Larry Sawyer (poet)

Larry Sawyer (born 1970) is an American poet and editor. He edited "Nexus" magazine (Wright State University, Dayton, OH) and currently edits the literary journal www.milkmag.org.

"Nexus" was awarded the Gold Crown Award for Collegiate Publications (Columbia Scholastic Press Association at Columbia University, NY). Poets and artists published in "Nexus" include Paul Violi, Mohammed Mrabet, Paul Bowles, Michael Castro, Charles Henri Ford, Gerard Malanga, Ira Cohen, Tuli Kupferberg, John Solt, Yamamoto Kansuke, John Brandi, Jack Hirschman, Jud Yalkut, Tom Walker, Judith Malina, Nina Zivancevic, Hanon Reznikov, Hakim Bey, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allan Graubard, Paul Grillo, Angus MacLise, Lionel Ziprin, Tetsuya Taguchi, A.D. Winans, Harold Norse, Edward Field, Timothy Baum, Daniel Abd Al- Hayy Moore, Indra Tamang, Sparrow, Ken Haponek, and Ron Loewinsohn. Featured art includes Max Ernst, Valentine Hugo, Victor Brauner, Raoul Ubac, Marcel Jean, Yves Tanguy, Andre Breton, Brion Gysin, Andy Warhol, Jack Micheline, Ronnie Burk, and Robert LaVigne among others.

Volume 32, No. 3 of "Nexus," an Allen Ginsberg memorial issue, was reviewed in "The American Book Review." Volume 33, No. 3 was placed in The Henry Miller Memorial Library in Big Sur, California, and the “Moroccan issue” (Vol. 33, No. 2) was included in an exhibit of North African writing at the L’Institut du Monde Arabe, in Paris, France and then placed in their permanent collection.

www.milkmag.org has featured poets such as Chris Glomski, Michael McClure, Robert Creeley, Ron Padgett, Cid Corman, Frank Lima, Bill Berkson, Janine Pommy Vega, Clayton Eshleman, Tom Clark, Sheila E. Murphy, Tony Towle, Jerome Rothenberg, Frank Kuenstler, Spencer Selby, Mike Topp, Linh Dinh, thurston moore, Hoa Nguyen, Todd Colby, Anselm Berrigan, Louis Armand, George Wallace, kari edwards, Brenda Iijima, Yana Payusova, Mirela Ramona Ciupag, and Ron Silliman.

Sawyer’s publications (poetry and critical reviews) include the "Chicago Tribune, Vanitas, MiPOesias, Exquisite Corpse", "The Miami Sun Post, The Prague Literary Review, Van Gogh’s Ear" (Paris), "Outlaw" (UK), "Paper Tiger" (Australia), "Tabacaria" (Portugal), "Versal" (Holland), "Big Bridge, Moria, Mad Love, Court Green, Pitchfork, Coconut, 88, Arson, HUNGER, Ygdrasil, Skanky Possum", "LocusPoint, Jacket" (Australia), "Readme, Aught", "The Butcher’s Block", "NY Arts Magazine, 5_Trope, Shampoo, WORD/ for Word, RANGE, Loop, Snow Monkey", "La Petite Zine, ambulant, Eildon Tree" (Scotland), "Poems-For-All, Tin Lustre Mobile", and "The East Village," among others. His chapbook "Tyrannosaurus Ant" was recently included in the Yale Collection of American Literature.

Chapbooks: "Poems for Peace" (Structum Press); "A Chaise Lounge in Hell" (aboveground press, Ontario, Canada), "Tyrannosaurus Ant" (mother’s milk press), and "Disharmonium" (SilverWonderPress)

Anthologies: "The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for a New Century" (Cracked Slab Books); "Shamanic Warriors Now Poets" (Scotland, JN Reilly, ed.).

Sawyer is also the curator of the Myopic Books Poetry Series at Myopic Books in Wicker Park, Chicago. His blog is http://www.larrysawyer.blogspot.com.

External links

* http://www.woodlandpattern.org/poems/larry_sawyer01.shtml
* http://www.miamisunpost.com/archives/2004/07-01-04/madlove-plaintext.htm
* http://www.shampoopoetry.com/ShampooFifteen/sawyer.html
* http://www.mipoesias.com/Poetry/sawyer_larry.html