Julien Poirier (born October 28, 1970) is an American poet born in the
San Francisco Bay Area
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. He is the author of several poetry collections, and the editor of an
anthology
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In genre fiction, the term ''anthology'' typically categ ...
of writing and a book of travel journals.
Biography
Julien Poirier was born in 1970 and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. Poirier received his education at
Columbia University
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in New York City. He is also a founding member of
Ugly Duckling Presse Collective. He has taught poetry in New York City and San Francisco public schools and at
San Quentin State Prison
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.
Publications
Poirier has published numerous
poetry collections
A poetry collection is often a compilation of several poems by one poet to be published in a single volume or chapbook. A collection can include any number of poems, ranging from a few (e.g. the four long poems in T. S. Eliot's ''Four Quartets ...
, including ''El Golpe Chileño'' (Ugly Duckling, 2010), ''Stained Glass Windows of California'' (Ugly Duckling, 2012), ''Way Too West'' (
Bootstrap, 2015) and ''Out of Print'' (
City Lights
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).
In 2005, he published an
experimental newspaper novel, ''Living! Go and Dream'' (Ugly Duckling).
A poetry album ''Higher in Canada'' appeared on SoundCloud in 2016.
Poirier is a founding member of the
Brooklyn
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-based non-profit Ugly Duckling Presse Collective. He was also editor of the newspaper ''New York Nights'' from 2001 to 2006. He is the editor of an anthology of writing by
Jack Micheline
Jack Micheline (November 6, 1929 – February 27, 1998), born Harold Martin Silver, was an American painter and poet from the San Francisco Bay Area. One of San Francisco's original Beat poets, he was an innovative artist who was active in the ...
, ''One of a Kind'' (Ugly Duckling, 2008), and a book of travel journals by
Bill Berkson
William Craig Berkson (August 30, 1939 – June 16, 2016) was an American poet, critic, and teacher who was active in the art and literary worlds from his early twenties on.
Early life and education
Born in New York City on August 30, 1939, Bil ...
, ''Invisible Oligarchs'' (Ugly Duckling, 2016). With
Garrett Caples
Garrett Caples (born 1972) is an American poet and former music and arts journalist. Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, he currently lives in San Francisco, California, after fifteen years in Oakland. An editor at City Lights Books, Caples curat ...
he co-edited
Frank Lima's ''Incidents of Travel in Poetry: New and Selected Poems.'' (City Lights, 2015).
See also
List of poets from the United States
The poets listed below were either born in the United States or else published much of their poetry while living in that country.
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B
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D
E
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G
H
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*George Quasha (born 1942)
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References
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1970 births
Living people
American poets
Columbia University alumni