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CV Harold Rhenisch
• Employment
1981-1992 Farmer
1982-2005 Self-employed Writer
1985-2005 Primary care-giver to my children
1987- School Workshop Leader in Creative Writing
1995-2001 Columnist and Reporter, 100 Mile Free Press
1996-2002 Community Creative Writing Instructor, University College of the Cariboo
2000-2002 Webmaster, The League of Canadian Poets


• Education

1980 B.A. Creative Writing, The University of Victoria
1984-1991 Classical Greek Language and German Language, University of Waterloo


•Publications

1982 Winter
1985 Eleusis
1989 A Delicate Fire
1992 The Presence of Ghosts
1993 Out of the Interior: the Lost Country
1995 Dancing With My Daughter
1997 Kazoo: The Psalm at the End of the Song
1998 Taking the Breath Away
1998 The Blue Mouth of Morning
1989 Fusion
2000 Carnival
2000 Tom Thomson's Shack
2001 Peyote, or my friend the Indian (trans)
2004 Free Will
2005 Linda Rogers: Essays on Her Work
2005 Living Will
2005 (eye)pokes
2005 math tricks
2005 Free Will CD
2005 Living Will CD
2005 In the Presence of Ghosts CD
2005 Kazoo The Psalm at the End of the Song CD
2005 Linda Rogers: Essays on Her Work
2006 A Palette of Birds
2006 The Wolves at Evelyn

Readings

1980-2005 200 Readings in British Columbia, Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba
June, 1999 Poetry Tour England (Canadian High Commission and Canada Council)


• Prizes

1980 Rosalind Hewlett Petch Memorial Prize in Creative Writing
1991 Confederation Poetry Prize
1982-1998 5 time runner-up CBC/Tilden/Saturday Night Literary Contest
1996 Best Arts and Culture Writing (B.C. & Yukon Community Newspapers Association)
2000 Tom Thomson's Shack nominated for two B.C. Book Prizes.
2003 Critic's Desk Award for best long review of poetry, Arc Magazine
2003 Poem of the Year (Tao Hill), Arc Magazine
2005 Critic's Desk Award for best long review of poetry, Arc Magazine
2005 Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, for Abandon

• Judge

2002-3 B.C. Book Prizes (Roderick Haig Brown Regional Prize & Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize).

 

• Workshops

1981-2003 Workshops in poetry for schools and teachers throughout British Columbia
1987 Designed and taught a 4 week poetry unit at the Grade 4 Level, Similkameen Elementary
1992 Designed and taught a 5 part poetry unit at the Grade 3 level, Mile 108 Elementary
1993 Workshop in Myth (with Garry Gottfriedson): Equinox Festival, 100 Mile House
1995 Three Month workshop with elementary school students (Grades 4-6) in writing
interactive poetry for animation in time and space on the computer, Mile 108 Elementary
1995-9 Mentor in poetry, prose, concrete poetry, computer graphics, journalism, and radio
drama, Mile 108 Elementary, Peter Skene Ogden Senior Secondary, 100 Mile Junior High,
Anne Stevenson and Columneetza Secondary Schools
1996 Writer in Residence, Douglas College
1996-9 Designed and taught 4 12-week courses of Creative Writing instruction (poetry and
prose), University College of the Cariboo
1998- Workshop leader, Young Authors Conference, Kamloops
1999 High school workshop leader, Long Eaton, UK
1999-2000 Designed and delivered 4 distance writing workshops for the B.C. Festival of the Arts
2001 Workshop on Creative Non-Fiction for Island Mountain Arts Festival
2001 Editing workshop with the Hub City Writers group in Kamloops.
2000-4 Primary, elementary and secondary school literacy workshop leader in the Cariboo and
the Chilcotin.
2003 Designed and delivered a one-week long writing workshop for gifted students in Vernon.
2003 Designed and delivered a poetry workshop for Heritage Canada for World Poetry Day.
2003-4 Instructor of Work in Progress workshop, Victoria School of Writing
2004 Workshop for the Poetic Research Centre in Fort St. John, B.C.
2004 Workshop on Sound and Visual Poetry for Kootenay School of the Arts
2004 Poetry Workshop, Backroom Books, Revelstoke
2005 Workshop on Poetry and Fiction: Northwest College, Prince Rupert
2005 Workshop on removing the speaking "I", Canadian Authors Association, Welland
2005 Workshop on imagery, Keremeos
2005 Electronic Writer in Residence, Canadian Authors Association, Niagara
2005 Workshop on Revision, the Second Literary Art, Powell River Festival of the Written Arts
2000 - Online Mentor for fiction, non-fiction, and poetry

 

•Editor

1993-1995 Milestones, a quarterly review of the Arts in the South Cariboo
1994 -1999 The Milestones Review and The Wireweed Review, book review quarterlies
1996- Numerous and various fiction, non-fiction and poetry manuscripts, freelance


•Travel
 
1981 Haida Gwaii
 
1986 Netherlands, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, following Sepp Dietrich's trail through the Battle of the Bulge, through Sedan, to Neuchatel and Chillon with John Howe, to the Reichenau, the Freiburg Cathedral, Kuppenheim and Schloss Favourite, to the Jelling Stones and Fjords in Denmark, and on to Copenhagen, while Chernobyl fell over our shoulders.
 

1991 Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, with the bulk of time spent in the Ruhr. Easter in Freiburg.

 

1994 Germany, Austria, Switzerland, including two weeks in Garmisch, and visits to Innsbruck, Munich, Kuppenheim, Pforzheim, and Salzburg.

 

1995 Toronto

 

1998 London, Northhampton, Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, with Lisa Robertson, Tim Bowling, Bill Bissett, and Dione Brand, as ambassadors of Canadian poetry in a program sponsored by the Canadian High Commission, the League of Canadian Poets, and the British Government.

 

1998 Toronto, Ottawa, Southern Ontario, and Winnipeg

 

2000 The Canadian Prairies

 

2003 Haida Gwaii

 

2003 Quebec City and Montreal

 

2004 Germany, Switzerland, France, Austria, England, Wales, including Eisenach, Dresden, Pirnau, Meissen, Potsdam, Berlin, Bochum, Cologne, Worms, Speyer, Maulbronn, Freiburg, Reichenau, Birnau, Colmar, Struthof Concentration Camp, Zurich, Montreux, Vevey, Luzern, Rigi, Neuchatel, Salzburg, London (to see the Taming of the Shrew at the Globe), the Cotswolds, and North Wales.

 

2004 Quebec City for Carnival and the Ile de Orleans

 

2004 Southern and Eastern Ontario

 

2005 Southern and Eastern Ontario

 
•Online

2000-2002 Webmaster, OpenMic series, League of Canadian Poets

2000-2002 Webmaster, youngpoets.ca

2000-2002 Webmaster, League of Canadian Poets literary links

2000-2002 Editor, sPOkes poetry ezine for youth



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