Skip Fox
Currently
serving what appears to be a life sentence at the University of Louisiana at
Lafayette, Skip Fox writes poetry, prose, and short fictions as well as
reviews. He also has three chapbooks, one bibliography (on Creeley, Dorn, and
Duncan), and years on MLA Bibliography and Bulletin of Bibliography. His
book, What Of, is due out in the fall from Potes & Poets. He
graduated from Bowling Green State. He has worked in woods (Pacific Northwest),
warehouses (San Francisco), shake and shingle mills (Beaver, WA), lumber yards,
ketchup & catfood factories, Chrysler, mental hospitals (Ohio, seven
years), and so on.
Books & Chapbooks
Kabul Under Siege.
Blue Creek, OH: Bloody Twin Press, 1991. [chapbook of poetry]
Wallet. Blue
Creek, OH: Bloody Twin Press, 1997. [chapbook of poetry]
Fighting Kiwis.
Portland, ME: Oasis, 1999. [chapbook of poetry]
What Of.
Bedford, MA: Potes & Poets, forthcoming. [book of poetic prose and poetry]
Other
Co-Compiler
of AFestschriften and Other Analyzed Collections@ Section, MLA International
Bibliography for over ten years.
Editor
of ABook Review@ Section of Bulletin of Bibliography for approx. 8 years.
Articles,
reviews, and review essays in scholarly periodicals, books, and little
magazines.
Poems
and poetic prose in little literary magazines and e-zines.
Readings
Mostly
local, but a few out-of-state (San Francisco, Cambridge, Boston, Milwaukee,
Minneapolis, Manchester and Portsmith, OH).
Courses
taught
Everything from remedial English to graduate seminars in modern and contemporary British and American poetry.
Turned
on to Allen’s The New American Poets, 1945-1960, in sixty-nine and began reading. Olson, Creeley,
Duncan, Dorn, Spicer, Snyder, Whalen, Eigner, Ashbery, Koch, O’Hara, later
Berrigan, Mayer, Irby, Burns, Schwerner . . . many others. Going back as well:
Pound, Williams, H.D., Homer, writers of words and letters. Reading in many
areas: archaeology, religion, astronomy, physiology. philosophy, planetary
science and so on, not to
“fed” my poetry with vitamin-enhanced tropes, not in fact as anything other
than what I do. I also spend a lot of time looking at art--abstract expressionism
and cave painting is where I go first--and listening to music: jazz, blues,
rock, others.
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