Anthony McCann

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Anthony McCann was born and raised in the Hudson Valley. He is the author of I ♥ Your Fate (Wave Books, 2011), Moongarden (Wave Books, 2006) and Father of Noise (Fence Books, 2003). In addition to these three collections, he is one of the authors of Gentle Reader! (2007), a book of erasures of the English Romantics, along with Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer. He has taught English as a Second Language in the former Czechoslovakia, South Korea and Nicaragua, as well as in New York City. Currently he lives in Los Angeles, where he works with Machine Project and teaches in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts.
Reviews
McCann demonstrates that the truth surrounds us all; our best way of connecting with it is through compassion and love. With equal parts exuberance and dread, the speaker encourages us to “waste the whole day feeling these things.” —Nate Pritts, Boston Review

For McCann, a poem is a thing capable of astonishing a reader, as well as a thing able to represent the astonishment of its speaker. As a result, speaker and reader alike are willing to remain in the position of observers of beauty, both of objects and the language which colors them. —Jennifer Moore, Another Chicago Magazine

You might not “get” exactly what he is saying but you will feel what he is meaning. You will be moved by something pre-historic and radiant. Which is to say: you will be moved by this mysterious, lyric, ecstatic thing: poetry. —Matthew Dickman, Tin House

Reviews of books by Anthony McCann

I ♥ Your Fate

Moongarden
Poems
- Two poems, five more poems, and a poetics statement with seven poems (in H_NGM_N)
- Four poems (in The Brooklyn Rail)
- “Los Lectores Pueden Poner El Título Que Quieran a Este Poema” (at Poets.org)
- “Woe to the Wildebeest, Whose Flesh Is to Be Torn” (in Verse Daily)
- Three poems (on BOMBlog)

Interviews and Discussions
- Fanzine, with Andrew James Weatherhead
- Anthony McCann and Matthew Rohrer interview each other at Studio One

Articles
- “Open Door” article about Ljubljana for The Poetry Foundation
- Anthony McCann reading from I ♥ Your Fate:

Recorded for (Huffington Post)
- Reading for Jupiter88
- Podcast interview for LA-Lit
- No Slander Podcast
No readings are scheduled at this time.