Department of English

Name: Andrew Levy

Education:

BA at Indiana University; Apprenticeship with Allan Ginsberg at Naropa Institute; PhD at SUNY-StonyBrook

Courses I Teach:

Introduction to Journalism; Introduction to Literature; English Composition; Creative Writing – Poetry

Teaching philosophy:

Writing is social, asks questions of and for differing communities, is theoretical and political, as well as an aesthetic practice. My interest in any course I teach is to facilitate the interests and strengths of the students rather than promote an agenda, stylistic or other, of my own invention. The pedagogical emphasis is toward the collaborative and improvisational. I also feel that humor is often the best guide to changing perceptions.

Research Interests:

American Journalism & Media Reform, American Poetry; 13th Century Persian Poetry; Literary Criticism/Philosophy; Aesthetic Theory; Politics

Publications and Activities:

Books

Billy Dale Shoots to Kill (Tucson, AZ: Chax Books, 2009)
Memories of My Father (Asheville, NC: Innerer Klang, 2008)
The Big Melt (New York, NY: The Factory School, 2007)
Scratch Space ( Buffalo, NY: Cuneiform Press, 2004)
Ashoka (Canary Islands, Spain: Zasterle Press, 2002)
Paper Head Last Lyrics ( New York, NY: Roof Books, 2000)
Elephant Surveillance to Thought (Buffalo, NY: Meow Press, 1998)
Curve 2 (Elmwood, CT: Potes & Poets Press, 1997)
Curve (Oakland, CA: O Books, 1994)
Democracy Assemblages (Charlestown, MA: Innerer Klang, 1990)
Values Chauffeur You (Oakland, CA: O Books, 1990)
Between Poems (Charlestown, MA: Innerer Klang, 1985)

Magazines & Anthologies:

My work has been published in American, Austrian, British, Canadian, Eastern European, French, German, and Spanish language journals, and represented in several anthologies, including:

The Art of Practice: 45 Contemporary Poets (Potes & Poets Press)
The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry (Sun & Moon)
Telling It Slant: Avant-Garde Poetics of the 1990s (University of Alabama Press)
Writing from the New Coast (O.blek Editions)

Editor & Publisher:

I am the co-editor and publisher of the poetry and arts journal, Crayon. Crayon 5—“on beauty”—features 26 essays on beauty, 17 book reviews, and 11 new works of poetry (Fall 2008; 448 pages). http://www.durationpress.com/crayon/

Recommended Web Sites:

http://www.digitalcurrents.com/flash/currents.html
Digital Currents surveys the major impact of video and digital technologies on visual culture and artistic practice, and examines the revolutionary changes taking place in the role of the artist as social communicator.

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~wh/index.html
Founded in 1995 by a group of students, faculty, staff and alumni, the Kelly Writers House is an actual 13-room house at 3805 Locust Walk on Penn's campus that serves as a center for writers of all kinds from Penn and the Philadelphia region at large. Each semester the Writers House hosts approximately 150 public programs and projects--poetry readings, film screenings, seminars, web magazines, lectures, dinners, radio broadcasts, workshops, art exhibits, and musical performances--and about 500 people visit the House each week.

http://www.opendemocracy.net/home/index.jsp
openDemocracy.net is an online global magazine of politics and culture.

http://www.durationpress.com/crayon/
Since its first issue, CRAYON has forged a unique space for itself in the world of literary journals and small magazines. CRAYON is grounded in a historical sense of what counts in American writing, so clearly displayed in the features on Jackson Mac Low, Russell Atkins, and Ferdinand Pessoa. Situated far from the mainstream, Crayon forms a significant tributary for those navigating the life blood of contemporary letters.

http://www.bowerypoetry.com/
"Bowery Poetry Club Brings Poetry Alive!" The Village Voice Sez So! "A word playground—a place where traditions can coexist and be passed on."

http://www.molecularexpressions.com/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html
Molecular Expressions. View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.

http://www.theonion.com/
The Onion – America’s finest news source.