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Richard Harteis is a literary scholar, an accomplished and published poet and novelist, and a certified Physician Assistant. In the 1960s, he was a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Tunisia. For thirty six years, he was the partner of the former U.S. Poet Laureate William M. Meredith (1919-2007), and thereafter founder and President of the William Meredith Foundation, the purpose of which is to continue the legacy of Mr. Meredith's poetry and that of other renowned poets through annual literary awards and associated art exhibitions. Mr. Harteis is also the founder and Publisher of Poets Choice Press.

Biography

Born August 18, 1946, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Richard Harteis studied at Georgetown University, and the University of Fribourg. He received a C.E.S. from the University of Tunis, Tunisia; and an M.A. in English and American Literature Creighton University, Omaha, NE. Becoming a certified Physician Assistant, he also took a B.S. in Health Sciences from Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY in 1979. From 1967 to 1968, he was a Teacher of Adult Education in Rockville, MD, and from 1968 to 1970 was a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Tunisia, and a Translator (English/French) aboard the S.S. HOPE, and Teacher of English as a Second Language. From 1970 to 1971, he was a Graduate Assistant Instructor Creighton University, Omaha, NE, and to 1972, Graduate Fellow and Lecturer at Catholic University, Washington, DC. While completing graduate studies, he processed grant applications at the National Endowment for the Arts and worked directly under Nancy Hanks as her personal assistant. From 1972 to 1976, he was Assistant Professor of English at Mt. Vernon College, Washington, D.C. in Creative Writing, and Faculty Advisor for the student arts magazine, "Asylum."

In 1976, Mr. Harteis was awarded a Fellowship in Creative Writing from the National Endowment for the Arts. He then studied for a career in health sciences, and was awarded full scholarship to the Physician Assistant Program at the Brooklyn Cumberland Medical Center and completed a Bachelor of Science at The Long Island University. In 1979, he served as Physician Assistant House Officer in Pediatrics at St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Brooklyn. From 1981 to 1984, he was Senior Physician /Administrative Assistant to the Medical Director of Westinghouse Health Systems, and in Sale and Rabat, Morocco, and in Columbia, MD.

Beginning in 1985, Mr. Harteis became Projects Director then Special Projects Director for the PEN Syndicated Fiction Project, serving as Executive Producer for THE SOUND OF WRITING, a national radio program featuring prize-winning stories read by professional actors. He developed the PEN Syndicated Fiction Project, a national program to spearhead the return of the short story to newspapers. The pilot program was developed for producers at National Public Radio (NPR) and was funded by a grant from the North Carolina Arts Council. Mr. Harteis also obtained funds and in-kind contributions to match the annual core grant of $100,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and instituted a standard accounting system for the project.

1988 to 1995 Freelance writer

In 1988, Mr. Harteis resigned his position with the PEN Syndicated Fiction Project to complete a book of nonfiction entitled MARATHON and to look after his partner, the 1978-1982 U.S. Poet Laureate William M. Meredith, who had suffered a stroke in 1982. During this period Mr. Harteis helped Mr. Meredith to collect and edit work written before the stroke. That collection, PARTIAL ACCOUNTS won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. In 1992 they edited an anthology of Bulgarian poetry in translation, WINDOW ON THE BLACK SEA with the support of a grant from the Witter Bynner Foundation. The Foundation sponsored a national tour that year to promote the book. Mr. Harteis has written for the Washington Post during this period and continued to publish poetry and prose in literary journals in the United States and abroad. In 1993 he was invited to Bulgaria to present his poetry anthology while on a visit to Morocco sponsored by the American embassy in Rabat.

1995 to 1996 American University in Bulgaria

Mr. Harteis was Fulbright Poet-in-Residence at the American University in Bulgaria, and during the academic year, taught courses in writing and translation and advised students on literary publications. His new and selected poems, KEEPING HEART was published in a bi-lingual edition and the University sponsored a country-wide tour to introduce the book. Before returning to the United States, he was given Bulgarian citizenship in recognition of his work in cultural affairs in the country. He was awarded a fellowship at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis in southern France to spend January-May of 1997 in residence at the writer's retreat where he completed his novel, SAPPHIRE DAWN.

