Faculty - Leonore Hildebrandt
Address:
Leonore Hildebrandt
Lecturer II of English
5752 Neville Hall, Room 401A
Orono, Maine 04469-5752
U.S.A.
Office Telephone: (207) 581-3811
E-mail: leonore.hildebrandt@umit.maine.edu
Office Hours
By appointment.
Courses Taught:
ENG 012: Remedial Writing
ENG 114: Introduction to World Literature
ENG 205: Introduction to Creative Writing
ENG 353: Techniques of Poetry
ESL and Conversational German
PUBLICATION
Books
The Next Unknown. Pecan Grove Press (forthcoming in 2012).
The Work at Hand and Other Poems. A hand-printed letterpress chapbook. Flat Bay Press/Stone Island Press, 2011.
Poetry
“Two Logs” The Spoon River Poetry Review (forthcoming).
“The Work at Hand” Cimarron Review (forthcoming).
“Borrowed,” “Field Notes,” “We were doing the best we could,” “Success,” and “Fog and Its Persuasions” LocusPoint 3 (Aug. 2011).
“Of Angels and Hills” and “Postmodern in Heaven.” Salzburg Poetry Review (Spring 2011).
“The Next Unknown.” Drunken Boat 13 (March 2011).
“Spindrift and the Heart.” CAIRN: The St. Andrews Review 46 (Spring 2011).
“Resetting the Clocks.” Narrimissic Notebook (Jan. 2011).
“Out of Turbulence” and “Realities on Which the Word Hinges” Puckerbrush Review (Summer/Fall 2010).
“Bird in Space.” Quercus Review 10th Anniversary Edition (2010).
“A Destination for Dreamers.” Bangor Daily News 16 Aug. 2010.
“What the Camera Loved.” Damselfly Press (July 2010).
“The Poet Guide,” “In Defense of a Rural Poetics,” and “First Person in Trouble.” Salzburg Poetry Review 17 (Spring 2010).
“Jazz Night at the Museum.” Café Review 21 (Spring 2010).
“In the Land of Apparitions.” Cider Press Review 11 (2010).
“Water Street.” ABZ 5 (2010).
“February Eclipse.” Bangor Daily News. 8 Jan. 2010.
“Sorting Photos.” Slant: A Journal of Poetry 23 (Summer 2009).
“Understanding: A Brief History” and “The Sound Man.” Denver Quarterly 43.3 (2009).
“Calligraphy,” “Token,” and “Returning to the North Sea.” Puckerbrush Review (Winter/Spring 2009).
“Due East.” A Seaside Companion: A Year on the Coast of Maine. Tilbury House, 2008.
“A Dream More than Twice“ and “Plowing the Canvas.” Beloit Poetry Journal (Winter 2007).
“The Second Thought.” Beloit Poetry Journal 57.3 (Spring 2007).
“A Road Song (for You).” The Café Review 18. (Winter 2007).
“Juggling Words and Ellipses.” Puckerbrush Review 25.1 (Fall/Winter 2006).
“Crossing the Marsh at Night.” Beloit Poetry Journal 56.4 (Summer 2006).
“The Massage.” Bangor Metro. (Aug. 2006).
“Pale Clouds.” Northwoods Journal 12.2 (Winter 2004)
“A Sense of the Inevitable,” “In Retrospect,” “Light Reading,” and “ Perspectives of a Meager Age.” Stolen Island Review 10 (2004).
“Late Romance.” Puckerbrush Review 22 (Winter/Spring 2002).
“Sundial.” Puckerbrush Review 21 Summer/Fall 2001).
Translation
Rilke’s “Cemetery by the Sea.” Translation and translator’s notes, co-authored with Tony Brinkley. Mayday (forthcoming).
“Rilke’s Duino Elegies: Fifth Elegy.” Translation and translator’s notes, co-authored with Tony Brinkley. Cerise Press 6 (Spring 2011).
Essays
“Books in Brief: Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin.” Book Review. Beloit Poetry Journal 61 (Fall 2010).
“By Word of Mouth: Storytelling as a Performing Art.” The Maine Scholar 10. (Autumn 1997): 243-252.
Links to Publications and Reviews
“The Protagonist” and “Illusions in Blue” published in Otis Nebula
On my homepage www.flatbaycollective.org
“The Next Unknown” published by Drunken Boat
“Borrowed,” “Field Notes,” “We were doing the best we could,” “Success,” and “Fog and Its Persuasions” published by LocusPoint
Translations published by Cerise Press
Review of letterpress chapbook
Selected Professional Activities
Fall 2007 to present Editorial Board member, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Board Member, Beloit Poetry Journal Foundation.
2005 to present Founder and host of the Maine Writers Series at UMM.
May 2011 to pres. Poetry and sculpture exhibit, Center for Maine Contemporary Art.
June 2011 Contributor at Juniper Writers Conference, Amherst.
2004 to 2011 Reader at Poets/Speak! in Bangor, annually in April.
Oct. 2010 Poetry reading and art show, Sixth Annual Belfast Poetry Festival. In collaboration with glass artist David Jacobson.
Aug. 2010 Contributor at Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Vermont.
Feb. Mar. 2010 Judge for Poetry Out Loud.
1991 to 2009 Singer/songwriter, performing locally with various musical ensembles.
Summer/Fall 2008 Reading at Bangor Book Festival for the release of A Coastal Companion, along with other events.
Oct. 2007 Poetry reading and art show, Third Annual Belfast Poetry Festival. In collaboration with visual artist Susan Hammond.
April 2007 Panelist and reader at Terry Plunkett Poetry Festival, Augusta.
1991 to 2001 Founder and co-host of the Alternative Film Series at UMM.
Selected Awards
2011 Women in the Curriculum grant to develop an online course: American Women’s Literature.
2011 Course grant by the Continuing Education Division and Summer University (CED/SU) for online teaching.
2011 Martin Dibner Poetry Award by the Maine Community Foundation.
2010 Good Idea Grant for poetry writing, Maine Arts Commission.
2010 Poetry fellowship from the Elizabeth George Foundation.
2003 UM Steve Grady Award in Poetry.
1997 Writing award and publication with The Maine Scholar.