Norma Clark Wilson
Curriculum Vita
(605) 670-1956
Named English Professor Emeritus, 2005
Education
Ph.D., English (American Literature), University of Oklahoma, 1978
M.A., English, Austin Peay State University, 1970
B.A., English, Tennessee Technological University, 1968
Professional Experience
Professor of English, University of South Dakota, 1978-2005
Instructor, Western Oklahoma State University, 1977-78
Graduate Associate, University of Oklahoma, 1971-77
Teacher, Montgomery Central High School, 1970-71
Graduate Assistant, Austin Peay State University, 1969-70
Teacher, Fort Campbell Middle School, 1968-69
Dissertation
The Spirit of Place in Contemporary American Indian Poetry. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms International, 1978.
Selected Publications
Books
Continuity. Gillette, Wyo.: Gyroscope Press, 2020.
Frog Creek Road. Sioux Falls: Scurfpea Publishing, 2019.
Rivers, Wings & Sky. Co-authored with Nancy Losacker. Sioux Falls, SD: Scurfpea Publishing, 2016.
Memory, Echo, Words. Sioux Falls, SD: Scurfpea Publishing, 2014.
Under the Rainbow: Poems from Mojácar. Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press, 2012.
The Nature of Native American Poetry. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001.
South Dakota Rainbow: An Anthology of Multicultural Literature. Pierre: South Dakota Education Association, 2000.
One Room Country School: South Dakota Stories. Co-edited with Charles L. Woodard. Brookings: South Dakota Humanities Foundation, 1999.
Wild Iris: Poems. Norman, Oklahoma: Point Riders Press, 1978.
Poetry
"Lost in a Dream," "Splendid Woman," "Dakota Woman." In North Dakota Quarterly, 48, 4 (1980): 22-30.
"Vermillion Spring," "this morning," "Monument in Boise City." In The Point Riders Great Plains Poetry Anthology. Norman: Point Riders Press, 1982: 68, 76, 156.
"Woman and Seeds of Spring." In Horizons: The South Dakota Writer's Anthology, ed . Nancy Iverson and Linda Hasselstrom. Hermosa: Lame Johnny Press, 1983: 191.
"The Seed and the Spirit" (a series of poems). In John Banasiak's Photographs of Nicaragua. Vermillion, SD: University Art Galleries, University of South Dakota, 1988.
"Nebraska Voices." In Nebraska Territory (Spring 1991).
"Listening to Public Radio on the way to Vermillion." In The Longneck, 1, 1 (1993): 15.
"Shoulda Told Him." In The Longneck, 2 (1994): 36.
"Quarter Sections." On Common Ground Gazette. Mitchell: Oscar Howe Art Center, 1995. This poem has also been typeset and matted for hanging with the traveling exhibition in Rapid City, Dahl Fine Arts Center, Jan. 15-Mar. 13; Gettysburg, Sunset Museum, Mar. 16-Apr. 28; Brookings, May 1-30; Sioux Falls, Old Courthouse Museum, June 3-July 15; Aberdeen, Dacotah Prairie Museum, July 18-Aug. 27; Mitchell, Oscar Howe Art Center, Aug. 31-Sept. 29 and CORN PALACE, Agri-Cultural Art Exposition, Sept. 30, 1995.
"From the Wish Book." In The Longneck, 4 (1996): 21.
"Before the Rebellion," "Feliz Nuevo Ano," and "To Tuxtla." In Vermillion Literary Project (1996): 62, 72, 81.
"Emotional Sea." Demos (1996): 87.
"Ode to Hyakutake." The Canberra Times (August 2, 1997): C 10.
"Vision at the End of the Century" and "Whose origin we do not know." In The Longneck, 5 (1997): 23.
"The First of March," "Plume Tune," and "Cobwebs." Vermillion Literary Project (1999): 12, 24, 88.
“First Day of the New Year.” Vermillion Literary Project (2000): 90.
“Light Falling.” South Dakota Magazine. 17, 4 (November/December, 2001): 44.
“Ocean of Snow.” South Dakota Magazine. 17,5 (January/February 2002): 75.
“My Medicine.” South Dakota Magazine, 19, 5 (January/February 2004): 89.
“Living on the Monarch Route.” South Dakota Magazine, 22, 2 (July/August
2006): 95.