1996 to 2007 Free-lance writer

US and Europe with occasional teaching duties at Three Rivers College, The Bread Loaf Writers' conference, the Prague Summer Writing Program and various poetry festivals in the US and Europe.

2008 - Produced 35-mm, 90-minute film based on his memoir first published by W.W. Norton,MARATHON. Secured North American and UK and Netflix distribution. The film was accepted as official selection for 10 major international film festivals, winning awards in N.Y., Las Vegas, LA, and Mexico City.

2007 to Present

President, William Meredith Foundation; Director Poets Choice Publishing Company.

William Meredith Foundation, Inc. dedicated to preserving the legacy of America's great poet and maintaining his residence, Riverrun, designated as an historical landmark by the State of Connecticut. Responsible for all aspects of fund-raising and administration. Supervision of visiting fellows, publication projects and art exhibitions. Complete information at: www.WilliamMeredithFoundation.org. Since 2013, Mr. Harteis has served as the director of a small publishing house established by the Foundation which has published the Meredith Award Publications and fine poetry by national authors.

AWARDS

1976 - National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing.

1976-1979 - Full tuition scholarship for two years from the Brooklyn Hospital Physician Assistant Program including stipend.

1978 Appointed to the Public Education Committee of the American Academy of Physician Assistants(student member) 1981 - Appointed Coordinator for International Physician Assistants for the American Academy of Physician Assistants Occupational Medicine.

1985 - Invited to the 5th International Writer's Meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria as a member of the American Delegation.

1986 - Individual Fellowship from the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts

1989 - Invited to visit Bulgaria by the Union of Bulgarian writers where his work was translated and presented at a formal reading to the Union. Spoke to the issue of Turkish migration in Bulgaria after travel to Istanbul to inspect the condition of the refugee camps there.

1990 - Invited to serve as a member of the Literature Panel for the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts.

1990 - Invited to work at the Rockefeller Foundation Conference Study Center at Bellagio, Como, Italy for the month of October 1993 - Invited by the USIA to present his work and lecture at various universities and cultural organizations in Morocco. Invited by "Orpheus" magazine for an extended visit to Sofia and Varna, Bulgaria in his capacity as contributing editor for the United States.

1994 - Invited to attend the International Poetry Festival at Struga in the Republic of Macedonia with the sponsorship of the Soros Foundation.

1995 - Awarded a Fulbright Scholar Award to Bulgaria to serve as poet-in-residence at the American University Blagoevgrad.

1996 - Awarded fellowship for semester residency at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France.

1996- Was given Bulgarian citizenship by decree of President Zhelu Zhelev and the Parliament of the Republic of Bulgaria.

1998 - Represented the United States at the 21st Annual French/English Poetry Festival in Paris.

1999 - Represented the United States at the 38th International Poetry Festival in Struga, Macedonia, August 26-29.

2000- Invited to ready his work at the Hellenic American Union in Athens, Greece by the University of Indianapolis.

2000- Invited by the United States State Department to give lectures in contemporary American Poetry and read his work for the month of March in cities across India including, Mumbai, Chennia, Calcutta, Ghuwhati, and New Delhi 2000 - Directed the Lyman Allyn Poetry Series, inviting and introducing poets such as Galway Kinnell, Stanley Kunitz, and Ellen Bryant Voigt as a benefit series for the Stoimen Stoilov Exhibition which took place during the month of October, 2000.

2001 - Reading for the Counter Balance Poetry Series, Seattle November 8th

2001 - Reading at the Honors College in Jupiter for Florida Atlantic University in connection with the acquisition of ECHOES, an art folio book with illustrations of the poems of William Meredith and Richard Harteis. Readings were also given at the University of California at San Diego, Evergreen College in Olympia, Washington, and Washington State University.

2002- Summer: Invited to participate in the Marche de Poesie in Paris during the month of July, participation in the Avignon Poetry Festival. Invited to read poetry and meet students at the Summer Writing Program in Prague through the Western Michigan State University. Read poetry at the American Cultural Center in Sofia, introduced by Ambassador Pardew.

