Kathleen Aguero’s latest book of poetry is World Happiness Index from Tiger Bark Press.
She has published several other collections of poetry: After That, Daughter Of, The Real Weather, Thirsty Day, and Investigations: The Mystery of the Girl Sleuth.
She is co-editor of three collections of multicultural literature: A Gift of Tongues, An Ear to the Ground, and Daily Fare. Recipient of a Massachusetts Fellowship in Poetry and a fellowship to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Kathleen also was awarded a writing grant from the Elgin/Cox Trust.
She has taught at the Writers’ Center at the Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York, the NY State Young Writers’ Program at Skidmore, as well as in the Poets in the Schools Programs of New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
In 2004, she held the position of Visiting Research Associate at the Brandeis University Women’s Studies Research Center in Waltham, Massachusetts. In addition to teaching in the Solstice low residency MFA program, Kathleen teaches for “Changing Lives Through Literature,” an alternative sentencing program based on the power of books to change lives through reading and group discussion.
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Awards
AWARDS
Firman Houghton Award, New England Poetry Club, fall 2012,
2nd prize for “The General”
Gretchen Warren Award, New England Poetry Club,
2019,Honorable Mention for “Popular Music”
Firman Houghton Award, New England Poetry Club, fall 2008
winner for “Hard work of Hope”
Gretchen Warren Award, New England Poetry Club, 2006,
Honorable Mention for “Stillness”
Rosario Tosiello Award, Pine Manor College, spring 2005
Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, January
2004
Visiting Research Associate, Brandeis University Women’s
Studies Research Center, February-August, 2004
Wean Professorship, Pine Manor College, spring semester,
2004
Kellogg Award, Pine Manor College, spring 2003
Josephine Abercrombie Professor,Pine Manor College, Spring
2002
Honorary Member Delta Chapter of Alphi Chi, February, 2001
Writing Grant, Elgin/Cox Trust, for summer, 1999
Gretchen Warren Award, New England Poetry Club, 1995,
Honorable Mention for “The Swan”
Lindsey Professorship, Pine Manor College,spring,1995
Finalist, Massachusetts Artists Fellowship in Poetry,
1990
Faculty Development Grant, Pine Manor College, summer
1990
First Honorable Mention, Boston University Alumni Poetry Contest, 1989
Honorable Mention, Arts in Transit sponsored by Urban
Arts, 1987
Massachusetts Artists Fellowship in Poetry, 1975
Teaching Experience
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, 1988-2013
Professor Emerita, Undergraduate BA Program in English
Director of College Composition, 1991–2006
Division Chair, Humanities, 1996—98
Low-residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, Poetry faculty, January 2005–
University of Rhode Island’s Ocean State Summer Writing
Conference, June 2012 and June 2011
Changing Lives Through Literature: An Alternative
Sentencing Program for Criminal offenders, taught
literature courses for women at the West Roxbury District
Courthouse Feb. 2006—June 2012; taught youthful male
offenders at the Roxbury District Courthouse, fall 2011—
Teachers As Scholars Program, Harvard University, March
2001, conducted two-day workshop on poetry in form for
teachers of Burlington High School
Massachusetts Poetry Festival
Taught workshops for high school students and for adults,
spring 2010
Taught workshop for high school students, spring 2011
Cape Cod Writers’ Conference, August 2009—taught poetry workshop and gave poetry reading
Solstice Summer Writers’ Conference, Pine Manor College, taught Beginning Poetry Workshop, June 2005
The Writer’s Center at Chautauqua, NY–Conducted poetry
workshop, gave reading and talk, July 2000, August 2003 and August, 2006
New York State Summer Young Writers Institute, Silver Bay,
NY and Skidmore College–conduct writing workshops for
high school students, July, 2000—
Poets-in- Residence Program
Programs sponsored by the New Hampshire Commission of
the Arts, the Massachusetts Foundation on the Arts and
Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts: Have
served as Poet-in-Residence, grades K-12,and conducted
workshops for teachers in New Hampshire and Massachusetts,
1974-1982 and for The Community Music Center of Boston,
1988
Courses Taught
Courses Taught
Developmental Writing
College Composition 1 and 2
College Composition 1 linked with SO216
Critical Reading and Writing
Expository Writing
First Year Seminar: Poetry from the Page to Performance
English as a Second Language (Pine Manor Language Institute)
Writing for the Professions
Understanding the Structure of English
Creative Writing
Writer’s Workshop
Creative Nonfiction
Visiting Poets Seminar
Children’s Literature: Female Images and Gender Roles
Introduction to Women’s Studies
Introduction to World Literature
Female Voices of Diversity
Bad Girls and Wild Women: Female Transgression in Literature
Mythology and Literature
The Poet in the World
Directed study on educating women in prison
Directed study on narrative and dramatic writing
Directed study in work of Anne Sexton
Directed study in work of Denise Levertov
Directed study in the practice and teaching of composition
Directed study in writing poetry in form
Directed study in the writing of fiction
Directed study in reading and writing sonnets
Directed study in poetry of Neruda and Rilke
Literary Magazine Practicum
Faculty member and mentor in Low-residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative writing Program, Pine Manor College
Selected Conferences & Talks
SELECTED CONFERENCES AND TALKS
Panel “The Transformative Power of Poetry,” with Jan Freeman, Jennifer Jean, and Julia Lisella, 2017 Hollihock Writer’s Conference, Bristol Community College, New
Bedford, MA, Aug. 25, 2017
Panelist Metaphor in Poetry: A Life Vest in the Silence of
Trauma. Massachusetts Poetry Festival, May 6, 2017
Workshop leader—Creative Writing for Caregivers, Narrative
Medicine Symposium, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Center for
Faculty Development and Diversity, April 7, 2017
New Hampshire Caregivers Association Conference, Nov. 9,
2015, taught workshop in Creative Writing for Caregivers
PEN
New England Writing and Trauma Conference, Regis
College, Nov. 6, 2015, moderator and presenter, Self-Care
panel
Massachusetts Poetry Festival, May, 2012. Co-organized and
facilitated panel on “Writing in Incarcerated and Related
Spaces”.
Associated Writing Programs Conference, Feb. 2009,
panelist, “Prison Poets: Teaching Behind the Razed Wire.”
“Re-discovering Langston Hughes,” Chautauqua Women’s Club,
August 2006
Co-facilitated discussion of “The Disappearance” by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni at Changing Lives through Literature
Facilitator/Probation Officer Training Program, June 2006
“The Personal Voice in the Public Domain: A Brief Exploration of the Political Poem,” Chautauqua Women’s Club, August 2003
Panelist, “The Poet as Citizen,” Poetry and Politics Conference, Manchester, NH, spring, 2003