Philip Kobylarz

25200 Carlos Bee Blvd. # 320, Hayward, CA 94542

(510) 875-4483
philip.kobylarz@yahoo.com
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EDUCATION
M.F.A. in Creative Writing, Writers' Workshop, University of Iowa 1993
B.A. in English, Summa Cum Laude, Arizona State University 1989
POSITIONS
Freelance Writer, 2011- Present / Author of Rues English Instructor,
TriValley Academy, Contributing Faculty at The National Hispanic
University, Visiting Professor at DeVry/ Faculty Teaching Award
NHU 2014
Professor of English & On-Line Instructor, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
University, Memphis, Fort Worth, Oakland & Worldwide Campuses,
2003-2010
Professor of Languages and Literatures, Idaho State University, Pocatello,
ID, 2005-2008
Professor of English, Christian Brothers University, Memphis, TN
2003-2005
Professor of English, Southwest Tennessee Community College,
Memphis, 2002-2005
Free-lance Writer, The Commercial Appeal, The Memphis Flyer, various
literary magazines, Memphis, Tennessee. 1999-2005/ Copy Editor,
Enslow Publishing, Flemington, New Jersey, 1999-2003
Instructor of English, The University of Memphis, Memphis
Tennessee, 1998- 2001
Instructor, American English & American Culture,
Centre Franco-Amricain de Marseille, Marseille, France 1995-98
Burton Writing Fellow, Assistant to the Creative Writing Director,
Editor of Quarterly West, University of Utah, Salt Lake City,
Utah 1994-95
Poetry Editor of The Iowa Review, the University of Iowa, Iowa City,
Iowa 1990-1993 Instructor of the course "Literary Magazines",
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 1991-1993
COURSES TAUGHT (A SELECTION) Academic Years 1998-2014
Honors Composition English 1101 Practice in expository writing with
emphasis on content, organization, and style for different purposes and audiences.
Literary Heritage English 2201 Major texts of our literary heritage;
modes of literary expression and cultural context; emphasis on works as products
of their historical context and as processes shaping human consciousness.
Persuasive Writing English 3604 Study and practice of writing essays
and reports with emphasis on persuasion. Introduction to empirical and library
research, application of rhetorical principles, and nature of evidence.
Poetry Workshop English 4601 The writing and reading of poetry, critical
approaches to the poem, and practical experience in writing and revision.
Forms of Poetry English 4602 A study of metrics, forms, and types of
poetry in English with attention to principal traditions and critical ideas associated
with the writing of verse.
Forms of Fiction English 4605 A study of how fiction works through analyzing
the short story, the novella, and the novel with attention to technical developments.
Fiction Workshop English 4603 Natures of short stories and longer
forms of fiction, critical approaches to fiction, and practical experience in
writing and revising.
The Publishing Process English 4616 Steps in the publishing
process from writing a manuscript to printing it, including the publishing
of various genres throughout the world.
Author, Text, Reader, World English 4711 Methodological reflection
upon theory and practice of reading linguistic, literary, and rhetorical models.
European Fiction English 4441 Movements and writers important to
the development of continental fiction from late 18th century to the present.
Modern British & American Fiction English 4424 Contemporary
writers of fiction and poetry with an emphasis on Modernism.
Contemporary British/Commonwealth Literature English 7462
Advanced reading, discussions, video presentations, and investigations of texts
by Caribbean, Indian, and African writers.
Literary Publishing English 7475 Advanced course on manuscript preparation,
techniques and methods of publishing and writing, writing as both author and agent.
(Selected clasess taught, cont.)
Introduction to Children's Literature English 3116 A study of Children's
Literature classics, their subtexts, and creative methodologies in the teaching of
literature to children.
Modern British and American Poetry English 4423 In depth evaluations
of contemporary poets, their work, and critical theory.
Contemporary World Literature in Translation English 7466 A survey of
novels in translation that investigates life in non-Anglophone countries such as the
Caribbean, Japan, and Eastern Europe.
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
RUES Blue Light Press, San Francisco, 2012
NOW LEAVING NOWERESVILLE a collection of short stories centered
on life in the Middle West. Three time finalist for short story collection
contests. Stories from it have appeared in many literary magazines
Forthcoming
NEARES! IS!ANBUL essays from the creative non-fiction collection appear in a
variety
of nationally renown literary magazines. Forthcoming
BOOKS (COMPLETED/ IN-PROGRESS/ SEEKING PUBLICATION)
DIMESTORE PAPERBACK NOVEL Auto-biographical novel in progress;
seeking representation and actively submitted to book contests.
THE LAST REVOLUTION Contemporary poetry collection that has been a
contest finalist. Selections from it have appeared in many literary magazines.
