Plaza after Rain.” Blue Unicorn 35.1 (2011): 7. “What the Lamp Lights Up.” Tipton Poetry Journal 22 (2011): 13. “19 York Street.” South Carolina Review 44.1 (2011): 40. “A Silence.” Storm Country: The Anthology. Ed. Deborah Marshall et al. Sedalia, MO: Mozark Press for the Missouri Writers’ Guild Missouri Humanities Council, 2011: 113. “Ruins.” San Pedro River Review 3.2 (2011): 26. “April Sunset in Indiana.” Blue Unicorn 34.3 (2011): 15.

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“Dry Farming.” Poem 105 (2011): 53. “January Sunset, Five P.M.” Tipton Poetry Journal 20 (2011): 4. “Summer of Love.” Concho River Review 24.2 (2010): 92. “At Sonka’s Irish Pub.” Blue Unicorn 34.1 (2010): 6. “Oblivion.” Tipton Poetry Journal 18 (2010): 5. "Reclamation." Elder Mountain: The Journal of Ozark Studies 2 (2010): 110. "Madwoman in the Attic." Elder Mountain: The Journal of Ozark Studies 2 (2010): 108. "The Broken World." Elder Mountain: The Journal of Ozark Studies 2 (2010): 109. “Cruising.” South Carolina Review 42.2 (2010): 175. “La Cuisine des Beaux Arts.” Blue Unicorn 33.1 (2009): 11. “Remembering the River.” Elder Mountain: The Journal of Ozark Studies 1 (2009): 66. “Biking in the Ozarks.” Elder Mountain: The Journal of Ozark Studies 1 (2009): 65. “Insomnia at 3 A.M.” Heartland Review 9.2 (2009): 53. “First Kiss.” Westview 28.1 (2008): 9. “The Past.” Westview 28.1 (2008): 16. “The Sea-Crossing of Saint Brendan” [excerpt] Westview 28.1 (2008): 10-15. “September 22, in Indiana.” Terre Haute Living Nov.-Dec. 2007: 45.

“Girl in Dressing Gown.” Westview 26.2 (2007): 21. “Independence Day.” Southern Indiana Review 14.1 (2007): 14. “Regarding the Old Poets, After the Reading.” Blue Unicorn 30.2 (2007): 12. “Thaw, New Year’s Eve.” Heartland Review 7.2 (2007): 34. “Canoeing with My Brothers, 1973.” Heartland Review 7.2 (2007): 35. “On the Beara Peninsula.” Westview 25.2 (2006): 44. “Night Piece in Cork at the Ambassador Hotel.” Westview 25.2 (2006): 45. “Reprise.” Poet Lore 101.3&4 (2006): 43. Rpt. Blue Unicorn 30.3 (2007): 33. “Downtown at Dusk.” Shared Spaces / Shared Voices. Arts Council of Indianapolis, 2006. “The House with the Mansard Roof.” South Dakota Review 44.1 (2006): 58. “Fair Oaks Apartments Revisited.” Iambs & Trochees 5.1 (2006): 72.

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“July in Indiana.” Iambs & Trochees 5.1 (2006): 73. “Twilight, May.” Iambs & Trochees 5.1 (2006): 74. “Watching the Sun Set from the Mount St. Francis Cemetery.” Blue

Unicorn 29.2 (2006): 18.

“After Delivering My Son to the Ex.” Concho River Review 19.2 (2005): 94. “Noticing Snow in Early November.” Birmingham Poetry Review 31 (Fall 2005): 5. “Summer of ’36.” Paterson Literary Review 34 (2005): 140-41. “December Sunset in Terre Haute.” Lake Effect 9 (2005): 112. “Fête Champêtre.” Concho River Review 18.2 (2004): 73.

“Highway 40, Stilesville.” Heartland Review 5.1 (2004): 5. “After the Sack of South Carolina.” The Sewanee Review 112.1 (2004):

56. “Henry James Shaves at 57.” Pivot 57 (2004): n.p. “Merton in Love.” Pivot 57 (2004): n.p.

“Lake Petworth, Sunrise.” The MacGuffin 21.1&2 (spring 2004): 125. “Adagio for Middle Age While Sitting Outside in Late October.” Light

44-45 (2004): 56.

“Before Taking Your Picture I Think Of.” Blue Unicorn 27.2 (2004): 20. “Irish Channels.” Heartland Review 4.1 (2003): 55.

“The Washington Avenue Bridge, Minneapolis.” Poet Lore 98.3&4

(2003): 19. “Eads Bridge, St. Louis, 1935.” South Dakota Review 41.1&2 (2003): 202.

Paintbrush 29 (2002-3): 24.

“The Gargoyle in Our Backyard.” South Dakota Review 41.1&2 (2003): 234.

“Clairvoyance.” The Sycamore Review 15 (winter/spring 2003): 119-20. “Leaving San Francisco Early.” The Sycamore Review 15 (winter/spring

2003): 121.

“Memorial Field, 1973.” Green Hills Literary Lantern 14 (2003): 190.

“Winter Landscape.” Blue Unicorn 26.2 (2003): 28.

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“Fall Classic.” Lyric 82.2 (2002): 82.

“Regret.” Poem 88 (2002): 62. “Turning Point in the European Theater.” Poem 88 (2002): 61. “Fall Plowing.” Notre Dame Review 13 (2002): 58.

“Illuminations.” Paterson Literary Review 31 (2002): 87.

“After My Father’s Funeral.” California Quarterly 27.4 (2001): 37-38. “Mercouri’s Restaurant.” The Mid-America Poetry Review 2.3 (2001-02):

178. “Looking for Lake Nyanza.” Heartland Review (Spring 2001): 38. “Waiting for Green.” Green Hills Literary Lantern 12 (2001): 26-27.

“Summer Storm.” Firefly Magazine 29 (2001): 11.

“Tir na n’Og (Land of Youth).” Paintbrush 27 (2000/2001): 165-66. “Last Days at Marick Drive.” Paintbrush 27 (2000/2001): 164. “Farm Houses.” Poem 84 (2000): 13. “Drought: A Farm Wife’s Diary.” Poem 84 (2000): 12.

“Father Louis’ Nose-Job.” National Catholic Reporter Oct. 13, 2000: 17.

“The Morning After.” The Flying Island 8.2 (2000): 20.

"Sunday in the Lake District." The Heartland Review (Spr. 2000): 58. "Communion: Pueblo." The Heartland Review (Spr. 2000): 4.

"Signs of Life," "Seeing in the Dark," "Pre-heating," "The Three-Bagger," "Prohibition," and "Shiftwork, in February, at Terre Haute Coke and Carbon." Rpt. in Good Company: Poets From Grinnell. Ed. James Kissane. Grinnell, IA: Grinnell College, 2000. 341-49.

"Thomas Hart Benton Rebuts the Museum Director." Number One 28

(2000): 6.

