2339 Hilgard Avenue # 102, Berkeley, CA 94709----------------- 510-845-1324, jcampion@cnmat.berkeley.edu
M.A. English (Creative Writing), Spanish Minor
University of Texas, Austin, 1979
B.A. English with honors, Philosophy Minor
University of Texas, Austin, 1976
Squaring the Circle
220 pp., TBA 1998
Where Three Roads Meet
Cedarshouse Press, Bryan, 1995
Tongue Stones
300 pp., Eco-Tropic books, Austin, 1991,
* Violet Crown Award 1992
* Austin Book Award 1990
Sippapu the Kiva an Inverted Bat
Goat-Boy Press, Austin, 1986
Latitudes Press, Ft. Worth, reprint, 1990, 1996
The Third Music
The Open Theatre, Austin, 1980
El Sueno by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Thorp Springs Press, Austin, 1983
Cedarshouse, Bryan, reprint, 1994
* BPI Award first translation in English, 1984
Padmas
short fiction, TBA
SWING LOW: The life of Roger A. Givens as told to John Campion
Rev. Roger A. Givens AME Church, Georgetown, 1987
The Map a Dung-Beetle Makes (Libretto for a musical-theatre piece)
Music by Edmund Campion
Performed in Petersborough, NH 1990
Eco-Tropic Books, Austin, 1995
Ground Zero on the Road to Xibalba with Paul Wintle
A book of 30 paintings, Eco-Tropic Books, Austin, 1994
"A Sound Not Made"
Journal of Science, Berkeley, CA 1997
Ten poems TBA
Ecotropic Works, Berkeley, CA, 1998
"Moon of Popping Tree," "Siuyung, "
Poesia y Calle, Austin, 1996
"Ulysses Returns to Penelope"
Floodstage at the Memory Theatre
Exhibition book, Temple, 1995
"Gods too," "There Ceres," "Unable to pay,""Post Chernobyl," "World tree"
Place of Herons, El Paso, 1994
"Mare's Tail"
Austin American Statesman, May 24, 1993
"Mare's Tail"
The ART CENTER Exhibition book, Waco, 1993
"The phalanx of particulars"
Poesia y Calle, Austin, 1993
"Arjuna's mind," "So ashamed," "A new spirit"
Journal of Regional Criticism, Phoenix, 1992
"Since growing old," "Women are not interested,""By odor," "Do not follow"
Aileron, Austin, 1991
"minimum technology"
Austin American Statesman," Austin, May 27 1991
"The Birth"
Extramares, Austin/Lima, 1989
"El Sueno"
Duende, Austin, June 1988
"A Sound Not Made"
Tinnitus Today, Washington, December 1989
"A Little Girl Mimics the First Violin"
Duende, Austin, March 1987
"The Medicine Man Speaks," "The Twin's Knowledge"
Periplum, Austin, 1987
"The Procession"
Revista Interamericana, Puerto Rico, Winter 1986
"Sippapu the Kiva an Inverted Bat," "The Birth,""The Procession,"
"Flying Dancers," "Bamboo Dancers"
Pangaea, Austin, 1985
"The Cistern"
Pinchpenny, Boston, 1984
"Passenger and Driver," "Descent of the Merman"
Aileron, Austin, 1991
"On the Accidental Bombing"
Tilted Planet Tales, 1986
"Barely Alive," "Step by Step"
Poesia y Calle, Austin, 1993
From El Sue§o
Duende, Austin, June 1988
"Self-Portrait"
Affinities, Ft. Worth, 1981
"The Count Lugastro" by Altamirano Vega, (First in English)
From the Threshold, Studia Hispanica, Austin/Lima, 1987
"Toward an Eco-Tropic Poetry," with John Herndon
Eco-tropic Books, Austin, 1990
"Mummia: Moloch: Mammon"
(Social Criticism), Duende, Austin, March 1988
"Descending Angels"
(Film Criticism of Wings of Desire), Duende, Austin, October 1988
"Mexican Phoenix"
(Literary Criticism of Juana Ines de la Cruz), Duende, Austin, June 1988
"Meditation on Ego" (an interview with Poet Robert Bonazzi),
Duende.
