Selected
Other Works
Oo La
La (Petersburg Press, London & N.Y., 1973), collaborative lithographs
with Jim Dine
Light As Air (Pace Editions, 1988), prose poems, with etchings
by Alex Katz
Paterson, seven poems in the film by Jim Jarmusch (2016)
Poetry
Works in Translation
Grosse
Feuerballe
(Rowolt Verlag, Hamburg, Germany, 1973).
Swiry (Miniatura, Krakow, Poland, 2007)
Nigdy Nie Waidomo (Ars Cameralis, Katowice, Poland, 2008)
Kuinka Olla Täydellinen (ntamo, Helsinki, Finland, 2009)
Le Grand quelque chose (Joca Seria, Nantes, France, 2010)
On ne sait jamais (Joca Seria, Nantes, France, 2012)
Tú Veitst Ongantíd (Sprotin, Tórshavn, Faroe
Islands, 2013)
Farvel, vesle Lettera (Flamme Forlag, Oslo, 2013)
Comment devenir parfait (Joca Seria, Nantes, France, 2016)
Die schönsten Streichhölzer der Welt (Dietrichsche
Verlagsbuchhandlung, Germany, 2017)
Ho sognato di essere me (Italic Pequod, Ancona, Italy, 2018)
Poemas Escolhidos (Assírio & Alvim, Porto, Portugal,
2018)
Bezczynnosc Butow (Instytut Mikolowski, Mikolow, Poland, 2018)
Cómo ser perfecto (Kriller71, Barcelona, Spain, 2018)
Cómo ser perfecto (Zindo & Gafuri, Buenos Aires, 2018)
Anthology and magazine publication in Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese,
French, Latvian, Hungarian, German, Italian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish,
Turkish, Greek, Albanian, Polish, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Slovak, Croatian,
and Faroese.
Selected
Literary Works in Anthologies
The
Young American Poets (Follett, 1968), ed. Paul Carroll
The World Anthology (Bobbs-Merrill, 1969), ed. Anne Waldman
Air Earth Fire & Water (Coward-McCann, 1971), ed. Frances
McCullough
Another World (Bobbs-Merrill, 1971), ed. Anne Waldman
Contemporary American Poetry (Penguin, 1972), ed. Donald Hall
Bad Moon Rising (Doubleday, 1973), ed. Thomas M. Disch
British and American Surrealist Poetry (Penguin, 1978), ed. Edward
Germain
Claims for Poetry (University of Michigan, 1982), ed. Donald
Hall
The World Treasury of Children's Literature (Little, Brown and
Co., 1985), ed. Clifton Fadiman
Up Late: American Poetry Since 1940 (4 Walls 8 Windows, 1987),
ed. Andrei Codrescu
A New Geography of Poets (Univ. of Arkansas, 1993), ed. Edward
Field
The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry (Norton, 1994),
ed. Paul Hoover
The Oxford Book of American Poetry (OUP, 2006), ed. David Lehman
Literary
Books Edited
An Anthology
of New York Poets (Random House, 1970), with David Shapiro
The Whole Word Catalogue 2 (McGraw-Hill/T&W, 1976), with
Bill Zavatsky
The Complete Poems of Edwin Denby (Random House, 1986)
The Selected Poems of Kenneth Koch (Library of America, 2007)
The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard (Library of America, 2012)
Selected
Poetry Readings
Guggenheim
Museum (Academy of American Poets), Morgan Library and Museum, Whitney
Museum, Museum of Modern Art, The Poetry Project, Columbia, Princeton,
Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, University of Indiana, University of Minnesota,
Chicago University, UCLA, USC, Swarthmore, Moderna Museet (Stockholm),
Baltimore School of Fine Arts, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Essex University
(England), Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), University of Pennsylvania,
Edinburgh Arts Festival, San Francisco State University Poetry Center,
Naropa Institute, Library of Congress, Barnard, University of Vermont,
University of California-San Diego, Harvard, Beyond Baroque, Bard College,
Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), One World Poetry Festival (Amsterdam),
Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Detroit Institute of Art, Centre Culturel
Américain (Paris), American Center (Sofia), Ars Cameralis (Katowice,
Poland), Faroe Arts festival (Faroe Islands), Helsinki Festival, Pamirs
Academy (Beijing), Ars Poetica (Bratislava), Yunnan Normal University
(Kunming), Musicultura (Macerata, Italy), Haus fur Poesie (Berlin),
Milosz Festival (Krakow).
Education
B.A.,
Columbia University, major in English and Comparative Literature,
1964
Writing Workshop, Wagner College, studying with Kay Boyle, Howard
Nemerov, and Kenneth Koch, 1964
Fulbright Fellowship, twentieth-century French literature, 1965-1966
Teaching
Experience
Various
programs since 1969, including Poetry-in-the-Schools workshops
for students, teacher training (all levels), and lectures, in New York,
New Jersey, Vermont, Virginia, Michigan, Minnesota, Connecticut, and
Oklahoma. Also, teacher of imaginative writing at Columbia University
and Brooklyn College.
Honors,
Awards, and Fellowships
Boars
Head Poetry Award, Columbia University, 1964
George E. Woodberry Poetry Prize, Columbia University, 1964
Gotham Bookmart Avant-Garde Poetry Prize, 1964
Poets Foundation, 1964 and 1969
Fulbright Fellowship, 1965
Translation Center grant, 1976
National Endowment for the Arts, 1976
Creative Artists Public Service, New York, 1982
National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship, 1983
Guggenheim, Poetry, 1986
New York State Council on the Arts Poetry Fellowship, 1989
Translation Center Award, Columbia University, 1993
Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts grant, 1996
American Academy of Arts and Letters award for poetry, 1999
Officier dans lOrdre des Arts et des Lettres, French Ministry
of Culture and Communication, 2001
Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, 2003
Chancellor, Academy of American Poets, 2008-2013
Shelley Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America, 2009
Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Poetry, 2012
LA Times Prize for Best Book of Poetry, 2014
William Carlos Williams Award, Poetry Society of America, 2014
Robert Creeley Award, 2015
Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, Academy of American Poets,
2016
Frost Medal, Poetry Society of America, 2017