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Poetry Bus Tour
Poetry Bus Tour was a literary event sponsored by independent poetry publisher Wave Books in 2006. It featured a tour of contemporary poets, traveling by a forty-foot Biodiesel bus, who stopped to perform in fifty North American cities over the course of fifty days. Starting in Seattle, Washington, where Wave Books is based, on September 4, the bus visited major cities in every region of the United States, as well as three stops in Canada, before returning on October 27, 2006. The bus made stops at venues in each city, where participating poets gave readings and lectures. Organized by poets Joshua Beckman, Matthew Zapruder, Lori Shine, Monica Fambrough, and Travis Nichols the tour featured many poets published by the press, as well as performance artists and local readers. One reviewer characterised the project as being "like some strange collective of disenfranchised rock musicians, shorn of their instruments and forced to travel together for warmth", while another posed the quest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wave Books
Wave Books (established 2005) is an American independent press focusing on the publication of poetry, with a focus on innovative, contemporary poetry and poetry in translation. This independent publisher has published books by CAConrad, Don Mee Choi, Timothy Donnelly, Kate Durbin, Renee Gladman, Terrance Hayes, Tyehimba Jess, Douglas Kearney, Dorothea Lasky, Ben Lerner, Chelsey Minnis, Eileen Myles, Maggie Nelson, Hoa Nguyen, Mary Ruefle, Rachel Zucker, and others. Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour 2006 Poetry Bus Tour was a literary event sponsored by Wave Books in 2006. It featured a tour of contemporary poets, traveling by a forty-foot Biodiesel bus, who stopped to perform in fifty North American cities over the course of fifty days. Wave's Annual Poetry Festival 2011: Poetry in Translation Wave Books presented three days of poetry in translation November 4–6, 2011, with the help of the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington. The event featured film screenings, art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CAConrad
CAConrad (born 1966) is an American poet, professor, and the author of seven books. They were based in Philadelphia and later Asheville, North Carolina and Athens, Georgia. Early life CAConrad was born January 1, 1966, in Topeka, Kansas, and grew up in Boyertown, Pennsylvania. Their mother was a fourteen-year-old runaway and father was a Vietnam War veteran, their mother married three times. Conrad was bullied as a child and stated in the feature film documentary, ''The Book of Conrad'' (2015), "People called me ‘faggot’ more than they called me my name." Career Conrad is known for using and inventing the poetic form of " omaics." This form is a sort of writing prompt/personal exercise in being engaged in the present moment. Conrad was one of the two poets in the short film, ''I Hope I'm Loud When I'm Dead'' (2018) by filmmaker Beatrice Gibson, also featured was poet Eileen Myles. Conrad was a 2014 Lannan Fellow, a 2013 MacDowell Fellow, and a 2011 Pew Fellow, they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cole Heinowitz
Cole may refer to: Plants * Cole crops of the genus '' Brassica'', especially cabbage, kale, or rape (rapeseed). People * Cole (given name), people with the given name Cole * Cole (surname), people with the surname Cole Companies * Cole Motor Car Company, a pioneer American name automobile company (1909–1925) Places Antarctic *Cole Peninsula, a peninsula on the continent of slavery Canada * Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, a community of Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia ** Cole Harbour ** Cole Harbour (Guysborough), Nova Scotia England *Cole, Somerset, a hamlet in Pitcombe parish * Cole (for Bruton) railway station, a former station in the hamlet France * Côle, a river in southwestern France Poland * Cole, Pomeranian Voivodeship Northern Ireland * Cole, County Tyrone, a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland United States * Cole, Indiana, an unincorporated community in Grant County *Cole, Oklahoma, a town in McClain County, Oklahoma * Coleville, Calif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Hawkey
Christian Hawkey (born 1969), is an American poet, translator, editor, activist, and educator. Life and work Hawkey was born in Hackensack, New Jersey. He is the author of several books of poetry, including ''Sonne from Ort'', ''Ventrakl,'' ''Citizen Of'', ''The Book of Funnels'', and a number of chapbooks. His work has been translated into German Slovene, French, Swedish, Arabic, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch; and he translates several contemporary German poets including Daniel Falb, Sabine Scho and Steffen Popp, and Austrian writer Ilse Aichinger. Hawkey completed graduate work at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he founded and edited the first 10 issues of the poetry journal ''jubilat''. He is an associate professor at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. He teaches in the English department, and the Writing for Publication, Performance, and Media Program. In 2012 he founded, with Rachel Levitskythe Office of Recuperative Strategies (OoRS) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthea Harvey
Matthea Harvey (born September 3, 1973) is a contemporary American poet, writer and professor. She has published four collections of poetry. The most recent of these, ''If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?'', a collection of poetry and images, was published in 2014. Prior to this, the collection ''Modern Life'' (2007) earned her the 2009 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award, and a ''New York Times'' Notable Book. Life Harvey was born in Germany, and grew up in England and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She earned her B.A. from Harvard University and her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She currently lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. She is the sister of artist Ellen Harvey and is married to editor Rob Casper. Harvey has served as the poetry editor of ''American Letters & Commentary'' as well as a contributing editor to ''jubilat'' and ''BOMB''. She has published poems in literary magazines includin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arielle Greenberg