"Knowing the Unknowable: an interview with David Wevill"
Duende, Austin, April 1988
"Toward a Sacred Place"
(an interview with Photographer John Christian
on his work with the Huichol Indians), Duende, October 1988
L'Autre
to be performed live and broadcast across Europe, Feb. 1998
Music by Edmund Campion
Libretto by John Campion
Le Petit Mort
Performed at the The Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland, Ca. June 1997
Music by Edmund Campion
Libretto by John Campion
The Brother's Keeper
Produced at Symphony Square, Austin, 1981
Text by John Campion
Music by Edmund Campion
Floodstage at the Memory Theatre
TBA 1998,
Texas A & M University, March/April, College Station, 1997,
Cultural Arts Center,Temple, 4-8--5-7 1995
(A large installation exploring the ecotropic
relation between the sky and earth, with sculptor
T.J. Mabrey and composer Edmund J. Campion)
The folowing pieces were shown under my name:
1. Flower Wheel--poem on cotton canvas
2. Quincunx--poem on silk and cotton
3. Ulysses Returns to Penelope--poem on linen and silk
4. Prayer Rug--poem on silk
5. Alchemical Meeting--poem on papyrus
6. Rainbow Serpent--poem on papyrus
7. Food of Language--poem on papyrus
8. Phylotactic Reach--poem on papyrus
9. The Map a Dung-Beetle Makes--video
10.Ground Zero on the Road to Xibalba--book of rubbings
11.Ontogeny Recaptitulates Cosmogeny--collage on wood
12.Floodstage--200 projections
13.Uroborus--paper serpent (with T.J. Mabrey)
14.Uroborus II--words on marble (with Mabrey)
Poem to be used in Photography Exhibition
The Flight of Icarus, Austin, 1998
The Map a Dung-Beetle Makes
Performed as actor in this video
by Dan Eisenberg, 1990
Ground Zero on the Road to Xibalba
video lecture and presentation of the art book
with Paul Wintle, Temple, 1995
The Room
Video of the mural by Philip Trussell, Austin, 1983
Shown on television many times
Over the past 22 years, I have read in person, on television and on the radio in numerous
countries and across the U.S., including the following locations:
The Columbarium (Oakland)
The University of Sevilla (Spain)
Shakespeare Books (Paris),
Columbia University (New York)
International House (New York)
University of California (Berkeley)
Dallas Public Library
Austin Public Library
Elizabeth Ney Museum (Austin)
Latitudes Press (Ft. Worth)
SMU University (Dallas)
Austin Community College
On Main Street (Mansfield, TX)
The MacDowell Colony (Petersboro NH)
The Anchor Pub, Berkeley,
The University of Texas at El Paso
The University of Texas at Austin
KUT Radio (Austin)
KJFK Radio (Austin)
Channel 6 (Austin)
Texas A & M (College Station)
Hyde Park Showplace (Austin)
Capitol City Playhouse (Austin)
Clear Springs Studio (Austin)
Chicago House (Austin)
Mexic-Arte (Austin)
Diverse Works (Houston)
Crest Hotel (Austin Writers League)
An Nam Literary Festival (Bryan TX)
Eagles Nest Gallery (Austin)
Hyde Park, London (England)
Christ's Church (Oxford)
Dusseldorf (Germany)
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
and many more
"Best Poet of 1996"
Austin Chronicle 1996
"Top Ten Books"
Tongue Stones first place, 1991, Where Three Roads Meet second place, 1995
Austin Chronicle
ACC Teaching Excellence Award
Nominated 1993, recipient 1993-1994
Special Honorary Award
Literary Festival Director and Writing Contest Judge
Austin Community College, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996. 1997
MacDowell Fellowship
For Poetry, Residence New Hampshire, 1990
PTK Teachers Excellence Award Nomination
Alpha Gamma Pi Chapter, 1989
Academic Excellence Award
Lakewood Bank, Dallas, 1975
Critical Thinking, Composition, Technical Writing
College of Alameda, California 1997-1998
Technical Writing, Lecturer
University of Texas, Austin, 1996-1997
Creative Writing ,Humanities courses in (myth, film, music, art, culture),
Literature I and II, American Literature I and II, British Literature I and II,
Composition I and II, Technical Writing,
Austin Community College, 1984-present
Creative Writing , Films of Luis Bunuel
Union classes, University of Texas, 1990-1991
American Literature, World Literature,
English Grammar and Language, Creative Writing
University of Seville (extencion) Spain, 1986-1987
Composition, Literature,Creative Writing,
Sponsor of literary magazine: Omphalos
St. Stephen's, Austin, 1983-1984
Humanities, Literature I and II,
American Literature I and II, Composition I and II,
University of Texas, Austin, 1976-1983
Composition, Literature,
Creative Writing, Sponsor of literary magazine: Sojourn
Mt. St. Michael's, Dallas, one year
Free-lance Writing , Literature, and Humanities seminars
colleges, businesses and individuals, continuous
Free-lance editing for magazines and publishers, current
Ecotropic Works,
Berkeley, CA, Current
Blue Star Foundation
Santa Fe, NM, Current
Eco-Tropic Books
Austin, current
The Open Theatre
Austin, current
Ecotropic Works
an Anthology of Science and Art
Ecotropic Works, Berkeley, CA, 1998
Texas History
Holt Rinehart, Austin, 1992
New York City Then and Now
Steck-Vaughn, Austin, 1988
Swing Low : Memoirs of Rev. Roger A. Givens
AME Church, Austin, 1987
Pangaea
The Open Theatre, Austin, 1985
Omphalos, St. Stephen's Literary Magazine
Austin, 1983
Sojourn, Mt. St. Michael's Literary Magazine
Dallas, 1977
College of Alameda, California 1997-1998
University of Texas, Austin Community Colege
Various years--1976-1997
Business Professional and Institutional Systems
Several books, titles available upon request, 1983-1984
Free-lance Technical Writing,1984-1994
Significant Brothers
Diverse projects with composer Edmund Campion
Ecotropic Works
Diverse projects illustrating the philosophy, Founder
Eco-Tropic Books
(Dedicated to work showing the relation
between culture and ecology), Co-founder, since 1989
The Open Theatre
A non-profit Arts Organization
(Involved in Performance by Poets, Dramatists,
and musicians and in Publication)
Co-founder and present Chair since 1974
* Letters available upon request