Geoffrey Gatza
Geoffrey C. Gatza (born 1970) is an award-winning American poet and editor and the publisher of BlazeVOX [books], an independent press based in Buffalo, New York.[1]
Early life and education
Gatza grew up in Kenmore in Erie County, New York and attended three schools in the Kenmore-Town of Tonawanda School District: Jane Addams Elementary School, Lindbergh Elementary School, Kenmore Middle School, and Kenmore West High School.[2]
He is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York and Daemen College in Amherst, New York.[3]
Personal life
Gatza resides in Kenmore, New York with his girlfriend Donna.[4][5]
Books
- House of Forgetting (2012)[6]
- Secrets of My Prison House (2010)[7]
- La Santa Muerte, the Saint of Death (2010)[8]
- Housecat Kung Fu: Strange Poems For Wild Children (2009)[9][10][11]
- Not So Fast Robespierre (2008)[12][13]
- E: Electron (with Deena Larsen) (2001)
The last of these books uses the periodic table of elements as the structure for a love story. As the story progresses, another "electron" of memory is added to the lives of the book's primary "elements."
References
- ^ Shivani, Anis (April 12, 2012). "National Poetry Month Feature: Geoffrey Gatza of BlazeVOX Talks About the NEA Ban on His Small Press". Huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved May 15, 2012.
- ^ Ed Adamczyk (February 24, 2008). "PUBLISHING: Kenmore native is a poet and entrepreneur". Tonawanda news.com. Retrieved May 15, 2012.
- ^ "Geoffrey C Gatza". US Search.com. Retrieved May 17, 2012.
- ^ Jane Kwiatkowski (March 28, 2010). "A conversation with poet Geoffrey Gatza". Buffalo News. Retrieved May 15, 2012.[dead link]
- ^ Geoffrey Gatza
- ^ House of Forgetting by Geoffrey Gatza
- ^ Secrets of My Prison House
- ^ SOL: English Writing in Mexico Geoffrey Gatza: Two Poems
- ^ Housecat Kung Fu: Strange Poems For Wild Children
- ^ Fink, Thomas (December 21, 2009). "HOUSECAT KUNG FU by GEOFFREY GATZA". galatearesurrection13.blogspot.com. Retrieved May 17, 2012.
- ^ Jeffrey Cyphers Wright (May 2010). "RAPID TRANSIT". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved May 17, 2012.
- ^ Geoffrey Gatza
- ^ A Lisping Ignatius / The Sincere, The Flarf, and The Voice of Place: A reading of Geoffrey Gatza’s Not So Fast Robespierre