Nicholas Regiacorte

Office: Old Main #217
Knox College Box #96

2 East South Street
Galesburg, IL  61401


email: nregiaco@knox.edu




Education:
  MASTER OF FINE ARTS, 1998
University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Iowa City, Iowa
Creative Writing—Poetry.  Critical Thesis:  “Negative Capability in Hart Crane’s Voyages.” Creative Thesis:  “Foreign Body”; Thesis Chairperson:  Jorie Graham.

BACHELOR OF ARTS, 1996
Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia
Major in English

Academic Positions:
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN CREATIVE WRITING
Knox College. Galesburg, Illinois. January 2006 to Present.

VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN CREATIVE WRITING
Knox College. Galesburg, Illinois. September 2001 to December 2006.

VISITING LECTURER IN CREATIVE WRITING
Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois.  September 2001 to June 2003.

VISITING LECTURER IN ENGLISH
Università degli studi di Salerno, Fisciano, Italy.  January 2001.

VISITING LECTURER IN ENGLISH
Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois.  Fall 1999.

ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN CREATIVE WRITING
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.  Summer 1998.

GRADUATE INSTRUCTOR IN RHETORIC
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.  September 1996 to June 1998.

Teaching Interests:
  Creative Writing: Poetry and Creative Non-Fiction.
Prosody.
Modern and Contemporary Poetry.

Publications:

“Vitruvian Moon, “Black Shirt, “Defense of Singleton,” Copper Nickel, September 2007.

“Grotto to Sebastian,” New Orleans Review, Fall 2006.

“Grotto,” 14 Hills, Spring 2005.

“Adeste Fideles,” “Straw Tail,” Third Coast, Spring 2003.

“Plums of Damascus,” Phoebe, September 2001.

“First Confession,” “Song of Sons,” Denver Quarterly, Fall 1996.

“Trailways:  From a Concord Station,” Artemis XVIII, March 1995.

Recognition: 
 
Winner  of 14 Hills’ 2005 Bambi Holmes Award for “Grotto.”

Nominee for a Pushcart Prize, 2003, 2004.

Fulbright Fellow, Vietri sul mare, Italy, 2000-2001.

James Michner-Paul Engle Fellow, University of Iowa, 1998-1999.

Finalist for the Ruth Lily Poetry Fellowship, 1997.


Public Readings:
Knox College, Caxton Club Reading, Fall 2003

Venice, Italy, Fulbright Presentation of Research, January 2001
 
Fugitive Art Center, Nashville, Tennessee, July 1999.

Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City, Iowa, March 1998

Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, January 1998

The Mill Restaurant & Bar, Talk Art, Iowa City, Iowa, 31 October 1997


Works in Progress:
  Singleton (manuscript of poems)

Voice Human
(manuscript of poems)
Finalist:  Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize, 2007.
Finalist:  Sarabande Kathryn A. Morton Prize, 2002.
Semifinalist:  University of Wisconsin (twice), Alice James, Verse Press and Crab Orchard first book competitions