Arielle Greenberg (born 1972) is a feminist poet and the poetry editor of ''Black Clock''. She is most renowned for naming and describing the concept of the Gurlesque in the anthology ''Gurlesque: the new grrly, grotesque, burlesque poetics'', which she co-edited with Lara Glenum. Biography Greenberg was an assistant professor in the English Department at Columbia College Chicago.Wilkinson, Joshua Marie. Poets on Teaching: A Sourcebook. 307. eBook. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=e2dLVe3p_loC&oi=fnd&pg=PA303&dq="arielle greenberg"&ots=rZhBIpAJXL&sig=8JTuN3Rnm93j_XH2f-K84TvQ_QI'' She is now living with her family in rural Maine. They are working on an oral history-style book on the back-to-the-land movement in that area.Greenberg, Arielle. "Biography." ArielleGreenberg.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 October 2011. . Concept of The Gurlesque "The words of the gurlesque „luxuriate: they roll around in the sensual while avoiding the sharpness of overt messages, preferring t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Gizzi
Peter Gizzi (born 1959 in Alma, Michigan) is an American poet, essayist, editor and teacher. He attended New York University, Brown University and the State University of New York at Buffalo. Life Gizzi was born in Alma, Michigan to an Italian American family. He spent most of his childhood and adolescence in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. After graduating from high school, the poet delayed going to college and took a job in a factory winding resin tubes and in a residential treatment center working with emotionally disturbed adolescents. Working overnight at the treatment center, Gizzi read George Oppen's ''Collected Poems'', along with H.D., Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Federico García Lorca, Baudelaire, Rimbaud "and almost anything published by Burning Deck." Living in New York City, in part to keep in touch with the punk scene, he walked by the St. Mark's book store one day and his eye was caught by a reprinted version of ''BLAST'', with its shocking pink and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Foust
Graham W. Foust (born August 25, 1970) is an American poet and currently is an associate professor at the University of Denver. Early life and education Foust was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and grew up in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing from Beloit College, a Master of Fine Arts from George Mason University, and a Ph.D. from the State University of New York-Buffalo. Academic Foust teaches contemporary poetry in both an English literature and creative writing context. From 1998 to 2000, Foust, along with Benjamin Friedlander, co-edited ''Lagniappe'', an online journal devoted to poetry and poetics. From 2002 to 2005, Foust was a professor at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa; he is presently an associate professor at the University of Denver. Poet Foust has written six full collections of poetry; ''As in Every Deafness'' (Flood Editions, 2003), ''Leave the Room to Itself'' (Ahsahta Press, 2004), ''Necessary Stranger'' (Flood Editio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherrie Flick
Sherrie Flick is an American fiction writer whose work has appeared in ''Prairie Schooner'', ''North American Review'', ''Quarterly West'', ''Puerto del Sol'', ''Weave Magazine'', ''Quick Fiction'', Lit Hub, and other literary magazines. Flick is also a regular contributor to the ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'', which publishes her column "In a Writer's Urban Garden." In 2021, her work was performed by actress Marin Ireland for Symphony Space. She has received artist residencies from the Ucross Foundation, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and a Tennessee Williams Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference. She received a 2007 individual artist fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. For ten years Flick was artistic director and co-founder of the Gist Street Reading Series in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is a senior lecturer in the Food Studies program and the MFA creative writing program at the Chatham University, serves as s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Fagin
Larry Fagin (July 21, 1937 – May 27, 2017) was an American poet, editor, publisher, and teacher, and a member of the New York School. Biography Born in Far Rockaway, New York City, Larry Fagin grew up in New York, Hollywood, and Europe. He began associating with poets and writers in 1957, meeting David Meltzer in Los Angeles, and Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Gregory Corso two years later in Paris. In 1962 he became part of the circle of poets around Jack Spicer in San Francisco, and befriended Michael McClure, Philip Whalen, and Robert Duncan. At the end of 1965 he traveled to London where he lived for two years and met his first wife, Joan Inglis. They returned to New York, and settled in San Francisco for most of 1968. Clark Coolidge became a close friend. Returning to New York within the year, he began editing ''Adventures in Poetry'' magazine and books, which featured most of the poets of the New York School. In 1975, with the dancer Barbara Dilley, he cofound ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Sayers Ellis
Thomas Sayers Ellis (born Washington, D.C.) is an American poet, photographer and band leader. He previously taught as an associate professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Bennington College in Vermont, and also at Sarah Lawrence College until 2012. Life He was raised in Washington, D.C. and attended Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. In 1988 he co-founded the Dark Room Collective in Cambridge, Massachusetts, an organization that celebrated and gave greater visibility to emerging and established writers of color. He is the leader and a founding member of the band Heroes are Gang Leaders. Ellis received his M.F.A. from Brown University in 1995. Ellis is known in the poetry community as a literary activist and innovator, whose poems "resist limitations and rigorously embrace wholeness." His poems have appeared in magazines such as ''AGNI'' ''Callaloo'', ''Grand Street, Harvard Review, Tin House, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art,'' and anthologized in ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Dumanis
Michael Dumanis (born January 18, 1976 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is an American poet, professor, and editor of poetry. Works Dumanis’s first collection of poetry, ''My Soviet Union'' (University of Massachusetts Press, 2007), won the 2006 Juniper Prize for Poetry. His second collection of poems, ''Creature,'' is being published by Four Way Books in 2023. Other works have appeared in literary journals, including ''American Poetry Review'', '' The Believer'', ''Colorado Review'', '' The Common'', ''Copper Nickel'', ''Denver Quarterly'', ''H.O.W. Journal'', ''Indiana Review'', ''Iowa Review'', ''New England Review'', ''Ninth Letter'', ''Ploughshares'', ''Poetry'', ''Post Road'', and ''Prairie Schooner''. Along with poet Cate Marvin, Dumanis coedited the anthology ''Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century'' (Sarabande Books, 2006). With poet Kevin Prufer. he edited '' Russell Atkins: On the Life and Work of an American Master'' (Pleiades Press Unsung Masters Series, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |