Ph D English/Creative Writing
Resume:
Marck L. Beggs, Ph.D.
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Education
• Ph.D. (English, University of Denver)
• M.F.A. (Creative Writing, Warren Wilson College)
• B.A. (English, University of Arkansas at Little Rock; minor in Women's Studies) Teaching
• Professor of English (tenured): Henderson State University, 1997-2023
• Excelsior College Instructor (online): 2000-2018
• HSU Honors College: 1998-02; 2003-06; 2007-2010
• Instructor:
o Arkansas Governor's School (summer): 1996, '97, '98 o University of Arkansas at Little Rock: 1992-96 / 1987-1988 o University of Central Arkansas: 1992-96 (Honors College, 1996) o University of Denver: 1988-91
Courses Taught: in-person, online, & hybrids utilizing LMS software (Canvas, Blackboard, Angel) and NCH video and audio editors
Creative Writing, Graphic Novels, Non-Western Literature, World Literature, Contemporary Irish Literature and Film, Nobel Prize Literature, Disability Literature, Modern & Contemporary Drama, Art and Culture, Cultural Perspectives, Technical Writing, Freshman English and Advanced Composition. Administration
• Board of Trustees, Excelsior College (Albany, N.Y.): 2007-2013
• HSU Graduate Dean: 2002-2010
• Harvard Management Development Program: 2005
• HSU Director of Master of Liberal Arts Program: 1999-2002 Books (Poetry)
• Blind Verse (Ireland: Salmon Poetry, 2015)
• Catastrophic Chords (Ireland: Salmon Poetry, 2008)
• Libido Café (Ireland: Salmon Poetry, 2004)
• Godworm (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen Poetry Press, 1995)
• Poems, articles, and reviews published in numerous journals, magazines, newspapers, and anthologies (see “Additional Publications” for complete list) Editing
• 75th Anniversary of the Poets’ Roundtable Anthology. ED, Mockingbird Lane Press.
(2013)
• Arkansas Literary Forum, founder and editor: 1999-2008 (www.marckbeggs.com/alf)
• HSU Strategic Planning report: 2005
• Higher Learning Commission NCA Self-Study: 2002
• HSU Proscenium, editor: 1998-present
• HSU Academic Forum, editor: 1997-2002
• Arkansas Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings Journal: 1998-99
• WORDS: The Arkansas Literary Society Anthology: 1996, '97, '98
• Crazyhorse, Assistant Poetry Editor: 1983-88 / 1994-99
• Denver Quarterly, Managing Editor: 1988-91
CD’s
• Music from the Blood Barn. 2010. Self-released.
• dog gods: I am Large, I Contain Multitudes. 2008. Self-released. Honors
• Ellis College Faculty Excellence in Scholarly Activity Award, 2003 (HSU)
• Ellis College Faculty Excellence in Service Award, 2001 (HSU)
• Friend of WORDS Award, 1999
• Multimedia Curricula Development Grant (HSU), 1998
• Arkansas Arts Council Fellowship in Poetry ($5000), 1997
• Little Rock Free Press Open Competition in Poetry 1994, '95, '97, '98
• UALR Writer's Network Poetry Discovery Award, 1995
• Academy of American Poets Prize (honorable mention), 1991
• Pushcart Prize in Poetry (nomination), 1990, 1996
• University of Denver Teaching/Editing Fellowship, 1988-91
• Intro Award (Associated Writers & Poets), 1984
• Phi Beta Kappa, 1984
• UALR Gladys Brown Award (academic), 1984
• UALR Alma K. Dougherty Award (creative writing), 1984
• UALR Richard Stanley Cooper Literary Award (creative writing), 1983
• Chester H. Jones National Poetry Competition (honorable mention), 1983 Additional Publications
(Poetry Anthologies)
• Days of Clear Light: A Festschrift in Honour of Jessie Lendennie. (Salmon Poetry, 2021):
“Suspension.”
• Salmon: A Journey in Poetry, 1981-2007 (Salmon Poetry, 2007): “Canadian Sonnet,”
“Kilty Sue,” “Fire”
• Bark ( Bulfinch Press, 2000): “Kilty Sue”
• Writer's Almanac (with Garrison Keillor on National Public Radio, 1998): “Kilty Sue”
• Dog Music (St. Martin's Press, 1995): “Kilty Sue”
• Intro 15 & 16, Denver Quarterly, 1988.
