William (Bill) Allegrezza (born 1974 in
Jackson, Mississippi
Jackson, officially the City of Jackson, is the Capital city, capital of and the List of municipalities in Mississippi, most populous city in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The city is also one of two county seats of Hinds County, Mississippi, ...
) is a poet, fiction writer, translator, and critic. He edit
Moria Booksand teaches at
Indiana University Northwest. He has published eighteen poetry books; eleven chapbooks, including ''Sonoluminescence'' (co-written with Simone Muench) and ''Filament Sense'' (Ypolita Press); and many poetry reviews, articles, and poems. His poetry has been translated into
Dutch,
Spanish,
Portuguese, and
Italian. He founded and curate
series A a reading series in Chicago, from 2006 to 2010. He also co-founded Cracked Slab Books and edited it for five years. He edits the blogzin
Moss Trill He earned his PhD in Comparative Literature at
Louisiana State University
Louisiana State University (officially Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as LSU) is a public land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The university was founded in 1860 nea ...
.
Allegrezza started the e-zin
Moria, a poetry journal in 1998. It was one of the early online poetry magazines, and in time, it morphed int
an
Allegrezza moved to Chicago and taught a
Columbia College ChicagoRoosevelt University
an
Morton College
before joining Indiana University Northwest in Gary. In 2006, he starte
Series A, a reading series
that ran for five years and featured many notable writers like 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 Italia ...
, Matt Briggs
Matt Briggs (born 1970) is an American novelist and short story writer.
Biography
Matt Briggs was born in Seattle, Washington, which he still calls home. He grew up in the Snoqualmie Valley raised by working-class, counter-culture parents who cu ...
Cris MazzaGina Frangello
and more. He edits the blogzin
Moss Trill.
He lives in Munster, Indiana.
Books
To Hush All The Dead (BlazeVox Books)In The Weaver's Valley (Blue Lion Books)Collective Instant (Otoliths Press)The Vicious Bunny Translations (Lulu)Temporal Nomads (xPress(ed) books)Covering Over (Moria Books)La alteración del silencio: poesía norteamericana reciente (Editorial Cuneta)Ladders in July
( BlazeVox Books)
Fragile Replacements (Meritage Press)
* ttp://www.saltpublishing.com/shop/proddetail.php?prod=9781844714858 The Salt Companion to Charles Bernstein (Salt Publishing)br>Inshore Seeds (Argostist Ebooks)Densities, Apparitions(Otoliths Press)Aquinas and the Mississippi (with Garin Cycholl) (Furniture Press)Step Below: Selected Poems 2000-2015 (Meritage Press)''Stone & Type, Cedar''
poems, Lavender Ink, 2019
Book Reviews
The City Visible
Interviews
Interview with Thomas FinkArt on the AirA Northwest Indiana LifeCopy Left Interview
External links
His author pagemoriaUniversity Profile
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Poets from Indiana
Writers from Indiana
1974 births
Living people
Writers from Chicago
Louisiana State University alumni
Poets from Mississippi
21st-century American poets