James Meetze
James Meetze (born November 26, 1977) /mɛts/ is an American poet. The author of three books, including Phantom Hour and Dayglo, selected by Terrance Hayes as the winner of the 2010 Sawtooth Poetry Prize, he is the recipient of the 2001 Poet Laureate Award from the University of California. In addition to his full-length collections, Meetze is the author of the chapbooks Serenades (Cy Press, 2003), Instrument (Sea.Lamb.Press., 2004), It's Overhead (Fashionably Pressed, 2007), and Dark Art I-XII (Manor House, 2013). Meetze is editor, with Simon Pettet, of Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems by James Schuyler (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010) and author, with Adam Deutsch, of the textbook, Transcending Genre: An Introduction to the Elements of Creative Writing (Bridgepoint Education, 2015)
Having taught literature and creative writing at University of California, San Diego, California State University, San Marcos, and in the MFA program at National University, Meetze is a professor of creative writing and film studies at Ashford University.[1]
In 2002, Meetze founded the small press Tougher Disguises, which has published experimental poets such as Peter Gizzi, Clark Coolidge, and K. Silem Mohammad.
References
- University of California, San Diego: James Meetze
- Village Voice (June 4 - 10, 2003): Six Degrees of Sexual Frustration: Connecting the Dates with Friendster.com, by William O'Shea
- Biased Cub Report from Oakland on the New Brutalism and Poetry Blogging
- Poem by Meetze in The Modern Review