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Born in 1943 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Bill Zavatsky worked as a pianist from the age of fifteen to twenty-five and studied music at the New School. He holds a bachelor's and a master's degree from Columbia University.
With Zack Rogow, he cotranslated Earthlight: Poems of André Breton (Sun & Moon Press, 1993), which won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize. Zavatsky also co-translated The Poems of A.O. Barnabooth, by Valery Larbaud, with Ron Padgett. He is the author of Where X Marks the Spot (Hanging Loose Press, 2006); For Steve Royal and Other Poems (Coalition of Publishers for Employment, 1985); Theories of Rain and Other Poems (1975) and his work has appeared in the anthology Will Work For Peace: New Political Poems (ed. Brett Axel, 1999). He is also the director of SUN, which publishes volumes of poetry and SUN magazine.
Zavatsky has taught workshops for Teachers & Writers Collaborative, Long Island University, and University of Texas-Austin. He lives in New York City and teaches English at the Trinity School.
Ted Berrigan was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on November 15, 1934. He attended Providence...
Larry Fagin is the author of several poetry collections, including Complete Fragments...
Born on July 20, 1944, in Brooklyn, Paul Randolph Violi grew up in Greenlawn, New York. He...
Harry Mathews, an experimental poet known for his involvement in the New York School and Oulipo,...
Born in 1945, Alice Notley received the 2007 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for her book Grave...
Kathleen Fraser was born on March 22, 1935. She authored more than fifteen books and co-founded...