Professor Hank Lazer

Hank Lazer has published eighteen books of poetry, including N24 (Little Red Leaves / Textile Series, 2014), N18 (COMPLETE) (Singing Horse Press, 2012), Portions (Lavender Ink, 2009), THE NEW SPIRIT (Singing Horse, 2005), ELEGIES & VACATIONS (Salt, 2004), and Days (Lavender Ink, 2002). In 2011, in collaboration with visual artists from the Taller Experimental de Grafica in Havana and the University of Alabama's Book Arts program, Lazer published Indivisible , a fine press bilingual edition of...See more

Hank Lazer has published eighteen books of poetry, including N24 (Little Red Leaves / Textile Series, 2014), N18 (COMPLETE) (Singing Horse Press, 2012), Portions (Lavender Ink, 2009), THE NEW SPIRIT (Singing Horse, 2005), ELEGIES & VACATIONS (Salt, 2004), and Days (Lavender Ink, 2002). In 2011, in collaboration with visual artists from the Taller Experimental de Grafica in Havana and the University of Alabama's Book Arts program, Lazer published Indivisible , a fine press bilingual edition of handwritten shape poems. Pages from the notebooks have been performed with soprano saxophonist Andrew Raffo Dewar, including performances at the University of Georgia (November 2013) and in Havana, Cuba (two concerts in January 2014). Over the past fifteen years, Lazer has collaborated with various jazz musicians, filmmakers, choreographers, and visual artists in seeking new ways to present poetry. In 2008, Lyric & Spirit: Selected Essays, 1996- 2008 was published by Omnidawn. Audio and video recordings of Lazer's poetry and an interview for Art International Radio can be found at Lazer's PennSound website. With co-editor Charles Bernstein, Lazer edits the Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series for the University of Alabama Press. To date, the MCP Series has published over 40 books, including work by Marjorie Perloff, Harryette Mullen, Jerome Rothenberg, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, and Brian Reed. In January 2014, Lazer retired from the University of Alabama (where he continues to teach) after 37 years in a variety of positions, including Associate Provost for Academic Affairs, Executive Director of Creative Campus, and Professor of English. See less