Standard Schaefer
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Standard Schaefer (born 1971) is an American poet.
Life
[edit]Standard grew up in Houston, Texas. He graduated from the Kinkaid School of Houston in 1990, and after high school he attended Occidental College, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1994, and continued his studies at the University of California obtaining a master's in Professional Writing in 1998.[citation needed]
He is an independent journalist, a free-lance writer, and a contributor to CounterPunch. His first book, Nova, was selected for the National Poetry Series in 1999 and published by Sun and Moon Books. His second book, Water & Power, was published by Agincourt Books. His poetry and criticism have appeared in several U.S. anthologies, and two international ones.[citation needed]
He taught at Otis College and after living in San Francisco, California, Standard and his wife moved to Portland, Oregon.[citation needed]
His work appears in Boston Review, The New Review of Literature, The Washington Review, Aufgabe, Interim, Fence, Rain Taxi, New American Writing, Fence, Non, Ribot, X-Connect, Epoch, and Rosebud. He co-edited the literary journals Rhizome with Evan Calbi and Ribot with Paul Vangelisti. He is the non-fiction editor of The New Review of Literature.[citation needed]
He and his wife live in Portland, Oregon, where he is working on a master's degree in Media Studies.[1]
Awards
[edit]- 1999 National Poetry Series, for Nova[citation needed]
Works
[edit]- "Regression to Mean: An Elegy for New Orleans", Slope #22, Fall/Winter 2005
- "GALVESTON"; "RED HEADED STRANGER"; "AUGUST 21, 1971"; "PINE"; "OCCIDENTAL", Fence, Volume 2
- "REAGAN IS DEAD"; "MY STINT IN THE ACLU", Octopus Magazine
- "from nova suite, iv, part 6", Cross Connect
- "The Birds Sing to Plato"; "Socrates (A Hasty Reply)"; "Upon Entering"; "Aristotle in the Thinkery"; "The Boy in the Back of the Room or The Young Paremenides"; "At the Registrar"; "The Birds Sing to the Boy"; "The Boy at the Back of the Room Sings to the Birds"; "Aristophanes to Aristotle: Concerning First Books Or How I Think We Met "; "Aristophanes"; "A Few Words from Parmenides", Gut Cult, Issue 6
- Nova. Sun & Moon Press. 2001. ISBN 978-1-55713-404-2.
- Water and Power. Agincourt Press. 2005. ISBN 978-1-56886-107-4.
Criticism
[edit]- "Ropes of Light", Jacket 32, April 2007
- Edward Foster; Joseph Donahue, eds. (2002-01-01). "The World in Time and Space". Talisman. Talisman House. ISSN 0898-8684.
Edited
[edit]- Leslie Scalapino (2000). Paul Vangelisti; Standard Schaefer (eds.). Ribot Music. Sun & Moon Press. ISBN 978-1-928801-00-9.
- Embarrassment of Survival: Selected Poems 1970-2000. Marsillio. 2001. ISBN 978-1-56886-101-2.
References
[edit]- ^ "Standard Schaefer". contemporarylit.about.com. Archived from the original on 2005-09-18.