“In Mexico and the US,” “Grandmama’s Morning Glories,” “Awake with the
Wildflowers,” and “Daisy chain.” “Paintings, Poets, Petals” exhibit,
Horse Barn Art Center, Sioux Falls, August 11-September 4, 2006.
“River Song,” P3 Exhibition. Visual Arts Center. Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science, Sioux Falls, SD, November 7, 2008-February 8, 2009 and in Caduceus, 8 (2010): 159-60.
“Iris Moving.” South Dakota Magazine, 24, 4 (November/December 2008): 85.
“Impressions of Snow.” South Dakota Magazine, 24, 5 (January, February 2009): 95.
“The Mummies above Guanajuato.” Paddlefish. 3 (2009): 95 and in Songs of Eretz Review, Dec. 4, 2015.
“Ornithology.” South Dakota Review, 47, 4 (Winter 2009): 41.
“Agile Deer.” South Dakota Magazine, 25, 5 (January/February 2010): 65.
“The Red-tailed Hawk Claiming Her Space.” South Dakota Magazine (March/April 2010): 83.
“Sharing the Lead.” P3 (Painters Poets and Pavillion) Exhibition. Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science. Sioux Falls, SD. Dec. 4, 2009-Feb. 28, 2010. Catalogue, page 35.
“A paper crane.” Prairie Fire. 4,3 (March 2010): 2.
“The Red-tailed Hawk Claiming Her Space.” South Dakota Magazine, 25, 6 (March/April 2010): 83.
“In Mexico and the U.S.” South Dakota Magazine, 26, 1 (May/June 2010): 91.
“Haikuing the River.” South Dakota Magazine, 26, 2 (July/August 2010): 92.
“Trumpets and Drums” in travelin’ music: A Poetic Tribute to Woody Guthrie. Ed. Dorothy Alexander. Cheyenne, OK: Village Books Press, 2010.
“To Spirit Mound.” River, Mound, Prairie, Sky: Celebrating Our Natural Environment (exhibit of visual art and poetry). Washington Street Arts Center, Vermillion, SD, December 4-5, 2010 and in Spirit Mound Trust News, December 2010: 5.
"One Week at Mojácar," Caduceus, 9 (2011): 112,113.
“Birds-eye Views.” P3 (Painters, Poets and Pavilion) Exhibition. Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science. Sioux Falls, SD. Nov. 19, 2010-Feb. 13, 2011. Catalogue, page 41 and in Action, Influence and Voice: Contemporary South Dakota Women, ed. Meredith Redlin, Christine Stewart-Nunez and Julie M. Barst. Brookings, SD: SD Agricultural Heritage Museum, 2015: 111.
“Snow Skunked.” South Dakota Magazine, 27, 5 (January/February 2012): 88.
“Learning to Fly,” South Dakota Magazine, 27, 6 (March/April 2012): 84 and as "The Lift" in Home, ed. Whitney Scott (Outrider Press, 2016): 187.
“To Spirit Mound.” South Dakota Magazine, 28, 3 (2012): 92.
“Renewing Our Energy.” Elegant Rage. Ed. Dorothy Alexander. Cheyenne, OK: Village Books Press, 2012.
“The White Wing.” P3 (Painters, Poets and Pavilion) Exhibition. Visual Arts Center, Washington Pavilion of Arts and Sciences. Sioux Falls, SD. Dec. 21, 2012- March 16, 2013 and in Briar Cliff Review, 28 (2016): 22.
“Chopping Thistles,” South Dakota Magazine, 29, 2 (July/August 2013): 92.
“Eagle Watching,” South Dakota Magazine, 29,4 & 29, 5 (2014): 86.
“Hoarfrost,” “In My Solitude with Billie Holiday,” “The Heart of Genesis,” “The Other Side of Paradise,” “Prayer for My Mother.” Thunderstorm. Ed. Steve Boint. Sioux Falls, SD: Scurfpea Publishing, 2013.
"Introduction," " Bashing the Blues," "The Doves Cry," "My mother, my daughter," "This Caravan, This Jazz," Memory, Echo, Words, ed. Norma C.Wilson, Sioux Falls: Scurfpea Publishing (2014): ix, x, 140-44.
