Ben Lerner
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Ben Lerner (born February 4, 1979) is an American poet.
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[edit] Life
Born and raised in Topeka, Kansas, Lerner is a 1997 graduate of Topeka High School.[1] From 1997-2001 he attended Brown University, where he earned a B.A. in Political Theory. From 2001-2003 he completed that university's MFA program, where he wrote the thesis that would become his first book, The Lichtenberg Figures. In 2003 he traveled on a Fulbright Scholarship to Madrid, Spain. Lerner currently lives in Berkeley, California.
[edit] Works
In 2003 Copper Canyon Press awarded its Hayden Carruth prize to Lerner's cycle of 52 loose "sonnets," The Lichtenberg Figures. In 2004 Library Journal named The Lichtenberg Figures one of the year's 12 best books of poetry.
While living in Madrid, Lerner wrote a second book containing a long sequence of prose poems as well as the poems "Begetting Stadia", "The Didactic Elegy", and "21 Gun Salute for Ronald Reagan". This book, Angle of Yaw, was published by Copper Canyon Press on October 1st, 2006.
Together with Deb Klowden, Lerner edits No: a Journal of the Arts, a magazine of poetry, art, and criticism.
His poetry also can be found in publications such as Denver Quarterly, Fence, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Threepenny Review, Slate and Verse.[1]
[edit] Awards
Lerner has recently been named a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award.[2]
[edit] External links
- Four poems from Angle of Yaw in Boston Review
- Three poems from Angle of Yaw in Jacket Magazine.
- Three poems from Angle of Yaw in Beloit Poetry Journal.
An excerpt from The Lichtenberg Figures in Ploughshares.
An excerpt from The Lichtenberg Figures in Slope.
- Poems in Fascicle.
- After the Ligthning Strike by Gilbert Wesley Purdy. A review of The Lichtenberg Figures.
The Lichtenberg Figures reviewed in Boston Review.
The Lichtenberg Figures reviewed in Rain Taxi.
The Lichtenberg Figures reviewed in 42opus
The Lichtenberg Figures reviewed in Jacket Magazine.
An essay treating Lerner in Postmodern Culture.
Lance Phillips' interview with Ben Lerner.
Lerner's review of a book by Rosmarie Waldrop in Jacket
Lerner's review of works by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge in Rain Taxi
[edit] References
- ^ a b [1]Look Smart Web site, reprint of article by Blankenship, Bill, "Young poet to read works at Washburn", The Topeka Capital-Journal, March 9, 2005, accessed October 31, 2006
- ^ National Book Award 2006