AT THE GATE, TARTARS Contemporary poetry collection that has been a
finalist for publishing awards. Selections from it have appeared in many literary
magazines.
LIQUID SMOKE Contemporary poetry collection that has been a
contest finalist. Selections from it have appeared in many literary
magazines.
(Books, cont.)
FLAGS, SCROLLS, ROBES, DESERTS, WAVES a hybrid poetic/prose
experiment in creating a new literary form. Selections from it have appeared in
many literary magazines
PSEUDOGRAPHICA an experimental collection of aphorisms and epigrams,
in progress.
PEOPLE, KNOWN A collection of prose otherwise labeled Flash
Fiction that is a book length, multi-character study, in progress. Selections from
it have appeared in many literary magazines
NOW LEAVING NOWHERESVILLE A collection of short stories centered
on life in the Middle West. Three time finalist for short story collection contests.
Stories from it have appeared in many literary magazines Forthcoming
DEFINITIONS a collection of prose poetry modeled after Gustav Flauberts
Dictionary of Received Ideas. Completed. Actively seeking a publisher.
FICTION
Lamant Mojave River Press 2014
Around the Volcano Blotterature 2014
The Taste of Neon Petrichor Machine 2013
From Here to There Verdad Magazine 2013
Jalpenos in the Snow Writing Tomorrow Magazine 2013
The Erotic Life of a Dog Squawk Back 2012
The Next Exit Quail Bell 2012
Our Lady of the Guard Fjords Review 2012
How High the Moon Stand (U.K.) 2012
Therapy 5 Cents riverrun 2012 & A Torn Page Fiction Anthology
Loaves Santa Fe Literary Review 2012
Snapshot Mad Hatters Review 2011
The Blue Sky De La Mancha 2011
Fishing for Television Apt 2011
Transformed, the Office Narcissus appearing in the Altered States Anthology 2011
Dailtone Foliate Oak, 2010
The Bachelor of New Orleans Avatar Review 2010
Voice Mail Whiskey Island, 2009
The Atheists Club Massachusetts Review 2009
(Fiction, cont.) What We Do Beyond Lalitamba, 2008
Aquamarine Slab Literary Magazine 2008
At 8,000 Feet Blueline 2006
Lucinda The Iconoclast 2007
Open 24 Hours Steam Ticket 2006
Confessions of an Altar Boy The Gihon River Review 2006
From Here to There Ginosko Literary Review 2006 (print)
Voice Mail Stray Dog 2005
Me and Her and My Machine R-KV-R-Y 2006
Famous Last Words Full Circle 2004
Nemesis Clark Street Review 2004"
Only Regrets, Preaching to the Converted, Banshee, Half Life" Midday Moon 2001
"End of the Great Plains" Pleiades 2000
"Aftermath" Scrivner (Montral) 2000
"Lake Shore Drive" Witness 1999
"Next Stop" Fiction International 1999
"The Imperfectionist" Barnabe Mountain Review 1999
"The Meadow Flowering" Tampa Review 1996
"The Man Who Drove Seeking Autumn" Green Mountains Review 1995
POETRY Recollection of the Fortifications, merrily, merrily, merrily Gray Matter 2014
Conviction Red Booth Review 2014
Azimuths, Tintinabulas The Tampa Review, 2013
from A Miscellany of Diverse Things The Squawk Back 2013
Threadbare CircleShow 2013
New Englandy, Wiles Decanto Magazine (U.K.)
of exes and spots Third Wednesday 2012
Reliquary Rabbit Poetry 2012
Five poems from rues Loch Raven Review 2012
Nemesis + various prose poems Sarasvati (U.K.) 2012
Compact Rufous City Review 2012
Poem Number Three Hundred and Eighty-Two Out of Our 2012
Circa 1937 San Diego Poetry Anthology 2012
Figurative, to destinations: Centrifugal Eye 2012
Polonaise Enchanted Verses Literary Review 2012 (India)
Attendance, Bounty gather kindling 2012
After the Aftermath Poetry Bay 2012
(Poetry cont. )
What Marks the Spot, River Flowing Underground, View from the Coast, The Status
Quotidian Inwood Indiana Press 2012
meridians Chronogram Magazine 2012
Bleating of the Trains, Ante Meridian Inclement Magazine 2012 (U.K.)