"Grandma," Black Hills Literary Journal: The Family Issue, ed. Karen Hall, Kenneth Eisenbraun, Marcus Brown and Gladys Wright. Rapid City, SD: Black Hills Writers Group, 2014: 87-88.
"Steel Drum Encore," "Frost and My Sister," and "Coming Home," Pasque Petals, 89, 1 (2015): 104-106.
"Last Day's End," "Walking at Dusk," "The Snow Bird's Nest Egg," and "Pregnancy," The Scandalous Lives of Butterflies, Ed. Kevin L. Cole. Sioux Falls, SD: Scurfpea Publishing, 2015: 8-14.
"Yellow Bird at the Center, and "The Feathers Belong to Them," Pasque Petals, 89, 2 (2015): 97, 98.
"Just Passing Through," "Her Reclamation," and "At Mona Lisa's on Royal Street," I Walked by the River, ed. Brandon Johnson. Sioux Falls: Scurfpea Publishing, 2016.
"Our Rite of Spring," "Dakota Flamenco," "Clearing Away the Clutter," "Weaving Woman," Pasque Petals, 90,1(2017): 12, 13, 78-80.
“Continuity,” South Dakota Magazine, 33, 4 (November/December 2017): 98.
“Earth’s Birthright” as “Our Birthright.” I Come From the World Literary Journal, icomefromtheworld.org, 2017.
“Before the Polar Vortex,” “Time Travel” and “Perspectives,” Trees in This Neighborhood Remember Me, Ed. Sue Zueger. Sioux Falls, SD: Scurfpea Publishing, 2017, 45-47.
“Deadheading,” Pasque Petals, 90, 3 (Spring 2018), 100.
“To an Underwing Moth” Briar Cliff Review, Vol. 29, 2018, 93.
“Planting Our Garden,” South Dakota Magazine (May/June 2018), 112.
"On the River Road," All the Universe Shining, Ed. Steve Boint (Sioux Falls: Scurfpea Publishing, 2018): 190-92.
"Summer Nights at Tennessee Ridge," Celestial Musings, Ed. Stacy Savage, 2018: 94.
"El Proceso and Hello Mary Lou," Without Fear of Infamy, Ed. Jennifer Soule and Brad Soule (Sioux Falls, SD: Scurfpea Publishing, 2019)
"At the Doralba." Pasque Petals, 90:5 (Fall 2019): 62.
"Rescue the Words," Scientists and Poets #Resist, Eds. Sandra L. Faulkner and Andrea England. Leiden/Boston: Brill Sense, 2020, 13, 14.
"Learning to Twirl," 30 Poets, 30 Poems: A Clarksville Anthology, Ed. Barry Kitterman. Clarksville, TN: Clarksville/Montgomery County Arts & Heritage Development Council, 2020.
Selected Readings and Presentations
Presented a reading with Lance Henson and Frank Parman, University of South Dakota, October 13, 1978.
Presented poetry workshops and readings at Northern State University,Aberdeen and Black Hills State University as part of the Writer ReadsSeries, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, SD ArtsCouncil, and the SD Council of Teachers of English, 1981.
Presented a poetry reading at Pierce St. Coffee Works, Sioux City, Iowa, October18, 1995.
Organized Women in the Arts evening at the Washington St. Art Center, Vermillion, SD, as part of the Women in Research Conference, USD, March 29, 1995.
Featured Reader, Vermillion Literary Project Poetry Slam, Coffee Shop Gallery, September 28, 2006.
Featured Reader Woody Guthrie Festival, Okemah, OK, 2005, 2007, 2009 and in Oklahoma City in 2012.
Featured Reader, Sioux Falls Jazzfest, July 19, 2008.
Featured Reader, George McGovern’s Birthday Party, McGovern Library, Mitchell, SD, July 10, 2008.
Featured Reader, P3 Exhibit, Washington Pavilion, Belbas Theater. Sioux Falls, SD, January 17, 2009.
Featured Reader for students and faculty from Roosevelt Academy and the Transatlantic Studies Center, Ko’Dooooooor Coffee Shop, Middleburg, The Netherlands, Oct. 15, 2009.
Featured Reader, P3 Exhibit, Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science, Sioux Falls, SD, January 30. 2010.
Featured Reader, “River, Mound, Prairie, Sky,” Washington Street Arts Center, Vermillion, SD, December 5, 2010.
