Joe Bonomo
Joe Bonomo is an American essayist, poet, and rock and roll writer.
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[edit] Life
Bonomo grew up in Wheaton, Maryland and graduated from University of Maryland (BA) and Ohio University (MA and PhD).[1][2] Since 1995 he has taught writing creative nonfiction and literature at Northern Illinois University.[3] His books include Conversations With Greil Marcus (Literary Conversations Series, forthcoming in 2012), Highway to Hell (33 1/3 Series, 2010), Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and Found (2009), Installations (National Poetry Series, 2008), and Sweat: The Story of The Fleshtones, America’s Garage Band (2007).
His essays and prose poems have appeared in Creative Nonfiction, The Normal School, Fourth Genre, Brevity, Defunct, Hotel Amerika, Diagram,[4] Free Verse,[5] Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, Laurel Review,[6] Quarter After Eight, River Teeth,[7] Seneca Review,[8] Sentence, and elsewhere.
He lives along with his wife, Amy Newman, a professor and poet in DeKalb, Illinois.[9]
[edit] Books
- Conversations With Greil Marcus (Literary Conversations Series, University Press of Mississippi, 2012)
- AC/DC's Highway to Hell (33 1/3 Series, Continuum Intl Pub Group, 2010)
- Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and Found (Continuum Intl Pub Group, 2009)
- Installations (National Poetry Series, Penguin Books, 2008)
- Sweat: The Story of the Fleshtones, America's Garage Band (Continuum, 2007; Camion Blanc, 2012)
- Vanishings from That Neighborhood (Kent State University Press, 1996) (Chapbook)
[edit] Awards
- 2007 National Poetry Series
- Wick Poetry Chapbook Competition
- Illinois Arts Council Fellowships
- Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Instruction (Northern Illinois University)
[edit] External links
- Author's website, No Such Thing As Was
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.english.ohiou.edu/alumni/alumni_page/joe_bonomo/
- ^ http://www.english.ohiou.edu/grad/published_titles/
- ^ http://www.niu.edu/PubAffairs/RELEASES/2008/june/bonomo.shtml
- ^ http://thediagram.com/6_4/bios.html
- ^ http://sites.google.com/site/jacket-notes/Home/recent-books/freeverse16
- ^ http://catpages.nwmissouri.edu/m/tlr/laurel/vol40no1.html
- ^ http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/river_teeth/v006/6.2contributors.pdf
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=xfNZAAAAMAAJ&q=Joe+Bonomo+poet&dq=Joe+Bonomo+poet&client=firefox-a
- ^ http://www.pw.org/content/joe_bonomo
