CURRICULUM VITAE
JOSEPH “NATE” DUKE
[contact info available upon request]
EDUCATION
Florida State University, Tallahassee— Ph.D. English/Creative Writing: Poetry 2021
University of Montana, Missoula— MFA Creative Writing: Poetry 2017
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville— BA English Literature, 2015
PROFESSIONAL AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE
MSU-Billings, 2021-22
Courses Taught: WRIT 429, LIT 437, LIT 304, CRW 240, WRIT 101
Florida State University, 2018-21
Courses Taught: Poetic Technique—CRW 311; Intro to Literature—LIT 2000; Intro to English Studies—ENG 2012; Research, Genre, and Context—ENC 2135; Freshman Composition and Rhetoric—ENC 1101
University of Texas, Austin, 2019
OnRamps program Writing Assessment specialist
Educational Testing Service, 2019-current
AP Language exam reader
University of Montana, 2015-2017
Courses Taught: Poetry Workshop—CWR 211; College Writing—WRIT 101
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS
Yale University, American Literature in the World: “Blueing Under a Dimming North Star”: Destabilizations of English in Native American Poetry” 2019.
University of Alabama, Examining the American Experience conference: “Colonizing the Enemy’s Language”: New American Englishes in Contemporary Native Poetries” 2019
University of Idaho, Fluid Frontiers conference: “Deluge and Dissolution; Water, Language, and the Anthropocene in Contemporary Native American Poetry” 2019.
PUBLICATIONS AND READINGS
Poems:
“Primm Meadow” Paris Review summer 2022
“Garish Abstract Stained-Glass Birds” Colorado Review, spring 2021
“On a Farm Near Junction City” Granta, spring 2021
“Projects Not Realized” Granta fall 2020
“Texarkana Apocrypha” and “Illinois River, Northern Arkansas” Southern Humanities Review, forthcoming fall 2020
“All the People You Want Are Naked Asleep in Another June” Puerto del Sol, 2020
“They Gave Us All Day” Green Linden Press, 2020
“Tales of Ecopoetic Geometries are Best Left as Such” The Hunger, 2019. Nominated for a Best of the Net award.
“Unlike Conquest” Academy of American Poets, 2016
“3 poems” Driftwood Press, 2015. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
“Names” Red Cedar Press, 2015
“Sestina series” Nude Bruce Review, 2014
“Blue Cherries” Blue Hour Press, 2013
“3 poems” The Ozark Line, 2013
Nonfiction:
“After, I’d Try Becoming a White Parapet” The Arkansas International, fall 2020
Reviews:
“Swift by David Baker.” Entropy 2020
“Woods and Clouds Interchangeable by Michael Earl Craig.” Adroit 2020
“Dissolve by Sherwin Bitsui.” The Southeast Review, 2019
“Deep South by Paul Theroux.” CutBank Magazine, 2016.
Readings:
Diné College Midnight Transfer remote series, 2020
University of Idaho Ecopoetics conference, 2019
ULL Lafayette The Nice Things series, 2019
FSU’s Jerome Stern Distinguished Writers series, 2018
UM Thesis Defense, 2017
GetLit! EWU Book Festival, 2017
UM Second Wind series, 2016
Montana Book Festival, 2016
LITERARY INVOLVEMENT
Southeast Review, Poetry Reader, FSU 2018-current
Southeast Review, Book Reviewer, FSU 2018-current
The Nice Things regional reading series assistant coordinator, 2019
CutBank Poetry Editor, UMT 2015-2017
CutBank Social Media Editor, UMT 2015-2017
Second Wind reading series assistant coordinator, 2017
Oxford American Magazine editorial intern, 2015
OTHER EMPLOYMENT
Governor’s Charter Academy, Literacy Tutor, 2019
Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes, Literacy Tutor, 2018
Missoula Public Schools, Para-Educator, 2017
Montana BSA, Aquatics Director, 2016-2017
AWARDS
Academy of American Poets College Prize, 2016
Bertha Morton Fellowship, UMT, 2016
Dean’s List, UMT 2016
Dean’s List, UARK 2015
INTERESTS
Contemporary Native poetries
Navajo language and poetics
Ecopoetics
Postcolonial poetry
Romanticism