Geoff Bouvier
American poet
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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]
Geoff Bouvier | |
|---|---|
| Born | Los Angeles, California |
| Occupation | poet |
| Spouse | SJ Sindu |
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
