Wren Tuatha, Poetry C.V.
MEMBERSHIPS
PEN America, Professional Level
Sacramento Poetry Center
Listed in Poets & Writers
PUBLISHED COLLECTIONS
Thistle and Brilliant, Finishing Line Press, June 21, 2019.
Skeptical Goats, Finishing Line Press, TBA.
PUBLISHED POEMS
Poetry Pacific, April in Myth; At the Lonely Gravel End; Cornbread; Leaping Cotton; Make Soup, You Said, May 5, 2018, Spring Issue
Poems-for-All, Specific as a Seed, #1631, 2017 TBA
Degenerates: Homelessness Issue, Weasel Press, Thin Fabric and an Empty Bowl; Make Soup, You Said, Mid Dec, 2017
Drunk Monkeys, Fringe, Volume 2, Number 11, Year of Trump Issue, Nov. 1, 2017
Arsenic Lobster, Peter with Oranges, Thuya, Dec. 2017, Final Issue
The Paddock Review, Tupelo Coyote, Nov. 2, 2017
Pirene’s Fountain, Maybe a Metronome, October, 2017, Skin Deep Themed Issue, Vol. 10 Issue #18
The Birds We Piled Loosely, Wearing California, Oct., 2017. Issue #12
Califragile, I Make a Nervous Vessel, Aug. 29, 2017; Tupelo Coyote, Aug. 29, 2017; April in Myth, Aug. 30, 2017; Folding Chair, Sept. 8, 2017; Columbine, Oct. 17, 2017; On the Occupy Savannah, Oct. 22, 2017; Make Soup, You Said, TBA. As Dana Bloomfield: Slaughtered Stalks, Aug. 31, 2017; Thin Fabric and an Empty Bowl, Sept. 9, 2017. As Timothy Pond: Three Haiku–Focus, Charlottesville, The Silo, Aug. 31, 2017.
Canary, A Literary Journal of the Environmental Crisis, Tupelo Coyote, Summer Issue, June 21, 2017
Danse Macabre, A Wolf Girl Enters the World, June 21, 2017
Flumes Literary Journal, The Raccoon Abroad, 4 a.m., Geneva, July 8, 2017, Summer 2017
The Coachella Review, Go Ahead, June 20, 2017
Avatar Review, Specific as a Seed, A Pisces in the Timothy, Make Soup You Said, Big Talking Rocks, July 6. 2017, Issue #19
Lavender Review, The Memory of Snow, Wicker Me, Jun. 1, 2017
Peacock Journal, Emperor of Nimshew, Shiny Things while Waiting, Cardamom Apparitions, He Points out Porpoises, June 2, 2017
aaduna, Mika in a Fog, The Captive Fire, May, 2017, Vol. 7 Issue 1
The Cafe Review, Folding Chair, Cornbread, May 7, 2017
Belle Reve Literary Journal, Mimosas and Mine Ponies, April 18, 2017
Driftwood Press, The Presence of a Witch, April 3, 2017, Vol 4 Issue #2, Spring
Burningword Literary Journal, The Thud of Escapement, April 1, 2017
Halfway Down the Stairs, Old Shelby, Mar. 2017 Homeward Theme Issue
Antiphon Poetry Magazine, April in Myth, Feb. 2017
The Bangalore Review, Addah Belle’s Pocket Watch, Mar. 2017
The Blotter Magazine, Turning Bowls, Leaping Cotton, Feb. 2017
The Bees Are Dead, The Trees Tell Our Future, Mar. 2017 Fissure, Apr. 2017
Midnight Circus, Thistle and Brilliant, Spring Theme Issue, Mar. 20, 2017
Picaroon Poetry, Your Violin, Jan. 2017, pg. 17, Issue #6
Clover, A Literary Rag, Beer Moth Sketch, Winter 2017, pg. 106, Vol. 12
Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine, Hardeeville from the Highway, Jan. 2017, pg. 12, Issue #21
Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Random John Fox, Nov. 17, 2016; Broom Zen, Mar. 30, 2017; Addah Belle’s Pocket Watch, May 25, 2017; Tool, Aug. 24, 2017
Red Fez, Big Talking Rocks, Sept. 2016
The Bedford Gazette, Not a Promise, Sept. 15, 2009
Loch Raven Review, Big Talking Rocks, 2008 Issue #4
The Green Revolution, Prayertide, 2001, Vol. 58 Issue #1; Your Heathcote Poem, 2000 Vol. 57 Issue #3; Bonsai Turtle, 2000, Vol. 57 Issue #1; walking meditation, Broom Zen, Charles Curtiss Memorial Issue TBA
Grease and Tears An Anthology, Make Soup, You Said, 1999, Vol. #5
The Baltimore Review, Make Soup, You Said, 1999, Vol. 3 pg. 57 Issue #2
Digges’ Choice, Thin Fabric and an Empty Bowl, 1999
Baltimore Women’s Times, Thin Fabric and an Empty Bowl, Under the Trumpet Vines, 1999
SCREENPLAYS
My Second Simone
This Is How She Steps on Snakes
Bacca Blooms
Strands of Emily
BLOG
www.HippieChickDiaries.com, “Wren Tuatha’s Complicated Adventures in Simple Living,” First person perspective on life in an Intentional Community.
