About Curt

Personal

I am, thankfully, married to S. and live in The Greatest State in the Union™.

Artistic & Scholarly

I’ve published poems, essays, plays and prose in such publications as Full of Crow, Gloom Cupboard, 3AM, BlazeVOX (my page [.pdf]), the University of Michigan’s Cavafy Forum (“Denying Cavafy” [.pdf], my essay on the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy’s Julian the Apostate poems), NYC’s Good Foot and Andre Codrescu’s Exquisite Corpse. I’ve had my plays produced at the New City New Playwrights Festival (Seattle), the Marsh (SF), Doc’s Clock (SF), Lord Lebrick Theatre (OR) and elsewhere. I have directed Sam Shepard’s “True West” in Seattle and “The Bald Soprano” in Portland. Prof. Maria Rosa Menocal used my translation of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca’s “La Guitarra” in her lecture and monograph, “Poetry As An Act of History.”

I have recently finished translating the whole of Federico Garcia Lorca’s “Poema del Cante Jondo.” I have written two novel-length narrative poems in verse, “Jacksonville” and “I-5,” as well as “Ainadamar,” a satirical science fiction novel.

Professional

I am a communications director with over a decade of experience finding stuff out, writing it up and getting it to people in the form that’s best for the content and its audience. I have a deep affection for both carving lines in stone with a chisel and blipping and honking my way into the social media maelstrom. Six of one, half dozen of the other. Know am sane?

My strengths include a deep knowledge of communications technologies, messaging, understanding and communicating with a target audience, marketing copy creation, content process and web architecture.

I have led and implemented projects, developed and supervised teams and content departments for TDS|Trimble, IAC’s GarageGames|InstantAction.com, PBworks, Ask.com, Autoweb, Elance, Sproutit, Visa and others. I have assessed communication needs and produced written strategy plans, assembled personnel and resources, set dates and work budgets, led meetings and brainstorming sessions, written style guides and taglines, acted as liaison to senior management, solicited and elicited messaging ideas from stakeholders and supervised the work of staffers and freelancers.

I am an experienced journalist with credits in Newsweek, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Salon, Los Angeles Times, National Post, New Times, Seattle Times, Reuters and others.

Finally, I have extensive experience in social media. I am a blogger at Morpheme Tales. I was the founding director of the non-profit Committee to Protect Bloggers, the first organization devoted to global free speech rights for bloggers, and co-founder of the free speech campaign, the March 18th Movement. I have been involved in many social media and free speech projects, such as Spirit of America’s Anonymous Blogging Campaign BlogSafer, Blogswana and the Zimbabwean democracy blog Enough is Enough.

I was the Social Media Marketing Manager for IAC’s InstantAction online gaming portal and, as Marketing Communications Manager for Trimble Navigation Ltd’s TDS division I oversaw and extended their social media accounts, including their social network.

I have been interviewed, sourced, quoted and invited to write on blogging, employment and human rights issues by the Public Radio International’s The World, Pacifica Radio, Wikinomics, PR Week, Associated Press, Guardian, Smart Money, Columbia Journalism Review, Time, Foreign Policy, Popular Science, WebPro News, De Standaard, PBS MediaShift, American Journalism Review, Tammy Bruce Show, CBS Radio, Canadian provincial radio, CMP’s TechWeb, La Voz de Galicia, Malaysia Today, Slate, Duke University Law Review, Journalism.co.uk, Naked Conversations, Voice of America, Philadelphia Inquirer | Knight Ridder, La Vanguardia, Liberation, BBC Radio 5, Newsday, Christian Science Monitor, National Post, CNET’s’ News.com, Oakland Tribune, BBC News, Network World, Jerusalem Report, Sacromento Bee, National Law Journal, American Bar Association Journal, Overseas Press Club of America, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times | Tribune Media, Internazionale, Observatório da Impresa, Village, Voice, AlterNet, Register, USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review and others.

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For more information on me:

Professional

Client List businesses and organizations I’ve worked for

Committee to Protect Bloggers all CPB-related accounts linked from the main page

LinkedIn professional information

Press on My Activities articles on my activities, stories that quoted or sourced me

Publications List journalism

Personal

Amazon when I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food & clothes – and then my dad got a real job

Blip ain’t no party like a West Coast party ’cause a West Coast party don’t stop

Creative Publications poems, essays, plays, etc.

del.icio.us I looked at this stuff online

Facebook the only social media tool everyone my age actually uses

FriendFeed a lot of my other online accounts braided into one delicious feed

Google Profile there is no reason for this sort of behavior

Photobucket photos I took

Twitter where the persistent, intrusive idea goes to die

Other

Other locations online, which I do not often use, include the following.

CitySpeek microblogging that can carry video and audio

Shizzow geo-microblogging

Yelp you will know the master by his dog