Geoff Bouvier

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Geoff Bouvier
Born
Los Angeles, California
NationalityAmerican
Occupationpoet
SpouseSJ Sindu

Geoff Bouvier is an American prose poet. His newest book, Us From Nothing was published by Wolsak & Wynn in Canada in 2023,[1] and by Black Lawrence Press in the US in 2024. Us From Nothing is a book-length serial epic prose poem about the most important milestones in human history from the big bang to the near future.[2]

His first book, Living Room, was selected by Heather McHugh as the winner of the 2005 The American Poetry Review Honickman Prize.[3][4][5] His second book, Glass Harmonica, was published in 2011 by Quale Press.[6][7] Recent writings have appeared in American Poetry Review,[8] Barrow Street, Denver Quarterly, jubilat, New American Writing, Western Humanities Review, and VOLT. He received an MFA from Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts in 1997, and a PhD in Poetry at Florida State University in 2016. In 2009, he was the Roberta C. Holloway visiting poet at the University of California-Berkeley. He teaches creative writing at Virginia Commonwealth University.[9]

Bibliography

Poetry collections

  • Living Room. Philadelphia: Copper Canyon Press, 2005, ISBN 9780971898189
  • Glass Harmonica. Quale Press, 2011 ISBN 9781935835035
  • Us From Nothing. Wolsak & Wynn, 2023 ISBN 978-1-989496-72-5

References

  1. ^ "Us From Nothing". Wolsak & Wynn Publishers Ltd. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  2. ^ "Us From Nothing". Wolsak & Wynn Publishers Ltd. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
  3. ^ "Geoff Bouvier - Staff - San Diego Reader". sandiegoreader.com. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
  4. ^ "The Honickman Foundation: Geoff Bouvier, Living Room". honickmanfoundation.org. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
  5. ^ "Copper Canyon Press".
  6. ^ "Quale Press Authors: Geoff Bouvier". www.quale.com. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  7. ^ Marcos, The MFA in Creative Writing Program at Texas State University-San. "Front Porch Journal". www.frontporchjournal.com. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  8. ^ "Geoff Bouvier". bostonreview.net. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
  9. ^ "Geoff Bouvier, Ph.D. — College of Humanities and Sciences". chs.vcu.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-10.