WRITER'S RESUME
Michael Bennet McLaughlin
P.O. Box 14244
San Luis Obispo, California 93406
mycalmac@sbcglobal.net
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
1/10-Present
9/91-1/10
6/07-3/08
5/91-Present
9/02-12/02
10/95-7/97
5/91-9/92
3/85-1/91
9/83-9/85
2/81-5/94
Programs Consultant, The National Steinbeck Center ONE
Main Street Salinas CA 93901
Contract Artist/Area Coordinator, San Luis Obispo County
California Poets in the Schools (C.P.I.T.S.)
1333 Balboa Street Suite # 3 San Francisco, CA 94118
Artist-in-Residence,California Men's Colony State Prison P.O.
Box 8101 San Luis Obispo, CA 93409
Artist-in-Residence, Writer's Workshop Arts & Mental Health
Program, Atascadero State Hospital, Atascadero, CA 93422
Artist in Residence, Avenal State Prison P.O. Box 8
Avenal, CA 93204
Artist-in-Residence, California Arts Council El Paso de Robles
School (California Youth Authority) Paso Robles, CA
English Instructor, Chapmen College Academic Center
California Men's Colony State Prison P.O. Box 8101 San
Luis Obispo, CA 93409
Corresponding Editor, The Small Press Book Review Box
176 Southport, CT 06490
Editor-in-Chief, The Southern California Anthology
Master of Professional Writing Program
The University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90007
Language Arts Instructor
Cuesta Community College
San Luis Obispo, California
Glendale Community College
Glendale, California
UCLA Language Institute
Los Angeles, California
Santa Monica City College
Santa Monica, California
EDUCATION
1982-1986
The University of Southern California
Master of Professional Writing Program
Los Angeles, CA
Master of Arts: Professional Writing
Fiction, Poetry
Screenplay, Drama
Writing
1975-1976
The University of California, Santa Cruz
Poetry, Art
Santa Cruz, California
Bachelor of Arts: Aesthetic Studies: Creative Writing
Note: Also attended The University of Oregon & U.C. Santa Barbara,
Michael Bennet McLaughlin
Awards
Grant Recipient, California Arts Council Artist in Residency (Artists Serving Special Constituencies) Grant
$17,000 1995-6
Grant Recipient, California Arts Council Artist in Residency (Artists Serving Special Constituencies) Grant $17,000 1996-7
Poet Laureate 2004 City of San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA
Vice President, Board of Directors California Poets in the Schools, San Francisco CA 1997-2000
Books
Ped Xing (poetry) Creative Press, Danville, California 1977
Western People Show Their Faces (novel) Excerpts only 1987-93
Tried & True: The Atascadero State Hospital / California Youth Authority Poetry Anthology (Editor) Erich Heath Publishers
San Diego, 1992-96
The Southern California Anthology (Founding Editor) Master of Professional Writing program The University of
Southern California Los Angeles, California 1984, 1985
The Upholstery of Heaven (poetry) San Luis Obispo, Ca Don’t Trip Press 1996
Media
CD
Outtakes w/ Hafez Modirzadeh, formerly San Jose State University Improvised Music
Department San Jose, Ca Fall 2000
Radio
The Dave Congalton Show w/ Dave Congalton KVEC 920 am San Luis Obispo, Ca April 27, 2004
"The Masses Megaphone" with Alan Ng KCPR 91.3 f.m. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California
January 1994.
"Ars Poetica" w/ John Dotson KAZU 97.2 f.m. Pacific Grove, California November 1997
"The Michael Shecora Hour: SLY 96.1 fm Los Angeles, California March 1996
Television
"A Work of Art" w/ Sandy Allen Cable Channel 2 San Luis Obispo May 2002 April 2004
Poetry :
"The Avenal State Prison & Larry Rivers Died Draft Two Blues", San Gabriel Valley Quarterly Fall 2003 pg 47-8.
Art of Another Color: The 25-Hour Day, Prism Review La Verne California Spring 2006
"Canto XI from The Book of Divorce", Crack San Francisco, Ca Dec 1997 pg 15
"Checkpoint" San Gabriel Valley Quarterly, Alhambra CA Feb 2002 pg
"Countless Cinemas" Sometimes in the Open Ed Bob Stanley Sacramento Poetry Center Press c March 2009 pg 70
"Country Drive" Rivertalk, Ojai Ca June 1998
"daylight savings time/ de kooning Art rag San Luis Obispo Ca Spring 2007
"Dear Steven" Tool Belted Liars Tucson, AZ Feb 1998 pgs 12-14
"The Dump" , Hopedance San Luis Obispo California # 28 Sept/Oct 2006 pg 12 .
"Fleck" Tool Belted Liars Tucson, AZ Feb 1998 pg
"The God Tree" Hopedance #51 July/August 2005 pg 35
"Gravity for Agnostics", Chiron Review St John, Kansas Spring 2000
"Green Birds (Parts I-IV)" Hope Dance January/ February 2004 pg 27
"I Don't Know " An Eye For An Eye Makes The Whole World Blind - Poets On 9/11, Regents Press, Oakland, CA Sept 2002.