Featured Reader, for Mary Ann Strandell’s Exhibit, The Moveable Salon, Dahl Fine Arts Center, Rapid City, SD, Oct. 7, 2011.
Featured Reader, Washington Pavilion, P3 Exhibit, Belbas Theater. Sioux Falls, SD, December 3, 2011.
Featured Reader, for Mary Ann Strandell’s Exhibit, The Moveable Salon, Visual Arts Center, Washington Pavilion, Sioux Falls, SD, May 18, 2012.
Organized reading and read poetry for Women in the Arts evening as part of USD’s Women and Gender Research Conference at Washington St. Arts Center, Vermillion, SD, October 18, 2012.
Interviewed by Karl Gherke on Dakota Midday, January 29, 2013.
Reading from Under the Rainbow: Poems from Mojácar, Yankton Community Library, Yankton, SD, February 7, 2013.
Featured Reader, P3 Exhibit, Washington Pavilion of Arts and Sciences, Sioux Falls, March 16, 2013.
Featured Reader, Northeastern Nebraska Community College, March 20, 2013. Neil Harrison is using Under the Rainbow as a text for his creative writing class there during the spring semester of 2013.
Reading from Under the Rainbow: Poems from Mojacar. Washington Street Arts Center, April 11, 2013.
“Under the Rainbow: Poetry from Spain and the Americas,” a session for Dakota Conference, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD, April 26, 2013.
Featured Author, SD State Fair, Huron, SD, Aug. 29, 2013.
“Prism of Memory” (Presentation on Under the Rainbow), SD Book Festival, Deadwood, SD, Sept. 21, 2013.
Featured Reader, Full Circle Books, Oklahoma City, OK, Nov. 24, 2013.
Featured Reader, The Depot, Norman, OK, Dec. 8, 2013.
Readings and Gallery Talks with Nancy Losacker for "Rivers, Wings & Sky Exhibits"
Reading with poets in Memory, Echo, Words. Black Sheep Coffee, Sioux Falls, SD.
Spirit Room Gallery, Fargo, ND, August 23, 2014.
GAR Gallery, Yankton, SD, October 17, 2014.
Dahl Arts Center, Rapid City, SD, 2015.
Readings with Dakota Women Poets: SD Art Museum, SDSU, Brookings, SD, Feb. 28, 2015; Sandbroz Variety, Sioux Falls, SD, Feb. 27, 2016; Downtown Library, Sioux Falls, SD, April 20, 2017.
Readings with Women Poets Collective; SD Book Festival, Deadwood, SD, Sept.23, 2017; Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell, SD, March 15, 2019.
Current Research
Poetry writing and research.
Honors and Recognition
1. The 2020 Dakota Conference Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Preservation of the Cultural Heritage of the Northern Plains from the Center for Western Studies, Augustana University, Sioux Falls, SD.
2. Merit Award for the poem "Ms. 2020" exhibited in "Project Ms. Assembled Reformation, John A. Day Gallery, Warren M. Lee Center for the Fine Arts, University of South Dakota, March 2-16, 2020.
3. Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement. The Marquis Who's Who's Board of Directors, 2017.
4. First place winner in SD Landscape category for the poem "Dakota Flamenco," and third place winner in SD Portrait category for the poem, "Our Rite of Spring," SD State Poetry Society, 2017.
5. Elected to SD State Poetry Society Board of Directors, Secretary, 2017.
6. Finalist for SD Poet Laureate, 2015.
7. Media Grant with Nancy Losacker from SD Humanities Council for Power Point Presentation of Rivers, Wings & Sky, 2014.
8. Collaboration Grant with Nancy Losacker from SD Arts Council for Rivers, Wings & Sky Exhibit of poems and mosaics, July 2013.
9. President, Vermillion Area Arts Council, May 2008-Sept. 2012.
10. South Dakota Peace and Justice Center Board of Directors, 2006-2011. At-large member of Executive Board. President, January-December 2011.
11. Doris Dodge Reconciliation Award, SD Peace and Justice Center, October 22, 2005.
12. Selected to present the Harrington Lecture, University of South Dakota, November 4, 2004.
13. Writing residency, Fundación Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain, July 3-30, 2002.
14. Among 35 higher education leaders invited by the National Education Association to the Current Issues Forum held in Washington, DC, May 31-June 2, 2001.