2002 - October 16-28 Invited to participate in two poetry festival in Eastern Europe in Melnik, Bulgaria and Sarajevo, Bosnia. The US Embassy in Bosnia sponsored his participation in these festivals. 2003 - June/July - Six weeks of travel for the State Department’s Arts American Program to St. Petersberg, Russia and Moscow for literary seminar and reading at the American Cultural Center, as well as travel to Bulgaria, Austria and England for literary events including a reading for the Poetry Society in London.

2004 - July/August Presentation of ECHOES concert as part of Summer Music Festival in Varna, Bulgaria. Seven American composers including Yahudi Wyner and Paul Moravic created works for the texts of his poetry.

2005 and 2006 Invited to attend international writer’s meetings in Sofia, Bulgaria.

2006 July - Invited by the US Embassy to read poetry in Ireland at the Irish Writer’s Center in Dublin and the Yeats House in Sligo.

2007 August - Invited for a two week residency at the Heinrich Boll House in Ireland, a writer’s retreat under the auspices of the Irish Writer’s Center.

2008 - June 7-13, invited to An international writers’ forum under the heading “The Strength and Weakness of the Words in the Information Era,” Sofia Bulgaria 2008 - Invitation to the 47th annual Struga International Poetry Evenings Festival at Struga, a city at the shores of Lake Ochrid, Republic of Macedonia, 21st -24th August, 2008.

2009 - August- Film Producer of MARATHON, a 35 mm film based on memoir of the same title published by W.W. Norton and Vivisphere Press.

2009 - World Premiere of MARATHON at the New York International Film Festival, October 29th. MARATHON won Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography. North American and UK rights sold to Breaking Glass Pictures, released March 2, 2010.

2010 - Nominated for Best GLBT Film at the Swansea Film Festival, Wales, United Florida, The South Africa International Film Festival, Ireland International Film Festival, Thailand International Film Festival, Egypt International Film Festival, Palm Beach International Film Festival.

2010 - Bronze Palm for Excellence in Film Making, Mexico International Film Festival

2010 - Winner, Best Documentary Feature, New York International Film Festival Add Certification

PUBLICATIONS (** indicates original work by Richard Harteis )

FIRST, DO NO HARM, New and Selected Poems 2017 Laura Brylawski-Miller. ISBN: 9780997262957 Edited with an introduction by Richard Harteis

TO START WITH, FEEL FORTUNATE, (Poetry and Essay) Peter Meinke, Poets Choice Publishing, ISBN 9780997262940, Winner of the 2017 William Meredith Award for Poetry, Press release link http://www.pr.com/press-release/701055

A WAY TO HOME, New and Selected Poems, Martin Galvin, 2017 Press release link: http://www.pr.com/press-release/696825 ISBN: 9780997262926 REUNION, A Memoir, 2016 Richard Harteis, Poets Choice Publishing, ISBN: 9780997262933

THE BANQUET, New and Selected Poems, 2016 Gray Jacobik. Winner 2016 William Meredith Award for Poetry Press release link: http://www.pr.com/press-release/652886, ISBN: 9780990925774

CAFÉ SELECT, 2016 Poetry by W. M. Rivera, Feahttp://www.pr.com/press-release/695962turing Art Work by Master Painter, Miguel Condé http://www.pr.com/press-release/676710 Poets Choice Publishing

REFLECTIONS : Paintings & Poems from a Poet's Gallery, Elisavietta Ritchie, edited with an introduction by Richard Harteis, Poets Choice Publishing, 9780997262919 Press Release link: http://www.pr.com/pressrelease/695962

BABUSHKA’S BEADS: A Geography of Genes, New and Selected Poems, 2016 Elisavietta Ritchie, Edited with introduction by Richard Harteis Press Release Link: http://www.pr.com/press-release/659390 ISBN:978-0-9909257-74

WHERE NO WIND CAN MOVE THE SAND, Poems 2015, Daniel Levanti Poets Choice Publishing Edited by Richard Harteis ISBN 9780990925781

