Regular reviewer for Library Journal, 1975-present

Small Press Columnist for Library Journal, 1985

Poetry Columnist, The Soho Weekly News, 1975-1982

Regular reviewer for Publishers Weekly, 1989-1997

Regular contributor to Kirkus Reviews, 1994-1995

Essay on Sylvia Plath in Voice of America's American Writing Today, 1982

Panelist on "Reviewing Reviewing," AWP Conference, 2004, and "Poetry & Reviewing: The State of the Art," Poets House, 1992

Reviews and articles have appeared in: The New York Times Book Review, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Baltimore Sun, The Chicago Sun-Times, Newsday, Raleigh News & Observer, The Columbus Dispatch, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Small Press, Vermont Life, Midstream, Parabola, Film Quarterly, The Minnesota Review, Helicon Nine, Contact II, Margins, Ararat, New Women's Times, & other magazines.

Selections from several reviews reprinted in Gale Research's Contemporary Literary Criticism

Teaching Experience

Fellow, Brookdale Center on Aging, Hunter College

Literary coordinator, "Festival of Yiddish Culture", Georgia Southern College, 1981

Presenter, "Creative Writing: An Effective and Dynamic Means of Self-Expression," New York State Recreation And Park Society 54th Annual Conference, 1994

Lecturer, "Workshops In Alternative Environments", The New York Foundation Center, 1982

Lecturer, "Life Stories" symposium Hunter-Brookdale Center on Aging, 1980

Lecturer, "Therapy & Art" symposium, Helen Hayes Hospital, 1979

Teacher, Creative Writing Chatroom, sponsored by the National MS Society, New York City Chapter (2003-present)

Other Workshops (partial list): Poets House (workshop on The Poet as Reviewer), Burke Rehabilitation Center, Self Help Austin Street Senior Center,Riverdale Senior Center, Scheuer House Senior Center, Sing Sing Prison, Port Washington Public Library, Wilson College, Hebrew Old Age Home, Williamsburg Senior Center, Warren County BOCES Program, Iona College Senior Program, Bronx YMHA Senior Center; Poetry in the Schools programs in New Hampshire, New York, and South Carolina

Medical Writing

Ghostwriter for: On The Edge: The Love/Hate World of the Borderline Personality by Neil Price, MD (The Pia Press, 1989) Life On A Rollercoaster, by Ekkehard Othmer, MD and Sieglinde Othmer, PhD (The Pia Press, 1989) Codependency, Sexuality, and Depression by William Thornton, MD (The Pia Press, 1990)

Personal Journaling -- in Inside Ms, October-December 2002

But You Look So Good -- Revisited in Inside Ms, Spring 1997

No Pain, Much Gain: How You and Your Staff Can Avoid Carpal Tunnel Syndrom in Editor & Writer, July/August, 1997

Anthologies:

Bearing Life (Editor, The Feminist Press, 2000), Chance of a Ghost (Helicon Nine, 2005), Only the Sea Keeps (Bayeux Arts, 2005), Identity Lessons (Penguin, 1999), It's Only Rock and Roll (Godine, 1998), Spud Songs (Helicon Nine Editions, 1999) The Talking of Hands (New Rivers, 1998) Worlds in our Words (Prentice Hall, 1997), Under A Gull's Wing (Down The Shore, 1996), Articulations: The Body and Illness in Poetry (Univ. of Iowa Press, 1994), On Prejudice (Anchor, 1993), Women on War (Simon and Schuster, 1988), Voices Within The Ark: Modern Jewish Poets (Avon, 1980), Poets On Photography (The Dog Ear Press, 1980), The Poets' Choice (Tendril, 1980), Postcard Poems (Bradbury Press, 1979), Poets On Stage (Release Press, 1978), Death & Suicide (Shelley's Press,1978), We Become New (Bantam Books, 1975), The Doctor Generosity Poets (Damascus Road, 1975), Loves, Etc. Doubleday/Anchor, 1973), Quickly Aging Here (Doubleday/Anchor, 1970)

Magazine Publications include:

POETRY -- The Nation, National Jewish Monthly, Café Review, Shenandoah, Antaeus, Sumac, Confrontation, The Poetry Review, Ironwood, Carleton Miscellany, Center, Shantih, Response, The Minnesota Review, Green House, Poetry Now, The Connecticut Poetry Review, Graham House Review, The Laurel Review, Seneca Review

FICTION -- The Illinois Review, First Intensity, Sugar Mule, Center, Caprice

Awards/ Honors

Balancing Acts was a Finalist for the 2007 Binghamton University Milt Kessler Book Award

Susan Koppelman Award, given by Women's Caucus of the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association (For Bearing Life), 2000

Performances

PLAY, Kité Fami: My family has left me, produced as showcase at The Studio For Creative Movement, March 1976, directed by Merle Lister

Tellings, poems in dramatic presentation, produced at Theatre St. Clement's, 1979, directed by Richard Spiegel

Poem, "The Captive", included in film Woman Is, High Desert Women's Center, 1980

Readings include: City College, Goddard College, CUNY Graduate Center, Bluestockings, Stockton State College, Southwest Minnesota State College, Georgia Southern College, The Hungry Mind (Minneapolis), Gaia (San Francisco), Women and Children First (Chicago), St. Catherine's College, Boston Center For The Arts, Voice of America radio, Columbus Public Library, Wilson College, National Writer's Voice (Detroit), Beyond Baroque, Dr. Generosity's, St. Mark's Church, The Tin Palace, WNYC radio, The Academy of American Poets (poets in the parks program), The Donnell Library, Borders Bookshop (Philadelphia), Powell's Books (Portland), Elliot Bay Books (Seattle), Olson's Books (Georgetown), Books & Books (Miami).

Other

Grants Panels: CAPS Poetry Grants (1983); Ohio Arts Council Creative Writing Grants (1984); Colorado Council of Arts and Humanities Grants (1992); PEN Prison Writing Awards (1989-present). Judge for Poetry In Public Places, 1979

Public Relations Writing: Susan Wilson Associates, 1986-1994

Member of PEN, The Authors Guild, The National Book Critics Circle, The National Writers Union, The Poetry Society of America, and The Hudson Valley Writers Guild. Listed by Poets & Writers.