LB Thompson
422 First Street, Greenport, NY 11944 [email protected] cell: (917)-273-7963EDUCATION:
M.F.A., New York University, May 2000
Creative Writing, Poetry
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College, Dec. 1996
Concentration in Creative Writing
HONORS AND AWARDS
- Whiting Writers Award, Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation – 2010 http://www.whitingfoundation.org/
- Manuscript entitled Tendered Notes: Poems of Love and Money, winner of the Center for Book Arts annual chapbook contest. Monetary award and 100 copies of the chapbook letterpress printed and hand-bound by the Center for Book Arts, NYC – 2003
- Rona Jaffe Foundation for emerging women writers, – 2002 http://www.ronajaffefoundation.org/past_recipients.html
- Merit Stipend and Teaching Fellowship NYU – 2000
- First Prize, Greenburg Arts and Culture Committee Poetry Prize. Judged by Rita Dove – 1996
- National Writer’s Union Poetry Contest. Judged by Adrienne Rich – 1995
- Stanley and Evelyn Lipkin Poetry Scholarship, Sarah Lawrence College – 1994
- Level 1 Award and Scholarship, Arts Recognition and Talent Search, National Foundation for Arts Advancement – 1993
- Princeton Poetry Prize – 1992
POETRY PUBLICATIONS, JOURNALS AND ANTHOLOGIES
- The Writer’s Foundry Anthology — forthcoming 2017
- Still Against War — anthology 2016
- Pine Hills Review — September, 2015
- Stonecutter – Issue 3, 2012
- Southampton Review – Summer 2010
- IOU Anthology about Currency, forthcoming from Concord Free Press – 2010
- Tricycle Magazine – Winter 2009
- 1001 Artists’ Journal Pages, Quarry Press – 2008
- Barrow Street – Summer 2005
- Women’s Review of Books, three poems – 2004
- The New Yorker – June 16, 2003
- Lyric, two poems – Summer/Fall 2003
- Pool – 2002
- Fence – 2001
- Southern Poetry Review –1996
PUBLICATIONS: PROSE, REVIEWS, AND INTERVIEWS
- Pine Hills Review — Interview about collaboration with Ellen Wiener — September, 2015
- The Brooklyn Rail — Painter:Poet = Forest:Beast — September, 2014
- Delirioushem.blogspot.com – Watching Steel Magnolias With Susan Sontag 2012 (forthcoming reprint in an anthology of essays on “Chick Flicks”
- Trans-portal, Essay The Snow Man’s Eyes – Winter 2012 http://www.transtudies.org/Thompson.html
- Art in America, Review The Paper Garden by Molly Peacock – June, 2011 http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/finer-things/2011-06-23/molly-peacock-the-paper-garden/
- Tricycle Magazine, Column “What I’m Reading/Listening To” – Winter 2010
- Prairie Schooner, Essay Torpor: Metaphors of Hibernation – Spring 2009
- Slope – online literary review. Reviews of new single-author poetry books – 2004-2005
- Crossings, The Journal of the Poetry Society of America, Interview with Marie Ponsot – 2002
READINGS, SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS, CONFERENCES, COLLABORATIONS
- Longhand Forest & Fibonacci Monstrosity — exhibition at Long Island MacArthur Airport, Summer 2016
- Conceptual Poetry Panel Presentation — at Pen and Brush with journal Handwritten Work. New York City, 2016
- Lecture on the Poems of George Oppen — The Writer’s Foundry and St. Joesph’s College. Brooklyn, 2016
- Drawing Closer: Ink & Wood — collaboration with Ellen Wiener at Sarratt Gallery, Vanderbilt University
- Rooftop Readings, NYC — Reading — August, 2014
- Hidden City Orchestra — Performance at Horton Point Lighthouse — July, 2014
- Music/Words, WFMT Chicago, collaboration with pianist Inna Faliks – April, 2012
- Point Counterpoint, Andrews Gallery, William and Mary, collaboration with sculptor Matt King – Fall 2011
- Stony Brook Southampton Writers Conference, Readings and panels 2009-2011
- Suffolk County Community College, Panel discussion and classroom demonstration on using autobiography in standard college writing courses – Spring 2009
- Artsites gallery, Riverhead, NY, Reading in conjunction with text-based visual art show – 2009
- Southampton Writers Conference, Panel participant – 2007
- Brattleboro Literary Festival, Featured reader – 2005
- National Council of Teachers of English, Presenter, NCTE convention. Designed presentation using the tools of poetry to teach listening and persuasion skills – 2002
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
The New School, MFA Program 2010-present
- Text & Image, Interdisciplinary Masterclass in partnership with Parsons
- Form Matters, Multi-genre Craft Course 2010-present
- Negative Space as a Tool in Poetry
- Error and Invention in Poetry
- Conception and Construction in Poetry
- Thesis Advising, 2013-present
Suffolk County Community College, 2008-present
- Creative Writing
- Developmental Writing
- Standard Freshman Composition
- Introduction to Literature
Rutgers University, Writers House 2010-2012 http://wh.rutgers.edu/
- Introduction to Creative Writing, Undergraduate seminar
Stony Brook Southampton, MFA Program 2010-2011
- Guest speaker, thesis reader
Dowling College, Fall 2008-2010
- Principles of Writing, Undergraduate seminar
Laboratory Institute of Merchandising, Fall 2007
- Modern Poetry, Undergraduate seminar
- Creative Writing, Undergraduate seminar
SUNY Purchase, 2000-2001
- College Writing, Undergraduate seminar
New York University, 1999 - 2000
- Instructor, Creative Writing, Undergraduate seminar
RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE:
Freelance writing, editing, proofreading, for various print and on-line publications, including Persea, New Directions press, and editing pharmaceutical copy mostly through the agency Lyons, Lavey, Nichol, Swift in NYC. 2001-present
Research assistance and website maintenance using Dreamweaver software, design and content management for new site using WordPress for writer Ved Mehta http://www.vedmehta.com 2008-present
Hall Farm Center for Arts and Education: non-profit development and grant writing, planning, organizing and hosting the annual Brattleboro Literary Festival, Member of Hall Farm’s Board of Directors and programming committee, which oversaw the artists’ residency program, a cultural exchange and photography program for high school students, and arts integration programs in New York City’s School of the Future. 2002-2008.