How does she do it?
-Eileen Myles
Hungry for the redemptive and the beautiful, after having experienced all that is contrary -Jacket
Thought-provoking, inspired and unexpected. Highly recommended
- After Ellen
Shamanistic- Annie Finch
Anything can happen next but whatever it is, it will be perfect
- Franz Wright
A mastery of language, a distinct and singular voice- Noelle Kocot
Who is that Tko je ta Ana Bozicevic
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Well, I was born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1977, spent my childhood in Zadar, and emigrated to New York in 1997. A lot happened among the spaces of that sentence. My first book of poems is Stars of the Night Commute (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2009), a Lambda Literary Award in Poetry finalist. With Amy King, I co-edit the journal esque and the PEN Poetry Series , and live on the Long Island Sound.
More? I received my MFA in Poetry from Hunter College, and I work and study at The Graduate Center, CUNY, where, among other poetry ventures, I helped launch the Annual Chapbook Festival , and Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative . Among other cool things that happened in the past year, I gave the keynote at the Atlanta Queer Literary Festival , and was honored by the Feminist Press in their 40 Under 40: The Future of Feminism Gala. In 2011, I also visited the University of Arizona Poetry Center, and taught (with Amy) in the Summer Writing Program at Naropa University. Our course was called The Trans Cyborg .
Recently, a new chapbook War on a Lunchbreak came out from Belladonna*, featuring work from my new manuscript. I've been translating a lot; my translation of the Serbian poet Zvonko Karanović just received a NYSCA grant, and, with Željko Mitić, I edited The Day Lady Gaga Died: an Anthology of NYC Poetry of the 21st Century (in Serbian, Peti talas/The Fifth Wave, 2011). I also edited a lecture by Diane di Prima, called Mysteries of Vision: Some Notes on H.D. , which appeared in Volume II of Lost&Found .
More? Here are some interviews & essays you can read online:
A Working Poet's Manifesto
"For me, to write is no longer enough" - interview with Rob McLennan, also on Poetry Foundation
"Same Difference" in Evening Will Come
Best Books in the World Are Written by My Friends
Q&A: American Poetry, for Poetry Society of America
Interview in 3:AM Magazine
Imaginative Interview
Interview on wasabix.com Italy
Interview on kulturpunkt.hr (in Croatian)
Interview in Slobodna Dalmacija (in Croatian)
A few words on reading
What did she write
With Željko Mitić , edited The Day Lady Gaga Died: an Anthology of NYC Poetry of the 21st Century (in Serbian, Peti talas/The Fifth Wave, 2011).
Annotated and introduced Diane di Prima's lecture for Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative . Read an interview with the Poetry Foundation .
A Megaphone, Some Enactments, Some Numbers, and Some Essays about the Continued Usefulness of Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism, eds. Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young ( ChainLinks , 2011): editor and translator of Croatian poets’
A limited-edition chapbook from the Dusie Kollektiv ; available also as a PDF .
Read a review in Galatea Resurrects .
God, Sebastian, Amy: A sold-out chapbook from Flying Guillotine Press .
Read Farrah Field's review & hear her read a poem.
A sold-out chapbook from Octopus Books . Read reviews in Word For/Word , Jacket , CutBank , Tarpaulin Sky , Galatea Resurrects , & Transversal Inflections .
A sold-out chapbook from Kitchen Press. Read reviews in H_NGM_N and on the DIY Poetry Publishing Cooperative site.
Stars of the Night Commute
2010 Lambda Award Finalist for Poetry
"Shamanistic"— -Annie Finch; "A mastery of language, a distinct and singular voice"— -Noelle Kocot; "How does she do it?"— -Eileen Myles; "Anything can happen next but whatever it is, it will be perfect"— -Franz Wright; "Hungry for the redemptive and the beautiful, after having experienced all that is contrary"— -Jacket; "Thought-provoking, inspired and unexpected. Highly recommended"— -After Ellen.
To order Stars from the publisher (recommended!) and read more praise, visit the Tarpaulin Sky Press website. You can also order the book via Small Press Distribution or on amazon.com.
Read reviews:
Women's Review of Books
Ekleksographia
HTML GIANT
Verse
Jacket
The Rumpus
Transversal Inflections
University of Arizona Poetry Center
afterellen.com
Tower Journal
Novi list/Moderna vremena (in Croatian)
Where can I read her
Leveler , Poem
Barrelhouse , Anxiety of Influence, About Nietzsche, The Thicket
Occupy Writers , When The Dead Sing Out
EOAGH, War on a Lunchbreak & A Poem for You
Elective Affinities, The Curse & a mini-festo
Academy of American Poets, poem-a-day, Death, Is All
Loaded Bicycle , two poems
Octopus Magazine , translations of Zvonko Karanović
3:AM Magazine , six-poem sampler
Tarpaulin Sky , Children's Lit, The Mystery of the Seagulls
The Poetry Foundation , A Kind of Headless Guilt Emerges; God is President, She’'s the Rose of the World; Swan; The Sleep of the Tuba-Player. Audio here .