"I Would Have Taken A Cleaver" San Gabriel Valley Quarterly Fall 2003 pg 47-8
"In Her Closest Pass to Earth " San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly Alhambra CA Fall 2001 pg 35
"Love is a Stillness" Tool Belted Liars Tucson, Az Feb 1998 pg 11
"Love By Power" Tool Belted Liars Tucson, AZ Feb 1998 pg 15
"101 Gilroy" ArtLife Ventura, Ca Feb 2001 pg 26
"New Cathedrals." Hopedance #59 November/December 2006 pg 2
"Particle Episodes." Hopedance #51 July/August 2005 pg 27
"Previously Published Postcard # 30..." San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly Alhambra CA Spring 2009 pg 27
"No End" Prism Review La Verne California Spring 2006 pg 76-75
"railing too cold i want to stop", Chiron Review St John, Kansas Spring 2000
Michael Bennet McLaughlin
"Remembrance" San Gabriel Valley Quarterly, Alhambra CA Spring 2001 pg 19 (also in HopeDance)
"stoneridge"ASKEW Ventura, CA Issue # 7 Fall/Winter 2009
"Summer Eve South of Stockton" convolvus Inverness Ca Spring 1996 .
"The Man Ray Story," Solo Novo , Santa Barbara, CA Summer 2011 pg 53
"Tiny Fly" San Luis Obispo Telegram-Tribune April 4, 2010
"Trains", Poetrybay, Long Island, New York FALL 2011
"Traitor." Hopedance #59 November/December 2006 pg 2
"Tucson," San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, Alhambra, California Fall 2009 pg24.
"Two From Khan Younis" California Poets in the Schools Statewide Anthology, San Francisco CA 2003-2004 pg 72
"Unaligned with Border Cracks in the Earth Every Bit of Money Helps" Solo Novo , Santa Barbara, CA Summer 2011 pg 51-52
"Where Tangled Numbers Claim to Live" ArtLife Ventura, Ca Mar 2001 pg 26
"With Me That Night Scared", Crack San Francisco Ca Dec 1997 pg 16
Prose :
" A Real Girl" Asylum Annual 1993, Santa Maria, California pgs 36-42 .
"Kriang", The Southern California Anthology, Los Angeles, California, c. 1983, pages 73-79.
"Shore Leave", Frank: An International Journal of Contemporary Writing & Art, Paris, France Winter/Spring 1988. pages 94100.
"Western People Show Their Faces". The Southern California Anthology, Los Angeles, California. c. 1984 pages 28-31.
Readings : Featured
Arts Honors Day San Luis Obispo County Arts Council Morro Bay, CA June 2004
Barnes & Noble Berkeley Ca April 1997, October 1999
Beyond Baroque Venice CA February 2003
The Book Works Del Mar, Ca Oct 1996
Cafe International San Francisco Ca July 2000
California Arts Council Statewide Conference Asilomar Monterey, Ca Jan 1997
California Men's Colony State Prison San Luis Obispo CA Oct 2001, Poetry Festival April 2008
California Polytechnic State University , "Another Kind of Groove", San Luis Obispo, Ca Feb 2004
Coalesce Bookstore, Morro Bay 2nd Sunday Series 8/08
The Coffee Tavern, Long Beach, Ca Nov 1996, May 1998
Cover to Cover Bookstore San Francisco CA November 1999
Cuesta Community College North, Multicultural Poetry Festival Paso Robles, CA March 2004
Cuesta Community College. Friends of the Library, San Luis Obispo , CA April 2005
The Daily Grind Ventura, CA July 1998
Henry Miller Library West Coast Regional Poetry Slams Big Sur, Ca July 2000
I Browse Cafe Alhambra, California Dec 1996
Jitters Corona, California, Ca Feb 1997
The Livingroom, San Diego, Ca Oct 1996
Linnea's Cafe "Corners of the Mouth" San Luis Obispo, Ca 1993, '94, 95, 97, 99, 01
The Loading Dock Orcutt Ca Sept 2001
Morgan’s Coffee & Tea Monterey CA August 2004
The Metaphor Cafe Escondido, Ca April 1998
Nightwriters Veteran's Building San Luis Obispo CA Oct 2004
Northern Arizona Book Festival, Flagstaff, Arizona March 1999
Railroad Cafe Ekphrasis Reading, Raliroad Coffee House San Luis Obispo CA March 2005
San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival Pasadena , California April, 2010
San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival San Luis Obispo, Ca Nov 1991, '92, '93, '97, 2003, 2004
SLO Deliverance Linneas Cafe San Luis Obispo, Ca Oct 2006
SLODown Pub Arroyo Grande, CA Feb 28, 2010
SkyWorld Series Coffee Diem Santa Maria Dec 2006
The Pewter Plough Playhouse, Cambria Ca March 2000
University of California, Santa Cruz The Writing Life UCSC Kresge College Santa Cruz, CA March 2005
Wired Wash Cafe Santa Crux CA July 2005
Zoey's Cafe Ventura CA November 2004
References Available Upon Request