In response to jvk's:
>oh, as there are many new list members (and about twenty sitting on the old
>poetryetc files waiting to be transferred), i'd like to invite people to
>submit a couple of poems each, a bio, and a personal statement or poetics.
>if you've done so before and feel like 'updating', feel free.
below is a text-only version of my literary resume. I'll post a couple of
poems and my poetic credo in separate emails. This latter material has been
posted to previous versions of this list.
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Jon Corelis was born in California and grew up in and around Chicago, where
he earned a degree in Classical Languages and Literatures at the College of
the University of Chicago. He later took a doctorate in Classics at
Stanford, and taught Classics and Humanities at Stanford, the University of
California, and the University of Minnesota. He now works as a software
specialist in California's Silicon Valley.
His poetry, criticism, and reviews have been published in Chapman
(Edinburgh), The Dark Horse (Ayrshire, Scotland and Hastings on Hudson, New
York), Acumen (Brixham, England), The Poet's Voice (Bath), Clark Street
Review (San Luis Obispo, California), Equinox (Herne Bay, England), Grey
Matter (Newcastle-upon-Tyne), and The Phoenix (Chicago), and in the on line
literary magazines Isibongo (University of Capetown), Lynx (Bath), and The
Poetry Kit (New Malden, England), as well as appearing in the book length
collections A Glass of New Made Wine (Salzburg , Poetry Salzburg, 1999),
Poetry Now: Contemporary British and Irish Poetry in the Making (Tübingen,
Stauffenburg Verlag, 1999), and Summoning the sea: an anthology of
contemporary poetry and prose (Salzburg , University of Salzburg, 1996). He
also has verse forthcoming in Tundra (Foster City, California). He has
given poetry readings and lectures by invitation at conferences in Salzburg,
Austria, and Cromford, England. His Roman Erotic Elegy, a book length
anthology of translations from the Latin, was published in 1995 by the
University of Salzburg Press.
In addition to his literary work, he has published pieces on San Francisco
history in The San Francisco Examiner, travel in Great Expeditions, and
social psychology in The Journal of Psychohistory.
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