FIRES ETERNAL MORNING, A Surrealistic Novel, 2015, Johnes Ruta, Poets Choice Publishing. Edited by Richard Harteis COMES LOVE, 2015 Prose memoir, Richard Harteis Poets Choice Publishing, ISBN 978-0-9909257-5-0

THE WALL, Poetry 2015 Andrew Oerke ) Presented Posthumously as the William Meredith Award for Poetry, 2015. Poets Choice Publishing, Edited with an introduction by Richard Harteis ISBN 978-0-9909257-4-3

GUY WIRES, Poetry, Elisiavetta Ritchie, 2015 Edited with an introduction by Richard Harteis ISBN 978-0-9909257-2-9 Poets-Choice Publishing

CONGREGATION, Poetry, Natasha Trethewey (former US Poet Laureate) Winner of the 2014 William Meredith Award for Poetry. Edited with introduction by Richard Harteis. Joint publication with Dryad Press and the William Meredith Foundation. ISBN 9780990925781 WMD, A Memoir, 2014, Richard Harteis Poets Choice Publishing, 978-0-9909257-1-2, Eboook ISBN 9780-990257-0-5

GREEN-WINGED HORSE, New and Selected Poems, 2013,Little Red Tree Publishing, Winner of the 2013 William Meredith Prize in Poetry. Translated from the Bulgaria by Valentin Krustev and Richard Harteis. Edited with introduction by Richard Harteis.

CROSSING OVER, Editor of the bi-lingual edition of William Meredith’s poetry with serigraph illustrations by Sooy Maniquant. 2012, Little Red Tree Publishing.

I HEAR ALWAYS THE DOGS ON THE HOSPITAL ROOF, 2012. Edited and introduced the first William Meredith Award for Poetry given to David Fisher. Little Red Tree Publishing. THE REVENANT, 2010 poems. Richard Harteis Little Red Tree Publishing, New Londond, Ct.

July 2010 LEGACY, 2007 Poems in a private edition of 222 copies.

November 2007 ECHOES, Poems for William, 2004, Vivisphere Publishing, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (a festshrift anthology of poetry in honor of William Meredith's 85th birthday.) Edited by Richard Harteis.

2004 MARATHON, 2001 (Reprinting of previous W.W. Norton edition, 1989) Vivisphere Publishing,

Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (Www.Vivisphere.com -telephone 800-724-1100)

1989 ECHOES, an art folio, book contains six poems by William Meredith and six poems by Richard Harteis with twelve especially designed Illustrations by Stoimen Stoilov in an edition of thirty copies, each signed and numbered by the artists. 2000 PROVENCE, New and Selected Poems, 2000, Vivisphere Publishing, Pougkeepsie, N.Y.(Www.Vivisphere.com - Telephone 800-724-1100) 2000

SAPPHIRE DAWN, 2000, A novel. Vivisphere Publishing, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (www.vivisphere.com)

2000 TIME BOMB, 1999, Bulgarski Pisatel (ISBN: 954-443-333-3, distributed in the United States by Carnegie Mellon University Press) Poems by Krassin Himmirsky, translations in English by Richard Harteis

1999 LARGO, 1999, AngoBoy Publishing, Sofia, Bulgaria (ISBN:954-9885-69-0) Poems by Petar Parvanov, Edited with an introduction by Richard Harteis 1999 THE WHITE ISLAND, 1998 Orpheus House, Paris, Sofia 1998 KEEPING HEART, (English/Bulgarian Bi-lingual edition ) 1996, Orpheus House, Sofia and Paris, fourth edition, 1998, Poetry KEEPING HEART, 1994, Orpheus House, Sofia and Paris 1994

WINDOW ON THE BLACK SEA, 1992, Carnegie-Mellon University Press. Anthology of Bulgaria Poetry in translation. Edited in collaboration with William Meredith 1992 MARATHON, W.W. Norton Inc., 1989 1989

INTERNAL GEOGRAPHY, Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1987 1987

MOROCCO JOURNAL, Love, Work, Play, Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1981 1981
 * FOURTEEN WOMEN, Three Rivers Press, 1979. Second edition, 1980. 1980

REFERENCES

Wesleyan University Montserrat Review of Books LEGACY by Richard Harteis © 2007, Wesleyan University Press. 62pgs. The Fifty-Ninth Swan – A Review by Peter Klappert http://www.themontserratreview.com/bookreviews/legacy.html

Author Mark - Innisfree Poetry Journal http://authormark.com/artman2/publish/Innisfree_12_27RICHARD_HARTEIS.shtml

William Morris Meredith (1919-2007) -- U.S. Poet Laureate 1978-1980 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Morris_Meredith_Jr.

