Biography

Trinidad was born in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

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. In the early 1980s, he was one of a group of poets who were active at the Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center in Venice, California. Other members of this group included Dennis Cooper

Dennis Cooper

Dennis Cooper is an American novelist, poet, critic, editor and performance artist.-Career:Cooper grew up the son of a wealthy businessman in Arcadia, California. His first forays into literature came early, focusing on imitations of Rimbaud, Verlaine, de Sade, and Baudelaire...

, Bob Flanagan

Bob Flanagan

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, and Amy Gerstler

Amy Gerstler

Amy Gerstler is an American poet. Her books of poetry include Ghost Girl ; Medicine - finalist for the Phi Beta Kappa Poetry Award; Crown of Weeds ; Nerve Storm ; Bitter Angel - winner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award - The True Bride and Dearest Creature, .Described by the Los...

. As editor of Sherwood Press, he published books by Cooper, Flanagan, Gerstler, Tim Dlugos, Alice Notley, and others. In 1988, Trinidad relocated to New York City. He received his Master of Fine Arts

Master of Fine Arts

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 from Brooklyn College

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 in 1990. He taught at Rutgers University, the New School, and Princeton University. His collection Plasticville (2000) was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets. In 2002, Trinidad moved to Chicago to teach at Columbia College Chicago

Columbia College Chicago

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, where he co-founded the literary journal Court Green. His personal papers are archived at Fales Library at New York University.

In addition to his own books of poetry, Trinidad has edited Powerless, the selected poems of Tim Dlugos (1996), Holding Our Own: The Selected Poems of Ann Stanford (with Maxine Scates, 2001), Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry (with Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton, 2007), and A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos (2011).

Published works

• Pavane (1981)
• Monday, Monday (1985)
• Living Doll (1986)
• November (1987)
• Three Stories (1988)
• A Taste of Honey (with Bob Flanagan, 1990)
• Hand Over Heart: Poems 1981-1988 (1991)
• Answer Song (1994)
• Essay with Movable Parts (1998)
• Chain Chain Chain (with Jeffery Conway and Lynn Crosbie, 2000)
• Plasticville (2000)
• Phoebe 2002: An Essay in Verse (with Jeffery Conway and Lynn Crosbie, 2003)
• Tiny Moon Notebook (2007)
• The Late Show (2007)
• By Myself (with D.A. Powell, 2009)
• Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems (2011)

External links

• The Fales Library Guide to the David Trinidad papers
• http://www.colum.edu/academics/english_department/Faculty/Faculty_Profiles/David_Trinidad.php Columbia College page
• The Late Show review from the New York Times