Chris Gordon

Author's Bio

Chris Gordon is the editor of ant ant ant ant ant, a journal of contemporary haiku. His haiku, prose poems, and visual art have appeared in a number of anthologies and journals. He is currently the Behavioral Director of Oregon Supported Living Program in Eugene, Oregon.

Publications and Prizes

Anthologies:

Haiku 21: An Anthology of Contemporary English-Language Haiku (Modern Haiku Press, 2011), Montage: The Book (The Haiku Foundation, 2010), A New Resonance: Emerging Voices in English Language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 1999), Scream When You Burn (Incommunicado Press, 1998), Haiku World (Kodansha International, 1996)

Journals:

Antioch Review, Bellingham Review, eye-rhyme, Fence, Modern Haiku, Northwest Review, Portland Review, Roadrunner, Sentence, The Alembic, The Project for a New Mythology, Upstreet

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:

Supergods by Grant Morrison, My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk, Araki by Araki

Favorite Books:

The Light the Dead See; Fires; The White Goddess; Right under the big sky, I don't wear a hat; The Rings of Saturn; City Terrace: Field Manual; The Lice; The Left Hand of Darkness; The Martian Chronicles; The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge; White Noise.

Favorite Authors:

W.G. Sebald, Raymond Carver, Federico Garcia Lorca, Sesshu Foster, W.S. Merwin, Ray Bradbury, Grant Morrison, Ozaki Hosai, Arthur Rimbaud, Ursula K. Le Guin, William Stafford, Roland Barthes, Tomizawa Kakio, Alan Moore, Euripides, Jorge Luis Borges, Frank Stanford.

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Listing last updated: April 9, 2012

More Information

Listed as:

Poet

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Born in:

Toronto

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