Jonathan Minton
Assistant Professor of English
Office: Administration Building Room 403
Phone: 304-462-7361 ext. 7322
Jonathan.Minton@glenville.edu

Education

• Ph.D., Poetics, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2006.

• M.A., English Literature and Poetics, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2003.

• M.A., English Literature and Creative Writing, North Carolina State University, 1998.

• B.A., English Literature with minor in film, North Carolina State University, 1995.

Courses Taught

• Engl 101: Creative Reading and Writing
• Engl 203: Survey of English Literature I
• Engl 401: Shakespeare
• Engl 102: American Mosaic
• Engl 420: Modern Poetry
• Engl 493: Survey: The Avant-Garde

Previous Teaching Experience

• University of Montana-Helena College of Technology (2004- 2005)
• Carroll College, Helena, MT (2003 - 2004)
• Siena College, Loudonville, NY (2002 - 2003)
• State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY (1999 - 2002)
• North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (1996 - 1999)

Other Teaching Experience

• Holter Museum of Art Poetry Workshop.
• North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. Young Writer's Summer Poetry Workshop.

Articles and Reviews

• “Enigma: Gloss/Response.” Translated into French by Florent Fajole. Xul/Mobil-Home (Paris, France: Winter 2005).
• “Review of Double Venus, by Aaron McCollough.” Eratio 3 (Spring 2004).
• “Lyrical Cartographies: Review of North True South Bright, by Dan Beachy-Quick.” Free Verse 5 (Winter 2003).
• "Word For Word: Encoding, Networking, and Intention." Dichtung Digital (February 2003).
• “Review of American Essays, by Charles Tomlinson.” Free Verse 3 (Winter 2002).
• “On the Border of Language: Review of Such Rich Hour, by Cole Swensen " Free Verse 1 (Winter 2001).
• "Review of From a Person Sitting in Darkness, by Gerald Barrax." North Carolina Review of Books (Jan 1999).
• "Review of Dancing on Canaan's Ruins, by Jim Clark." North Carolina Review of Books (February 1999).
• "Necessary Mysteries: Barrax's 'Not Often Near Such Water.'" Obsidian III: Literature in the African Diaspora (1.2).
• "Review of Poems for the Millennium, Vol. One and Two." North Carolina Review of Books (October 1998).

Presentations and Readings

• Featured Poetry Reader. New Lakes Reading Series. Missoula, MT. March 2005
• “Emerging Diverging Poetics.” Emerging Poetics Panel. North Carolina Literary Festival. Raleigh, NC. April, 2004.
• “Small Press Networks: Some Current Innovations in Electronic Poetry.” Carroll College Literary Festival. Helena, Montana. November, 2003.
• “Writing ‘Home:’ The Poetry and Graphics of Charles Tomlinson.” Keynote Lecture Presented at the Montana Festival of the Book. Holter Museum, Helena, Montana. October, 2003.
• “Programming and Poetics.” Paper Presentation and Poetry Reading. Tower of Letters Symposium, Cuban Institute of the Book. Havana, Cuba. May, 2003.
• "Word For Word: Encoding, Networking, and Intention." Language & Encoding: A Symposium for Artists, Programmers, & Scholars. SUNY-Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. November, 2002.
• Featured Reader. Digital Poetics Showcase, Wed@4 Reading Series, SUNY-Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. September, 2002.
• "Anti-Modernist Modernisms: Charles Tomlinson, John Cage, and the Art of the Procedure." The 30th Annual Twentieth Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville. February, 2002.
• "Digilogues: C++ and Algorithmic Writing." E-Poetry 2001: An International Poetry Festival. State University of New York at Buffalo. April, 2001.
• "A Living Current: Charles Tomlinson and the Embodiment of Place." The Opening of the Field: A Conference on North American Poetry in the 1960s. University of Maine, Orono. July, 2000.
• "Witches, Fairies, and Self-Made Men: Patriarchal Fantasies and Supernatural Threats in Shakespeare's Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream." Hybridity: Between Identities, Cultures, Genres, and Disciplines, the 6th Annual Sages Literary Conference. University of Oklahoma. October, 1999.
• "Midsummer Masking: Patriarchal Fantasy and the Carnivalesque Threat in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream." Unmasking the Carnival: The Politics and Poetics of Identity, the 8th Annual Conference on Language and Literature. Louisiana State University. February, 1998.
• "Parody and Perception in Poetic Evaluation: Women's Poetry and the Tradition of Dissent in the British 1930's." The 26th Annual Twentieth Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville. February, 1998.

Poetry Publications (Partial List)

 Lost Languages (Fayetteville, NC: Longleaf Press, 1999) "The Byzantine Jar” (Forthcoming in The Displayer). "Southern : Narrative” (Forthcoming in CutBank). "Imaginary Cuba” (eratio 4, Fall 2004). "Point of View After View” and “If the Object of Thinking is Thinking” (Castagraf 6, 2004). "There is no Jazz in the South” (Columbia Poetry Review 16, 2003). "Internment” (Generator 12 1.2, Fall 2003). "Algorithms" (The MacGuffin 20.3, Fall 2003). “The Myth of LMNOP” and “Still-Life with Orange and Bowl” (GutCult #1.2, Summer/Fall 2003). “Poem for Andy Kaufman” and “Southern Narratives XVII-X” (eratio 2, Fall 2003). “Enigma” and “Fermat’s Last Theorem” (sidereality #2.1, January 2003). “Dark Sky Preserve” (Milk Magazine #4, January 2003). "In Gesture" (Can We Have Our Ball Back? #13, November 2002). "Five Sequences" (Muse Apprentice Guild, October 2002). "Landscape" (Free Verse, Spring 2002). "Enfilade" (Seems 35, 2002). "Four Sequences" (xStream #1, May 2002) "Digilogue" (Drunken Boat #4 Spring 2002). "Carpenter" and "The Worm Grunter" (The Adirondack Review #2.4, Spring 2002). "Narcissus and Echo," "Seascape," and "Crabgrass" (Phoebe # 31.2, September, 2002). "Heisenberg Variations," "IN FLAGS," and "A Process of Weather" (Aught #7, February 2002). "Analytical Lyric" (Sugar Mule #9, February 2002). "Landscape for William Carlos Williams" (Poetheia, January 2002). "The Coelacanth" and "Fermat's Last Theorem" (Apples and Oranges, Fall 2001). "the marl pit," "second process, part two," and "prompt and sort" (Moria: Poetry Journal #4.1, Summer 2001). "North Carolina" (White Pelican #1.2, Fall 2000). "Carpenter" (The South Carolina Review #31.2, 1999). "The Spiritual Chicken" (The New Review #5, 1999). "Taking It Back" (Lonzie's Fried Chicken Literary Magazine #3, Summer/Fall 1999). "Icarus Drowning" (Wings Magazine, Summer 1998). "Lazarus Lost" (Meat Whistle Quarterly #2.4, 1998) "Dalgugi" (The Distillery #5.2, 1998).

Pushcart Nominations

• “Enigma” (featured in Sidereality)
• “Dalgugi” (featured in The Distillery)

Editorial Experience

• Editor, Word For/ Word: A Journal of New Writing <http://www.wordforword.info>
• Preliminary Judge, The North Carolina Writers Network 2003 Chapbook Contest
• Poetry Editor, The North Carolina Review of Books, Raleigh, NC (1998-2000)