"Winter Sonata." Blue Unicorn 23.2 (2000): 12-13. "Christmas Eve, 1996." Blue Unicorn 23.1 (1999): 20. "The Sublime." The Merton Seasonal 24.2 (1999): 27. Rpt. by Poet Laureate Karen Kovacik on

Indiana Humanities Poetry Month website, 4/3/2012. http://www.indianahumanities.org/thinkreadtalk/index.php/2012/04/april-3-the-sublime-by-matthew-brennan-2/

"Bad Breaks." Southern Indiana Review 6 (1999): 19.

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"Rufino Tamayo's Waiting Woman." Blue Unicorn 22.2 (1999): 24.

"Mickey Mantle's Nightmare." NINE 7.2 (1999): 128. "Ty Cobb's Shadow." NINE 7.2 (1999): 129-30. "Depression Dreams." Light 26 (Autumn 1999): 27. "Joseph Stella's Smokestacks." Light 26 (Autumn 1999): 27. "Prohibition." South Dakota Review 36.3 (1998): 17.

"Termites." Poetry Ireland Review 58 (1998): 45. "Derby Day." Poetry Ireland Review 58 (1998): 91. "Weekend Retreat in Brown County." Descant 37.2/38.1 (1998): 114. "Signs of Life." Descant 37.2/38.1 (1998): 115-16.

"From Below." Flying Island 6.1 (1998): 7. "The June Bug." Flying Island 6.1 (1998): 6. "Guitar Strings." Frogpond 20.1 (1997): 21. "The View Through My Mother's Living Room Window." Flying Island 5.1 (1997): 5. "Ariadne's Thread." Classical Outlook 73.3 (1996): 90. "Air." Poem 74 (1995): 12. "Preheating." Poem 74 (1995): 11. "Heat Loss." Carleton Arts Review [1995]: 29. "Epiphanies." Yalobusha Review 1.1 (1995): 18. "Change of Season." Yalobusha Review 1.1 (1995): 17. "On Deck." Elysian Fields Quarterly 14.1 (1995): 78. "Capture the Flag." Footwork: Paterson Literary Review 24-25 (1995): 17. "A Divorcée's Revenge." Footwork: Paterson Literary Review 24-25 (1995): 17.

[accepted previously by Poetry Motel but I never saw it in print]

"Nightshift in Central Florida." Grinnell Review 13 (1994): 56. Rpt. in Grinnell Magazine 26.4 (1994): 11.

"Extra Innings." Elysian Fields Quarterly 13.3 (1994): 12. "Memorial Days." Poetry Ireland Review 38 (1993): 41-42.

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"Termites." Poetry Ireland Review 38 (1993): "Sunset, Kensington Gardens, During the Drought." Flying Island 1.2 (1993): 4. "The Vasectomy." CQ: California State Poetry Quarterly 20.2 (1993): 11. "Driving Home for Christmas." Cloverdale Review of Criticism and Poetry (1992-93): 145. "The Beauty of Illness." Footwork: Paterson Literary Review 23 (1993): 117. "Prelude to Dawn Light." Footwork: Paterson Literary Review 23 (1993): 117. "Granary Days." CQ: California State Poetry Quarterly 20.1 (1993): 13. "Looking for Signs." New Mexico Humanities Review 37 (1993): 110. "Hunters in the Snow." In the West of Ireland. Ed. Martin Enright. Kerry, Ireland: Enright

House, 1992. 55. "The Alcoholic Stepfather." Toad Highway 5 (1992): 1. "Reading the News: May 6, 1991." Welter (1992): 62. "Hope." Journal of Kentucky Studies 9 (1992): 39. "Shiftwork, in February, at Terre Haute Coke and Carbon." Journal of Kentucky Studies (1992):

40. "John Huston's The Dead." Cape Rock 27.1 (1992): 13. "Forward." Louisville Review 30 (1991): 10. "White." Mildred 4.2/5.1 (1991): 97. "November Dusk." Mildred 4.2/5.1 (1991): 95 "Homesick." Mildred 4.2/5.1 (1991): 96. "A Ghost." Mildred 4.2/5.1 (1991): 95. "Dirty." Tar River Poetry 30.2 (1991): 22. "Easter Week, 1988." Welter 1 (1991): 27. "Driving Home, Alone, on Highway 41, at Dusk." Tampa Bay Review 3.1 (1991): 27. Rpt. in

Arts Indiana Supplement 1991. Ed. A. Jester. Indianapolis: Arts Indiana, 1991. 18. "White Mist." Tampa Bay Review 3.1 (1991): 23. "Resurrection." New Mexico Humanities Review 34 (1991): 94. "Clear Winter Nights." Context South 2.1 (1991): n.p. "The Jogger." Toad Highway 4 (1991): 4. "Skylights." Mildred 4.1 (1990): 109.

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"Remains." Writing from the Center: Indiannual 5. Ed. Jim Powell. Indianapolis: Indianapolis

Writers Center, 1990. 6. "Gravity of Love." Kansas Quarterly 21.3 (1989): 129. "Autumn Landscape." Kansas Quarterly 21.3 (1989): 130. "Spring Fever." Cape Rock 24.1 (1989): 44. "Two Hawks." Parnassus Literary Review 13.2 (1989): 16. "The Music of Exile." Passages North 10.1 (1989): 17. "The White Seeds." Riley in Memoriam. Ed. J. Morgan. Bristol, IN: Wyndham Hall Press,

1989. 21. "When You Don't Come Home." Wind 19 (1989): 35. "Lines Written From a Few Blocks From the Painesdale, Mich., Copper Mines." Contemporary

Education 60.3 (1989): 164. "In the Midnight Darkness." Poet Lore 83.3 (1988): 38. "A Late-Night, Long-Distance Connection." Indiannual IV. Ed. Jim Powell. Indianapolis:

Indianapolis Writers' Center, 1988. 16. "The Last Goodbye." Mildred 2.2 (1988): 44. "The Wolf." Mississippi Valley Review 16.2 (1987): 21. "First Cold Night of Snow." Ball State University Forum 27.4 (1986): 45. "Snowblind." Ball State University Forum 27.4 (1986): 26. "Two March Mornings." Kentucky Poetry Review 22.2 (1986): 15. "A Splinter and a Flame." Kentucky Poetry Review 22.2 (1986): 15. "To My Son, Dan, on His First Reading to Us Before Bed." Indiana English 10.2 (1986): 14. "August Morning in Bloom's Bay." Wind 16 (1986): 26. "Sunday Morning in January." New Mexico Humanities Review 8.2 (1985): 36. "Absence of Light." Bellingham Review 8.2 (1985): 14. "A Siren." Bellingham Review 8.2 (1985): 14. "Jealousy." Cape Rock 20.2 (1985): 31. Rpt. in 1986-88 Anthology of Magazine Verse. Ed.

