Beverly Matherne

Professor
M.A., B.A., University of Louisiana at Lafayette
PhD, Drama, St. Louis University
bmathern@nmu.edu
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Teaching Specialties

• Poetry Writing
• Form and Technique of Poetry
• Playwriting and Drama
• Technical Writing

Beverly Matherne is Director of the English Department's MFA Program in Creative Writing. She has done over 120 readings of bilingual poetry across the United States, Canada, and France and is currently translating into French a book of poetry by former U.S. Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz. This spring and summer she served as short-term writer-in-residence at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, and at The Bright Hill Center in Treadwell, New York. In May of 2000, she read poetry in a millennial event titled "American Poets Greet Polish Poets at the United Nations." She was interviewed on National Pubic Radio's "The Poet and the Poem" and on CBC Radio Canada Internationale. Her work appears in many anthologies, including Trois siecles de vie francaise au pays de Cadillac, from Les Editions Sivori, 2002; Resurrecting Grace, from Beacon Press, 2001; and Uncommonplace, from Louisiana State University Press, 1998. Beverly is the author of four bilingual books of poetry, including Le blues braillant (The Blues Cryin'), from Cross-Cultural, 1999. Since 1993, she has won six first-place awards, including the Hackney Literary Award for Poetry and Le Prix CODOFIL en poesie. Beverly has published widely in reviews and journals, including Eloizes, Great River Review, Kansas Quarterly, Port Acadie, Runes, Squaw Review, and Verse. Prior to her arrival at NMU, Beverly studied French literature and critical theory at University of California at Berkeley; was tenured drama specialist in the English Department at Kansas State University; and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area as technical writer, French translator, and sole proprietor of Tekkon Associates, a consulting firm.