John T. Casteen, IV
5680 Buffalo River Road
Earlysville, Virginia 22936
434-964-9227
jcasteen@sbc.edu
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS
Free Union, a full-length manuscript of poems, will be published in Spring 2009 among the inaugural titles of a new contemporary poetry series from The University of Georgia Press and The Virginia Quarterly Review. Inclusion in the series represents an ongoing and mutual commitment between the press and its poets; a second manuscript, B-Bender, is a work-in-progress.
“Night Hunting,” a poem from the Free Union manuscript originally published in Ploughshares, will be included in The Best American Poetry 2008, selected by guest editor Charles Wright.
EDUCATION:
University of Iowa, Iowa Writers' Workshop: M.F.A., 1996.
University of Virginia: B.A., 1993.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Visiting Assistant Professor, Semester at Sea, Summer 2008.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Sweet Briar College, Fall 2007-present.
Instructor, University of Virginia Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies Program, Spring 2007-Spring 2008.
Writer-in-Residence, University of Virginia Young Writers' Institute, Summer 2006 & 2007.
Instructor, University of Virginia School of Continuing and Professional Studies, January 2005-May 2007.
Guest reader and instructor, Harvard University, March and July 2005.
Teaching Assistant, University of Iowa Department of English, 1994-1996.
WRITING AND EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
Editorial Staff Member, The Virginia Quarterly Review, January 2005-present.
Contributor, Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.
Contributor, Encyclopedia Virginia.
Judge, 2nd Street Gallery Young Writers Competition, March 2007.
Selection Committee Member, MacArthur Fellows Program, July 2006.
Judge, Academy of American Poets Prize, Lewis & Clark University, 2006.
Participant, Council of Literary Magazines and Presses' virtual roundtable discussion, June 2005.
Manuscripts Assistant, Special Collections Department, Alderman Library, University of Virginia, 1990-1993.
The Southern Review: externship, 1992.
PUBLICATIONS: POEMS
“The Gift,” New Orleans Review, Spring 2008.
“Insomnia II,” New Orleans Review, Spring 2008.
“Polestar,” New Orleans Review, Spring 2008.
“Gravid,” Electronic Poetry Review 8 (www.epoetry.org), January 2008.
“Shad Roe,” Electronic Poetry Review 8 (www.epoetry.org), January 2008.
“A Dictionary of Flowers,” Meridian, January 2008.
“The Honey War,” Meridian, January 2008.
“Late at Night, on the Maine Coast, News of the Lebanon War Arrives,” Shenandoah, Winter 2007.
“Murmur,” The Iowa Review, Spring 2007.
“Empiricism in November,” Rivendell, Spring 2007 (Volume 4).
“Free Union,” Rivendell, Spring 2007 (Volume 4).
“Night Hunting,” Ploughshares, Fall 2006.
“Insomnia,” Shenandoah, Autumn 2006.
“Enormity,” Meridian, Spring 2006.
“For Those Who Knew Her,” Meridian, Spring 2006.
“Close Work,” The Southern Review, Autumn 2005.
“You Leave One Room, You Enter Another,” The Southern Review, Autumn 2005.
“Sestina on the Change of Season,” New Orleans Review 30:2, Winter 2005.
“Summer Wages,” Shenandoah, Fall 2004.
“A Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man,” Shenandoah, Fall 2004.
“Meditation at Backbone,” Shenandoah, Fall 2004.
“Disputanta to Zuni,” The Georgia Review, Spring 2004.
“Silver,” The Blue Moon Review, February 2004.
“Shaper,” Ploughshares Emerging Writers Issue, Winter 2004.
“Chording,” Meridian, Fall/Winter 2003.
“Plant Life,” The Georgia Review, Fall 2003.
“Plant Life,” Poetry Daily (www.poems.com), December 5, 2003.
“Spring Poem for My Mother,” Southern Poetry Review, Summer 1997.
“Poem for Mary Magdalene,” Shenandoah, Winter 1996.
“Out of Season,” Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, Spring 1996, Volume 15.
PUBLICATIONS: LITERARY CRITICISM: FEATURE REVIEWS
“Christopher Stackhouse and John Keene: Seismosis,” New Orleans Review, Spring 2008.
“Shoot the Messenger: Dana Goodyear, David Orr, and the Stewards of Poetry,” The Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2007.
“Christopher Stackhouse and John Keene: Seismosis,” New Orleans Review (forthcoming fall 2007).
“Looking In, Expanding Out: Kazim Ali's The Far Mosque,” New Orleans Review, Fall 2006.
“Patrick Phillips' Chattahoochee,” Shenandoah, Spring 2006.
“Silence in Intimacy and Distance: Sue Sinclair,” Shenandoah, Fall 2004.
Letter to the Editor (solicited) on contemporary poetry, The Believer, June 2004.
“Mark Turpin's Hammer,” Electronic Poetry Review (www.epoetry.org), September 2003.
PUBLICATIONS: LITERARY CRITICISM: BRIEF REVIEWS
“Charlotte Matthews' Green Stars,” The Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2006.
“John Witte's The Hurtling,” The Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2005.
“Peter Streckfus' The Cuckoo,” The Virginia Quarterly Review, Fall 2004.
“Karen Whalley's The Rented Violin,” The Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2004.
PUBLICATIONS: POLICY AND OPINION
Sports Afield letter to the editor, October 2007, regarding the Mugabe government’s plan to seize foreign-owned private companies in Zimbabwe, and the ethics of travel to that country.
“After Blacksburg: The Gun Law That Would Make a Real Difference,” Slate Magazine (www.slate.com), April 17, 2007.
“The Accidental Shootist,” Slate Magazine (www.slate.com), February 14, 2006.
Sports Afield letter to the editor, December 2005, regarding economic and security issues in travel to Zimbabwe under the regime of Robert Mugabe.
“The Balanced Approach to Managing the Forest,” The Washington Post Outlook section, Sunday, July 10, 2005.
“Contesting the Poetry Contests” (with Ted Genoways), Chronicle of Higher Education Review, June 3, 2005.
“Ditching the Rubric on Gun Control: Notes from an American Moderate,” The Virginia Quarterly Review, Fall 2004.
“Obsolete Bypass Won’t Help Anyone,” The Daily Progress op-ed, February 29, 2004.
PUBLICATIONS: FEATURE ARTICLES AND PROFILES
“Ashley Gilbertson in Charlottesville,” Virginia Quarterly Review Blog (www.vqronline.org), June 13, 2007.
“Poet in Our Midst: Crozet's Charlotte Matthews Publishes First Book of Poems,” Crozet Gazette, August 2006.
PUBLIC APPEARANCES
Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY, February 1, 2008.
Sweet Briar College, October 3, 2007.
EXHIBITIONS AND COMMISSIONS
Dovetail Bench, permanent collection of the University of Virginia Art Museum, forthcoming.
(Invitational) Love Letter: Collaborations (with painter Clay Witt). Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, June 2006.
(Invitational) H'Art Show, Les Yeux du Monde Gallery, Charlottesville, 2005.
(Juried) Virginia Artisans Show, Artisans Center of Virginia, 2004.
(Invitational) H'Art Show, dot 2 dot Gallery, Charlottesville, 2003.
(Invitational) Woodworkers Show, Spruce Creek Gallery, Nellysford, Va. 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006.