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My name is William (Bill) Stobb.  I am an Assistant Professor of English, specializing in Creative Writing and Composition, at Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin.  I earned my B.A. in English and M.A. in Creative writing at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks.  After that, I earned a Ph.D. in English Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Nevada, Reno, with a dissertation on the rhetoric of poetic witness.  My poems are published in journals and zines including American Poetry Review, Colorado Review, American Literary Review, Denver Quarterly, threecandles.org, PIFmagazine.com and others.  You can find some of my published poems, if you navigate to my online publication page.  After my work was awarded the Nevada Arts Council Poetry Fellowship in 2000, the Black Rock Press at the University of Nevada commissioned my chapbook, For Better Night Vision.  My first full-length collection, Nervous Systems, will be published by Penguin as part of the National Poetry Series, in 2007. 

At Viterbo, I teach Composition, Creative Writing, Modern and Contemporary Poets, Environmental Literature, and Rhetorical Theory.  I also work as English faculty advisor for our campus art and lit journal, Touchstone, I train peer tutors for our campus Learning Center, and chair the Writing Across the Curriculum committee. 

In the La Crosse community, I work on the committee for the monthly poetry events at the Pump House Regional Arts Center, and I volunteer to teach poetry in the public schools, basing my short lessons on the work of the late Kenneth Koch.  

For a full representation of my work, please follow the link to my C.V. from my home page.  If you have questions about my work, please don't hesitate to contact me.