Effervescence, Shadowplay, Sweet Nothings Poetry South 2012
Mousetrap Setting Spillway 2012
The Cranes of Ibycus Basalt 2012
Carnivalesque, Effervescence, Shadowplay: Subliminal Interiors 2012
Another Century The Aurorean, 2012
To Ms. A. Cavatica, Spider Shenandoah 2012
Aphorisms Paper Nautilus 2011
A Thousand Pictures Thorny Locust 2011
Silent Movie The Courtland Review 2010
It is these clothes, Dead Mens Shoes Tampa Review 2010
queue, randonn, traffic International Poetry Review 2010
Haiku Modern Haiku 2010
Some Enchanted Evening Third Wednesday 2010
Calendrics Volt 2010
The Great Pretenders Amoskeag 2010
Preceding the Temple, Destroyed Notre Dame Review 2010
At Eleven O Clock, Murder Poetry Salzburg Review 2007
Fathoms Caesura 2007
Quotidian Astrology Barrow Street 2007
Prague Summer, 1940 Pebble Lake Review 2007
Elegy for No One in Particular Visions International 2007
"Dictionary Leaves," "Coins" Dragonfire 2007
1999 The New Victorian 2006
White Muslin Red Hawk Review 2006
Triptych Freshwater 2006
Metamorphosis (with Fire) & Skull & Cigarette Blue Mesa Review 2005
Of Enemies and Gates, Trope Four Corners 2006
Sailing from Byzantium Tar Wolf Review 2005
(Poetry cont.)
Felliniesque Denver Quarterly 2005
Train Crossing Landscape HeartLodge 2005
Prelude, No Fugue Columbia Review 2004
Rumination Alluding to a Photo of Atgets Western Humanities Review 2005
Amphora, with Figures Good Foot 2004
The Living Dead Freshwater 2004
Seedlings Runes 2004
Ginger Terminus 2004
(Poetry, cont.)
In Sixes and Sevens Drexel Online Journal 2004
from flags, scrolls, robes, deserts, waves The Iowa Review 2003
What Were the Chinese Thinking . . ., Crusade of Stone" Terra Incognita 2003
"Billboards Acidic" yefief 2003
from flags, Scrolls, Robes, Deserts, Waves Fishdrum 2002
"Airs Electric" Terminus: A Journal of Art and Literature 2002
"Underneath the Willow" Nite-Writer's International
Pictorial, The Strand Diner 2002
card celebrating Arbor Day Notre Dame Review 2002
"from The Occultist's Handbook" Edgz 2001
Sticks, More Sticks, Sticks in the Abstract 6ix 2001
Of the Spheres, a Music Lungfull 2001

from flags, scrolls, robes, deserts, waves" Chase Park 2001
Preen" New American Writing 2001
"Meditation on Ivory, House, Abandoned" Mid-America Poetry Review 2000
"novella, counterfeit" The Louisville Review 2000
"Object of Desire" Clackamas Literary Review 2001
haiku Japanophile 2001
"Postulations of a Blind Man" Prairie Schooner 2001
"Character Study", "Knights in Green Niches" Verse 2000
Review of Eugenio Montale's Satura, Hunger Magazine 2000
"no angels" Common Ground 2000
"On the Maintenance of Splinters" American Jones 1999
"Saints in the Clock Tower, Resolutions" Saturday Afternoon Journal 1999
"Boreal" Columbia Poetry Review 1999
"Daybook, the Great Plains" Colorado Review 1999
"Opiatic" Rattle 1999
"Confessional, Marine" Fourteen Hills 1999
(Poetry cont.)
"As Occurrence, Natasha Rambova, In Apogee" Reed Magazine 1999
"Picture Postcard" Shenandoah 1998
"The Aspern Papers" Western Humanities Review 1998
"The Occularist" translation of the poet Jude Stfan Willow Springs 1998
"Skiffs Moored, Incense or Varnish" poems along with translations of Jude Stfan
Artful Dodge 1998
"from The Occultist's Handbook", "Drawing Lines" Synaesthetic 1998
"Advice" Tampa Review 1997
"A Bill, Posted" Poetry 1996 & Best American Poetry 1997
"chiffre" Colorado Review 1997
"Chasing Tartars" The Prague Review 1997
"Alembic", "Dogs of Pompeii" No Roses Review 1997
"Without Godivas" Shenandoah 1996
Daguerreotype" Volt 1996
"Incidentals" Colorado Review 1996
The Insubstantial Pageant" Paris Review 1995
low tide 1856", "short last portrait, "to Thomas Gray" translations of the
poet Jude Stfan, Chelsea 1995
"On the Subject of Boots" The Plum Review 1995
"Blue Angel" The Antioch Review 1996
"The Transfusion", "Weather Reports-Foreign Cities" Spillway 1996
"Books" Michigan Quarterly Review 1995
"A Room in Arles", "The Great Wall" Epoch 1995
"Eidolons of May" San Francisco State University Review 1995
"Portrait of a Hill" Artful Dodge 1995
"Thunder and Double Bass", "The Phison, Branching" Columbia Poetry Review 1994
"Objects in the Mirror are Closer than They Appear", "The Release"
The Herman Review 1994
"The Cold" Denver Quarterly 1994
"A Blade, Stropped" Atlanta Review 1994
"Morro Bay", "Pacific Time" Santa Monica Review 1994
"At the Hotel Lautramont" The Iowa Review 1993
"Summer, I Blindly Loved the Fair Girl" The Pacific Review 1993
(Poetry cont.)
