Gerald Costanzo is an American poet and publisher. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of Literature or Information &ndash the activity of making information available for public view
Since 1970, Costanzo has been on the faculty of the creative writing program at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Carnegie Mellon University (also known as CMU) is a private Research University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ( often colloquially referred to as PA (its abbreviation by natives and Northeasterners is a state located in the Northeastern He has published more than three hundred poems, articles about poetry, and literary essays, as well as his own poetry collections and four edited anthologies.
He has been the recipient of National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, Pushcart Prizes, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Writing Fellowship, and an Editorial Fellowship from the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines. The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA is a United States federally funded and donation assisted program that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence The Pushcart Prize is a prestigious American Literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry short fiction essays or literary whatnot" published The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA is an agency serving the U
He founded both Carnegie Mellon University Press (as Three Rivers Press in 1972) and Three Rivers Poetry Journal (in 1973). Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. He has directed the Press, a leading publisher of contemporary poetry, for more than 35 years. Costanzo is a graduate of Harvard University and of The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.
Works
- Badlands: First Poems, poetry (Denver: Copper Canyon Press, 1973)
- In the Aviary, poetry (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1974)
- Wage the Improbable Happiness, poetry (Cleveland: Bits Press, 1982)
- Three Rivers, Ten Years: An Anthology of Poems from Three Rivers Poetry Journal , poetry anthology (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1983)
- Nobody Lives on Arthur Godfrey Boulevard, poetry (Brockport: BOA Editions, 1992)
- The Laps of the Bridesmaids , poetry (Cleveland: Bits Press, 1992)
- The Carnegie Mellon Anthology of Poetry, (co-editor), a poetry anthology (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1993)
- The Devins Award Poetry anthology , poetry anthology (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998)
- American Poetry: The Next Generation, (co-editor), a poetry anthology (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2000)
External links
Sources
Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2003.
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