Jerome Rothenberg

Poet, Spoken Word Artist

Encinitas, CA
California US
Email: 
jrothenberg@ucsd.edu

Author's Bio

Jerome Rothenberg is an internationally known poet, translator, performance artist, and anthologist with over eighty books of poetry and essays including ten in print from New Directions. His anthologies include Technicians of the Sacred, Shaking the Pumpkin, and the three-volume Poems for the Millennium. He has been the recipient of many honors, including an American Book Award, two PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Awards, and two PEN Center USA West Translation Awards. In 2011 he received the prestigious Medalla al Mérito Literario from the International Chihuahua Poetry Festival in Mexico. Rothenberg died at the age of ninety-two on April 21, 2024 in Encintas, California. (Bio and photo via New Directions Publishing)

Publications & Prizes

Poetry

Anthologies:
Barbaric Vast and Wild (Black Widow Press, 2016)
,
A Book of the Book (Granary Books, 2000)
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Poems for the Millennium (University of California Press, 1998)
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Technicians of the Sacred (Anchor/Doubleday, 1968)
Books:
Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader (Black Widow Press, 2013)
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Retrievals: Uncollected & New Poems (Junction Press, 2011)
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Concealments & Caprichos (Black Widow Press, 2009)

Spoken Word

Books:
Writing Through (Wesleyan University Press, 2004)
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A Book of Witness (New Directions, 2003)
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A Paradise of Poets (New Directions, 1999)
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Seedings & Other Poems (New Directions, 1996)
Journals:
Conjunctions
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Golden Handcuffs Review
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Jacket
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Poesie
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Sibila
,
Tse Tse

More Information

Born in: 
New York, NY
New York
Raised in: 
New York, NY
New York
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Last update: May 06, 2024