"Suddenly, Last" Exquisite Corpse 1992
A review of The South Carolina Review, The Literary Magazine
Review 1992
"Of Icons and Roaches" Colorado Review 1993
NON-FICTION, ESSAYS, TRANSLATIONS, PHOTOJOURNALISM
On Escape Never Being that Simple East Bay Review, 2014
Marseille, in Bites We Said Go Travel 2013
That Death in Venice Feeling Puff Puff Prose Poetry and a Play 2013
Marseille in Bites Annapurna Magazine, 2013
from a miscellany of diverse things The Encyclopedia Project 2014
from Nearest Istanbul Glassworks 2013
from Nearest Istanbul The Palimpsest 2012
from dimestore paperback novel The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review
Still Life Misfits Miscellany 2012
Place as Theory Willows Wept Review 2012
Of Oil Paintings & Oceans The Minnetonka Review 2010

Excerpt from Nearest Istanbul, Hotel Amerika 2009
From Nearest Istanbul nor (Northern Ohio Review) 2008
The Glory of Neglect, Tombstone (photos), The Externalist, 2008
Texas Medicine the Paintings of Johnny Taylor No. 2005
In Medias Res: Light Nauticized (James Carpenters Shadow Screen
Fabric Architecture, 2004
"In the Garden of Southern France" Connecticut Review 2003
Various film reviews for The Memphis Flyer, 2000-2004
"At the Antiquarian's, Monument Valleys, Chair Sequence" photographs
Artful Dodge 1999
To Cavafy", "like" translations of the French poet Jude Stfan,
Poetry East 1994
"Ghost Architecture" Iowa City Magazine 1993
"Radar Dish" Iowa City Magazine 1993
"Chair Sequence" Iowa City Magazine 1993
"Postcards from the Middle West" photo-essay, The Iowa Review 1992
Co-translator of Arts de la Msoamrique by Henri Stierlin and Art de
l'Amazonie by Conceiao Gentil Corra for the Muse Barbier-Mueller
Geneva, Switzerland 1991
Selected reviews appearing in The Commercial Appeal & elsewhere (Memphis daily newspaper)
Diane Franks Swan Light
Howard Junkers A Senior Represents
Jeannine Savards Accounted For
Stephen Gutierrez Live from Fresno y Los
George Wallace Sleeping Beautys Revenge
Eavan Boland's The Lost Land
Eugenio Montale's Satura
Alice Munro's The Love of a Good Woman
Wole Soyinka's The Burden of Memory, The Muse of Forgiveness
Derek Walcott's What the Twilight Says
Alice Adams' The Last Lovely City
Alyce Miller's Stopping for Green Lights
Les Murray's Fredy Neptune
Serena Vitale's Pushkin's Button
Peter Conrad's Modern Times, Modern Places
Pat Barker's Another World
Stacy Schiff's Vra
Gish Jen's Who's Irish?
Oonya Kempadoo's Buxton Spice
Kathleen Tyau's Makai
Douglas Hofstadter's translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin
Thomas Rayfiel's Colony Girl
Sena Jeter Naslund's Ahab's Wife
Wyatt Prunty's Armed and Dangerous
Marguerite Yourcenar's Dreams and Destinies
Ann Power's Weird Like Us
Pete Daniel's Lost Revolutions
Lettres in Transit, edited by Andr Aciman
Selected reviews (cont.)
Andr Aciman's False Papers
Chinua Achebe's Home and Exile
The Fiction of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka
Carol Shield's Dressing Up for the Carnival
James Atlas's Bellow
James Hynes The Lecturers Tale
Richard Rayners The Cloud Sketcher
Thomas Lynch's Bodies at Motion and at Rest
REFERENCES
David Hamilton, Professor of English and Editor of The Iowa Review

(319 351-3516

home) David-hamilton@uiowa.edu
Jorie Graham, Boylston Professor of Oratory & Rhetoric, Harvard
(617-495-1189 office)
Donald Revell, Professor of English and Editor of Colorado Review
(801-364-9036 home)
donald.revell@unlv.edu
Roger Easson, Professor of English, Christian Brothers University, (901) 321-
3351office/
home 901-754-6353)
reasson@cbu.edu
Caroline Goodwin, Poet Laureate of San Mateo, Professor at Stanford &
California College of the Arts 415-215-1267 caroline.goodw@gmail.com