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Quotes
"When it snows in his poems the words turn white.
And there's a tension in his metaphors that heals the heart.
--Gerald Vizenor, poet and
novelist
"A voice I want to listen to constantly; what it
says often makes me uncomfortable, but elated at the same time."
-Jonathan Carroll, novelist
"John Caddy is a poet who cares for the people who
say, "So what?"
--Sonja Wong, grade 4
"I thank you for giving me the strength to look deep
inside of me and write."
--Moua Chang, gr. 6
"A sterling collection--these poems cut like glass
shards."
--ALA Booklist
"For 35 years, poet John Caddy has combined his talent
and love of teaching to found and direct programs that help students, teachers
and artists find and release the poetry inside them."
--Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"Caddy is a piper at the gates of dawn"
--Jim Harrison, novelist
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Experience
Instructor, English, University of Minnesota,
nine years
Teacher and artist in residence, Sundog Environmental
Learning Center, 6 years
Directed Minnesota's first state Youth Conservation
Corps summer camp
helped found the MN Poets in the Schools
Program; have done residencies with over 75,000 children.
COMPAS Artist for 30 years
Hamline Adjunct Faculty, fourteen years
Wolf Ridge ELC Summer Workshops in arts &
ecology for teachers and artists, 3 years
Grand Marais Arts Colony poetry workshops, 3 years
SEE/MAX Summer Workshops in ecology for teachers,
artists and naturalists, 4 yrs.
Childvoice, a radio show of children's
poetry performed by child actors, 1 year.
The Heronry, a poem cycle performed by
five dancers, the poet and three jazz musicians. Choreographed by Susan
DeLattre, scored by Pat Moriarty, funded by MN Dance Alliance
Seminar Leader and Consultant, Empire State Partnerships Summer Seminar,
Sara Lawrence College
Thirty-five years of staff development in a wide variety of contexts
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