Curriculum Vitae
James S. LaVilla-Havelin
lavhav@gmail.com
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Adjunct Faculty, Summer Writing Camp
Gemini Ink, Summer 2013
Adjunct Faculty Member
University of the Incarnate Word, Spring 1997--Spring 2001
University of Texas at San Antonio, Spring 1997
Consultant
Teacher Training, Family Learning Training, Curriculum Development,
Program Development, Staff Development, Community Outreach
1983--present
Faculty Member
Museum Education Program and Museum Leadership Program
Bank Street College of Education, New York, New York
September 1990--June 1992
Artist in Residence/Poet in the Schools Program
Elementary and Middle School Levels, Rochester, New York
1976--1979
MFA Thesis Advisor
Rochester Institute of Technology and Visual Studies Workshop
Rochester, New York
1975--1978
High School Creative Writing Teacher
School Without Walls, Rochester, New York
1974--1978
Adjunct Lecturer, Creative Writing
State University of New York at Buffalo, Credit Free Program
1977
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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Teacher Institute, In-service – Every Object Tells a Story / Reading & Workshops,
The McNay Art Museum, 2013
Juror, Poetry Out Loud, Henry Ford Academy-Alameda School of Art/Design, 2012
Poetry Infusion, Workshops at Tafolla Middle School and Reading, 2012
Poetry Panel, Stormont Symposium at Victoria College, 2012
Coordinator, National Poetry Month San Antonio 2008 – the present
Workshop presenter, Georgetown Poetry Festival, Georgetown TX 2011, 2012, 2013
Guest Poetry Editor, San Antonio Express-News. 2010- the present
Steering Committee, The Cultural Collaborative, City of San Antonio, Office of Cultural
Affairs, 2003-2004
Juror, Reflections Contest / Literature, statewide / TX , 1998
National Advisory Board Member, AESOP - Access to English & Science
Outreach Project, National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester
Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, 1996
Four Family Workshops in Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Walt Whitman's
Death, Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn, New York, Spring 1992, funded by the
National Endowment for the Humanities
Exhibit Developer/ Curriculum Designer & Team Leader for “Tales in Tall Trees” an
interactive exhibit about stories storytelling for Staten Island Children’s Museum, Spring
1987. (The exhibit subsequently travelled to children’s museums across the U.S.)
Curatorial Committee for the exhibit “Diamonds Are Forever”, New York State Museum,
and international tour (by a grant from American ExpressCompany), 1986.
Field Representative for New York State Council for the Arts, State Education
Department, Arts in Education Grants, 1985
Board Member, Writers & Books – Literary Center, Rochester NY, 1977-1986
Coordinator, Poetry Central – Rochester and Upstate New York, 1972 - 1986
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PUBLISHED WORK
Poems in The Enigmatist and Blue Hole, 2008-2013.
“What We Can’t Know” installation in The Poet’s Walk, Memorial Art Gallery,
Rochester, New York, 2013.
“Hojack Swing Bridge” in Hojack Swing Bridge: Its History and Its Future, edited by
Richard Margolis, 2012
Review of The Scribbling Cure by Roberto Bonazzi, San Antonio Express-News,
September 2012
“For the Poet Assef Al-Jundi”, in Improbable Worlds, edited by Martha Serpas, Mutabilis
Press, 2011.
“Hunger” in Broken Circles, Cave Moon Press, 2011
Counting, Poetry, Pecan Grove Press, San Antonio, TX, April 2010.
Review of Losing Season by Jack Ridl in Athelon, 2010
Essay on “Attitudes toward Animals in Poetry” in Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and
Animal Welfare, Greenwood Press, 2009
“Some Things to do in the Face of Death, for Manny Castillo”, in El Placazo, March
2009.
“A Place in Drypoint” Honorable Mention in Dreamcatcher Anthology, 2009.
“Presence/Absence” in Dreamcatcher Anthology, 2009.
“Where does a poem come from?” in The Texas Observer, January 2009.
“World Trade” part of Poetry in Transit, on buses in Dallas, Texas, 2008
Review of the anthology In These Latitudes (Wings Press), San Antonio Express-News,
2008.
“Ghost Cows” in San Antonio Express-News, 2008.
Texas Poetry Calendar, Dos Gatos Press, 2006 – 2014.
Three poems in Big Land, Big Sky, Big Hair: Best of the Texas Poetry Calendar, Dos
Gatos Press, 2008.
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“World Trade” in Between Heaven and Texas by Wyman Meinzer, University of Texas
Press, 2006.
Three poems in The Last Great Places of Texas: Photographs from The Nature
Conservancy’s Texas Preserves, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center and The Nature
Conservancy, 2005.
“Marfa 2001” in The Texas Observer, June 2004.
“Industrial Landscape” in Is This Forever or What?, An Anthology of Texas Poets and
Artists, edited by Naomi Nye, Greenwillow Books, March 2004.
"Showery Day, Lake George" in Voices in the Gallery: Writers on Art, Grant Holcomb,
Editor, The University of Rochester Press, 2001
“Silver Nights” in Diamonds Are Forever: Artists and Writers on Baseball, edited by
Peter Gordon, Chronicle Books, San Francsico, California, 1987.
“Richard’s Bridge” in Richard Margolis – Bridges – Symbols of Progress, exhibit
catalgoue, Lehigh University Art Galleries Publication, 1991.
Simon's Masterpiece, Poetry, White Pine Press, Buffalo, New York, 1983
Rochester Poetry & Calligraphy Calendar, 1980, 1981.
Two poems in On Turtle’s Back: A Biogeographic Anthoogy of New York State Poetry,
edited by Dennis Maloney, White Pine Press, Buffalo, New York, 1978.
What the Diamond Does Is Hold It All In, Poetry, White Pine Press, Buffalo, New York,
1978
Rites of Passage, Poetry, Charon Press, Boston, Massachusetts, 1969.
PREVIOUS AWARDS
Poem nominated for Pushcart Prize by The Enigmatist magazine
Community Partner / Northside Independent School District / 2008
Friend of Art / Northeast Independent School District / 2007
Friend of Art Education / Texas Art Education Association / 2007
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