Judson Evans
Position
Professor
Affiliated Departments
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617-747-6635
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After a tenure as director of liberal arts for Boston Conservatory from 1988 to 2015, Judson Evans is now a full-time professor in the Liberal Arts Department at Berklee College of Music.
He teaches two poetry workshops, Microcosm/Macrocosm and Experiments in Form & Collaboration, as well as two humanities electives, The Cave: Inquiry into the Origins of Art, Religion, and Philosophy and Crossing Cultures: Greece & Japan.
Career Highlights
- Published poetry in Volt, Laurel Review, 1913: A Journal of Forms, Tuesday: An Art Project, Cutbank, Epoch, and Folio
- Haiku have appeared in Cor van den Heuvel's Haiku Anthology, Journeys to the Interior, and Angelee Deodhar's Journeys 2017: An Anthology of International Haibun
- Published a chapbook of his collected haibun Mortal Coil
- Collaborative work with a wide range of artists and performers, including choreographers Sean Murphy, Julie Ince Thompson, and Chung-Fu Chang; composers Mohammed Fairouz, Rudolf Rohan, and, Marti Epstein
- Chosen by master poet William J. Higginson as one of three judges for Bernard Lionel Einbond Renku Contest for Haiku Society of America in 2006, and chosen by Robert Pinsky, former U.S. Poet Laureate and Chair of the Creative Writing Program at Boston University, to act as a member of a panel discussing various aspects of poetry for Pinsky's MOOC, The Art of Poetry.
- Off-the-Park Poetry Workshop/Salon at School of Images in New York City with acclaimed poet, art critic, and teacher/mentor John Yau (2005–2011)
- Summer at Breadloaf School of English, Middlebury College
Awards
- Recipient of grant from University of Ohio at Athens for a project involving an essay film with poetic text on the origins of landscape, set on Mont Ventoux in southern France (2013–16)
- Named an Emerging Poet for the Academy of American Poets by acclaimed poet/critic John Yau; a selection of four poems with an essay on the body of work by Yau appeared in the Academy’s journal American Poet in 2007
- Winner of the Philip Booth Poetry Prize for the poem Telemere in the Salt Hill Review in 2013
- Winner of the Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award for the haibun Window Washer, chosen by Molly Peacock for the Comstock Review in 2004
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