Rosemarie Dombrowski
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AZCTR 370B PHOENIX, AZ 85004-0320
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Mail code: 0320Campus: Dtphx
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Rosemarie Dombrowski (RD) is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Phoenix, AZ and the founding director of Revisionary Arts, a nonprofit that facilitates therapeutic poetry workshops for vulnerable populations and the community at large. She’s also the founding editor of both rinky dink press (a publisher of micro-collections of micro-poetry) and The Revolution (Relaunch), an award-winning, creative resurgence of the official newspaper of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association.
Within the ASU community, RD is the founding editor of ISSUED: stories of service, a journal of creative expression by veterans and military-affiliated people sponsored by OVMAE. She's also the creator and facilitator of Verse for Vets, a therapeutic poetry program for veterans, also sponsored by OVMAE. From 2007-2022, she was the faculty editor of Write On Downtown (2007-2022), an annual publication dedicated to showcasing the work of Phoenix creatives.
RD has published three collections of poetry including The Book of Emergencies (Five Oaks Press, 2014), a lyrical ethnography of the culture of nonverbal Autism, and The Cleavage Planes of Southwest Minerals [A Love Story], winner of the 2017 Split Rock Review chapbook competition.
RD is the recipient of an Arts Hero Award, a Great 48 Award, a Women & Philanthropy grant, and Fellowships from the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics and the Academy of American Poets. In 2022, she gave a TEDx talk entitled “The Medicinal Power of Poetry. That same year, she was named Outstanding Speaker by Arizona Humanities. In 2023, she received a Leader of the Year award from Arizona Capital Times (Arts & Culture category).
Currently, RD is a Teaching Professor at ASU who teaches courses in medical poetry, the poetry of conflict and witness, underground print culture (zines), women's literature, and journal production. She's also an Assistant Professor of Practice at U of A College of Medicine-Phoenix, where she serves as the faculty editor of Grey Matter, the college's medical poetry journal.
Learn more about her projects, publications, and speaking engagements at www.rdpoet.com
- University of Iowa International Writing Program, summer 2014 and 2016
- Ph.D. English (American Literature), Arizona State University, 2007
- B.A. English, Arizona State University, 1996
- B.A. Anthropology, Arizona State University, 1996
- African Studies Program, University of Ghana at Legon, summer 1996
RD's research focuses on the history of radical/alternative print culture in America, with emphasis on acts of curatorial agency by women including suffrage journals, Emily Dickinson’s fascicles, little magazines, and riot grrrls zines.
Her applied research is situated within the Medical Humanities and includes the re-examination of canonical American poetry through a medical-biographical lens, the implications and impact of both patient-centered and practitioner-centered poetry, and the application of poetry as a complementary therapy in both clinical and community settings. Accordingly, her poetry resides at the intersection of disability (Autism), medicine, and trauma, and her community-facing programs focus on poetic approaches to community-building and healing.
RD's other research interests include poetry of the incarcerated, war poetry/poetry of witness, and poetry of the historically marginalized -- from the narrative content to its medicinal value and impact.
Poetry Collections
▪ The Cleavage Planes of Southwest Minerals [A Love Story]) (chapbook), Split Rock Review, April 2018.
▪ The Book of Emergencies (2nd edition; inclusion of the award-winning sequence 17 Letters) Five Oaks Press, NY, November 2017.
▪ The Philosophy of Unclean Things, Finishing Line Press, Georgetown, KY, January 2017.
▪ The Book of Emergencies, Five Oaks Press, NY, December 2014.
Courses
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 364 | Women and Literature |
| ENG 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ENG 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ENG 493 | Honors Thesis |
| HON 394 | Special Topics |
| HON 394 | Special Topics |
| ENG 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ENG 484 | Internship |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ENG 333 | American Ethnic Literature |
| HON 394 | Special Topics |
| HON 394 | Special Topics |
| ENG 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ENG 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ENG 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ENG 394 | Special Topics |
| VTS 394 | Special Topics |
| ENG 394 | Special Topics |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 364 | Women and Literature |
| ENG 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ENG 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ENG 493 | Honors Thesis |
| HON 394 | Special Topics |
| HON 394 | Special Topics |
| VTS 394 | Special Topics |
| ENG 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ENG 484 | Internship |
| ENG 394 | Special Topics |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ENG 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ENG 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ENG 333 | American Ethnic Literature |
| HON 394 | Special Topics |
| HON 394 | Special Topics |
| ENG 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ENG 484 | Internship |
| ENG 493 | Honors Thesis |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 364 | Women and Literature |
| ENG 484 | Internship |
| ENG 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ENG 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ENG 493 | Honors Thesis |
| HON 394 | Special Topics |
| HON 394 | Special Topics |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ENG 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ENG 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ENG 105 | Adv First-Year Composition |
| ENG 333 | American Ethnic Literature |
| ENG 352 | Short Story |
| HON 394 | Special Topics |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 364 | Women and Literature |
| ENG 484 | Internship |
| ENG 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ENG 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ENG 493 | Honors Thesis |
| HON 394 | Special Topics |
2020 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ENG 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ENG 333 | American Ethnic Literature |
| HON 394 | Special Topics |
2020 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 333 | American Ethnic Literature |
2020 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 364 | Women and Literature |
| ENG 484 | Internship |
| ENG 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ENG 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ENG 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ENG 394 | Special Topics |
| HON 394 | Special Topics |
2019 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ENG 493 | Honors Thesis |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ENG 333 | American Ethnic Literature |
| HON 394 | Special Topics |
| ENG 394 | Special Topics |
2019 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 333 | American Ethnic Literature |
2019 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| ENG 364 | Women and Literature |
| ENG 484 | Internship |
| ENG 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| ENG 394 | Special Topics |
| ENG 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| ENG 493 | Honors Thesis |
| HON 394 | Special Topics |
| ENG 594 | Conference and Workshop |
▪ Fellow finalist, Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship, August 2020.
