John M. Bennett Interview by Dimthingshine

5/16/2018

This interview with poet John M. Bennett
by Dimthingshine
was originally published in Electronic Cottage Issue #5, January 1991

Editor's Note: Article originally re-published here at the EC website on May 8, 2018 in the EC Legacy Blog section. I have re-constructed it here on John's Personal Page by his request.

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JOHN M. BENNETT
OPENS HIS MOUTH

John M. Bennett has published over 400 books and chapbooks of poetry and other materials. He has published, exhibited
and performed his word art worldwide in thousands of publications and venues.

He was editor and publisher of LOST AND FOUND TIMES (1975-2005), and is Founding Curator of the Avant Writing
Collection at The Ohio State University Libraries.

Richard Kostelanetz has called him “the seminal American poet of my generation”.

His work, publications, and papers are collected in several major institutions, including Washington University
(St. Louis), SUNY Buffalo, The Ohio State University, The Museum of Modern Art, and other major libraries.
His PhD (UCLA 1970) is in Latin American Literature.

His latest books are:
- Select Poems, Poetry Hotel Press/Luna Bisonte Prods, 2016
- The World of Burning, Luna Bisonte Prods, 2017
- Poemas visuales, con
movimientos con ruidos con combinaciones (with Osvaldo Cibils), Deep White Sound, 2017
- The Sweating Lake
Luna Bisonte Prods, 2017
- Olas Cursis
Luna Bisonte Prods, 2018

John M. Bennett & Nguyen Đao Claude - 5 S/M/O/K/E JMB after Ivan Argüelles after JMB

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