Portrait by George Schneeman

Selected Books

Bean Spasms (Kulchur, 1967, Granary Books, 2012), with Ted Berrigan and Joe Brainard
Great Balls of Fire (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1969; Coffee House Press, 1990)
The Adventures of Mr. & Mrs. Jim & Ron (Grossman/Viking, 1970), with Jim Dine
Antlers in the Treetops (Coach House, 1970), with Tom Veitch
Toujours l’amour (SUN, 1976)
Tulsa Kid (Z Press, 1979)
Triangles in the Afternoon (SUN, 1979)
The Big Something (The Figures, 1990)
Blood Work: Selected Prose (Bamberger Books, 1993)
Ted: A Personal Memoir of Ted Berrigan (The Figures, 1993)
New & Selected Poems (David R. Godine, 1995)
Albanian Diary (The Figures, 1999)
The Straight Line: Writings on Poetry & Poets (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2000)
Poems I Guess I Wrote (Cuz Editions, 2001)
You Never Know (Coffee House Press, 2002)
Oklahoma Tough (University of Oklahoma Press, 2003)
Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard (Coffee House Press, 2004)
If I Were You: Collaborative Poems (Proper Tales Press, 2007)
How to Be Perfect (Coffee House Press, 2007)
How Long (Coffee House Press, 2011)
Three Blind Poems (Ohm Editions, 2012) with Yu Jian
Collected Poems (Coffee House Press, 2013)
Alone and Not Alone (Coffee House Press, 2015)
Motor Maids across the Continent (Song Cave, 2017)
Big Cabin (Coffee House Press, forthcoming 2019)

Selected Works on Education and Writing

The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms (Teachers & Writers, 1987), editor
Poetic Forms (Teachers & Writers, 1989), ten audiotaped radio programs
The Writing Book (Teachers & Writers, 1989)
The Teachers & Writers Guide to Walt Whitman (Teachers & Writers, 1991), editor
Educating the Imagination (Teachers & Writers, 1994), coeditor
Creative Reading (National Council of Teachers of English, 1997)
World Poets: An Encyclopedia for Students, (Scribner Reference Books, 2000), editor in chief
Teachers & Writers magazine, editor 1980-2000



Portrait by Ann Mikolowski


Portrait by Fairfield Porter

Translations

Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp by Pierre Cabanne (Viking, 1971)
The Poet Assassinated and Other Stories by Guillaume Apollinaire (North Point, 1984)
Complete Poems by Blaise Cendrars (University of California, 1992)
Prose Poems by Pierre Reverdy (Black Square/Brooklyn Rail, 2007)
Flash Cards Poems by Yu Jian
(Zephyr/Jintian, 2010)
Zone: Selected Poems by Guillaume Apollinaire (NY Review Books, 2015)

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 (Dietrich’sche 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

Boar’s 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 l’Ordre 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