Pam Baggett
Literary Arts; Teaching Artist
Artistic Resume
Book Publication:
Wild Horses, a runner-up for the 2017 Cathy Smith Bowers Chapbook Contest, published by Main Street Rag in May 2018
Journal Publications:
Tar River Poetry, Vol. 57, No. 2, Spring 2018: “Learned At Last Night’s Lecture On Dementia”
Crab Orchard Review, Vol. 21, No. 1 and 2, 2017: “What Passes Through This World Cries”
Cold Mountain Review, Vol. 45, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2017: “Twenty-First Century Pastoral” and “When I Look at Radiance”
San Pedro River Review, Vol. 9, No. 1, Spring 2017: “To a Friend, with Gratitude”
Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry, Vol. 60, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2017: “Days Like These” and “First Birthday Alone”
The Greensboro Review, No. 100, Fall 2016: “Summer Vacation”
Atlanta Review, Vol. 22, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2016: “Break on Through—Ray Manzarek Speaks”
Tar River Poetry, Vol. 55, No. 2, Spring 2016: “Even Now” and “Truckload of Jesuses”
Kentucky Review, on-line, January 2015: “Are They Boulders,” “At Stouchsburg Cemetery,” “Country Man,” “Driving My Aunt Back from the Nursing Home Where We Visited Her Sister,” “Photograph: Burlap #2,” and “Visiting Her Sister at the Nursing Home”
San Pedro River Review, Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 2015: “What to Do with a Father”
The Sow’s Ear, Vol. 22, No. 4, Winter 2013: “Hunger”
Crab Orchard Review, Vol. 17, No. 2, Summer/Fall 2012: “Rehrersburg, Pennsylvania, 1857”
Atlanta Review, Vol. 18, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2012: “A Love Poem for My Muse” and “Joy”
Anthology Publications:
Kakalak 2017 (Main Street Rag, 2017): “For Her” and “Questions I Should Have Asked At My Thirty-fifth High School Reunion”
The Book of Donuts (Terrapin Books, 2017): “What Shaped You”
Kakalak 2016 (Main Street Rag, 2016): “Snow and the Memory of Snow”
Kentucky Review 2015 (Future Cycle Press, 2015): “Are They Boulders,” “At Stouchsburg Cemetery,” “Country Man,” “Driving My Aunt Back from the Nursing Home Where We Visited Her Sister,” “Photograph: Burlap #2,” and “Visiting Her Sister at the Nursing Home”
Kakalak 2015 (Main Street Rag, 2015): “Dear Aunt Sue”
Creatures of Habitat (Main Street Rag, 2015): “So Much”
The Southern Poetry Anthology Volume VII: North Carolina (Texas Review Press, 2014): “Hunger” and “Joy”
Kakalak 2014 (Main Street Rag, 2014): “Pompeii Fairy Tale”
Forgetting Home: Poems About Alzheimers (Barefoot Muse Press, 2013): “Hunger”
Journals and anthologies in which poems are forthcoming:
Spillway: “Seventh Grade”
Quill’s Edge Press, for the anthology 50/50: Poems & Translations by Women over 50: “How Fathers Leave” and “Remorse”
Poetry in Plain Sight:
A program which displays poster-sized poems in downtown Winston-Salem business windows
September 2016: “At the Sugar Shack, Carolina Beach, 1969”
Grants and Awards:
2018: Recipient of the Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet Series student poet mentorship from the North Carolina Poetry Society
2017-18: Recipient of an Artist Project Grant from the Orange County Arts Commission
2016-17: Recipient of an Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artists Grant from the Durham Arts Council
2015: “What to Do with a Father” nominated for the Pushcart Prize by San Pedro River Review
Readings and Lectures:
April 2018: Reading with Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet Beth Copeland and fellow Gilbert-Chappell student poets Terri Greco and Camryn Massey at the Chapel Hill Library
March 2018: Reading with Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet Beth Copeland and fellow Gilbert-Chappell student poet Terri Greco at the Orange County Main Library in Hillsborough
July 2017: Featured poet at the Visions International Reading Series at Aversboro Coffee in Garner NC
February 2017: Featured poet at the Memory Cafe held at the Passmore Center in Hillsborough for adults with memory issues and their caregivers
October 2016: Peace of Mind: a Poetry Lecture at the Orange County Main Library in Hillsborough
April 2016: Featured poet at Carrboro’s Poetry on Your Plate
October 2014: Featured poet at Carrboro’s West End Poetry Festival
Events Funded by a 2017-18 OCAC Artist Project Grant:
Poetry Readings
February 2018: Black History, Black Futures, featuring Howard Craft, Fred Joiner, Crystal Simone Smith, and Gideon Young
October 2017: Poets on Family, featuring J.S. Absher, Terri Kirby Erickson, Jan Harrington, and Tsitsi Jaji
Writing Workshops
March 2018: Journeys, Real and Metaphorical, Orange County Passmore and Seymour Senior Centers
February 2018: Skin!, Orange County Main Library in Hillsborough
October 2017: Writing About Family, Orange County Main Library in Hillsborough
Lecture
March 2018: Poetry as a Friend on Life’s Journey, Orange County Passmore and Seymour Senior Centers
Volunteer Work in the Arts:
Co-organizer and co-host since January 2014 of the Second Thursday Poetry Reading at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill
Organizer and host of the following poetry readings held at the Orange County Main Library in Hillsborough and other venues, featuring distinguished local and regional poets:
October 2017: Reception and reading at Flyleaf Books to honor the life’s work of esteemed North Carolina poet Betty Adcock and to celebrate the release of Rough Fugue
February 2017: Poetry of Witness, featuring William Blackley, L. Teresa Church,
Maura High, and Earl Huband
October 2016: An Evening of Accessible Poetry, featuring Joseph Millar, Florence Nash, Mark Smith-Soto, and Priscilla Webster-Williams
March 2016: Poetry and Personal Identity, featuring Al Maginnes, Maria Rouphial, Andrea Selch, and Crystal Simone Smith
February 2016: Poetry and Race, featuring Jaki Shelton Green, Joseph Mills, NC Poet Laureate Shelby Stephenson, and L. Lamar Wilson
April 2015: An Evening of Local Poetry, featuring Aaron Belz, Jaki Shelton Green, Celisa Steele, and Crystal Simone Smith
June 2016, Chapel Hill Library: Organizer and host of Remembrance: an Evening of African-American Poetry, to honor the Charleston, South Carolina parishioners murdered during a Bible study meeting on June 17, 2015. Featured poets: L. Teresa Church, Jaki Shelton Green, Sheila Smith McKoy, and Gideon Young
Organizer and instructor for the following writing workshops held at the Orange County Main Library in Hillsborough:
April 2018: Writing from the Rope Bridge
January 2018: Love and Romance
May 2017: Wrestling the Four-Tongued Beast: Revision and Imagery
February 2017: Writing Poems of Witness
October 2016: Revising Toward Clarity, Energy, and Elegance
April 2016: Poetry and Personal Identity
February 2016: Writing About Race
July 2015: Heroes, Heroines, and Heartthrobs
April 2015: Getting Honest and Yet More Honest
2014-15: Co-writer and co-facilitator of two writing support groups for women survivors of domestic violence, funded by a grant from the Orange County Arts Commission and held at the Compass Center for Women and Families in Chapel Hill. A journal of survivors’ work, The War Against the Mirror: Reflections on Domestic Violence, was produced with funds from the grant