Alan F. Pater. Beverly Hills, CA: Monitor, 1988. 61. "Winter Scene, Past Midnight." Cape Rock 20.2 (1985): 10. "A Woman Fishing." Phoebe 14.3&4 (1985): 101.

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"Nights Our House Comes to Life." Passages North 6.1 (1984-85): 10. Rpt. in 1985 Anthology

of Magazine Verse. Ed. Alan F. Pater. Beverly Hills, CA: Monitor, 1988. 44-45. Rpt. in Passages North Anthology. Ed. Elinor Benedict. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1990. 294. Read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac, 12/12/2009.

"St. Louis." Northern Lit Quarterly 86 (1984): 15. "Fete Champetre: The Engagement." Northern Lit Quarterly 86 (1984): 15. "In the Luxemburg Gardens at Twilight." Phoebe 14.1&2 (1984): 80. "The Three-Bagger." Phoebe 14.1&2 (1984): 79. "To the Lighthouse." Davidson Miscellany 19.2 (1984): 31. "Waters Have Held Us." Webster Review 9.2 (1984): 34. "Stone Mountain." Kansas Quarterly 16.1 (1984): 109. "Moon Walk." Minneapolis Muse. Minneapolis: Minneapolis Poetry Society, 1983. 19-20. "The Skaters." Cape Rock 19.1 (1983): 1. Rpt. in 1985 Anthology of Magazine Verse. Ed.

Alan F. Pater. Beverly Hills, CA: Monitor, 1985. 45. "Waiting at a Truck Stop in Iowa at Midnight." Cape Rock 18.2 (1983): 25. "Climax." Cape Rock 18.2 (1983): 24. "Easter 1980: In My Grandfather's Backyard." Fall Out (1983): 10. Rpt. in Davidson Miscellany

19.1 (1983): 75. "End of Autumn: Lake of the Isles." Sou'Wester 10.2 (1982-83): 40. "Souvenir of St. Louis." Poet Lore 77.2 (1982): 97. Rpt. in Minneapolis Muse. Minneapolis:

Minneapolis Poetry Society, 1983. 20. "Driving to Duluth." New Mexico Humanities Review 5.2 (1982): 37. "The Adoration and the Nativity of My First Child." New Mexico Humanities Review 5.2

(1982): 36. "Jogging at Midnight." Mississippi Valley Review 11.1 (1981-82): 60. "Anecdote for Fathers." Webster Review 6.1 (1981): 79. "In Memory of My Grandfather." Webster Review 6.1 (1981): 78. Rpt. in 1984 Anthology of

Magazine Verse. Ed. Alan F. Pater. Beverly Hills, CA: Monitor, 1984. 53. "Seeing in the Dark." Kansas Quarterly 12.3 (1980): 141. Rpt. in 1981 Anthology of Magazine

Verse. Ed. Alan F. Pater. Beverly Hills, CA: Monitor, 1981. 47-48. "Noon Glare." Poet Lore 74.2 (1979): 71. Rpt. in 1980 Anthology of Magazine Verse. Ed.

Alan F. Pater. Beverly Hills, CA: Monitor, 1980. 41. "Dover in December." Mississippi Valley Review 8.2 (1979): 46-47.

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"The First Anniversary." Wind 9 (1979): 5. "To Grandfather: 18 February 1978." Lacuna 1 (1978): 22-23. "In the Woods." North Country Anvil 28 (1978): 32. "Baseball's Structure." Journal of Popular Culture 12.2 (1978): 375. "Winter Light." Ululatus 1.1 (1978): 15-16.

Book Reviews

Review of Saeko Yoshikawa, William Wordsworth and the Invention of Tourism, 1820-1900. Notes and Queries forthcoming

“Poetry Chronicle.” [Review of poetry books by David Yezzi, Daisy Fried, Rachel Hadas, and A.

Van Jordan.] New York Times Book Review Apr. 14, 2013: 13.

Review of Michael Burns, The Night of the Grizzly. Elder Mountain Review: A Journal of Ozark Studies 5 (2013): 114-117. [8/14]

Review of Dana Gioia’s Pity the Beautiful. South Carolina Review 45.1 (2012): 187-89. Review of Stuart Curran, ed., The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism, 2nd ed. The

Eighteenth-Century Novel 9 (2012): 315-17. Review of Backwoods Tales by W.G. Simms, introduction by Keen Butterworth. Southern

Quarterly 48.2 (2011): 125-128. Review of Selected Poems of William Gilmore Simms, edited by James Everett Kibler.

South Carolina Review 43.2 (2011): 179-81. Review of Jerry Bradley’s The Importance of Elsewhere. American Book Review Jan./Feb. 2010:

29. Review of Randall Ivey’s The Shape of a Man: A Novella and Five Stories. South Carolina Review 36.2 (2004): 178-79. Review of Robert McPhillips’ The New Formalism: A Critical Introduction. Sewanee Review

111.3 (2003): lxx-lxxiv. Review of Tom Noyes’s Behold Faith. South Carolina Review 36.1 (2003): 173-74. Review of Rodney Torreson’s A Breathable Light. American Book Review Sept.-Oct. 2003: 22,

24.

Review of Brooke Horvath and Tim Wiles’s Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems. NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture 12.1 (2003): 162-64.

Review of Dana Gioia’s Nosferatu: An Opera Libretto. Sewanee Review 111.3 (2003): lxxxviii-

lc. Review of Peter Rutkoff’s Shadowball: A Novel of Baseball and Chicago. NINE: A Journal of

Baseball History and Culture 10.2 (2002): 142-43.

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Review of Dana Gioia’s Interrogations at Noon. American Book Review March/April 2002: 17.

Review of J. Robert Barth’s Coleridge and the Symbolic Imagination. America 15 Oct. 2001:

36-38.

Review of Ted Wright’s Aimless Life: Poems 1961-95. Poet Lore 96.2 (2001): 59-61.

Review of Tim Peeler's Touching All the Bases: Poems From Baseball. NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture 9.1&2 (2000-01): 123-24.

Review of John A. Lauricella's Home Games: Essays on Baseball Fiction. NINE: A Journal of

Baseball History and Culture 9.1&2 (2000-01): 107-8.

Review of Rodney Torreson's The Ripening of Pinstripes (poems). NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Social Policy Perspectives 7.1 (1998): 121-24.

Review of Christine Gallant's Tabooed Jung: Marginality as Power. Journal of Evolutionary

Psychology 19.1&2 (1998): 58-60. Review of Ted Kooser's Weather Central. Paterson Literary Review 27 (1998): 393-94. Review of Donald Hall's The Old Life. Poet Lore 92.3 (1997): 67-69 Review of Lenard Moore's Forever Home and Desert Storm: A Brief History. African American

Review 30.1 (1996): 145-47. Review of Richard Flynn's The Age of Reason. The Chattahoochee Review 15.2 (1995): 107-9. Review of Lenard Moore's Poetry Reading (videotape). African American Review 28.4 (1994):

681-82. Review of Mark Strand's Dark Harbor. Poet Lore 89.2 (1994): 61-63. Review of David Vancil's The Art School Baby. New Mexico Humanities Review 37 (1993): 159-

61. Review of James Emanuel's Whole Grain: Collected Poems, 1958-89. “Memories Affection

Knows.” African American Review 26.2 (1992): 358-60. Review of Timothy Steele's Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt Against Meter.

Verse 7.3 (1990): 74-76. Review of Eugenia DeLamotte's Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of 19th-Century Gothic.

Journal of Mind and Behavior 11.2 (1990): 239-41. Review of David Wojahn's Glassworks. New Mexico Humanities Review 32 (1989): 148-50. Review of Peter O'Connor's Dreams and the Search for Meaning. Journal of Mind and Behavior

10.1 (1989): 123-25. Review of Michael Cohen's Engaging English Art. Southern Humanities Review 23.3 (1989):

288-89. Review of Spencer Hall and Jonathan Ramsey's Approaches to Teaching Wordsworth's Poetry.

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Indiana English 12.2 (1988): 29-30. Review of Robert Bly's Selected Poems. New Mexico Humanities Review 10.2 (1987): 89-91. Review of Barbara Unger's Inside the Wind. Wind Magazine 17 (1987): 113-14. Review of Nancy Parsifal-Charles' The Dream: 4,000 Years of Theory and Practice. Journal of

Mind and Behavior 8.2 (1987): 357-58. Review of James Twitchell's Dreadful Pleasures. Studies in the Humanities 14.1 (1987): 62-63. Review of David Bengston's The Man From Coal Lake. New Mexico Humanities Review 9.1

(1986): 95. Review of Liam Hudson's Night Life: The Interpretation of Dreams. Journal of Mind and

Behavior 7.4 (1986): 599-600. Review of Galway Kinnell's The Past. New Mexico Humanities Review 9.2 (1986): 90-91. Review of James Heffernan's The Re-Creation of Landscape. Georgia Review 39.3 (1985): 672-

73. Review of Ernest Hartmann's The Nightmare. Journal of Mind and Behavior 6.3 (1985): 443-46. Review of James Twitchell's Romantic Horizons. Romanticism Past & Present 8.2 (1984): 45-

49. Review of Galway Kinnell's Selected Poems. Great River Review 5.2 (1984): 260-63. Review of Annabel Thomas' The Phototropic Woman and Diane Benedict's Shiny Objects. Great

River Review 4.2 (1983): 266-70.

"The Culmination of a Career: James Wright's This Journey." Mid-American Review 2.2 (1982): 173-78.

Review of Mark Strand's Selected Poems. Mid-American Review 1.2 (1981): 193-96. 17 other reviews (Doctorow, Sontag, Strand, Wright, Tanenhaus and Tobin, Auchincloss,

Milosz, Sabato, Bromell, Simmons, Moss, Gibson, Smith, Spender) in Minneapolis Tribune and Minnesota Daily, 1978-82.

Nonfiction

“Reading the Unreadable.” Indiana State University Magazine 18.1 (Sept. 14, 2012). http://www.isumagazine.com/2012/09/thoughts-on-art/ “Buildings and the Love of Books.” What She Might Think. July 6, 2012. http://www.erinpringle.com/2012/07/summer-library-series-buildings-and.html

PAPERS DELIVERED "Light Reading: Simms's Comic Verse." Simms Society Conference, Orangeburg, SC, Sept. 25, 2014. .

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“Bryant, Simms, and the Emersonian Worship of Nature.” Simms Society Conference, Columbia, SC, U. of South Carolina, Sept. 29, 2012.

“Simms and the Poetry of Trauma: Mourning and the Healing Powers of Memory.” Simms

Society Conference, Columbia, SC, U. of South Carolina, Sept. 24, 2010.

“Simms and Neoclassicism.” Simms Society Symposium, Athens, GA, Sept. 12, 2008. “Coleridge’s ‘Christabel’ and His Supernatural ‘Ideal’ of Psychic Collapse.” Midwest British Studies Conference. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Oct. 29, 2006. “Simms, Hawthorne, and ‘The Inutile Pursuit’ of ‘The Artist of the Beautiful.’” Geographies of Americanism: Simms and Forrest, A Bicentiennial Conference, Historical Society of Philadelphia, April 2006. “Simms and the Sonnet.” William Gilmore Simms Society Conference, Furman U., April 2004.

“Mick Cochrane’s Sport and the Mythic Symbol of Fathers Playing Catch

With Sons.” NINE Conference on Baseball History and Culture, Tuscon, AZ, Martch 2004.

“Mick Cochrane’s Sport and the Mythic Symbol of Fathers Playing Catch

With Sons.” ISU Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture. Terre Haute, April 2003.

“Simms, Wordsworth, and ‘The Mysterious Teachings of the Natural World.” Simms Biannual Conference, U. of So. Carolina, April 2002.

"Coleridge, Friedrich, and the 'Hymn' to Mountain Glory." American Conference on

Romanticism, Indiana U., Nov. 1999.

"The Psychology of Success in Andre Dubus's Baseball Fiction." ISU Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture, Terre Haute, April 1999.

"The 'Flow' of the Game: Andre Dubus' 'The Pitcher.'" NINE Spring Training Conference,

Arizona State U., March 1998. "Mary Shelley's Cautionary Narrative: Frankenstein as Therapy." American Conference on

Romanticism, Athens, GA, Jan. 1998.

"Wordsworth and Portraiture: 'Visible Quest of Immortality'?" American Conference on Romanticism, Milwaukee, Sept. 1995.

"The Transparent Baseball: 'Making Contact' as Metaphor for Visionary Experience." Conference

on Baseball in Literature and Culture, Terre Haute, IN, April 1995. "Dr. Jekyll's Gothic Psyche." ICEA, Muncie, IN, Oct. 1994. "Victor Frankenstein's Gothic Psyche." Popular Culture Assoc., Louisville, March 1992. "Repression, Knowledge, and Saving Souls: The Role of the 'New Woman' in Stoker's Dracula

and Murnau's Nosferatu." Popular Culture Assoc., Winchester, England, July 1991.

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"Wordsworth and 'Art's Bold Privilege': His Iconic Poems as 'Spots of Time.'" International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Fine Arts of the 19th Century, Laurinburg, NC, Oct. 1990.

"Monstrous Research: Using Gothic Novels and Horror Films to Teach the Documented Essay."

East Central Writing Centers Assoc. Conference, Terre Haute, IN, April 1990. "Nabokov's Cubist Narrative: Picasso's Portraits and The Real Life of Sebastian Knight." 20th-

Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, February 1990. "Poe's Gothic Sublimity: Prose Style, Painting, and Mental Boundaries in 'The Fall of the House

of Usher.'" American Culture Assoc., St. Louis, April 1989. "Using Art to Explain John Keats's Poems." Ind. College Engl. Assoc, Indianapolis, Oct.1987. "Teaching Literature Through Art: Poe, Painting, and 'The Fall of the House of Usher.'" Indiana

Council of Teachers of English, Terre Haute, IN, Oct. 1986. "The Psychology of Landscape in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein." Indiana College English Assoc.,

Terre Haute, IN, Oct. 1986. "The Sublime in Romantic Poetry and Painting." Amer. Soc. for Aesthetics, Louisville, Oct.

