Renee Podunovich, MA

Awards:

Cantor Prize, Telluride Literary Festival: Telluride Arts Institute, 2019
Pushcart Prize Nominee by Future Cycle, 2011
Pushcart Prize Nominee by Boston Literary Magazine, 2010
Young Emerging Writers Poetry Contest, Boulder Book Store, 1987

Chapbooks:
Illustrious for Brief Moments, Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press, 2021
Let the Scaffolding Collapse, Finalist of New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition, Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press, 2012
If There is a Center, No One Knows Where It Begins, Cortez, CO: Art Juice Press Editions, 2008

 Anthologies:
Four Corners Voices: Stories, Poetry, Essays, Cortez, CO: Four Corners Writers, 2024
FERTILE: An Anthology of Poems and Prose From the High Desert and Mountains of the Four Corners Region, Cortez , CO: Fourth Corner Press, 2023
Satchel Story Objects: A Visual and Literary Arts Exhibition Catalogue, Art Juice Press, Cortez, CO, 2022
WET: An Anthology of Poems and Prose From the High Desert and Mountains of the Four Corners Region, Cortez , CO: Sharehouse Press, 2021
The Best of Boston Literary Magazine, Big Table Publishing: Boston, MA, 2016
Future Cycle Anthology of Poetry and Flash Fiction, Future Cycle Press: Mineral Bluff, GA, 2011

Artists Books:
Flight: Handbound, letterpressed poetry booklet with cyanotype and plant impression prints, Podunovich, produced at Mancos Common Press, 2024
Paper Wings: Handbound Livre D’Artiste, Podunovich and Horoshko, produced at Mancos Common Press, 2022

Broadsides and Miscellany:
Canyon Time: Broadside, poem by Renee Podunovich, art by Rosie Carter, produced by Daiva Chesonis for Telluride Arts Institute, 2020
Satchel: Story Objects, A Visual and Literary Exhibition Catalogue, Art Juice Press, 2022
“The Obsidian Morning” used as text by composer Juan Tio Bicenti for commission through New York Festival of Sound, 2014

Zines:
“Soliloquy”, Conservancy of the Wild Heart, 2006, Cortez, CO
“Department of Peace Field Manual: Common Tasks and Essential Poems Required During Times of War”, Conservancy of  the Wild Heart, 2003, Cortez, CO
“Cultivating Mirth”, Amigos Publishing, 1994, Olympia WA
“Mora”, Amigos Publishing, 1993, Olympia WA

 Published Poetry:
“Illustrious for Brief Moments”, Journey of the Heart: Women’s Spiritual Poetry Blog, 2021
”Clear View”, Journey of the Heart: Women’s Spiritual Poetry Blog, 2021
“Shelter”, Journey of the Heart: Women’s Spiritual Poetry Blog, 2021
“The Poet’s Broken Heart”, Telluride Institute Online, 2019
“Reverie”, Journey of the Heart: Women’s Spiritual Poetry Blog, 2019
“Darkening”, “Witnessed”, “Allowing”, “Self-Caring Sea”, The Mindful Word, 2018
“Meditation Lesson”, San Juan Independent: Heard of Poets Website, 2018
“The Midline”, Boston Literary Magazine, Winter 2014
“Another Season”, SW Colorado Arts Perspective Magazine, 2013
“This Poem Is Not About Me”, RATTLE Magazine, Issue 64, August 2011
“Behind the Wind”, “Restless”, Future Cycle, 2011
“My Favorite Ways to be Rejected”, Boston Literary Magazine, Fall 2010
“I Loved Your Appendix”, “Haitus”, Boston Literary Magazine, Summer 2010
“If There is a Center, No One Knows Where it Begins”, Poem Hunter Online, 2006
“Held”, SW Colorado Arts Perspective Magazine, Spring, Issue 8, 2006, Mancos, CO
“When the Muse Dies”, San Juan Mountain Journal, Vol. 2, Issue 24, 2002, Silverton, CO
“The Iridescent Dark”, Ruah (Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology), Vol. VIX, 1999,
Berkely, CA
“Piscine Vision”, Argestes, Vol. 2, Spring, 1999, Wauna, WA
“Epiphany”, Ruah (Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology), Vol. VIII, 1998,
Berkeley, CA
“Dominion”, Gaya, Vol. I, Issue 2, 1994, Seattle, WA
“Love on the Fringes”, Images, Fort Lewis College, 1990, Durango, CO
“We are Slow in Becoming”, Images, Fort Lewis College, 1989

