Jan Schreiber
Jan Schreiber (born 1941) is an American poet, translator, and literary critic who has been part of the renascence of formal poetry that began in the late twentieth century. He is the author of five books of verse, two books of verse translation and one book of literary criticism. He was a co-founder of the literary magazine, ''Canto: Review of the Arts'', which flourished in the 1970s, and as a literary editor he launched the poetry chapbook series at the Godine Press. He is a recipient of the Carey Thomas Award for creative publishing.Born in Wisconsin, Schreiber attended Stanford University, where he received his BA, then earned an MA at the University of Toronto and a PhD at Brandeis University where he studied with the poet J.V. Cunningham. Although he taught for brief periods at [http://tufts.edu/ Tufts University] and Lowell Technological Institute (now the [http://www.uml.edu/ University of Massachusetts Lowell]), he spent most of his life as a researcher in the social sciences (founding the Social Science Research Institute) and a software entrepreneur (founding MicroSolve Corporation). As a poet, Schreiber has written mainly in traditional forms. Though most of his verse consists of short lyric poems, he is also known for sharp, satirical epigrams of the kind commonly associated with Cunningham, and he has produced a few longer works extending to some 150 lines.
Beginning in 2004 Schreiber began writing for the on-line journal Contemporary Poetry Review, for which he produced numerous critical articles, some on individual poets, some on influential critics and scholars, and some on the development of the poetic canon. Many of these essays later appeared in his book ''Sparring with the Sun.''
Examples of his work as a poet appear in the on-line anthologies [http://www.thehypertexts.com/ The Hypertexts] and [http://www.poemtree.com/ Poem Tree] and in ''Lay Bare the Canvas'', an anthology of poems about works of art. Seven of his poems were set to music by Paul Alan Levi in a song cycle for tenor and piano called ''Zeno's Arrow'', which has been performed in Massachusetts and New York.
Since 2010 Schreiber has been closely involved in the Symposium on Poetry Criticism, which he co-founded, originally held annually at Western State Colorado University as part of its [http://www.western.edu/academics/graduate-programs-western/graduate-program-creative-writing/writing-rockies Writing the Rockies] literary conference, and since 2020 convening virtually.
In 2015 he was named Poet Laureate for the town of [http://www.brooklinema.gov/ Brookline, Massachusetts]. He serves as advisory editor for [http://www.thinkjournal.org Think], a magazine of poetry, fiction, and essays. Provided by Wikipedia
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5by Changhong Li, Changhong Li, Jan Schreiber, Nora Bittner, Nora Bittner, Shumei Li, Ruiwang Huang, Susanne Moebus, Andreas Bauer, Andreas Bauer, Svenja Caspers, Svenja Caspers, Svenja Caspers, David ElmenhorstGet full text
Published 2020-11-01
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6by Martin Kocher, Christiane Jockwitz, Svenja Caspers, Jan Schreiber, Ezequiel Farrher, Gabriele Stoffels, Christian Filss, Philipp Lohmann, Caroline Tscherpel, Maximilian I. Ruge, Gereon R. Fink, Nadim J. Shah, Norbert Galldiks, Karl-Josef LangenGet full text
Published 2020-01-01
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7by Grégory Beaudet, Grégory Beaudet, Ami Tsuchida, Ami Tsuchida, Laurent Petit, Laurent Petit, Christophe Tzourio, Svenja Caspers, Svenja Caspers, Jan Schreiber, Zdenka Pausova, Zdenka Pausova, Yash Patel, Yash Patel, Tomas Paus, Tomas Paus, Reinhold Schmidt, Lukas Pirpamer, Perminder S. Sachdev, Perminder S. Sachdev, Henry Brodaty, Henry Brodaty, Nicole Kochan, Nicole Kochan, Julian Trollor, Julian Trollor, Wei Wen, Wei Wen, Nicola J. Armstrong, Ian J. Deary, Mark E. Bastin, Mark E. Bastin, Joanna M. Wardlaw, Joanna M. Wardlaw, Susana Munõz Maniega, Susana Munõz Maniega, A. Veronica Witte, Arno Villringer, Marco Duering, Stéphanie Debette, Stéphanie Debette, Stéphanie Debette, Bernard Mazoyer, Bernard MazoyerGet full text
Published 2020-05-01
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