Poetry Hut Blog
Poet Jilly Dybka

EDUCATION

• Queens University of Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
  MFA, Creative Writing, 2006
• University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
  MS, Information Sciences, 1998
• Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN
  BA, English, 1996

EMPLOYMENT

• Webmaster and Windows network administration: 1997-present. Currently responsible for an education website with over 20 million page views per year.

PUBLICATIONS

• Poetry:

  • An asterisk means the link goes directly to a poem
  • Several poems. Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Fall 2007.
  • Obstacles I Have Faced In Life and How I Have Overcome Them. Tuesday; An Art Project, Volume 1:2, Fall 2007.
  • Wartime Terzanelle. The Arabesques Review. 2007. (Algeria)
  • 2 poems.^* storySouth. 2007.
  • The Magician’s Tale. Harpur Palate. Volume 6.2 Winter 2007.
  • Ryman Auditorium, Nashville. Court Green. Issue 3 2006.
  • Palindromic Sestina.^* La Petite Zine. Issue 18 2006.
  • Like a Wild Pitch. Elysian Fields Quarterly: The Baseball Review. Vol. 23 / No. 1 (2006).
  • A Rare Bird. The Awakenings Review. Fall 2005.
  • City Park. The Awakenings Review. Fall 2005.
  • You, Yes You. The Awakenings Review. Fall 2005.
  • John Ashcroft Covers The Naked Breasts Of The “Spirit Of Justice” Statue. Pemmican Fall 2005.
  • Midnight Wire Transfer.^* Southern Gothic Online November 2005.
  • Abcedarian on Astrology.^* MiPoesias. Fall 2005.
  • Bop: Parkinson’s. Ink Pot. Fall 2005.
  • Punctuation. SPORE. Spore 2.0, 2005.
  • Haiku.^* Triptych Haiku 1.1, 2005.
  • To A Spider After a Rainstorm. SPORE. Spore 2.0, 2005.
  • Memphis, 1976.^* McSweeney’s (online sestinas). August 9, 2005.
  • Homeland Security Alert Orange. Vs. Issue 4, Summer 2005.
  • Insomnia (after Bly).^* Poems Niederngasse. (Switzerland) May 2005.
  • The Retired Vietnam Munitions Loader Attempts to Open a Can of Biscuits. Michigan Quarterly Review. Winter 2005.
  • 3 haiku.^* paper wasp. (Australia) Summer 2005.
  • 2 Poems. Breath & Shadow. February 2005.
  • The Last Big Bet.^* No Tell Motel. January 2005.
  • The Groundskeeper.^* No Tell Motel. January 2005.
  • Prison Dentist.^* No Tell Motel. January 2005.
  • City Bus.^* No Tell Motel. January 2005.
  • I have married a crow.^* No Tell Motel. January 2005.
  • Dock Ellis Pitches a No-No While on LSD.^* Elysian Fields Quarterly: The Baseball Review. Vol. 22 / No. 1 (2005).
  • The Manic Taxidermist. Split Shot. Volume IV, Issue 3 (Fall/Winter 2004 Issue).
  • Urban Legend. Möbius. November 2004.
  • Stan Getz. Main Street Rag. Winter 2004/05.
  • Lost Things. The Penwood Review. Fall 2004.
  • Psilocybin Mushrooms Sprout at the Arizona Community College.^* Defenestration. May 20, 2004.
  • Attention Shoppers. StickYourNeckOut Magazine. January 2004.
  • Bad Buddhist. StickYourNeckOut Magazine. January 2004.
  • Big Ed Delahanty. Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine. Issue #58 2004.
  • Mudball. Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine. Issue #58 2004.
  • Zebra Man. Out & About Nashville. 2003.
  • Still Walking. A Gathering of the Tribes. Vol. 10 (2003).
  • (senryu). Presence. (England) Summer 2002.
  • The Beatles Play Shea Stadium For The First Time. Elysian Fields Quarterly: The Baseball Review. Vol. 18 / No. 3 (2001).
  • Detroit Haiku. Struggle Magazine. Summer 2001.

• Anthologies:

  • The Log Lady’s Log Speaks To Her. A Slice of Cherry Pie. The Private Press & Half Empty/Half Full. (chapbook) 2006.
  • I have married a crow. The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel. No Tell Books. 2006.
  • 2 Hay(na)ku. The First Hay(na)ku Anthology.. Meritage
    Press, California, and xPress(ed), Finland. 2006.

  • First Time Caller, Art Bell. Things That Go Bump in the Night. Outrider Press. June 2004.

• Chapbooks:

  • Fair Territory: Baseball Poems. Bear Shirt Press, Tennessee, 2005.

• Essays

  • My Sister, the Satellite. Student, Self & Society: Stories From the Lives of Learners, McGraw-Hill, 1996.
  • The Tragedy of Tibet. Tennessean, July 8, 1991.

  REVIEWS OF MY WORK

  • Orange Challenge by Jack and Jenni.
  • Fair Territory by Michael Wells.
  • Fair Territory by Jonathan Leshanski, At Home Plate.
  • Review of Fair Territory by Phil Billings, Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine. 2005.

  PERFORMANCES OF MY WORK

  • 12th Annual Baseball in Literature and Culture Conference. Poetry reading, March 30, 2007. Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
  • Undercover Radio. Shortwave pirate radio broadcast show #2 featuring “Fire Eater” sonnet. 2003. The ether.
  • Intissar of The Theremin: theremin/poetry performance featuring “Sideshow Sonnets.” 2002. Phoenix, Arizona.

  AWARDS

  • Pushcart Prize nomination, December 2005, for The Retired Vietnam Munitions Loader Attempts to Open a Can of Biscuits, which appeared in the Winter 2005 issue of Michigan Quarterly Review.

  SCHOLARSHIPS

  • West Chester University Poetry Conference. 2004.

  AFFILIATIONS

  • National Writers Union UAW Local 1981
  • Tennessee Writers Alliance
  
  

  PO Box 81 Kingston Springs TN 37082