John Tottenham

After many years of resistance, John Tottenham finally sold out to the lucrative, fast-paced world of poetry. He is the author of The Inertia Variations , an epic cycle on the subject of work-avoidance, indolence, and failure. Antiepithalamia & Other Poems of Regret and Resentment , a sequence of mean-spirited love poems with respect paid to the institution of marriage, was published by Penny-Ante Press in October 2012. A sonic and cinematic interpretation of The Inertia Variations by The The ...See more

After many years of resistance, John Tottenham finally sold out to the lucrative, fast-paced world of poetry. He is the author of The Inertia Variations , an epic cycle on the subject of work-avoidance, indolence, and failure. Antiepithalamia & Other Poems of Regret and Resentment , a sequence of mean-spirited love poems with respect paid to the institution of marriage, was published by Penny-Ante Press in October 2012. A sonic and cinematic interpretation of The Inertia Variations by The The (Matt Johnson) was released in late 2017. Tottenham is also an old-fashioned paint and brushes man, whose paintings and drawings have been exhibited at galleries in Los Angeles and New York. In June 2014 he had a solo show at Maloney Fine Art. A selection of his drawings appeared at Regen Projects, Los Angeles in late 2017. A new show of drawings, "Emptyscapes," opened at the Lora Schlesinger Gallery in Santa Monica in November, 2018. Tottenham's last collection of poetry, The Hate Poems , representing the dregs of his output between the years 2012 and 2015, was published by Amok Press in late 2018. His essays and criticism often appear in Artillery , the LA Review of Books , and other periodicals. He lives in California. See less