J Tarwood

Poet

Zion, IL

Illinois US

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Author's Bio

As an adult, I’ve worked in Kenya, Turkey, Yemen, Oman, Colombia, and Dubai; I’ve trekked by all sorts of dubious means through most of Africa, Europe, and South America, even darting a few times into Asia. But my life hasn’t been a travelogue. I’ve lived out globalization from aerograms to emails; that’s given me a vision quite different from many contemporary American poets.

I like what Rimbaud said: “’I’ is an other.”

I have three books:

The Cats in Zanzibar
Grand Detour
And For The Mouth A Flower

And For The Mouth A Flower was published by Brickhouse Books and is available on Amazon.

Publications & Prizes

Books:

And For The Mouth A Flower (Brickhouse Books, 2014)

Grand Detour (Black Buzzard Press, 2007)

Journals:

American Poetry Review

Big Muddy

Blue Mesa Review

Breakfast All Day

Broken Bridge

Bryant Literary Review

Buckle &

California State Poetry Quarterly

Calliope

Coe Review

Comstock Review

Eratica

Free Lunch

Freshwater

Front Range Review

Hawai'i Pacific Review

Heartlodge

Karamu

Liberty Hill Poetry Review

Lilies & Cannonballs

Main Street Rag

Midwest Quarterly

Paris/Atlantic

Phantasmagoria

Pike Creek Review

Plainsongs

Poetry Motel

Quantum Tao

Red River Review

Rhino Magazine

Rio

Rockhurst Review

Runes: A Review of Poetry

Slant

Tar Wolf Review

Terra Incognita

Visions International

White Pelican Review

Willow Review

Wind

Yet Another Small Magazine

Prizes won:

1997: Plainsong Poetry Award
2001: Visions Featured Poet
2003: Pushcart Poem nominee

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now:

Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War by Svetlana Alexievich, Red Clay Weather by Reginald Shepherd, The Mediterranean and The Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II by Fernand Braudel, The Satires of Persius by Persius, translated by W.S. Merwin, Testimony by Charles Reznikoff

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

Spanish

Born in:

Waukegan

Raised in:

Waukegan, IL

Illinois

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Last update: Nov 13, 2016