EDUCATION
Electronic Media and Film, focus on Screenwriting and Poetry; Minor in Gay and Lesbian Studies, Towson University, Towson, Maryland 1998-2002
Early Elementary Education at University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 1983-1987
J. Graham Brown School, (The Brown School) general studies with a focus on writing 1974-1983
HONORS, GRANTS
New Women’s Voices Chapbook Contest, Finishing Line Press, Semi-Finalist, Thistle and Brilliant, 2018
Poetry Circle Editor’s Picks (not a publication credit): Your Heathcote Poem, Oct. 15, 2017; I Make a Nervous Vessel, Apr. 2, 2017; Addah Belle’s Pocket Watch, Jan. 19, 2017; Bushel Gourds, Dec. 22, 2016; While Jean Doesn’t Write, Nov. 16, 2016; Go Ahead, Nov. 14, 2016; Make Soup You Said, Oct. 1, 2016
Poetry Circle Featured Work (not a publication credit): Your Heathcote Poem, Oct. 14, 2017; Bergamot, Aug. 28, 2017; Puddle Logic, Aug. 3, 2017; Couture, 1979, July 11, 2017; The Taking Tree, or By a Thread, May 9, 2017; I Make a Nervous Vessel, Apr. 2, 2017; Bushel Gourds, Dec. 22, 2017; Turning Bowls, Dec. 10, 2016; A Pisces in the Timothy, Nov. 30, 2016; The Memory of Snow, Nov. 20, 2016; Peter with Oranges, Nov. 19, 2016; While Jean Doesn’t Write, Nov. 16, 2016; Bobbie Pins, Nov. 6, 2016; Folding Chair, Oct. 1, 2016; Make Soup You Said, Oct. 1, 2016
Towson University Women’s Center and Office of Diversity, grants to produce, promote & perform slam play, This Is How She Steps on Snakes, 2000; grant to direct the play Mothers and Daughters Live through It, by Leah Rae Schofield, 2001
Baltimore Women’s Times Writing Contest, Honorable Mention, Thin Fabric and an Empty Bowl, Under the Trumpet Vines, 1999
The Courier Journal, Young Authors Award for Poetry, The Brown School, 1978
EDITORSHIP, RESIDENCY, TEACHING
Califragile, Founder Editor, 2017-present.
JUMP International Journal of Modern Poetry, Administrator/Editor, 2017.
Poetry Circle, Editor, 2016-2017.
Heathcote Center, Artist-in-Residence, Conducted poetry workshops, open mics, house concerts and other events, 2001-2012
Fiopa Consensus Collective, teach Values-Based Consensus workshops with C.T. Lawrence Butler, author of On Conflict and Consensus, Consensus for Cities and Food Not Bombs: How to Feed the Hungry and Build Community. 2011-present
Occupy Wall Street, Fiopa Consensus Collective toured 14 encampments teaching consensus, meeting skills, non-violent resistance, how to form a Food Not Bombs, basics of Intentional Community, etc. Embedded with OWS at Zuccotti Park. 2011-2012
Heathcote Open Classroom, founder and facilitator. Consensus, arts and nature-based program for homeschoolers. 2004-20011.
First Unitarian Church, Louisville/Unitarian-Universalist Congregation of York/Unitarian- Universalists of the Cumberland Valley, Director of Religious Education
Home of the Innocents, cared for shelter children.
University of Louisville Child Care Center, team-taught mixed-age preschool groups. Taught education, psychology and nursing students embedded in my classroom.
READINGS, PERFORMANCES, WORKSHOPS
Poems of Relationships in Motion, Blackbird Books, Chico, California, April 20, 2019
Califragile Camp Fire Poems, The Bookstore, Chico, California, March 15, 2019
How to Get Your Poetry Published, Butte County Library, Chico, California, March 10, 2019
Wren Tuatha Poetry Reading, Yuba College, Yuba City, California, March 22, 2018
Califragile Launch Party and Reading, The Bookstore, Chico, California, February 24, 2018
Wren Tuatha and You Poetry Reading, The Bookstore, Chico California, April 20, 2017
Consensus: Body and Soul, Washington, DC, January 10, 2014
Consensus: Body and Soul, Wesleyan University, November 22, 2013
Consensus and Oppression, November 19, 2013
Curiosity of Other, Manhattan Theater Club, November 27, 2012
Consensus: Body and Soul in Spanish, New York City, March 31, 2012
On Conflict and Consensus, Union Square, New York City, March 25, 2012
OWS Consensus: Body and Soul, WBAI New York, March 10, 2012
Consensus: Body and Soul/OWS Long Island, Manorville, New York, February 24, 2012
Consensus: Body and Soul/Boston, February 1, 2012
Consensus Slide Show, Philadelphia, January 24, 2012
Consensus: Body and Soul/Baltimore, St. Johns United Methodist Church, Baltimore, Maryland, January 21, 2012
Consensus: Body and Soul, Louisville Free Public Library, Louisville, Kentucky, December 16, 2011
ZEGG Forum at Heathcote Community, April 22, 2010
Poetry Retreat in the Woods, Heathcote Community, February 23, 2008
Heathcote Open Classroom Open House, February 7, 2008
Sunday Salon Critique and Performance Group, co-founder with Poet Jean Cushman
Curio Coast Productions, produced slam poetry performances Puddle Logic, Under the Trumpet Vines, Poetic Justice aka This Is How She Steps on Snakes, The Choreography of Cursive, the short film/fundraiser Trust Your Story. 1999. Produced short films of poems, Totems of a Road-Colored Goat, 2000, and Sparrow, Like Everyone. 2001.
RADIO AND PRINT INTERVIEWS
Writing on Air, Thistle and Brilliant, KZFR, April 24, 2019
One World Music, Thistle and Brilliant, KZFR, April 17, 2019
Writing on Air, Califragile #CampFire poems, KZFR, Episode 59, with Molly Fisk, February 24 , 2019
A Selfish Poet, interviewed about Califragile by Trish Hopkinson September 18, 2017
Wombwell Rainbow, general poet bio interview, September 19, 2018
