Laverne Frith
Member, Reviewer Panel @New York Journal Of Books
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WORK HISTORY
Member, Reviewer Panel @New York Journal Of Books
The Oldest Word for Dawn, Brad Leithauser, KnopfLandscape with Yellow Birds, Jose Angel Valente, ArchipelagoMetaphysical Dog, Frank Bidart, Farrar, Straus & GirouxBelmont, Stephen Burt, GraywolfEiko & Koma, Forrest Gander, New DirectionsThe Beautiful Contradictions, Nathaniel Tarn, New DirectionsA Musical Hell, Alejandra Pizarnik, New DirectionsVale Ave, H.D, New DirectionsNothing by Design, Mary Jo Salter, KnopfQuestions About God, Stephen Perry, Humanist PressO, What a Luxury, Garrison Keillor, Grove PressColaterales/Collateral, Dinapiera Di Donato, Akashic PressThe Traveling Queen, Michael Collins, Sheepmeadow PressJump Soul, Charlie Smith, W.W. NortonPlundered Hearts, J.D. McClatchy, KnopfLight within the Shade, Syracuse University PressBlue Horses, Mary Oliver, The Penguin Press HCFrom the New World, Jorie Graham, Ecco PressBlue Fasa, Nathaniel Mackey, New DirectionsAlone and Not Alone, Ron Padgett, Coffee House PressThe Pawnbroker\'s Daughter, Maxine Kumin, W.W. Norton & Co.Reconnaissance: Poems, Carl Phillips, Farrar, Straus and GirouxSentences and Rain, Elaine Equi, Coffee House PressEmblems of the Passing World, Adam Kirsch, Other PressXX: Poems for the Twentieth Century, Campbell McGrath, Ecco PressShallCross, C.D. Wright, Copper Canyon PressThe Laughter of the Sphinx, Michael Palmer, New DirectionsDisinheritance: Poems, John Sibley Williams, Apprentice HouseThe Last Shift, Philip Levine, KnopfFast: Poems, Jorie Graham, EccoScribbled in the Dark, Charles Simic, EccoEarly Hour, Michael McGriff, Copper CanyonThe Surveyors: Poems, Mary Jo Salter, KnopfOrdinary Beast: Poems, Nicole Sealey, EccoStorm for the Living and the Dead, Charles Bukowski, Ecco4:30 Movie, Donna Masini, W.W.NortonA Memory of the Future: Poems, Elizabeth Spires, W.W. NortonThings as It Is, Chase Twichell, Copper Canyon PressDear Delinquent, Ann Townsend, Sarabande Books
EDUCATION
University of Denver (honors scholarship), San Francisco City College, San Francisco State University
Graduate and Post-graduate work
SKILLS
ABOUT LAVERNE FRITH
I am founder and proprietor of Frith Press (1995) and founder, co-editor and publisher of Ekphrasis (1997), the premier journal of ekphrastic poetry, in which each poem focuses on a single work of art. Ekphrasis is grantor of the annual Ekphrasis Prize in poetry. I am also a member of the Reviewer Panel, New York Journal of Books. I was the monthly poetry columnist for a widely circulated Northern-California magazine entitled \"Living in the West\" from 1996 through 2014. My columns addressed a wide variety of poetry subjects, providing encouragement to a diverse audience for the appreciation of poetry, as well as furnishing guidance on poetry-writing subjects and techniques. Conductor of poetry workshops on various topics, including the writing of lyric poetry, French forms, and short poetry forms. I conduct special workshops on preparing chapbook and other manuscripts for the competitive marketplace.
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