Year Started

1991

Education

• Ph.D. English The Graduate School & University Center, CUNY
• Certificate High School English Teachers College, Columbia University
• M.F.A. Poetry Columbia University School of the Arts
• B.A. Poetry and Poetics--Independent Learning Program Indiana University

Teaching Interests

• Poetry
• Writing
• Cinema
• Independent Studies in Humanities

Research Interests

• The New York School Writers & Artists
• Shakespeare
• Sea Literature
• Classical Greek
• Graphic Novels
• Small-Press Publishing
• Fine and Studio Arts
• Approaches to Teaching Composition & Writing

Biography

Rosanne Wasserman’s poems appear in print and online, in the Best American Poetry annual series, Jubilat, ek-phra-sis, Conduit, Cimarron, Jacket 2, Maggy, How2, and elsewhere. Her books of poems include The Lacemakers (1992), No Archive on Earth (1995), Other Selves (1999), and Sonnets from Elizabeth’s (2017); as well as Place du Carousel (2001) and Psyche and Amor (2009), collaborations with her husband, the poet Eugene Richie, with whom she runs the Groundwater Press, a nonprofit poetry publisher (http://groundwater-zanne.blogspot.com/). She has written on John Ashbery and Grace Paley for The Massachusetts Review; on poet Tom Weatherly, jewelry designer Miriam Haskell, and artist Dwight Ripley for the Best American Poetry blog; on Pierre Martory, James Schuyler, and Ruth Stone for American Poetry Review; and on Marianne Moore, Dara Wier, H. D., and others. She has taught Homer’s Odyssey and Shakespeare’s Tempest at the United States Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, New York, as a generalist in their Humanities Department for thirty years.