Bill Yarrow

Author's Bio

I am a Professor of English at Joliet Junior College. I am the author of a volume of poems, POINTED SENTENCES (BlazeVOX, 2012) and two chapbooks, WRENCH (erbacce-press, 2009) and FOURTEEN (Naked Mannekin, 2011). I am also one of the poetry editors at THIS Literary Magazine.

Publications and Prizes

Books:

POINTED SENTENCES (BlazeVOX, 2012)

Chapbooks:

Incompetent Translations and Inept Haiku (Cervena Barva Press, 2013), Twenty (MadHat Press, 2013), WRENCH (erbacce-press, 2009)

Journals:

A-Minor Magazine, After Hours, Angelic Dynamo, Antigonish Review, Arsenic Lobster, Atticus Review, Berkeley Poets Co-op, BLIP, blossombones, Blue Fifth Review, Cabaret Voltage Online, Camroc Press Review, Central Park, Children Churches & Daddies, Confrontation, Connotation Press, Contrary, Counterexample Poetics, Del Sol Review, Diagram, Ditch, DuPage Arts Life, Erbacce, Everyday Genius, Exact Change Only, fwriction : review, Gloom Cupboard, Hayotzer, In the Red, Istanbul Literary Review, Lady Jane's Miscellany, Literary Orphans, Literary Review, Litsnack, Lost In Thought, Mad Hatters Review, Magma, Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism & Translation, Many Mountains Moving, Metazen, Midstream, Moria, Muse Apprentice Guild, Negative Suck, New Aesthetic, Now Culture, Orange Room Review, Otoliths, OVS Magazine, Pank, Pif Magazine, Poem, Poetry International, Prick of the Spindle, Ramshackle Review, Reprint Poetry, RHINO, right hand pointing, Rio Grande Review, scissors and spackle, Short, Fast and Deadly, The Balloon, The Centrifugal Eye, The Jewish Journal, THIS Literary Magazine, THRUSH Poetry Journal, Thunderclap! Magazine, twenty20 Journal, Up The Staircase, Used Furniture Review, Van Gogh's Ear, Whale Sound, Wilderness House Literary Review

Prizes:

“After the Shark” nominated for a 1982 Pushcart Prize by Central Park and cited as an Outstanding Poem in Pushcart Prize VIII: Best of the Small Presses, 1984.
Academy of American Poets Competition, First Prize, Swarthmore College, 1973.
Academy of American Poets competition, First Prize, Judge: Mark Strand, Swarthmore College, 1971.

Bill Yarrow Resume

Personal Favorites

Favorite Books:

Letters of Gustave Flaubert, Letters of Raymond Chandler, Letters of Edward Dahlberg, Letters of Henry Miller, Letters of James Boswell, Letters of Samuel Johnson, Letters of Lord Byron, Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Manifestos of Tristan Tzara, Manifestos of Tommaso Marinetti,

Favorite Authors:

Babel, Beckett, Boswell, Huidobro, Johnson, Krafft-Ebing, Peacock, Rabelais, Smart.

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Listing last updated: May 12, 2013

More Information

Listed as:

Poet

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Born in:

Philadelphia, PA

Raised in:

Philadelphia, PA

June 28, 2013
RHINO Reads! (Reading)
Evanston, IL
July 12, 2013
Poetry's Love Letter (Reading)
Chicago, IL

Reviews, Recordings, and Interviews