1985.

POETRY READINGS (featured)

Group reading hosted by Indiana Poet-Laureate George Kalamaras. Indiana State Library, Indianapolis, Sept. 13, 2015. Geeta Jensen's, Raymond, WI, Nov. 15, 2014. Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, Nov. 13, 2014. First Friday Series, with Darla Crist, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN, March 1, 2014.

"Borderlands: The Western Reading." Hosted by Indiana Poet-Laureate Karen Kovacik. Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN, Nov. 1, 2013.

Vigo County Public Library, Terre Haute, IN, April 19, 2012. Writers Center of Indiana, Indianapolis, April 15, 2012.

Moraine Valley Community College, Palos Hills, IL, April 11, 2012. Vigo County Public Library, Terre Haute, IN, April 15, 2010. Vincennes U. and Knox County Public Library, Vincennes, IN, April 14, 2010. Poetry on Brick Street, G. Simone’s Café, Zionsville, IN, Mar. 4, 2010. Poetry reading, Honors Students Assn., ISU, Feb. 2010. Woman’s Dept. Club, Terre Haute, IN, Jan. 2010. Indiana College English Assoc., Huntington College, IN, Oct. 2009. Landini Lecture Series, English Dept., ISU, Sept. 2009 Missouri State U. at West Plains, West Plains, MO, July 2009. Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, Nov. 2008. Southwestern Oklahoma State U., Weatherford, OK, March 2008. Reading from Sea-Crossing of Saint Brendan, Landini Lecture Series, ISU, Feb. 2008. Cunningham Memorial Library, Indiana St. U., Dec. 2007. Cunningham Memorial Library, Indiana St. U.,Feb. 2005. Poetry Society of South Carolina, Charleston, Nov. 2004.

Poets and Writers Literary Forum, Springfield, IL, March 2004. Elizabethtown Community College, KY, April 2003.

Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN, April 2003. Featured Reader at South High School poetry reading, Coffee Grounds, Terre Haute, May 2003.

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Conference on Baseball in American Literature and Culture, ISU, March 2002. Southwest Missouri State U.-West Plains, April 2002.

Indiana College English Assoc., Marian College, Indianapolis, Oct. 2001. Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, June 2000.

Bellarmine College, Thomas Merton Center, Louisville, KY, May 1999. Always on Friday, Indiana State U., Nov. 1998. Swope Art Museum, Crosstown ArtsFest, Terre Haute, April 1998. Indiana College English Assoc., Hanover College, Oct. 1997. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, June 1997. Vigo County Public Library, Terre Haute, Aug. 1996. BookNation/Coffee Grounds, Terre Haute, June 1995. Popular Culture Association Conference, Chicago, April 1994. Vigo County Public Library, Terre Haute, April 1994. BookNation/Coffee Grounds, Terre Haute, Feb. 1994. Indianapolis Writers' Center, Terre Haute, June 1993. Always on Friday Program, Indiana State U., Feb. 1993. Westminster Presbyterian Church, Terre Haute, April 1992. Ottawa University, Ottawa, KS, Nov. 1991. Spalding University, Louisville, April 1991. Dept. of Humanities, Indiana State U., Terre Haute, IN, April 1990. Indiana College English Assoc., Indianapolis, Oct. 1989. Upward Bound Program, Indiana State U., June 1989. Friends of Cunningham Memorial Library, Indiana State U., April 1989. Always on Friday Program, Indiana State U., Feb. 1986, Oct. 1988. Dept. of English, U. of Minnesota, Nov. 1982. Adult Study Group, Good Samaritan Church, Edina, MN, March 1980. Third Century Poetry and Prose Series, U. of Minnesota, May 1979.

OTHER ACTIVITIES/PRESENTATIONS

Judge, poetry contest, Skywalk Writers Festival, Moraine Valley Community College, Nov. 20, 2015.

Poetry workshop, Skywalk Writers Festival, Moraine Valley Community College, Nov. 20, 2015. Member, editorial board, U. of Arkansas Press, Simms Series, 2015-. Lecture and introduction/discussion: Todd Field's film In the Bedroom, ISU Honors Program Film

Series, Apr. 8, 2015. "Mary Shelley and Her Cinematic Progeny." Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, Nov. 13, 2014. Classroom visit, Lecture-discussion on Frankenstein, Terre Haute South HS, Dec. 10, 2013. Reviewed article ms. on Frankenstein for Studies in Romanticism, Nov. 2013. Special Guest, "Vampire Double Feature and Discussion: Nosferatu and Lost Boys. ISU Honors

Program, Apr. 10, 2013. Judge, Student Essay Contest, U. of Indianapolis, March 2013.

Judge, Gateway Poetry Contest, for IUPUI, March 2012. Reviewed book ms. on Poe and Visual Arts for Penn State U P, Oct. 2012. Poetry workshop, Moraine Valley Community College, IL, April 11, 2012.

Classroom visit, Poetry reading and talk on poems about art, Terre Haute North HS, March 12, 2012.

“The Creative Process: Five Essential Steps to Writing a Good Poem.” Arts Illiana Wordfest, Dec. 3, 2011.

External Tenure Review for Rochester Institute of Technology, Aug. 2011. External Tenure Review for Indiana U. East, Humanities and Social Sciences, May 2011. B.A thesis committee for Jeffrey Everhart, Longwood U., Apr. 2011.

“Poe’s Gothic Psyche.” NEA Big Read Program, Cunningham Library, ISU, April 5, 2011.

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Selection Committee for Fiction Submissions; intro. to “Terminal,” Spectrum, Arts Illiana, 2010. Selection Committee for State Poet Laureate, Indiana Arts Commission, 2010-11. Sunday Talk on Frankenstein, play by R.N. Sandberg, at Crossroads Repertory, Terre Haute, IN,

July 11, 2010. External Tenure/Promotion Review for U. of Pittsburgh, Johnstown, Hum. Div., Oct. 2009.

President, William Gilmore Simms Society, 2008-10. Member, editorial board, Simms Review, 2008-present. Review 2-4 mss. per year. Poetry workshop on revision, Craft of Poetry Class, Grinnell College, Nov. 2008. Judge, Westview Literary Festival student contest, Southwestern Oklahoma State U., March 2008. Poetry workshop, Southwestern Oklahoma State U., March 2008. Lecture, “The Picturesque in ‘Tintern Abbey.’” Southwestern Oklahoma State U., Mar. 2008. “From Classic to Romantic in the Sister Arts.” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Terre Haute,

IN, Sept. 12, 13, 19, 20, 2007. Panelist, ISU Human Rights Day, session on Nothing But the Truth, April 18, 2007. Panelist, “Reading The Great Gatsby: Romanticism in the Novel.” NEA Big Read Program.

Always on Friday, ISU, at the Clabber Girl Bake Shop, Mar. 23, 2007. Judge, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology county-wide Poetry of Science contest, Dec. 2005. Introduction of Russell Banks, “Living in the Sweet Hereafter.” First Year Programs, Nov. 2005. “Favorite Poem Project.” Dewey Institute for Lifelong Learning, Oct. 18 & 25, 2005. “The Nature of Simms’s Southern Ecology.” Always on Friday, ISU, Oct. 21, 2005. “The Voyage of St. Brendan: A Version in Verse.” Always on Friday, ISU, March 2005. National Endowment for the Arts, literature panel for grants to journals and presses, July 2004. Judge, Joy Bale Boone Poetry Contest, Heartland Review, April 2003. Reviewed poetry writing text, Nine Forms, for Pearson/Longman, Dec. 2002.

Judge, Hines-Sandison Halls Poetry Slam, Sam’s Club, ISU, Nov. 2002 and Mar. 2003. Judge, English Dept. Renaissance Festival poetry contest, April 2003.

“Dana Gioia: The Poet as Public Intellectual.” Always on Friday, Indiana State U., Oct. 2002. “Keats’s Craftsmanship.” Mountain View, MO Poets Society, April 2002. “Simms, Wordsworth, and ‘The Mysterious Teachings of the Natural World.” Always on

Friday, ISU, February 2002. Participant (invited) in critical seminar on Richard Wilbur, West Chester U. Poetry Conference,

West Chester, PA., June 2001. Session Chair, Baseball Personal Narratives, ISU Conference on Baseball in Literature and

Culture, March 2001. Session Chair, Creative Writing, ISU Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture, April

2000 and March 2002. Judge, Student Alumni Assoc. Outstanding Junior Award, 2001. “Invisible Landscapes and Inner Light in Romantic Poetry and Painting.” Swope Art Museum,

Terre Haute, Feb. 2001 and Always on Friday, ISU, March 2001. Reviewed article ms. on Frankenstein for Papers in Language and Literature, Sept. 2000. “Coleridge, Friedrich, and the “Hymn’ to Mountain Glory.” Always on Friday, ISU, Feb. 2000.

Judge, ISU Undergraduate/Graduate Research Showcase, April 2000. Poetry Workshop for students from Eastern High School of Bloomfield, IN, at ISU, April 2000. Reviewed book ms. on the Gothic for Susquehanna University Press, Nov. 1999. Poetry Workshop, Terre Haute South High, Oct. 1999. Reviewed text for Addison Wesley Longman: Anthology of British Literature, Compact Edition,

July 1999. Attended NEH workshop, Washington, D.C., April 1998. Poetry Workshop, Terre Haute South High, Nov. 19, 1997. Poetry Workshops at Gibault School for Boys, Terre Haute, Oct. 1, 1997. "Victor Frankenstein's Cautionary Tale." Always on Friday Program, I S U., Feb. 1997. "Keats, Art, and Desire for the Ideal." Always on Friday Program, I S U., Oct. 1995. Judge, Indiana College Creative Writing Day Contest, St. Mary of the Woods, Feb. 1995.

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"Dr. Jekyll's Gothic Psyche." Always on Friday Program, Indiana State U., Feb. 1995. "The Novel as Nightmare: Bram Stoker's Dracula." Always on Friday Program, ISU, Mar. 1994. Judge, Vigo County Library Contest for Elementary and Middle School Students, April 1993. Judge, Indianapolis Writers' Center College Poetry Read-off, Indianapolis, April 1993. "The Role of Women in the Vampire Myth." Honors Students Assoc., ISU., Sept. 1992. "Sex, Fiction, and Videotape: The Role of the 'New Woman' in Two Versions of the Vampire

Myth." Always on Friday Program, ISU, Sept. 1992. Lecture-discussion on Blake and Wordsworth, West Vigo Jr. High, West Terre Haute, IN, Nov.

1991. Poetry Workshop, Ottawa U., Ottawa, KS, Nov. 1991. Read poems by Lorca at "Day of the Language," Dept. of Foreign Languages, ISU, April 1991. Poetry Workshop and Reading, Gibault School for Boys, Terre Haute, IN, April 1991. "Wordsworth and 'Arts Bold Privilege': His Iconic Poems as 'Spots of Time.'" Always on

Friday Program, ISU, Sept. 1990. "Nabokov's Cubist Narrative: Picasso's Portraits and The Real Life of Sebastian Knight."

Always on Friday Program, Indiana State U., Sept. 1989. "Romanticism and the Sister Arts: Wordsworth, Constable, and Turner." Arts and Sciences

Seminar, ISU., Feb. 1988. Autumn Writes, Creative Writing Workshops in Poetry for High School Students, ISU, 1986-88. "Mariane Moore and Ford Correspond: Have You Driven a Metaphor Lately?" Always on Friday

Program, ISU, Oct. 1987. Co-presenter. "Poetry, Painting, and the 'Picture of the Mind.'" Always on Friday Program, ISU, March 1987.

EDITING

Acting Editor of Theses and Dissertations, School of Graduate Studies, ISU, spring 1986, fall 1992.

Contributor, A Bibliography of English Language and Literature, Modern Humanities Research Assoc., 1986-87.

Senior Editor, Golle and Holmes Financial Learning, Minneapolis, Dec. 1982-Aug. 1984.

HONORS AND AWARDS Nominated for Pushcart Prize, poem "Burlesque," 2013. Indiana Arts Commission grant in poetry, 2011-2012. Finalist, Best Books of Indiana, poetry (House with the Mansard Roof), 2010. Indiana State Library Center for the Book, Indianapolis. William Gilmore Simms Visiting Research Professorship, South Caroliniana Library, U. of South

Carolina, summer 2007. Inducted as distinguished honorary member of National Society of

Collegiate Scholars, Oct. 2005. Included in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 8th ed., 2004, 9th ed., 2005. Nominated by students.

Included in Who's Who in America, 52nd ed., 1998, 60th ed., 2005, 61th ed., 2007, 67th ed., 2013, 68th ed., 2014, 69th ed, 2015, 70th ed., 2015.

Anam Cara Artist's and Writer's Retreat, Eyeries, Beara Peninsula, Ireland, Oct. 2004. Theodore Dreiser Distinguished Research and Creativity Award, ISU, 2002. Included in Directory of American Scholars (Gale, 2000).

Thomas Merton Center Poetry Prize for "The Sublime," first place, judge Wendell Berry, 1999. Included in Contemporary Authors (Gale, 1998, vol. 165, 30-31) and

Contemporary Authors New Revisions (Gale, vol. 117). Mary Anderson Center for the Arts, resident fellow, Feb. 1998.

