M.A., University of Colorado, 1961

A.B., Harvard College, 1957

• Colorado College, Department of English, Visiting Emeritus Professor, 2002-04
  
• Indiana University, Department of English, Emeritus Professor
  
• Indiana University, Department of English, 1975-99
  
• Advisory Council, Ragdale Foundation, 1996-
  
• Director, Creative Writing Program, Indiana University, 1990-96 
  
• Ruth Lilly Chair of Poetry, Indiana University, 1990-95.
  
• Trustee, Ragdale Foundation, 1992-96
  
• Marquette University, Department of English, 1968-1975
  
• University of Wisconsin (Madison), Department of English,
  1963-1968
  
• Fulbright Lecturer, Department of English, Jagiellonian
  University, Cracow, Poland, 1966-1967
  
• Visiting Lecturer, Department of English, Leicester University, Leicester, England, 1978-1979
  
• Director, Indiana University Writers' Conference, 1975-1985
  
• Editor and Publisher, The Minnesota Review, 1973-1981

• Another Time (Stockton, CA, 1968, chapbook). With Sy Kahn
  
• Reading the News (Madison, WI, 1969, chapbook).
  
• In a Meantime (Milwaukee, WI, 1971, chapbook).
  
• Letters From Siberia and Other Poems (New York: New Rivers Press, 1971; reissued 1974).
  
• Edges (Oxford, England: Sycamore Press, 1973, chapbook).
  
• Moving (New York: New Rivers Press, 1976).
  
• Homage to Beatrix Potter (Bloomington, IN: Raintree Press, 1978, chapbook).
  
• To Recommend Renewal (Indianapolis: Persistence Press, 1984, chapbook).
  
• A Clear Space on a Cold Day (Cleveland: Cleveland State Poetry Center, l986).
  
• Adirondack (Kansas City: BkMk Press, 1988).
  
• Clear Pond: The Reconstruction of a Life (Syracuse University Press, 1991). Nonfiction.
  
• The Word For Everything (Kansas City: BkMk Press, 1996).
  
• Braid (Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 1997).
  
• Savage Baggage (Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 2001).
  
• Delicate Bait (The University of Akron Press, 2003).
  
• The Human Crowd: New Fiction From The Minnesota Review, Editor, with Scott Russell Sanders, (Bloomington, IN: Minnesota Review Press, 1981).
  
  

• Poems have appeared in numerous magazines, such as Ploughshares, The Nation, New Republic, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, New England Review, Redbook, Denver Quarterly, American Poetry Review, Times Literary Supplement (U.K.), New York Times, New Review (U.K.), Beloit Poetry Journal, North American Review, Harvard Magazine, Stand(U.K.), The Chowder Review, Indiana Review, Shenandoah, Boundary 2, Triquarterly, The Ohio Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poetry East, Crazyhorse, The Massachusetts Review, The Threepenny Review, Antioch Review, Pequod, Farmers' Market.

• Articles and reviews have appeared in Modern Language Journal, PMLA, Language and Style, American Book Review, North American Review, Northeast, Margins, College English, The Ohio Review, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, American Poetry Review, Indiana Review, Triquarterly, The Threepenny Review.

• In addition, Mr. Mitchell's work has appeared in over thirty anthologies.