Ben Lerner

Ben Lerner

Benjamin S. Lerner is an American poet.

Born on February 4, 1979 and raised in Topeka, Kansas, he is a 1997 graduate of Topeka High School. [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4179/is_20050309/ai_n12830646] Look Smart Web site, reprint of article by Blankenship, Bill, "Young poet to read works at Washburn", "The Topeka Capital-Journal", March 9, 2005, accessed October 31, 2006] At Brown University he earned a B.A. in Political Theory and a MFA in Poetry.

In 2003 Copper Canyon Press awarded its Hayden Carruth prize to Lerner's cycle of fifty-two loose sonnets, [http://www.coppercanyonpress.org/catalog/dsp_bookDetail.cfm?Book_ID=1213 " The Lichtenberg Figures"] . In 2004, "Library Journal" named it one of the year's twelve best books of poetry.

He traveled on a Fulbright Scholarship to Madrid, Spain in 2003 where he wrote his second book, "Angle of Yaw".

Together with Deb Klowden, Lerner presently edits [http://www.nojournal.com "No: A Journal of the Arts"] , a magazine of poetry, art, and criticism. In 2008 he began editing poetry for "Critical Quarterly," a British academic publication. [http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/119389312/HTMLSTART]

Lerner is on the faculty of the writing program of the University of Pittsburgh.

Books

* "The Lichtenberg Figures", poetry (Port Townsend,: Copper Canyon Press, 2004).
* "Angle of Yaw", poetry (Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2006).

Awards

* Finalist, 2006 National Book Award [ [http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2006_p_lerner.html National Book Award 2006] ] for "Angle of Yaw".
* Finalist, 2006 Northern California Book Awards for "Angle of Yaw" [ [http://www.poetryflash.org/NCBA.07.html Poetry Flash:NCBRAwards ] ]

External links

* Poem [http://softtargetsjournal.com/v21/ben_lerner.php The Lost Browning Tape] from "SOFT TARGETS v.2.1"
* [http://bostonreview.net/BR31.4/lerner.html Four poems] from "Angle of Yaw" in "Boston Review"
* [http://jacketmagazine.com/25/lerner.html Three poems] from "Angle of Yaw" in "Jacket Magazine".
* An [http://pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleid=7556 excerpt] from "The Lichtenberg Figures" in "Ploughshares".
* An [http://www.slope.org/archive/issue17/poems17lerner.html excerpt] from "The Lichtenberg Figures" in "Slope".
* [http://www.fascicle.com/issue01/Poets/lerner1.htm Poems] in "Fascicle".
* "The Lichtenberg Figures" [http://www.bostonreview.net/br30.5/micros.html reviewed] in "Boston Review".
* "The Lichtenberg Figures" [http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2005spring/lerner.shtml reviewed] in "Rain Taxi".
* "The Lichtenberg Figures" [http://www.42opus.com/v5_1/benlerner reviewed] in "42opus"
* "The Lichtenberg Figures" [http://jacketmagazine.com/28/cons-lerner.html reviewed] in "Jacket Magazine".
* An [http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/current.issue/16.1caplan.html essay] treating Lerner in "Postmodern Culture".
* [http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2006_p_lerner.html Lerner's page at the National Book Foundation]
* Lance Phillips' [http://herecomeseverybody.blogspot.com/2005/03/ben-lerner-is-from-topeka-kansas.html interview] with Ben Lerner.
* Lerner's [http://jacketmagazine.com/31/lerner-waldrop.html review] of a book by Rosmarie Waldrop in "Jacket"
* Lerner's [http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2006summer/berssenbrugge.shtml review] of works by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge in "Rain Taxi"

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