{"title":"Albert Goldbarth","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003eAlbert Goldbarth was born in Chicago in 1948 and has been a reader and writer for as long as he can remember. It was his high school English teacher Rhoda Feldman who introduced him to Wordsworth and Ginsberg (a great duality-pairing!) and helped steer his instincts into the road toward poetry. By now his books have twice received the National Book Critics Circle Award nomination (he is the only poet to have been honored that way two times), a National Book Award nomination, a \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e Prize nomination, the Milt Kessler Award, the PEN West Non-Fiction Prize, and an Ohio State\/\u003cem\u003eThe Journal\u003c\/em\u003e book publication award, and his work has received a Guggenheim fellowship, three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, a Poetry Foundation Pegasus Award, and annual awards from \u003cem\u003ePoetry \u003c\/em\u003emagazine, among others. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003eHe is grateful that his books (there are dozens, and chapbooks as well) have appeared from some of the country’s most highly regarded poetry series: in addition to Boa Editions, that includes Graywolf Press, Doubleday, Ohio State University Press, Coffee House Press, the University of Pittsburgh Press, the University of Georgia Press, and such stalwart indie presses as Lynx House Books and Tavern Books. Besides poetry, he has published a novel and numerous collections of literary essays. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003eHundreds of individual poems have appeared in periodicals ranging from \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker, The Nation, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eHarper’s\u003c\/em\u003e, to lively small single-editor journals like \u003cem\u003eKayak \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eHappiness Holding Tank\u003c\/em\u003e. His work can also be found in genre-defining anthologies like \u003cem\u003eThe Penguin Anthology of Twentieth Century American Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e and the hundred-year celebration anthologies from\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003ePoetry\u003c\/em\u003e. Over the years his work has been chosen for inclusion a number of times in the annual \u003cem\u003ePushcart Prize: The Best of Small Presses\u003c\/em\u003e anthology, and in the annual \u003cem\u003eBest American Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e series. And he has read his poetry across the country (at, for example, the Library of Congress, and once on stage at the Folger Shakespeare Library in front of the Forest of Arden scenery from Shakespeare’s \u003cem\u003eAs You Like It\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003eRereading the above, he finds it smacking of drab records-keeping and boasting but the fact remains that, since his Rhoda Feldman days, he has been dedicated to the joyous labor of writing poetry, and to relishing and learning from the poetry of others. As Robert Bly says in a poem, “I have spent my whole life doing what I love.” For the last forty years Albert has lived in Wichita, Kansas with his spiffy collection of 1950s space toys and vintage typewriter paraphernalia, and his unfailingly astonishing wife Skylar. He has never directly used computer-based technology (has never, for example, sent or received an email), and he invites you to join him in the ranks of the resistance. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/collections\/AlejandroLucero_author_pic_58320587-5870-42d1-a4e0-3313bf370849.jpg?v=1793032879","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/collections\/alejandro-lucero-copy.oembed","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}