Peter Barr Nickowitz is an American poet, playwright, and screenwriter. Nickowitz grew up in

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and graduated from

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and

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, where he received a Ph.D. in English and American literature. He is the author of ''Rhetoric and Sexuality: The Poetry of Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill'' (Palgrave, 2006). Nickowitz's debut collection of poems, ''Cinema Vernacular'', was released in 2014 by Publication Studio. For the Huffington Post,

Carol Muske-Dukes Carol Muske-Dukes (born 1945 in St. Paul, Minnesota) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, critic, and professor, and the former poet laureate of California (2008–2011). Her most recent book of poetry, ''Sparrow'' (Random House, 2003), chron ...

writes: "''Cinema Vernacular'' is built around a protagonist's ongoing everyday and romantic affairs in two cities: New York and Paris. The reader finds herself drawn into the poetry "movie," drawn into the fluid "camera work" of the "director's cut" — and then drawn past all these elements to the heart of the poem, the place where form, all form, becomes superfluous and the poem itself speaks unforgettably to the reader." In Goodreads.com

Kevin Killian Kevin Killian (December 24, 1952 – June 15, 2019) was an American poet, author, editor, and playwright primarily of LGBT literature. ''My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer'', which he co-edited with Peter Gizzi, wo ...

writes: "''Cinema Vernacular'' is a stunning new collection of poetry by Peter Nickowitz. Using forms like screenplays and even films in his poetics, ''Cinema Vernacular'' is porous, deft, concerned with our relationship to the intangible and how desire filters through image and text. These poems mark, with recognizable pathos and sharp turns of hilarity, the arrival of a major voice." His poems have appeared in literary magazines including ''

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'', '' Barrow Street'', ''Shampoo'', ''Slope'', ''Marsh Hawk Review'', and ''

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'', and he was a National Poetry Series finalist. His plays include ''The Alice Complex'' (with

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and

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;

Lisa Banes Lisa Lou Banes (July 9, 1955 – June 14, 2021) was an American actress known for more than 80 film and television roles, as well as stage appearances on Broadway and elsewhere. Banes won a 1981 Theatre World Award for her performance as Alison ...

and

Xanthe Elbrick Xanthe Eleanora Marie Davina Elbrick (born 1 December 1978 in London) is an English Tony Award-nominated stage actress. The youngest of four children, Xanthe (pronounced 'ZANTHEE') was born in London, England, and attended Benenden School. Sh ...

) ("Smart, incisive..." - ''NY Times''), ''Backgammon at the Louvre'',Jones, Kenneth
"Banes and Elbrick Star in Feminist Thriller for FringeNYC"
Playbill, Retrieved 2016-05-10. and ''Songs & Statues''. They have been produced at the Cherry Lane,

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, The Blank Theatre, and Stella Adler Studio, where he was the 2008-09 Harold Clurman Playwright-in-Residence. His screenplays (co-written with Bill Oliver) include ''The Debutante'', which received a grant from the Jerome Foundation, ''Lulu'', a drama based on the life of silent film star Louise Brooks, which was optioned by

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and Peer Oppenheim, and ''

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'', about a young man who has a condition in which he shares his body with another consciousness. He has taught at the

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, the

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, and

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. He currently teaches in the Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at

References

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