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Arts Endowment Grant, Indiana State U., 2014, 2010, 2004, 2001, 1998, 1993. University Research Grant, Indiana State U., 2007, 1996, 1991.

Included in Who's Who in the World, 13th ed., 1996, 15th ed., 1998, 16th ed., 1999, 17th ed.,

2000. Included in Who's Who in the Midwest, 24th ed., 1994, 25th ed., 1996, 26th ed., 1998-99,

Millennial ed., 2001. Included in Who's Who in American Education, 5th ed., 1995, 6th ed., 2004, 7th ed., 2005, 8th

ed. 2007-8. Indiana Arts Commission Individual Artist Master Fellowship in Literature, 1994-95. Included in Who’s Who in U.S. Writers, Editors, & Poets, 2002. Included in The International Who's Who in Poetry, 7th ed., 1993, 8th

ed., 1997, 9th ed., 1999, 10th ed., 2004. Included in 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century, 2003.

Morse Poetry Prize, Northeastern Univ. Press, semifinalist, 1992. Brittingham Poetry Prize, U. of Wisconsin, semifinalist, 1991. Included in The Directory of American Poets and Writers, 1991-present. Indianapolis Writers' Center Poetry Chapbook Competition, honorable mention, 1991. Loft-McKnight Foundation Writers' Awards, finalist in poetry, 1984. Academy of American Poets, honorable mention, 1979, 1980, 1984. Phi Kappa Phi, U. of Minnesota, 1981. Phi Beta Kappa, Grinnell College, 1977.

Graduated with Honors in English, 1977. Selden Whitcomb Poetry Prize, honorable mention, Grinnell College, 1977. Mortar Board, Grinnell College, 1976.

COURSES TAUGHT

Indiana State U. English 101: Freshman Writing I English 104: Freshman Writing I English 105: Freshman Writing II English 107: Writing and Rhetoric English 108: Writing About Literature and Culture English 130: Introduction to Literature English 221: Introduction to Poetry Writing English 219: Introduction to Creative Writing English 231: Introduction to Short Fiction English 235: Major World Authors English 237: World Literature and Culture II English 239: Family Relations English 239: Literature and Nature

English 239: Fiction into Film English 250: Major English Authors English 251: British Literature II English 305: Advanced Expository Writing English 325W: Poetry Writing English 325T: Techniques of Poetry English 4/524: Advanced Creative Writing Workshop (Fiction)

English 4/524: Advanced Creative Writing Workshop (Poetry) English 4/533, Humanities 4/580: Literature and Culture of the 19th Century English 436: Topics in World Literature: Romanticism and Realism

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English 4/553: British Romantic Literature English 4/563F: Seminar in British Literature since 1800: Landscape in Romantic Poetry and Fiction English 4/563: Seminar in British Literature since 1800: The Gothic Novel English 669: Studies in British Literature since 1800: Wordsworth and Coleridge English 669: Studies in British Literature since 1800: John Keats Honors 221: Literature and the Visual Arts Honors 201/301: The Young Romantics

Honors 301: The Gothic Psyche in Fiction and Film

U. of Minnesota Humanities 1-002: The Modern World II English 1-009: Intro to the Study of Literature English 1-018: Intro to Modern Fiction English 1-671: The Short Story English 3-118: The Romantic Age English 3-241: Shakespeare--Early and Middle Plays English 3-243: Shakespeare--Later Plays Composition 1-001: Introductory Composition Composition 1-002: Introductory Composition Composition 1-003: Writing Practice Composition 1-008: Intro to Literature, Composition Composition 1-027: Intermediate Composition Composition 3-032: Professional Writing for Business Cooperative Center for Study Abroad, London Program at King’s College Romantic Landscape in Literature and Art (summer 2008)

MASTER’S COMMITTEES English Dept.

M.A. paper committee for Norman Miller, expected 2015. M.A. paper committee for Amber Jones, 2015. M.A. creative project committee for Ashley Rose Shrader, 2015. M.A. paper committee, Chair, for Theresa Snoderly, . M.A. creative project committee, Chair, for Jon Bonomo, 2014. M.A. creative project committee for Dana Sloneker, 2014. M.A. creative project committee for Edwin Mwanza, 2013. M.A. creative project committee for Joshua Julian, 2013. M.A. paper committee for Janet Hagemeier, 2012. M.A. creative project committee for Robin Voll, 2012. M.A. creative project committee for Andrew Collins, 2012. M.A. creative project committee for Jack Bonham, 2012. M.A. creative project committee, Chair, for Greg Mundth, 2011. M.A. creative project committee, Chair, for Jeanette Youngblood-Robles, 2010. M.A. creative project committee, Chair, for Michael Miller, 2010. M.A. creative project committee, Chair, for Elaina Milner, 2010. M.A. paper committee for Heather Goetz, 2009. M.A. creative project, Chair, for Catherine Ippolito, 2009. M.A. paper committee for Stephanie Alexander, 2008. M.A. thesis committee for Jessica Schmidt, 2008. M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for Matt Burkett, 2008.

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M.A. creative project committee, Chair, for Tami Nicholson, 2008. M.A. creative project committee for Steve Lively, 2007. M.A. creative project committee for Amy Rightsell, 2007. M.A. paper committee, Chair, for Gina Minar, 2006. M.A. creative project committee, Chair, for Sarah Strecker, 2006. M.A. creative project committee, Chair, for Samantha Myers, 2006. M.A. paper committee for Christina Forsyth, 2006. M.A. paper committee, Chair, for Maryann Hon, 2006. M.A. creative project committee for Justin Bauserman, 2006. M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for Darla Beasley, 2005. M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for Nelson Bogren, 2005. M.A. paper committee, Chair, for Lance Farrell, 2005. M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for Rachel Fairbanks, 2004. M.A. thesis committee for Carol Schnitzer, 2004. M.A. paper committee for Kenny Coleman, 2004. M.A. thesis committee for Uma Doraiswami, 2003.

. M.A. paper committee, Chair, for Legatha Hayes, 2002. M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for Roberta Feuquay, 2002. M.A. thesis committee for Michael Marx, 2001. M.A. thesis committee for Maggie Landess, 2001. M.A. paper committee, Chair, for Trina Barrett, 2001. M.A. paper committee for Il Sun Kang, 2001.