• National Poetry Competition (Chester H. Jones, 1983): “Woman Before an Aquarium”
(Poetry Journals)
• Agnieszka's Dowry: “Labyrinthine Days / Starry Nights,” “Sequential” (1998, online)
• Arkansas Review: “Wolves” (1997); “Landscapes” (2004)
• Beauty for Ashes: “Private Renaissance on the Interstate” (1998)
• Cafe Review: “Prayer Drinking” (1997)
• Clade Song: “Blind Verse” (2012)
• Common Ground Review: “Arkansas at Dusk” and “Pisces” (2014)
• Denver Quarterly: “Women & Their Discontents” (1998), “This Lesson” (1992), and
“Our Tendency To Trust Strangers” (1988)
• Eclectica: “Beauty” (1997, online)
• Excelsior Review: “Troy” (2013)
• Exquisite Corpse: “The Predator’s Mistress” and “Inanna Speaks” (2010); “Speak Up for My Opinions” (2002); “Sexual Harassment” (2004)
• Foliate Oak: “Feline 101” and Blue Water”
• Ghoti: “Slinky” (2010)
• Greensboro Review: “Under Hopkins, Falling” (1993)
• Hawai'i Review: “A Vision Of Love” (1990)
• Indefinite Space: “Paradox” and “Floccinaucinihilipilification Beyond the Zero” (1997)
• Laurel Review: “Wine” and “Appreciation Is Twenty-Seven Thirtieths Of The Art”
(1991)
• Little Rock Free Press: “Amy in Paradigm” (1995), “Goats” (1996) “Winefisher” (1997),
“Little Ginsbergian Song,” (1999) and “Victorian Erotic” (2001)
• Manhattan Poetry Review: “Kilty Sue” (1990), “Wood-Split” (1990), and “The Gathering Cats” (1985)
• Missouri Review: “A Border” (Pushcart Prize nomination, 1990)
• National Forum: “Developmentally Handicapped” (1984)
• Nebo: “The Other God” (1998), “Personality Type: Smoker” (1997), “The Degree of Stain” (1994), and “Still-Life With Farmer With Hangover” (1994)
• Oxford American: “Asparagus” (2005)
• Painted Bride Quarterly: “Goats” (1997)
• Pavement Saw: “Osculum sans End” (1997)
• Poet Lore: “Letters to the Man in the Green Stationwagon” (1997)
• Poetry Motel: “Why I Shaved My Head” (1997)
• Recursive Angel: “Naming Heaven” (1997, online)
• ROKOVOKO: “Seven Dreams of Thoreau and the Unabomber,” "Rautavaara," and
"The Poet Falls For a Pianist” (2007-8)
• Stirring: “The National Endowment for the Arts: a parable” (2000, online)
• Toad: “Stray” (2012)
• Toad Suck Review: “Inanna Responds,” “The Predator’s Mistress,” and “Dancing to the Killer Bees” (2011)
• Voices International: “Temporal Photograph” (1993)
• Warren Wilson Review: “In a Garden” (1993), “Heat” (1990), and “Blue Water” (1990)
• Willow Springs: “Grave” (1990)
(Articles & Chapters)
• Lessons Drawn: Essays on the Pedagogy of Comics and Graphic Novels: “Your Brain on Comics: The Graphic Novel in the College Classroom” (with Carly Cate). (2019)
• Arkansas Review: “Miller Williams & the Reader’s Poem” (2019)
• Arkansas Arts Chronicle:“Arkansas Writers and the National Endowment for the Arts” (1995)
• Arkansas Democrat-Gazette:“Watching Movies with Teenagers” (“Teens open their minds to ‘that music’” (2001); “Censorship Lives at Central High” (1995)
• Arkansas Review:“The Birth of a Literary Journal” (2001)
• Arkansas Times:“A Primer of the State's Writers” (2000)
• Intercom (Society of Technical Communications Journal): “Cyber Purgatory: Developing a Departmental Web Page” (1999)
• Little Rock Free Press: “Literary Journals in Central Arkansas” (1995); “Swimming Upstream: Jessie Lendennie, expatriate Arkansas poet, founds world-class poetry press in Ireland” (Feature, 2001)
(Book Reviews)
American Book Review
• Waldrop, Keith: Several Gravities. 2010.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette:
• Ashbery, John: Hotel Lautremont
• Atwan, Robert and Laurance Wieder (editors): Chapters into Verse
• Brooks, Geraldine: Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
• Coetzee, J.M.: The Master of Petersburg
• Crossan, John Dominic: Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography
• Denfeld, Rene: The New Victorians: A Young Woman's Challenge to the Old Feminist Order
• Flinders, Carol Lee: Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics
• Forché, Carolyn: The Angel of History
• Glück, Louise: Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry
• Hampl, Patricia: Virgin Time: In Search of the Contemplative Life
• Hunt, Lynn (editor): The Invention of Pornography
• Kafka, Paul: LOVE <Enter>
• Knox, Bernard: The Oldest Dead White European Males
• Kramer, Peter: Listening to Prozac
• Lux, Thomas: Split-Horizon
• Masumoto, David Mas: Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on my Family Farm
• Pinsky, Robert (translator): The Inferno of Dante
• Powell, Jim (translator): Sappho: A Garland
• Seibert, Joanna: Surrounded by a Cloud of Witnesses Arkansas Times:
• Gautreaux, Tim: Same Place, Same Things
• Jauss, David: Improvising Rivers
• McLarey, Myra: Water From the Well
• Wright, C. D. : Tremble
Little Rock Free Press:
• Anderson, Laurie: Stories from the Nerve Bible
• Ewing, William A.: The Body: Photographs of the Human Form
• Gilchrist, Ellen: The Age of Miracles
• Guilds, John, ed. Arkansas, Arkansas
• Jauss, David: Black Maps
• Wright, Terry: No More Nature
• Wright, Terry: What the Black Box Said
References for Dr. Marck L. Beggs
Dr. David Jauss Core Faculty Vermont College MFA
15 Marble Court Little Rock, AR 72212
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Michael Taylor, Professor Emeritus
Creative Non-Fiction
Henderson State University
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Ms. Tricia Baar, MLA
Dean of Learning
Director, Honors College
Arkansas State University Three Rivers
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Dr. Clinton Atchley Professor Emeritus
Former Chair of English, Foreign Languages, and Philosophy Henderson State University
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