15. 2001 Belbas-Larson Award for Excellence in Teaching, for tenured faculty, University of South Dakota.
16. Professional Associate, 1999 NEH Institute: "Re-imagining Indigenous Cultures: The Pacific Islands," East-West Center, Honolulu, June 13-July 17.
17. Appointed to membership on the South Dakota Humanities Council for a three-year term, beginning July 1, 1992. Term extended an additional three years. Elected SDHC Vice Chair in 1995. Chair, South Dakota Humanities Council, July 1, 1997-June 30, 1999. I served as a Humanities Council member through June 2001.
18. Appointed to the National Public Relations Committee of the National Education Association, 1989.
19. Featured in Not Behind Closed Doors: How Citizen Advocates Make Public Policy, ed. Georgia Mattison and Sandra Storey. Jefferson and London:
McFarland, 1992.
Selected Professional Activities
Presented a reading and workshop for the WYO Poets on April 23-24, 2021. The workshop entitled "Writing with the Muses" illustrated ways in which Memory, Nature and Art can inspire poetry.
Poetry mentor for the Hill City Writers' Workshop scheduled for October 9-11, 2015. Register by September 19, 2015. Get feedback, practice writing, and learn how to find publishers for your work in a beautiful mountain setting.
Featured speaker for the Mari Sandoz Society’s Annual Conference, Sept. 28, 2012, Chadron, NE. My presentation was on “Native Stories and the Stories of Mari Sandoz.”
Taught a course, “Europe and Europeans in Native American Literature,” in Maastricht, The Netherlands, Sept. 17-Oct. 10, 2007 and in Middelburg, The Netherlands, Sept. 28-Oct. 21, 2009, at the Transatlantic Studies Center.
Presented a paper “Indigenous Voices for Peace,” December 28, 2004, at the MLA Annual Convention in San Diego.
“The Nature of Native American Poetry,” a presentation for Unity Fest, Sekagewea Center, Mobridge, SD, May 23, 2003.
Chaired a session on Contemporary American Indian Poetry, also read “Poems from Mojacar” at the Popular Culture Assoc./American Culture Assoc. conference in New Orleans, April 16-17, 2003.
Presented “Pele’s Pen: Native Hawaiian Poetry” at the Native American Literature Symposium, Mystic Lake Casino, Prior Lake, MN, April 13, 2002.
Presented a paper, “Native American Poets on Globalization and Sustainability ,” at the Third World Studies Conference, October 6, 2001, Omaha, NE.
Presented “The Mythic Continuum: The Poetry of Carter Revard,” at The Modern Language Association Conference, 2000, Washington, D.C.
Presented “Pele’s Pen: Native Hawaiian Poetry” at the Third World Studies Conference, Omaha, NE, October 7, 2000. I presented this in April 2000 at the USD Humanities Research Forum.
Speaking tour of Europe, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark--May 17, 2000, Lecture: ”Recent Native American Poetry; Chemnitz Technical University, Chemnitz, Germany--May 22, 2000, Lecture: “What We Can Learn from Native American Literature; Oldenburg University, Oldenburg, Germany--Workshops: May 27, 2000, “Literature of the Native American Literary Renaissance;” June 3, 2000, “Native American Literature at the Turn of the Century; Peter Pazmany Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary--May 31, 2000, dialogue with American Studies faculty and students. 11. English Department Colloquium Lecture, “The Mythic Continuum: The Poetry of Carter Revard,” April 7, 2000, University of South Dakota.
Selected Service
Volunteer for the non-profit, fair trade organization, Sharing the Dream, marketing Guatemalan products, Vermillion, SD, 2005-present. Traveled to Guatemala Jan. 8-17, 2013 and wrote an article about the trip to benefit the organization.
Newsletter editor on Spirit Mound Trust Board of Directors (2006-Present).
Has taught Haiku Poetry writing from 2006 to the present at the annual River Appreciation Day held at Clay Co. Park, Vermillion, SD.
References
Emeritus Professor of English and Poet, Carter Revard, Washington University St. Louis, MO. 6638 Pershing Ave., St. Louis, MO 63130. Ph.: 314-727-9358.
Poet Carol Hamilton, 9608 Sonata Court, Midwest City, OK 73130. Ph. 405-732-4336.