Christian Hawkey

Christian Hawkey (* 1969 in Hackensack , New Jersey ) is an American poet , translator , editor and professor.

Life

Hawkey studied at the University of Massachusetts Amherst , where he also founded the poetry magazine jubilat and published the first ten issues . He is a professor at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn , New York City (English Department, Writing for Publication, Performance, Media Program). In 2008 he was a guest of the DAAD artist program in Berlin. In 2012 he founded The Office of Recuperative Strategies (OoRS) with Rachel Levitsky .

He is the author of several volumes of poetry, including Sonne from Ort , Ventrakl, Citizen Of , The Book of Funnels and various Chapbooks . A selection from his poetry volumes Citizen Of and The Book of Funnels has been translated into German by Steffen Popp and Uljana Wolf ( Reisen in Ziegen Speed , kookbooks , Berlin 2007), and individual poems have also been translated into numerous other languages. He himself translated poems by the German poets Daniel Falb , Sabine Scho and Steffen Popp, as well as texts by Ilse Aichinger .

Hawkey lives in New York City and Berlin. He is married to the German poet and translator Uljana Wolf.

Works

Individual publications

• Sonne from Ort , (with Uljana Wolf), Kookbooks, 2012.
• Ventrakl . Ugly Duckling Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-933254-64-7 .
• Citizen Of . Wave Books, 2007, ISBN 978-1-933517-16-2 .
• The Book of Funnels . Wave Books, 2004, ISBN 978-0-9723487-9-9 .

Chapbooks

• Sonnets with an Elizabethan mole , translated into German by Uljana Wolf, hochroth Verlag, Berlin, 2010.
• Petitions for an Alien Relative . Hand Held Editions , 2010.
• Ulf . Factory Hollow Press , 2010.
• HourHour , Drawings Ryan Mrozowski, Delirium Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-9737950-2-8 .

Web links

• First-book interviews with Kate Greenstreet at kinking wind (Engl.)
• Wave Books author page
• Berlin artist program DAAD
• Office of Recuperative Strategies
• Pennsound author page (eng)
• Videos from Christian Hawkey at Poetry International
• Lyrikline author page

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://oors.net/
2. ↑ Review of Sonne from Ort in Body Literature (eng)
3. ↑ Review of Ventrakl in Jacket 2 (eng)
4. ↑ Review of Ventrakl in Bookforum (eng)
5. ↑ Review by Ventrakl in The Constant Critic (eng)