Learning the Secrets of English Verse / Springer Texts in Education (PDF)

David J. Rothman is an educator, a widely published poet, critic, editor and scholar, and has served as the leader of many arts and educational organizations. His most recent volume of poems, My Brother's Keeper (Lithic, 2019), was a Finalist for the Colorado Book Award. In 2018 he won a Pushcart Prize for the poem "Kernels," which originally appeared in The New Criterion. In 2017 he published Belle Turnbull: On the Life & Work of an American Master (Pleiades), co-edited with Jeffrey Villines. In addition to many other books, his poems, essays and scholarly work have appeared widely, in journals including Agni, Appalachia, Atlantic Monthly, Gettysburg Review, Hudson Review, Kenyon Review, Mountain Gazette, New Criterion, Poetry, Sewanee Review, Threepenny Review and scores of other newspapers, journals and books. He co-founded the Crested Butte Music Festival, was the founding Publisher and Editor of Conundrum Press (now an imprint of Bower House Books of Denver), served as Academic Dean and then Head of Crested Butte Academy (an independent school), and has served as Resident Poet with Colorado Public Radio and as Poet Laureate of Colorado's Western Slope (2017-'19). He has taught at many colleges and universities, including the University of Utah, the University of Colorado, New York University, and Zhejiang University (People's Republic of China). From 2014-'18 he served as Director of the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Western Colorado University, where he also directed the poetry concentration, edited the journal THINK, and served as director of the conference Writing the Rockies. He has also taught for many decades at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, where in 2012 he won the Beacon Award for excellence in teaching. He lives in Colorado and Utah.

Susan Delaney Spear retired in 2022 from a position as Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Colorado Christian University where she served as English Department