Embassy of BULGARIA, Washington, D.C. The William Meredith Foundation’s 2017 Poetry Prize http://www.bulgaria-embassy.org/en/meredith/

METAPHYSICS IN SCIENCE, POETRY & ART A Philosophical Forum October 2010, New Haven, CT: http://azothgallery.com/symposium2010.html

PR.com Press Release: William Meredith Foundation President, Richard Harteis Recounts World Travel and a Spiritual Mission in His Latest Memoir, "Reunion" https://www.pr.com/press-release/714379

Broadway World: William Meredith Foundation President, Richard Harteis Recounts World Travel and a Spiritual Mission in His Latest Memoir, 'Reunion' https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwbooks/article/William-Meredith-Foundation-President-Richard-Harteis-Recounts-World-Travel-and-a-Spiritual-Mission-in-His-Latest-Memoir-Reunion-20170428 https://www.pr.com/press-release/714379

Broadway World: William Meredith Foundation President, Richard Harteis Recounts World Travel and a Spiritual Mission in His Latest Memoir, 'Reunion' https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwbooks/article/William-Meredith-Foundation-President-Richard-Harteis-Recounts-World-Travel-and-a-Spiritual-Mission-in-His-Latest-Memoir-Reunion-20170428

Good Reads: Marathon: A Story of Endurance and Friendship by Richard Harteis https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2863040-marathon

Amazon.com: Books by Richard Harteis https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Richard-Harteis/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3ARichard%20Harteis

Drunken Boat: Spring 2005, Richard Harteis Aphasia The Amaryllis Moon

https://www.drunkenboat.com/db7/feature-aphasia/harteis/index.html

Compulsory Figures: Essays on Contemporary American Poets: https://books.google.com/books?id=cTC76cMoj9UC&pg=PR11&lpg=PR11&dq=richard+harteis&source=bl&ots=fXsIlPLmMI&sig=eSe-Xlp_ODWJmB2QrNBAHV03RXY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjqxfXGg_LXAhUDSt8KHUBxAss4KBDoAQgtMAI#v=onepage&q=richard%20harteis&f=false

Google Books: EFFORT AT SPEECH - Poetry by William Meredith -- https://books.google.com/books?id=EfY3QvxVCkUC&pg=PA231&lpg=PA231&dq=richard+harteis&source=bl&ots=of6lCOiVe0&sig=PwW0Zb0TP0CxbrzQPcDcFoqOr7w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjqxfXGg_LXAhUDSt8KHUBxAss4KBDoAQgvMAM#v=onepage&q=richard%20harteis&f=false

Poetry Foundation: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-meredith

Poets' Choice Publications: http://Poets-Choice.com/

William Meredith Foundation: http://WilliamMeredithFoundation.org/

EXTERNAL LINKS

http://www.WilliamMeredithFoundation.org http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Marathon-A-film-oflove-and-endurance/107009522713822

http://www.facebook.com/#!/richard.harteis

http://www.gaydarnation.com/UserPortal/Article/Detail.aspx?ID=26838&sid=62

http://www.jamesweggreview.org/Articles.aspx?ID=1157

http://www.norwichbulletin.com/news/x223022177/-Marathon-tells-Harteis-Meredithstory#axzz1R9iozoS3

http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/leisure/cinema/8199002.Parky_at_the_Pictures__DVD_3_6_2010_/

http://www.spotlightonct.com/FilmMixer/Richard_Harteis.html

http://www.themontserratreview.com/bookreviews/legacy.html

http://www.vivisphere.com/vivispherebooks/3583/3583.asp