M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for John Sherman, 2000. M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for Don Marshall, 2000. M.A. paper committee for Ann Cockerham, 2000. M.A. paper committee, Chair, for Scott Stalcup, 1999. M.A. paper committee, Chair, for Andra Pavuls, 1999. M.A. paper commitee for Paula Borman, 1999. M.A. orals committee, Chair, for Kathrina Lehleiter, 1998. M.A. paper committee for Robin Bradford, 1998. M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for Mark Peters, 1997. M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for Mary Stepp, 1997. M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for Christy Williams, 1997. M.A. paper committee for Bob Van Est, 1997. M.A. paper committee, Chair, for Ed Karshner, 1997. M.A. thesis committee for Allen Glover, 1996. [defended] M.A. thesis committee for Tracy Clark, 1996. M.A. thesis committee for Mary Ann Chasko, 1996. M.A. paper committee for Carey Spears, 1996. M.A. paper committee, Chair, for Heather Foote, 1996. M.A. paper committee, Chair, for Jennifer Condon, 1996. M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for Tom Tobin, 1995. M.A. paper committee, for Suzanne Whitaker, 1995. M.A. thesis committee for Scott Cockrum, 1995. M.A. thesis committee for Kevin Canney, 1995. M.A. thesis committee for Maria Wilcox, 1995. M.A. paper committee for Katie McConnell, 1995. M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for Ken Pell, 1994. M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for Dave Malone, 1994. M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for Gail Hartel, 1994. M.A. thesis committee for Michael Harrold, 1994. M.A. orals committee for Lisa Rivedal, 1994. M.A. paper committee, Chair, for Betty Wachtel, 1993. M.A. paper committee, Chair, for David Thompson, 1993. M.A. paper committee, for Patricia Robillard, 1992. M.A. thesis committee, for Scott Dineen, 1992.

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M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for John Colvin, 1991. M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for Mary Ramey, 1991. M.A. paper committee, Chair, for Pinki Chakrabarti, 1991. M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for Tony Hofer, 1991. M.A. orals committee, for Mari White, 1990. M.A. orals committee for Charna Todd, 1989. M.A. orals committee for Stephanie Hendricks, 1989. M.A. thesis committee, for Dawn Leamon, 1988. M.A. thesis committee, for Bob Flott, 1987.

M.A. orals committee, for Susan Latta, 1986.

Other Departments M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for Maggie Wheeler, Dept. of Humanities, 1994. M.A. thesis committee for David Wedaman, Dept. of Humanities, 1993. M.F.A. defense for Paul Bauer, Art Dept., 1990. M.F.A. defense for Laurence Campbell, Art Dept., 1989.

SERVICE

University

Graduate Council Committee on Fellowships and Assistantships, 1986-87, 2009-10. Interviewer for Presidential Scholarships, Jan. 2009. Ad Hoc Committee on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Grad. School, fall 2008. Faculty Advisor, Chapter of National Society of Collegiate Scholars, 2003-04. Promotions Committee, 1999, 2001.

Ad hoc committee on faculty salary compression, Dec. 2000-May 2001. Arts Endowment Committee, 1989-91, 1998-2000, 2001-02, 2008-9; vice chair, 1999-2000. Student Affairs Committee, 2003-04. Board, University Club, 1998-2002, 2007-08; secretary, 1999-2002. University Speakers Series, Subcommittee for Robert Pinsky visit, introduced, fall 1999. Faculty Senate, 1998-2000, 2000-02, 2003-05 (on leave fall ’04); 2007-09. University Research Committee, Aug. 1996-Dec. 1997. General Education Task Force, Chair, Literary and Artistic Studies, 1996-97.

Theodore Dreiser Research and Creativity Award Selection Committee, 1995, 1997, 2009, 2011. Judge, National Science Foundation Summer High School Program Poetry Contest, 1993. Faculty Sponsor, Arion: Student Creative Writing Club, 1990-91. Judge, American Education Week Writing Contest, University School, 1989. Ad Hoc Committee of Faculty Senate on Creativity and Performance Grants, 1987-88. College Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2005. Program Review Committee for Communication and Theater, 1992. Student Affairs Committee of Faculty Council, 1988-90, chair, 1989-90. Program Review Committee for Art and Theater, 1989.

Dept. Representative, Faculty Council, 1987-88. Ad Hoc Committee on Interdisciplinary Study, 1986-87. Department

Creative Writing Committee, 1985-present; chair, 1990-91, 1992-94,

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2000-03, 2005-07. Schick Lecture Committee, 2003-2009; Chair, 2003-4. Pfennig Scholarship Committee, 2009-2011, 2013-15.

Baseball in Literature and Culture Conference, co-organizer, 1997, 1999, 2003. Search Committees, Chair, 1999 (2), 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008; member, 1987, 2005.

Personnel Committee, 1992-94; 1995-97, 1998-2000, 2001-05, 2006-08, 2009-11; fall 2011; 2013-15; chair, 1996-97, 1998-2000, spring 2002, 2006-07.

Graduate Committee, 1987-89, 1992-96, fall 1997, 1998-99, 2004-; chair, 1994-96, 1998-99, 2007-Dec. 2011. Smock Award Committee, 1994-95; chair, 1995. Graduate Awards Committee, chair, fall 1995-97, member 2001.

Creative Writing Awards Committee, 1989-96, 1999-present; chair, 1993-95, 2000-03. Ad Hoc Committee on student assessment, fall 1992. Audio-Visual Committee, 1987, 1989-90, fall 1992. Honors Committee, 1988-89. Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 1985-87, 1992, spr. 2005, 2006-07. Planning Committee for Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, 1985-86. Scholarships and Awards Committee, 1986-89, 1999-2003, 2012-present. Graduate Faculty, 1985-present. Mentor to teaching assistants, 1988, 1990-91, 1993-97, 1999-2001-02, 2002-03. Advisor to graduate students, 1994-96, 1998-99, Aug. 2007-Dec. 2011. Advisor to undergraduate majors/minors in creative writing, 1986-93.

MEMBERSHIPS

Wordsworth-Coleridge Assoc., William Gilmore Simms Society.

MORE INFO

http://www.amazon.com/MatthewBrennan/e/B001JRZQMU/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_5?qid=1355537676&sr=1-5

Website: http://www.indstate.edu/english/content/profiles/matthew_brennan.asp?rM=0 http://www.thebackwaterspress.org/our-authors/matthew-brennan/ Interviews: Westview 28.1 (2008): 4-8. By Kevin Collins. Indiana Libraries 26.1 (2006): 4-5. By David Vancil. https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/handle/1805/1526 www.throughthe3rdeye.com. By Andrew DeHaan. http://www.throughthe3rdeye.com/node/576 Articles: “Familiar Mystery: Thoughts on Matthew Brennan’s The House with the Mansard Roof.” By Andrew DeHaan. http://www.throughthe3rdeye.com/node/571 “ISU Prof to Read at Poetry Event.” Tribune Star April 8, 2011.

http://tribstar.com/entertainment/x1687703140/ISU-prof-to-read-from-book-at-poetryevent

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http://www.mvccglacier.com/2012/04/brennan-brings-poetry-to-a-new-audience/ Judges’ comments from Best Books of Indiana competition: http://www.in.gov/library/4051.htm Entry in Contemporary Authors, Gale Research, vol. 165: 30-31.

http://www.amazon.com/Matthew-Brennan/e/B001JRZQMU http://statemagazine.com/marta-pelrine-bacon-90/

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