R. K. Johnston Poetry Resumé
Publications:
Dissonance and Consonance, Finishing Line Press, Georgetown, KY, August
2009“Earth’s Next Era – The Age of Loneliness”, War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities, Twentieth Anniversary Edition, United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO, 2008
Kenosis San Luis Obispo, New Artist Press, Toronto, Canada, July 2007
“Cultural Integration Through Poetry”, Senses, Issue 1 Volume 3 Sacramento, CA, Summer 07
“Poetry For Peace”, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, CA, March 25, 2007
“Sowing Seeds and Telling Tales”, New Times, San Luis Obispo, CA,
January 25-February 1, 2007“Earth’s Next Era, The Age of Loneliness” and “Leadership or Extinction”, PoetsLane@comcast.net, December 2006
Seeds Of Tolerance, New Artist Press, Toronto, Canada, December 2006
“Children”, Solo Café, Anthology, San Luis Obispo, CA, Fall 2006
The System Is Broken, New Artist Press, Toronto, Canada, May 2004
Press Release for The System Is Broken, Los Angeles Times, May 2004
“Where I Find You”, BigCityLit, New York City, NY, August 2002
World Wide Word Radio Network, http://www.blogtalkradio.com/onword/,
Director and Host of Cerebral Meditations:
February 28, 2010Interview with Gerald T. McLaughlin on The Bishop of Lipoppo, A Fable, iUniverse, Inc.
January, 24,2010Interview with Stanley Plumly on Posthumous Keats, W.W. Norton & Company
July 28, 2009 Interview with Denise Giardina on Emily’s Ghost, W.W. Norton & Company.
October 7, 2008 Interview with Kim Powers on Capote in Kansas, De Capo Press.
August 29, 2008 Interview with Cary DeCordova on Harlem Speaks, Sourcebooks, Inc.
August 22, 2008 Interview with Kevin Clark on, In the Evening of No Warning, New Issues
August 8, 2008 Interview with Evelyn Cole on three novels; For the Sake of All Others, Traveling on the Dark Side of Love, and A Tough Journey to the Heart of Happiness
July 25, 2008 Interview with Lisa Williams on Women Reading to the Sea, W.W. Norton & Company and Martha Serpas on The Dirty Side of the Storm, W.W. Norton & Company.
July 1, 2008 Interview with Bruce Weigl on Declension in the Village of Chung Luong, Ausable Press and JenniferKwon Dobbs on Paper Pavilion.
June 13, 2008 Interview with John Fitzgerald on Telling Time by the Shadows, Turning Point and Helene Cardona on The Astonished Universe, Red Hen Press.
June 6, 2008 Interview with Gavin O’Toole and Georgina Jiménez Reymoso on Che In Verse, Aflame Books.
May 23, 2008 Interview with Dana Goodyear on, Honey and Junk, W.W. Norton & Company and Rachel Zucker, on The Bad Wife Handbook, Wesleyan University Press.
May 9, 2008 Interview with Michael Robertson and David Blake on Worshiping Walt, Princeton University Press
April 25, 2008 Interview with Matthew Zapruder on American Linden, Tupelo Press and The Pajamist, Copper Canyon Press
April 11, 2008 Interview with Robert W. Trodgon on The Lousy Raacket and Hemingway, Kent State University Press
March 28, 2008 Interview with Valzhyna Mort on Factory of Tears, Copper Canyon Press
March 14, 2008 Interview with Corrie Greathouse on Portraits: Invisible Ink on Parchment,
February22,2008 Interview with Tobias Deehan on The Stranger, Guerrillalit
Featured Readings, Openings, and Media Appearances:
Guest reader, FisherPoets on the Edge Festival, Yaquina Yacht Club, Newport, OR, January 17, 2010
“Poetry Night”, guest reader, Axe and Fiddle, Cottage Grove, OR, December 14, 2009California Book Tour and Readings for Dissonance and Consonance: 2009
Lakes Country Club, Palm Desert, CA, November 16, 2009
Private Home, Mt. Washington, Los Angeles, CA, November 14, 2009
Stories & Book Café, Los Angeles, CA, November 13, 2009
Stynberg Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA, October 21, 2009
Private Home, Sacramento, CA, October 19, 2009“Son of a Pony”, guest reader, Cornelian Street Café, Greenwich Village, NY