▪ Poet Laureate Fellow, the Academy of American Poets, May 2020.
▪ Grant finalist, Whiting Public Engagement seed grant, August 2019.
▪ Fellow, Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, Project: The Phoenix Poetry Gardens, Fall 2017.
▪ Grant recipient, Academic Excellence in Diversity Grant, Project: We Are Downtown: A Demographic and Creative Study of Place (8-member team, Watts College), 2014.
▪ Grant recipient, Women & Philanthropy grant, Project: Write On, Downtown: A Journal of Phoenix Writing and Art (3-member team, CISA), 2009.
Literary Arts/Teaching Awards
▪ Outstanding Speaker of the Year, Arizona Humanities, 2022.
▪ Favorite Presenter, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at ASU, 2020.
▪ Most Supportive Instructor, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at ASU, 2020.
▪ Best Creative Activism (The Revolution (Relaunch)), Phoenix New Times Best of Phoenix 2020.
▪ Named one of “The Great 48” by Phoenix Magazine, 2020.
▪ Arts Hero Award, ON Media, SRP, & Arts Foundation for Tucson & Southern AZ, 2017.
▪ Best of the City, Scottsdale Magazine, June/July 2017.
▪ 101 Things We Love About the Valley: Phoenix Poet Laureate Rosemarie Dombrowski, Phoenix Magazine, March 2017.
▪ 101 Things We Love About the Valley: Our Literary Scene (Four Chambers Press & Rinky Dink Press), Phoenix Magazine, March 2017.
▪ Best Literary Powerhouse (Four Chambers Press), Phoenix Magazine Best of the Valley, 2016.
▪ Best Page Poetry Series (Phoenix Poetry Series), Phoenix Magazine Best of the Valley, 2014.
▪ Best Literary Journal (Four Chambers), Phoenix New Times Best of Phoenix, 2014.
Creative Writing Awards
▪ Semifinalist, River Heron Poetry Prize, July 2020.
▪ Finalist, The Fourth River Review Folio Contest for Poetry, May 2019.
▪ Finalist, Whitman Bicentennial Poetry Contest, Brooklyn Poets, May 2019.
▪ Winner, Silver Needle Press Flash Fiction Contest, October 2018.
▪ Finalist, Likely Red Press first annual Chapbook Contest, October 2018.
▪ Semifinalist, Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize, October 2018.
▪ Second Place, Force Majeure Flash Contest, June 2018.
▪ Finalist, The River Styx Microfiction Contest, February 2018.
▪ Nominee, Pushcart Prize (for 17 Letters ), nominated by The Petigru Review, December 2017.
▪ Winner, Split Rock Review Annual Chapbook Contest (for The Cleavage Planes of Southwest Minerals: [A Love Story]), August 2017.
▪ Winner, Carrie McCray Memorial Literary Award in Nonfiction, South Carolina Writers Association, July 2017.
▪ Finalist, Winston-Salem Writers Contest, July 2017.
▪ Nominee, “Best of the Web” (nominated by The Poet’s Billow), August 2016.
▪ Winner, Human Relations Indie Book Award for Poetry (for The Book of Emergencies), December 2016.
▪ Finalist, Pangaea Poetry Prize (for “Civil War” & “The Resurrection of Lazarus with Worms”), summer 2015.
▪ Nominee, Pushcart Prize (for “Civil War”), nominated by The Poet’s Billow, December 2015.
▪ Nominee, Pushcart Prizes (3) (for Non-Identical Matching; Three Approximations of Maturity; Spitting at the Moon), nominated by Five Oaks Press, December 2014.
▪ Founding Faculty Editor, ISSUED: stories of service (a literary journal for active-duty, veterans, and military affiliated persons), OVMAE at ASU DPC, August 2022-present.
▪ Faculty Editor, Grey Matter, the medical poetry journal of the University of Arizona Biomedical campus-Phoenix, May 2020-present.
▪ Founding Editor, The Revolution (Relaunch) (a creative resurgence of the women’s rights newspaper founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony), June 2019-present.
▪ Co-Editor, Osher Lifelong Learning: Our Community Anthology, November 2018.
▪ Co-Editor, Counter Narratives: Voices of Refusal, Resistance, & Joy, ed. Evan Anderson & R. Dombrowski, Four Chambers Press, April 2018.
▪ Co-Editor, Weaving the Threads: Women + Community + Art, Four Chambers Press, February 2017.
▪ Founding Editor, rinky dink press (a publisher of micropoetry in microzine form), November 2015-present.
▪ Poetry Editor, Four Chambers Journal (Literary Magazine) & Four Chambers Press, Phoenix, AZ, August 2013-August 2018.
▪ Co-Founding Editor, Write On, Downtown: A Journal of Phoenix Creativity, ASU DPC, January 2007-April 2022.
▪ Founding Editor, merge: a journal of convergent ideas (poetry journal), Phoenix, AZ, January 2005-December 2011.