Hank Lazer
Hank Lazer’s eighteen books of poetry include N24 (hand sewn handwritten chapbook in
the Little Red Leaves Textile Series), N18 (complete) from Singing Horse Press (2012), Por
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tions (Lavender Ink, 2009), The New Spirit (Singing Horse, 2005), Elegies & Vacations (Salt,
2004), and Days (Lavender Ink, 2002). In 2008, Lyric & Spirit: Selected Essays, 1996-2008
was published by Omnidawn. Pages from the notebooks have been performed with sopra
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no saxophonist Andrew Raffo Dewar at the Uni
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versity of Georgia and in Havana, Cuba. Features
on the Notebooks appear in Talisman #42 (http://
www.talismanmag.net/ and Plume #34 (http://
plumepoetry.com/2014/04/featured-selection-5/.
With co-editor Charles Bernstein, Lazer edits the
Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series for the
University of Alabama Press. In January 2014, La
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zer retired from the University of Alabama (where
he continues to teach) after 37 years in a variety of
positions, including Associate Provost for Acade
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mic Affairs, Executive Director of Creative Cam
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pus, and Professor of English.