JIM GRABILL
CONTACT
Office: Rook 225
Phone: (503) 657-6958 ext. 2824
Email: jimg@clackamas.edu
A CCC teacher since 1991, Jim has been principal writing instructor
for the school's innovative Accelerated Clackamas Degree program since
its inception in 1996. As a member of the CCC English Department, he
teaches a variety of writing and literature classes, including creative
nonfiction, Shakespeare, Beat Lit, and poetry. He serves on the creative
writing and technical writing committees, as well as the editorial boards
of The Banyan and Clackamas Literary
Review.
His fifth book of
poetry (Poem
Rising Out of the Earth and Standing Up in Someone, Lynx House Press)
was awarded the Oregon
Book Award for Poetry in 1995, the same year his first collection
of essays (Through the Green Fire, Holy Cow! Press) was selected as
a finalist for the Oregon
Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. His most recent books are An
Indigo Scent after the Rain (Lynx House Press), a book of poems
which was also was selected as a finalist
for the Oregon Book Award, and Finding
the Top of the Sky (creative nonfiction, Lost Horse Press). His
work is published widely in literary journals across the country (in
Field, the minnesota review, Midwest Quarterly, Lake
Effect, South Dakota Review, kayak, Pemmican, Poetry
Northwest, The Prose Poem, Caliban, Ur
Vox, Windfall,
Writer’s Forum, The
Seattle Review, Poetry
East, Porcupine, Willow
Springs, The
Grove Review, Poet
Lore, The Bitter
Oleander, and The
Common Review).
In the '80s,
before returning to the Portland area, Jim received an M.A. in English
and M.F.A.
in Creative Writing from Colorado State University. When he isn't
teaching or writing, he might be found vegetable gardening, drawing,
exercising, or attending
cultural events in the area.
PROFESSIONAL
INTERESTS
Life-Long Learning
Creative Nonfiction and Poetry
Shakespeare
Drawing and Art
COURSES TAUGHT
The Shakespeare Sequence: ENG-201 to ENG-203
Creative Nonfiction Writing: WR-240
Creative Nonfiction Intensive: WR-239
Creative Nonfiction Literature: ENG-225
Poetry Writing: WR-242, WR-245
Beat Literature: ENG-215
Introduction to Literature: ENG-104 and ENG-106
The Composition Sequence: WR-121, WR-122, WR-123
The ACD Collaborative Speech/Writing Sequence
Technical Writing: WR-227
Occupational Writing: WR-101
Paragraph-to-Essay: WR-95 (WR-115) |
