As a Writer
Library of Congress
Guest poet – Poetry at Noon program
Multiple writing fellowships under the direction of John Montague, first Irish Chair of Poetry
Poetry Residency
Guest Poet/Instructor – Kestrel Literary Journal Seminar
Featured Poet – Postcard poetry program, coordinated by the Creative Writing Programs of the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee and Madison
Correspondent – Milwaukee’s regional guide to the performing arts.
Brooklyn College/CUNY
Tom Todoroff Studio Conservatory Program
The Barrow Group
ATMOTION Center for Actors
Richard’s poems used in multiple workshops/programs for:
Alexander Technique for Actors
Movement for Actors
Voice and Movement Intensive Workshop
Public Speaking and Presenting
As an Administrator
Director – Wisconsin Student Annual Poetry Competition
Click here to read the Wisconsin English Journal article (written with Elizabeth Jorgensen) about the competition.
Coordinator – Youth and Teen Poetry Competition. Funded by Poets House Library and Literary Center, New York
Marquette University Department of Biological Sciences/Milwaukee Public Museum
Co-coordinator – “Launch: Internships In Biology and Environmental Studies” Partnership between the Marquette University Department of Biological Sciences, and the Milwaukee Public Museum.
As an Educator
Milwaukee Public Museum
Education Programs Coordinator
Collège St. Francois-Xavier, France
Instructor in English
BodyMindSpirit Works Mediation Center, Grafton, WI
Creative Writing Instructor
First Stage Children’s Theater/Marcus Center for the Performing Arts
Stage Combat Instructor and Fight Director
Milwaukee Repertory Theater
Stage Combat Instructor
Milwaukee Shakespeare
Fight Director
Skylight Music Theatre
Stage Combat Instructor
U.S. State Department, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
Instructor/Educator
As a Performer
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Performer and Script Writer – Journey Into Space performance series
Museum of Science, Boston
Actor and Educator – Science Theater program
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Actor and Fight Director
Publishers of Distinction
- Finishing Line Press
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Parallel Press
- University of Iowa Press
- University of Massachusetts Press
- University of Wisconsin-Madison Press
- Wisconsin English Journal
Accolades and Nominations
- Pushcart Prize nominations (2017, 2019, 2021)
- Shortlisted: The Ashland Poetry Press Richard Snyder Award
- Shortlisted: Codhill Press Poetry Award
- Guest Poet, the Library of Congress Poetry at Noon program
- New York State Writers Institute; Director John Montague, Ireland Chair of Poetry (three fellowships)
Other Affiliations
- Academy of American Poets
- Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)
- Society of American Fight Directors
- Poets & Writers Directory
From “Summit”
When we abandoned
the cylinders a blue flame
lit the ice. The flap of the
rucksack snapped
in the harsh wind. The thin air
made it hard to think.
Richard Hedderman 