Curriculum Vitae
MARION SHORE BURNS
website:
www.translations-ink.com
email: mshore@cfa.harvard.edu
phone: 1-617-489-5665
(home)
1-617-495-0402 (office)
EDUCATION
B.A. - Queens College - English
Literature 1976
concentration in literature and languages, medieval studies
Columbia University - Graduate Work in English and Comparative Literature
1979-81
Medieval Literature
M.F.A. - Emerson College -
Creative Writing - 1990
Poetry, Fiction, Translation, Screenwriting, Teaching Composition
EXPERIENCE
Freelance writer, translator, editor 1975-present
Have published fiction, poetry and translations in collections,
anthologies and journals
Commercial editing and translating
April 1987 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas
Taught week-long graduate creative writing workshop in literary
translation.
Private Tutor - 1995-present
tutor English and foreign languages
1978-1980 Universidad de Trabajadores, New York, NY
Taught English as a Second Language to Latin Americans (part-time).
1974-present Worked at administrative positions in higher education.
PUBLICATIONS
Book
For Love of Laura: Poetry of Petrarch
, (University of Arkansas Press,
Fayetteville), 1987,
A collection of Petrarch's poetry in translation,
(VISIT MY
PETRARCH FOREVER WEBSITE
, which contains some of the translations.)
Poetry
“Seduction”, “Parenthood” to appear in Light Quarterly.
"Like Migrant Birds," The Lyric 85, 84, 2005.
"Projector", "That Feeling of Impending Doom", "Superheart", 150 Contemporary Sonnets , p. 119-121, (University of Evansville Press, 2005).
"The Author of My Fate" in Iambs and Trochees, IV I, 24, 2005.
"The Writing on the Wall" "Ghost Song" in The Formalist 15 2, pp. 52, 97, 2004
"The Ultimate Bureaucrat" "That Feeling of Impending Doom" "No Apparent Dragons" "Superheart" in The Formalist 142 , pp. 47, 61, 86, 98, 121, 2003.
"Embarking" "Parallel Universe", "Fred and Ginger" in The Formalist
13, 2, pp. 30, 54, 78,
2002.
Read "PARALLEL
UNIVERSE"
in this issue.
"Projector" "The Death of Stars" in The Formalist 12 , 2, pp. 15, 80, 2001.
"Pilgrim" in The Formalist 11, 2, pp. 119, 2000.
"Eurydice" in The Formalist 5, 1 p. 80, 1994.
"Like the Quiet Cloistered Monks of Old" "Remember Me" "One Doesn't Die" in Starlight Poets 2: Sonnets, (Starlight Press, Long Island City, NY) pp. 31-33, 1992.
"One Doesn't Die" "Rondeau", The Lyric 67, 2, p. 29, 1987.
"Transformation", The Lyric 63, 3, p. 62, 1983.
"Ballad" The Lyric 63 , 1, p. 3, 1983.
"Eurydice", "The Minstrel in the Market", The Lyric 61, 4, p. 91, 1981.
"A Gulf as Terrible as Styx", " Within the Sunlit Grove", The Lyric 61, 2, p. 33, 1981
"Pilgrim", "A Fallen Angel", The Lyric 61, 1, p. 3, 1981.
"Revelation" Nit and Wit 3, 1, p. 32, 1981.
Translations
“Ballade of the Hanged” by François Villon to appear in Writing
Metrical Poetry by William Baer, F&W Publishers, Cincinnati.
“His Mother’s Prayer to Our Lady” by François Villon, to appear in Iambs and Trochees.
“Ah Pilgrims, Who Go by in Pensive Guise, by Dante, to appear in Iambs
and Trochees.
"Nealce" by Petronius Arbiter, to appear in Blue Unicorn.
Petrach's Sonnet 2 and 20 to appear in Petrarch in English (Penguin) 2005.
"Ballad of the Hanged" by François Villon, in Crisis Magazine,
June 2003.
Read "BALLAD OF
THE HANGED"
in this issue.
"Ever Since the Time Love Sent My Way" by Louise Labé, in The Formalist 13, 2, p 94, 2002.
"Ballad of the Hanged" by François Villon in The Formalist 11, 2, 66, 2000.
Petrarch’s Sonnet 159 in The Poetry Dictionary by John
Drury, (Story Press), 1995.
"Like a Deer" by Pierre de Ronsard, The Formalist 4, 2, p. 51, 1993.
"Autumn" by Rainer Maria Rilke, The Formalist 3, 1, p 22, 1992.
"My Lady Seems So Fine and Full of Grace" by Dante, The Formalist 3, 1, p. 73, 110, 1992.
"The Cracked Bell" by Charles Baudelaire, The Formalist 3, 1, p. 110, 1992.
"Quatrain" by François Villon, The Formalist , 2 1, 14, 1991.
"The Likeness Was Predicted Once to Me" by Louise Labé, The Formalist , 2 1, .32, 1991.
"As Soon as I have Gone to Take My Rest" "If Upon That Fair Breast I Might Lie" "While My Eyes Can Shed Another Tear" by Louise Labé, in Translation 18, Spring pp. 328-330, 1987.
Translations of madrigal "With No More Pleasure Did Her Lover Sigh" by Petrarch and a thirteenth-century anonymous sonnet "Alas All for a Sparrowhawk I Sigh" in Poems from Italy ,W. J. Smith and D. Gioia, eds., (New Rivers Press, Saint Paul), pp. 47, 157, 1985.
Fiction
"Prelude," Writer's Forum 13, 197, 1985.
AWARDS
Finalist in Willis Barnstone Translation Competition, 2005
Finalist in Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award Competition, 2004
for poem "THE WRITING ON THE WALL"
Finalist in Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award Competition, 2003
for poem "THE ULTIMATE BUREAUCRAT"
Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award, 2002
for POEM "
EMBARKING
" published by The Formalist
13, 2, p. 30, 2002
LANGUAGES
Good conversational and reading knowledge of French, Italian, Spanish
Reading knowledge of German, Latin
Medieval Romance Languages (French, Italian, Provençal), Old English,
Middle English
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