Photo by John Retallack Anne C. Coon Professor Emeritus College of Liberal Arts Rochester Institute of Technology Contact accgll@rit.edu for information: · Writing Workshops · Poetry Readings · Collaborative Projects · Works-in-Progress NEW book by long-time collaborators Marcia Birken and Anne C. Coon http://www.mathandpoetry.com/ Cover Photo: Marcia Birken Books Birken, Marcia and Anne C. Coon. Discovering Patterns in Mathematics and Poetry, Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2008. http://www.rodopi.nl/oi.asp Coon, Anne C. Via del Paradiso: Poems from Siena, poetry collection, FootHills Publishing, 2006; inaugural book in the Away series. http://www.foothillspublishing.com/ Coon, Anne C. Henry James Sat Here, poetry with artwork by Kurt Feuerherm, The Old School Press, Bath, United Kingdom, 2006. http://www.theoldschoolpress.com/ Coon, Anne C. Daedalus’ Daughter poetry collection, FootHills Publishing, 2004. http://www.foothillspublishing.com/ Coon, Anne C., Editor, Hear Me Patiently: The Reform Speeches of Amelia Jenks Bloomer. Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn. and London, 1994.

Daedalus' Daughter My father and I both fly at night. He takes off from a waterbed moored at the edge of the lake, while I, a land-locked second-story sleeper, rise and skim the night air thirty miles away. He soars high, agile and air-borne, -- bursting out of formation -- while I hover below ceilings rise through doorways  swim just above the details of the day. And tho' we've never met on these nocturnal trips we each recognized at once the joy the other recalled: the muscles in the arms drawing down as the torso rises aloft, pulling away, coasting veering with the will of the body. In these solitary flights, not buoyed by mite-bitten feathers, castoffs of a better bird, but borne up entirely  -- and only -- by the arched frame of imagination we leave behind the ideograms of our lives the sculpted rooms, gardens, and roads: seen from above, a labyrinth. From Daedalus’ Daughter Foothills Publishing, 2004 First published in Phi Kappa Phi Forum 2009 Readings and Workshops Karen Swenson and Anne Coon April 23, 2009, National Poetry Month Series at Writers & Books, Rochester, NY Anne Coon reading her poetry in “Four Seasons” concert featuring music by Women in Music Festival 2009 composer-in residence Judith Lang Zaimont, March 25, 2009, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY Finding Your Own Words: Poetry Workshop for older adults, Jan. 21 - Mar. 11, 2009 Wednesdays 2-4 p.m. Cover Art: Kurt Feuerherm Cover Art: Kurt Feuerherm

Poetry in Journals & Anthologies

“The Hardest Work” forthcoming Provincetown Arts, July 2009.

“Tally” Nimrod International Journal Annual Awards Issue, (Fall/Winter 2006) 19.

“Anche per te,” “Cimitero Comunale del Laterno,” “Ice,” “Spring Comes to Siena,” and “Torso of Livorno” Pennsylvania English, 26:1&2, 27.

“Weep, weep, weep, weep,” “Amelia Bloomer’s Stride,” “A Hard Fall,” and “Down, Boy” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Claremont Graduate University, 35:1 (2006), 67-73.

“Arabesque” The Baltimore Review, IX: 1 (Winter/Spring 2005) 44.

“Hang Up Call” Earth’s Daughters, No. 62 (2002) 8.

“Daedalus’ Daughter” Phi Kappa Phi Forum, 82:3 (Summer 2002) 23.

“Dirty Girl” and “Water Through Silk” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Claremont Graduate University, 31: 2 (Jan.-Feb. 2002) 91-93 .

“Deepest Heat” The Lyric, 81:2 (2001) 70.

“Oyster Stew” Proteus: A Journal of Ideas, Shippensburg Univ., 17:1 (Spring 2000) vi.

“Ephemera” Northeast Corridor, Arcadia University, Vol. 5 (1997-98) 169.

“Queen Anne's Lace” Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama and the Essay, editor Robert DiYanni. 4th ed., McGraw-Hill, Inc. 1997; 5^th ed. 2002; 6^th ed. 2006.

“Wordsmith” Nebraska English Journal, 38:1 (Fall 1992) 33.

Artistic Collaborations

“Winter Solstice” limited edition broadside with artwork and printing by Sue Huggins Leopard, Leopard Studio Editions, Winter 2009.

“Fragment of a Movement,” “Looking for Us,” “Primitivo,” and “After 29.531 Days” poems by Anne Coon & photographs by John Retallack, 2008.

Poems “Gift,” “The Joker,” and “Reclaiming Earth” set to music by Composer Daniel Koontz and performed by Soloist Warren Koontz, Howard Hanson Hall, Rochester, NY. June 2, 2007; and “Imagine RIT Creativity and Innovation Festival” May 3, 2008.

“Arabesque” Poetry broadside designed and printed by graphic designer Bob Smith, St. Louis, MO, May 2007.

“Charged - after ‘New York - Night’ (1926)” Poem in The Language of Color: Writers Respond to the Paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe, Writers & Books, and the Memorial Art Gallery (Rochester, NY), 2006, 10.

“Now” Poetry broadside with artwork by Kurt Feuerherm, RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2005.

Selected Teaching

Rochester Institute of Technology: Creative Writing, Modern Poetry, Patterns in Mathematics and Poetry

Writers & Books, Rochester, NY’s Literary Center: Creative Writing