September 11, 2009“LoverSpeak” featured guest for Byzantium Magazine, Stynberg Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA, February 11, 2009
2nd Sunday at 7, Coalesce Bookstore, Morro Bay, CA, January 11, 2009, “East Meets West” with poet Jean Gerrard
KCBX 90.1FM, featured guest on “Issues and Ideas” hosted by Guy Rathbon. Discussion of Johnston’s “Unity of Knowledge” based on E.O. Wilson’s Consilience, July 23, 2008
Cox TV Channel 17, “Robert Greenfield Show”, Santa Barbara, CA, taping April 9, 2008 and several re-broadcasts following
SkyWorld, Café Monet, Santa Maria, CA, October 27, 2007
Corners of the Mouth, Linnaea’s Café, San Luis Obispo, CA, October 21, 2007
2nd Sunday at 7, Coalesce Bookstore, Morro Bay, CA, October 14, 2007
Poetry Express, Berkeley, CA, May 21, 2007
“Books etc.” TV Program Interview, Alan Hancock College, March 28, 2007
Book Opening, Seeds of Tolerance, The Steynberg Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA, February 9, 2007
23rd Annual San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival, “Language of the Soul”,
Featured Reader, November 11, 2006National Peace Day Celebration, The Creamery, San Luis Obispo, CA, October 7, 2006
Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA, October 6, 2006
Galaxy II, Yangtze Cruise, People’s Republic of China, June 24, 2006
2nd Sunday at 7, Coalesce Bookstore, Morro Bay, CA, June 11, 2006
Corners of the Mouth, Linnaea’s Café, San Luis Obispo, CA, March 19, 2006
22nd Annual San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival, Linnaea’s Café, San Luis Obispo, CA, November 20, 2005
Third Thursday, Poet’s Night Out, Carlene’s Café, Atascadero, CA, September 15, 2005
Anti-War Session with Sara Downing and Michelle Flan, Linnaea’s Café, San Luis Obispo, CA, August 28, 2005
Poetry In War, presented by Poets Against the War, Bergamont Art Complex, Santa Monica, CA, August 29, 2005
SLO Deliverance, Linnaea’s Café, San Luis Obispo, CA, June 1, 2005
Coffee Cartel, Redondo Beach, CA, February 8, 2005
Book Tour Reading: Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, October 29, 2004
Poetry on the Half Shell, Field Office of Councilman Eric Garcetti, Silver Lake, CA, October 22, 2004
Moon Day, Village Books, Pacific Palisades, CA, October 1, 2004
Youth Poetry Workshop, Field Office of Councilman Eric Garcetti, Silver Lake, CA, October 15, 2005
2nd Friday Series, Cultural Arts Center, Eagle Rock, CA, September 2004
Projectile Poetry, Field Office of Councilman Eric Garcetti, Silver Lake, CA, July 18, 2004
18th Annual Writer’s Workshop, The William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Its Social Consequences, Boston, MA, June 26, 2004
The Boston Poetry Slam, The Cantab Lounge, Cambridge, MA, June 23, 2004
Opening for The System Is Broken, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, August 17, 2004
Music at May’s Landing, Malibu, CA, October 25, 2003
Visiting Artist’s Series, Loew’s Santa Monica Beach Hotel, Santa Monica, CA, October 15, 2000
Workshops and Programs:
Red Sofa, Poetry Workshop, Eugene, OR, every other Tuesday, 2009 – present
Poetry Out Loud, National Foundation for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation,
Judge, San Luis Obispo, February 27, 2008Poets on the Edge, Unitarian Church, San Luis Obispo, Every other Tuesday, 2006-present
Guest attendee, Classes in 19th and 20th Century Poetry, Professor Kevin Clark,
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Fall 2007, Winter 200818th Annual Writer’s Workshop, Creative Writing Program of the University of Massachusetts, Boston and The William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Its Social Consequences, Boston, MA, June 20-July 1, 2004
Poetry Workshop, Charles University, Prague, The Czech Republic, June 10-20, 2002
University of Southern California, Master of Professional Writing Program, Los Angeles, CA, May 1999