John Brandi has been a poet-in-residence in schools throughout the U.S. since 1973, with residencies in rural communities of New Mexico, Nevada, Arkansas, and Montana, including the Navajo Nation schools, Zuni schools, Rio Grande Pueblo schools, and Yupik schools, Alaska. He has been a visiting speaker at universities in the United States and in India. Between 1999 and 2005 he served on the faculty of the Idyllwild Arts Academy adult poetry program in Southern California. He has been a guide and lecturer for U.S. students visiting Indonesia and Mexico. In 2010 he was invited to Punjab University, India, for lectures on the practice of haiku. He has given classes for upper-level students at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, San Juan College, Farmington, NM, and the University of Arkansas Community College, Batesville. Since 2007, he has received four Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry awards to teach in Santa Fe schools. He has also taught poetry to younger students for the past seventeen years at Sidney Gutierrez school, Roswell, NM.

The following links provide additional information:

•  Interview by a University of New Mexico Student
•  The Power of Poetry: a high school student comments
•  Miriam's Well: Poetry, Land Art, and Beyond