Jason O'Toole

Poet

Andover , MA
Massachusetts US
Email: 
jasonotoolemba@gmail.com
Website: 
spearofstars.wordpress.com/
Twitter/X: 
@JasonOToolePoet

Author's Bio

Jason O’Toole is the 6th Poet Laureate of North Andover, Massachusetts. He is co-founder and judge of the Anne Bradstreet Poetry Contest. He is a board member of the Independent Living Resource Center San Francisco and a hospital administrator in the Boston area. 

Jason was the vocalist for the 1980s NY Hardcore Punk band Life's Blood and continues to collaborate with musicians such as Alec. K. Redfearn Miro Snejdr (Herr Lounge Corps), and members of Siege. He earned his BA from Eugene Lang College and an MBA from St. Joseph's College of Maine. 

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Poets With Masks On (Finishing Line Press, 2022)
,
The 2020 Rhysling Anthology (Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, 2020)
Books:
Soulless Heavens (Middle Island Press, 2019)
,
Spear of Stars (Middle Island Press, 2018)
Chapbook:
Poison Moonlight (Blood Pudding Press, 2021)
Journals:
Another Chicago Magazine
,
Avatar Review
,
Boog City
,
Columbia Spectator
,
Gargoyle Magazine
,
Heroin/Love/Songs
,
Loud Coffee Press
,
Lowell Review
,
Neologism Poetry Journal
,
Neuro Logical Literary Magazine
,
New Plains Review
,
Nixes Mate Review
,
Scriblerus
,
Sparks of Calliope
,
The New York Times
,
The Wild Word
,
Vita Brevis
Prizes won: 

2020 Rhysling Award Nomination 

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Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
HD, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Creeley, Laura Albert (J.T. LeRoy), William Carlos Williams, W. B. Yeats, Jeanne Robert Foster, Delmore Schwartz, David Ignatow, Robert Lowell, William Lindsay Gresham, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., John Berryman, Arthur Rimbaud, H.P. Lovecraft, Ottessa Moshfegh, Margaret Atwood, Percy and Mary Shelley, T. S. Eliot, Robert Anton Wilson, William Gibson, Ken Kesey, Alfred Bester, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Chinua Achebe, Stanley Diamond, Gary Snyder, Anne Waldman, Ted Berrigan, Charles Olson, James Joyce, Philip K. Dick, Dan Speers, Robert Whelan, Karen M. Kline, Mark Bohrer

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
American
Prefers to work with: 
Adults, At Risk Youth, Children, Disability, Homelessness, Illness/Wellness, LGBTQ, Mental Health, Naturalists/Environmentalists, Schools, Seniors
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Andover, MA
Massachusetts
Raised in: 
Albany, NY
New York
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Last update: Aug 02, 2023