Professional Public Performances and Exhibits:
Four Corners Voices Anthology, February 2025
Satchel Story Objects, Collaborating Artist, “Memory” Cyanotype and “Tea With My Grandmother” Fused Collage on Wood, Cortez Cultural Center, November 2022
Telluride Public Library, Featured Talking Gourds Reader, October 2021
Bluff Arts Festival, Artist Presentation of Letterpress Manuscript, October 2020
Telluride Literary Festival, Telluride Institute & Ah Haa School of the Arts, May 2019
The Sherbino Theater, Featured Open Bard Reader, April 2019
Cortez Public Library Poetry Month Series, Featured Author, April 2019
Salt Lake Slam Society, Featured Opening Performance, December 2012
Growing Voices, Literary Quartets: Cortez Public Library, February 2009
Mouthful Trio, Spruce Tree Coffee Shop, October 2008
Mouthful Trio, Sideshow Emporium, July 2008
Talking Gourds Festival, Invitational Reading, Telluride, CO, April 2008
Growing Voices, Literary Quartets: Jan Judy Dixon Residence, Let’s Dance Studio, Cortez
Public Library, March-August, 2008
Growing Voices: Delaney Library Center of SW Studies, Ft. Lewis College, Anasazi Heritage Center, Dolores, Little Theater, Farmington, January, 2007
Death of the Muse Exhibition, A1 Spinning Space, Denver, CO, June 2003

Radio Interviews:
Boston Literary Magazine: Writers in the Spotlight, 2011
Suzanne Tyrpak: Who’s Imagining All of This Blog, 2011
Lame Town Blog Interview with Tom Yoger, 2011
All Lit Up, KSJD, Cortez, CO, 2008
Talking Heads, KSJD, Cortez, CO, 2007
Write On Four Corners, KSJE, San Juan College, Farmington, NM, 2007
Four Corners Free Press, April 2007
Sunshine in the Fourth Corner, KSJD, Cortez, CO, 2005

Audio Work:
“Creative Fire”, “Healing Earth, Healing Self”, guided imagery audio, 2018
“Growing Voices” Audio Recordings, 2008

Jury Selection Committees:
SW Colorado Arts Perspective Magazine, Literary Arts Edition, December 2006

Education
M.A. Community Counseling, Summa Cum Laude, Adams State College, Alamosa, CO, 2006
B.A. Sociology and Human Services, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO, 1991

Reviews:
Tales, tall and short, from the high desert, Sarah Valdez, Rocky Mountain Reader, 2025
WET: A Literary Gathering for Love of Water, Lisa Rubiner, Thoughts and Encounters on the Road, 2021
A Collection for Those Who Love the SW, Sara Fox, Four Corners Free Press, 2021
Through it all: poetry, Leslie Vreeland, Telluride Daily Planet, 2021

Medium Publications:
“One Unmoving Moment”, Self-Crafted on Medium, 2021
“A Smile in the Enormous Sentient Web of Interconnections”, The Lark on Medium, 2021
“I am Far Sight and Elongated Sunlight (Falling to Rest)”, Self-Crafted on Medium, 2021
“Where Lightning is Kept Hidden”, Scriturra on Medium, 2021
“Following the Path of the Setting Sun”, Sciturra on Medium, 2021
“Smash Heart”, Scriturra on Medium, 2021
“Scrying”, Scriturra on Medium, 2021
“Dreamdrift and Star Rain”, The Lark on Medium, 2021
“Not Entirely or Exactly Yellow”, The Lark on Medium, 2021
“Top 5 Ways to Be Rejected”, Synergy on Medium, 2021
“Just Open”, The Lark on Medium, 2021
“thought pop”, Scriturra on Medium, 2021
“wildheartglow”, Literary Impulse on Medium, 2021
“Night Swimming”, The Lark on Medium, 2021
“How to Not Feel Bad About Your Neck”, Scriturra on Medium, 2021
“— long ago language”, Storymaker on Medium, 2021
“River Rising”, Storymaker on Medium, 2021
“— notes on Flux”, Scriturra on Medium, 2021
“Paris Palette”, Literary Impulse on Medium, 2021
“skimmy-slip”, Scriturra on Medium, 2021
“How to Wear Haiku”, The POM on Medium, 2021
“i just want to pull the linchpin.”, Scriturra on Medium, 2021
“Cosmic Vibrations” Scriturra on Medium, 2021
“Unruffled”, Literary Impulse on Medium, 2021
“Bright Sleep”, Literary Impulse on Medium, 2021
“WATER WILL FIND YOU”, Storymaker on Medium, 2021
“Waking River”, The POM on Medium, 2021
“the worsening method”, Scriturra on Medium, 2021
“Shelter (in place)”
“Rewilding: A Return to the Writing Life”, Indelible Ink on Medium, 2021
”It is the Wild in the Pink”, Literary Impulse on Medium, 2021
“From Below (Emerge Wet)”, The POM on Medium, 2021
“Sylvia Plath Wakes Up Happy”, Scriturra on Medium, 2021
“The Hidden Largest”, Scriturra on Medium, 2021