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Gerald
Locklin is now a Lecturer in the Master of Professional Writing
Program at the University of Southern California and a Professor
Emeritus of English at California State University, Long Beach, where
he taught from 1965 through 2007. He is the author of over
125 books
and chapbooks or poetry, fiction, and criticism, with over 3000 poems,
stories, articles, reviews, and interviews published in
periodicals.
His
most recent books and chapbooks include The Cezanne/Pissarro Poems and
the forthcoming Gerald Locklin: New and Selected Poems, from World
Parade Books; New Orleans, Chicago, and Points Elsewhere, from R)v
Press; Wedlock Sunday and Other Poems (Liquid Paper Press/Nerve Cowboy
Magazine); The Hotel Ristorante (Bottle of Smoke Press) and The San
Antonio, Savannah, and Daytona Beach Poems (Pitchfork Press). His
full-length books from Water Row Press include Candy Bars:
Selected
Stories; The Life Force Poems; Go West, Young Toad: Selected
Writings;
The Pocket Book: A Novella and Nineteen Short Fictions; and
Charles
Bukowski: A Sure Bet. An Italian edition
of his novel Down and Out
(Event Horizon Press) has been published by Leconte Publishers in Rome
as Piu Morto che Vivo, as well as Charles Bukowski: A Botte
Sicuro.
Other titles from EH include The Firebird Poems; Three Mid-Century
Tales; Hemingway Colloquium: The Poet Goes to Cuba; and The
First Time
He Saw Paris (in Two Novellas, with Donna Hilbert). A series
of annual
dos-a-dos jazz chapbooks, with Mark Weber, are available from Zerx
Press (Albuquerque, NM), most recently Thank You, Dave: A
Brubeck
Tribute.
His writings
are archived and indexed by the Special
Collections of the CSULB library. Many early and rare works
are
available from Water Row Books, amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com,
borders.com, and on eBay and other sites. He has resumed
(with his
son, Zachary Locklin) co-editing the poetry for the Chiron Review and
will serve as fiction editor of Shaya magazine.
He is listed
in the usual literary directories. He publishes regularly in
5:00 AM,
Ambit (London), Tears in the Fence (Dorset), Poetry International, New
York Quarterly, Nerve Cowboy, Slipstream, Freefall, Coagula Art
Journal, and many other periodicals. He is available for
readings,
workshops, festivals (fees negotiable). You may find out more here |
