Geoffrey G. O'Brien
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Geoffrey G. O'Brien is an American poet. Educated at Harvard University
and the University of Iowa
, O'Brien has taught at Brooklyn College, The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and has been the Distinguished Poet in Residence at St. Mary's College of California and the Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry at the University of California, Berkeley
, where he currently teaches. He also teaches in the Prison University Project
at San Quentin.
In November 2011, O'Brien was savagely beaten by baton-wielding police, and suffered multiple rib fractures, while attending a peaceful protest.
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
and the University of Iowa
University of Iowa
The University of Iowa is a public state-supported research university located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is the oldest public university in the state. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees...
, O'Brien has taught at Brooklyn College, The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and has been the Distinguished Poet in Residence at St. Mary's College of California and the Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry at the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
, where he currently teaches. He also teaches in the Prison University Project
Prison University Project
The Prison University Project is a 5013 non-profit organization which supports the College Program at San Quentin State Prison, an associate's degree program which is the only on-site college program in any prison in the U.S. state of California...
at San Quentin.
In November 2011, O'Brien was savagely beaten by baton-wielding police, and suffered multiple rib fractures, while attending a peaceful protest.
Works online
- "from Metropole" The Offending Adam, Issue 22
- "Logic of Confession" at No: a journal of the arts.
- "Poem Beginning to End," Boston Review, September/October 2009
- "Mixed Mode," Poets.org
Criticism
- An essay on "Tradition and the Individual Talent" by T. S. EliotT. S. EliotThomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot OM was a playwright, literary critic, and arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.The poem that made his...
. - "Keeping Company," an essay which explores the work of poet Michael PalmerMichael PalmerMichael Palmer is an American poet and translator. He attended Harvard University where he earned a BA in French and a MA in Comparative Literature. He has worked extensively with Contemporary dance for over thirty years and has collaborated with many composers and visual artists...
- A Critical Response to John Ashbery's "Clepsydra"
- "The Left Margin" a talk on WhitmanWhitman-People:* Whitman , including:*Charles Whitman, tower sniper *Charles S. Whitman, New York politician *Walt Whitman, American essayist and poet *Marcus Whitman, was an American physician and Oregon missionary....
and Ashbery
Works
- Metropole (University of California PressUniversity of California PressUniversity of California Press, also known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing. It was founded in 1893 to publish books and papers for the faculty of the University of California, established 25 years earlier in 1868...
, 2011) - The Guns and Flags Project (University of California PressUniversity of California PressUniversity of California Press, also known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing. It was founded in 1893 to publish books and papers for the faculty of the University of California, established 25 years earlier in 1868...
, 2002) - Green and Gray (University of California PressUniversity of California PressUniversity of California Press, also known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing. It was founded in 1893 to publish books and papers for the faculty of the University of California, established 25 years earlier in 1868...
, 2007) - 2A (Quemadura, 2006; collaboration with poet Jeff ClarkJeff ClarkJeff Clark is one of the most noteworthy and respected big-wave surfers, famous for surfing Mavericks alone for 15 years before it was widely discovered by the big-wave surfing community....
) - Hesiod (The Song Cave (chapbook), 2010)
- Poem with No Good Lines (Hand Held Editions (chapbook), 2010)