The Awl , Rise in the Fall, The Day Lady Gaga Died
Poets for Living Waters , Beyond petroleum
knjizevnost.org , a selection of poems translated into Serbian
Otoliths Poet-Editors issue, About Mayakovsky
Harp & Altar , four poems from Depth Hoar
horse less review , Controlling the Weather, How Are You Feeling, Merry Xmas in Heaven. About these poems.
SoandSo Magazine , About a Fish, Midnight Oil, PastOral
Free Verse , Paris Pride Parade
Fogged Clarity , Early Duet
The Raleigh Quarterly , poems from Fossil Travel
Ekleksographia , translations of Dorta Jagić
sixth finch , For My Dead Dog, The Stars That Come Before the Night vi
wheelhouse , Intervals of Please; The Stars That Come Before the Night i - v & vii; God Is President, She's
the Rose of the World
fou , Some Occurrences on the 7:18 to Penn VII & VIII
absent , Emoticon
typo , Some Occurrences on the 7:18 to Penn I-VI
Best American Poetry blog, Flatworld
Octopus Magazine , five poems from Document
In print, find my poems in journals such as Bombay Gin , Fence, Hotel Amerika , Forklift Ohio , Denver Quarterly , and many others, and in translation in Poezija , Koraci , Kvartal and Ulaznica . Reviews I wrote have appeared in Mantis , Tarpaulin Sky , and Boog City . Translations of Zvonko Karanović have appeared in Spinning Jenny and Denver Quarterly .
Where can I see her
Click here for a reading at the University of Arizona Poetry Center.
Click here for a reading in the New York Botanical Garden.
Upcoming
2/18/12
Upstairs at Erika's
with Amy King
Brooklyn, NY
3/1/12
Litmag to Chapbook Press : Championing the Handmade in the Digital Morass
panel with Martin Rock, Anna Moschovakis, Nate Pritts & Ben Fama
AWP conference, Chicago, IL
Bloom presents Divining Divas
Rehab Cocktail Lounge
Chicago, IL
3/17/12
Apostrophes, Odes, Ekphrasis, Oh My!
panel with Amy King
NEMLA conference , Rochester, NY
3/30/12
Fireside Follies
4/14/12
Whenever We Feel Like It
with Betsy Wheeler and Amy King
Philadelphia, PA
Recent
2/10/12
Moonshot Magazine reading
With Kendra Grant Malone & others
1/21/12
Minor American reading series
Duke University, NC
1/1/12
New Year's Day Reading
Poetry Project, Manhattan
10/19/11
Screening of The Poetry Deal: a Film with Diane di Prima. Reading with Ammiel Alcalay and Rachel Levitsky
Unnameable Books, Brooklyn
10/13/11
Collective Brightness Anthology Reading
6:30p, Metropolitan Community Church, NYC
10/11/11
Conversation with Dubravka Ugresic
7p, St. Marks Books, NYC
9/24/11
6:00 p.m.
100 Thousand Poets for Change
Mark Bibbins, Amy King, Ana Božičević, Brenda Iijima, D. Nurkse and others
9/13/11
Belladonna* launch event: "Our Material Lives," with Caroline Crumpacker and a Diane di Prima film premiere.
Dixon Place, NY
7/28/11
7:30 p.m.
20th Annual Dixon Place HOT! Festival
7/14/11
6:30 p.m.
Academy of American Poets presents Poetry from the Rooftops
Ana Božičević, Jennifer Chang & CA Conrad
The Arsenal Building at Central Park, 64th Street at 5th Avenue, New York, NY
6/16/11
Naropa University Faculty Reading
Bhanu Kapil, Ana Božičević, Rob Halpern,
giovanni singleton, Erica Kaufman
6/12-19/11
Naropa University Summer Writing Program 2011, lecturer (with Amy King) in the course The Trans Cyborg during the week themed "Gender & Hybridity, and Should We Consider the Cyborg?"
5/12/11
Adelphi University, NY, class visit and reading
4/20/11
Slippery Rock University, PA, class visit and reading
3/9/11
Tendencies: Poetics and Practice, with Christopher Nealon, Gregory Laynor & Astrid Lorange, The Skylight Room, CUNY Graduate Center, New York NY
2/24-5/11
University of Arizona Poetry Center, AZ,
class visit and reading
with Kazim Ali
2/5/11
AWP Gulf Tolls reading, with Brenda Hillman, Anne Waldman & others, Washington DC
©Ana Božičević 2010
