Author, Lost in Hindsight,  Finishing Line Press, Georgetown KY — 2008                                                                         ISBN # 978-1-59924-300-9  

Lost in Hindsight by C.S. Leaf is a 27 page chapbook consisting of 18 poems. The majority of which were composed when I was between 16 and 18 years of age. 

Press

Boston Sunday Globe

Eagle Tribune, Gloucester Times & Newburyport Daily 

Contributing AUTHOR, the american academy of poetry’s: Anthology of poetry by young poets. vol. 1  — 1993 Edition

Isbn# 978-1-88393-100-1

One Poem: The Forest. 

Contributing AUTHOR, Guideword: Doorways vol.1 — 2008

Guideword is the Literary Journal of Goddard College Plainfield, VT. Poem Sober me not from loveappeared in Volume one of Guideword.  

Contributing author, Guideword: vol.2  — 2009

Guideword Volume No.2 2009,  4 Poems, When Edit, Sails Unravel to the Ample Sunn, April’s Window Still, and The Umbrella and the Sewing Machine.  

Contributing author Physiognomy in letters, Vol. 1 Issue No. 2 June, 2009 Issn# 1946-0147

PHYSIOGNOMY IN LETTERS (a Journal of DADA Poetry Online and in Print) Volume One, Issue Number Two contains two partner poems 75 cents: NICKEL NICKEL & DIME.                                                                                                                                Online at http://www.physiognomyinletters.com

Contributing author Physiognomy in letters, accepted poem to appear January 2010 

PHYSIOGNOMY IN LETTERS (a Journal of DADA Poetry Online and in Print) One Poem titled “DECODE THE PHYSICS”             Online at http://www.physiognomyinletters.com

Staff Writer, Literary Mary — 2009-

I am a staff writer for Literary Mary's Monthly News, on staff I am the columnist in charge of poetic review and Author Interviews.  Literary Mary, is a literary enterprise of writers -a web site much devoted to literary arts with a large internet based audience- Mary publishes a monthly Literary Arts News Letter (online) & Presses an annual Literary Arts Journal. 

Member

The Boston Authors Club

Poets and Witers Org 

Very Bad Poetry People

Guest reader / Speaker

1994 Sea Coast 105.7 FM Hampton NH, Reading, Guest Speaker and Poet 

2000 Waring School Guest Poet

2000 Phillips Exeter Poetry Club, Guest Speaker

2007 & 2008 Goddard College

2008 Water Street Bookstore Featured Reader 

2009 WGDR Goddard College Radio, Reading, Guest Speaker and Poet

2010 The Poetry Hoot, Special Guest Poet, via Invitation only by Poet Laureate of Portsmouth NH,  Mark DeCarteret. A monthly reading sponsored by The Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program, two Prominent local poets are invited each month for a special hour and a half reading. 03/03/2010

AWARDS & NOMINATIONS

Awards 

NNA Poetry Contest (Newburyport Art Association ) Honorable Mention for Internal Night - 2000                  

Poetry Soup Single-Poem Prize 6th place and cash prize Flotsam and Jetsam - 2007                      

Nominations              

2008 Dylan Thomas Prize (for Lost in Hindsight)

2009 Mass Book Award (for Lost in Hindsight)

2009 Pulitzer Prize, in Letters Poetry (for Lost in Hindsight)

Education

Goddard College, Plainsfield VT 2007- current

EDITORIAL and or writing JOBS

Anamorphy Press & Anarcho-Syndicalist Publications Editor in Chief / Co-Founder

Theater in the Open , Newburyport, MA 01950                                                    Adaptations & Original Plays for Stage including                                                                                                                     THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS,                                                                                                                                                                                 THE LION THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE,                                                                                                                                                             IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (a staged Radio Show),                                                                                                                                                                                         THE RIGHTS OF SPRING, and A CHRISTMAS EXTRAVAGANZA .  

As a company member I also assisted in Copy Editing. 

Editor for SYLVANWILLOW FINE ARTS contact Sylvanwillow 617-272-6920

REFERENCES

Walter E Butts MFAW (Poet Laureate of New Hampshire)

Gale P. Jackson MFAW Poet in Residence for NY City’s Schools and Storyteller in Residence Haybarn School

Francisco Ibanez-Carrasco  PhD. Writer, Professor  

Leah Maines MFAW Poet in Residence North Kentucky University , 

James Grauerholz Executor of William S Burroughs Estate and Burroughs Scholar (I recently worked with James on authenticating an unpublished W.S. Burroughs Manuscript, previously discounted by experts, through much research and uncovering published and unpublished which supported the manuscripts credibility, with the help of the Burroughs Estate, I was able to prove the works authentication.  Currently working on an essay for publication with the discovered text.)   

Mark DeCarteret (Poet Laureate of Portsmouth NH)

Dennis Flynn PhD, Proffessor of English Bentley College, Flynn is the foremost John Donne Scholar of our times, President of the John Donne Society,College Scholar of the Year 1995, 1996. Formal list of publications appointments and grants Here .

PUBLISHER REFERENCE

Finishing Line Press

Guideword, Literary Journal of Goddard College

Literary Mary

Physiognomy in Letters

References can be contacted via email by clicking on their name. Contact me for phone numbers.